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lyrics
She stands, her face against the stars,
Seven thousand candles all around her,
but their light is nothing next to her.
They say, the sun shines at her pace,
little knowing of the nebulas inside,
The raging orbits of her mind.
Oh Empress, Empress, Empress, Empress please!
Oh Empress, Empress, Empress, Empress please!
Somehow the Empress expressed an interest expressly in me.
Now, our hearts beneath the stars, she bequeathed on me a
Name befitting of my station next to her.
She stands in moonlit poverty, this blood rite elegy
It binds us in ambition, in romance, in starlit poetry.
She moves away from me.
These nebulas, just frame, the glory of her frame.
These candles in the night just illuminate her face.
Oh Empress and I, our ambition is our grace.
There’s a tyrant in us both.
We are ruled by gold and brimstone:
Touch thy Midas to my soul…
Novas firing in our hearts, we are children in amongst the stars,
Monarchs of ambition to these ancient lands outcast.
This burning life of ours, we reclaim our names
From solitary minds, the ones now running out of time.
Crowned within the light of stars, up above, our half-lives
Yet to become whole, and we as monarchs yet to make our home,
Children with ambition yet to find ourselves a land to call our own.
supported by 31 fans who also own “Act II: Empress”
Fantasy progressive rock is not something I'd ever thought of. Yet Foreign Land, especially the Foreign Land track itself, transported me straight into an unknown, magical fantasy world. Hakim Zulkufli
supported by 28 fans who also own “Act II: Empress”
Ah, why didn't I buy this earlier? Has been on my wishlist since it's release and Bad Elephant Music's sampler and ongoing sales campaign luckily triggered the buy.
Tags given are post-progressive and post-rock, but the music feels much lighter than I usually associate with those tags. Quite song-oriented, indeed. Great music, great vocals. Carsten Pieper
The Australian instrumental band juxtapose classical pianos and ambient swells with uncompromising, proggy post-metal. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 9, 2023
supported by 27 fans who also own “Act II: Empress”
Thanks to the nice-endof-year-offer I came to fill this gap in my private worm collection (a, pardon me, worm hole, so to speak :-))
Wonderful reminiscence to many good things past (Canterbury, 70s prog, folk rock) with a good sense of humour and great ideas (both in the songwriting & in the arrangements) . Carsten Pieper