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*** IMPORTANT NOTE ***
Forward Unto Dawn has been disbanded since 2016, but we had been hard at work on a new release at that time. After all these years it felt like a waste to keep the tracking demo sitting on an old hard drive when a lot of time, effort and money had already gone into it. Though work on this project has been abandoned, after a significant delay we've decided to release what we had just for fun.
This is the unfinished tracking for what would have been our 3rd release, titled "Xi". Please enjoy, and thank you for all the good times.
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lyrics
Ejected from a comfort I am yet to know
My equilibrium's effort to sustain dies and I don't know where to go
Hear my plea, feel my cause
In an abyssopelagic agony I lay adrift
Zeal psychosis
When the sun rose to the sky
a searing wind had punished my vigor, searing my psyche
When the moon climbed to the heart of the sky
a frigid gale had pierced my hopes
Fulfill me, fulfill my own graces
Before me, before they consume us
Consume me, consume our moral moxie
Fulfill me
Do I deserve this?
Is this purpose?
I can't find rapport upon this wretchedness
Now is not the time for us to meet
Fulfill me, fulfill my own graces
Before me, before they consume us
Consume me, consume our moral moxie
Fulfill me
Follow lost the starry sky embossed before my very eyes
At all costs in all thoughts a motive as caring as mine
For blood and for bone
Hear my plea
Feel my cause
But now is not the time for us to meet
Behold the cicerone
and so it seems you have stumbled upon the aeonian
I have walked your trek so many moons ago
Totidem Verbis
Oh, how your face graces our same fate
and let me tell you how our dreams went to an unwarded waste
I know - no I feel - how this was supposed to be
Beneath our home, through the beating stone
A story I have known is going to show no glory
and as you stand before me I know we're free
But this is not something you can run away from
It's bigger than you and me
Follow lost the starry sky embossed before my very eyes
At all costs in all thoughts a motive as caring as mine
For blood and for bone
With mnemonics at mercy and the hydrogen line at inert
I find the dynam in the depths of me to continue on with my search
Faux portraits can't betray me
For it not for the importance of my enslavement
But the underlying same thing
Your presence in being is fading
So when the sun comes up I lift my head high
I thank the dirt below me for life, but I feel that I have died
I watch the worlds go by as I'm afraid that all I have is time
And now here you stand before me
Was there ever any method to this madness?
Surely no deity-all can predict our fortunes
I had once lived for something greater than debt after death
But then when had I ever lived for what was right?
So the sand will fall and the dial will again invert
and I'll stand in awe and watch as the fabrics of aether all seem to disburse
And if it kills me I'll find a way out of the monotonary realm
that has kept me from living the life I'm so sorry to have forgotten
Oh, holy whale
Hear me
All abhor the prayer
Fear me
Do you feel my fury?
Can you feel my cause?
Perplexed by the crux of it all
Everywhere else boasts clear skies and calm seas
But this place suffers under dark skies and rain
You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?
I suggest you leave fate to mere chance
I have scattered the seeds of the future
It’s not that I know trust; it’s that I know you
(A home) could be ours
(A home) ours to own
(A home) a place for
(A home) prosper, grow
Oh, holy whale
Hear me
All abhor the prayer
Fear me
All hail the whale
Regress the cycle
Own this plane
A portent fascination fills your veins and the aether’s vessel is claimed
My omens lie within you
Through my wanion one thing had evinced me all along
It was your dialect as it demassified in each repeating song
For years I spilled my guilt into this gorge with no mitigation
And I wondered why each day never felt like the miracle it was supposed to be
A veto is a wanton, how I'd gladly take the fall
If you'd only endure the penalty and watch as we both fall apart
I have lived regretting the past and I have faced those regrets
Not a day of my life goes by without my thoughts turning to my kingdom of old
So planets meet plainity
Cosmos circumvolve
Reality relinquishes sanity and there's just one thing left to solve
It's my incompletion; to vernacularize something speechless
But words could never put gravity to the questions that I bare
What is your name?
Where placed is your glory?
Set the plains and we'll settle this once and for all
Fulfill me, fulfill my own graces
Before me, before they consume us
Consume me, consume our moral moxie
Fulfill me
Clash upon us ‘till the wrath of ashes
Lord, your bearings hold no power over me
Here I am, a place in which you have denied me
You are yet to know the courses I have basked in for so long
Your actions are all in admiration
And I know I feel and hear your echoes from the edges
All that I am is all there ever really was
Where broken hearts and battered wholes have always come from, my dear son
Forgive my hypocrisy, but your fuel is in vein
As you stand here another Existence feels your reign
I am everything; I mutually feel your pain
But regrets are unobtainable, unlike your devotion to change
I know what you’re after and I suggest you go home
Home
Ejected from a comfort I am yet to know
My equilibrium's effort to sustain dies and I don't know where to go
Hear my plea, feel my cause
In an abyssopelagic agony I lay adrift
credits
released June 25, 2019
Recorded May 2016
Produced by Donny Walls & Forward Unto Dawn
Engineered by Donny Walls