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Henry Phalen - The Perpetual Darkness
Released: May 31, 2024
Genre(s): Progressive rock, progressive metal

0:00 - At the Gates of Infinity
1:13 - The Perpetual Darkness
10:16 - Eyes of Ice
18:32 - Secrets of the Dream
26:41 - The Call of the Northern Star

All songs written by Henry Phalen
All guitars, vocals, basses, and keyboards performed by Henry Phalen
All drums programmed by Henry Phalen
Produced by Henry Phalen and Andy Iorio
Cover art by Henry Phalen

All songs written and recorded August 2023 - May 2024

Lyrics:

1. At the Gates of Infinity

[Instrumental]

2. The Perpetual Darkness

Once the sun sets
Things start to change
Everything that was there
Is no longer on the page
The night will drag us down
Into caverns between
The endless night begins
As shadows veil the scene

The night dawns forever now
Under the moonless sky
We’ll never see the next sunrise
The gates of death are open wide

The trees stand still
Mist surrounds us
Silence is broken
We are in the open
Now

Creatures of the dark
Have come, come at last
Freezing, and running now
I promise, we’ll stay alive

Maybe one day
We will live again

Maybe some day
The sun will shine again
Again

The coldness of our tears
Reveals our deepest fears
Once the final flame disappears
Will the candle reappear?

Death falls like rain
The world is closing in on us

The sound of winter’s endless cry
The abyss opens wide
Somewhere far, far away
The night fades into day

3. Eyes of Ice

Back into the void
Everything still the same
Over and over again
Eyes of ice staring back at me

Mirroring the past
But shadowing the future
Louder than it’s ever been
The silence overwhelming me

We’ve always known
Nothing ever changes
We’ve always known
Everything stays the same
Stays the same

We’ve always known
Nothing ever changes
We’ve always known
Everything stays the same
Stays the same

Eyes so cold
Still so alone
Crystal tears
Fall from the face of fear

Answers lost
Beneath the frost
Eyes of ice
Beyond fading lights

Tomorrow is forever away
Tomorrow is forever away

Twilight sets on the land
Twilight sets on the land

Eyes of ice staring back at me

4. Secrets of the Dream

At last I arrive
In the shadows of my dreams
Bathed in blackness
Plunging into the scene

Once again I am
I am fading away
Leaving behind me
The countless hours of day

Endless forests of time
Await in front of me
I enter into the woods
Not knowing the reason why

Everything seems so familiar

I have already been here
Though I can’t remember when
Why have I come here
Where am I going

Everything seems so familiar

In the clearing
Under the red moon
Where the shadowed figure stands
I have returned at last

Turning to me
Speaking to me
The words mean so much
But I can’t understand

Secrets of the dream
Are revealed at last
I don’t know where I’m going
But I know I’m never coming back

5. The Call of the Northern Star

Falling snow
Through shimmering darkness
An absence of light entering again
Words are lost
Beneath the surface
Gone are days of life

The faceless moon eclipses day
Whispers of silence deafening
The final dirge for hope has passed
Hear the loneliness never ending

From far away
Through the trees
Echoing through
The buried leaves

Memories flood back
Revealing a darkness ridden past
This winter forever consumes
Daylight once so vast

Ghosts of lifetimes past
Find their way through passages
The snow falls into your name
Nothing but lost memories

Morning is lost
Obscured in this night

Empty words of false hope
Echo through caverns inside

Somewhere in the night sky
A secret is revealed
The call of the northern star
Unwinding down somewhere here

Throughout the forests of winter
Where the snow will always fall
A flame, a lost flicker of hope
Shines again, illuminating its call

Veiled in darkness
This frozen land
The darkest secrets shadowing
Through the night
We travel far
To a signal not yet gone

The trees will end at last
As the forest closes up
This pale faced death
Now so out of touch

Leaving it all behind
The forests and their scars
The winters and the darkness
We listen for the call of the northern star