The Door, by Messora

The Door

by Messora

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1.	The Door 06:04	lyrics
I see the end The bane of change The ashes of a world Consuming its own flame The minds of meek The waking sleep The curtain pulled aside Revealing only sheep Wake of the sacrifice Fear binding to hate Break minds to not think twice Their skin is made to bleed A crystal tower standing clear but mirrors lie Bewitched to betray Devilish Reassured dismay Keep your eyes on me Wake of Selling the mind to numb it Reap the process Break off Healing to the world The death is from inside The lust for lies And blackened comes the soul Twisted is the edge Breaking through my eyes I’ve seen the prism The system ticking low Refracting only grey The aperture knows not the glow Frayed thought Monochrome and dull Apathy Bewitched and betrothed Requited Mutual disdain Waking me Hurting me Meet me on the other side of the door Too long Enslaved Too long These chains Surrounding me Etching stone engravings deep Neath the sun a daily lie Too long chained and enslaved Let me take the veil away
2.	Tethered 01:34
3.	The Veil 09:40	lyrics
The breeze whips me tender Cold darkness I know not why I’ve come I want what eyes can’t see I want truth I want to wash ashore Disembark and set the ship aflame And what has silence brought But such shrill lies The cold is growing deeper and through me Louse upon my head Caress the burning A chill so real So clearly summoning I want to meet the gate of the egress Burning voices turn my mind to ash Twisted faces lie while showing me truth What once was deep in mind Thrown aside by daggers in the eyes The melting ice Look to the sea The sky is lies The paint is chipping Revealing A razor cutting Moving through canvas What lies behind A mirror reflecting no man What once lay safely leaves the hand Open a mind The air is thick with nervous breath The Veil is unseamed Where have shadows gone Fire dying I see only chains On the stone wall I see the light behind the sun Break through the wall and time be done Time stands still Moment stretches forever Break the cycle take life in hand Make us free make a match of divinity What lies on the other side of the door
4.	The Falling Star 08:48	info
5.	The Pond 05:30	lyrics
She came in bleeding Torn apart and stained of the sun She lay beside the rain Gasping for air She echoed through the void Colorful and shapen this sound She whispered softly And screamed till I became mute A lull of senses Undone by whispered echo Returned her thoughts to my hollowed skull Memories Masked She whispered softly To speak between myself And when she screams I feel too real A lullaby to numb and tie down A gag so She won’t ask A whip so I forget who ignited Flames who’s ashes blind her eyes A pond so I can drown in reflections Of all the vapidness and Weak Lifeless Conformity Of a plane I have now exchanged For a hell who’s bereavement Has forever lurked within Masquerading as wisdom Cloaked in lust and envy Slowly breaking through my eyes By the infinite edges of it’s twisted blade
6.	Untethered 03:31	lyrics
In the temple of the lusting Bent figures rearrange and beg Fed but never sated Like cancer in baskets deep And here you are Envious and cold Tetherless You’ve drifted down And once you’ve awakened You’ll find that not a thing has changed You’ve crossed a door with no frame Into a realm no different than that from which you exhiled yourself A cold numbness beginning at the base of your skull will spread across your skin And once at your fingertips digs deep into your flesh and beneath your bones Death will never again frighten you But life neither will excite Where a vivid painting once stood There sulks a grayscale polaroid Your senses and feelings may be altered And your ego become dust But the spirit does not ever change And so it’s vices live on
7.	The Tide 09:08	lyrics
I’ve washed ashore at last Languishing and made to see My mind has festered Made porous from decay The tide seems high The tide seems high And merciful the waves I came to meet the call It lied Beckoning preying on my Odious affinity for All things I’ve ever thought to deem Mine Left to be fraught The blade made solace With poison An eager sacrifice Without gain Cries spent Endlessly blaming Turning the inward eye Blind So hateful the gaze The inner shock The flea ridden rat of the plague Left strewn aside The spirits and warmth The shiver makes it plain The shudder shuts you in To drown in loathing A preferable fate Than that of pity Adrift and alone I am my own snake And pain And hate I am the ashes burning And lust And fear And vice I am the fire And whore And death I am the mirror And love And genesis I am the genesis I despise and cry My wing was made my shell Cursing the land It slowly grew leaden Lusting for harvest It cracked and bled within Not knowing to sow And outward it wept I despise and cry My wing was bent by hell Cursing the sun So quickly it melted Lusting for ashes It slid upon a mound Burning the veil The cave formed Tether me again Bind me Tight Feed me Ash A new door I see A floor of ice lies behind The water beneath is warm How cold I have been for so long This water is better This ocean I can cross My flesh lusts after freedom from cold Beyond the veil there must be peace Two cries Screaming out for the lies of the snake And weeping as the origin of pain I ripped the tether from my soul I wield the chain I sought to escape Doubly dejected Useless Sacrificed The sadist bares her teeth So says the mirror I despise and cry The cursed land before me steals And showed me hatred Just burn the earth to melt the ice I’ve naught left but this final exit I drank the nectar and cursed the insects But fruit of envy grows in soils of poison Two cries Screaming out for the lies of the snake And weeping as the origin of pain I ripped the tether from my soul I wield the chain I sought to escape Silent Wisened Broken mind is fixed At last I step beyond the door And hear the ice break

about

The debut record by Montréal's Messora.
An immense amount of pain and passion made this record.
Thank you for listening to it.
Following the lyrics is recommended.

credits

released October 4, 2019

All music and words by Zach Dean
Recorded at Silver Wing Studios
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lefrançois-Leduc
Produced by Zach Dean and Jonathan Lefrançois-Leduc

For this record Messora is:
Zach Dean: Guitars and Vocals
Joey Larivière: Drums
Ben Bertrand: Bass
James Cabral: Lead guitar on The Veil and The Pond

Guest vocals on The Veil and The Tide by Bruna Wanderley
Spoken word on Untethered by Maya Charest

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Messora Montreal, Québec

A sound tumultuous and sharp

Gushing endlessly from the lips of a chasm

Beckons incessantly the envious and the deceived

From a bastion just beyond a burning veil

What lies on the other side of The Door ... more

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discography

BURN

Dec 2022
WINTER

Nov 2022
RESPITE

Nov 2022
BURNING

Oct 2022
Forever as I Beg (Single)

Dec 2021
The Door

Oct 2019

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