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Stepping Stones

by The Final Bastion

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lyrics

With assurance driven surety.
You sunder this soil in stride.
Cradled in the mantle you're creating in your mind.
Your gait betrays the blindness of beliefs you try to hide.
Your weakened knees portray (all of the faith) you can not find.
And things tend towards chaos at the crust for every day is like the last Except today is different...

A granite like stare delivers me there some days.
Willing hates ascending claims.
As they begin to grow.
A slate gazed haze affixed affirmed to film your gaze.
Dedication etched in marbled hearts as cracks begin to show.
For every day is like the last except today is different.
And now you tread more tentatively.

I look for a place to lay blame in you.
Using the shame as fuel to feed my way through.

This ravenous truth that the faults slip was mine.
A picture well painted, but barely divine.
Yet here I'm undone by your wrath so benign.
My heinous act, my lonely crime.
Believing that you would be different this time.
The road to Hell is paved with the purest of intent.

And with every laid stone a price sees me spent...

With every passing second though, this body pulls us through.
It may be true that facts are few concerning you.

A mystery pressed by the footfalls of your past.
The stoney grip’s tyrannical fit.
Eroding all affections fast.
Torturing triumphs to tragedy and reveling in their rejections.
Ignoring what was good to find distraction in their attentions.

Ashen rubble make up your wake.
Enough to build a wall to take.
As evidence of your hardships...
If only you could overcome this fate...
This fate...

You've lost...
You've lost yourself, its true.
And everyday is like the last.
Except today you're different.
And these brutalities bite the flesh from their bones.

Embrace this isolation, for you now stand alone.
A forgotten stain on a forgettable, tireless, tome.
With no one beside you.
To swab at the seams (blaming the world for the) dust of your dreams.
But excuses fall like the failing of rain.
The muddy cascade of your dreams in its tow.

The claws of concrete.
Truth digging...
Into you now...

Never wanting to let go.
You cannot conquer yourself, you know?
Every day is like the last except today...
You're just another stepped on stone.

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released July 14, 2020
Lyrics: Gill & Marchbank
Composer: Henn
Arranger: Henn

Vocals: Henn, Wiese

Recorded by Louis Henn at Burning Tone Studios
Mixed & Mastered by Louis Henn & Heinrich Kollner at Burning Tone Studios.

℗ Burning Tone Studios 2020
© & ® Burning Tone Records 2020

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The Final Bastion Cape Town, South Africa

After the disbanding of a previous group, three members started planning for the future of the genre they've grown to love. With nothing but a name, life and its various inevitable journeys delayed the project, but in the end it was for the better...

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