The Failed Sun
by Sombre Holiday
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The Second Son
04:08
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There will come a time
When all is said, and all is done,
When no trials remain,
And no questions but One.
It will not ask, “For whom will you die?”
Many men have been asked this—
And many men have lied.
But now, as the Father’s Hands form
The Second Son’s Rib,
He questions Him thus:
“For Whom now will You live?”
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Man of the Earth
04:29
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Close your ears to listen
(Now)
Close your eyes to see
Here, on the earth below
It is always night
It is our only sight
It is the only light we know
As time follows time…
As dust becomes dust…
I believe You now:
“Obey Me about the tree,
O Man,
And you will live….”
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Masterpiece
07:57
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What is man
That you are mindful of him?
The son of man
That you care for him?
- Psalm 8:4
Defaced,
Once priceless,
A masterpiece
Now horror-ridden,
Sorrow-riven:
A masterpiece
Without a price
Now stained,
Defaced.
To begin with,
If we are worthless,
Then trivial is the Fall;
We would be
Trinkets broken –
To be tossed
Without a shrug
But we were Imago Dei,
Now defaced.
A masterpiece,
The very image of God.
To end with,
You will paint us worthy.
Once, with painful
Priceless blood.
The Fall
—To be reversed—
A new
Masterpiece
Must be broken
—To paint us worthy—
Sacrificed,
Crucified
Greater than the stars,
Greater than the sea,
Higher than the moon
and mountain ranges,
Are your thoughts of me
In my sin, you are still mindful...
Still mindful...
...Of me
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New Darkness
06:20
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You were in my care
You were in my arms
And it won’t be long
Until you’re forever gone
I am helpless in hopelessness
Longing for just another day
Longing for just another moment
Longing for only you
New days take on new darkness
Time has drifted off into the night
It’s taken my heart through the dust
And created darkness with the removal
Of the light
Forever two
Never to be one
Together we were alone
You looked into the sky
Thousands of tears of sorrow
In the Garden I cried.
No longer could I
Tell the Truth
From a Lie
I am hopeless in helplessness
Longing for you this Eve
Longing for just another moment
Longing to be close to you
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That Picture of You
05:28
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I have to see your face
I have to see your eyes
I turn to that picture of you
Over and over
And I let it burn into the skies
Of my memory
I turn to that picture of you
Your words, your eyes
Now speak to me
I keep turning that picture of you
Over and over
And you become alive
Your smile,
Our skies
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6. |
The Burning Sky
06:19
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Earth’s skies are filled with night
No occasional stars shine
No prayer seems to pass
Through the clouds
I have to see your face
I have to see your eyes
I turn to that picture of you
Over and over in my mind
And let the skies burn…
They burn everything around
… As the stars fall to the ground
O, Waters of Eden,
Fall to the ground
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This Present Absence
07:13
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Did you say no to the tree,
Man of the Earth?
Why did you not say
No to the tree...
and live?
Obey Me about the tree...
If you obey Me,
Man of the Sky,
If you obey Me,
You will die….
Take from Me this cup,
In the garden I cried
Please take from Me
The Absent Presence
Where are You now?
At the Ninth Hour,
After the Darkness,
The Second Son,
The Light of the World,
In agony cried...
Where are You now?
Why have You forsaken Me?
Drowning in
The Sea of Distance,
Falling into
This Present Absence….
Where are You now?
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The Failed Sun
05:42
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At the setting sun, I fell into a deep sleep;
a thick and dreadful darkness came over me...
- Genesis 15:12
...Then the people stood at a distance,
while I drew near to the thick darkness
where God was...
- Exodus 20:21
...At the tree, all those who knew Him stood at a distance,
watching these things:
- Luke 23:49
The sun being darkened,
The Presence overcame
Every other source of light
Every other sacred flame.
The sun having failed,
The Second Son in glory
Illuminated the darkness,
Shone forth His Holy Name.
The first son having failed,
The Seed of the woman
Crushed the serpent’s head.
The first son having failed,
The Second Son has prevailed!
Christ has risen from the dead!
The New Covenant
ratified
through
New Darkness
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The Death of Death
06:45
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Your dead will live;
their bodies will rise.
Awake and sing,
you who dwell in the dust!
For you will be covered
with the morning dew,
and the earth will bring out
the departed spirits.
– Isaiah 26:19
To seek and to save
That which was lost
To bring near
Those who are far
To abolish the enmity
Between God and man
To make one new man
In Himself from two
Being made a curse
He removed the curse
Purging the unclean
Renewing in us
The image of God
The veil is torn
Your presence known
The blood sacrifice,
The atonement shown.
The sacrifice
to end sacrifice,
Has opened the way,
Has closed the distance
Stone tablets,
On original stone
A covenant
Written on front
And back
I turn it over
Over and over in my mind
A sealed scroll,
An original oath
A testament
Written on front
And back
In the hand of Him
Who sits on the throne
A biblion sealed fast
With seven seals
With seven witnesses
Now unsealed and read aloud
In your Presence:
A future kingdom—
The promise:
The Death of Death
At the Last of All Things
I turn it over
Over and over in my mind:
The only thing that's true,
The truest picture of you.
O death, where is your sting?
O grave, where is your victory?
– 1 Corinthians 15:55
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A Passing Shadow
05:29
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We suffer
In the dark
No pattern
No reason
In the dark
Can it be that there is no love?
Can it be that there is only pain?
Shatter this darkness!
Open my eyes:
Death that was mine is yours;
Life that was yours is mine
You lost infinite love
Out of infinite love for me
Your Darkness destroys
my darkness
The clouds above
Are a passing shadow
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Man of the Sky
05:29
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Open your mind to listen
Open your soul to see
O hear, in the heavens above
It is always Light –
It is eternally bright –
It is the only night we’ll know
As Time follows Time….
Forever to
Ever to be One
Obey Me about the tree...
Man of the Earth:
...And you will live.
“I believe You now.”
Man of the Sky,
Obey Me about the tree…
...And You will die.
Man of the Sky,
Obey Mea about the tree…
Men of the Earth,
They’ll believe You now:
They’ll believe Me now:
(Men of the Earth)
Man of the Sky,
Obey Me...
...And they will live!
Will you believe Me?
Now:
(For you He had to die….)
For you,
Now:
Men of the Sky!
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The Last of All Things
04:33
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Here at the last of all things
The question remains,
The question is One.
It does not ask, “For whom will you lie?”
Many men have been asked this,
And all men will have to die.
But as the Second Son’s Hands
With Life reach out to give,
The Father questions you thus:
“For Whom
Now
Will you live?”
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#4 on Angelic Warlord Top 25 Albums Of 2020
angelicwarlord.com/articles/albumoftheyear20.html
"Sombre Holiday has created in The Failed Sun not just its best album but also a work to potentially rank within the top five albums of the year." —Andrew Rockwell
angelicwarlord.com/reviews/s/sombreholiday20.html
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"This a beautiful, emotive, comforting, and charming Progressive masterpiece, a sound of light full with lyrics of light, and lots of thoughtful musicality, and lots of love to make such varied musical textures, that are deeply soulful. "
beyondthegrave777.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/review-sombre-holiday-the-failed-sun/
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The Failed Sun is the fifth full-length album from Sombre Holiday, and although the content is specifically tied to its predecessor, The Sea of Distance, the new album stands on its own. Containing twelve new songs that give the response to the despair of The Sea of Distance, The Failed Sun delivers a solid punch of aggressive prog metal. While leaning more heavily towards a classic heavy metal sound, The Failed Sun reveals the power of hope in a unique way.
A book-ended album, Sombre Holiday's latest offering builds on and adapts its musical themes around its lyrical content, allowing the listener to develop new insights through diverse musical experiences. Where the previous album (The Sea of Distance) focused on the brokenness of all relationships, whether with God or with people, The Failed Sun promotes the potential power of restoration in all relationships.
Using a blend of guitars, keyboards, drums, and violin, The Failed Sun is 70 minutes of intense, soul-wrestling and deep contemplation—the largest offering from Sombre Holiday thus far—a powerful melodic metal journey.
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"God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world. And the closing scenes of Scripture, in the book of Revelation, are not about human beings going off to heaven to be in a close and intimate relationship with God, but about heaven coming to earth. The intimate relationship with God which is indeed promised and celebrated in that great scene of the New Jerusalem issues at once in an outflowing, a further healing creativity, the river of the water of life flowing out from the city and the tree of life springing up, with leaves that are for the healing of the nations."
– N.T. Wright, Justification: GOD’S PLAN & PAUL’S VISION
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angelicwarlord.com/articles/albumoftheyear20.html
"Sombre Holiday has created in The Failed Sun not just its best album but also a work to potentially rank within the top five albums of the year." —Andrew Rockwell
angelicwarlord.com/reviews/s/sombreholiday20.html
________________________________
"This a beautiful, emotive, comforting, and charming Progressive masterpiece, a sound of light full with lyrics of light, and lots of thoughtful musicality, and lots of love to make such varied musical textures, that are deeply soulful. "
beyondthegrave777.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/review-sombre-holiday-the-failed-sun/
________________________________
The Failed Sun is the fifth full-length album from Sombre Holiday, and although the content is specifically tied to its predecessor, The Sea of Distance, the new album stands on its own. Containing twelve new songs that give the response to the despair of The Sea of Distance, The Failed Sun delivers a solid punch of aggressive prog metal. While leaning more heavily towards a classic heavy metal sound, The Failed Sun reveals the power of hope in a unique way.
A book-ended album, Sombre Holiday's latest offering builds on and adapts its musical themes around its lyrical content, allowing the listener to develop new insights through diverse musical experiences. Where the previous album (The Sea of Distance) focused on the brokenness of all relationships, whether with God or with people, The Failed Sun promotes the potential power of restoration in all relationships.
Using a blend of guitars, keyboards, drums, and violin, The Failed Sun is 70 minutes of intense, soul-wrestling and deep contemplation—the largest offering from Sombre Holiday thus far—a powerful melodic metal journey.
________________________________
"God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world. And the closing scenes of Scripture, in the book of Revelation, are not about human beings going off to heaven to be in a close and intimate relationship with God, but about heaven coming to earth. The intimate relationship with God which is indeed promised and celebrated in that great scene of the New Jerusalem issues at once in an outflowing, a further healing creativity, the river of the water of life flowing out from the city and the tree of life springing up, with leaves that are for the healing of the nations."
– N.T. Wright, Justification: GOD’S PLAN & PAUL’S VISION
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credits
released November 13, 2020
all music by Terry Friesen
all lyrics by Trevor Friesen except “The Second Son” and “The Last of All Things,” adapted from the Epilogue of “The Circle of Eternity’s Garden” by Joel Edmund Anderson, published in Up Until August: Selected Poems from My Inner Life. Used by permission. (www.joeledmundanderson.com)
Terry: guitars, vocals, and keyboards
Trevor: drums and percussion
Additional musicians: Isaac Friesen (violin) on “The Second Son,” “New Darkness,” and “That Picture of You.” Kharis Friesen (oboe) and Kiera Friesen (flute) on “The Failed Sun.”
Genesis 3:1-24; Romans 5, 6; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49;
1 John 3:2; Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 22:1-6
©2020 Eleventh Hour Entertainment Group, Inc. for the United States and Canada. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
all music by Terry Friesen
all lyrics by Trevor Friesen except “The Second Son” and “The Last of All Things,” adapted from the Epilogue of “The Circle of Eternity’s Garden” by Joel Edmund Anderson, published in Up Until August: Selected Poems from My Inner Life. Used by permission. (www.joeledmundanderson.com)
Terry: guitars, vocals, and keyboards
Trevor: drums and percussion
Additional musicians: Isaac Friesen (violin) on “The Second Son,” “New Darkness,” and “That Picture of You.” Kharis Friesen (oboe) and Kiera Friesen (flute) on “The Failed Sun.”
Genesis 3:1-24; Romans 5, 6; 1 Corinthians 15:45-49;
1 John 3:2; Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 22:1-6
©2020 Eleventh Hour Entertainment Group, Inc. for the United States and Canada. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
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