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Spectrelight by Mastodon

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Mastodon

Spectrelight

Release date: 25th September 2011

From The Hunter
Track 11
3:10
MetalMusicRockProg-Rock/Art Rock
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'Spectrelight' by Mastodon is a Metal track from the album 'The Hunter' (2011). The lyrics are vivid and mythic in tone, filled with images of fire, sea and elemental transformation, as the singer urges belief, trust and devotion to a self-chosen path, culminating in a descent “into the Spectrelight”.

"Spectrelight" is a track by Mastodon, from the album The Hunter, released 25th September 2011. The track is 3:10 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Mastodon.

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Lyrics

Spectrelight

We trip the light
Firebird flies
Burn your inside
Given a lesson
The path I've shown
Follow all I know
Into the Spectrelight
Into the afterlife
It came from the ocean
Gift from the sea
Lava forms the stone
Belief in power
Believe the dream
Trust your own truth
Into the Spectrelight
Into the afterlife
You listen through the light
Tolling on the sea
Barren eyes behind you
Leave the shadows waking dreams
Rising through the door
Writing with a knife
Cut speech
Cut light
Cut chord and break the dawning wretch of silence
Trust your own truth
Souls of the fallen
Death of the Godhead
Listen and breathe
Into the Spectrelight
Into the afterlife

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Track details

From The Hunter

3:102011
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The Hunter
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Mastodon
26th September 2011
Track number
11
Release year
2011
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