Sempiternal Voice
Sharp cold beam
Lord of Time introduced
Fantasy quivers and shrinks
Guilty and exposed
Volumes and vows
Demanded to be left
Outside the narrow light of your judgement

From stone to fire, from flame to Gods
Fear appeared at the spark
Clung to the first smoke
And raped it for the birth
Of every false God to ever enslave us

The ground vanishes beneath me
And I remain where I lay
Suspended on black beams of pure consternation
Vast grid of terrifying weight
A glimpse of eternity
The homeland of Rapture's lattice
Where the sun turns to black cloth
I only wanted to behold
The apex of wonder and love
The path that you left for me
Was a trap
Leading to a hive
Made of desecrated children's remains
They are just like me

The dew along the walls of the hive drips down to a tip where the steady drops fill 4 limbed jars of clay
They are given names - and they stand and run to the 4 corners of the earth

Anakth - Anakth

They carry out your (vomit) wreaths
For mankind to hang upon their doors
To ward off the wisps of mortal fear
But I am the lock and key
And this timeline will not be yours to pull asunder
Now that the truth is born

A crawling singing fog
The morning star and I have become
Merging at midnight
To seep and seek and save
Those who see and know

Angels came to me in the form of ailments
Oh, the things they showed me:
Clay mutants congregate to
Chain every skull to the ground
And watch the sky darken
When every cloud seems to be riding your corpse in
When every silence
Seems to be the last to give way
To your precious seven horns

(Lord) I was your child then
But only then
Shackled, pale, sleepless
A limbed void
My youth worn as an anklet
Around your sickly green limb

Sempiternal Sight
Warm blue beam
Lord of Truth introduced
Christ quivers and shrinks
Guilty and exposed
Inside the narrow light of My Judgement

[Instrumental]

Close his eyes now
As he lays in your arms
One last song before you dig
As it always was
And as it shall remain
Walk straight away don't look back at the grave
Remember you will forget by morning
As it always was and as it shall remain

I tomb myself every evening
And let the dreams fade in denial
But from behind the wall of sleep
The thunder rolls closer to the wall

Here Lies The Empath...

"The life force has been released
Into the soil moaning beyond these wooden walls
My energy will never leave
Will only change form to hunt you down"

I've chosen my degradation
My sulphur needs me here aware
The wall of sleep will not be scaled by you
The thunder will not breach the other side

Self-doubt blurs the lines between depression and depravity
Too blind to truly see the carcasses around
Shadows dragging them to the hills could not pierce one layer of this
Total emotional recession

Let this rapture be my last??
"The war has just begun"

"Stick your hand in the ivy
Right where you hid them last
This time those stones will whisper back"

"You will not be forgiven you will not be forgiven you will not be forgiven..."

Walk straight away
don't look back at the grave
Remember you will forget him too
And I will wait

Searching the lifeless bog
for clues from its ghost who could release me
Every trace has been obscured
there is no hope for me here
I'll lay where he once did amongst the thorns and fog
And wait for death or sleep

Woken by fingers entwined with mine
Pulling me up to watch the stars
They laugh as light connects them in patterns
And the shapes burst forth in blue
A circle of souls holding hands beneath
Your final gift to this world
I knew it was you
Traveler, Redeemer
But I knew I wouldn't change

"You have all but forgotten
And his starlight falls in vain"

Enchantments have come and gone over the years I've wasted
The suicides have coaxed and yet denounced
The will to live in perfect alignment with the heart's insistings
Nothing is enough to break the cycle
I will remain here
A spiritual destitute

"Covered in Stardust, the stones grow Limbs and child eyes
They walk in a line and in perfect cursive
Their feet press one word into the grass
And they laugh as it bursts into flames"

What is the word?
What is the word?
I'll take just enough blood
To bring it back into view
Take just enough to see my brothers again
I'll take just enough
What is the word?

A glowing green stream in the mud acidic to the touch
hypnotic nonetheless
I have melted and rebuilt my skin so many times

Knelt down at the stream again
Inhaling the fumes and smiling
Smiling at the sting
I lay down and swim in a sea of memories
Of entrancement and agony
Of losing Consciousness from the pain
And falling into a gorgeous poison green dream

Bathed in the spring of thoughts exiled
Bathed by Giants who stared silent until I was changed
They sang a song of alchemy
Taught me the melody carefully
Then they encircled and drowned me with spit

Endless green streams
Loveless cease of Dreams
Endless green streams
Ceaseless love of Dreams

Nothing's been the same since I awoke and watched my body rebuild itself
Again and again I wonder the purpose of my torment

When I wonder sometimes I recall
Lyrics from their strange song
The purpose was written in a verse whose word surface
And never clarify
The pathetic peak of my waking visions
The dust from dead tongue mantras
From a wisdom I don't deserve
From an escape I haven't earned

Endless green streams
Loveless cease of dreams
Endless green streams
Ceaseless love of glorious dreams

When I try to jar the substance it melts the glass and slithers away
When I try to escape
The forest trail rings me back
So I'll continue to believe that this is my destiny
So that I may teach the next to fall into the poison green

Standing still, outlined, opaque the creatures of a summer long forgotten
Raging wind consumes them, thin and ghosting
They hold their ground on the wilted bog
The stars, the mist, the silence
The great wound in the sky begins to blow
They didn't turn to look
As the red began to spill forth
The tunnel it Formed plunges into the Earth
And in the red appears a door
Raging Fire consumes them, thin and ghosting
The children of a summer never seen

And all was silent and purple
Fog fingers arrange the bones
Into the vesica piscis
The bones lock and illuminate
The tribe will never die

I can hear them again
Their cadent whispers
From the Timberline
Of a closer valley than ever
At last we tread the same sphere
At last we absorb the sunset from the Shadows

A drop of life distilled in a Grail of death

But it is not the right time
I still have one more soul to save

Wait at the bridge for me
I will return soon and change
The Fate of the Harbingers of Dawn with what I bring
Back from the earth
Just one more soul
And we'll cross the threshold as one

We cannot prolong
You cannot request
The portal is closing
But we will find you again