Father, as I gaze upon your picture
I believe the shallow life that I lead
Will drain the tears from your own eyes

Only now I understand
All the sacrifices that you made were for us
I see now, you must forgive me

I could never be truly trusted
A trial that I failed

Your voice has revealed
All that is final
I trust in your word
A trodden path
I must walk

Father, as I return from the oblivion
I have burned myself in the flames of your rapture
In my eyes, your image burns away

I'm paralysed by my obsession
To live a life just like you did
In your flesh, through your life
With your corruption

And I find in your face, a most unfamiliar maze
I gaze at the sky as the colour bleeds out of space
In this moment of grief I light myself ablaze

I walk with the dark
And the darkness walks with me
I call forth a spirit from the wretched deep
In your image, a fading memory
Forward into darkness and darkness into me

Falling forever, through a hole torn in your dreams
Cast yourself screaming, into a bottomless pit

Void, hear me now as I stand on your precipice
Loud and clear as I commit myself to you

Falling forever, through a hole torn in your dreams
Cast yourself screaming into a bottomless pit

Trapped in your maze, a most unfamiliar place
I gaze at the walls as light beings to fade
A moment of darkness that we will come to embrace

Man will fall

Falling forever, through a hole torn in your dreams
Cast yourself screaming, into a bottomless pit

In moments of fear we forge our darkest weapons
No matter what the cost to life itself or this place

The carpenter will never atone for what he has wrought
Upon the world and all the innocents that it has sought
The ringing in his ears grows louder each and every day
All the knowledge through his years, wasted this way

We beckon the horsemen to ride onward
Dressage laid on as we set our gaze elsewhere

We are the eye of the storm yet to come
Grains of sand pouring through our fingers

We strive to reinvent the wheel in different ways
That it may spin dreadfully on ourselves

The carpenter will never atone for what he has wrought
Upon the world and all the innocents that it sought
The ringing in his ears grow louder each and everyday
All the knowledge through his years, wasted this way

Endlessly spinning towards the end of days
Bloody, beaten and ashamed
As the wheel turns, it begins again

Hear me Saint Catherine
Remove me from this cruel machine
I pray I die before I break
Save me from myself

Break these chains that bind me
Lift this wretched curse
I'd rather die in sin, condemned
Than spin another's corpse

I can feel myself changing In every rotation
My physical and mortal structure twisting in each motion
With each blow I endure an enduring numbness engulfs me
Between each spoke another part of me is lost

Ruptured
Bruised
Broken
Hearts turn to stone

Horrendously recreating a replica tragedy
Sinister and maligned
Reconstructed, it happens again

Behold, oh Saint Catherine
Remove me from this cruel machine
I pray I die before I break
Please save me from myself

Break these chains that bind me
Lift this wretched curse
I'd rather die in sin, condemned
Than spin another's corpse

Born from the rock
Out of the chaos
Circled by snakes
Water called forth

Miraculous birth
Formed out of dust
Shower of gold
Herald of Sirius

Shepard the lamb
Tame wild beasts
Heal the sick
Cast out demons

Marked by betrayal
Scattered across
The l and just the o
Rise once again

Freed from our pain
These tales evermore
Celestial protection
From cosmic horror

Our tapestry sewn
By other hands
Distorted truths
Planet shattered

Man crucified
On the third day
We sealed our cave
Our fiction's grave

False idols, hang them all
They stand against my will

You cannot rely on these prophets
They don't care for you like I do
They'll never understand the pain of being a man
Only we can realise
The truth, force apart the lies
Now understand my sacrifice

Witches, burn them all
They stand against my will

And after all, you were never seeking answers
Only relief from the crushing realisation
That you are just a boy
On a sick planet, in a dying universe

Caught in the entropy
Clinging to mother's promise
There is worship
For the Gods of men

In Every blade of grass that shoots from the ground
The animals that graze, the parasites that feed

The rays of the sun that penetrate the darkness
The breeze that carries the rain

The crack of thunder that the breaks midnight silence

The Ebb and flow of tides that carry strange beasts

Where are they now?

Can you feel it around you
The fabric of the cosmos

In another dimension
The screaming of eternity

Boiling, scalding truths
Pour across your mind

Through our mortal eyes we gaze on just a fragment
Distracted by the entanglement of emotions
To peer through the crack, but just a glimpse
The wildest imagination turned inside out

Looking around me I finally see
What had been purposefully hidden away
I can not withstand the horrid sight
These visions I see not designed for my eyes

Father forgive me, now I have learned
But I know now I cannot go back
I tear out my eyes and I still see
The cosmic horror in front of me