With force the hammer smashes
Down upon the stone
Heat ignites a molten surface
Strike with might
Breathe life into steel
A second sight
Will come to those

Playing - with the fire that's upon you
Promise - to welcome its toll
Paying - a price for those who walk alone
Embers spark - a vision to behold

Swaying - away

And oh the overtaker
Breathes spirits of kings
Succumb to death and face the fiery breath
Truth's flame is stronger than will

Reborn in the hell fire burning away
The bitterness, the saltiness
It left a taste upon the tongue
Bring scorn with each new breath

Carry the burden
Of this path you chose
The wisps of flames lick your skin
It draws you close

Five years I've been to battle
Ceased all-consuming fear
Challenged by Roman daughters
Channelled by Roman seers

On the road to conquer Gaul!

What good is trojan custom?
For old Etruscan kings?
How can this land divided
Succeed my father's ring?
So much for Bran the Stingy
And lands from Celtic raids
When the great one invaded Gaul
After all joint warfare is all

On the road to conquer all!
Peace and welfare offered to the Gauls

Then merging armies with ruthless command
New kingdom's daughters were purged from their lands
Then peaceful offers fell dead from their hands
Fell dead from their hands

Dark Brennius merged grateful
His arms embracing Gaul
Avoiding Frankish kingdom's
Authorities and all

On the road to conquer all!
On the road to conquer Gaul!

Spectral vexation
Riven reveries
Spells that demand a conjurer's hand
Rapt in the gloves of a dream

Terrified of what's outside your chamber
So oft reminded of the danger
Desperate to remain in your container
Under the vipers cross

Endless contagion
Blessed by pestilent saints
Casket slams shut on what could have been what
Echoing mutated strains

Icy disfavor
Gardens of disdain
Marked as a fiend scoundrel supreme
Seance of the estranged

Under the vault of heaven
Slumbering blossoms sway
Turn your gaze upon them
And feel your mind decay
Flocks beyond description
Encryption in their wings
When their throats begin to croak
The Neuromancer sings

Don't follow the lights
Unsettling scene
Don't follow the lights
They are not what they seem

Wild flowers surround us
Encircled in shimmering light
Fields of mystification
Oh they overthrow our minds
Mystic apparitions
Visions of delight
Distant voices calling
'Til sirens split the night

Thy own form: dark and formless

In a game that plays you
Absence is the only move
There are only two dimensions here
Just turn sideways to disappear

Thy own form: dark and formless

Downward spiral descending
To the nethermost deep
Skittering shallows unending
The Neuromancer's keep

Oh blissful peace
You evade me still
Sinking quickly is the heart that bleeds
With every ache you call from shores
Of a distant world
One that's just beyond the brink
Of no recourse
Oh blissful peace
You elude me still
In this heart there lives a ghost

Say farewell
To the gentle waning moon
It hangs so delicately
Here among the stars It shares a glow
Illuminating the way home

The frenzy runs deep
Hallucinating
Fever dreams
A tempest roars
Awakening

Embitterment quickly settles in

Where is the space
Containing joys of spring?
Winter creeping in
Takes my hand
You feel the pull
Its always felt this way
Before

Illusions run deep
Hallucinating
Fever dreams
A tempest roars
Awakening

Embitterment quickly settles in

Usurping grounds
In a bleeding gesture of a foe
Like a nightmare spawn
Relive the dream that calls
You kept it warm
Embracing misery in her ghost

Psyche dissolves as the planets turn to eyes
Wild breath of heaven ascent to the azure skies
Patterns possess the horizon stellar gazettes intertwine
Fragments of frenzied perception echoing legend
Splendid demented complexities in the trees they
Rise like a moth to a flame

Spirits fly outside of our minds
Led to whence our grace has fled
Outside our minds

Flora's uncanny performance sorcerous chatter of leaves
Floating majestic cathedrals bless'd and behest by the breeze
Racing through mad skies of blue like furious arrows of light
Moonrise on lunacy's mountainside conspiring tonight

Flames of salvation the chains of gravity fail
Strange coronation the serpentine fleet set sail
Ice giants sing telepathic wings of insectoid detail
Stellar machinery in our eyes
Call of the magpie chant of the dragonflies
Spying astounding surroundings senses decentralize
Psalm of the fauna calls as the dragon flies
Wild breath of heaven still whispers betwixt the spires
As the sonic cathedrals rise

The raven emerging
From the smoke thats circling
An ebony being
Lilting woeful psalms of the dead
Intoning heavy mortal hopes
That toil and pass

I swear, I heard it say
Oh one by one we
Drop away
Hear the narrow grave
Calling you my child

Moth like stars that flicker
Twilight undone
Oh vanity of hope
Hearts fruitless desires

I swear, I heard it say
Oh one by one we
Drop away
Hear the narrow grave
Calling you my child

In decay
Flame under flame
Till time be no more
As tides reel from shores - Ohh

Everlasting
Sweet voice be still
Where does thy beauty lie
Oh how dim the fire
And the breath that I hold
Oh and it all comes down
To this breath I hold

The webs encapsulating
Empty doorways luring prey
Glowing orbs surrender
In light that filters
Through cracks in mirrors
A beast is lurking
Into frame
They spin deadly
A dream between
Weaving their spools of silver thread
Familiar is the air
The lingering of beings

Oh come to me they whisper
Through a broken tongue
Oh melody
Guiding our movements as one
Oh destiny
I am speaking in tongues
A symphony ensnaring everyone

And oh how I see Orbweaver

The wooden frame
It's edges worn
Encasing memories that are torn
An apparition moaning on
Roaming helpless in the hall
And in her dream a vision gone
A hand that clutches wisps of form
And the husk of what was
Now hangs at dusk

They spin deadly
A dream between
Weaving their spools of silver thread
Glowing orb surrender

[Hordes:]
In shadows we dwell. Forgotten
By our collapsing mills forsaken
Priced out of life itself…awaiting
Lord Overthrower: Warlord of the parking lots

[Lordes:]
Opulence ensconced. Aristocracy
Lavishly entrenched. Deep technology
Let them eat themselves!

[Hordes:]
Vagrant armies cross the land
By the overthrower's hand

[Lordes:]
Packs of mecha-dogs and swarms of combat drones
Contactless deliverance from sin

[Hordes:]
Now the battle lines are drawn
To the crystal keep at dawn!

[Lordes:]
Through electric eyes our hornets fly
Surprised to find our spies are blind!
Vandals and malcontents approach our keep
It's time to activate the master scheme

[Hordes & Lordes back & forth:]
Profanum Vulgus
Now you've gone too far
Unchain the multitude
Now we go to war
Our legions endless
Now you've gone too far
To the last drop of blood

[Lordes:]
Now we go to war
Payment overdue
Nothing left to do
But kill the lot of you

[Solo: The Battle]

[Lordes:]
Countdown time leave it all behind

[Hordes:]
Wading through our dead
And smashed automatons
Palisades ahead
Prey awaits not far beyond
All the hosts assembled felt the trembling of the earth
Terrifying sight the blinding light
Of crystal ships the engines roar
And then they soar into the night

Aghast we stood upon this ruined world
As their vessels sped to gain the stars
Left in the smoke that chokes a blood-soaked earth

[Lordes & Hordes together:]
A new Jerusalem awaits on Mars
Knock knock - Its time
Choose your skin - Get in line
Time to toil in the data mines
Knock knock - Its time

Within your mind the Nexus hungers
Alien and ravenous
Extra-sensory telepathy
In search of prey
It slithers through the weeds
Of your thoughts and deeds
Hunting, haunting

Welcomed to the hell of your interiors
Escorted to the cell with your inferiors
To live the life ostensibly
And host the parasite designed for thee
The parasite - designed for thee
Aggressive Perfection

Tyranny of optics
A picnic in the nexus
Pedantic semantics
Vanity gymnastics
A beautiful apartment
So tastefully appointed
Relentlessly updated
Convincingly paraded

Voracious parasite
Aggressive Perfection
Alien ravenous
Aggressive Perfection

Raiment so impeccable
A banquet so delectable
And repartee so charming
It borders on alarming
No implement outdated
Meticulous, curated
Consistent with the scriptures
Would you like to see some pictures?

Gesturing to charity
Resembling sincerity
Who wouldn't be impressed?
Let's activate the guests!

Suffocating luxury (the parasite)
Drudgery of vanity (designed for thee)
Extravagant captivity (the parasite)
In a monetized reality (designed for thee)

Undone!
Within your soul the Nexus hungers
Telepathic tentacles
Extending through the lenses
To occupy your senses
It slithers through the weeds
Of your thoughts and deeds
Alien and ravenous