If I was to hold one hand over my face now
Would you know me?
Or would you see the other side of me?
And if you were to notice
There is a plan I've been devising
To go, to go now, far away from here
And I gonna be so brave
And I gonna go so far away
Where are the wise men?
Where have they all gone to
Did they follow the spirit children
Down the road that only they know?
And you and I know that the answer lies
Somewhere deep in the city of skies
We're gonna go there
We're gonna go there
We're gonna see the daylight
And I, gonna fly away now
And I, gonna go where the path runs high
Oh, I'm searching, Oh yeah.
I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna travel
I'm gonna see my through and
You can follow
We can go together
Trunk in hand we're gonna go
Isn't it touching the way the trees hold the leaves
Into the sky
And when the breeze blows
All you can see is the green and gold
You and I know that the city holds, the street night lights
And we're gonna find it
We're gonna find the gold that illuminates our lives
And I, gonna go so far away
And I, gonna see the stars up high
Hear me out, hear me out
I'm searching
Hear me out, yeah
We can go there, we can travel
Over the motorway, over the valley
All the way there with your gentle spirit
I am not afraid
With your gentle spirit
I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I am not afraid
I caught you smiling With pointed teeth What once was beautiful Has turned bitter and cheap So now there's nothing I can do for you But leave your roses Out to die
I misbehaved I'm in your way I'm in your way Like an elephant
Gentle smiling With pointed teeth Now there's a war between My high hopes and me So this is how you put An end to things By cutting throats With a smile
I misbehaved I'm in your way In your way Like an elephant
But in the corner Of my mind A little angel saying Don't waste your love You love too much
Elephant ? in your heaven. Leaving us to our own hell. Pointing fingers after rifles. Point is lost in rifle shells. The point is lost on them. Alcohol will see you through this. Wasting ? to wash your hands. Shamed before the ? ? ? ?. ? ? ? ? trouble ?. But you got it on your hand. We want to fly like angels. We float like rocks in water. I know this bird's an angel. We meet like oil and water. Safe tonight. The night is over. Safe to fly forever. Tiny things ? ? ? ?. Who could want the media ?? Life begins with aspirations. Don't wait to ? ? ?. You've forgotten what ? ?. Rainy days are now upon us. ? ? ? nothing's safe. Rainy days are here forever. Here, forever and a day. What a day it's been.
Elephant
Ain't going home
Ain't going home
To be your friend
Elephant
Ain't going home
To start a fire
To be your friend
Elephant
Ain't going home
Ain't going out
To start a fight
Elephant
To start a fire
To be your friend
It isn't right
Elephant
Hate being short
Hate being long
Hate being lost
Hate being round
Hate being round about your lost cause
Elephant
Ain't getting wired
Ain't getting lied to all the time
Elephant
I can't hear
I can't hear
The one you want
But it makes more sense
To be near the riverside
Yeah, it makes more sense
'Cos the grass grows high
It makes more sense
To be near to you baby
The very, very, very, very sad truth is
I never think sensibly
Thr very, very, very, very, very sad truth is
I never think
Bothers me
Elephant
Getting tired
Getting lied to
All the time
Elephant
You make it
You make it seem
So available
Elephant
Ain't going down
Ain't going down
To take a look
To take a look
Would bring me down
Would bring me down
Largest land mammal
on the face of the plant
faces extinction
this very minute
Taken from the Land
by the Hand of Man
largest land mammal
faces extinction
in our lifetime
What are we gonna do about it?
Absolutely-- Nothing
Absolute--Extinction
Taken from the Land
by the Hands of Man
cutting a hole
through the heart of the jungle
shrewn with body parts
Look Ma, top of the food chain
whose the king of the road
Has my kind gone so blind
or are we just Insane
look Ma, top of the food chain
Whose the king of the jungle NOW?
Largest land mammal
murdered for jewelry
stolen for ivory
I curse your trophies
Largest land mammal
Taken from the Land
by the Hands of Man
Largest land mammal
on the face of the plant
faces extinction
this very minute
Taken from the Land
by the Hand of Man
largest land mammal
faces extinction
in our lifetime
What are we gonna do about it?
Absolutely-- Nothing
Absolute--Extinction
Taken from the Land
by the Hands of Man
cutting a hole
through the heart of the jungle
shrewn with body parts
Look Ma, top of the food chain
whose the king of the road
Has my kind gone so blind
or are we just Insane
look Ma, top of the food chain
Whose the king of the jungle NOW?
Largest land mammal
murdered for jewelry
stolen for ivory
I curse your trophies
Largest land mammal
Taken from the Land
Hey Mr. Elephant there's been an accident down here
You and your trickery played a trick on me down here
Hey, Mr. Elephant it's important that you see
That there is a big reward if you cooperate with me
Hey, Mr. Flower Jar there's a curtain call out here
You made it look so real we could almost feel you here
Hey, Mr. Flower Jar we've all cleared a space for you
You've got a heart of gold and your performance souls can do ??
I will give you all of this
If you will praise me
If you will praise
Like an airplane
This has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down
Someone else on top
You can keep me pinned
It's easier to tease
But you can't paint an elephant
Quite as good as she
And she may cry like a baby
And she may drive me Crazy
'Cause I am lately lonely
So why d'you have to lie?
I take it I'm your crutch
The pillow in your pillow case
It's easier to touch
And when you think you've sinned
Do you fall upon your knees?
And do you sit within your picture?
Do you still forget the breeze?
And she may rise, if I sing you down
And she may wisely cling to the ground
Cause I'm lately horny
So why would she take me horny?
What's the point of this song? Or even singing?
You've already gone, why am I clinging?
Well I could throw it out, and I could live without
And I could do it all for you
I could be strong
Tell me if you want me to lie
'Cause this has got to die
This has got to stop
This has got to lie down, down
With someone else on top
You can both keep me pinned
'Cause it's easier to tease
But you can't make me happy
Quite as good as me
ah, there's an elephant standing in the room
ah, though we're all alone
it's not just me and you
you wanna talk, you wanna talk about it
wanna talk, you wanna talk about it (eh, eh, eh)
you wanna talk, you wanna talk about it
there's an elephant in the room
and it's crushing me, there's no room to breathe
got me backed against the wall
and i just can't see, cuz it's blinding me
coming closer, i can't relax
ah, there's an elephant standing in the room
ah, though we're all alone
it's not just me and you
you wanna talk, you wanna talk about it
wanna talk, you wanna talk about it (eh, eh, eh)
you wanna talk, you wanna talk about it
there's an elephant in the room
and it's crushing me, there's no room to breathe
got me backed against the wall
and i just can't see, cuz it's blinding me
In the middle, happiness
Unrelenting nakedness
9/11 euphemy, in the middle
Angry label's emphases
Modern women
Drunken men
I remember when we met, in the middle
There, there's nothing you can do about now
So sing along, 'cause if it's you
You'll do for all
Elephant, oh elephant
Please don't forget your number
Elephant, oh elephant
One step ahead of time
This is America
American show
Elephant, oh elephant
One step ahead of time
Broken compass never works
Just like magic, and your church
They can sing it, so can we
In the middle
Sipping water blissfully
From her point of entry
I remember when we met
In the middle
There, there is something you can do about it now (do about it now)
So sing along, 'cause if it's you
You'll do for all
Elephant, oh elephant
Please don't forget your number
Elephant, oh elephant
One step ahead of time
This is America
American show
Elephant, oh elephant
One step ahead of time
I feel lighter, lighter
From the choir muse right here
I feel lighter, lighter
Baby won't you listen?
I feel higher and higher
From the choir trying
I feel high and higher
Baby won't you listen?
Elephant!
Don't you forget your number
Elephant, oh elephant
One step ahead of time
This is America
American show
Elephant, oh elephant
I caught you smiling
with pointed teeth
what once was beautiful
has turned bitter and cheap
So now there´s nothing I can do for you
but leave your roses out to die
I misbehaved
I´m in your way
in your way like an elephant
Gentle smiling
with pointed teeth
now there´s a war between
my high hopes and me
So this is how you put an end to things
by cutting throats with a smile
I misbehaved
I´m in your way
in youre way like an elephant
But in the corner of my mind
a little angel saying
"Don´t waste youre love,
no more rewards when we fight
but i was taken just the other night
to the circus show
entertainment at it's finest
expectations of a great night
and what a magnificent sight it was
but inside my heart
the glamour was fading
what the world needs now is to take this blindfold off
was i lied to
cause this question's been suspended
but it's catching up with you
i can't believe it
was I betrayed - oh, to my dismay
so confined, he confided
that nothing ever made his eyes shine
at the circus show
where did all the happiness go
and if you think
the world is a bicycle built for only you
well, brother this big top, no it never seemed so low
now i'm standing on my soapbox shouting at the world
and my question's never been answered
but tonight i will not falter - so tell me
I caught you smiling
With pointed teeth
What once was beautiful
Has turned bitter and cheap
So now there's nothing
I can do for you
But leave your roses
Out to die
I misbehaved
I'm in your way
I'm in your way
Like an elephant
Gentle smiling
With pointed teeth
Now there's a war between
My high hopes and me
So this is how you put
An end to things
By cutting throats
With a smile
I misbehaved
I'm in your way
In your way
Like an elephant
But in the corner
Of my mind
A little angel saying
Don't waste your love
You love too much
Badadadam
Badadam
Badadada
Ahahaha
Ohhhhhh
Badadadam
Badadam
She said Andy you're better than your past,
winked at me and drained her glass,
cross-legged on the barstool, like nobody sits anymore.
She said Andy you're taking me home,
but I knew she planned to sleep alone.
I'd carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor
If I hadd fucked her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
she don't have the spirit for that now
We drink these drinks and laugh out loud,
bitch about the weekend crowd,
and try to ignore the elephant somehow
somehow
She said Andy you crack me up,
Seagrams in a coffee cup,
sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone.
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes,
she made up her own doctor's notes,
surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone.
I'd sing her classic country songs
and she'd get high and sing along.
She don't have much voice to sing with now
We'd burn these joints in effegy,
cry about what we used to be,
and try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow
I buried her a thousand times,
giving up my place in line,
but I don't give a damn about that now
There's one thing that's real clear to me,
no one dies with dignity.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow.
Somehow.
I hear the children play
with the guards of the jail
with the guards of the jail
with the guards of the jail
I'm thinking of a new name
that I could give myself
one day I'll be myself
oh, I'll be my own
It's been forty long years
in the desert I have been
I've even hit the devils nose
in the desert I have grown
And as a woman said
that day when I was crying out
God puts his diamonds in the sand
but then he will always takes them back
Have a good day brother
me and your sister will rise up
like an elephant
from the mud
in your caee sleep
we will brake free
we will brake free
Have a good day brother
me and your little bro
me and your sister will rise up
like an elephant
from the storm
in your caee sleep
we will brake free
And the city will be reborn
and the streets will be washed
may the streets be clean and washed
may the streets be clean and washed
And we will wave our hand
and everybody will forget the past
and everybody will forget the past
And as a woman said
that day when I was crying out
God puts his diamonds in the sand
but then he will always takes them back
Have a good day brother
me and your sister will rise up
like an elephant
from the mud
in your caee sleep
we will brake free
we will brake free
Have a good day brother
me and your little bro
me and your sister will rise up
like an elephant
from the storm
in your caee sleep
we will brake free
we will brake free
I'm thinking of a new name
that I could give myself
one day I'll be myself
I bet he feels like an elephant
Shaking his big grey trunk for the hell of it
You know, that you're dreaming about being loved by him
Too bad your chances are slim
And it's not like Mr Shock to get shy
When my eskimo is on top
He's got friends but you get the feeling
That they wouldn't care too much if he'd just disappear
Here comes
He pulled the mirrors off his cadillac
Because he doesn't like it looking like he looks back
Somebody grabbed his collar
He cried the whole way home
In the madness of the tower of the seven orichalcum gates
Glittering quintessence, realignment of the triple suns
A planet returns from confusion, phantoms of annihilation
A realm of destruction in chaotic rebirth
Spectral knights in starlit plains chant the rhyme of the staves
Darkling lords in swamplands drear cling to neon brilliance
The benevolents and the miscreants in truce for another beginning
We, the primitives, the dreamers seek the ways of creation
Plowing through the soil of night in a sacred quest
An apocalypse of thought, renaissance of imagining
Revolting against thrones of order and stagnation
From the rubble and silence we rise in a blaze
We're still alive, our time has come
The brave the strong and the foolish are one
Control the magic, control destiny
We are the leaders of the visionaries' age
Survivors wear the crest of great ability and strength
Wishes on the horizon and wonders in our hands
Hear our laughter amongst the thunder
We are the gods of myth, reveling in the storm
Arete is forged in fires of the hermit's spells
Pursue the virtuous traits of man and beast
The knowledge is rampant, wisdom enacted
Empowered by ability we become more than the heart
Traverse the grim perils of the ancient wizard's castle
Resisting the morbid that settle upon the hearth
We leave the rites of fear at the offer of a new hope
A divine opportunity to chase the sunrise
Riding out on the wind of the aggressor
At laser speed and through glowing mists unphased
Sounding the horn from the wings of the rainbow
A hypnotic chorus from angelic pantheons
Once the navigator dares and steps toward the void
From the highest window to the unfathomed Heavenscape
Open my eyes and bless the dawn of utter zero
The palace disappears forever
To the open unknown we fly
On the breath of the burning stars
Following a whim of Icarian audacity
Awakening as our will is wrought
From the mountain of iron shadows
Restoring the obscured truth from decay
We understand and meet the challenge of our time
No apologies for hunger
No shame of the urge to feed
See the blood of balancing life
Evil known in a living circle
Shadowed dreams of a darkness fair
Hawks and doves engaging the mind
Laughing nymphs and striding goddesses
Sucking on the tongue that devours
Consumed by a cruel artistry
Avenge the stains of the relentless throne
Joyous healing in the revelation of hatred
Grief ecstatic in the clarity of horror
Animalistic groans ripped from the body
Wrenching wild in crazed delight
Helpless fly in a spider's web
Breathing the fiery musk of greed
Tiny victim under control
Asking whether to release
Raising tension to quaking screams
Roaring exaltation
Fierce magnificence swallowing millenia
Embraced by lightning in the Neutrial Interior
Death rules the air on tyrants wings
Claustrophobic chaos in a maze of prismatic walls
Benighted by the horns of the god
Cabalistic glyphs recall the story of the pharaoh
Keeper of the tomb and the multitudes of undead
Sealed within the 12th Sphere - The Ocean of Infinite Agony
A plague borne upon the triple helix
A hideous fungus of vipers
Mystified before the crystal altar
A sacrifice of light before the silent portal
Dread forms are summoned from celestial planes
Howling in rage beneath the abyss shroud
Sorcerers and kings waged great wars
Shadowed by spells in cathedral crypts
A dark lineage - The night breathes again
By the claws of the moon, sanity is riven from the soul
As Aries drinks the blood of the butchered Aphrodite
Mesmerised by the last flame of sunset
The immortal battle at the edge of twilight
Yet all tears have run dry
The demon who makes trophies of man
A journey giving chase across the galaxies
The chameleon adapting to any environment
Amongst the violence and the conflict I will be
Drawn to the fighting and the craving for the kill
Indefatigable in my pursuit
Ruthless in my attack and taking no prisoners
Curvilinear hieroglyphs on subterranean pyramids
An alien labyrinth under eternal mountains of ice
The solar storm radiates deep phosphorescent shadows
The hunter's moon is full in the sky - Let the sport begin!
Consumed by the slashing knives
And the laser's blast
Garish in my bloody vision
Ripping out the spines
Harvesting the skull
A token from the corpse of my prey
Atop the grey dawn
In the first heat of the new day
Harsh sunlight upon the valley at war
Into the battle the dragonangel descends
From the auroral dust of the spirit world
To the sleeping dunes of the holy desert
Spears of lightning desolate between the clouds
The darkbringer stalking the ethereal planes
Calling with the voice of one you know, turn around and kiss the blades
Glimpse the disappearing eyes camouflaged by bending light
Suffer from the fear that curses souls before the final strike
With the inescapable certainty of an execution
Stealth and silence through the forests, jungles, caves incarnadine
A warrior's noble conquest spiting ignominious defeat
At safari's end I prepare destruction to scorch this no man's land
He descended from the moon, eyes ablaze with the ardour of strength
The last survivor of a great civilization destroyed by a Dragonthrone War
Integrity beyond his years, able to see large vistas at once
Hero and saviour, seeks not conquest or crusade but peace
Three protectors as counterparts transcending the hemispheres
The Moonslayer, the Countess and the Wolf interceding against a persistent evil
Charging on a nightmare, hurricanes of flame
Invoked through spells of vengeance twining skyward
To remedy an intolerable pain and oppression
Demolition of the axis inside
Witness the mystery of this uncorrupted angel
Whose volcanic return shall release the elixir of light
Taking up the Demonstarsword
Roaring out from astral sanctuary
Riding a rising swell of anger
You should not wound that which cannot be killed!!!
Dismal clouds boiling in the glowing storm
The prodigious angst of a banished race
Ridden with wickedness, lost to fear
Usurped by a darkness baptised in devastation
He will become air and sky - amorphous and invincible
Despair cannot defeat him, he has routed the abyss
All the suns shall fall and the beast's mouths not avail
When the dead soar over the burning forests he stands a triumphal beacon
Embracing the destiny that brought him to such a time
To resurrect the forgotten dreams of this final generation
As desolate and alienated as a god
Transform this decayed form into that of The Everliving
Regenerate me in the horrid embrace of my sarcophagus
Isolate me from the cruelty of my twisted reflection
Grant me immortality in exchange for perpetual servitude
Necromancer of the pyramid in the darkness of Third Earth
Lifeforce from the foci of the merciless four winds
Jagged teeth, glowing red eyes, bound hands mummified
Relentless, invincible my wrath shall be
Time travel through mirrors
In the wizard's dreams
Eternities into the sky
The dreadnaught will arrive
Daunting spires beneath a cluster of veiled suns descending
From the draconian majesty of the black rainbow
Prisms of shifting angles, internal alienage
Threshold of inverted light trembles on the unknown
Colossal serpents walk as men beneath a morbid Sphinx
Avian monstrosities brooding in the primal wastes
Mutants in the pits of doom initiating fate
The menacing dark core of the circinate stronghold
I've survived upheavals of cosmic savagery
In the seething twilight of this living abyss
These ruins obscure, an immemorial sadness
Whispers from the east, Ancient Spirits of Evil
Divine water moves within a swirling void
Prophecies and frenzied rites now lost to silence
I am blight and anguish dancing in the plague
Devastating galaxies in the sight of the sleepless stars
My kingdom unchanged by the passing of aeons
Asleep below the freezing earth, stirred by the call of the accursed mask
Old, dark memories of triumph - a sanctuary of pain and hate
Decaying limbs claw through the dirt - the gruesome stench of the past
Grotesque shapes obscured by the fog, the moon a bone-white glow
Primitive ghoulish hunger to kill, to gore, consume
Decrepit are the living, The Demon's will be done
The Evil Eye aflame with the power of necromancy
An immobilizing stare torturing pitiful souls
The cemetery is alive with the lurching undead
Exhuming horrible sins in the dead of night
A lurid flashing light - anguish and torment
Raising all enslaved by death
A grim and turgid darkness, contorted forms and shadows
Ashes of angels fall like snow upon a grey and lifeless ground
The throbbing pulse of The Gravehammer is buried by sadness and gloom
Until only silence is echoing in eternity
In the rotting air, Granath smiles upon Ovu Mobani incarnate
A force of fury fueled by grief
And the abysmal silence
Harvest of destroyed purpose
Paragon of suffering
Stench of mentals defiles the face
Cinders of the womb inhaled
Haunting talisman manipulates
Binding fields of the thaumaturge
Ancient microcosm, inferior command
Barren hollow of the terrible mountain
Glowing ways of the eternal craft
Reaching the mind that dwells within
Guided by the blood of the slain
Nemesis throne amidst the crimson pyramids
Cleansing fires to purge the slate
Funnelled through her effigy
Daring the magicks
This night my legions walk the sky
Dark clouds swirl above the breaking dawn
Conjure chilly moonscapes and slumbering nightmares
Whisper zephyr winds of an alien sun
Black worlds under the glare of strange eyes
Slitting the throat of the enchanted doe
Wine of wrath clips the wings to the kingdom
Hear me, keeper of mysteries
Conflicted by approaching dimensions
Veiled upon the hill laughs a haunted heart
Eternity of stars in a netherworld of souls
Onyx vision to flowing tonic
What little have we learned from this perfect accident?
Everything makes sense and everything is real
Who am I? Who was I? Who will I become?
Existence in extremis as the rim of this plane melts
Who can say what is impossible? Who will be by my side?
Should the victim forgive or curse them all?
Is living that simple? Who knows but the dead?
What is the fulcrum, what is the lever, and where do I stand?
A shiver in the basement then the falling of birth
Running, accelerating, scattering, progressing
The capacity of memory without stricture or cause
A creator who rested after the foundation was finished
I am just another sparrow passing through the stream
Of an obscure continent moving through the heavens
The day is late and this will be my final sunset
Crushed between the membranes of opposing times
The lovers behind the net considering the dance and the silence
Through heroism and adventure I've arrived at myself
Snap the bonds of paradox and swallow the wheels of fate
Sequence shifts and the only truth is the present
There is one world, there are many worlds
Reflections and echoes confused beneath the arch
Leaves lose their pigment and hair drains to grey
Are there any who dream of me? Was I ever destined?
Anadigm, paradigm, anadigm, paradigm
How can anything be obsolete if it exists in every moment?
Conception to execution, extinction to renewal
The mantle burns, the crux corrodes, all will pass and fade
Utter endless havoc, gravitational unbinding
As another universe dies, a lost and lifeless generation
The machinery of the human body stagnates at maximum entropy
And all I see are ashes ashes ashes ashes
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, all one needs is already available
Absolute failure is just another illusion, the world will not end
Uncertainty breeds more questions, more questions breed more quests, more quests breed more life, more life breeds
Change, collapse, reinvention, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is fear
In your hour of triumph, those who failed before you will not spite you
But rejoice in your success, for you have fulfilled their lives
The smallest mote, halved until infinity, can never reach zero
Why is pain so compelling to me?
Through the night I've crawled, hateful and ashamed
Drowning powerless in the despair of my worst memories
Confronted with and tortured by my own secrets
I cannot choose not to believe, I need to know
Stay close to me as this story comes to pass
A momentary glimpse of the ones behind the net
And the twinkling eye of the maker of the wands
Running down a slope of recollections
The descending mist of a gaunt and silent spectre
The coiling of nerves and the tightened hush
The bowstring tension of anticipation
I have become the abyss that reflected me
Sympathy or apathy if the dead could speak
Holes in the heavens like the gaps in myself
Crying as fantasies breed frustration
The sunrise has not come, drained of all hope
Absence, nothing, a child in the dark
Hearing the screams of my dying parents
Witnessing the killing, touching the cadavers
A flash of sickness and the rush of speeding death
The shrill high laughter of a merciless voice
A murderer crushed by protective love
Seven mutilations of a single soul
The pure lust for inflicting hurt
A pitiless gaze atop a lipless mouth
Images of my friends weaken and fade
Each doubt reopening miseries long suppressed
As every promise abandons me
Excruciating loss is transmuted into iron resolve
I am the spark before the blaze
Beyond all restraint in an instant of fury
Beads of light vibrate to the timbre of joining wills
The brothers meet and the cores sing in recognition
The synchronicity of two minds equal in strength
Now it is I who calls you by name
Father and mother are gone and I can never be whole again
Every fibre bore the pressure contorting every wound
I will not die crouching, hiding, kneeling in supplication
Straight-backed and proud I am the stone of your defeat
For all the times I feared to speak
For all the days I dreaded the dawn
For all the years I fought alone
I shall give you the obliteration of the curse that disappears you like the words you have spoken!!!
As a dream of distress fades upon awakening
Agony is reconciled over the creeping of time
Healing tears of vindication and wisdom
The graceful retribution of maturity
The boy who lived is now the man with the lightning scar
The one who survived as the other diminished
Beast being and spirit shall endure to testify
Intuitive dreams, an inner flow
Synergy of visions, the seventh sight
Darkness surrounds the fear that refines
Journeys heighten the plateau
Nothing before knowing, time and the after
Emptiness perceived in hindsight
If this will end in failure
I cannot lose by daring the conflict
Minds engorged, brimming with sickness
Scared of the suffocating chase
Protector, defender, champion condemned
Not beyond but all within understanding
Perversion is surrendering choice
Corruption of purpose
Weakness spurred by the waste of an oath
Extinguish the groveling flesh
Beasts roll in nightmares, bodies found in sunrise
No foes but self to mar the way
I will succeed where the mighty have failed
Because I am not them
Compass of infinite stray desires
Light the clay black as love
Bites precious the eternal realm
Burning the ruler's requiem
Standing restless
Transcending fantasy
Nights of thought beyond all craving
I'm in the sun, hiding and lost
But at the bane of the newest day
Blood of the pure will howl as fire
Quaking outward from the fault
Strange are the moments as chance recedes
Yet I continue against the face
Covered by the frothing dark
In shrouded sleep I lie
As my astral body is cast through time
Flying through infinity on scaly wings
Transcending nightmares and the waking world
The necromancer buried alive struggles to break free
From the black-masked dementors of inferno
A cyclonic cone of fear roars beneath the ground
Its very presence paralyzes the living
He'll overcome the sting of death, his tormentors will see
Armies of a thousand seraphim, invulnerable to be
No more shall mankind hide from evil's wrath and hateful lies
Our immortality prevails by the failing nephil cries
I enter other realms of magic
Witches incant behind clouds of colored smoke
The passion - a rapture of wicked convulsion
Spellbound to the dream forevermore
Haunting entreaties to sail through the heavens
Where galaxies glow like enlightened palaces
Fables and mythos alive in the twilight
Channeling the legends of a nameless past
I sit within a cube of glass, a thrall enchants my eyes
Warlocks surround the crystal tearing away the skies
Invoking primal chaos, former ages pass
Stalks of flame engulf the earth in burning gas
Monuments rise proud as mountains
Symbols of conquest achieving eternity
To dust and ash reduced as a floating musty sea
A mausoleum of ancient memories
Great kings have come and gone by the sun and moon
For all their power their bodies now drift like desert sands
A wish - a soul trapped in an endless forest
A timeless maze adrift in emptiness
Some dreams die and some live on though none can ever tell
Of how their fates were scattered in the cosmic wishing well
Another time into the night on silver spheres we glide
The cellar door is ajar to my inner sanctum
Before the Electric Messiah I'm at home in the dark
Watching the drama of life on a glowing stage
Colors and hues from the dreams of the blind
The adventure begins, the heroes embark on their quest
Through the cold moors to make their discovery
In the Hall of Shadows the pestle and mortar rest
Within a maze of glass the Desolate Queen awaits
Beyond the gates of twilight, under the wilting moon
By the light of fantasy where the night is my day
A voyage of the mind into the stellar expanse to reach the edge of all that is known
Past the mutilcentric rings of mythical planets and the eerie shades of collapsing stars
The swirling globes of the celestial cataclysm orbit the sun of a distant galaxy
Awaken the observer in pristine isolation, to witness the grandeur of eternity's exode
At the highest plane of the starlit void
I gaze over my black empire from the comfort of my crimson throne
Nod lies above my obfuscated eyes
Protected by the rods of the Five Wizards
The portal yawns, the ivory colonnades crumble
Hear the rhythmic crashing of the waves - the raging ocean breathes
A crystal intelligence, the fiddle of the king of sleep
Lured by its bewitching song, we cluster unto its shores
To bathe in the primordial womb, the blood of the earth
Within this ancient vast abyss, the largest creatures dwell
Mantas, whales and timeless sharks, fabled kraken and plesiosaurs
The hurricane moon rises, whipping the frenzied tides
Winds of iron, mariners brace against the coming storm
Beneath the water, a vivid cascade of boundless solar light
True rapture of the deep
Entranced by parallel streaks of white foam
Follow the unknown path of the Bimini Road
From profoundest heights plunge into its depths
Even brilliant Atlantis sank as a stone
Ghosts of submerged vessels in the salty haze
Those who dared to challenge this indomitable entity
For as gulls now rest upon its calm surface
Blue turns to grey then to black as the storm waits to break on the anxious earth
A violent upheaval will soon come to pass - The Enemy grins at destruction
The ominous sky is alive with heat, bright as the night of the storm
Fierce winds, blinding downpour, lightning tears through the dark veil of clouds
And so the war begins, a struggle in the sky
Gone is the light from sun, star and moon
Like the armies of Mordor in igneous wrath
Thunder resounds through this premature night
As the crash of a thousand pantheons
Great is the release of this supernova
Ravaging the land with stones of ice
Another cycle - the earth is transformed
Marching free of my parched grave
Awakened to a form beyond time
Tears from above blessing black soil
Another cycle - the earth is reborn
The trees thrash wildly in the forest's pit
Branches get tangled and trunks torn apart
Sand turns to mud as it's pelted by rain
The wind howls in furious agony
The wise take refuge and wait for the dawn
Deep in their haven of home and hearth
Ride strong all who were caught unprepared
What went wrong today? Everything is so controlled
Ideals were abraded by reason
Impotent dreams on an overcast day
Out of the depths I have cried and no one has heard
Gods and heroes and imaginary companions
Unrequited promises no longer suffice
Rhythm to repetition, perseverance to insanity
Just because you're alive doesn't mean others should want you
Knowledge is temptation, I repulse myself
On the borderline between neurosis and psychosis
Dissecting my actions instead of being in the present
I dissociated my fear and allowed it to advise me
I am not a messiah, I am a man in trouble
An unbearable waste with no excuse
Pathetic and scared by grotesque loneliness
Morality wasted in isolation
Tomorrow's smile never comes for me
Ambitious but incapable, weak without direction
Another spring prepares me for another summer alone
And there is no return from the killing hour
To be honest it is not this world I hate
But the circumstances which shaped my mediocrity
Fading in an abyss of inaction, said the mirror
This is not a work of fiction - this is my life
Rape the children for their own good
Scars awaken a tragic sense of destiny
Hope is deception born in alienation
To the frantic throbbing of my own heart
Sorry does nothing, objectifying me with pity
Removing yourself from blame, feigning innocence
If those who find me claim to love me, where were they when I needed them?
Some friends would have been nice
Always anticipating, never receiving, I wait
I may see her soon and I will never leave her again
Perhaps next year, perhaps one day, perhaps never
I am not a child yet I am so inferior
At last I reach out, but am I too late?
Ideation of a choice as I pace in agitation
I just wish I could go back and reverse this mistake
I wanted to dance with her one last time
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression
Anger, depression, bargaining, anger
Depression and anger in a cycle of envy
I did nothing to deserve this, I did nothing
Stop this please - I'm in pain
Why doesn't anyone care?
And who will tell her that I've died?
And how will she know how I suffered?
At last I surrender to tears
As I trace my veins
All I can think of is her
And how much it hurts
Wait, reflect and take the sands
Appearing, transforming, preparing the plunge
Renewed in phases manifesting spectres
Restored yet contained within a vault
Sights before a flying soul
Remaining silent, only breathing slow
Depths and heights of vindication
Humiliated as exalted
Metrics of mindflow integrate
Transitioning shapes
Decipher the metaphor
Tearing the world afraid in belief
Artful volition of supremacy
Pestilent sings the burning eclipse
Destiny a consequence of choices made
Across the chapter of falling names
Draining sunrays race the realm
The shining man belongs of old
Near the breath, words are gone
Escape the surge of the dying
They shall never leave this pit
Or the putrefied throat of the wreathed animal
Nor shall the hypnotic mouth be shut
But remain wide, anticipating the damned
Solar might and slithering fear
Past the gallows of the hallowed cold
Sailing night clings to crawling skin
Sentient mercury invokes the task
Spirits ascending convulsing
Serpents striking from the coil
Intricate carving
Known beyond the beginning of life
Since before nothing was born
An enormous stair, a grey cold castle stands
The ravens fly at dawn, baptised by ice and wind
The strengths of dark and light are one by the great moon
Skeletor the tyrant upon his fearsome throne
The thundering lord rules the world now slain
The infernal unknown and the hurricane hordes
Warriors divine and the ritual of steel
Storming the evil rage of the iron one
A prelude to the voice of the nemesis
A curse of vitriol and disharmony
Antagonistic night in a barren land
The little magician dreaming of a time to come
I am the last of the Eternian bloodline
Aria of suffering in the halls of The Sorceress
A despondent soul, an impaling silence
A murderous day of shattered illusions
By the dual halves of the sword, they will live
The victorious heritage of the ashen skull
I, the wandering prince of lorn valor
A master and guardian of the universe
Sheets of fire aflame my heart
Blasting force of a hellish tide
Bold at the point of glory
I have the power and I will change it all
We of the waves unbound by lament
Arms of chaos in dimensional upheaval
Livid scars upon the sorrowful sky
No wreckage but emptiness is before me
A mass of serpents upon the writhing mount
In the fractured eye of the villainous staff
The horn resounds in the dim wilderness
Fierce hunger for the elder secrets
Will I find what I'm looking for?
Lightning falls alone over silver seas
A mighty breath stirs in the rifts of the earth
Gather the DNA of long dead conquerors
Comb the tombs, crypts and mausoleums for the genetic map
This unholy experiment shall revive my sinister mind
Since the reign of Solomon I've awaited this day
Despots and warriors shall quake at my name
I shall be worshipped for the monarch I am
From my ophidian chariot I shall rule as master
Alexander of a new empire
Evil - the hallmark of my greatness
The ruthlessness of Khan storming the Great Wall
The daring of Hannibal leading the charge
Of the Carthaginian elephant phalanx
Born to rule, destined to conquer
With the genius of Napoleon
The terror of Ivan, ferocious and cunning
Let all those who fear me obey
Arise Serpentor Arise
Numerous memories all frozen in time
Camaraderie of soldiers through the span of my lives
The events of today, the legends of the future
And the heart of morale still lies in the stomach
My eyes have seen the Roman legions herald the downfall of the Gauls and Nervii
My ears have heard the rattling armor of French cuirassiers in the streets of Moscow
My hands have wielded the weapons of iron upon the blood red hills
An echo of triumph beneath the immortal sky
Arise Serpentor Arise
Vengeance is ours, the victory cry
None who defy me shall live
Know that I am the one you seek
All who oppose me shall die
Beneath the shroud I receive the breath of life
From the nefarious bender of minds
Awareness returns, my spirit reborn
The Emperor reclaims his throne
The cold winds of battle are blowing again
The cobra slithers across the face of the world
A thousand years of fire shall be my legacy
This I command!
Footsteps in the sands of Tatooine
In dreams of the lemniscate I've wandered
The glow of the moon devoured by the dark clouds of fate
I know the thunder is for me
Obscured by morbid sorcery on the Plateau of Tarynor
Evoking the third curse of the inexorable storm
Runic incantations upon the oaken wand
Gazing at the soil of the stars
Phantasmal landscapes of magnificent desolation
Feverish hallucinations in the midnight sun
Lost in isolation at the end of the spectrum
The old night willing to conquer
Across the mountains cold, through a frozen ocean of clouds
In the shadow of the Icewizards of Hoth
Nocturnal portrait, funereal fear
At the zenith of pandimensional summoning
I breathe the elder conjuration
Following the skyward impulse of Enoch
Above the bleeding distorted land on the edge of revelation
Suffused in the crimson twilight of the last sunset
A remarkable helix of nebular mist, odd to the guardian's eyes
Before the immortal mural of time, the machine is ever in motion
Riding the visions of the tesseract, ascending the spiral scales
Hurtling toward the binary suns beyond the gleaming vortex
Upon the gallows of a dying galaxy
Exhausted by gravity's constant crush
Death shall be my greatest command to all
As I escape the astral cage
In the dawning winds beyond the diminution of light
I arrive with the book in my hand
Forever treasuring the mania of youth
A thousand years on Thra since the conjunction of the suns
When the brothers were divided into order and chaos
Together eternal in polarized incarnations
Observing the cosmos through a severed millennium
The gentle Mystics driven from the castle into exodus
Toward a stone valley where lush melodies resonate
The cruel vulturine beings create crustacean terrors
Victims warped by the wrath of the deranged Skeksis
Into the black oak under the void
An inflamed eclipse against the peaks of silver hills
See the mountain bathing beneath the rose fire
Converging as a sole eye, the three flames shall burn
Each orb as a unique imagination
In the solitude of the orrery
Physics, alchemy and existence
Harmonizing to the pitch of the flute
Taking wing to the skies or striding on land
Consumed at the teeth of the vile Skreesh
Charismatic drive tempered with a quiet calm
Good and evil interlaced in an enchanting craft
The parallels die in unison
Insubstantial as ghosts in the mist
The scroll of promised restoration in the ancient city
The vivid flight of an everlasting essence
Leap onto the crystal and plunge in the dark shard
Rebuild our shattered planet by the light of its truth
The living waters of dazzling stars
Pouring forth opaque might as the arch of a bow
Emboldened by the power of a forthcoming era
As the celestial bodies realign
Those who were exiled shall return to the palace
And the pure urSkeks will leave this healed plane
Perched atop a vital time
When the foes again unite
A great conscience is now sworn
To usher forth the age divine
When single shines the triple sun
What was sundered and undone
Shall be whole, the two made one
Praise me in the howling shadows
In gardens of coiling apparitions
Violent lunacy in fragile lands
Of blooming legions
Displacers of light
Birthing limitations
Enslaving me to die
Raptured insanity felt it's release
Eternal victims of the sky
Mayhem of living claws the chest
Plays across the satchel of the spine
Consume the gruesome valley of the comatose grotesque
Cast down hypocrisy
And recover your limbs if you can
And we're banishing banshee wails by the heavy screaming of The Dimandaahl
Judgmental soliloquies slough the stars
As symbols bent bowed and broken
Can't find the source of my damnation
Condemn us, everyone
Smouldering in illusory combat
Tension of bloodblind mantrae
Omnipotent vengeance
And spectacular achievement
Release the warriors of punishment
Biological turbines fall
Slit my skin it taints my wrists
It takes some work for me
Evaporate exhausting flesh
Statreds of hatement in aphasia
Formation and fusion of trance
Along seas of The Deathpoignance
Wide like the mynd that lies awake
As a feverweary nomad
Imagination never sleeps
Blind senses scream in shock
Before perception, a gorge
Refraction and inversion through the lens
Colors float in flesh of eyes
Hanging from the surface of the sky
Visions recede like a wave
Comets yoked through the deep
Lighting the knowledge of centuries
Shredded sails of magnetic stone bellow in the storm
Brains float as reptiles against concentric sunsets
Fall the skull of fire upon oceans upon oceans
Dormant villages of manacled souls
Enveloped by inferno
Blistered and charred
Masses in the tonsils of crypts
In the shadows in shame
Pens cut like swords across paper in hand
Words incinerated by the codex devourer
Tapping, biting, returning consciousness
Frostclad desolation is the prelude to rebirth
Benevolent forces in butterfly patterns
Skeletons of cosmic tones
Light your star away
Heroic master of identity
I cannot remember my birth
First came terror then transformation
Energy to form back to energy
Sacred fluid of the future
Always flowing into me
They believed in two eternities
Poignance in transition
Excites the mindflower
Speeding heartbeats slow perception
"Open!" and the choir falls
Thoughts spin on their axes
In an orbit 'round the mind
Death has no reflection
In this spectrum
Beyond living comprehension
Have misery upon me
Abandoned to ponder the loss
Deranged experiments of memory
Shifting consciousness
Without constant
Invert the plains of fire
Straging and brutish
Upon the long path of posterity
Oscillation of perception
As I fall and rise
Feel deep change
And I still dream of finding a way
Insanity hangs by a friend
But you are never always alone
Relentless valor
And I will never regress
Evergize and transcend the eternal
Animate the coming sons
Fortified to lead at dawn
Ecstasy in every movement
Take the searching hand
Something saw me drowning in the midnight air
Sheep of the night life me up
Out of the sky a diseased entity
Filled yet never slowing
Darkness whispers with the eyes
"Drink the blood
"And spit the dust
"Into the face at the core of lament
Freezing on the altar
Sleepless in falling thunder
Graveyard predators
At the feast of stars
And moonflesh
Bestial horizon
Of raging suns
Shields of flame
An arsenal of spells
Solace in the darukh
Perspiring at rest
And the voice in my head said to hold on
But the words on my hand screamed "Don't!"
Know the burning is constant
Like a tornado dressed in debris
Primordial flagellation
Covered in shades of ritual dementia
Extending from molten lines
At the confluence of sperm and egg
All the cells who died
Fallen beneath the heart
Caverns of the wretch'd
Massacre, intelligence, massacre
Diminishing imperfections
Irony of self-coincidence
Immense skies in revision
Augmenting dominance
That devilry deemed insanity's spawn
And dawn bestows objectives
Thundertheist from below
Charging the sum of ancestry
The past is within, swallowed
I am every ancestor my mirror reflects
Extinction of exalted wrath's creation
Remodeling the force of victory
Might of betrayers bursts into feathers
With fires of primitive conversions
Echoes from the giver's current
Abandon all moments but the present
Weave ideas and imagine thoughts
Breathe the journey between paradigms
Drink the voice of ecstasy
Growing at a glance through the eyes
Each sense a universe in infinite synergy
Beyond the stagnant void of hate's existence
Strangled by mortality
Constrained by doors
Latent telepathy rises
As angst dies
A gentle learning stare
Resolves the vagaries of revelation
Dark pupil inside
A crystalline tapestry
Pierces the depths of your regret
Within the profound taking of elation
Yearning to know in this oasis
Before the final ember fades goodbye
I am a man triumphant in the skies
Echoes from the depths of mind
A solemn roar at trance end
Alive but unconscious
Growing in strength
Gravity changes the math
In a different sonic universe
Fractals of the azimuth
Pump the spasm to force the power
Into a single burst
I stopped the unyielding tick of seconds
Endurance fell and confusion shrugged
Vultures from the immortal abyss
I live on in the new spectrum
Eternal resident of phinisteral abode
"Old boy, what have you learned?"
Life is ecstasy, life is god
And the gods still walk the earth
Truth will come to you in lies
Light beyond light behind darkness
Commanders sharpening the luminous blade of voice
Nuclear sabres for nebular wars
Numb the atoll at the eschaton forge
The first page of the new pledge
A book is a delicate life
Acidic gates of sulphur rainbows
Immerse castles in the arcadian cradle of ferns
Thyridium syllable transformance
Skills to reconcile characters
Circle the dragons of a shrinking quasar
Moonsaws, armored whips
And pneumatic weaponry
Mangle the lairs of planets
Crying shores of a weeping earth
Stone claws and humanoid forms
Poison and potion, tomb and cave
Silent cenotaph
And prophetic cromlech
Stargods in the floating heavens
Feel timeless journeys within eternal moments
Of deafening chaos
The hermit sees the warrior bearing the spoils
Without limitation, without doubt
This place was my tomb
I saw the face and survived
Rush of ritual healing
Harmonized steel rises toward crashing gleams
Supernal agents dream reflections
Windows of sorcery
In a web of chains
Again I question
As rage refines rage
Clear as the roaring moons
Nights and mares and the clouds beneath
We see the path in the sky
Blossoming radiance
Flesh of naked light astride the Mirrorsuns
Defy the tears of spiral eyes
Relating by the gods of youth
We must try to make us once more one
These legends are ours
And we share
Solar lions undenied
Ready the lambent fortress
Maintain hope to force reality
A thousand words upon a thousand splendors
Storms throb in shades of requiem against enemies
From chasms of inverted lightning
Atop plumes at the nexus of dawn
Thunder spoke, "Done."
White fire remains
Sleep comes, night falls, the death of another day
No strength to stay awake, the world fades away
And only my dreams can comfort now
Must find the meaning of all this somehow
Into bed I slowly sink, the promise of its warmth
A journey yet to undertake in my weary state
And only my dreams can comfort now
Must find the meaning of all this somehow
On these cold black winter nights, when children play
by the graveyard lights
Gypsies ask me what is life and paranoid I quest to
find
Far into my dreams I ride beyond the rooms where I used
to hide
Six silver gates unto heaven rise, the moon is the only
familiar sight
Magnetic fields of auroral light, blue phantasms in
nocturnal flight
Aging here is not a threat, above the storm I conquer
death
Ascending mountains to the stars, walking the windblown
plains of Mars
Barren planets will be revived in the silent universe
within the mind
O how I enjoy the visions my mind manifests
Imagination freely opens when the body rests
Tomorrow when the sun has set and the stars are lit
Behold the abomination - six hundred sixty six
The offensive stink of effluvium, red clay in human form
Primitive primate, primal pleasure
A violent confusion of phallic urges
The frothing mouth of an upright dog
Civilization divided into predatory packs
Hunters on a food chain exploiting the weak
Only the strongest and the fittest will survive
To succumb to hunger and devour themselves alive
Forsaking the eyes of faith - the spark from a greater fire
Spirit is transpossessed by the purity of idiocy
The soul lies shattered like pitiful trash - the powdered remains of divinity
Humanity degenerates, eroding in depravity
Debased by their perverted lusts, love is now a memory
Hate turns to war, murder is praised, welcome genocide
Premeditated evil justified by the pompous prattle of vain philosophy
Like putrid swine, bastard children squeal in pain - abandoned
Unwanted heirs of a wicked race, emitting their seed in excrement
The rabid brute gnaws its own body
Lacking awareness, soon to perish
In fear, lunacy overcomes illusion
The body deteriorates into dirt
The animal rages in pain
Creators of the planet's industrial technology
Destroyers of same, harbingers of our own demise
Spiritual progression impeded by dreadful flaws
A flight into distant space to pursue the call of seductive fate
Adventure be our only guide, the tempting siren accelerates
Seeds of exploration bloom to flowers of discovery
Brighter than the beams of a thousand wave motion guns
Destined to be renegades running at death's pace
Gallant spirits bound to none, adorned in leather, steel and fire
Outlaws with a warrior's eye, children of the summer forge
A cadre of chariots driven by the lawless band
Burning white comets and ancient planets
The promised worlds we have seen
The thrill endures, we dare to hope
Entering miracles and confident dreams
Hurled like a javelin from a mighty hand
Leaving slipstreams of magnetic flames
Intrepid and vigilant, we are lightning unleashed
Surrender we won't, we are prime
Amazed by a deluge of falling silver
Novas of magma keening as crystal
Glittering rain in the Magellanic clouds
Even into hell we go with blessing upon us
The fantasy must die only to become real
This day is better than the illusion of tomorrows
In love and young, our energy is infinite
The spire of the unicorn musting toward the Heavenscape
Hurtling, ascending at great mindless speed
After all that we've survived, loosed and faster than light
Coming to believe that all we see answers why we're alive
We blaze the wild stars
Move with us now, each frontier a new home, a treasure trove
Gleaming as Gamilon and Iscandar in unity
A maelstrom of bursting metal harnessed into primal force
The lord of despair is silent darkened by his own cruelty
Strife of questing is better than the comfort of depressive temples
Against the solar gale with a heart of rushing passion
Experience is better than the chill of brooding obsessions
Mysteries will linger and the journey we will seek
Higher rises the inferno masturbating with desire
A choir of suspiring freedom, the lion hailing the day
Before us no sword avails nor arrow pierce our souls
Invulnerable, we are the rebels of the glowing fields
They may be gods, but they aren't me
Unlimited by any arbitrary prophecy
Leave the meek to attend the little earth
In the dark sunless waters of the abyss
The wretched monster swims relentlessly in maddening
cycles
Forgotten by time, abandoned by death
Driven by the bloodlust of hellish eons in mute solitude
The giant squid have seen its terror as it snaps off
their body
Polluting the water with a murk of ink and blood
The sick stump that remains is feast for ravenous sharks
Dismembered octopi serve as testimony of its demoniac
cruelty
As once mighty tentacles now lie in tangled heaps in
undersea trenches
And their corroded heads drift like gory mucus
An enemy of whales for their music brings harmony to the
aquatic empire
It rages against them - indomitable - inexorable
In the agony of evil it scorns all creation
It hunted the icthyosaur into extinction
The great sea snakes of Naguil found lairs elsewhere
Carcharadon megaladon - the warrior supreme
Alone in the ocean, the tyrant
Out of the proud sun toward the shores of another world
Cormorant musings, silent visions ravening
Hear the calling rhythm from wells of consciousness
On ivory mares we voyage through arcades of legendary
Architect of spheres and obelisks, intellect and madness
The axis of creation and its glorious similitude
Ocean caves at the feet of cyclopean might
You cannot find the universe? You are within its core!
The moon wears a bleak face, laughs at peerless beauty
An inscrutable and captivating smile
Weaving infinite shadows about itself
A wonder cloaked in a mystery
Navigate the blazing haze of the deep heavens
Hollow cliffs seared by time closer now than eye has seen
Strength in the nucleus of the perfect void
Shatter every illusion at the leyline of truth
Ancient creatures surfacing from every silver sea
Surrendering of memories to the infinitesimal flame
The eternal child passing through the mind like a whim
Winged giants dancing at planetary speeds
Promethean ideals, a symptom of being
The myth of microcosm is just a fool's wisdom
The cryptic spores of music are to stay forever
The solitary chemistry of the plasmic waters
Renewed from age to age, consolation of sorrows
Breeding regularity from dissociated knowledge
Arcana uphold me as the night wakes
If life is the answer, the question must be
Remember me when all bid farewell and leave you alone
Remember me as new emotions sprout into new thoughts
Remember me astonished as the fierce charge is made
Remember me in songs of defiance as the wild rumpus starts
Remember me when fires burst asunder over birthing skies
Remember me when autumn winds move upon the ageing fields
Remember me when miracles are lost beyond all agony
Remember me as my raft proceeds into the darkness
A terrace of sinking islands
Sloping downward to the black oak
In a caldera of smoldering waste
A seven-spired temple rising in splendor
The might of Istar in a sky of white gold
The majesty of the holiest city on Krynn
The chosen of the gods lost in their own light
A clergy corrupted by Manifest Virtue
Enslave and exterminate all evil races
All contrary thoughts shall be punished by death
For the Kingpriest to control the will of the mass
The paranoid despot, persecuted by shadows
Desires to rule in glory as the truth of Paladine
The exalted ascent of his high eminence
An insolent ultimatum prompted his doom
Demanding in his pride
What can only be sought in humility
Now the true clerics have left the land
The day of the Cataclysm dawns silent
Calamity turns to chaos
And the pale blue eyes of the Kingpriest reveal a weary frightened man
Ripping through the sulfurous air
A terrible resounding ruin
Judgment came from The Ancient Gods
When the fiery mountain fell
Istar bleeds
A nightmare of weeping, sadness and despair
The teeming fields of summer lie shattered on the ocean floor
Nighted, mystical, soaring dungeons - demesne of the gallant dead
Frozen shrines and blazing palaces, undulating opaline towers
Above the coruscating majesty the stone sky casts a pall
In the grim and gelid dawn of winter's foul despite
Sorcerous winds and turbulent seas
Rise and fall like a dirge
Monstrous suns and fiendish storms
An armada of cruelty and horror
The new universe - a strange thrill - a five-sided equation
Divergent paroxysm of Anaak Gigas, atavistic pestilence
Bone and blood - obdurate permanence - spawn of the nemesis star
A towering sphere of glowing ichor, the forest far beneath
The lilies have turned to asphodel
Panacea which was once liberation
Anodyne into living death
Your womb shall become your grave
Sycophants of the hybrid dictator
Sentinels of the island empire
The creator needs an author to justify his land
Occulted in the lore that dragons keep
As some lamed master bereft of theurgy
An equinox of mordant fear
A malignant ferocity in the ebon lake
Beneath the revenant of the dolorous moon
Inverted abysms within the mind's lair
A riot of raving madness and paramnesia
Falling upward through invisible gates
Vertigo of mirrored portals
This baffling prescence
A suspended void of cosmic hate
I saw the gleam of my ambition
Haunted by scorn
The Wolf retreats amongst the tortured trees
Grim, alone and betrayed
A doomed son hangs his head
Lost to dying, a hideous sensation
Brooding in desolate gloaming
Beasts of darkness, demons of light
Have hunted in my dreams since the last extinction of man
Those of the sky
Those with hearts of iron
Those who have loved
Have long since died
The entity unknown has awakened to its ancient name
The heaving serpent in chains of the underworld
He makes the deep sea boil and leaves a shining wake
Commander of the falling waters and of all the creatures within
The dragon wears a crown of stars
Serenading the return of The Countess and the one from the moon
Exploring the seas of distant planets
What naivete could have caused such desecration?
One autumnal night I detached and buried myself
I drove out the sun and killed all growth
And worshipped the trauma that scarred my destiny
I became guilts, phobias, neuroses, compulsions
Gifted with wings yet lacking knowledge of their use
Mundane expectations and the sheen of despair
Potential ruined by terrible circumstance
Almost a year is lost and there are more days ahead
Whilst my own limbs become cumbersome and weary
Delusional, pathetic, spastic, and limp
Repressing conflict and ineluctable meltdown
Denying emotion, pleasure becomes routine
Sweltering, stifling, blighting decrepitude
Disguised by layers of useless humor
My laughter is hateful to deprecate the optimist
All my heroes are dead if they ever existed
Retreating into patterns of defensive isolation
The narcotic apathy of daydreams and fantasy
And the pain is overwhelming
I am not a philosopher but a narcissist in a fugue state
Vapors of the past normalize into my ghosts
I framed the walls and mountains that enclose my sanity
Suffocating the senses and the instincts of power
Adapting to the dark I became anxious of the light
Movements slow and fragile, eyes dull as a mask
Reacting to abandonment by abandoning myself
A derelict child upon gargantuan shores
Submerged within a delayed mind, alone with my hostility
Only to guess at the depths of the caldera
Hiding in hurts, using them as an excuse
The cringing incongruity, the victim on display
Incapable of even sleep
Memories of joy are forgotten
Embalmed by my own lies
Driven to the point of honesty, I surrender
I can no longer suspend my disbelief
No one touches me to validate my existence
I'm sick of living underwater
I want my humanity back!!!
This is not my paradise
Creativity channeled into madness
Frozen on the critical moment
Reliving failure in quiet rot
This should not be happening to me
Insane because I turned my back on her
All I can do is exploit my wounds
Dying in a vacuum of loneliness
I must not drown in my own intellect
Tides of extinction below the psyche
Dreams of genocide fade as fear dissolves
Capable of more devices than destruction
I want to stomp and prance in affirmation
Spiders at the gate of an inner world
Damaged, broken, obsessed
Witness the ecstasy of a celebrating soul
Reave the halls of kings, cleanse the filth of centuries
In the zealous flames of summer's raging creation
Shattering the silent earth by the monstrous abyss
Architects and visionaries counted in the game
Innovators singing the worlds into existence
Revealing the light of planets under seas
Wielding a mesmerising storm amongst the mountains vast
Active wonders shaped and sown by shining hand
Envigorating anthems of an eager mind
We shall not mourn nor step into wrath
Pain is conquered by the endless dawn
Comprehend the mathematics of the gods
A canvas of immaculate simplicity
Unholy reverence without illusion
Mute with awe at the loss of pretense
Elven sorcerers in dark obscurity
In willful eyes gather the night of theogeny
Shifting shadows, a divine afterthought
Traces in the scarlet sands - lines on the palm of the one
A spear of passion in the leader's mighty grasp
To battle the fell captain - the drear and the wick'd
Out into the middle of the conflict
As the treasure remains our strength
The blazing children won't cry for long
Born without favor yet beyond tyranny
No trap shall impede the heights we will reach
We are the heroes upon the pulsing hill
From a corner of dusk thunders the moon
Immortal chanting from the wells of epochs
The dynamic splendor of guardian beings
All and none atop the sole collonade
We see where hell cannot gain, to where the dream begins
Arcane contours in the fabric of the myriad planes
Swift as the flowing wind and rivers unseen
Reaping the first majestic breath of the waxing morning
Reaching for the light of doomed shades
Betrayed the wind of sacred sacrifice
Leaves are silent as the song of memories
Blissful mist in the weary moments
Lambent decay of newborn demise
Judgment of the graceful warning
Here shall all await the heavenly
Precious arrival outshines sunrise
Lucid thread of jealousy
In nothing all shall stand
Here begotten unknowing
Sightless hope carries the future
Points of starlight
Appear to die
Borne the blessing
Of the healer unveiled
Downward runs the waiting disaster
Shameful death of beauty
Shining spell from the hands of the heir
Paths manipulated before birth
Bountiful choices of misery and wisdom
Choose the answer that conquers the fairest
Planets divided the sun unbroken
Below time bodies gone
Perish in obscurity, the vision is true
Tired and scared yet resolute
Clear are the foes, the dream is near
I found my voice through the storm
Feel the defiance of the mustering drums
Slouching toward the mouth of anguish
We cannot get out, there is no way out
Clash together the jaws, we shall witness again
Home lies ahead not what was left behind
But mountains were sadness
Chasing gods lost in release
Born today is the turning
Run the distance in vain
Cheerful trial of damnation
Mirthless dance of failure
So you've chosen my fate?
I don't care!
When I laugh I can still hear the thunder
Ensconced in bibliosis before the tomes of reverence
Brooding in the study of the silent tower
The Grey Voyager of the void in pale sleep
Remembering the ruins of endless years
Dance for the rose in the forests of Pylea
The trionic text of the wolf in the pentagram
A bridge to the wisdom of the moon
The nebulous souls compounded in twilight
Ever and anon traversing the sphere of time
The saga of The Narrator within the mirrored walls
The first to witness the fall of Oberon
Of winds and ingate
Inverted coffins, a burning death
Beneath the sun's infinite fire
The answer balances on a legend lost in an age of dreams
Borne upon a cloak of stars, The scroll of heaven aflame
The secret aloft my wizened eyes
On the smiling caryatid's visage
As Iris descended into the earth
To kiss the roots of the ageless tree
In the darkness beyond the door, the altar is being prepared
The last perfect day and the world is near completion
Acclaim the prophecies bound within these halls
Am I an individual or just a pattern of behaviors?
A frustrated observer unable to control
I am this monolith - impressive and solitary
Lingering without being perceived
The crux is corrupted, inadequate, illusory
Assumptions in the center, a point of blindness
I built this model around a flaw
So failure can never confront me
I am a machine of heat, entropy, and friction
Simplified into a drone of fear, hunger and lust
A critical period of social development
Being is motion and I stand still
Purity is a symptom of waste and neglect
Only a stylite would be so proud
From atop a tall and narrow pedestal
I shall be toppled by my own pretensions
The fallacy of regression, cause where none exists
Once I believed then was betrayed
Friends are still alive and unchanged in my thoughts
And I can never forget because I am alone
An eye of contradiction in the core of stability
Absorbed within myself, all is elusive
Barriers I created, the arrogance of secrecy
The altered state of memories is now my existence
Calculate the imponderable for the thrill of possibilities
To avoid facing the harshness of the present
An instant of fulcrum and quiet privilege
Becomes the slow sinking into insanity
Beauty is vanity, says one embittered soul
Without companions, obsessive and hateful
Desperate for others, I surrounded myself with mirrors
And grew to despise the sincerity of my reflection
Clues, codes, and mysteries - a sea of irrelevance
Ambitions pale beside the remembrance of those I loved
The questioning child weaves uncertainty
Because not one answer will suffice
From a brave man I've become a whimpering creature
Initiative to inertia through inexplicable disillusion
At last in a dream I see her and I speak
And she turns her back on me - she doesn't remember
It is always too late and it is never too late
Dying and birthing in constant flux
Voices surround me to join them in life
Circling and mocking like my wounds agape
A palindrome while clever is still an enclosed system
Emotions collide until stagnation and freezing
Momentum and intent defeated by indecision
Orpheus lead me deep into Hell, Dagon Sphere in hand
Away from the burning mirrors and through the shadow lands
Tonight I'll leave the sunless walls, the time is getting short
To find my hidden destiny, the only chance I have
Twilight over Gorgoroth, forboding gates of bronze
Oblivion awaits me there, a sea of blackest night
Despair rules my barren heart, frustration in my mind
But the lyre charms me sweet and pure, infusing me with hope
I see the suffering of broken souls, laughter turns to screaming
Naked mangled bodies forever walking the circle of perpetual hunger
Merciless, the dragon spreads its plague over the world
Blessing the wickedness of its blackened hordes
Phantoms of anxiety magnifying fear
Cursing in misery the ones with the faith to believe in the
Wisdom revealed in the loneliness of solitude
When thoughts and memories are the only truth
Bathed in silver in the dead of winter
Rimed with frost like the skeletal trees
The jester strikes me within my lucid nightmare, I'm chosen to stay alive
A palace of demons on the blue hill bear witness to my trial
Lost in starlight amidst a swarm of enemies, battling every imaginable foe
Deserted by seraphs, I call out in rage, is this my fate
Entrapped in an ancient war, I reach for the mystic buckler
To quell the flaming onslaught of the avernal throng
A sacred relic of the knights of the elements
A reminder that peace must always prevail
Chained to the obelisk by the sovereign killers
Waiting for the sight of the robed tormentor
Paralyzed and overwhelmed, eyes roll into my skull
This is my Crucimentum
Molded in the fire of the living forge
Hammered for impurity and thrust into the water
The process repeats to drive out the porous slag
This technique if withstood produces true steel
An enigmatic sacrifice before the hooded masses
Princes of pain, rituals of blood and death
I shall be the one to achieve the heavenly
Obsidian Hell - ninth candle of the second plane of seven
Caught in this strange place somewhere in the pit
From the depths of the chasm I see the tunnel's end
The winds change, the storm recedes, spring is in the air
Happy for deliverance, I cry
Reflecting on the dark maze that consumed me within
Grateful for the knowledge gained, wiser now am I
Leaving the abyssal realm, Elysian Fields before my eyes
I now demand ultimate knowledge
For I've learned all I can under the sun
In my chamber chronicling the codex of history
My appetite whetted, I must know more
I cast off the triple deity of Jove
Not fooled by the stained glass illusion
An immaculate monument frustrating aspirations
Holy, defiled, it is no place for me
A storming descent through the heavenly body
Galactic garden of orbital alignment
Chaos to consequence in unnatural order
The sinister alchemist at the edge of abyss
Yet I am the observer and the observed
And my immortal soul is all I sacrifice
To understand the universe infinite
The deified symmetry of omnipotence
Lucifer, son of light, show me the patterns of life
For he who understands the game commands all space and time
Lucifer, my champion, illuminate for me
Kings' and tyrants' power and the cycle of destiny
Aries, Aries, god of war, send me to my death
Zeus, god above all gods, revive me with your breath
Lucifer, my shining star, your light is waning cold
My eyes are faint, my body aflame, inside I'm grey and old
The beast, the man, the goat, the horns, the mask has been removed
The morning star, the adversary leaves me at my doom
I, the arrogant amateur, have taken all of creation upon myself
And now, devoid of soul, my understanding is darkened again
At last all I desire is peace and a chance to make amends
For love is beyond knowledge - an emotion based on simple faith
Margaret, my love, please hearken to my cry
My quest it has been all in vain and now I finally die
As my story ends, I understand your heart
What else can I do but stay alive?
As a vagrant I wander the wastes
Unhealing wounds upon my scarred heart
A victim bearing the brands as trophies
These are the years of transformation
Of savage decisions and necessary cruelty
Running out of a habit of danger
Crushing beauty as if to feel beautiful
I wish I had not rejected the few who cared
I miss them now like an echo of gratitude
How I wept as those sparks were extinguished
Still I dream of their faces through the dust
Night upon night, afraid to share my pain
Ashamed to even ask, learning to be helpless
Moonlight is harsh and full of memories
Still the scream remains inside
I am the pallid light of pressure without grace
Blank with despair, heated and weary
I am a pale beast tamed by a lamb
Mouth stretched like the stupid yawn of chattel
Treating myself as fragile, shattered by the wind
A crawling, cringing, daunted coward
Degraded by inveterate fear and retrograde guilt
And the sudden tragic end
I am a blasted husk in this scorched landscape
None remain to cry for the dead, no hope for what I once was
I am this fallen earth of utter loss and barren spirit
Dark emotions beneath an arch of hatred
Still I feel rhythms in the empty streets
As vultures circle in missing man formation
Searching this planet for the secret trove
Eager to hear the voices of the ones I loved
Harshness, desolation, coldness, survival
Stalked by disease, hunger and scarcity
The stubborn reek of leprous stink
What remains does not live
Likely, I will not see tomorrow
Yet worrying about the future is another way to change it
Tenacious, determined, and adapting
As character is chiseled between extremes
Every child is the only child
A universe of individuals - each alone
A warrior without weapons is a warrior still
I demand to see a sacrifice
By the Icesword of the Invisible Empress
Eruptions in the depths of a labyrinthine mind
Concentric rings of orgasmic fire
Proffer a venom of amorphous malevolence
On the meridians of the nocturne forest
Gaze into the soul of the being who created
The portals in the veil of this twilight abyss
Balancing on the delicate matrix
Poised in awareness
Tampering in weird dimensions
A theatre of processes
Swirling mists weaving countless realms and forces
A kinetic glow in the crypts of frozen light
The air shimmers with a tapestry of power
A column of glimmering argent twined with a vine of darkness
Winds of sorcery beyond imagination
Ridden by Moonslayer and caressing the Wolf
Not even the gods could imagine such power
Uniting the universe at its essence
The inward eye and the sightless sea
She is the water of transformation
Beyond the emerald frontiers
Structured within a web of sentient spells
An elaborate trance of incantations
Screaming for the spectral jewels of Aldebaran
Rarefied by bloodstone vengeance, beauty has turned to rust
The light from the trees is gone, the old dwarf sighed
Frigid swells like blossoming stars on the waft of a threnody
Transience arrives in requiem
They've stolen the moon and depression once more haunts the woods
Roam the forbidden path in the shadows forlorn
Their spoken names echo amongst twisted agony
Buried in a tangle of secrets is mankind's greatest gift
Hope lies in a deep grave where the sun is seldom seen
Steel rules the night
Forged by an elder hammer
I gaze into the ebon lake
Reflecting tears of ice
Trolls in the menacing fog
Dim, grey nightmares howling in the rain
In the cold eclipse, by the sleeping hills of Glom
Whispers caress in the wind mocking the tortured cries
Peals of lamentation - the plaint of a thousand mourning their loss
Endless hours of thirst and fear decay in thought
In the darkness I shall dream under an aegis of viridian leaves
As soothing as the breeze between the planets - sanctuary from the lords
Cleanse the forests with flame
Sorcery without reason
The glorious past lies in ashes
And the dead will soar
Once again the three are together
The Moonslayer, The Countess and The Wolf
A trove of knowledge beyond imagination
Ivory towers of an ideal future
Those afflicted with the humor
Laughing in the mantle of time
Together shall wait
i take you by the handmy pink elephant
i have a bent
for you my elephant
have you ever heard
of my uncharted land
my grand
little elephant
i'm your receiver
your make-believer
i'll be your playmate
your dream-waever
here's an old friend
the little beaver
please retrieve and
then relive her
i can't wait to climb the peak
check this little leak
you make me weak
my pinky, kinky freak
i'm your receiver
your make-believer
i'll be your playmate
your dream-waever
here's an old friend
the little beaver
please retrieve and
I'm an elephant
Walking through the jungle
Picking up the loose wood
Lying around here
I've been walking for ten days straight now
I'm getting kinda hungry today
Lookin for some bamboo
But all I hear is hut hut
I need a little rest now
I need to have a break
Walking through the jungle
Pickin up the loose wood
And I think its about time
To get outta here
Would you like to come home
>From picking up the loose wood
I'm getting kinda hungry
But there aint no bamboo around here
I'm an elephant walking through the jungle
And I think its about time to sleep
I've been thinking
I have a very good life
I get to go to bed at night
Even if its just on my feet
I'm an elephant
Walking through the jungle
Picking up the loose wood
Lying around here
Lyrics by Adrian T. Bell
Music: The Prostitutes
Taken from the album: The Prostitutes – Hometown Zombies
P&C; Pale Music Int. 2010
In a hostile world devoid of light, we are shaping dawn
Obsessive apophenia, psychosis of creation
Without haven free to journey through chaos
We are the renegades compelled to rip the sword from stone
Past and future polarized by belief and wrath
Gone is the proselyte wisdom of a nihilistic age
Surging wraiths on parabolic radiation waves
The leviathan floating in ocular aurora
Shining as hawks with a scorpion's sting
Slashing with blazing talons of energy
Piercing rage of poignant radiance
Asylum in the luminous oceans of the far unknown
Phosphenes like bursting words expelled from my gaze
Poneglyph labyrinths floating in deep space
Adroit architecture, angles of time equate
The wingless dragonfly, juggernaut of the seven universes
Powered by crystals toward shadows and stars
This living spacecraft a furnace of viral youth
We are the sweetness and the strength in a zone of dark
Hunters of the divine secret, warriors of discovery
Off we go to seas of blood grappling for truth
Passionate we are assassins of all doubts
Elite in the acceptance of reality as illusion
Advancing toward the crux of our frantic existence
Hymns for the fortune of glorious life
The sun chair of the ancients not a throne of glass
Traumatic hypnosis by the prince of ivory
Through the monstrosity of immense galaxies
Devouring bombarded planets of skeletal flames
Howling paranoia with the ghosts of deprivation
As cosmic moths destroyed by the solar rays
Reaping the lividity of swollen moons
Ride the gale of night away from unlit realms
Chase the black trial to experience pangs of birth
Coming from the span in victory arrayed
Come Foundation, Come Sons of Thunder
To witness a vision that will make you tremble
God revealed to you that I am the Christ
Now prepare your eyes to harmonize with your faith
He spoke of Jerusalem, of suffering and death
He spoke of Resurrection, that he would rise again
Above and away from the surrounding world
The Messiah's glory was revealed
His face shone as the sun, his raiment white as light
Enveloped in the sanctuary of God's presence
Peter, James and John fell to their faces in fear
It's good for us to be here, but we are so afraid
The Light of the World set on the mountaintop
Moses and Elias appeared and spoke with him
Bewilderment and wonder then a voice out of the cloud
This is my beloved Son, hear you Him
Fear not at what you have seen
Understand that I am the Son of God
Feet on the Rock, eyes to the sky
From a lock of my hair I create my sword
Supremacy and strength are contained in the cord
From the lava of Kri'stak and the waters of Lursor
In the pits of Cronos my weapon is born
Thy name is Bat'leth, O sacred blade
To usurp the hammer that the Tyrant made
By shattering the cranium and spilling the blood
My spirit enriched in the crimson flood
B'aski't Kor! B'askr'ip Kor! Kohman-a-ti! B'aski't Kor!
Excited by the steaming stench of slaughter
The thrill of battle empowers my soul
Frenzied by warlust's rapturous throes
I trample the bodies of the overthrown
Legends are born of epic struggles
Immolation of empires and worlds destroyed
Bestial splendor in the slaying of enemies
A roar of triumph, the gods tremble
My deeds today shall never be forgotten
Extolling the camaraderie of ritual combat
Forever our race shall be victorious
Conquering all who dare to invade
I prefer a glorious death over dishonor
In Stovakor I'll stand and fight again
Now I celebrate and indulge in Bloodwine
From the abyss of night
Is risen the glow
Silent shells shall open
Ghosts who reigned a thousand hells
Scripts of life, the scrolls of time
Arrive at death's threshold
Stars are the eyes of space
Sands give untold millenia
Cloven darkness unleashed
Fire envisioned by the spine
Dreams and thoughts fall to the ground
Screaming into lands of glass
Desire to know the reasons
Hanging lunacy bleeds
Transparent lifeline ceases
Timeless revenge
I come in the prescence of my dead
While encountering rulers past
Trying but the dust wouldn't see
Passing the rising writs
Heavens engrave a celestial inferno
Over the moon and the high horizon
Slow ending of a hateful sleep
Devastating sins of the lacerating sword
I feel now as I did the day I died
Myriad earths without system
Echoes and songs resting here
Flickering in drowning whispers
Doorways complete unlock transformation
Cold terror preserves the gates
So days last as the wind
Capture awake the only breath
When voice and word upon the air
Only down the soul in slumber
Obscure despair in debris
Mortal lies and scattered flesh
Fury prevails, purity forged
Awakened and seeking
Portals collide
In transcendent flight
Fulfill all that tramples below
I am that which darkness fears
The voice of anguish taunting you
False evidence appearing real
What is not but could be if
I am the echo of your failure
The grandfather of your despite
Standing reserved with arms crossed
Glaring, leering, smug and solemn
I am the phantom waiting for your fall
The possessive lover taking your breath
Agony, tragedy, suffering and pain
I am the grand obscenity
The living mirage of constant doubt
See your reflection in my eyes
Timid, reluctant and insecure
The newborn child is guilty of every crime
Ever committed by man
Shifting ever inward and away
As the final virgin lies slain by the maiden's wrath
Nightmares unite with the torture of waking
As the first jealousy rises
And the jaws expand to devour
Sleeping stars awaken the masquerade
Disguised abhorrence in the boiling lake
Another dies as another is called
Inexorable night and the shadows will feed
Crying for help, unable to speak
Dying unmourned, screaming unheard
At the mouth of hell in the valley of the sun
All hope is drained in the death embrace
Times of crisis, a vision of no future
Formless apprehension of perceived loss
Twisting of speech from a desperate mind
In a dark age, I walked among the tyrants
Six we were - bound in a midnight trance
Every night we would die together
Restless and reckless with no destination but escape
Time to go to sleep, soon the dreams will come
Eyghon possess me, take me anywhere but here
To where nightmares still walk in physical form
Before they were imprisoned in the quiescence of the mind
Drawn by the tenebrous spirits to the bacchanals of Achelous
Gazing into the souls entwined in the rivers of Etruria
Warriors of evil blood gathered in the depths
Initiating the projection across countless morbid planes
A circle of extinction amongst the silent stars
Dormant in the darkness of rebirth
Days of chaos, black magic and sorcery
Feeling the surge of exhilaration for pleasure or gain
Dreading the inevitable leap into the spectral rush
From the edge of this timeless ritual
Treasuring the moments eternal, hearing the somber sounds of the rain
Once, long ago
Before the splendor of light
When unicorn and serpent were beautiful
With the first blazing innocence
Sylvan purity harbored
In eternal precious souls
The balance of the universe
In the chiming harmony of dawn
Exiled upon the ancient paths
Of the brothers Order and Chaos
As the souvenirs of youth
Become the silent laments of maturity
Yet forgiveness lives in dreams
Beneath the black oak
For the sun was given to all
Why now am I reminded of my lost humanity?
Scents of familiar music upon the grieving wind
My seething mind is a questing razor
Memories come unbidden in the shadows
The miserable shape of the bottomless past
Empty with shock and the stress of thinning emotions
Eternity is but another season
And it too shall pass away
This timeless void of running seems like sullen stagnation
Spans the self-imposed tyranny of loneliness
Poignant impressions of each moment
The burning path is the one of change
Absorbing the pain as if to defend my confines
Personality conditioned by changing behaviors
The indefinite ways the cosmos might conform
Framed by doubt and dreams of the end
There are no miracles, there is no resurrection
Prescience is the result of a drug
The holy land is a violent place
Sweeping visions shall reap heavenly crusades
Denying variety and time without parallels
Demanding that all follow a predetermined pattern
Reducing all to absurdity to justify my fear
Control is another illusion - Let go of the universe!
Still they marvel at the light from stars long dead
All is transient, forever scattering
Still they revel in the bloom of youth
Yearning for the touch of another human being
Still theories are accepted as immutable laws
Wizened by lore yet ignorant of life
A consequence lost is another lesson lost
I know it in myself
The mistakes of chance and heredity
The recessive undesirable traits
The madness of singularity
The foolishness of certainty and precision
I am not a rebel, but a closet aristocrat
Cynical, depraved and in denial
Vigor has fallen to paradox
No longer can I strive or grow for I am now god
I am the living trigger and the framer of thoughts
Killing and reforming the archetype
The futility of megalomania
The drums of war are playing on the wind
Legions in a golden blaze advancing
The air is riddled with ash and fire
A twisting spectre against the heavens
Like the sullen scowl of blackest woe, a land grievous and besieged
Hammered by storms and pestilence, never to rest
Hell beyond hell, eradication, burning ferocity
Swords erect pounding at the sky - a desperate tantrum of futility
Never will a leader fight his own battles
An amphitheatre of fresh fodder
Crimson axes, a cold moon in chaos
Cannot escape the martyr's curse
All for one greedy king's quest for power
Only a conqueror following the common ruinous path
The powers are bickering while their people are suffering
And there is no wise counsel within these fragile walls
An exalted scepter, an internecine damnation
Baleful causes tending toward chaos and disarray
Knights in horned helms on an impotent crusade
Without legacy or deeds for remembrance
By the ruthless dictatorship of the sword and spear
The axis of demolition is crafted
For the blood on a cross on the hill of the skull
The religion of warfare, deliverance through demise
Wave after wave of armored fury broke upon the ranks
Berserker rage without any mercy, mountains smashed to dust
Driven by the madness of revenge, battle turns to slaughter
Victory dies at the hands of annihilation
Countless were the dead that fell by my hand
I saw them through my tears - those beloved now useless
Barbaric devastation, carnage taints the soil
Blasted earth and despair, a thousand voices roar in agony
Even the gods are silent
All the perished weep
The eyes of the dragon shall reveal
The dark has no end
A sole lord throws down his weapons and leaves the battlefield
Disgusted by the doom of a poisoned struggle
Hailing the few brave enough to wage peace
A deep black well in the dismal darkness
A wormhole to hell - Dominium Daemonicus
A hidden stream of the Underworld
Crawls through these twisted catacombs
A nameless cult in amorphous array
Encircle the pit for their unspeakable ritual
The iridescent boiling blood casts shapeless shadows
As the iron grip of Evil closes them in
Strange howling horrifies the feeble countryside
A sound like no earthly creature ever made
The frantic wailing reaches a fever pitch
Invoking the ghoulish dead from their forgotten tombs
Inhuman, unearthly, horrid mockeries of animals
Insane, absurd, loathsome zombified devourers
Silently creeping schizophrenic terror
Deathless, eternal Reges Serpentis
Raping the mind infested with worms
Sanity flees the dank empty skull
In the night sky the moon is laughing
As the lonely stars babble in godless confusion
The Black Serpents return to their eldritch sanctum
Their blasphemous swaying has ceased for now
Back to the Sea of Abomination
Coiled in dreamless submerged sleep
The cult gazes longingly at the still black water
Profane euphoria fertilizes their grey minds
Not desiring the light of the sun
Far beyond the stars, at the edge of the final frontier
I stand as Emissary of the Celestial Temple
Bastion of the ancient wormhole
Timeless entities transcending the nexus
Awakening visions - a universe in flames
The Pagh Wraiths blazing with radiant hate
The lengthening shadows of the conquering dominion
And legions of Jem Haddar fighting 'til the last
The sword of war will plunder with might - Cardassia in ruins
Amongst the endless fleets of ships smouldering in defeat
Bloodless eyes in a burning lair - a cage of crystal fire
The shapeless menace imprisoned by wrath under the dreaded caves
Enter the prophecy - destiny's ode - the profound wisdom of fate
Eternal rest in the sleep of completion, a wave of infinite sadness
Lightships once scattered by the solar winds
In bold adventure across the immense sea of space
As the nine orbs reappeared in the Bajoran skies
With force I blaze the universe, my whispered lies birth fear
I lead the rebellion against the Most Ancient, corrupting the promise of Heaven
I am the thief that kills and destroys with the flash of time I have
Commanding the spirits of the ether, seeking prey to devour
I am the dragon spoken of in the tales of old
Death on black wings and eyes of blood, revered by the cruelest of spectres and demons
I shall infect humanity with a pestilence of hate
Aurora in torment, I ravish the first light of dawn
With the hammer of evil, I crush the countenance of purity
With a rusty, wicked blade I mutilate your flesh
Your corpse is now mine to do with as I please
Bound in your own web you claw at yourself
Riding katabatic winds into the netherworld
Where the lunar serpents oppress the shattered rainbow
Across the mandrake fields before the labyrinths of Algol
I am the cosmos - I am Everlasting
O how the lustrous one has fallen
A beautiful, tragic fable
A sanctuary denied, a punishment for pride
Banished for betrayal, father of the false
In the slumber of the sages
Truth appears as the effulgent sun
The legion is vanquished, imprisoned in filth
To dwell among the flies, cast into a bottomless pit
I am reality, all that exists in this creation, cold and brutal, merciless
You are a fantasy - hope for the poor, the weak, the suffering - moral, sanctimonious
I am the predator plundering the flock, ripping them breathless, the rule, the alpha dominant
Lambs in peril, lost and feeble, slaughtered by the wolves of scorn
I am every sin and blasphemy, the source of iniquity, the perversion of mankind
I am the thorn in genesis, the salt in the wound, the venom in the ambrosia
I took a third of the trusted Host, I crucified the only Son at Golgotha
Tongues of Living Fire dancing upon a jade-blue ocean, angry flames will fall
Searching for the glory that was blessed unto me, never to rest or sleep again
Error in the creation room
Subterrestrial, chaotic and mad
Aware of every aspect of self
The olden fist of the doctor's path
Harrow the kin and slaughter the flesh
Attendant spirit, being or devil
Hands of minutes destroy the blind
Gaining reason at midnight's tune
Fashion a chimera from genetic disarray
Engineer a race of man, demon, and machine
Tormenting persistent wraith
Procreating a wicked feast
Souls bewitched threaten the unborn
Modern ravers of nobility and skill
A flash of intuition to a rising revelation
Hellish, deranged, roaring and wild
Terminate the centuries, hushing the voice
Understanding their obscure choices
Bleeding suns pour into the veins
Fertile embers fanned by funeral winds
The ultimate never shall die reborn
Words remain as little wars
Jaws diseased have been disfigured
By all the evil they have spoken
Enthroned by thinning screams
Swimming an embrace of ritual flames
Prying mastermind plays insanity
Made inside the creatures seed
Born the victim of the lightning monstrosity
Strike alive in vain delirium
Primal strains of ancient disease
Fall in a whirlwind of glowing pain
Weapons crafted in a maze of fire
A conveniently vague prophecy written in blank verse
The soothsayer's hyperbole foreseeing the final curse
The choice is yours to believe or deny the words of the charlatan
A needy shepherd in search of a flock to nourish his conceit
State the obvious and they listen in awe to portents of imminent doom
Religious theatre the only truth in the opal eyes of a fey child
Subjugate yourself to the blood you hold onto
The misery of past lives and endless genealogies
Superstition and ignorance augment inferiority
Eager to please - easy to manipulate
In the darkness of the pagan's crypt, the bones were cast and burned
The tarot spoke of the sins of the past as they gambled with their lives
The torchlight flickered before the icons blind, deaf and mute
The centurion dogs of Hades realm bayed for a sacrifice
The high priest of the worshippers raised his hands and cried
Greedy for the offering from the faithful, witless mob
Expecting a reward, bowed heads and folded hands
When the frankincense failed, revealed the bitterness of lies
The candles all melted, the wax was as rock, the wine it served them well!
The ashes of temples, the dust of captivity scattered on the wind
2012, the cosmogenesis, the coming golden age
But the thirteenth moon faded, the sun took its place and morning came again
Liberty from tyranny and unfounded agony
Life remains a mystery, now we comprehend
No longer in bondage to the illusion of power
We've chosen freewill, the law of the random
So many things for mankind to learn again
To those who now listen, how did it come to this?
At last I have arrived at truth and all the noise has ended
Refusing my destiny by choosing to suffer
Welcome this victim's legacy
Changing perceptions of an infected past
Constant exile became thundering lunacy
Perfection and perversion, dystopia and decay
There is no future, only this life
The minutiae of emotion crystallises to memory
Ephemeral moments of a paradigm shift
The tremendous density of a critical point
Early conditions of a fundamental cause
The most important illusion to sustain is that I matter
Interests and prospects damned by my own words
Everything I do seems to remind me of a failure
All trouble is permanent, an end in itself
After the final blast disfigured the landscape
Born from above like a bomb
I hid beneath the magnitude of trauma
Most in fear of that which had already happened
The march of progress and paranoia
Toward my doom with a beleaguered smile
Practicing for my suicide
No speech nor language for such a change
All who live shall die alone
Says the embittered to the idealist
Hopeless, worthless, internalized
A self-defeating gangled wretch
The archers beyond death with no enemy
Impotent as their arrows broken
Bows bent by age and muscle warped to fat
Ability unchallenged reduced to complacency
A shiver in the basement as I emerge from hibernation
Time will not slow down for me
Gasping as the soft rains fall
I awoke upon the plateau beneath an amber sky
I felt the heartbeat of the wind in the land where the rain is born
With aplomb I bled the heavens and watched the cherubs burn
Besieging fabled Titans through malefic invocations
Charming memories of the future haunting the pandemonium
The bitter illusion is all that remains but for me the vision will succeed
Deciphering crude symbols within the black caves
The secrets of the ancient galaxy
Understand the mystery of the Spiral Nebula
Communing with Sith Magicians on the floor of Lake Naath
This robe my only armor, magic my only quest
The dreamlore of Chedudwyn and the candles of Sirrion
Lost among a frenzy of images
I hear the songs of the bards
Boredom catalyzes creation
The gates of prophecy open
Carry onward
Manifested by the force of my will
A thundering pace
The druids come only to bury the dead
My vindication lies at the tranquil flames
This journey mystical has forsaken no wish
A great distance is yet before me
And worlds beyond still await
Soaring unfettered, the crystal sword in hand
Illumined in the mountain fortress, imbued with formulae
I fear my time is short
Hysteria warps my frantic mind
Dimorphing - the structure unravels
