1. INTO OCEANS, THE EVER ONE

I come to bare my enamored suffering.
To offer wounds as a catalyst to passion.
I languor with desire and yet shudder before your presence.
The ever One. How perfect the grief and the romance.
How tired the soul to wander such desolate lands.
To truly know the cold.
Let us into martyrdom without conceit.
Let us give as we take.
Let us embrace silence as attentiveness.
Let us love in oceans of anguish.
At your feet, I lay but filth and burden... for all I am, I give.
The vast sea, deep with mystery to traverse, drop by drop is joined as one in eternity.
Pour into me as I pour into Your bottomless depths, Creator.
Creation.
The ever One... the Father who forged all, the Son who saved all, the Spirit that guides the painfully adoring.
Immortal name of our King upon high... reign now and forever.
We bow and adore Thee, the ever one.


2. LIFELESS… AS A MEANS TO IGNORE THE TRUTH

We look to the all-seeing eye and see not the rotten soul festering within.
We hunger for enlightenment and comfort, yet starve before searching.
A whore, you are, for lies and bribes offered as bait by your captors.
Light shall never warm the misled droves; they shall remain frozen, stagnant, lifeless... as a means to ignore the truth.
Aim for destruction and savor your ignorant suicide.
I call for an end to this pain.
I cry out for our suffering to manifest and smear it's putrescence across the face of its perpetrators.


3. IN DEFIANCE OF THE TEMPTORS

I feel the blade inside.
It rips deep in my flesh.
My heart is not prepared for what awaits me.
Shall I fear for my existence, yet it means nothing ?
Shall I shake until I fall like a leaf into cowardice ?
Shall I be so vain as to call this mine ?
Shall I fall into outrecuidance and surrender to this world ?
The corpse of temptation into ashes... scattered in darkness... that consumes the sun.
Bring life to my soul.
Delight in my death to the world and satisfy my hunger.


4. TO WEIGH THE DISTANCE BURNING CLOSER

A fire burns, the flames lick at me.
And patience sparks life.
So I will wait and adore you from this distance.
A fire burns.
Water laps at my soul, frigid and cold, begging to free me... to cease this breathing... and consume those who it has never known.
They cycle and become it.
To praise death... thankful, it is, to liberate the faithful.
To praise life... so vain and selfish.
Shall I clam death as my savior ?
My key to God ?
Shall I fear it as fate ?
As a means to an end ?


5. MEMENTO MORI

How can darkness light the way ?
Arm the shepherd to strengthen the weak.
Bows poised to set fire unto the universe.
My heart bleeds pity for the wretched... condemned to suffer inside themselves.
Breath deep, see clearly.
Behold grace... God manifest.


6. INTERLUDE

(Instrumental)


7. THE SOMNAMBUNALT'S LAMENT

At your feet, I beg for mercy... to heal my filthy soul.
The malaise of perpetual torment burns in my eyes.
My grief becomes me.
Bereaved and broken for the undying.
Ravage me and reveal purpose.
Destroy my heart to be raised new.
I succumb to powerless adversity.
In loneliness, I know passion, to know pain in love, though distant, you are close at heart... the selfish struggle.
Flesh for flesh.
Each day, death is my escape... I deny myself for You.


8. BURDEN

From your body.
From your arms.
Never to return.
A mistake.
A burden.
Anew.


9. …AND UNDER A FUNERAL SHROUD

Sorrow envelopes.
Hearts harden... under the weight of a profane prophet.
I see the pillars crumble away and lost millions fall to their doom... and under a funeral shroud, a light shines through.