1. PRELUDE

(Instrumental)


2. ABYSMAL SEA

Floating above an abysmal sea
Sea of faces, twisted and tortured

As waves crash onto hopes and dreams
Bleak future
The faces they watch me as they writhe in horror
Pain is all they can hope for
Eternal suffering

As fresh cold blackness envelopes me
Succumb to the force
Washing over you in an instant
Drowning in the sea of despair

As waves crash onto hopes and dreams
Bleak future
The faces they watch me as they writhe in horror
Pain is all they can hope for
Eternal suffering


3. BUTTERFLY

Vast ray of light
Warm amidst the shell
Take the breath out of me
I just want to be free
I just want to be free

You are my saviour
Hope within an abysmal darkness
Always and never
Butterfly - a blinding lie

Poison the senses - denial
So comfortable in hell
We will never be free

Put the gun to my head
All I ever want to see - butterflies...


4. FLAMING HEART

Crawling on hands and knees
Striving for recovery
A harsh unforgiving landscape
Unfathomable to the rural beings
As they sift through

Survival of the fittest
Ethereal struggle

Ice cold breeze stipulating the burning passion

Crawling on hands and knees
Striving for recovery
A harsh unforgiving landscape
Unfathomable to the rural beings
As they sift through

Survival of the fittest
Ethereal struggle

Ice cold breeze stipulating the burning passion

Crawling on hands and knees
Striving for recovery
A harsh unforgiving landscape
Unfathomable to the rural beings
As they sift through


5. WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN...

A fleeting consideration
Time elapsed
Quash all concepts
Deteriorate the flourish
Emancipate your temple
Let the embers erupt...

Logic evaporated
Missing time
Limitless
Rotten to the core

The temple is doomed
Burnt to cinders
The temple is doomed
Burnt to cinders

Blacked out


6. SWANSONG

This is my farewell
Damnation from a cavernous place
Excluded thoughts, dim macabre incantations
Misinterpretation

Goodbye
Goodbye to black empty skies
Goodbye to hollow words from forked tongues
Goodbye
Goodbye to eternal pain
Goodbye to deceit, to deceit and lies

So it's come to this
Pale empty stare
Abysmal horizon ahead
There is no turning back

Goodbye
Goodbye to black empty skies
Goodbye to hollow words from forked tongues
Goodbye
Goodbye to eternal pain
Goodbye to deceit, deceit and lies

Leaving traces of what could have been...


7. LONGING

Shadows wafting in and out of mind
Reflections of effigies fuelled by heartfelt longing
A quake ruptured the significant vessels
Whirlwind of all viable notions

Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht
Sehnsucht

Wave of unconscious
Smothered by desire
Fleeting hope - what could have been
Beyond this slough of despair

Sehnsucht

Surpassing reality
Deluded to a dreamland
Never wishing to awake