1. SIGN OF OSIRIS SLAIN

We are a legion, have brought you down, forever
Salt and burning sulphur will cover your land
War is our religion, our destiny to conquer
We dream about the heat and endless sand

You have been the guiding light,
The rhythm of the river,
A keeper of the beat in the hearts of the brave
All light has been extinguished now,
Your armour stripped and ruined
Within an empire fallen,
A ritual grave

Everywhere you look these days,
You see more death and fear
Faceless soldiers marching in despair
Following the ancient way
The rhythm lord was taken
And torn in five directions, flesh laid bare

See his lonely trip through time
See him chained to crippling fear
And though the world now must be blind :
The Judgment day is drawing near !


2. THE ANSWER

The skies light up the night
In shades of burning fire
Leave me with no place to hide
The naked truth it makes me blind

Life is just like a battlefield
Next day is just like the other
I’m locked inside a darkened world
Loss and pain always on my mind

I need to find the answer
There’s nothing left for me
Forever trying to find a way out
It was never meant to be this way

There was never any hope for us
Since we began this struggle
So we will show no fear
Death is always on our side

Our lives are hanging by a thread
Knowing each breath could be the last
Mothers they will cry in fear and sorrow
When they see what we have become

You will never find the answer
Unless you search within your soul
The fire that devours you must burn out
Ashes of doubt now turn to dust


3. CHILD WITNESS

Lone wolf walking, across the plain
Eyes are watching from afar
Red sun rising in the sky
Silent witness, the lone wolf’s cry

The child bears witness to the evil deeds of man
The horror that he sees he cannot understand
A loss of innocence can never be re-gained
A soul that once was pure now indelibly stained

Maiden working, all alone
An act of violence, and seeds are sown
Violation, a foul misdeed
Mutilation, an evil creed

The cost of honour, a price too high
Misguided ideals, an ancient lie
To think of killing in every breath
No salvation can come through death


4. BETWEEN THE BLUE TEMPLE AND THE NORTH TOWER

The cathedral of light is shining
Open graves eat hungry men
Ashes burning, masses dying
Eternal sin for us and them

In this field, dark marching figures
Holding torches in the night
In the raging wartime horror
Torn by cruel and blinding light

Is this the same light I’m talking about ?
This beautiful cathedral of fear ?
Blinding, protecting, hurting and healing
A bare-chested serpent is near

Ode to the temple of shimmering light
Ode to the purifying flame
Ode to the shielded and destructive form
Ode to the whip causing pain

You were searching for religion,
see now where you lost your way
Inspired by the misty stories
and the power they contain

…masses ready to obey
…you saw temples meant to stay
…but only ruins now remain

Combining myths and endless murder
with machines made of steel
Blinded by the future’s vision :
Your victory so strong and real

…all that you could feel
…broken by the turning wheel
…opening the final seal

When you make your way through the fields of melting glass
You will have to reach for what’s inside
Bite your lips until you bleed and let the days pass
Your pain is only going to ease through time

Haunted by the solar sin you struggle towards the light
Your eyes reflect their eternal flame
Circle of the leaders used to will this site
Now ashes of the temple in the north tower


5. SINKING CITY

Watching this city of silence
Until the church bells start their concert
They violate the moment
When I should start my journey below...

Devoured by the caves that crumble
Into themselves they collapse
Pressured by the city above,
Slowly the pillars will yield and take me down...

So many stories of it I have heard,
They are still echoing somehow
Sinking city with the gates of gold,
Descending through the sand and sea

Riches of the empire
Left here for all to see
If I would die in this sinking city
Please bury me to the island of death...


6. ENDLESS NOVEMBER

If you had been to those places
And seen all the things I have seen
Then would you still dream of perfection ?
And what kind of life it would mean ?
I have returned to the living
From the land of the lost
But I can still feel the same longing
I felt when I travelled that land

Rain falls on me
Making me feel like I’m alive
Endless rivers,
Their streams are still drowning my eyes
Did you have to surrender to our sorrow ?
Did you have to abandon our way ?
Pressures are revealing secrets of the soul
And only the humble remain

Like a leaf that has lost all direction
Cast aside by the cold Autumn wind
I stare at the endless horizon,
And try to forget where I have been
Too proud to beg your forgiveness
I still whisper your name
Too late to admit I’m still sinking
I measure the cost of my shame


7. SIGN OF OSIRIS RISEN

Collecting pieces of what once was me, she joins them silently by hand
She works her way on the familiar figure, I feel the pressure, an urge to see

Extreme heat inside the coffin home, carried through the dying land
I know my son because I swallowed his eye; this was the moment, my mind set free :

Lord of love, Lord of silence, Lord of the dead.
A process of imitation, return of vegetation through the flood.
His backbone and His river, a sacred ram kept in His memory.
The Soul of the Lord, of the pillar of Stability.
His genitals divided, worshipped His will, His fertility.
Gloomy, solemn, mournful actions for the rebirth of the grain.
Sister in the sorrow, sharing his kingdom with the Dead.
If wheat and clay were transformed, He will always be the perfect one.

This was all revealed to me in the movements of a ritual
Hooded figures guiding me through the moments of despair
Witnessing the sign of silence, I understand the union :
Between man and a woman there’s a return

Nail by nail and bone to bone, he is to be complete again
Like a beast he is reborn: On his feet and near perfection
Blood is rushing through his veins, his heart now beats with pain
Shivering, this deadly form, he dreams with open eyes

Hand in hand we rise and pray for those who came before us
We will let our love burn and our slaves will lose their sight
Resurrecting heavens vast we reflect the light that once was
Horrid is the might we bear as we strike back the night

Hope that you can hear the same strong and brave voice that I heard
The order of the guiding signs remains the same, just like above
All I said throughout the night, I did mean every word
Can you share this mystery with me, my only true love ?