1. PRELUDE TO FOREVER

Innocence of a child... child of pure, unclouded brow
Seeking answers... reciting wonder... apprehension
declines from this looking glass house

Projected secrets... so familiar... calling me... behold the ecstacy
Riddled perception... riddled perception... as their game unfolds from my looking glass house

Majestic blade severs time
Premonition transpires
Behold...the wonder
Soul torn...asunder
Majestic blade, sanctioned sign
Regressive progression obliged

Behold... the wonder
Soul torn... asunder
Conform and mimic me
Obey and mimic me
Affirm and mimic me
Consent and mimic me
Accept and mimic me
Submit and mimic me

Comply and mimic me
Do my eyes refle ct the things I must protect...
And will my soul neglect the strength I must project?


2. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

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3. JABBERWOCKY

It feeds off fear, our souls it's prey
Black eyes burn through the path it takes
Soft pulse... soft gaze... am I too late?
Project... protect... absorb... create

Lost within my own identity
Shadows converge shedding light beyond eternity
Shed that grin from your featureless face
This tongue now speaks your language

And what I now taste is bitter... lifeless blood
Tempting demise
Hollow in it's guise
It's appearance lies
Vindication arise
Ludic luster, transcend the flame
Consume, exile, sever the hate

Acrid blood flow exudes coarse veins
Confront... surpass... absorb... create


4. TRAVERSING THE GAP

I'm not just ornamentation
As each step brings me back to start, can I overtake my past tense future?
Confront... faces of stone
Deceived... stories untold
Withdrawn... ash searing cold
Arise... ascension alone

Steal rails abscond my travels
Conversations with the dead prevail
Exoskeleton, hollow inside, the lost souls wishing me well
If I fall will their armor protect me?
If I fall will the hollow survive?
Drifting further...
Labored eyesight...
Silver laughter
Envied twilight

The scepter shatters, feel the child inside me
Power struggle through that same child's eyes
Divided thoughts cloud innocent minds

Confront... faces of stone
Deceived... stories untold
Withdrawn... ash searing cold
Arise... ascension alone
I'm not just ornamentation

As each step brings me back to start, can I overtake my past tense future?
Drifting further...
Labored eyesight...
Silver laughter
Envied twilight
You cannot chase your future from the past


5. LIVING BACKWARD

Torn from inside as my eyes absorb the false state of my life...
Passes by transcended through a tearful eye
Now my eyes... now my eyes...
Burn with the acid truth of a suicide
Hear my laughter cry
I ask you why
I ask why
Floati ng through this lake of tears, will I not drown?
Clicking steel, abrasive skin, it all surrounds
Floating through this lake of tears, will I not drown?
Calloused soul, calloused flesh it all surrounds


6. IMPENETRABILITY

Pedant... Godhead... Affix... Madness
Immune me from all I see
Secure me in all I see
Pedant... Godhead... Affix... Madness
Immune me from all I see
Secure me in all I see
Cleave through numb proof
Consume vile truth
You immune me from all I see
You secure me in all I see
Sedate my ego
Impune my virtue


7. MY OWN INVENTION

Twisting path and rolling hills, imprisoned by thy selfish will, this wonderment suffocates me
Twisting path and rolling hills, I doubt virtues you instill, this wonderment suffocates me

Twisting path and rolling hills, secrets told while truths lie still, this wonderment suffocates me
Through my eyes, I have seen majestic ends justify poverished means
You exemplify preconceived connotations, I symbolize eminent transformation

Contrive your obscure repetition
Conceive my ascension from self ambition
Twisting path and rolling hills, impossive petulance it kills, this wonderment suffocates me

Twisting path and rolling hills, your vassal shell cannot fulfill, this wonderment liberates me
The time has come now child, there is no turning back
Succeed to yourself, transcend reflections mirrored in those eyes of glass. Rise!


8. INFINITE CONFUSION

Progressing away, beneath a red sky
Twilight of day, month of July
Now one of three, thy innocent crown
Anxious in sight, perception, and sound
Timeline... fading
Lifeline... fading

Still she haunts me, still she taunts me
Caught inside... me
Children yet, tale to hear
Eager eye, willing ear
Loving nestle near
In a wonderland they lie
Dreaming as days go by

Dreaming as summer dies
Ever drift down the stream
Lingering in the golden gleam
Innocent child, seen in others eyes
Scepter in hand, she reigns phantomwise
Savior of three, capture the gleam
Essence eternal, live life through a dream
Life... what is it... but a dream...


9. AWAKING THE DREAM

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