1. MORNING STAR

No repentance

Morning sun, brilliant star, burn, confrontation
Consumed flame, revoked grace, left to rot
Cast to dark, beauty snuffed out, forsaken
Smoldered flesh, hornedness, retribution

Burn, lord of flies, traitorous serpent
Bastardized divine child, scorn
Cherubim, king of dark, smoldered

Wraith of fire, bestower of truth

Lens of knowledge applied, no longer a meek pet
To perverse divinity, free of ignorant chains
Reality unveiled for all, adversary standing tall
Proclaiming to mankind - "taste the fruit"


2. HOUSE OF SLOTH

Slave to sloth, wasting away in my cradle of filth
I am stain, constantly chained by inhibitions

I am my own captor, passion's source decayed

Festered, contorted, sluggish, faithless waste

I am safe, free of pain
Physically numb, flesh of sludge, nothing


3. TRENCH/ALTAR

The call to arms that fell on deaf ears
Resonating from the core of my being, I feel its embrace
The screaming voice of my spirit
The weeping form that is my wilting flesh
The aging sepulcher I am

Cry out, my passion's face
Disfigured within my own reflection
Its petals fall like tears
The transience of my actions mock me still
The meaninglessness embodied
Ravenously feasting upon the rotting carcass of my aspirations

Disconsolate wretch
Bound to a rotting garden of filth and discontent
An opaque illusion of love and hope
All that is false, restraining what I am
Creating false idols
Nihilism slowly consumes the soul of the common man and the saint
The words of the wraith taint
And now I am godless


4. The Orchard

(Instrumental)


5. Covenant

Covenant, remembrance

Hand to those who submit to the herd
Chastise those who dare to differ from the mass
Cognitive dissonance embraced tightly

Living within a world of chaos breeds distaste in the meek
Opposition translates to blind hate within a weak mind
Driving a blade into my own ear
Just to escape the unceasing noise created by these belligerent drones
Hypocrisy held as a constant justification
Archaic dogma joyously exhumed and ignorantly praised

Covenant, forgotten


6. THE OBELISK

(Instrumental)


7. CITY OF STONE

Entrapment crushes me, pressured soul
Devoured by my own passion's maw
In this cold infinite I am torn
Surrounded by option, the city of stone

Now the abyss calls my name

Within this chaotic void, I wither alone
Just like a dog with three legs, I struggle to stay above

I hear the voices of failure
I feel the pressure upon me

Pressing down into me, pressing down
Pressing down into me, I feel the weight
(Entrapment) Pressing down (pressured soul) into me
(By my own) Pressing down (passion's maw)
Pressing down into me, I am restrained

To stand up, to push against the stone

Wonder aimless, forlorn being, constant migrant seeking purpose
Pushing against this monument, I am forever struggling


8. PROPHET

(Instrumental)


9. EVENING STAR

Burn

Let the son lay down now, let his brilliance rest
Revel in incandescence, let the left hand path prevail
Under the bright black sky, venus calls out to her kin

Resolute, shine, transcendent form
Voracious, sky, rebellious soul

Marching onward under heaven, marching onward without mercy
To the cross, to eternal stain
Driving inward, flesh caves under manmade power, faultless metals Piercing and tearing at the flesh of divinity
A god wilts at the crimson hands of posterity

The lord covers his eyes as man lays down

Burn in the light of the dark, feel the warm embrace of rapture
Behold the end of days, witness the true archangel

Now return to this plane

To fall to abyss, reaching away from the light
Renouncing all that was to be
A fleeting, callous, wretched life singing its song of dissonance to me
Lucid and grim it was conveyed
On my knees I beg and pray unto the inverted light

Reaching out to touch the sky, reaching out with inward eyes
Reaching for the heaven scar, reaching for the evening star