1. DOWN THE RIVER

(Instrumental)


2. VANISHED

Here lies where the once great fell
Cold, black thoughts surround this shell
Greeting hands, the timeless void once more

Let the night come ever fast
The purest form to be at last
As the life once lived now rests still on the floor

Embrace the night again
Returning to the hidden place
Back to the darkest space
To sing the songs of weeping friends
And to leave this world today
Look now at this broken face
Vanished without a trace
Into the shapeless depths descend

A bitter grief in this hour
The barren fields to be scoured
For the reason and the purpose; never to be found

Left behind the empty feeling
A shroud of anguish here concealing
All that remains are the wretched cries, from the peaks they shall resound

These depths are painted in dripping, dreary death
Condemned as one shall take their final breath
Splintered and shattered, the soul cannot bear
The suffocating grasp of dread and despair
Deteriorated; much too young to die
Echo the weeps and the withered to the sky


3. REASON

A sudden nightfall shakes the earthbound core
It was clear you could not take much more
Still breath rests silent on the frozen, mocking cold
Release yourself from life's unyielding stranglehold

Tell me the reason, why didn't you stay?
Forever seperated, I'll never be okay.
I have to know. I can't live out a lie.
Of all the people, why must it have been you to die?

Oh, this horrendous night!
Taking away the light that once was inside
An ungodly blight
Impossible to hide

Poisoned blood ran strong to your broken, battered heart
Much too soon the reaper called; No choice but to depart
Now visit God and sit before his loving hand
As tears of loved ones spread your ashes on the sand

One soul departs too fast
To gaze from Heaven's gate
Why can't you be here longer?
Why can't you bear to wait?

Filled with nothing but pain and anguish
Conspiring to create your destined end
And here we cry
Under the clouded, weeping sky
And I couldn't even say goodbye
When I found you in that room
Oh what a horrific sight
To see what once was alive but from now no longer
Cannot handle the aftermath
Taking down the pictures from the walls to lie them still in a box
Removing belongings and mementos
As if this had never happened and repressing you in my mind
But I cannot condemn your actions
All I can do is attempt to understand
Yet it's too much to think about going forward
And this tragedy will shape me to my grave


4. UP THE STREAM

(Instrumental)


5. SHUTTER

[Part I: The Dying Sun]

Here rests what once was
The light is gone to past
Tormented in the dark
The end is reached at last

A decision by her own hand
Never once at peace
A life consumed by sorrow
Now forever deceased

The light twists into darkness; I wish to take it back
By the piercing of the razors; Now bathing in eternal black
Drying on the floor, and staining to the soul
Haunting to the senses; Horrific acts one can't control

I weep for what took place; I cry before the dawn
Crack the skies now open; To dwell upon the dying sun
I've failed you, my dear friend; A help I couldn't be
No longer shall the pain persist; Clearer than I'll ever see

[Part II: The Ghostly Void]

My naked soul, breathless and bare
Stripped to the very bone
This anguish; This loathing
Much greater than ever known

Who are you? I know not your name.
Your face a stranger to mine
What once was there is history
Extinguished as light to thine

Wailing from the rooftops; Oh Lord, please hear my prayer!
Rid me of this curse; Deprive me of despair
Remove all hints of pain; These years I must ignore
Snuff the light from my mind; Delete me at the rotting core

I stare into the mirror; A ghostly void I see
No image looking back now; What once was now can never be
Away from life I cry; The abyss is my domain
Forget me and forgive me; In blood I sign my name

[Part III: The Deepest Depths]

Pain embrace the lonely ones who shutter in the night
Those that wander far from here, escaping from all sight
To the dust returned at once (at last), as the night approaches ever fast
Life has come now to an end, in the deepest depths from here descend