1. BAILS (OF FLESH)

Cold empty space
Need to touch (present life)
Thy life is none
For thy soul burns

Hate for will
My grief will be avenged

Bailing the grass
Flaying
Timeless grasp
Flaying
Smolder the bones
Horror on the stones

Roped hands
Are raking air
Slight of life

Fate stands
Its wicked snare
A needle of life

Bail me
Like rows of hay
A needle of life

Cold hate...

Cold empty space
Hate for will
For thy soul burns
They grief will be avenged


2. ROWS (OF ENDLESS WAVES)

Flood, flood, denied
Echo of suffering
Hold (blue) ghost

The lay of the land
Won't see where you stand
On waves far from sand
On them you tremble

And master of rains
Sends liquefied grains
To ride ocean pains
To nowhere at all
And nothing to borrow
And nowhere to follow
Nowhere at all
Nameless and frayed...

Rows and rows

Winter of life to know
Beating hearts on stone
Pulsing out in rows
Carve my eyes in stone
Hang my skin in rows
Weathered like a throne

Suffer
And drowning
No hope for existence
Breath blood

If they would beach you
These waves of destruction
Would only collapse you
And leave you to lie
On peasant tread
Landing where you'd have a hand
In the death of a million
For only a lie where, strengthened, you'd try
To torture the masses
And sink them in chains to this river
Enslaving that never runs dry
Death wielding reach of rehumanised fingers
That grasp as they bludgeon the helpless
That writhe if only to cry
If they would reach you
The stain of destruction
Would flow on as endless from landing so wide
And battles would rage you
And war would not fail to drain blood
From the masses and leave to lie
Where death circles high
Where plundered the buildings
And burning the forests
You'd rage, drunk with power,
And cripple the wise
So here we will leave you
On waves far from shore
Fleshless and barren
These waves to enslave you
So your victims can rise


3. LONGING (THE RIVER OF ASH)

Hanging like glass
Eternity of ash

Longing still
But never will
Sever the past
To breath at last

Hanging low
Buried like snow
Fire burns past
A river of ash (x2)

Longing still
But never will
Sever the past
To breath at last

A river of ash


4. BENEATH THE MASK

(Instrumental)


5. I WAIT

Breathlessly
Still waiting
Restlessly
Still waiting

Every man creates his own god
Wearing them all
Beneath the mask


6. OUTRO

(Instrumental)