1. DUSK (EULOGY)

(Instrumental)


2. WARDRUMS AT DAWN ON THE DAY OF MY DEATH

Awakened by a western wind
The blood of chaos seeps into dawn
A call to war in honor and death
The warrior’s fate to ride the storm

Ride

To ride a path of shadow and death
To breath the sacred winds of war
The fires rage within my heart
To die with honor, to ride the storm

Ride

The imminence of fate on the horizon
The drums of war on the wind
The transcendence of spirit through destiny
Reborn in the liminance of bloodshed

The confluence of foresight and memory
A prayer of silence on the wind
The honor of a death steeped in beauty
The kiss of death upon my spear

The reckoning of prophecy on the horizon
A sacred manumission of the flesh
The flames of fate licking softly
Unbound in the beauty of a sacred death

Now the voice of the wind whispers softly
A eulogy in the silence of the dawn
And as my final visions become me
The eagles shall rise to carry me home

Ride


3. THE DYING BREATH OF A SACRED STAG

Upon a great throne of black mountains
Born in the heart of the storm
A keeper of shadow and twilight
A sentinel of lands long forlorn

Born within the eyes of the storm

Now the moons pass like ripples in water
As the young stag grows old with the pines
A beacon of chaos and majesty
Great keeper of twilight

Now wind in the blackened pine whispers
As death creeps in slow with the dusk
The beast slows his breath as the winter takes hold
And surrenders his flesh to the moss

A sacred sepulcher in frost
An offering of antler and blood

Ancient mounds of weeping earth
Bound to me through blood and soil
Sacred shadows cast in thunder
Whispers on the edge of the storm

The dream persists
A haze of memory
Cast adrift
A ripple in time

The dream persists
A haze of memory
Cast adrift
To awaken the night

The blood of my body
Shall flow fourth at starlight

Ancient hymn of storm and shadow
Skies ablaze with memory at dusk
My spirit unbound under pale moonlight
The moss surrounds my bones

The dream persists
A haze of memory
Cast adrift
A ripple in time

The dream persists
A haze of memory
Cast adrift
To awaken the night

The dust of my spirit
Shall flow forth at twilight

A sacred sepulchre in frost
An offering of flesh to the moss


4. THE EARTH IS WEEDING

(Instrumental)


5. GOD OF BLACK BLOOD

Lurking on the edge of time
You'll find me there
Waiting
Creeping in the shadows of the dusk
Whispers in the dark of the powers of the flesh

God of black blood

Waking beneath dreams and memory
The rattling of bones and whispers in the night
Haunting beast of feral twilight
Bound to cull the aching dreams

God of black blood


6. TRAVERSING THE FOREST OF ETERNAL DUSK

(Instrumental)


7. TEARS OF THE DAWN

The soft kiss of rain the night
Swelling mists of petrichor bloom
Softly bleeding memories beckon
Resplendent in the light of the moon

Awakened by the silence
In the whispers of dying autumn leaves
Caste in the wind fade to rust

Haunted by the memory
Of her shadow bleeding softly cross the sky
A tear for the ever looming dawn

To embark in the twilight
Faded passage through the silence of the night
Kissed by the forlorn of the dark
Forever forsaken to wander the tombs of memory
Ashen reflection fade to dust

Awakened by the silence
In the whispers of dying autumn leaves
Caste in the wind fade to rust

Haunted by the memory
Of her shadow bleeding softly cross the sky
A tear for the everlasting dawn

Dolor
Sorrow
Contrition
Spurred by the wind

Fate
Beckons
Fiercely
She rides on winds of sacred death

She strikes with the fury of fire
Driven by the wrath of the night

A whisper
Of longing
Remembrance
Forgotten
In throes of fading light

Thunder and marrow
Faded sacrifice
For naught
From the rot
Of the loam
Whispers slowly stir
A spell on the stillness of the night
The song grows softer
Bound by broken memories
Eternal shadow creeping
Longing for the tears
Of the weeping dawn


8. LIKE WIND THROUGH THE REEDS MAKING WAVES LIKE WATER

(Instrumental)


9. AND HE BECAME THE BURNING STARS

Memories
Marbled in time
Echoes of liminance
Ashen and sundered
A final celestial rite
Surrender my bones
To the silence of sorrows
Caste in fading light

Beyond the blackness of death
A prayer of enflamed stars ascend

Deep
In the forests of night
Where the wind softly weeps
Through the vines of the willow
There
I shall ascend
In the semblance of twilight
In the silence of shadows
Caste in fading light

In the silence of shadows
Caste in fading light

Beyond the blackness of death
A prayer of enflamed stars ascend

Forsaken horizons beckon
Resplendent cosmic simulacrum

Beyond the blackness of death
A prayer of enflamed stars ascend

To breach the boundaries of time
To become the measureless tide
A celestial fastness imparted in passage
The transcendence of spirit in waning light

To ride the ascension of twilight
Bleeding memories from the cosmic wound
A flaming tear across an ocean obsidian
My spirit exhumed in the effulgence of the light of the moon

Relinquish my bones to the silence of sorrows
Burning beneath celestial pine
A whisper of flesh in a womb of stars
My spirit unbound in the effulgence of the light of the moon


10. FLESHBOUND (LORD BELIAL COVER

Deep down within
Obscurity spreads insistently
My hollow and dark soul
Is bonded with my flesh

A bright dimness of black
An evil crimson shade
Withdraw the drapes
Set the wickedness free

I tear my flesh to unleash my soul
I tear my flesh to be free

With blooded remains I slither in pain
I am not alive nor am I dead

Now I am free from my life
But I still feel... I'm bound to my flesh

I tear my flesh to unleash my soul
I tear my flesh to be free

Deep down within
Obscurity spreads insistently
My hollow and dark soul
Is bonded to my flesh