1. PRELUDE

(Instrumental)


2. FROM WHENCE THE MOURNING CAME

Only malice lies in here
Onward I slip through a journey
Toward my own greatest fear

Caressing upon cold faces
Bleeding velvet blood dry
Consuming the very essence
Of this other worldly high
Renouncing all of what
I used to know
This self-made deity now consumes me
Taking me below

Entranced
I walk through a dream
Visions from my soul
A haunting of their screams
Suppressions, separation
Thre truth lies beneath my filthy skin
Transmogrifying, transposed
I hol this burden to the grave
Nobody shall ever know

I cannot handle this pressure
Incubo
I feel I am lost in this dream
Lifeless, numb, hollow

I wander through the abyss
Disregard for all around
I take one step at a time
My vision fixed to the ground
A final resting place
My home has been found
My only escape, beneath the ground

I stumble through the abyss
Disregard for all around
I take one step at a time
My vision fixed to the ground
Walking back to that place
Where innocence hath died
Show me a new form of pain
From whence the mourning came

I peer beyond death's veil


3. HALLS OF SORROW

Memories lost, forgotten through time
These walls are breathing
Feeding from the crimes
Committed in these damned blood-stained halls

Beyond all reason, beyond sin and scorn
I feel a shiver down my spine, a sign I'm not alone

The demons are creeping, evil haunts these halls
Every step that I take, makes me wonder
How do I go on further?

Something feels so familiar
Why do I feel at home?
Through these wretched halls I roam
Why do I feel right at home?

I now remember, I now see
These acts of pure hatred
Committed by me

A man on the run, a man on the edge
I drop to my knees, it's time to confess
This web of lies, now undone
I'm yet another darkened son

Something feels so familiar
Why do I feel at home?
I no longer need to care
All is done, all may rest


4. PLEASURE OF ANOTHER'S PAIN

Indulge in the please of another's pain

You play a game that astounds all
You call my name, but I won't listen at all
You are the one causing pain
You are the one, deep down you're ashamed

Of yourself
Play the game
Now you fall

The urge to plough into your mind
Brings me joy and glee
Now I rip into your flesh
Laughing as you scream

I feel pain should be granted, upon your infected skin
And so begins the journey, to find what lies within
Now you bow down to me, let the pain begin
I am above and and below all degrees of sin

Now you feel,
This is the pleasure of another's pain
Fuel for the insane

I play the game that astounds all
To rip apart your mind wouldn't phase me at all
Am I the one causing pain?
And if so, must I feel ashamed?
For indulging in the pleasure of another's pain
Fuel for the insane
Don't deny


5. SHACKLED WITHIN

Take this journey inside, thus could be our final ride
Something beckons me, something inside

As we fall astray, I find meaning in this has become lost
I struggle to see, the right from the wrong
Drowning in my omission
Shackled within me

Tearing me apart, nothing around me can show me the way
Through this decaying maze, where the blind lead the blinde
We walk litlessly

Trapped inside
Our very own dream

Staring into this void
I yearn to know, what lies inside others minds
I struggle to breathe
I fall to the fround
Drowning in my omission
Shackled within me

As I wander through this stagnant void
I find meaning has become lost
No leper here grants me with lucid eyes, just lies
From the tongues of unhallowed man
Truth forever slipping into obscurity
Seemingly lost within the shadows


6. RAPED AND DYING

Fury overcomes
As the seas begin to rise

Fury overcomes cleansing this decrepit wasteland
Infection emitting from our place of birth
Her blood upon our hands

Our lives taken for granted
Violate her chastity
Fate left her raped and dying
Ensuing mankind's agony
Our agony

Misery overcomes
For we are the inversion of life
What have we done?
Behold your blackened paradise
Infected, now put to death
by the blight of man
Our reign must end!

Our mother bleeding, beneath a sanguine sky
Our mother bleeding, before your very eyes

Fury overcomes spitting scorn across vast wastelands
Mankind's lament, screams of agony
Our cries go on and on, unheard

This fattened denomination
Fostering the ignorant breed
I look around and feel ashamed
Ashamed to be a human being


7. WAVES OF TOMORROW

This life, vast like the ocean, with every movement lies a reaction
A demise like none before has foreseen
Blood shall be spilled upon the eve of reckoning

Abolish the waste that clogs the veins of life
Enter the reincarnation of our gluttony and spite
Our end is set

Heeding the cleansing, no scapegoat will be found
With our efforts so futile in excuse we drown
Finally we see, that the more we do is the more we are to receive
The victims of karma
Hail thee

This lesson never learned, means it's will deserved

Corrupting foundations suspending all time
Embrace the final destruction
Darkness takes hold, innocence it does seek
An influx of disorder, the death of the weak

SUFFER

This lesson never learned
Means it's punishment well deserved
There'll be no tomorrow


8. THROUGH DEATH AND BEYOND

Are you afraid, to open your eyes
Dispose of self importance
Fear not your demise

For the inversion, of creation
Is just waiting to open your eyes

I walk alone, in a place that I don't understand
Heeding the unknown
Calling our to this cold empty sky
I yearn enlightenment tonight

Once again I'm looking for some kind of guide
To lead me through an endless maze
Direction eludes, confusion consumes
Feed me eternal opiates
Lay this mind to rest

Now I have seen, that the ground that i walk upon will not hold me
I now arise never to fear the end, nor to fear this life

Spitting out the lies, that from birth has been force-fed
Unto unknowing minds, corruption at it's best
Embrace the ignorance

When searching for enlightenment, you may find yourself lost
When yearning for some meaning in this long forgotten plot
Am I just destined to rot?

False inspiration, harbouring the disease
Our lives pre-meditated, I close my throbbing eyes
I will never be at ease

(solo: Johnson)
(solo: Edwards)

Spitting the lies, ignorance I cannot accept
Self-importance flows aside, fear not death
I shan't hold an inevitable fear
For tis thine ward

Once again I'm looking for some kind of guide
To lead me through an endless maze
Through death and beyond;
I stand strong
I will never be at easy


9. WHEN THE SKY TURNED

This fixation to iniquity
Despoiling from within
Becoming my own debaser
Rotting from within

Tormenting me, I pray for a reprieve

Dictating all my actions for
I am no longer me,
Lost in a numb daze
A mere attempt to forebear reality

From when I wake, until the sun dies
I hear them laughing, plotting a path for my demise
And as I drown within a cesspool of secrete
I lay in wonder never ever to discover what I could have been

Lost in this daze, I dismiss looming demise
I sit here laughing at myself forging nothing by my demise
So let me drown within this cesspool of secrete
Leave me in wonder, never am I to discover what I could have been

This paradise you behold
Shall now condemn thee
A token of what once was
Crumbled below for you to see
There's simply no reprieve
Blackened clouds for you to see
Heralding words of darker times
Punishment for those who never learn
When the sky turned


10. QUIETUS

This cold conception
(Holds us hypnotized under oppression)
Are we ever to reveal?

The secrets that lay beyond
The behold of eternity
The secrets of the quietus
In which I seek solace, that's mine.

Hear my call
For in the final chapter of my fall
What is feared the most in the end will be embraced
For it shan't be seen as punishment but instead your fate
Afoot the gates of a kingdom unknown

The beginning and the end
Come together as one
For they are the same

The ancient belief calculated and then conceived
Defiling our own human birth
Telling you what to believe

As we pass through this gauntlet of existence
Do you ever wonder,
Will this storm precede the calm?
Pave my way
To peace

Will the beginning and the end
Come together as one?
Or are we to befriend, this darkness
that smothers our flames
We are as one, we are the quietus
And so forgotten our names...