1. GAZING UPON A FORGOTTEN SHADOW (DESCENT)

Visions of an endless tunnel
Carved through sleep
A voice echos in whispers, from beneath
A mouth hungry to see

One shadow too many
This world’s not mine
Grip on my sternum
Fingers behind my teeth

To speak is creation
Language becomes the living
Words gives birth
To a loss of control

Silence will spread
We drown in quiet
The shadow is born
From the corpses of quiet

It reaches through death
Into your skull
And pulls you through

The violence within me
Escapes like smoke
Blood like cancer
Fills my throat

The violence within me
Congeals into shadow
And leaves me behind in death
I descend

I believe in demons
I believe in nothing
I believe in shadows
I believe in hell

I believe in gods
I believe in nothing
I believe in the past
I believe in hell

The shadow approaches
As I walk deeper
It promises secrets
Of a world unseen

There is an old room
Where the light of the past
Comes through

I stand at the threshold
A figure sits there
In the room

It cannot be seen
It cannot be seen by us


2. HOUSE WITH A THOUSAND DOORS

I enter at night
Through a door in the middle
Of the house
There’s no light

An impossible view
Greets my eyes
I watch myself
Through a curtain of flies

Pull back my skin
Dissect my lies
Turn away from these visions
Of a life not mine

I’m trapped in this place
There’s no way out
I hear spirits at the doors
They pretend to know me

The rooms all look the same
But I change with each one
I’m altered in space
I’m altered in time

Caged
By sin
This prison is endless
This house within

Pull back my future
Dissect my promises
Give in to these visions
Of a life now mine

Spoiled by fate
There’s no way out
There’s no way in

Haunted by the living
There’s no way out
There’s no way in

Release me from hell
Release me from life (death)

Release my will
Released from hope

I wake again
The house is gone
I am lost

Fall
Victim
Tainted
By this palace of souls

Displaced
From everything
Displaced
From the self