1. UNENDING GREY

Unending grey, of time, distance and conscience
And I have resigned myself
For every breath and footfall is nothing
Ash of the forsaken world
Carried forth on bleak winds, into the void
And in the end as dust we’re carried on the wind
Scattered to nothing
On hands and knees, beneath cloaks of ash
Destined to crawl
Decaying in the sorrow of a fleeting world
Carried forth, into the void
Fleeting world
And in the end as dust we’re carried on the wind
Scattered to nothing
On hands and knees, beneath cloaks of ash
Destined to crawl
Decaying in the sorrow of a fleeting world
Wake in darkness
And a silence that burns my eyes
And the fog rolling over the mountains
Blocks out the sun forever
Unending grey


2. RIVERBEDS HEWN IN MARROW

All rivers diverge from centre
Torrents rage through clutching fingers
Stealing into the nothing
The frailty of all that breathes and bleeds
Now revealed, in the lifeblood of a first son
And I would silence all the world
That your essence would sustain
So deep the channels run,
Carved into darkness and nothing
And would that I could hold the world at bay
But the infinite slips through wearied fingers
(Stealing into the nothing)
All rivers diverge from centre
Torn away, into the quiet


3. THE WORLD INHERITED

Watching the day in its final turning
From half light to last light and into the gloaming
Beyond twilight, there is no dawn
Watching the day in its relentless turning
From half light to last light and into the gloaming
The last vestiges of warmth will leave
When embers fade
Now behold the world inherited
Ash, dust, suffering
Now behold the world inherited


4. THE CHORDS THAT THRUM BENEATH THE EARTH

Etched in forever, the sum of all that was and all that will be;
Humanity’s agonal breath
It whispers through the trees
A call to nothing
Violence, in the chords that thrum beneath the earth
A low note, it carries on the winds
To every riven channel's depths
And to every quiet corner,
Where history resonates
Malice, in the chords that thrum beneath the earth
(Beneath the earth)
And in the breaking light, we'll see the world for what it is
Darkness unredeemable
The looming crescendo of the merciless
Dragging all to stillness
The world turns, to the chords that thrum beneath the earth
Beneath the earth
We walk to the glow of forest fires
Wading in paths of black ink,
All things of beauty are forgotten; every night is come
The world: at its end and unending


5. EVERY END IS FATED IN ITS BEGINNING

Mourn the last light, its fleeting passage
Mourn the breaking day
For every breath is written
And every end is fated in its beginnings
Dwell in the ruins
Dormant in the empty silence
Beneath crepuscular rays, cold stone at your back
Warmth has forsaken this place
Dwell in the ruins
Dormant in the empty silence
When all that you are is that which you’d discard
When every end is fated in its beginnings
As your hands turn to ash, breathe on them
(Scattered to the nothing)


6. THE WAVES FOREVER SHATTER UPON OUR SHORES

(Instrumental)


7. CARRIED APART BY THE CEASELESS TIDES

To traverse the ravaged land
Hand in bloodied hand
But you are a grain, and I am a grain, and the tide will carry us apart if it
wills it
To rest in its vermiculate scars
And walk the forsaken soil
Impermanence is to be as one against the world