1. BENEATH THE WAVES

Your breath is held in hope of monsters breaching from the deep
You hide underneath your mighty sail
You ride the waves in search of mysteries lurking in the sea
All through your endeavors you curse yourself

Strike a blow - hear them cry - see the whites of their eyes rolling round
Grab your oars - scream and roar and see him soar
As he plunges into the dark and deep beneath the waves

Beneath the waves

His flesh is torn and scarred where hunters clawed and left their mark
He's a ruler of the seas you sail
His eyes hold endless fires of secrets old and blood red skies
A king of the deep - he'll rule - he'll rise

Strike a blow - hear them cry - see the whites of their eyes rolling round
Grab your oars - scream and roar and see him soar
As he plunges into the dark and deep beneath the waves

The sun is high - your blow draws blood
You hear him cry - you're hypnotized
Your body breaks - as you capsize
The devil breaches

Strike a blow - hear them cry - see the whites of their eyes rolling round
Grab your oars - scream and roar and see him soar
As he plunges into the dark and deep beneath the waves

Beneath the waves
Beneath the waves


2. CARNAL SACRIFICE

Sweetest dream - a virgin queen
An innocent born and betrothed
Just ripe for picking from the tree of life on Earth
Born of this world - a shining light
A vessel for the darkness torn from time and space tonight

Oh my lord - everlasting light
Take this heart - carnal sacrifice

You sold her soul - for blackest gold
And everlasting life - your conscience breaks before
it folds. Pray to your god - what does he say?
Nothing - coz you're no-one - there's no turning back today

Oh my lord - everlasting light
Take this heart - carnal sacrifice
What have I done - I'll pay the price
The light has left me - carnal sacrifice

Embrace the dark - you fall from grace
Into the pit
You're gods disgrace - your're gonna follow the revolution

Pray to your god - what does he say?
Nothing - coz you're no-one - there's no turning back today

Oh my lord - everlasting light
Take this heart - carnal sacrifice
What have I done - I'll pay the price
The light has left me - carnal sacrifice

I suffer - in pain - so sweet


3. SOLITARY

Long ago

She drifted through eternity, spanning time and space alone
The world was young, when she birthed a race
They clawed and tore away her heart and faith

Her voice entombed

Oh in the vacuum of her mind, ever-longing to be heard
As she grows old, her beauty fades
She loses all her faith in time and space

Solitary - solitary woman

As i drfit on through the void, oh will you catch me when I fall
My voice has been destroyed, oh no-one hears me when I call
Solitary life makes for solitary soul
As I drift on through the void, oh will you catch me when I fall

Solitary. Solitary


4. UNDER THE MOUNTAIN

Under earth and stone we await the dawn
Another night has passed - the hours are long
Crawling on our knees - growing dark unease
We seek the night
Wading through the worms - the mountain twists and turns
Her hold is tight

Under the mountain - that's where we'll be
An ancient kingdom - a sight to see

Through the aeons vast we've lain in the dark
Waited from our thrones for the vital spark
Our fire has grown in size - rekindled appetites
A craving thirst
Digging through the dirt - flesh and bone and hurt
We've come so far

Under the mountain - that's where we'll be
An ancient kingdom - a sight to see
Our walls will echo with endless cries
We'll dig our way out - and we shall rise

Watching every move you make
Eyes of the serpent king - slumbering - now wakes
Storm rages - eruption - sublime
Bow down before your mountain kingdom

Under the mountain - that's where we'll be
An ancient kingdom - a sight to see
Our walls will echo with endless cries
We'll dig our way out - and we shall rise


5. APPROACHING THE END

An imitation of life approximating the norm
But on the edge of the knife - in the eye of the storm
My eyes are blinded by life my mouth is burned of the taste
My mind is empty of thought, my mind it's laid to waste
It's gone, it's laid to waste

Nothing is the way that I thought it would be
I feel I am approaching the end

I touched the void I displaced, sent ripples riding through space
Engulfed in all that I was, I long to be with the stars
Transcend the world of the sun - my thoughts all fade into one
Escape a world full of hate, my body suffocates
I can't breathe, I suffocate

Nothing is the way I thought it would be
I feel I am approaching the end
Exist beyond your mind and you'll set yourself free
I feel I am approaching the end

Nothing is the way I thought it would be
I feel I am approaching the end
Exist beyond your mind and you'll set yourself free
I feel I am approaching the end

When all is said and done, one life of hit and run
As we transcend that final bend, as we approach the bitter end
It's fate, it's fate, it's fate


6. ANCIENTS

As the cold wind blows on through my veins
I can feel my lonely heart turn to ice
Living in the shadow of the mountain face
Overlooked on by her steely eyes

Long shadows dance before the setting sun
With the mountain we become as one

She's ancient - she's old
I surrender my soul

The mountains seen no more than a soulless thing
But her ancient roots grow deep and long
Amid the lordless sky she's thundering
Crying out in the night to belong

Long shadows dance before the setting sun
With the mountain we become as one
Elevate to touch the farthest skies
As she punctures the night, the old ones collide

Long shadows dance before the setting sun
With the mountain we become as one
Elevate to touch the farthest skies
As she punctures the night, the old ones collide


7. HUNGER

Stare through the eyes of man - scanning over all of his land
He wants more, he takes two score - always counting every grain of sand
Sick with greed - got all that he needs, it's eating at his rotten soul
Never gets his fill of life - like trying to fill an endless hole

And his greed will render him blind
He's consuming without conscience until everything dies - never satisfied

Crowned man he reaps the land - he's bleeding Mother Nature dry
He sits alone upon his thrown - statue like in all but his eyes
Sick with power he seeks and devours everything that gets in his path
Accursed fate - eternal hate to everyone who suffers his wrath

And his greed will render him blind
He's consuming without conscience until everything dies - never satisfied
Never Satisfied

A want that needs and grows
A parasite in the heart of man
Feeding at his soul - sucking dry all it can
A want that needs and grows
A parasite in the heart of man
Feeding at his soul

And his greed will render him blind
He's consuming without conscience until everything dies
Never satisfied

Lost to the fall of time - never satisfied
Your appetites are blind
For the want of all and all you find


8. POSSESSION

You slither - you slide - digging in
Your taking a hold of my life

Shadows - demons - partaking in the breaking of the human
mind

Haunted cries - fading eyes - feel the pain
Your taking a hold of my life

I know my time has come - ravaged with fear I try to run
You hunt - you find - you kill
You long for lust - an endless thrill

When we're alone the world stops turning
We set it alight - chaos burning
Devour all that comes between us

With the sun in your eyes.
And the world at your feet
We sacrifice to the night...

Set yourself free


9. BLACK DOG BLUES

When that black sensation creeps across my weary head
I can feel my body sink into my worlds end
I try to pick myself up - but I'm sinking further in
When that black dog finds me - I'm feeling lost - I'm caged in

Don't cry - it thrives - feeding off your woes
I try - to fight - but that black dog grows

I'm alone - lost in time
Human drone - lost in line
I tell myself - I ain't got the skills
To help myself - I keep taking them happy pills

As the light starts dipping in the skyline of my mind
I can't feel I'm tripping down that hole another time
I try to pick myself up - I keep on clawing at the walls
Then that black dog finds me - shows his teeth and takes hold

Don't cry - it thrives - feeding off your woes
I try - to fight - but that black dog grows

I'm alone - lost in time
Human drone - lost in line
I tell myself - I ain't got the skills
To help myself - I keep taking them happy pills

You're all alone - just skin and bone
Your minds disintegrating
Help your-fucking-self
Coz no-one else will - you're all alone

When the black dog bites in the dead of night
You'll fall down to your knees

He'll feed on your soul as your weakness grows
All consumed by your disease