1. BREATH AND BLADE

Written on crumbling pages
The words of fallen sages
A war that's waged
Over countless ages

Death, or worse
Will not deter
My courage nor my hand
By my sword I swore forever to defend this land
Here, I stand
My head held high
I hear that fateful cry
I fear not what that cry belies my challenge to the skies

Death, and worse
My poison battle cry
Shall I let you linger?
Over decades you will die
For ages I've observed
Your race packed into sties
Wallowing in sloth and filth
As we mastered the skies

The line between pride and arrogance
Decides between fools and legends
Which side you find yourself on
Defines your legacy
In time the signs become clearer
As lives are lead and defended
But time remembers the victor
In the way they lived

Call him hero if you will
Still, the path remains
The surest test of his oath
And lo, vanity reigns

Time, and time, and time again
My foes have met their end
There is nothing walks this earth that I cannot withstand
All are one beside my might
And one and all they fall
For this is why the feeble masses find themselves enthralled

Blood, thy life,
Thine infantile desires
You were beneath my notice
But now you'll burn in fire
I revel in the notion
Of blistering thy flesh
The razing of thy nation
Was hardly worth my breath

The line between pride and arrogance
Decides between fools and legends
Which side you find yourself on
Defines your legacy
In time the signs become clearer
As lives are lead and defended
But time remembers the victor

Man and demon screaming
Blood rains from the skies
Final blow and counterstroke
The shock of pure surprise

Blade passes fang
But meets dragonflame
Steel rending flesh
Backlash crippling

Their pride has decided this day
To silence the blade and the flame
Both rendered useless
As fate proclaimed

Tending their wounds they pray
Going their separate ways
They know not where they are sent
‘til they find the Hall of Ancients

The line between pride and arrogance
Decides between fools and legends
Which side you find yourself on
Defines your legacy
In time the signs become clearer
As lives are lead and defended
But time remembers the victor
In the way they lived


2. TWO TRAGEDIES

Late at night I can feel it
Crawling up my skin so wickedly
Scalding the truth on my black heart
It wants to control me

Though it seems endless
Time is abandoned
Would it be reckless?
For my will to give in

Forbidden curse
Conjured my head, casing has bled
Yearning force
All this darkness seems to make sense
Shall I transcend? (carnal malefactors ever after)
In the end (all that matters is your pleasure)

What is right now is void
Implanted virtues
Can all be destroyed

Life contains but two tragedies
One is not to get your heart's desire
The other is to get it

Indulgence scars me
Compilation of battle wounds reminds me (thee)
I am my (thy) own master

I am my own cannibal
I swallow myself whole
You savor my flesh
Tear me up with such finesse

Don't listen to my heart
It's muddled from the start
Don't listen to my mind
Your aim has been maligned

Their orthodoxy dross on your mind
Shrouds you in emptiness, passions left behind
Shed the codes of men, break the chains of right
Soak in my delight

Bittersweet agony
Brings me down to my knees
Feel the red
Between my legs
Poison inside of me

Fantasize because I'm not
Desire for you can't be stopped
Make a move
You want it too
Mend my clashing thoughts

Forbidden curse
Conjured my head, casing has bled
Yearning force
All this darkness seems to make sense
Shall I transcend? (carnal malefactors ever after)
In the end (all that matters)

Forbidden curse
Conjured my head, casing has bled
Yearning force
All this darkness seems to make sense
Shall I transcend? (carnal malefactors ever after)
In the end (all that matters is your pleasure)


3. STASIS

Outside the self
Seeping into cracks within the mind
The universes never claimed to be kind

Dying moon, fading sun
Above the void, beyond the stars
In wormholes, within glitches
This nightmare is ours

Virus, fragment, backlash, extra-dimensional nightmare
Matter collapsing, rippling the shallow air
Cities crumble, oceans rise
Fabric unraveling

Bleed - you need to find your way back
Focus, focus, blink - and you'll be lost to the ether
Scream, scream, cursed - wandering forever
Bleed, bleed, lost - never to find your way back

Chaos is a viral creation of
Order is an intricate vision of
Nothing is the inevitable state of
Everything – when will it wither away?

Can you feel the shadows that writhe through your veins?
And do you know what it is to be truly insane?
To chase memories of pieces of dreams' of forgotten lore
Irony
This is what entropy is for

Stasis - this is what entropy is for
Stagnation rising
Stasis - this is what entropy is for

This is what entropy is for

Madness, grandeur, ruin, sickening mirthless laughter
Twilight reaping, closing faster
Decay of orbit, loss of time
Vision dissolving

Bleed - you need to find your way back
Focus, focus, blink - and you'll be lost to the ether
Scream, scream, cursed - wandering forever
Bleed, bleed, lost - never to find your way back

Now, never
Purposeless endeavor
Slash, sever
Cycling forever
When will it wither away?

Riven by the sands through the hourglass of time
Scorn from the goddess, a laugh from the mime
Shocking vistas that shine over fields of madness and gore
Evoking wrath of gods and planets
This is what entropy is for

Stasis - this is what entropy is for
Novelty crumbling
Stasis - this is what entropy is for

This is what entropy is for


4. THE SWORD THAT COULD NOT BE BROKEN

The field of Bekkar is won
The Field of Blood is one of many in a war lasting centuries
The bliss of glory remiss
With news that Trollocs march on the Mountain Home
With no time left but to mourn

The Shadow's reach is farther than once believed
So far to touch Manetheren
But none are made so brave as these men
Thorn in the Dark One’s foot, a bramble to his hand

Carai an Ellisande
This sword will not be broken
For the Honor of the Rose of the Sun
Aemon’s Heart and every drop of its blood
When any and all others have gone
The Red Eagle soars above

An inconceivable march
Covered in mud and blood and gore
So much for victory
Like there were wings on their feet, they sped
To defend their endangered home
A final vestige of hope

The horde at their doorstep
War and horror forced on their land
The banner of Ba’alzamon flies
The Red Eagle sides against the Father of Lies

With barely a second to spare
Backs to the Tarendrelle
If only they’re able to hold for three days’ time
They’ll pay the ultimate price to buy their people’s lives

Ravens blacken the daytime sky
Trolloc cookfires outshine the stars at night
Dragkhar, Myrrdraal, are not the worst
Betrayal by brethren the final curse

For the Honor of the Rose of the Sun
Aemon’s Heart and every drop of its blood
When any and all others have gone
The Red Eagle soars above

Edlrene weeping, alone
Her city empty, her fallen home
The light of her life, no more
With Aemon’s last scream, their fate foretold

They all must die
The fires of Saidar

3 days, 6 days, the 10th day
Burn Tetsuan, no sign of this promised aid

The One Power shatters the Sword
Rain of flame reigns over the Lord of the Grave

Darkfriends, shadowspawn, falling one by one
Dreadlords, the generals, their strength undone
Shai’tan, the Dark One, could not have won
So like Midean’s Ford, insidious deeds done

The Sword That Could Not Be Broken, now shattered
Its people, once proud, now scattered
Weep for what once was - the Mountain Home
Weep for what is lost - forevermore

Carai an Ellisande
This sword will not be broken
For the Honor of the Rose of the Sun
Aemon’s Heart and every drop of its blood
When any and all others have gone
The Red Eagle soars above

Tai’shar Manetheren