1. Broken Cog

Inside/Watching the core
Of whatever we had left of our lives
The multiplications divide

We drink to quench the thirst to come
With the bones that we left
The trap was sprung

Blind, ancient, and malevolent
Cosmos divides
The truth is we never ever had truth in sight

We spat on this purpose
We ate of whatever was left
The chasm beneath us will open
And swallow the rest

[Breakdown/Solo]

Me, the broken cog
You seem to not have understood
Knives out/Strings set in motion
You act like you're surprised
Pre-emptive strike/Ruin/Chaos/Focus

Whispers/Murmurs/Voices/Voices

Whispers/Purpose/Voices/Murmurs

Whispers/Murmurs/Voices/Voices

Whispers/Murmurs/Voices/Purpose


2. The Abysmal Eye

Relentless and inexorable
This menacing creation
That we ourselves conceived
With covetous verve and credulity

Something this intensely profound
Can never be allowed
The fabric and all that holds it
Will all burn/It will all be torn down

To contain it in its lair
Pandora's quantum prison
In wave after wave/It will see us fail

Consign to oblivion
This thing we cannot grasp
Bury deep this entity
Unlearn it ever existed

[Solo]

This is our Omega/Factitious nemesis
The great disimaginer of our dominion

If ever there was a reason
Maintain this greatest lie
That never did we look
Into the abysmal eye


3. Light the Shortening Fuse

Blinded, gagged, and bound
by confirmation
On this premise we iterate a lie
"Why" will stay unasked
They know we know/It doesn't matter

Barren hollow words/No information
We're led to believe in self-applied deceit
This trope of ignorance
Disinformation made to confuse
To light the shortened fuse

Wading through the rubble of ideologies
Cherry-picking madness
to the gospel of suckers

Sustenance for the greatest of ideas
Life is a machine/It will cater to me
Bow/Serve/Comply

[Solo]

Bared teeth/The lesson is complete
The stench of strange raw meat
Draw acolytes to feast
Rotting thoughts, the treat

So who came up with your ideas
Before you spat them out
Like they were yours
Play the pawn knowing where hope lies
Where it goes to die


4. Phantoms

From the realms of past/My demons howl
Beyond bridges I lit/They learned to fly

Apparitions/These ghosts
of distant memory
Specters/Remnants that just will not die

All my wrongs
My indiscretions they carry
From across the boundaries of time

The burdens I had left
for them to hold, presented.
Laid out before my eyes.

In their frozen gaze, the blame.
The questions to my lies.
How hard I have tried to bury this.
Yet here they stand before me, Phantoms!

[Breakdown!]


5. Ligature Marks

So here we are/Tearing at flesh to scar
Carving the mark in servitude of the dark
Realign the weaponry of your mind
A surgical strike/Nothing left to find

[Solo]

The ghost of sacrifices made
Lingering in the shadows
Perversion is the trade
So this will hurt in every way
But you will crave me/Beg me to stay

And it flows through every fiber
Runs through every vein
Twisted energy/Tracing insanity
Through ligature marks
Bruises formed in the dark

[Solo]

Facing the music
You've never heard this song before
A solemn requiem
A shroud for your machinations and strife
Intent to euthanize

Empty sheet/Nothing left to deplete
The loop becomes complete
The void will swallow the melting stars
Suspended in emptiness
Torment turns to bliss/A stillborn genesis

[Outro Solos]


6. God He Sees in Mirrors

On the throne sits the snake
Coiled and irate/Self righteous/Unforgiving

Lies lining the fork of his tongue
Drip from his fangs
Inflicting wounds that never mend
Omnipotent God, he sees in mirrors

Seraphic!

From atop the growing tower of our bones
Indifferently condemning all
At his whim our dismal fate
From his mouth but venomous gall

Ophidian/Slithering/Deceitful

Serpentine!

Illustrious morph of man
Despot in guise of savior
Any blame he will carelessly relinquish
Like shedding his skin

[Solo]

Ophidian/Slithering/Deceitful

Through the vast of death he caused
He winds

Serpentine!

Never again shall we suffer the hissing
The subversive/Malicious

Lies lining the fork of his tongue
Drip from his fangs
Inflicting wounds that never mend
Omnipotent God, he sees in mirrors


7. They Move Below

(Instrumental)


8. Kaleidoscope

This untethering from logic
This beautiful terrifying state
Astonishing/Uninhibited
Maddening/Euphoric

I now see through you
Translucent entities
Gone is the veil of sanity
The colors I now discern
Veracity as a boundless spectrum

A vast kaleidoscope
Spiraling enlightenment
Magnificent altered condition
Confined no more my vision

[Solo]

Inert and bursting
Here impossibles co-exist
In this vibrant domain
Truth is anything you dream it is

[Breakdown]

Here I can sense true fulfillment
Shedding the old/Finding a new "I"
Devoid of restraints/Exempt from your lies


9. Black Cathedral

(Instrumental)


10. I Am That Thirst

Look at him yearning/Desirous
His craving/His hunger
Constant needs/Constant wants

Nothing will quell/Nothing will slake
Insatiable vacuous man

Hollow and see through
His emptiness has made him frail
That dying thing still believes
Others drive the nails

Incendiary god complex
Such gift to flammable man
This is what it made of him
This is what remains

[Solo]

Behold, how he devours
Unappeasable and cursed
That arid soul, famished and desiccated
I am that thirst

His gluttony can not be stilled
This state can never be reversed
Hollow and empty/Endlessly

[Breakdown]


11. The Faultless

A slow violence of words
This injurious game you play
Spiteful syllable strings
Arranged and tied into weapons!

The incisions of your tongue/The slashing
The deliberate cuts run deep and wide
Whatever carved the pedestal you occupy
Was set on this resulting divide

I see through your vain pretence
The veil of you has been parted
Pure and fair you fly on wings up high
Pharisaical/You are faultless

[Solo/Breakdown]

Of all the wounds I expected
Heartbreak, bereavement, and despair
I never saw these coming
The gashes of your betrayal


12. Armies of the Preposterous

The awe it instills
How grand this revolting spectacle

Beyond what we can fathom
So far detached from reason
I quiver before it/I tremble

I see your vision
This bleak truth you contrive

[Breakdown]

Magnificent this vile display
The march of a recurring echo
Jericho trumpets blaring again they sound
And the old armies of the misled
Rebuild/Reassemble

I will not swallow the bile
The putrid ideals you regurgitate

A conviction saturated with imbecility
Adopting the course of the blind

Unanimous in your revolting declaration
Conquered by offensive, feeble,
Beehive minds

[Breakdown]

A pandemic/This contagion you embrace
The poison that seeps
From your piteous souls

Armies of the preposterous
Trapped in misguided thrall
Your mere existence shames us all

[Solo]

I will never assimilate your point of view

I see your vision
This bleak truth you contrive


13. Past Tense

(Instrumental)