1. UNSIGHTLY BEAST

Manifest destiny
Dogmatic fantasy
7 trumpets fall on 12 deaf ears
Moral constructs of one bad day
Fall to ambiguity
Futility of human existence
Fictionalized morality

The punishment for truth
Is what gives impunity
To those that lie
To forge the will of those that dwell above

New sights of torment
New sights beneath
Behold unsightly beast
Oh have I been here before?

Mid-scorned and nightmares
Self induced propelled
Seeking out unsightly liars
Were truth and torment were once held
Father appear in vengeful form
As we sought devotion
Creating wind and storm

Sharp tongues were severed
Renounce verses took his toll
Drunk with desire to feast on their control
A glance above the abyss
Sought a challenge he'd remiss
Like calmed whore seated in front row
Branded abhorred

I need you to tell me what paradise is like
For I'm starting to forget
Without the tools to sense abstract truths
Objectively defined and cultural absolutes
Seeded thought of what was real
How I yearn what it is to feel
Without structure in this kneel
With his tongue now estranged
From their prayers in a rage
Left his bitter clout unassuaged

And yet his dream drew near
As he held no fear
Stood his ground up to his peers
And he slayed whom they revered
He slayed whom they revered

Ever fading creative baited without sin
Where true colors blight and jagged from within
Wherein first dawn cried when she burned alive
Held out my disdain for prophet's name in vain

Without the tools to sense abstract truths
Objectively defined and cultural absolutes
Seeded thought of what was real
How I yearn what it is to feel
Without structure in this kneel
With his tongue now estranged
From their prayers in a rage
Left his bitter clout unassuaged
Unsightly beast sleep

Collateral dissonance of a thriving society
Or of a dying empire?
Of a dying empire

The tell on their face says all goodness spent
Deprive the beast from the least innocent
Dusk in cold and cloudless skies
Self eject where tender fruit denies
They explain
His hearts they are to drain in pain
Now who's to blame?
Oh thriving shepherd
Release those you contort
Distort my senses misreport
Unsound lost fury's
For those extort
Trying to figure out
What you stood for

Ever fading creative baited without sin
Where true colors blight and jagged from within
Wherein first dawn cried when she burned alive
Held out my disdain for prophet's name in vain

Abhorred re-torn
In beauty where malice wept
Entwined in storms
Whose throne benights across these shores

Abhorred re-torn
Frail beauty where malice crept entwined in storm
Whose throne obliged to demon form have I been here before?
I have


2. WITHERED

Putrefaction and mental anguish
Of which came first I do not know
Of once lively flesh
Now behold alabaster stone

One by one they tore
Silenced severed synapses
Like the weight of my own deception
Held by straining nerves above candlelight
Let those wallow in sadness
We must choose rejection or the perfection of madness
In the strive for grandness
The vastness vanished

Malignant vanity nourished, turn turn abuse
Logical reasoning and optimal when not in use
Auto betrayal of the microcosm that dwells within
Like Sisyphus reaching treasonous peak of craftful sin

Extremities retreat in clawing vengeance
Regressing terminally burrowed sentenced
Endless vistas resemblance
By corrosive and contorted
Mirrored reflection
Of what we once were

While wandering eyes of revulsion tell greater tales
Where my mind and body ossified and left unfulfilled

Oh taken maiden lusting for me
Ambivalence of god
Seasoned repressed and unseen
To live like scripted scriptures
Admonished by morals
And dwell in nonsensical parantheticals

Trust in me from their vibrant red-vengeance
And teach me how to breathe

Acrimonious deity
Concise precise
Obedience designed
Obsolescence
The insurgent apostasy
Accrued amalgamation of infected minds by design

Coveted elicit
Vagrant of temptation
Malicious intent of the why
The leads to their fallacy
Only to set you free
Spread the seeds of doubt
Forsaken to contorted eternity


3. A PLEA ABOVE ASHES

(Instrumental)


4. QUELL THE VOICELESS

The purge and urge
Of judge and jury scourge
Stand before the pious executioners
Sin discourse
"Engrave my name in their black grimoire
of content"

Sacred sanctity of fear held strong and crept
"Defiled ideals of what I left
Though I shall not writhe
Beneath less colder scythe"
"Control those who strayed from from his..."

The lust eyed surged for the faithful flamed
Ancient peers tickled riddled tongue of plagues
Plainchant priest gave praised
For demons came
"Unleashed foul beast to feast from master's wrath
Of those who strayed far from his path
Beyond vistas and darker pasts"

"Infest bloodlust
Held against in what I trust
For at my trial did he regasp
They yearned and begged for what he asked"
Unsheathed the lies, repent, unmasked!

"Their stare beyond compare
Clutching crown of ancient prayer
engrossed despair"
And I accept my last breath
A call to arms is what was left
As I synchronized to the frequency of death

"All the crimes divine that were left behind
Left a scar through time narrowed by the blind
Swelling further bound by what was mine
Found left drowned in bitter wine"

"The lucid mourn, feeding off my scorn
Unclean defeat for the next unborn
Heed the creed that I forewarned
In vain to crest the uninformed
Concede that need to feed
The logic that I bleed
Accept one my last breathe
Subsequent to the fallacy thereafter death"

Sacred sanctity of fear held strong and crept
"Defiled ideals of what I left
Though I shall not writhe
Beneath less colder scythe"
"Control those who strayed from from his..."

"The lucid mourn, feeding off my scorn
Unclean defeat for the next unborn
Heed the creed that I forewarned
In vain to crest the uninformed
Concede that need to feed
The logic that I bleed
A call to arms is what was left
As I synchronized to the frequency of death"
"All the crimes divine that were left behind
Left a scar through time narrowed by the blind
Swelling further bound by what was mine
Found left drowned in bitter wine"

"Is the prospect of truth enough to keep awake
Or has that yearn for deceit now sealed your fate
Convenient narrative ellipsis or a somnambulant state?"


5. NATAL THROPHIES

Predetermined natal trophies
"Saved" forever from freedom of thought
Profane and zealous disciples
Wane upon eclectic reflections
Smoldering souls convergence
Instinctively cradled the ill-informed

And at what cost the darkness clings
A gleam into the eye of shallow queen
The lacerations of seraph wings

Hanging from the belfry
Is this the call of triumph?

Or all we're meant to be?
A cruel twisted wraith
Permeate of unquestioned faith
To dominate all
Unfettered to his call
Grasping their souls
Two vile tongues spit
Invective rites

Delusional conquest
The lacerations of seraph wings
At last dismal abyss
This is the absence

Dubito Ergo Sum (I doubt therefore I am)
Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am)

Cyclical reign of torment
Benighted enchantment
Fable tales from choir hymns
Sung soothed and battered in
Laurels arose from keepsakes
Forbidden but thus he spake
"This is where it draws near. This will all end here"
Blood drawn rush tides
Restart anew
Coming into view Sunrise like scarlet skies
And mordant times

Hanging from the belfry
Is this the call of triumph?

Or all we're meant to be?
A cruel twisted wraith
Permeate of unquestioned faith
To dominate all
Unfettered to his call
Grasping their souls
Two vile tongues spit
Invective rites

Invite the blind to watch them fall
For when the darkness fell
Did true evil enthrall

A cyclical reign of torment
Benighted enchantment
Like fable tales from choir hymns
Sung soothed and battered in