1. FALLING SKY

Saviour babe aborted
Evil signs manifest
In the trees and the waters

Jupiter loosed from its solar chains
The abomination
Stands in the holy place

The great day of wrath has come
The eternal night
Black hole swallow the sun

Lo ! The end of the world is nigh
No army to stand
Against the falling sky

[Chorus]
Falling sky !

Apocalyptic black clouds loom
Volcanic explosions
Shatter the freezing gloom

Dust storms whipped by hurling winds
To lash the face
And to claw at the skin

Shards of light slice open eyes
Insight is granted
Beneath the falling sky

Lo ! The end of the world is nigh
No army to stand
Against the falling sky

[Chorus] (x2)


2. FORMATION

Spontaneous universal creation
Unfolds within the now conscious mind
Now begins the very first hour
And here let the clock mark the time

New perceptions awaken to notice
What had not been noticed before;
The unity known preconscious thought
Lies trapped beyond the conscious door

[Chorus #1]
Existence begins with its own realisation
Knowledge of existence, a thought in formation
Existence decays from its time of creation
Decline of existence, existence in formation

When destruction begets a new incarnation
Life transcends death through soul reanimation
Born anew whilst death waits in anticipation
Of the divine moment of the divine distillation

By darkness the earth was sown with the seeds
Of the darkness incarnate now grown
In shadow the first words were whispered here
Of the shadows of knowledge now known

[Chorus #2]
Existence begins with its own realisation
Knowledge of existence, a thought transformation
Existence decays from its time of creation
Decline of existence, existence transformation

When destruction begets a new incarnation
Life transcends death through soul reanimation
Destruction, recreation, process of transformation
Process of the eternal mind's eternal recreation

Now the future lies on the horizon
And already the years pass behind
History's pen writes from the very first hour
While here the clock counts our time

[Chorus #1]

When destruction begets a new incarnation
Life transcends death through soul reanimation
Born anew whilst death waits in anticipation
Of the divine moment of the divine distillation

[Chorus #2]

When destruction begets a new incarnation
Life transcends death through soul reanimation
Destruction, recreation, process of transformation
Process of the eternal mind's eternal recreation


3. IMMOLATION

A lonely torture of silence and stars
Fascination with darkness, a consummation by night
A hidden desire, realised at last
Resolution beckons now : "begin the journey to the light"

Let fear dissolve and be carried away
By the languid wash of slow moving eddies
Desiring for nothing but release
And relinquishment
From pain and limits
Take the final step and plunge deep
Into the cold waters of a dark and uncharted lake

Isolation secret passion
Once aroused brings realisation
Knowledge kindles the fire of hatred
Come dry winds and fan the flames
Earth burn where life dying lay
Come armagedon and make
My last moment the last day

Somewhere else to go, to be
Beyond this world which confines me
To awake from this dream at last
To gaze upon the eternal stars
To know truth and to truly see
What has been and what must be
The question is answered, finally

Isolation secret passion
Once aroused brings realisation
Knowledge kindles the fire of hatred
Come dry winds and fan the flames
Earth burn where life dying lay
Come armagedon and make
My last moment the last day

Nothing left at all now, to give
No reason or impetus to live
Take the plunge, embrace the night
There is nothing left to fight

Burn each fibre of life's being
Decimate all which can be seen
Throw poison where feeling hides
Until no passion burns inside

Cast inside all sublunary wealth
Thrust the knife, destroy the self
Then, immolation complete at last
I gaze upon the etenal stars


4. BLOOD AND ASHES - PT. I

Shrouded by the falling dust
The wounded kneel in pain
Some languishing in languid lust
Some try to rise in vain

All stained by another's blood
Swept up in their first flash flood
Even the strong are without strength
The powerful are powerless

Each new and painful movement
Uses muscles long unused
Each fresh and frightening moment
Rubs salt into open wounds

Every sinking stumbling step
Brings us closer to our ends
Every bleeding foot ensnared
Can this path lead anywhere ?


5. BLOOD AND ASHES - PT. II

Amongst shattered ruins
The dust that was our hope falls
Like a river of tears
Blood runs down love's faded walls


6. LIVE BY THE SWORD

The time has come for the mighty armies to rise
To claim the power given them as their birthright
To purge this earth of dishonour and falsity
To teach thses men to live by the sword

These men who rape the land in peace,
Who reap rewards of their fucked beliefs
Forever tied, by toil, by fear
Grow weaker with each passing year

Lolled in the mire of life's discord
Deserted those who'd kept their word
Seduced by lust, love's embrace warm
The deathface of the scarlet whore

But like a thief in the night, we'll come
With fire and steel, with hatred's blood
To raze their crops and rape their wives
Beat ploughshares into gleaming knives
Burn the children, set their souls free
To fly and find their destiny
No longer bound in slavery
To live by the sword as life should be
And when the moment comes to die
To die by the sword with dignity

Seduced by lust, love's embrace warm
The deathface of the scarlet whore

The time has come for the mighty armies to rise
To claim the power given them as their birthright
To purge this earth of dishonour and falsity
To teach thses men to live by the sword

Like a thief in the night, we'll come
With fire and steel, with hatred's blood
To raze their crops and rape their wives
Beat ploughshares into gleaming knives
Burn the children, set their souls free
To fly and find their destiny
No longer bound in slavery
To live by the sword as life should be

We'll live by the sword a joyous life
We'll live by the sword so we'll be free
We'll live by the sword and when we die
We'll die by the sword with dignity


7. CUMULONIMBUS

(Instrumental)


8. PERNICIOUS MELIORATION - PT. I

Nothing left now for me
Only absence and the abyss
The abyss that no one dares to seek
And no one hopes to find
In dreams clawing at his edge
Dreading to fall
Fall...

Rushing and pulsing waves of energy
Swirling particles and gases
Surging currents of electricity
A churning torrent of plasma
Throbbing with incessant intensity
A suffocating reek of miasma
Until at last I can only submit
And just fall...

Into an eternal black tranquility
That swallows all light and sounds
The atmosphere, so dead, abides forever
Nothing dwells, nor thought abounds
Yet just as I'm here, I must be departed
My journey has only started
Through flashing and flickering lights, I no see
Alve, my mind can't be at peace

Darkness and light perplexed within my imagination
Affection and disgust affect each thought
My soul inhabits realms of transcendebtal meditation
I must go now, to find that which I have sought

For he who seeks to dive and die
To vanish from all mortal sight
And to nothing or no one belong
For nothing to want and nothing to long
Shall surely return triumphant at last
Or blissfully fade into the distant past

Confusion and clarity alternate relentlessly
Around inside my gyroscopic mind
Jealously grasping straws of comprehensibility
I balance now upon the edge of a knife


9. PERNICIOUS MELIORATION - PT. II

I saw at last
In vivid pictures
All truth
And all unity
Before me
As it was
I had dreamed
Long ago

A vision of beauty
A world of purity
A song melancholy
A voice beckons me


10. PERNICIOUS MELIORATION - PT. III

The enigma, recluse throughout ages lay
Hidden from all, yet plain as day
Waiting an eternity to be revealed
To whom it cannot be concealed