1. THE DESCENT

(Instrumental)


2. STAHWALD

Steel forest
House of distorting mirrors
Harsh landscape in cold splendor

The aching moan of trees
Bending in the howling wind

Cacophony of terror
Blizzard of nails

Falling leaves cut flesh like knives
Blizzard of nails

Steel forest
House of distorting mirrors
Harsh landscape in cold splendor

The aching moan of trees
Bending in the howling wind

Cacophony of terror
Enclosed in cold blank steel


3. SKINNER

I stare down at my body
From outside of it
My body turned inside out
Am I a human oddity

I couldn't live with the doubt
Maybe my mind's too open
All lies lead to the truth
So I numb myself

You can't ask the truth
Of a man who trades in lies
You can't ask the truth
Am I a human oddity

For every step I take
They're three steps ahead

What will it take to breach the rift
I'm locked on the line
Locked on the line they keep crossing
So I numb myself

As I compound the lies
The corpsmen arrive


4. BLEACH

Parasite
Burrowing into my skin
Biting
Crawling
You must be there

Let us bathe in bleach
Until my flesh turns from red to white
Let us inject bleach into our veins
Until you pour out of me

Parasite
You feed off me
Your savagery
Makes me look weak

Oh pale embodiment

Oh pale embodiment
Allow me drain my humanity away

Cleansed of your remains

Parasite
I need to flush you out of my skin
I must erase us
The infestation must now end


5. CAVE DIGGER

With the taste of cold sweat on my tongue
I gaze into the blinding sun
My bloodshot eyes recede
Descend into a cave

Haunted
Shrouded
Hunted
Anguish

With the taste of cold sweat on my tongue
I gaze into the blinding sun
My bloodshot eyes recede
Descend into a cave

Oh crippling force
You break me from the inside out
I must succumb
Master

Annihilate my frame
Deform me
Transform me
I shall become
I will become

You


6. FETISCH

Abnormal fixation
Excessive obsession
Depraved devotion
Consume me

Compulsive dysfunction
Gratification
Disgusting addiction
Rebuild me

I must escape
Give me relief
What will it take
How much can I absorb?

My abnormal fixation
This excessive obsession
Depraved devotion
Consumes me

I must escape
This can't prevail

I am but a black hole
I swallow it all

Nothing can escape from me
I absorbed it all
Abnormal fixation
Excessive obsession
Depraved devotion
Consume me

Compulsive dysfunction
Gratification
Disgusting addiction
Rebuild me

I must escape
This can't prevail

I must escape
I must escape
This can't prevail
There is no escape


7. TIDAL WAVES OF TERROR

Vivid horror combusts
In tidal waves of terror
Unnatural urges blind sanity

Bewildered stares into the black
Chaotic illusions take shape

As the abode resigns
Chaos takes shape
As the vessel fails
The will declines

Form shatters the unknowing
An aura prowls in the dark

Vivid horror combusts
In tidal waves of terror
Unnatural urges blind sanity

Bewildered stares into the black
Chaotic illusions take shape

Tidal waves of terror


8. CEREMONY OF CONTROL

Judge
Ruler
Creator
Divider
Agitator
Incarnate destroyer
In robes of dark matter

Disguised leader
What have I become
Deprogrammed
Numb
A lesser man

Seeder
Deceiver
Superior
Controller
Imposter
Dead-ender
Conductor

Uncrowned emperor
You made me become
Deprogrammed
Numb
A lesser man

Controller
Divider
Creator
Destroyer


9. DEATH

Drain my will
End my life
Void me whole

I haven't seen the end of it
Only what may be the end of me

End of me

An entire existence
Reduced to writhing in misery

Drain my will
Let me go

Let me go
Reduced to writhing and misery

Drain my will
Void me whole

I haven't seen the end of it
Only what may be the end of me

The battle lost
The collapse awaits
The only equalizer is death


10. SWANSONG

(Instrumental)