1. THOSE PRISTINE MEMORIES

(Instrumental)


2. ON DEATH'S DOOR I

Accursed sickness
Wasting my body away
Encased in decay

Terminal
Begging for the end
For my spirit to be freed

Please stay by my side
I know it hurts to see me this way
Please take my hand
Reassure me that my peace draws near

Will you remember me?
Not as I am
But that which I once was
Will you recall the vibrance
I held in my prime?
When you recall my face
Will it be full of laughter?
Promise you won't forget
The vibrance of my life

A pale,
waxen, morbid shell
A hideous shade of myself

My greatest fear
Is this deathly state
Becomes your memory of me

Please calm my fears
Soothe me with tales of better days
So I may drift into the night
A memory of when I felt alive

Will you remember me?
Not as I am
But that which I once was
Will you recall the vibrance
I held in my prime?
When you recall my face
Will it be full of laughter?
Promise you won't forget
The vibrance of my life


3. MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES

Beneath the pale, firmament
Becalmed, upon a frozen shore
Within this earthly, Tartarus
Their souls, forever lost.
Endless rains of snow, descend
Unending, emptiness
The cold, gnaws upon their bones
And winter, claims them all

A field of stone beneath them
Without feature or form
A march to false horizons
Before the midnight sun
One by one they die
Frozen and starving, they succumb
Their stories lost to time
The passage never found

The silence once more returns
The shroud of death
What use are crowns or gold to,
Nature's wrath
His own imperial designs
As man proposes
But nature won't be denied
As god disposes

As they waste and weaken
Hunger scours their resolve
Nothing left to be consumed
Nothing but the flesh of man
One by one they die
Frozen and starving, they succumb
Their stories lost to time
The passage never found


4. THE FADE

Pristine utopia of mind
Amorphous yet fragile of form
All you were and shall ever be
Endless possibilities

Where does that man go?
When still more fades away?
As utopia burns
All deforms...and decays...

As a stillness descends
The finality of the grave
The last of what was, no longer
Lost forevermore

As a stillness descends
A serenity in oblivion
As you succumb to the fade
...succumb to the fade

What now lies behind those eyes?
A stranger's gaze from your face.
What memories are with you now?
Which chapters are not seared?

Your last breath is drawn
The last vestige of you, done
What use is there for sorrow?
When we've made friends with grief?

As a stillness descends
The finality of the grave
The last of what was, no longer
Lost forevermore

As a stillness descends
A serenity in oblivion
As you succumb to the fade
...succumb to the fade


5. THE EYE

It slumbers dreamlessly
lidless and unblinking
Evermore it hungers
in darkness

Esoteric and eternal
primordial, yet arcane
Still lurking, revenants
Suffer the darkness

The eye now focused

A gathering beneath the void and stars
Evocation for divination calls
The confluence of ascending aethers
What wisdom from those long departed?

Necromantic spells
Now borne forth
Covenant of death
Peers from the dark

Darkness falls
As entities stir
The veil rips
the spirits rise

The eye unblinking, focused
The void piercing the light
Of those who came before
Unto those who call it forth

Necromantic spells
Now borne forth

Covenant of death
Peers from the dark


6. DAYS GONE BY

Inexorably
All dreams wither
The world transformed
A deathknell sounds

Still waters hide dismay
Of a tale indelibly set
As we dwell on reverie
Of days long gone by

Metamorphosis
Of time's savage glare
The future now declined
Lost dreams we once held

Interminably
We march to the grave
To the sweet release
Of death's cold embrace

Inexorably
All dreams wither
The world transformed
A deathknell sounds

Days gone by
Days gone by
Days
Gone
By


7. SILENCE

A clock chiming
The mournful peal
Scores of hours
Bleed ever away
Frozen with fear
Hope's toxic sting
Faith's dying light
And sanity betrayed

Time's weary rot
Corroding resolve
Hope infests the calm
Of purgatorial silence

Uncertainty grows
Eternities in moments
Cancer to the soul
The helpless in lament

Time's weary rot
Corroding resolve
Hope infests the calm
Of purgatorial silence
Paralysis of inaction
Eternity of a moment

Abyssal majesty
The obsidian tide
Consumes him whole
Consigned to the depths
Cast unto eternity
A watcher waits
Upon tortured shore

A reunion denied

Never to return


8. ON DEATH'S DOOR II

Desolation
By candle's flame
Raised in effigy
Unto the catafalque
In mourning's light
The shroud displaced
A mirror's gaze
A soul unbound

Sorrow wrought
His yearning
His life's love departed
As grief descends
Woe rains down
Upon him
The nightmare unending
Just phantoms now remain

Cursed apparition
Forsake me now
Vanquish thine self
Leave me to despair
Forsake thy quest
Let anguish abound
And in solitude fester
Until death takes me

Sorrow wrought
His yearning
His life's love departed
As grief descends
Woe rains down
Upon him
The nightmare unending
Just phantoms now remain

Love's caustic touch
Spectres of the past
Into finality's embace
Return to the departed
Terminus Est
Unto thee, Eternal sleep