1. THE DARKNESS BETWEEN STARS

It's cold here, beyond the stars
Now the darkness speaks to me
And their choirs will never silence

And their choirs will never silence

I'm drifting away
Leaving my physical shell behond
I'm drifting away
In a hallucinogenic dream state

I've got an array of voices in my head
And their choirs will never silence
But at last the darkness speaks to me

Farther and farther away from reality
Into the darkness between the stars

I'm drifting away
Leaving my physical shell behind
I'm drifting away
In a hallucinogenic dream state


2. BELLOWING SHADOWS

I cast the mask away
Revealing my grin
A smile that burns their eyes
But I did not accept my faith

Naked and blind I stand
Crouching over the pile that once
Once was human

I feel the storm caress my skin

In it's eye it beholds me
Holds me
Accountable for the web I've woven
It's fabric torn and beaten
Once a proud banner
Now the silver lining is cut and severed

The oozing pile beneath me
Wrapped in the decomposing rag

Denouncing the mask assigned in me


3. THE HANGED MAN

The spoken words, can not be replaced
By a pretty picture

The canvas left blank

Draw me a picture with your mind
I'll use my imagination and make it look fine

The canvas left blank
Sketch me your dream
The noose lightened,
with the brad strokes of your pencil

The pen swirls and the hanged man twists
In this your colorization of imagination
The spoken words, can not be replaced
By a pretty picture

Unframed insignificant
I've seen you dream him
I've seen you dream him
And you smile in your sleep as you let him die


4. DISGUISED AS ALTRUISM

My burden is yours, yours to bury
With all the things, all the things
I ever was

Soon we'll inherit the soil

A maze of joy and fear
A sin that permeates all
Disguised as altruism

All dreams passing you by
I will close them with my eyes

Shadow faces reattached for reality
Lost ability to make choices

Cruel, cold
I twist the blade of fate
Deeply buried in your back


5. RITUAL OF THE NATURAL FLAME

Under dark skies of glass
Half empty and crackled

The mirror of
the world
Disintegrated
To sand of time
Trickeling trough
Our fingers
Reflecting our
Impending doom

Unnatural flame
I'm mesmerised by your steel blue tongues
I want to feel them carve into me
Unnatural flame
Burn me
I desire your tongues to consume my flesh

Pillars of salt
Stretch towards
The heavens
Like severed fingers
Trying
Desperately to claw
Their way out of earth

Hourglass nebula


6. HORDES ABIDING THE NARRATOR

The speechless mouths
Mouths of the masses
Left halfway opened
Opened midst word
Paying lip service
To the narrator

They hunger, they gnaw
Like rabid dogs
But sounds since long
Since long escaped their lips

Their lips can't seem to spare a sound
They'll never taste another word
Dried up throats crackled
Like the bed of a dried out lake


7. A SKY IN VAIN

Dawn draws near
And with it the despair
Welcome

The cold rain hits your face
As night goes (transcend) to day
Feet's are dragged through the puddles
Wandering around without destination

Through the rain
Comes the sound
Of nothingness and all
Grey and black
Fate is grinning

In the first rays of sun
In the smoggy skies

Through the rain
Comes the sound
Of nothingness and all

The cold rain hits your face

As night goes (transcend) to day

Dawn draws near
And with it the despair
Welcome