1. THROUGH HOLLOW MINDS

Through the pale door
An evil step be taken
The dead is forsaken
Ties eternal broken

“And thus the sad soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses”

Ask the blind worm
Secrets of the tomb

Unseen rivers
Waters of human tears
Dying hour
Pain I could not feel

Through hollow minds
It takes death to love life
Through hollow minds
The timeless measuring of time

Hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand

A chaos of deep passion
Mute fear of things unseen
Sounds of coming darkness
Of beings that have been


2. INTO A DARKENED ROOM

“He who has never seen
The daylight peer
Into a darkened room...”

Rise!
To raise man from secret darkness (x3)

Man’s will is a floating shadow
In the mind that he conceives
And the rights of mankind pass
(And) perish like the autumn leaves

Rise!
To raise man from secret darkness

A conscious slumber seems to take
And would not, for the world, awake!

Fate has ways we cannot change
While weakness preys upon our will
We support with excuse the self
(And) help fate ourselves to kill!

The reason why the soul exists
Is folded in the soul itself
No painting could its essence show
Nor manifest its real self

Dust-layers of the globe
Immortals (on) the iblis path
We dwell alone (in) a world of moan
With pain that shall not part...


3. BUILT WITH BRICKS OF SHAME

Deaf! Infinite’s ear calling
Back! Into The chamber turning
My soul! Within me burning

Echoes! Of the vilest disorder
Forms! Discordant I can’t recover
Tears! That drip all over

We, like infants descend
In our shadows, on the earth
Like a weak, mortal birth
My eyes, more and more
Like a sea without shore
Continue expanding
The heavens commanding...

Could I but be consumed
And pass from time’s memory
Into the emptiness of nowhere

“The dead so soon grow cold”
Now I will arise and strip me of time and space

I must create a system
Or be enslaved by another man’s
I will not reason and compare
My business is to create...

With bricks of shame
Built with bricks of shame

Eternity rolled wide apart
At the end of our path


4. MELANCHOLY WATERS LIE (CRUDE DUB MIX)

Out of chaos came the earth
Noontide of seventh aeon

Voices from the threshold stone
The melancholy waters lie
Voices from the threshold stone
My soul was a stagnant tide

Dying swan by Southern lakes
Sings its wild death song

Voices from the threshold stone
My ruin moulders into rest
Voices from the threshold stone
Tempt me not with glory possessed