1. INTRO

(Instrumental)


2. RATIONAL THINKING, LOGICAL FUTURE

So here we find ourselves again...
Standing on the edge of a precipice
The marriage of man and machine
An odious testament to our
Fearlessness and our arrogance

No longer reliant on human fragility
Now the facility for biomechnic
Synthetic replacement is all we need

But there's a catch...

In exchange for your humility and empathy
Comes immortality, death becomes a fallac
Human essence reduced to mere plasticity
In this rational thinking, logical future

And all that is left is to shovel the shit
And all that is left is to shovel the shit

So what will become of this race
On the precipice as the singularity encroaches ?
Will we retain our humanity for the sake of integrity
Or will it be washed a way, smothered by the wrath of mother earth ?

In this rational thinking, logical future ?


3. CITY OF GHOSTS

Everything shifts into focus
Pummelled by sensory input overload
This taste of clarity beckons me to repeat this experience

Burn my eyes with the brightest of lights
As the senses adapt to the otherworldly state of mind
In the sleep deprived, unconscious mind,
I search for answers

I search this path alone
I search this path alone
In this city of ghosts

And were you with me, my love
I would search no more, I would search no more

For all unearthly revelations come from within
We hold the key to a tapestry of our own making

But we must be willing to look to within
And follow the inner voice as much as we can
For the voice of deceit will speak no more
Embracing the dream becomes a sin in its own way
Crushed under weight of expectation

And you will atone
You will atone

And were you with me, my love
We would search no more
Were you with me, my love
We would search no more
In this city of ghosts


4. TIME UNWINDING

You rape our minds with your indoctrination
Filling our heads with needless information
Suffocating under the weight of ceaseless bloated refuse
We guzzle on your wretched seed 'til we can see no more
And hear no less than the tepid gruel
You decided was our food

24 hours of unrest and unease
A thousand channels of this spiritual disease

We will feed 'til the ground is barren
We will drink 'til the stills are empty
We will suckle 'til you ache
And we shall not be sated

We shall leech like the parasitic entity, we appear to be
Vampyrically draining the life from whatever we see fit

We grow queasy as we consume,
Fattened from a diet of your noxious fumes

And once we've eaten 'til nothing's left
We shall grow starving, bloated and weak
We shall grow sickly from the inside out
As our organs cease to exist

Rotting away to nothing
The wretched carcass leaves no mark of grandiosity
No signs of what was once a monument to our consumation

And with reckless abandon we hurtle forward

We stand transfixed on the precipice of being
A choice between two worlds,
We stand unsure of time's unwinding

We stand transfixed on time's unwinding
We stand transfixed on time's unwinding


5. OF GALLOWS

It grows so stilted, this rift of seperation
It lies through its teeth, the 6th degree of prophecy
And all along, this felt so pure,
Just tell me what went wrong ?
Why did we cease to nourish life,
Leaving only barren wastes ?

An outdated paradigm exists in the rift
Between change and stagnation
Plaguing my dreams with apocalyptic signs
Of the necrotic ones stalking me

Relentlessly
Feasting on the old ways

Time runs short for this ticking time bomb of malcontent.
Threatening to gluttonously implode
And swallow everything we've worked for

If you will not listen, then walk me to the gallows
One last time I see you, as you walking from the gallows

We cannot sustain ourselves,
We feast until there's nothing left
We reap the punishment as we cannibalise ourselves
We cannot live much more, 'til we find sustenance
Withering away to nothing with the setting of the sun

The masquerade cannot compare wordless glances,
Faceless stares
Cast down in purgatorial retribution
Here we will rot eternally, our flesh stagnating syncronously
The stench of death will fill our lungs forever

As you walk me to the gallows

If you will not listen, then walk me to the gallows
One last time I see you, as you walking from the gallows
For me to hang

I kiss so sweetly, your fetid lips
I kiss goodbye, all that I'll miss
As the noose is placed around my neck, I gaze into your eyes

If you will not listen, then walk me to the gallows
One last time I see you, as you walking from the gallows


6. AS WRITTEN IN PNAKOTUS

The ever open mouth
Endless impossibilities
Spiralling Fractal Geometry
Assaulted with terrifying images
Enslavement of the soul by malevolent entities
Expressionist states of inter-dimensional transience
Omnipresent perception of time and space
Dissociated States of Awareness
Kinetic displays of ethereal bioluminescence
Gifted and cursed with otherworldly knowledge
Crystalline walkways into a personal hell Sublime entities of unexplainable origin, elucidate a fractured mind
Conjoined in visions of extra-dimensional consequence
The ramifications become all too clear

As I sink into the sands of Pnakotus


7. PROMETHEAN

For our tolerance, you respond with brutality
Trampled underfoot for a fucking pittance
To dig the graves for an industry
That in its greed will eat itself

And with itself, shall it take many lives within its wake
So heinous, this trail of putridity

Can no-one see them ?
Promethean in their gleeful exploitation,
Using the fire of the Gods for conceited motivations

Down with the veils, its time for the truth to be revealed
Lest you be seen for the venomous harpies that you are
Sell your soul for a taste of the fool's gold,
Screaming like a stuck pig when deprived
Symbiotic with eternal sin,
Poison of the liar coursing in your veins

You will speak no more

Empires fall with the rising of the sun
And kings shall die at the behest of their sons
Laid to rest with the best of intentions
The best laid plains, they fall by the wayside

Despair not in the waning of the moon
For the night is darkest just before the dawn
Dictators rise, but empires fall
With the rising of the new sun


8. EQUILIBRIUM

All is not well in this conjugal
State of stalemate interdependence
Fragile mirror-image hanging on a knife-edge;
A microcosmic indecency
A new kind of metafiction, to recreate the bigger picture
Given the kiss of death before it had its chance to breathe

And breathe it shall

I bear witness to the monolith of self-evident cowardice
born and bred of infallibility,
Is human nature not the culprit ?
Unanimous in our contempt of the regressive
Sense of intuitive momentum
We abandon all common reason to adapt to being poisoned

So we shall breathe smoke,
Collective in our pursuit of self-destruction

Who propagates the seeds of discontent in the hearts of men ?
For fertile soil bears no grudge
Against the flowering of beauty
A state of equilibrium must be unearthed
Lest the scales tip all too far
And bury the diamonds in the rough


9. THE CHASM

I know there's something more
That lies beyond my reach
An ethereal whole that beckons
Me to percieve the bigger picture

But still I cannot leap
Across the chasm that lies before me
For the gap seems all to big
I know it only takes a single step
But I cannot find the strength

If only I could break
These chains that bind in place
A restless soul in search of truth

If I could only break
This self-destructive
Trail of self-deception

So I shall make amends.
I shall make my peace.
I will forgive all those
Who I feel have wronged me

For without forgiveness
Comes a life of pain
Self-imposed chains
Born of petty grudges

I will forgive you
I will forgive myself

And so I fall into the arms of peace and tranquility


10. THE MAN WITH NO FACE

Today I seek to procreate, exonerate the sickly skins
My former selves, they drift away into the ether
As I'm reborn without a face, without a name
I find my true vocation

Too many times have I seen squander in myself and in others
While not manifesting the purity I sought
With such a fatal flaw, I joined the masquerade
A grand charade in which we all participate

With no excision

A transient glimmer of in-corporeality from beyond the veil
Into the eyes of light I gaze,
Transfixed as my soul is purged of all its bile
I bathe in the source of magnanimity

I feel I've known you before
Re-united as one
I feel your presence here
We have met before

And to this day I have held your hand
your guidance never leading me astray
But into light and hope,
You give me purpose beyond all that is earthly

I see the masks with which we play our games,
Indulgences for cosmic gains
Fulfilling archetypes, the dreamer dreams
Into the void I leap, convinced of destiny
Protected by my faith in that I cannot see

For I have read your lips and I have felt your shame
Have no fear, my Brother, for this pain is shared
We ache in unison for reconciliation
Let us take this step as above so below

As above so below
Veils upon veils
Veils upon veils
I renounce myself

I've had too many sleepless nights
Too lost in restless thoughts
Fragmented dreamscapes assault my reality
As the shards of my excursions flutter in and out of sight

Oh God, what have I done to bring this on myself ?
Is this my punishment for past transgressions
Or is this simply a test of my will to continue against all logic
For a taste of the fool's gold or some unearthly reward ?

Is this a dream or is this real ?
Is there more beyond the veil ?
Is there an answer that can ease my burden ?
My tortured heart it sinks into the depths of misery
I feel frustration mount, the pieces just won't fit

Is this just all a game
The rules of which are not revealed
Until it takes its dying breath ?
I want so badly for it all to just make sense

Too late, it's all too late... For me ?

Tell me that I can trust, tell me that I can love
Tell me I have a face, tell me I have a name
My ears they hear no music, my eyes they see no shapes
Just an amorphous mass of subjectivity

If all is relative, how can there ever be a truth ?
The bitter tasting certainty eludes both me and you
For in the name of God they sing their praise
But still I cannot feel his presence

You leave me cornered against my will
I'll not forgive, I'll not forget
I'll shame your name, I'll make your life a living hell

Until you find your strength, I'll drain your life
I'll eat your soul against your will
Can't you see? We're testing you

And so I crawl, 'til I can walk once more
And so I sleep, 'til I can dream again

We dance amongst the flames,
Their heat a comforting aid to resolution
Or so we feel, or so we dream,
As we partake of a collective hallucination

A thousand realms of thought with nothing left but time
To fully realise our visions,
Immortalised with pen and paper
Our resonances trapped in ink, to linger for eternity
A monument of journeys passed, with new ones in the wings...

And so I sink once more into the ever-present plain of dreams
I feel so tired, I feel so weak
My vessel longs for rest, it longs for sleep

A thousand incarnations stretching through both time and space
Where does this spiral end ?
Does it ever cease to exist ?

Melting away into a fleeting sea of faces
Who have I been? Who have I known ?
And were you there, my long lost brother ?
Your face is so familiar, like deja-vu

We once again tread carelessly
Into the waters at world's end

Baptised in fire
A rite of passage
We come of age together
Conjoined at the soul, irrevocably

Bound to the Ouroboros, I will eat my own tail
Eternally

But still you poison yourselves
Wearing masks and trading faces
Like the ticking clock of time,
So set in your insipid little ways

Like worker ants serving your queen
Slaves in your devotion to obscenity
So lost in the illusion,
You fail to see your own pathetic confusion

Led astray so easily
And all it takes is one taste of the poison
To keep you coming back for more,
Incapable of the inevitable cease-fire

So you sling shit like monkeys in cages
Self-made prisons for the ages
Captive like petty animals,
So unevolved from the primordial ooze

You hold your forked tongue
Your poisoned words will be heard no more

Let us be free, of this cage that we have helped construct
To grow in unison, to leave behind the grand illusion
The tides hear everything and they see everyone
Have no fear my brother, for they do not judge

It's not too late to change, to leave behind your sin
To shed old skins and re-evaluate your purpose
I leave my mask behind to quench the sands of time
I cleanse myself and become the man with no face

Nameless and faceless
Nameless and faceless
Nameless and faceless for we are all one and the same