1. PERFECT INSANITY

Sinister formations
Laughing in my head,
The thorn of your existence
Drives me to the edge
Vile sweet serpent
Slither trance begin
Such a pitiful submission
Seduction fighting sin
Perfect insanity
Into oblivion,
Into oblivion...
Don't blame me
For all that's happened
I love it where I am
Beside this crimson lamplight
Flickering in my head
It's better here alone
No one will ever hear
And when the darkness
Blinks the eye of the sun
It will be me standing at home
And you beginning to run
Exhume the force conception
Bodies dead since birth
Your life is prostitution
Its payment is a curse
Bathe the souls in talons
Prison the world in bonds
You fucking dogs of Sodom,
Raping the angels of God


2. WHERE AANGELS DARE TO TREAD

Out from the sun appeared three men or so it seemed to be
Abram saw and rushed to greet these godlike entities,
Prepare a feast, my chosen wife, that we may honor these
A festive mood soon turned to grief, when told their Destinies
The leader spoke of degradation that was close at hand,
He came to verify a grievous outcry from the land...
Be these people righteous souls, then this I want to know
But if the accusation's true, to them my wrath I'll show
Where angels dare to tread
Where angels dare to tread,
No one is forgiven unless they know the word
How can you speak what you have not heard?
Up to the gates of Sodom went emissaries of the Lord
Lot was there and bowed to them as Abram did before,
Leave this city with wives and daughters unto the mountains Thee
Death will come to sinners' glory and so I tell you to flee
Where angels dare to tread
Where angels dare to tread,
No one shall be saved unless they see the signs
How can you see when you are blind?
A chill is running through me, remembering that day
Thoughts of pity and sorrow for those about to die
It would seem as though the world will never change
On again this night, tread the angels and I...


3. SEEDS OF THE DESOLATE

Shifting silent shades
Of seething thoughts abroad
Amuck in shallow graves
Not of solid Earth
Silhouette charades
On cascading shattered walls
Confusing conscience craves
But we must not fall...
At the first sign of light
We approached the once closed door
A gaping hole to that beyond
Where men should go no more
Descending stairs of icy stone
Carved by man himself,
We built these frigid cavern halls
Where limbonic lives have crept
The seeds of the desolate
Sown in the blood of ourselves
The seeds of the desolate
Have we forever failed?
We stepped into that swallowing void
Exchanging life for death,
Descending downward ever intent
Taking life from our fellow man
The seeds of the desolate
Sown in the blood of ourselves
The seeds of the desolate
Have we forever failed?
I speak to fragile forms in moving mass
To men with intent awry,
To solid forms of Earthen mind
Whose burden equals mine


4. BLACK CASTEL

Torch lit halls
Deceit that burns
The dragon's lair
The blackened air
The face is now upturned
Deceiving mask
Your silent sword
The time of sin
The lion's den
Blasphemy unto your lord
The Black Castle of Rome
Midnight's shallow home
A monument of lies,
Blinding faithful eyes
Cathedral bells, your faithful tears
The divine right, the fearless might
Play upon men's fears...
Burning the wise in fires of gold
The dogs of doom, the empty tomb
Millions of faltering souls
Our destiny turned
Never to learn
The saving grace
The endless faith
Has condemned us all to burn


5. FALLING

I walk in the sands of Eden
Where the blue pyramids sleep
I close the world behind me
For my future soul to keep
Longer than I want to know them
Spawning dirges fill my veins
A ritual reaction,
I drop the face and play the game
I growl at familiar strangers
The sands are needles there,
The dust will crawl in anguish
Like the bones inside my lair
Move, you fall and we die
Move into the circle
You fall on your knees
And we die here waiting
You fall on your knees
Won't somebody tell me why,
Somebody please show me where
I lost that dream sensation
In this bitter midnight air
We melt inside of centuries
Awaiting new arrivals,
Dressing in lost shadows
Like the costumes for the dying


6. WHITE SHIP

I was but a traveler,
Floating endless through the seas
On the other side of knowledge
Through the pliancy of dreams
And voices there upon the ship
Spoke of radiant place's splendor
Beautiful shores with sands of gold
Wherein exists no torment or pain
What was I looking for?
What could I have hoped for?
On the white ship I sailed
Through the night...
As we traveled for the Land Eternal
We passed many a peaceful harbor,
Where we could have found a vibrant life
In a world known only in dreams
But the vibrant life was not eternal
So we continued upon our quest,
Through the misty lagoons of sparkling blue
And on through the pillars of the West
The land must be adorned by beauty unknown
Never before beheld...
In the land of eternal life,
Which the ocean secrets had held
And as we left those shores of hope
And neared the end of the quest
The waters rose up before me
And fell there sharply beyond,
The white ship and I were taken
Into man's withered and dying arms
What was I looking for?
What could I have hoped for?
The time that was mine
Was to parish with life