1. A SOLEMN INITIATION

(Instrumental)


2. VOID

How can you be gone
Why were you taken away
You left me at the bottom of the pit
And filled it with water

How can I find meaning in this shit
This fucking embarrassment
This absolute void that I feel
How can you be gone like this

You've dragged me deep below
And filled me with hatred
This absolute void is my being
Sunken into despair

And now I am void
Darkness incarnate
An empty shell of failures
Finite thought span
Devoid of brilliance
Frail sense of accomplishment or ability

Suffocating in a sea of tears
Choking on my longing
It drags me deep below until I am
Sunken into despair

You've dragged me deep below
And filled me with this hatred
This absolute void is my being, I am
…despair

And I am nothing
Numb and careless
Haunted by overpowering nothingness

You've dragged me deep below
This void is my being
...despair


3. SUNKEN

Trapped in the dark
The impenetrable blackness
Cold as the cosmic void
The sunken city lies dead

Trapped for aeons unending
In ancient depths, unknown, unseen
In this cenotaph drenched in horror
The sunken city lies interred

They came for me at night
To feast on my tormented soul
Afflicted through torture and terror
This aching will never go away

Only fear is present here
And I know

There is no escape from this living nightmare
This misery never loosens its frightful grasp
There is but one solution to freedom devoid of pain
A final absolution through cessation

And now I die defeated
Set free by the flames
Smothered in poisonous asphyxiation

Ahead I see no light
But in this blackest night
All pain reaches its end

I awake, engulfed by fire
Inhaling the smog of the sulphurous flame
Climbing through ruinous devastation
To escape…

The weight of the world
Crushing down upon me
Shattering bones and being
This aching will never end

Trapped in the dark
The cosmic void
These unending depths
There is no escape

The weight of the world
In this burning entombment
There is no escape
This pain will never end


4. DEPARTURE

Under mooncast shadows and shining stars
...we do not sleep
Now before the heaving vastness of unbroken blue
...I might find eternal sleep

And with these words, I surrender
And bid you farewell
In these tumbling waters unending
Our hardships end at last

And with these wails of lament
A mournful song for our suffering
The losses we endured for so long
In endless agonizing pain

And with these cries of grief
I’m overcome with regret
Unbearable, overwhelming
Take me from this hopeless, barren place

And through this final departure
I leave this mortal shell
No longer in struggle, no further in doubt
An awakening to peaceful death

And with these final tears
My torment has ended
I embrace my final journey
Towards the stars

In the twilight despair is all around us
...there is no peace
Under mooncast shadows and shining stars
...we do not sleep
I long for this life to end here
...one final release
Now before the heaving vastness of blue
...I might find eternal sleep


5. IN THE COLD EMBRACE OF THE WAVES

Behold
The cold shores of the earth
Our final place of rest lies just ahead

The sand will tear at the skin on our feet
On our path to salvation
In the cold embrace of the waves

Deep beneath the surface
We seek out our tomb
Through aeons of suffocation

Join me in the void of time
Accept the gift of eternal slumber

Oceans of death
Tremors of foaming wrath
Give yourself away

In the depths below the world
All is forgiven..

All is forgiven
As we sink toward the bottom
In the depths below the world
In the cold embrace of the waves

Fill my lungs with salt and water
I long for sweet relief
Help me escape these coils
Suffer existence no longer
End me, extinguish the final fire
Lay me to rest

All is forgiven
As we sink toward the bottom
In the depths below the world
In the cold embrace of the waves