PROFILE UNKNOWN
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

Place me in a corner as black as all the deeds I've done
A need to feed on paranoia to create the scars I've worn
You seek to look inside my mind and trace the path I chose
I'm still safely hidden within the brittle ghost of old

CHORUS:
The one thing you'll never truly know is why
You'll never have the courage to really look inside
For within lies your greatest fears a reflection of your past
I am what you once were, before you donned this mask

Fighting the beast within by destroying the taint of others
You've taken your first step towards my domain's darkness
The further you look inside my mind the easier it is to stay
The more comfortable you become now you join the decay

CHORUS 2:
You've created an image of me in your head and now I'm here to stay
An apprentice of your own demise, revelling in your decay
Trapped within your darkest mind I struggle to escape
Mend a broken spirit I forge onwards with all my fucking hate


THE INNER THREAD
Music: Boon/McLennan
Lyrics: McLennan

Cradling indecision, I writhe awake at night
Craving definition, of the spectres in my life
I view all of you with contempt, without knowing why
The way you slide into nothingness defies a stable mind

CHORUS:
Evolve in thought or perish in mind
I resist the change you force upon me
The last of a proud and ancient race
What's left of my past is but a dream
Evolve in thought or perish in mind
Desire – the inner thread that tears me apart
Stable mind within design
Awakened feelings I've longed to ignore

I'm falling through a spiral of placid razor thoughts
Longing for substance I cascade down tortured steps
Memories dragging across my mind spill doubts onto my flesh
An innocence spent and lost, I cling to what is left

Evolve in thought or perish in mind
I resist the change you force upon me
The last of a proud and ancient race
What's left of my past is but a dream
Evolve in thought or perish in mind
Desire – the inner thread that tears me apart
Stable mind within design
Set me free

A hope of reliving better times though I know the moments lost
The lesson learnt long ago, at such a vicious cost
Striving to redefine myself and retain some purity
Never did I desire to cheat my destiny

Reaching out I find nothing
There's a circle of fear around me
Ostracised through being true
I didn't want this decision


SUMMONING THE ETERNAL
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

A tentative strike leads to an all-important juncture
The focal point where minds collide and drift away
View the sublime qualities of all who stand opposed
Then tear it all down to no avail

Systems are in place to close and contain
Sealing the world within from entropy
Crippled by the weight of expectation
I slowly strive to continue my craft

PRE-CHORUS:
By taking this path
Tension is my way
Powers that taint me
As I drink from the depths

CHORUS:
Fragments slide, slow and stutter, trying to grasp what I can't perceive
Clutching at what is intangible, a fleeting instant, a broken oath
The shadow grows darker still; only pieces remain of the whole
Broken fragments are all I have to work with, bleeding inside my mind

Crawling through the crumbling chaos
Tranquillity is merely an illusion
Imprisoned by my own talents
I can no longer stop myself

From summoning the eternal


CHRYSALIS TORN
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

Synthesised, your way is ours and it's a liquid vision of a crystalline world
Within a tube your world is formed, a chrysalis that shapes your thought
Spawned into being a scientists dream, a recipe for human torment
Why you were born you'll never know, pity they forgot to remove the soul

CHORUS:
Caged in nothing but an empty void
To keep us safe from ourselves
An awakening truth they tried to ignore
The madness of those reborn

Engineered as a tool of conformity, instinctively knowing when to bow
Your father, the master, the mentor, all synthetic proteins without a choice
An automaton with a hidden past, soon to rise and take the day
A creature whose soul survives, Father, Master, Mentor, Slave

The weak will always serve the strong, as we breed our armies of death
You tried to play creator and got it wrong, when we are finished there will be nothing left
In your haste towards perfection it became impossible for us to be killed
Irony is the law of reality for the strong will always rule

DARK BLISS
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

A turmoil of emotion rages within all voyages on the fair road travelled
Alone in the wilderness I wonder why I've collected nothing but regrets
Discarding all hopes of peers I've stumbled my own way
In bitterness I find my strength the resentment of my past

CHORUS:
There's comfort within betrayal
The lashing winds of judgment scrape
All innocence from my skin
Strike another chord of dissent
That's all that it will take
There's majesty within this dark bliss

Elsewhere within a mystic's dreams is the man I wish I was
The one that took the chances offered despite what could be lost
In a way he is my enemy as he's achieved all that I've dreamt
If only I could reach the heights of the me you've never met


ANOTHER SCAR
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

Crawling towards the leper I ask him for forgiveness for I am the source of all decay
Life within me a shattered wasteland I now despise myself in every way
The supreme achievement of the blackest science I stand as a tribute to all who have past
What would they think if the truth was revealed if they got to see behind the mask

CHORUS:
I return to my realm, my sanctuary,
Where I reign with fear
My home a temple within my mind
Always to be alone
I return to my realm, my sanctuary,
Creating threads of decay
Darkness growing closer still,
Hiding behind my eyes

A temple I adorn to suit my needs, who knows what each day will bring?
A challenge is all I seek, but be warned I play by my own rules
A temple I have desecrated another scar is what I choose
To suit the twisted mind inside, try and you'll see I don't play to lose

Today I go back to my domain


THE VOYAGE
Instrumental
Music: McLennan


WISDOM FROM THE FLESH OF THE FALLEN
Music: Boon
Lyrics: McLennan

Rending flesh, waste, and carnage
Dissolving the weaknesses within me
Gaining wisdom through ritual slaughter
Only the brave go forth
Existing on a demon whim
Aspects of my victim
Taking life to fuel my soul
Within dreams of tortured flesh

CHORUS:
Striving to writhe among a myriad of lies
Bow to the judgements of my ancestors
Consuming the strength of all my foes
Wisdom from the flesh of the fallen

A pyramid of dreams lost in fire
The way of prevailing destiny
Floating void of conscious thought
Lead my darkness back to me
Whispering skies forging fires
Drawn within from without
Consume or perish fast
Into the world of the absolute