1. BY ENDURANCE WE CONQUER

Waves crash down, unrelenting, unending.
We are stone shaped by the force of its abuse;
Colossal mountain ranges eroded to jagged shorelines;
Aged cliff tops, decrepit and helpless;
Earthen cadavers now ripe for mining
To the very core of our souls.
Or so we would have you think.
Magic is willpower.
Willpower is magic.
Self-knowledge is the key
To the perfect control of the will.
After destroying the decades of our youth,
After being crushed under the pillars of heaven
The bonds we make and the bonds
We break ever come crashing down.


2. GRISSECON

Behold! this ancient ritual, this divine act.
The one clear way to transcend
The boundaries of the corporeal plane
Is to merge our flesh.
The co-mingling of our physical beings
Opens the doorways to the ethers,
To vivid truth.
I consume you and, in turn,
I am consumed by you.
Love is the law, love under will.
The purest connection, the strongest bond.
All of the struggles, the weaknesses and faults, slip away
All of the masks, the anger and secrecy, slip away.
Essence unveiled.
The universe revealed.


3. PROMETHEUS

The exhortations of traditionalism ring hollow:
The echoing footsteps of cross-bearing martyrs,
The rejection of free will,
The inability to meet the challenge
Of critical thought and individualism.
Heads bowed and eyes closed to the joys of today.
Three things only do slaves require: work, food,
And their religion.
Those callous-kneed ringer-kissers.
The eyes of providence are blinded
To the suffering that surrounds.
True compassion is drowned by the baying
And shuffle of the flock, bleating through
A self-constructed hell.
The fire in your heart is out.
That once blazing light wreathed in the gloom of depravity,
That unwavering standard to rally behind,
That intellectual harvest
It's now barren and wasted,
Strangled by weeds of complacency,
Frozen and bloodless in passion's tomb.
I must escape sentimentality;
Clear away these dusty, maudlin affections;
Turn my back on the corpse of the past;
Learn to accept the death of ideals.
Everything has changed.
Nothing has changed.


4. ANOTHER WORLD IS INEVITABLE

I'm ashamed of running away from nothing at all.
I just can't deal with these feelings any more.
But when I look around at the fiends
Who would needle away my resolve,
Who would recreate me in their image,
I recognize their insignificance.
And so the winds of history disperse the fog of mysticism
The weeds of technology, those vast mechanical growths,
Release their stranglehold on culture.
We call to the blackest sun to wither away.
And I seek an end.
If I could but see it.
And by the actions of my own hands,
It is revealed.
This new epoch when mastery has turned to fellowship,
When those with a hatred for life have seen
An end to their own:
These intellectuals who replaces facts
With their mythologies,
These tiresome brutes who violently
Sustain might makes right pedagogy.
A new world springs from the corpse of the old.
Our most ephemeral desires
And our most treasured dreams lay the foundation
For a brilliant new reality.
Social interaction is no longer defined by dutiful sadism
The death of the system, the system of death.
This will be the day.


5. SUMMIT REVISITED

(Instrumental)


6. VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS

The death throes of daylight set the sky ablaze.
Silent pyres are heaped with the bodies of the meek.
A twilight inferno: prelude to utter blackness,
The Erlking's only boon.
In the shadow which offers no relief
We explore the caverns of thought
And pluck stars from the sky, striving.
But armour wrought from rhetoric
And axes blunt by willful ignorance offer no protection
Only shackles and an early demise.
Excise guilt.
Abolish doubt.
Is there no escape from Ahimsa's snare?
Natures face be stained red by claw and tooth.
But even rusty tools
Misshapen and vile
Have their uses.
There can be no life for the weak.