1. TO ENGULF ALL CREED

Enigmatic ascension, the dark apparition
Injecting a doctrine of difference and intolerance
Symbols of glory, standards held high
Since the ones who were leaders depicted the light

Frozen in stone, this evolution
The one-eyed proscriptor returns, turning a page
In the book of this time
Mesmerising, the fear and cold guides
The faceless shepherd commands our demise!

Cries from the altar design our belief... (engulf all Creed)
Scriptures of hatred and madness our breed... (engulf all Creed)

Taking my world to become your world, evoking the angels Of hell
... On this earth

Incensed and blessed with the mark of creation
Born of our flesh to take back the forsaken
Father's and their father's dreams and beliefs
Plucked from the skies, and fallen like leaves

Frozen in stone, this evolution
The one-eyed proscriptor frowns, closing the book of our Time

Cries from the altar design our belief... (engulf all Creed)
Scriptures of hatred and madness our breed... (engulf all Creed)

From the lightning came dark, enveloping the land and the Air
Humanity's embrace, a foolhardy stab at our fate
A plague of black air rides the sky on a dragon's wing
Breathing our judgement... and execution!


2. IN THE WAKE OF WHAT HAS PERISHED

The watchful eye of the moon
A desperate world through the looking glass
Dust has settled, only ashes remain
Souls of the fallen fed the earth with blood
To nourish the waking horde, the new breed
"With the new dawn comes a new age"
The scriptures lies - the meek shall inherit this earth

The talons rise in the sky
Sharpened claws of light break horizon's slumber
Muffling the silent screams below

All heads bowed before the hand raised
Sceptre held to the gods on high
Born of flesh, but scarred within
Earth quakes with a deafening cry; our cry

Come now my brothers
Within this semblance of order is chaos
The grief for yesterday's truth remains
Instilled within, these lashes cannot see
The grief for yesterday's truth remains
Instilled within, these lashes cannot be!

This you can never feel!

The power of men united
Belief in the freedom they once loved
Force driven within, not driven out
The nails in my cross do not hold strong!

The bowed heads raise before the hand of god
Sceptre held unto himself
Eyes glazed with the litany's lies
And bearing the mark of the beast

Never mine!

The nails in mine; do not hold strong
Take my hand, pledge allegiance to this crown... this Crown of thorns

The nails in my cross do not hold strong, bow down!
Take my hand, pledge allegiance to this crown... this Crown of thorns!


3. WREATHED IN FLAME

Through centuries past, generations of fools preside
Hope and salvation, the promised land
Scriptures passed on, venom concealed in hereditary swine
Flooding veins, a black death, vision divine
Tenderfoots tread the path to their lair
A generous prize for the price of a soul

Seasons bring tomorrow's rain, to wash away our sins
Frozen in the winter's pain, still beating within
Crystallising, finite suspension
Hibernation, insidious devolution
Seasons bring tomorrow's rain, to wash away our sins
Frozen in the winter's pain, still beating within
Crystallising, finite suspension
Hibernation, malignant cell structures

Mechanisms contracting, steel grinding steel
Circuitry reforming, becoming reformed

Hybrid, devoid, programmed, emotionless
Sacred, martyr, worship, the hand of god!

Seas of blank faces, washed out with pride
Awaiting the number, my calling!
Uniform hatred, prime directive
Blueprint for a better world!

Flocks of the blind, march silent in time
Walk brave through the darkness, the spectres our guides
The day of our judgement, the saviour proclaims
A vile winged serpent, with a head wreathed in flames

Legions of dead nations rise to command
Battalions drum the pulse of earth's thunder
Tidal waves of white light flood the extermination
Vaporising species, souls effervescing one last time

Atmospheres vacuum, thieving air from lungs, moisture from eyes
Skin cracks in spider web symmetry, stripping white bone
Gusts taking dust to a spirit realm unknown
An eternity in torment, where ancestors dwell


4. LAST CYCLE OF LIGHT

(Instrumental)


5. REFLECTIONS OF A FORLORN SUN

Reflections of a forlorn sun
Now remember, my fallen sons...

Diminishing, light fades away
Vectors break and dis-assemble in universal discord
Spiritual, structures, crumbling from the inside
Aeons of time, corroding a once magnificent world

Chasm walls, creeping
Paranoid, fever, concealing the vacuum
Insomnia ending, Darkness now blinding
Reality bites down, salt in the wound

Clouds of sulphur, each breathe a painful cry
Lush gardens and vales, scarred with stone and steel
Humanity raped the earth in a blind rage
A gift once forgotten, a greed all surpassing

The last cycle of light begins now
Oblivious and ignorant, souls murmur a lost tongue
Shadows closing the curtains of darkness for the last Time
Will there ever be another dawn, of time?

Spiritual, structures, crumbling from the inside
Aeons of time, are gone...

Deep black cold, fear
Frantic, falling, failing, endless
Screaming, crying, bleeding and dying
Repenting, pleading, regretting, forgetting!

I fall to my knees for the last time
Cancerous lungs breathe a pitiful last
Bring us new wisdom and understanding
For the hope of a new age
To the ones who have fallen in vain
My last dying thoughts are with you!

My eyes close... another's open...
My eyes close... another's open...