1. INITIATION

Expectations crumble under my feet
Like the skulls of victims justice forgot
To know nothing is be spared defeat
I was wise before the world fell from under me

Solitude inside a crowd
so alone in these halls
Feel your waking mind slipping
feel your mind start to crack
Cry out into silence loud
feel the silence engulf
But it’s only the beginning

The hourglass turns fast and slow
I lost my senses long ago
Times before fade into black

These walls run deep into my dreams
I’ve lost all of my memories
The claws of madness in my back

Sadistic tribunal passes judgment on all
Asking for truth when what they seek is a mirror
Holding the strings of my rise or my fall
An empty future I can see drawing nearer


2. OF CREEPING MOSS AND CRUMBLED STONE

I kneel before this unknown grave
Black light is shone
And soul is saved

Dear Henry, I don’t know your face
Did you die alone
Depart from pain

With the earth above
With the sky below
Ageless time for endless dreaming
Of your hollow soul

Cold stone is all left of your dreams
Is this the third death of your being

My fingers tangle in the blades
That you fed with your blood
Will anyone recall my name
When it is carved in stone

I wonder what you thought
As you did breathe your last
I wonder if you knew
That this would be the last world


3. APATHY’S KEEP

Distant voices calling
From beyond the wall
Shielded and blinded
Oblivious as the rains of suffering fall

You are oblivious
To what’s beyond your walls
You are oblivious
As rains of suffering fall

Farewell compassion
Farewell
Farewell to woes beyond your own
Farewell
Forget all you’ve done
Forget
Judgment still comes for the heart of stone
Judgment still comes

Freedom in forgetting
The cries of mankind spurned
Indulge your isolation
Content to leave them all to burn


4. REMEMBRANCE

(Instrumental)


5. A WORLD BEYOND SHADOW

Whispering walls
Haunting me
The light guides, the light deceives

Lost in the darkness once again
Fear in your steps, you know you’ll never leave
To walk in the sunlight once again
Cast off the self and forget your name

Narrator speaks
Of paths that I cannot see
The whispers comfort
The voices lie

I have seen
But I’ve never known
A world beyond shadow
I’ll find it alone, I’ll find it alone

Lost in the darkness, you are not saved

No past or future waiting in the after
There is no sun, no hope for salvation
The light never nears, your soul is forgotten


6. WITHOUT ANSWER

I cry out for you
With all of my heart
But know I’ll hear nothing
Nothing but the rain

The ravages of time take all your faith
The veil of ignorance hides all of your pain
Unlucky I to see such days
I wish that I still knew how to pray

But when I look up to the sky
And I see nothing but the stars
Recite the words etched in my heart
Without answer from above

The days that I
I felt so safe
I felt so loved

The cold fractured stone
That digs in my knees
Reminds me of how this used to feel


7. THE PATH

I: The Departure

The way unknown
Through shadows at dusk
The creeping shades the valleys cast

The Path unfolds
A step at a time
Each step ignores the last
Each mistake accumulates

To lead me here
The threshold of my life
Behind the warmth of life I’ve known
Ahead the fear of dark and cold

Is never known
Inevitable choice
To leave is not to leave
To stay is to stay forever

Never Return

Slowly you forget the feel of home
The grass under your feet
Slowly you become a creature of the road
Unmoored from every shore

II: The Vale

I have lost the paths that vanish in the mist
Each step that seemed so sure, has lead to the abyss

Disappear into darkness, never to be found
The lost connection back to who you once were
I’ve lost all sense of the me who started on this road
I am not who I was

The shadows hide you
They guard and protect you
Till you belong here evermore

I have found, a Path through the mist
The one I was before, I leave behind in the abyss

III: The Path

The stars on the horizon
They fade into a long awaited dawn
Alone in vast indifference
You turn away from what you thought you knew was wrong

You’re still the same
But the earth changed beneath your feet
You’re still the same
But the earth changed, it changed without you

IV: Home

You can go home, but you’ll never be home again
You can go home, but you’ll never be home again