In the age of man's slow demise Our rapture; burned away Reticent horde all doomed to die This paradise is lost With chaos upon them They chose to build the highest walls Enshrined in hubris Love projected as hate For all the good that was ever done Tenfold evil was conceived Reticent horde all doomed to die This hell is become us With chaos upon them They chose to build the highest walls Enshrined in hubris Love projected as hate

Silence the self Begin abortion of the mind Inundate thyself in hunger Festering slaves of ignorance Salvation; too many struggles away They will bathe forever in their rot Defecating dreams of nihilistic love Conforming to the will of the mundane Inescapable prison of lost creation Here is the tyranny of being

True believers are split The dead may claim the lion’s share Pale mimics of the old ones Fake and desperate masks You speak of the truth Omniscient pretention You claim to have lived it Yet you know nothing You hide in the land of dreams A failure to life Unwilling to wield the ether You’ll fade into dust You’ll traverse the abyss You may rise from shadow But your inner being exposed to the light Shows your darkest desires hang on for the night You speak of the truth Omniscient pretention You claim to have lived it Yet you know nothing You hide in the land of dreams A failure to life Unwilling to wield the ether You’ll fade into dust

By thine own shadow; be devoured All they say is “I’m never being” This exorcism I bring unto you Will it purge your mind of sorrow? Bring you peace eternal And wash away these memories Everlasting fire is within the heart But not forever to burn in the night When your frozen fortress keeps all life away By thine own shadow; be devoured All they say is “I’m never being”

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Endless, restless, a pandemic scars inside Comforts for this creature of such programmed, docile mind I reject all in this paradox, for what I've come to learn. Just a parasitic process is all I have and can observe. Skin withers into the landscapes of the earth Consumed and reused to within an inch of what it’s worth And as I try to justify a need to be part of such a scene The essence of my wounds is just desire I have to be free A star’s light that burns through time is the only thing that never dies Perhaps this could be reason, a hope for where our souls reside The rhizomes of the universe, a plume in effect Where destiny is predicted, no more a sequence of eternal jest. When there’s no one left to mourn nothing left familiar Just the pain from thoughts persistent Are we ever even existing? Now it’s all I ever see There’s nothing left for me Just a mass of flesh and bone alive Awaiting sweet release Born to plant and feed The terrified! Sleep Terrified! Dreams Terrified! From being awake enough to see A mere glimpse into the depths of what the tortured mind conceives in the presence of the darkness where eternal dragons come to breed Terrified! Scream Terrified! Breathe I squirm my way through stigmas of forced reality I of black sea I of nothing Why oh why me am I nothing I 'saviour of everything' and I 'capable of anything' With eyes wide open even though I try, cannot help but play a victim, I feed on every fucking lie The violent depravity within my soul From the war that wages in my heart that burns more as i grow old And as i struggle to pull myself from hell With frivolous concepts I create to grasp a sense of self I know in my heart we all die, this remains in back of mind where my eternal dragons lie So as I desperately reach towards the light, I'm torn before my muse where life is quintessential fucking right. When there’s no one left to mourn nothing left familiar Just the pain of thoughts persistent Are we ever even existing? When this is all that’s left and all you ever see A product of this world, reminded of all you'll ever be Just terrified! Sleep Terrified! Dream Terrified! From being awake enough to see A mere glimpse in to the depths of what the tortured mind conceives In the presence of the darkness where eternal dragons come to breed Terrified! Scream Terrified! Breathe As I squirm my way through stigmas of forced reality I of black sea I am nothing