1. Axiom

Slap on your treacherous smile
Get on with your endeavor
master, it has been awhile

I'm obsolete and lost
Can't live without my savior
A mental autopsy granted by me and I

Frantically scribbling
Feathers, skin and blood
Cut me open and take me away

Pour my lifeblood in your chalice
Then pour it into the mud
But I'll laugh when it's time for you to pay

Designer of my nightmares
Destroyer of my truth
Bookkeeper of human ransom

A vessel of pain walking among us
Armed to the teeth
In wide awake fear of the voice that never sleeps

Threading upon my sanity
Planting seeds of hate in my brain
Deny me my serenity
Deny me my will to live

2. Deception

Clutching at the clouds
On rusty ladders in the wind
Like the broken dna strings
From our failed attempt of deliverance

History enshrouds
The paths to the future, lost in the fog
Dreaming, grasping for straws
Will the darkest hour turn to dawn

A cry, a distant plea
From the seer at the summit, of the things to come
Petrified, we stand
Powering through the maniacal mantras one by one

Die through a burning salvation
As the soul's wall crumbles
Soulseeker, minesweeper
Living in steel towers

Was there ever any magic to save us
Any hope to lean upon
Disillusioned paranoid formulas
Sickening sycophantic mindfuck

Ride the apocalypse, consume the explosion
Horizons are shattered, time stands still
With nefarious devotion, but without free will

Burning embers in your hands

3. The Pilgrimage

See them walking tirelessly
Searching for a purpose in life
The sickening ways of their kin
They had to leave behind

The rumours of another way
Far from this world, gone astray

Line up
March on
One will
Follow or be gone

The new sun is rising
Over a world wrecked and torn
Push relentlessly forward
No time to mourn

Approaching the gates of the temple
A worship of a new kind
Murmurs echo between the walls
Prayers from diseased minds

A silent grin, or a longing sigh
The blades flash, it's time to die

The new sun is rising
Over a world wrecked and torn
At the ground lays the remnants
Of the longing to be reborn

The search is over
A gruesome display
They found their truth
No price too high to pay

4. Venomous Harvest

Plant my seeds, keep you weak
Harvesting your minds
Grower the scenery unfold

Promises of holistic grandeur
I never meant to keep
They're all living in squalor
Unknowing, unwilling to speak

This is the age of my becoming
These are the days life's river dries

Sell you constant mind control
The poison has taken it's toll
I play these puppet strings
Raise and feed and clip your wings

Plant my seeds, keep you weak
The future is in my hands
The lifeline keeps twisting
Across the ravaged lands

Welcome to my feast
When starvation is your only other option
I am your god, your beast
Lick the plates of your destruction

5. Perseverance

As the clouds gather
And the mists are growing thick
I'm building my fortress
Alone, brick by brick

Here I will stand tall
and watch the seasons pass
Living in absolute conviction
Giving my life to the cause

6. Key To Eternity

I will travel
Through the ages of darkness in this machine
Of this all consuming madness
Trying to break in to my soul, my mind

I will dissipate
Beholding what is on the other side
Squandering the law of physics
The reality that I will leave behind

Break the chains, liberate
The key to eternity
Corrupt resistance, animate
Stand strong in the blinding light

I constructed
This inordinate machine all by myself
Bionic muscular machinery
immortal cells multiply, rapidly evolving

Cyborgs taking over
Manic reckless consecrators of technology
These are the new ideals
Right or wrong, truth that never will be found

I will never walk the ground or swim the seas
I took off and left a trail of debris
Leaving you living in this mess
As the sun sets, I'll transgress

Embraced by space, this is my fate

Time has passed now
All my drams have come true
But I live in horror
In fear of the time I must pay my due

7. Earthbound

Forget, forgive I'm a loyal consumer
Erase, exhume my weak hesitation to
Regain, regrow the blissful confusion
Of my model state paradise, anachronistic set of lies

Heal – my self inflicted wounds
Shock my senses, fill the void with a mission
A promise of the greater good

Earthbound, unsound
When disaster strikes you'll have to
Dig deep for sympathy
Unveil, prevail
To keep your faith intact in the fallacy
You'll have to crawl

Delay, delude the insights of terror
Betray, bestow upon me my utmost failure, move
Onward, on sight shooting my shadow
Forevermore anæsthetic, atone for being unapologetic

Strike – with the great hammer of doom
Ring the bells of reckoning and requisitions
As the darkness falls over the lands

On the shores, the fires still burning
Faint whispering, prayers insane
The last remnants of a dying yearning
All is lost and all is in vain

8. Dark Waters

Weak and tired, my eyes are red
Will this journey ever end
Set the sails and pray they'll hold up
Enter the void, close your eyes
The dark waters beneath you,
The distant skies

These oceans are immense
The ship is lost
But we must get there at any cost
Now I dwell here
Within this veil
Determined to follow an invisible trail

This time
I will make it through
This life
I won't give to you

Another morning, in eternal dusk
It all blends together, like iron and rust
A word awaiting
To cross my lips
A distant message
A truth eclipsed

The waves grows high
As time passes by

9. Fear The New Flesh

In the dark, they stand in silence
Remnants of forgotten crimes
Sorrowful, scorned symbols
Withered by woeful times

Soon it's time to wake again
Unleash the pent up wrath
The wrongdoings they suffered
When the world was new

Wake up from oblivion

The awakening is drawing near
The dust is falling of their shoulders
Voices join in songs of endless sorrow
The air is getting colder

Gusty winds growing in power
Smoke is flowing down the mountainside
The fumble is getting louder
The caskets are rattling in their graves

Fear the new flesh
The tides are turning
Fear the new flesh
The spirits of the old
Fear the new flesh
Their eyes are burning
Fear the new flesh
An everlasting flame

10. The Shifting Of Stars

The great departure
Fleeing these insane premises
The sad inscriptures
Like patterns in my flesh

Thoughts of carnage
Haunting me day and night
Standing on the edge of the ruins
Watching the stormclouds

To rise up from this private hell
Suffocate the demons, drive out, expel

Light the fuse
Pitch black
Turn the screws
The wheels keep on turning in the residues

Following the shifting of stars
Never got me this far
In my search for omniscience
I'm lost and scarred

Strengthen the threshold
It's now twisted burning mass
From the ashes new live will form
In a grieving flash

A rain of arrows
From every direction piercing me
Ghosts from past times
Whispering lies in my ears

Reaching
Bleeding
Grasping
For all that's lost

Never look back, on the make beliefs
No surrender, no debrief
Deconstruct their weaponry

A new day is dawning
With a bitter promise in the air
My mouth is dry like the deserts
Internal warfare

Clenching my fists, no reconcilement
Carrying on, don't look back
I will overcome this trial
Before I rest