Fear the Future

owed Upon A Virgin World

Night time when the sky is low
And the light has ceased to be
My heart beats slow
And stillness like a wide and open sea
I dive in and let my self go
Astray in thoughts beyond the known
At one with all and eternity
Of the coming end... and of how it all came to be

Silver threads... from the present to the end...
Thin threads... from this moment to where it all began...

In a raging inferno conceived
Out of the magma hurled
A sweltering sphere of dirt
Lost in the vastness of universe
Caught in a lengthy dance with a tiny sun
A devastating couple in blackness around they spun
Lava froze and storms gave birth to seas
Lands rose and was won by beasts and greenery...

Rose then... did her cold bane to be
Spreading through the Elysian Fields
So fair to behold, so foul to encounter
A deadly grace, armed with blades

In a her eyes shone a different light
One of hunger and aspiring might
Vile her ways and high her goals
Strong her zeal and wicked her soul
So fair to behold...
So foul to encounter

With ferocity and bloodshed
She carved her place in the creation
Manmade deities took to the sky
Her towers eclipsed the sun
No matter the grandeur
Vanity her guide
No matter of fair her world became
Still so afraid of the afterlife, so afraid of the night
So afraid of the night
Monuments for mere mortal men...
In Khufu they still stand

For all the progress made
And all battles fought and won
We carry a hunger no world can sedate
An excruciating thirst only our own extinction could ever slake

Night time when the sky is low
And the light has ceased to be
My heart beats slow
And stillness like a wide and open sea
So sad that this world will end in flames
And bitter I am to be one of her banes
Mankind is a curse
Bestowed upon a virgin world


3. Majestic Shadows

Majestic shadows move, covering the sky
A sudden shiver in the golden weave of life
All colours fade, and all beauty melts away
As the lush and bloom burn to dusty grey...

Where did it go, the splendour that I used to know
Where do I stand, ash covering my promised land
To whom do I speak, as the voices proclaims my defeat
How can I rise, as I behold my shattered paradise

Draining, Choking, Drowning
Majestic Shadows
Draining, Choking, Drowning
Majestic Shadows
Draining me, Choking me, Drowning me
Majestic Shadows
Draining me, Choking me, Drowning me
Majestic Shadows

I feel so deadly cold, and my limbs feel so tired and old
Like frozen lava time is slow, yet year the slip and go
A dust-covered statue worn, I stand dark and forlorn
Like a monument erected for the hope-neglected

They came so close,
I should have known,
I should have seen
Shadows


4. Tremors Stir Still Waters

Tremors stir still waters
A deep rumble beneath the seas
Of hells lungs to be filled anew
And if they only knew... if they only knew...

Tremors stir still waters
Nightmarish figures move
Birds of prey flee their branches
And if they only knew... if they only knew...

It comes like a chilly day in the prime of spring
A scent of death carried by sweet soft winds
Something vile is moving in the deep
Something horrid wakens from sleep

Swaying structures dance
A slow dance of death to come
A ballet baroque in a world undone
And if we only knew... if we only knew...

Sucking our fear from our bones...
Carving the skin so bleached
Drinking despair of broken hopes
And we know... hell knows... we know...

TREMORS STIR STILL WATERS

TREMORS It will be dark...
STIR It will be black...
STILL It will be cold...
WATERS ...and then nothing at all

Gods most vile angels flying low beneath a sun aflame
Divas and devas... I’m spitting their names like a curse
Blood for their feathers, chains for our thoughts
Let it be done with... let it be done...

Hell shall rise and boil like sea of tainted sickness
Collapse of stars and heavens fall to shards
A clash of worlds in the blink of an eye
And cursed be we all...

And I drink my curse with glee
Spitting it back in the face of deceit

Well spoken words of dying hopes and wishes
If you only knew... if you only knew
Though cracked eyes bleed in efforts hopeless
A spent broken corpse... enlightened...
dead in the dark...


5. II – The Escalation Of Self

Swarming hungry cohorts
The bastards flooded forth
Like a river breaching banks
Devouring the lands
Glorious kingdoms rose
The vain ruled the fools

Her towers eclipsed the sun
Mankind levelled with none
Remote from the chambers and halls
Far from the courts and castle walls
Thinkers and deifiers gathered
Sharpening thoughts and cloaked daggers


6. With My Eyes Wide Open

A moon-kissed night in June
The forest in full bloom
And whispering warm winds her groom

A silhouette vast and vile
Climbed the dark velvet sky
The black beast she rose... and stole the starlight

Black – is all that it will be
Dread – all around I see
Pain – all I feel is pain
Hate – and all I know is hate

For every flower festering flies
To every truth one bitter lie
In every perfection there are flaws
To every caress a touch of claws

No, I know, you’ve never been there
No, I know, you haven’t seen it
No, I know, to you it’s hidden
I stand with my eyes wide open

Dark – I foresee the coming days
Bitter – changes in uncanny ways
Spawn – of Armageddon unleashed
Nightmare – season for man and beast

I never asked for these eyes, never wanted to see beyond the lies
Here I stand, eyes wide open
Here I stand, eyes wide open

Seeker – what lies beyond
Perceiver – I see the world so differently
Believer – who are you to me
Deceiver – how you blind me

With my Eyes wide open, I still stand!

Man a meek small creature
So chained and entangled
With so little knowledge
So limited and strangled
Why must I limit myself
Why do I have to be confined
We are said to have a choice...
God knows I made mine

No, I know, you’ve never been here
No, I know, you haven’t seen it
No, I know, to you it’s hidden
I stand with my eyes wide open

Silent and beautiful
the forest in fullest bloom
And I still stand
with my eyes wide open


7. Darkness Absolute

Drink the fire
Kiss the darkness
Lick the demon
Betray a world that failed

I am a roaring super cell
a clenched fist from hell
The sheper of the children sick
A demon of the triple six
The reaper of the grapes
Redeemer of the will-chained slaves

Cast into existence on your hands and knees
Molded into servitude from birth
A promise of elevation through your submission
Still like all else crawling in the dirt

I am the bastard angel of bitter glee
I’m the devil pointing my fist at thee
Sever the hands feeding you lies
It is all about choice so rise... forever rise!

I am the lungs of hell
My tongue the serpent’s tail
I am the mouth of war
My words conquer when my flesh have failed
Wielder of words
I am the Dread Nought of thoughts
The molder of worlds
A panzer vessel at war

A cannonade of words, a question absurd

I curse them for I have seen and I won’t blink again
I shun them for I have risen and I won’t bow again
I condemn for I have spoken and won’t be silent again
I have acted and I shall act again and again and again...
The darkness, bloody darkness, the fucking darkness absolute
The sick tongue, The vile sick tongue, The sick tongue twister of truth
The darkness, bloody darkness, the fucking darkness absolute
The sick tongue, The vile sick tongue, The sick tongue twister of truth
RISE...

Rise from your slumber, rise up and stand today
They will lead you towards their goals and to your early grave!
They provide you with all the answers but not to the question why!
Because you are the answer; you hold it all inside!

This world is nothing but a sick and bizarre stage
Built for the act of the mundane life the sickest of plays
The writers are insects and the script is crazed
Leave the cast, exit stage, and walk away

Praise your differences
Indulge in all that is you
Pride yourself for your flaws
You’re the darkness absolute

You are everything
You’re the darkness absolute
You hold it all inside
You are the only truth...


8. The Birth of a Dragon (Damn them to hell)

I traverse marble floors
empty dark corridors
Shadow cloaked corners
Through silent barren halls

Slowly descending
Stone ceiling loom
A ghastly stroll in solitude
I am leaving now... for home ...

Statues of stone
Silhouettes so old
Watching me go...
... Slowly wandering

Untouched by time
In an endless line
Passing them by
... slowly pondering

Leaving the glens of spring
Lands of eternal dawn
Swallowed by the darkness
Reawakened and strong and reborn

Through the darkness I take my leave
The birth of a dragon they’ll see

Passing these benighted realms
Where time has ceased to be
Emotions burn much stronger here
Clarity embracing me

Through the darkness I take my leave
A dragon unfettered and free

A lifetime asleep Awakening to sever the hand feeding lies

Damn them... Damn them all to hell
Damn them... Damn them all to hell

A Wyvern born, a beast of scorn, a black nemesis so vile
A solar flame, a beast unchained, a claimer of open skies
On mighty wings , carried by the winds, a Paragon so grand
Risen from gloom, radiant Epitome, a true dragon of the land

From a greater elevation...

Damn them... Damn them all to hell
Damn them... Damn them all to hell

A Wyvern born, a beast of scorn, a black nemesis so vile
A solar flame, a beast unchained, a claimer of open skies
On mighty wings , carried by the winds, a Paragon so grand
Risen from gloom, radiant Epitome, a true dragon of the land

The birth of a Dragon

From a greater elevation
I clearly behold their deception
Guild of liars wove a tapestry
A fabrication obscuring the symmetry

I loath the wise for the well spoken lies
And for their audience... only despise
On my own broad wings I take my leave
Where I go I will never tell
I will not miss the insufficient,
damn them all to hell


9. III - The Bitter Fall

All empires decay
All glory fades
All splendour rust
All built turn dust
There will come a day
When everything will fall
All will be swept away
And there will be nothing at all


10. At the Shores of Hell

A shunned god’s eye
peering down into the void
Casting his eerie glow
Unto a world destroyed

A sick pale heaven unfolded above
Colossal clouds sail grey
Slowly spewing their venomous tears
Corroding the sphere of decay

All we ever erected will fall
Crumble to rubble and sand
All aspects of progress erased
In the these less than fortunate days

All beneath the sun to be unmade
We are standing at the shores of hell

time itself will creep upon our broken breed
a pending doom beyond the scope of all beliefs
of which none shall live to speak
Mankind will bring herself to her knees...

Nothing will remain...Nothing... shall remain...

All you ever loved will be torn to dust
All you ever strived for will be lost

A world spent and broken
Cleansed and purified
A breed forever erased
Through fire and war

All you ever loved will be torn to dust
All you ever strived for will be lost

All beneath the sun unmade
We are standing at the shores of hell

time itself will creep upon our breed
a pending doom beyond the scope of all beliefs
of which none shall live to speak
Mankind will bring herself to her knees...

And how distant all gods are
How distant and afar...


11. Hope (Lost in the distance)

As the emerald fields are laid to waste
And the morning dew is soiled with dust
No birds spread their wings no more
All silent now are the cannons of war

The havoc has ceased, all still and at peace
The bombardment has stopped and the last bomb dropped
All grenades detonated and the last living desecrated
Guns emptied to the last round, a world finally undone

No mourners gathered, not a single tear shed
No graves dug, none to bury the dead

The great crescendo, the last verse absurd
Obliteration... a world’s bloody rebirth

And hope is a vessel, left port ages ago
Far of to sea we gather, though we will never know
We pray for her return, but all gods are gone
Chants remain unheard, and of hope we will see none

The decline was for all to see
Riots in every city
Chaos in every street
Economies collapsing
nations to their knees

The facades were breaking down
Glass walls splintered inch by inch
The shards reflecting the setting sun
Then they all came tumbling down

Under the burning skies...
People gathered and leaders lied...
Gigantic armies assembled
Grand colossal clashes
Fire consumed them all
Nations burnt to ashes...

The dead litter the face of the world,
And everywhere a battlefield

And hope is a vessel, left port ages ago
Far of to sea we gather, though we will never know
We pray for her return, but all the gods are gone
Chants remain unheard, and of hope we will see none

This is the bleaker season
The bitter fall...
of lifting smoke and fading hopes...
Hope...


12. IV - This Flare Will Fade

No matter progress, no matter beliefs
This universe is but a flare between black eternities
This flare will flicker
This flare will fade
This flare will falter
And die away
Light is a mere exception absurd
And the great blackness shall assert this universe