May I wear you this night As we marvel at our death I would wane within your art As you would become me Like ashes circling the pyre With virtues of the seraphim While prancing indifferently Amid the devil's fingers The sun, the moon Our garments of glee and distress In their wake we are born dying Voicing insignificance Awake with me into glacial skies As the earth below lies august Should time be meek we may drink Of oceans of ageless silence The north is unfurling It's presence welded on us Latent - a monument Amid ethereal bosoms We kneel in tragedy on tundra This barren skin Ailing slaves to the word Within the rigid commandment of woe Shackles corrode lesions In the morning regions Where the pores expose Beneath a cynical host Designs of irony Raped and bereft of all In a sigh of ephemeral room And eternal baptism of fire
[Lyrics by K. Ottersen]
2. From These Wounds
In our cruel history's aftergloom Mankind's treason brought it's children doom The thin texture between wrong and right Mostly broken by those who saw the light Up to this day the lie remains To rid the world from it's finer strains Through pills and acid that alter our brains A utopia they seek to gain The fundamental laws of our universe As they are taught us by our greatest curse And they are so right those who administer the truth When their truth is controlled with poison to the youth Up to this day the lie remains To rid the world from it's finer strains Through pills and acid that destroy our brains A utopia they seek to gain To save our world from the ones thought insane Truly the work of the self-proclaimed sane Evolution has come far enough Our psychopathic future is set, just learn to be tough What is the value of intellect and brains If it is only used to hold your rivals in chains The human race imprisoned to it's end The tyrant of religion and science will never bend
[Lyrics by F. Forsmo]
3. The Architecture Of Loss
A few days have passed since I heard the word There is not much time left for me in this world I try to be strong so I put on this mask Yet the burden of death is a heavy task About to lose my everything Cancellation of my future dreams So I have written my testament My desire to live it screams I received my death sentence From a friendly man in white The being that is my essence Soon to fade into the night When you go out of town do you ever think of me The poison you put in your veins might make you share my fate I am so scared that I am shaking all day long Answer to the great mystery, most likely I'll be gone The doctors are kind but unable to help As the panic grows I reflect on the self Will I remain beyond or will I be reborn For what is not longer should never be mourned As darkness and light collide I finally understand Atheism and faith unite as nature lets go of my mind As I let go to never ever again be here Passing into the heavenly void, never again to be scared
[Lyrics by F. Forsmo]
4. Red Moon
The aeons, by they go They will never let you know Shining down on fields of doom Tribulation casts a blood-red moon Immortality in death How I long for my last breath Covering the lands, a blinding fog Keeps them ignorant of their holy dog When you hear the cries Of the ones that should have died You find safety in the void In rational illusions truth you avoid And I thank you for the mass The word of God is coming out of your ass They are guarding all the gates Hell made real through prayers and faith Goddess of dignity Shamelessly she pisses on me Forcing upon me her will Her stinking leprosy makes me ill My surrender will seal your lies Bring me up to your hell above the skies We died not for your souls We died not for your selfish goals When I hear you speak his voice I understand that I never had a choice
[Lyrics by F. Forsmo]
5. Vagrant God
No one could deem this an end Yet there is no grave for you to tend The feathers fell to dark intrigue A tell-tale praise - a solemn need Reconciled with torment fraught Swallowed down the throat of nought Your hands lay bleeding with regret The night when angels sorely wept The manic sea of smothered cries Ran in his blood, poured in his eyes Yet the unrest would pine away In solitude where death holds sway So this is how credence declines All words come down and laughter pines A vagrant god released from debt Discouraged yet - who will forget? Their failing stare - despondency The nature of his entity The heartfelt warmth of which they sought To brace comfort, he shelters not Black rivers dug into the earth Bearing out the human worth He owns no awe, no love to crave Only his death would have them saved
[Lyrics by K. Ottersen]
6. Pendulum
Here I lie Awaiting to die No cigarettes No drinks after eight Here I lie Medication cut down To preserve my breath To postpone my death Understand This is the waiting room of Hell How did I Become so old Why didn't I Prepare my soul The forces of nature Also forced me to mature This thing called welfare Is a joke in this nightmare The lights are shut The doors are locked I am tied to my bed Only waiting to be dead The youngsters are rude Contemptful to see me nude What they see if of course What will soon be a corpse As my foggy mind reaches out to it's ancestors It is given no reply but it's childhood fear of trolls And I wait, I wait, I wait to reach the gate As my role is fulfilled I gladly embrace the end of my fate Daddy won't you please take me home
[Lyrics by F. Forsmo]
7. Saturn
I came for help Against my fears What harm did I ever do to you I asked for your help You helped yourself What harm did I ever do to you Now I suffer from tardive dyskinesia All my demons are gone but one When I look in the mirror I feel ashamed Moderate suffering replaced with pain When I go out the children they laugh at me Here comes the man who drowned in insanity They assisted the demons that brought me down Now I look and feel like a clown So strap me into this chair Electrocute my head Then firmly force me down Lobotomize my mind Give me pills to make me well Your reconstruction of Hell My thoughts no longer a threat Until the day of my death