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PER EREBUS AD ASTRA
"THROUGH DARKNESS TO THE STARS"
MY DEGENERATION
Enter the sick fleeting sentiments
Of a culture paralyzed with fear
The cycle of lunacy grinds
Through another revolution
Meaningless solidarity shown
Only through convenience
Binary promises of strength
Hollow as the adversary
We float atop waves of outrage
Only to crash back
Onto the shores of ambivalence
Crisis only matters when dictated
By the trends of manipulative simpletons
I don't believe you and I never will again
I see behind those glassy eyes
Nothing but a vomitous abyss
The mask of ignorance blinds
With the hammer of remembrance
Melting down to madness
We hide behind open doors
Selecting the pain of the past
For the illusion of concern
We float atop waves of outrage
Only to crash back onto the shores of ambivalence
Crisis only matters when dictated
By the trends of manipulative simpletons
I don't believe you and I never will again
Come, witness, a world of, irrelevance
among, putrid, existence
Break free from this social experiment
Clouding our minds forever
We reveal pathetic narcissism
System failure, self destruct
Enter the sick fleeting sentiments
Of a culture paralyzed with fear
The cycle of lunacy grinds
Through another revolution
Meaningless solidarity shown
Only through convenience
Binary promises of strength
Hollow as the adversary
We float atop waves of outrage
Only to crash back
Onto the shores of ambivalence
Crisis only matters when dictated
By the trends of manipulative simpletons
I don't believe you and I never will again
Break free from this social experiment
SIGNALS FROM BEYOND
Divine beings, signals from beyond
Awakening the ancient one
A great beacon emits from the stars
The summons are spoken
Bellowing from the tomb
Echoes carve the air
Families drawn from home
Into the depth of its lair
These sunless years have crippled his black wings
Immobilized from a thousand years of suffering
Negligent acts, destruction in effect
Insects of man caused the creatures unrest
Violent seed, embedded in the earth
To preserve the blue world
Grown under the foot of man
Protector of this realm
Parasites leeching every resource
Interference by a greater force
Wrath of man shall soon end
Leviathan is summoned
Bellowing from the tomb
Echoes carve the air
families drawn from home
Into the depth of its lair
These sunless years have crippled his black wings
Immobilized from a thousand years of suffering
Negligent acts, destruction in effect
Insects of man caused the creatures unrest
Divine beings, signal from beyond
Awakening the ancient one
A great beacon emits from the stars
The summons are spoken
The old one sees all
For he is here
He has always been here
Inside his Earthly lair
Awakened into blind rage
He ascends to the sky
Great mass blocks out the Sun
Free at last, He flies!
Great power harnessed from the Gods
Bestowed upon their son
Sleeping under the waves of time
Reclamation has begun
These sunless years have crippled its black wings
Immobilized from a thousand years of suffering
Negligent acts, destruction in effect
Insects of man caused the creatures unrest
Divine beings, signals from beyond
INVETERATE
Barely woken by primal rhetoric
We sleepwalk to the edge
Feeling our grasp tighten around the trigger
Lacking the courage to let go
We sustain and crave with human sacrifice
Vindicate this culture of murder
Downward we fall, absent minds rise
As ideals of man collide
Willpower seized in a coup of dignity
Freedom of vicious greed
We have been forced into this insanity
By contempt of knowledge
We sustain and crave with human sacrifice
Vindicate this culture of murder
Perverse distortions of reality
Feed contrarian beliefs
Contradiction over the rational
Victory over the deceived
Downward we fall, absent minds rise
As ideals of man collide
THE ALCHEMIST
Cast into the shadows
Shunned out by humanity
A blasphemy of a man
Holding vengeance in his hand
An unholy abomination
Planning one final task
A last ditch vanishing act
Fixated to his flask
Confined to his lair
His mind, absent of sanity
A man driven by lies
Only darkness in his eyes
An immortal vision
As he looks to the stone
Deciding his fate
And all that is known
Precursor to extinction
Knowledge to end it all
The silence will soon spread
As life comes to a halt
A chemical reaction
Only a drop is spilt
His eyes closed
As the glass hits his lips
At last, the time has come
An end to the world's pollution
The mutation begins
Hollow beneath the skin
His magnum opus
An elixir of life
He buries the stone
Along with hope for mankind
Precursor to extinction
Knowledge to end it all
The silence will soon spread
As life comes to a halt
A chemical reaction
Only a drop is spilt
His eyes closed
As the glass hits his lips
A diabolical plague
Soon the cells will split
Your death is overdue
Siege of the alchemist
A chemical reaction
Only a drop is spilt
His eyes closed
As the glass hits his lips
A diabolical plague
Soon the cells will split
Your death is overdue
Siege of the alchemist
Cast into the shadows
Shunned out by humanity
A blasphemy of a man
Holding vengeance in his hand
An unholy abomination
Planning one final task
A last ditch vanishing act
Fixated to his flask
Precursor to extinction
Knowledge to end it all
The silence will soon spread
As life comes to a halt
A chemical reaction
Only a drop is spilt
His eyes closed
As the glass hits his lips
A diabolical plague
Soon the cells will split
Your death is overdue
Siege of the alchemist
SHATTERED REPOSE
The first rays of a triple sunrise appear
Beyond the mountain range
Golden pillars ignite an auburn glow
Like fire razing the sky
Through these illusory flames
I peer back into a different life,
A distant light, constant strife,
A planet forgotten to time
The burden of humans has returned
Come to reclaim me
This arrogance, determined.
Matched by my resolution
To sabotage my peace
Now I dwell in the peace of pristine nature
Free from cancerous waste
In the shadow of Gliese dignity is reborn
In the embers of dissolution
Through these illusory flames
I peer back into a different life,
A distant light, constant strife,
A planet lost to the rising tide
Time changes all
Decades pass, alone
Forgotten memories
Shift, planet spins
Blissful form of creation
Distant ship approaches
The burden of humans has returned
Come to reclaim me
This arrogance, determined.
Matched by my resolution
To sabotage my peace
Man fears separation
Solitude my home
Sanctity reborn
Free from the blue sphere cold
Thought to be stranded
Sent to bring me back
Arrival upon a distant world
Only to face my wrath
Never to return
Severing body from soul
This endeavor ends
Free from the blue sphere cold
Time changes all
Decades pass, alone
Forgotten memories
Shift, planet spins
Blissful form of creation
Distant ship approaches
The burden of humans has returned
Come to reclaim me
This arrogance, determined.
Matched by my resolution
To sabotage my peace
VULCAN (FORGED IN FIRE)
Colossal star extinguished
Call to sacrifice
From a molten cage of flames
Sent to reignite
Body forged in fire
Recycled dead flesh
Reborn inside the mountain
Souls chosen to resurrect
Destined to take flight
Formed by the vulcan
Forth to the afterlife
Corpse reconstructed
Body forged in fire
Recycled dead flesh
Reborn inside the mountain
Souls chosen to resurrect
Eruption of smoldering ash
The great migration
Fly like burning arrows
Sent to pierce the sun
Tear, transform, redesign
As one, scorched wings take flight, rise!
From the Earth's bleeding eye
Emerge falcon of the red, sky!
Eruption of smoldering ash
The great migration
Fly like burning arrows
Sent to pierce the...
Eruption of smoldering ash
The great migration
Fly like burning arrows
Pierce the sun!
TOMES OF THE MYSTIC
Elder mystic guides us
Bringing visions of another time
The deep blackness surrounds us
Seeking wisdom from the other side
Words of the mystic
I dwell in the chasm of dilation
Where the gods dare not tread
Waiting at the cusp of reality
For evil to behead
Speaking forgotten knowledge
In a dead tongue
A prelude to the fall
Recite forbidden scripture
Let it be sung
Desperate we heed the call
Heaven, a delusion of the simian
Hell is a manifest of complex spacetime
Cataclysm cascades in the realms beyond all life
Conjuring forth titans of armageddon
Speaking forgotten knowledge In a dead tongue
A prelude to the fall
Recite forbidden scripture
Let it be sung
Desperate we heed the call
At war with the immortals
Find yourselves on the astral plane
Earthly body gone, spirit remains
Incantation spoken to the flame
Awaken all of the sleeping gods!
Evil stood mighty at the gates of our dimension
Infinite and invincible immortals of war
Their hopes of devastation and annihilation
Incinerated in the beams of the quasar
NGC 1277 PART II
ALIVE!
Deeper, and deeper still
Mysteries revealed
The helm expands into the distance
The oscillation's begun
But with my grasp extended
I feel the chill of its steel
I am stretched but not torn
Deeper, and deeper still
Turning back through the cusp
Time changes before my eyes
Unraveling unity of space and time
Severing me, from relativity
At the precipice of velocity
I plunge into the vortex
Headlong into this chasm of annihilation
On and through the ergosphere
Beyond the event horizon
I become one with this dissolution
Tidal forces wash over me
Increasingly devastating
It's mounting brutality
A sign of proximity
A spherical mass of light draws near
I won't have to endure much longer
The truth revealed, dimensions unfold
To expose the heart
Drifting in the glory of the singularity
All my past, present, and future flood my being
This pain I carry of the world I've left behind
So much to bare in this probabilistic foam
As intrinsic as the regret that overwhelms me
I feel the graceful harmony of this illusory reality
The pure beauty of what could have been
The complete fruition of balance and symmetry
We died
I let us die
I wanted us to die
We had to die
Obtained the knowledge, peace eludes me
The catharsis I crave remains unrequited
I have not seen the source, I must fall deeper
Nowhere more to travel outward, this frontier is inward
Here at last among the pillars of stellar creation
I realize I've passed through the gates of a mausoleum
Though I stand alone, the sole memory of an existence
I feel the panic of twenty billion souls desperate for rest
Their hands guide mine
To the locks on my helmet
I feel my time has finally come
We are one, we are one
DESTINY!
