And world came to me Born of flesh, I am Spirit observant, sentient Heir to ancient dust Helpless and frail I am youth, unwelcomed Mistreated Claim is laid to me By laws of gods and men Bound here by time Gift me with scars To make me in your image Mother I’m fated to wither Your god cursed me Sinner I’m made to be Thus I shall suffer And so turns innocence to wrath Fire of a thousand suns In me burns in defiance Kindled by the beast within Feral but free, I forsake this cradle Run blindly – out to deserts dry Where laws of gods and men Bind me no more Gift me with rage Monstrous, unforgiving Father Your teachings have wronged me I curse you I’m no longer son of man Thus I condemn you Amid father’s curse And mother’s cry I found within me Resolve unwavering I discovered what lurks down below Hidden and feared Ancestral will to power I am the one who dares survive (godforsaken) I am the root of dissolution I arise to bring upon you The gift of doubt What you’ve forgotten

A desolate life, relieved of mind’s burden Diminished to the essence of the beast I have become Hunted Men came with vengeance From broken homes My doom would have their peace restored My treason became A call to the tamed Unchained beast from herd And chaos reigned once more Devour This earth is ours to swallow Maraud, turn violent Every king is a tyrant Denounced, we’re godless Fire and stones await us home We’re past redemption Kill or be killed Let no faith endure I shall face my father’s wrath Remorseless A price is to be paid for my defiance Vile beyond my desire By tooth and claw my bloodline is severed Instincts overtook the mind He lay in the dirt, broken bones A sight unbeholden to no man His son I have left there too The hunter contrived what was hunted What I’ve become What has been done It tore apart my soul, it’s bleeding One seeks to kill Of one’s free will When taking lives will stay the hand of judgment Burned My cursed name won’t be forgotten Turned martyr, scattered in the wind I sow insurgence Wherever men set foot the ground is tainted By ashes, blood and reckless pride Our will - it bows to none Devour The earth is ours to swallow Maraud, turn violent Every king is a tyrant Defile, conquer This fire we stoke will end the world We’re past redemption Kill or be killed Let no faith endure

We’ve shattered the hourglass Leaving here nothing but sand And bitter remembrance Of centuries, now erased Ancestral throes we’re bound to relive Bearing chains anew Our cleansing fire brought to this world A prophecy of reckoning No place to hide, the desert is your trial You never learn You stay the same Truth is brought before your eyes You sold your time And now yourself Helpless victim of overpowering fear You never learn You stay the same Now you will realize You sold your time to belong And for what Your bones sink in the sand Your blood is feeding me Eye for an eye makes all of us kind In truth, for your youth I’ll sell you a grave You’ll pay upfront With blood or gold Your life is not sacred here Our cleansing fire brought to this world Atrocities beyond reason Life is not sacred here You never learn You stay the same Truth is brought before your eyes You sold your TIME (And time again a deep cut to the bone) Deep down below Honor the crows Forgotten I survive (I provide) I am feeding on you He must master or be mastered While to show mecy was a weakness Mercy did not exist in the primordial life It was misunderstood for fear And such misunderstandings made for death Lose force of will And you'll be hounded (Coward) By this ancient beast Remorseless, unleashed Suffer you will Absolute domination

Last dawn breaks Upon a ghostly realm, devoid of sentience Scattered forth lie corpses, lifelong prisoners of a grim fate Who walked into nothingness Familiar place, beckoning ill embrace In death reunite Scapegoats and their shepherds Cycle with no end in sight Born of sin, bound for ruin No last rite, nor afterlife serene Relieves A song of starving crows awakes Restless ghosts from shallow graves Forsaken in earthly ordeal The emptiness, the thirst inside The place where all screams fade and die The emptiness, a pious crave It will not stop Stand, be born anew, as penance- incarnated The burden of hope Weighs down on you Bring forth what’s divine in man (I confess, I repent) There’s just one way out of this Arise to bear the crown of thorns Again A dreadful path is what awaits All signs of weakness you’ll erase Forsake your past, abandon grace The emptiness, the thirst inside The place where all screams fade and die The emptiness, a pious crave It will not stop No spirit revels in rebirth upon remembering That change of face or name or time or place won’t save him from self All who walked before you Faced this rite of passage Life in chains Death and sickness We’ve endured since dawn of time This is the weaving of one’s fate Decide now Be a slave or dominate Self and world Starve or live to tell the tale Rise, Rise Rise and survive Unbroken Through sand, through snow, through eons of time We shall remain as scars to remind Of emptiness, of thirst inside Of place where all screams fade and die This emptiness, our pious crave It will not stop

A vision To me was revealed in the flames Of realms beyond death and time Of places divine In search of you I heed the starry skies Show me the way And I'll submit my all And all my triumphs Are to honor you And whither I tread I shall carry your name Desolate shores Deserts of snow By your will I've conquered them all I've braved every storm And vanquished all foes Enthroned, yet no solace found me In search of you I've scoured far and wide Show me the way I wither in despair And all my triumphs Were to honor you An old king now begs Answer me Blind faith I've kept - always, always Silent you've remained throughout my misspent youth Ardent vow I swore to find your promise land A mountain piercing clouds A throne room yet unseen Calls me to come home My purpose reignites In search of you I found I'm here alone Show me the way Oh, mirror on the wall Here all I've seen I long to dream again Of worlds beyond Within or yet without

Alone I came to the edge of the earth The highest peak that none have known until A flickering flame or a bird delivers prophecy Here Is where all the paths intertwine The birthplace of all that was and ever will be A sight to behold, here destiny itself is weaved Open your eyes And witness eternity The void The first and last breath here are drawn And dusk and dawn reveal to be but one Engulfed The grip of a vast nothingness Turned my gaze upon a place I dared not see Disclosed without mercy the futile shell that I called "me" There As shards of a fracturing creed Bled out, threatening to reveal Yielding, I prayed to forget this smothering abyss Open your eyes Or suffer obscurity In constrains of a mortal, fearful of Time, yet longing for its relief Dwelling on memory or morrow Ever unfolding Downstream, beyond Fragmented by the tide Oblivious Sheltering in denial So long as I remain afloat No peace will find me, none at all I'll sing this song, I'll howl of woe It's mine forever or until Row Onward Row

Years may pass, or days, or less 'Till silence finds a way To seep through the masks you wear Through faith, through fear Into your sinking heart Relief for some, or grief and sorrow It hungers all the same "What's borrowed can't be owned and what has been must always be" Thus it reads in laws of empyrean And how alone a soul can be When faced with the humbling eclipse Uncanny concord then precedes the dark Alas, I have waited a lifetime Perhaps you would be willing to answer me Of all gods, you I've trusted alone What Mountain showed me, I forgot I leave my name before your door now And by birthright I am owed this respite I have played along, most faithful Now promise me, old one You who harbor souls uncounted No memories will follow None will haunt my bones A thousand years would not suffice If spent in the shadow of oblivion's jaws So do your worst - devour all I was And may you choke on it Time betrayed you Cursed be, Silence My king's blood I forfeit to tame you Join me, I beg As I stand at the gates of Never Nameless, blind and deaf, my journey I began As chains and shells of old are broken by my fall Countless suns conspired to contrive me Mere ash and dust bore my soul Time - In river violent, drowned to be baptized Washed ashore, ghost with no purpose I, divine creation Walked the earth in wonder and awe I walked with others, yet all alone From whence I came I longed most to know Then the stones gave way and revealed all Called me "kin" and reminded Of what lay deep inside, deeper still and then under The dust that bears me faded as terrible light shun through and showed As above, so below, within or without, the Silence remains in its grandeur The only sentience, place and time that has been, all until now All that is to come or is ever dreamed When it comes If you let it Know it seeks to ferry the stranded Know in life what it's gown veils Know just death... and so... you shall have it Gone, to sheer nothing, past with Null made one What matters our creative endless toil When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil "It is by-gone" - How shall this riddle run As good as if things never had begun Yet circle back, existence to possess I'd rather have Eternal Emptiness Yet circle back, existence to possess