Descend
Lyrics by John Brenner.
Descend
I followed on the deep and wild way and came to a place for descending. A devil here behind, amid this cruel and dismal swarm. Show us the way to the mountain: a place where no light shines, all the cruel valleys, dry, sterile thunder, those content in the fire, the sad bank of the Acheron.
Rue
Absolve us, dormant rite's ease. Yearn, clime! Only less love is never sure. Apostase! Use dark rifts, ebb your cool omnist lips' line in new soil. all unclothed, dreaming red. Each year crawls out life less: insane numb sadness.adness.
Lapse
One moment alone overcame us and I fell...and I fell...broken by heavy thunder. Three seconds later I struggled for breath. Lost with a compass in our empty room. Sitting by the fountain, holes in the ice...holes in the ice. In autumn the leaves falling in death’s dream kingdom.
After All
(Instrumental)
Here Lies
O mantle eternally tiring, heaping grief on grief. Her sheltered, guarded heart, her teeth were accidental stars. Naked and terrified. A bestial, no human life. Accursed, cold, and heavy, the ashes of dead fire. A finished work requires no resurrection. Naked and terrified. A bestial, no human life. I’ll gather the pieces, mend them, and wander through a sky of weighty decisions, drowned in its thin veneer.