LYRICS

FLESHGARDEN

Embrace the fire, den for the tortured.

Endlessly purging the wounds.

Blessed by the burden of scorn,

Prophet of doom, harbinger of anguish and woe.

I am engulfed by the void.

As I banish my remains from the earth.

Lost and severed, a specter in the flesh,

Unable to thrive, unfit for eminence.  

I was the heir of this world,

Yet I'll reign underground with my throat full of worms.

I bore the furnace within,

Consumed inside out by the treacherous blaze.

I'll soon be one with ashes,

Flames devour what is left from my flesh.

And Into sacrifice I shall set myself free.

I was the heir of this world,

Yet I'll reign underground with my throat full of worms.

I bore the furnace within,

Consumed inside-out;

Murmur to me, old revenant;

Lead myself into the grave, deeper than the chasms I forged inside of me.

Groan the forgotten hymn,

Lead all life into punishment.

Sufferer,

Martyr revered,

Introspection is the curse of the living,

And pain is salvation.

Sufferer.

“I yearn not to be. Trying to exist is an act of fate, a protest against verity.”

Embrace the fire, den for the tortured.

Endlessly purging the wounds.

Blessed by the burden of scorn,

Prophet of doom, harbinger of anguish and woe.

Murmur to me, old revenant;

Lead myself into the grave, deeper than the chasms I forged inside of me.

Groan the forgotten hymn;

Lead all life into punishment.

And without remorse, I’ll set this blinding veil ablaze,

For I swore to witness my all consuming end,

Contentment will never sever the ache,

Voiceless, I’ll squeal my testament.

 

DERELICT

Harvest the sacred compound,
Secluded and oppressed; corrupted lineage,
Bred to disappear, reluctant to survive.                

Crush my soul to shards,

Shatter myself to ruins.
Fissure me from the inside,

Consume my sense of reason. 

Sacrificed aspirations,
Idols shall crumble as we maraud the same grounds ancestors befouled.

Treachery is the fabric of reality.
Constructed and failing,
Fed to death with malevolence.

Malevolence.

A burden of contempt.

Crush my soul to shards,
Shatter myself to ruins.
Fissure me from the inside,

Consume my sense of reason. 

Dark impurities converge, hereditary violence,
Desperate and wailing, I still doubt tomorrow exists.

Herded toward oblivion,
Descendants of absolute suffering

Rise, rise, as history repeats.

Rise, rise: we'll never live in peace.

Treachery is the fabric of reality.

Constructed and failing,
Fed to death with malevolence.

Pledged to behold the emptiness.

Lost, hopelessly condemned to suffocate.

 

SARCOPHAGUS

Enshrine my tragedy.

All I ever wanted was to become someone else.

The prominence I seeked could’ve been an escape from myself.

It should’ve been easy for me to grasp that I wasn’t meant to exist.

No one caught me when I fell deep into the dark,

My screams echoed afar and came back to me unheard.

No hand to grab, no redemption:

Engulfed alive in the deepest of solitude.

My oath, my covenant: I shall be one with nothing.

An advocate of delusion.

Devotee of distress, of devoid invocations.

No memories of when I felt something,

Embalmed alive: I reject all perceptions.

Leading my embers astray.

So small in my own head,

No one will remember me.

So safe in my own hell,

I renounce to eternity.

Eternity.

I can’t bear this weight no more,

Free me of this curse only mortals wear.

I’d suspend myself away from gravity,

Withdrawn within my own coffin.

All this pain.

All this pain won’t stop me from drifting away.

 

MORNINGSTAR

Bright as morning mirrored by dawn.

Dark as dusk swallowed by stars.

Tremors of the firmament: silver winds and black fires.

The truth before altars: the invisible God.

Echoes beyond twilight: the just and the unjust.

The sovereign of scorn, The universe and its unending force,

The spell and the scourge: reveal yourself through me.

Rituals in hidden tongues: obedient to the unseen.

Thee invoke the bornless one: who revealed himself to me.   

And by this ineffable name, I will command your summoning,

The grand martyr; I call your name.

At the which being heard the elements are overthrown.

The triumph of malediction will soon befall.

Will soon befall, upon us all.

Incantations of arcane inception won't be left unvoiced.

Morningstar; the prodigal son,

Your light will pierce within.

Morningstar; emissary from the void,

Your shadows will shine as bright as the sun.

Oracles susurrant: profanity consumed within.

The black force bestowed: bewitched sycophants gather in obscurity. 

The abyss awaits my triumphal return.

What is dead shall live forever.

What is dead shall live forever.

Into naked flames I stood, an immaculate self.

Drained from the malice I conceived, 

Breeder of Serpents; I beg you to see through me.

I pledged allegiance to the secret seals;

I lived through your essence, existed through your reality.

I turned my bones to dust from kneeling.

All in vain, all for nothing.

You stayed forever hidden from me.

Unresponsive, further than my palms could ever hope to reach.

Your verity unattainable,

Forbidden desires for my spirit so weary.

How dare you even let me down,

When you never carried me in your pitch-black heart.

How dare you proclaim yourself the Shooting Star,

When you never watched me burn alive?

The stronger lights burn twice as fast,

And I have burnt so very bright.

Ever longing, everlasting.

All in vain, all for nothing.

I never wanted to disappear;

I only yearned for absolution.

I’ve found my sole purpose in self-destruction.

Phantom pains emerge,

The flame of my spirit withers with the wind,

But the ache still burns,

The ache still burns...

I still burn brighter within.

I’m still burning.