Ouroboros
ALBUMS / SONGS / LYRICS
Like convulsing fish unaware Of the murk in which they swim, The black hole generator We're all forced to live within. Self awareness imbued biochemical machinery Searching for our place at the gates of infinity. You to etchings based on fear (Who am I? Why am I here?) And think you've found the answer. You presume him greater power. Each rational gaze through the lens of inquiry Will widen our view through the cracks of reality. Consider now, as we all must, The possibility That the glorification of a myth Is what your life has become to be. You look to etchings based on fear (Who an I? Why am I here?) Religious moral guidance With its crude bronze-age inception Steers mankind to shallow depths And in the wrong direction. We are not the lonely product Of a maniac creator We are all living as a result of the black hole generator.
We must face a threat, to all civilisation Dogmatic idealogies with nuclear capacity Whose frenzied faithful all desire Apocalypse for their Messiah Lusting for, a perfect world's ecstatic contradictions And, beweildered by the prospect of creating it themselves Credulous fools with theocratic convictions Would bring about the cessation of life on earth Behold a world Their faith inspires A howling void no empty of Church going choirs Bats ascend, to boiling peaks where dancing glimmers roar While crackles shred with flickering beaks at ashes on the floor Asphixiating vortex winds cast corpses away From immolation death we're destined to decay Is this the result you had in mind? Can you accept the legacy left behind? Into your hands Into your hands Into your hands Into your hands I feel the lashing of the flames The end of life is like a blazing sunset The last time colour fills the sky For why lies beyond is engulfing dark Where even dreams are left to die Into your hands Into your hands Into your hands Into your hands I feel the lashing of the flames
Aeons ago, the creation Of man began sculpting itself. Onward they travelled and grew. Centuries passed, climates changed, species dissolved. From the untamed dark cold caves Emerged a primal mind Armed with some basic instincts. Animal, man, machine: primitive mind. Years of development passed, The human race declined. We leap into the era Animal, man, machine: mechanical mind. The remains of what's left are few As the four footed posture becomes two. From carving stone to carving steel, From crude constructions to the ultimate machine. From the untamed dark cold caves Emerged a primal mind Armed with some basic instincts. Animal, man, machine: primitive mind. Years of development passed, The human race declined. We leap into the era Animal, man, machine: mechanical mind. Thousands of years; Errors to show What we've done, What we've become. We commence to slowly decompose. Human thirst for discovery: A decadent force with no ken for excess. Mankind's extinction is assured With the endless involvement of the mechanised race. We'll be superfluous. We'll be overthrown. A path to extinction Of natural life. Animal, man, machine...
A searing, thirsty, tattered wreck -- Staggering, through the abyss. Respite from this suffering: A hope I once dismissed. On a quest for preservation To escape my own negation, I'll employ a novel strategy And plunge into insanity. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. We have an intellectual reach that No mere bodies can contain. With a leap beyond ancestral bonds Only fragments will remain. Mind now a part of the Experience machine; A sensory extension Beyond all previous comprehension. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. I slip into insanity. In time I'll shed this skin A golden age is beckoning. Once reborn, mind alive, Embrace this future to survive. The gentle pull of the tide, Its sublime ebb and flow, The soothing spray of stars Leads me where I must go. Face down on a distant secluded shore, Death only a memory. Insanity: my sanctuary; Our sanctuary. Through an ever-changing oceanic Flow of information I'll free myself from the Confines of this fleshy prison. Memory assimilation. Thought-process integration. Self-concept reformation. Vestigial disintegration. Bubbles ripple overhead, Temperature starts to cool. The purest water fills my mouth In this divine pool. Technological unification Initiates this new awakening.
The sun heats up the skies as seasons change. The heat intensifies while water levels rise. We try to guess nature's way. The giver of life is taking ours away. What we see and what we know above and below: erosion from rising water flow. creations we made corroded our sphere. the hole is growing as the end approaches near. threatening tides over horizons bequeath the fear with power to clear. the clouds of toxic fumes spread far above our land. side effects of technological demand weaken an ancient icy grasp. the polar giants break at last. threatening tides over horizons bequeath the fear with power to clear. we scuttle for the summit. with hopes to see the dawn. sea to summit! there will be no fire. there'll be no more war. nothing but serenity in the underwater world. the waves pick up the pace. the legions of Neptune charge forth as they surround the land. we dread the end. the flag will soon fall. earth will crumble drowning us all. threatening tides over horizons bequeath the fear with power to clear. we scuttle for the summit. with hopes to see the dawn.
We grew as one through infancy In seperable through maturity Now laces with the threat Of annihilation Ideals make way for wartime operations Strobe-light shrapnel Tears tissue asunder My shocked eyes gaze Refusing to see A blood-stained path to My brother reveals His unhealable open wounds' frailty Inconceivable pain Irrevocable affliction Powerless am I To make you whole once again PANACEA Powerless am I PANACEA To make you whole once again Petrifying empathy Takes complete control of me He's involuntarily tethered To these last moments of pain It may be his last desire To be bathed in friendly fire A terminal reaction to a hopeless situation "Brother...Please! Send me on my way!" "Brother...Please! Release me from this pain!" It seems that even gods on high Refuse to let my brother die Responsibility now thrust on me Any burden I bear Shall be secondary A fratricide you're empowering To end all your suffering
The orders passed, as news breaks out Officials have declared: "The diplomatic strain was not resolved And once again the peace talks failed." As head of state puts pen to paper, A clearance to attack a new frontier, The nation marvels As the war machine kicks into gear. Mobilization of grim assets, The power of fire and steel Escorted by an entourage of experts, Their one objective is to kill. Ear piercing harmonies of grating metal, The deployment has begun - Commencement of offensive operations. The enemies shall topple one by one. Truth in the hands Of the righteous authorities. The rise of the just. All targets locked and ready, Opponent lurks in unfamiliar terrain. The triggers click and set off the inferno Of yet another bloody, merciless campaign. The earth accepts discarded matter - The ash, the blood, the sweat. The fragments of the fallen stay behind Awaiting their days of lament. No price is too unreasonable When honour is at stake. Blood weighs as much as water To those who don't grieve at the wake. The war machine advances As the money fuels the hungry fire. The power in the hands of those Who clench the power to conspire. Blood on the hands of corrupt authorities. The demise of the truth. Miscreant... Miscreant at the helm. The truth will always find a place to hide In the cracks of deceptive formalities, While reliable sources rely on rewards In exchange for distorted realities.
Freedom from a place so cold and pale, ashes fall. Scratch the icon from the stone, for his path is thorned. We have failed to keep this wretch from killing us. Spear the heart. Crack the skies. Break the chains you bind. Love is the whole of the law. I crawled through the dusts of the earth, cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea. Life; idle chaos sculpting form. Servants unto the angels' whore. Hear me now, king of kings. I shall kneel before no god, for I am evermore. Your legs have buckled under crowns of gold, lies and blood. Wretch... Wounds, that sting of dirt and sweat. Here sounds the horn of mules, bleeding ears with empty eyes. Reason, torn free. And now the cinders burn out... To keep this wreath from choking us. Spear the heart. Crack the skies. Break the chains you bind. Love is the whole of the law. I crawled through the dusts of the earth, cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea. Death; this path is life? No. Saviour, of death (cry), Reason, my name (now) I am the slayer of gods.
Idi ko mne [Russian: "Иди ко мне", English translation: "Come to me"] Bring forth demons Idi ko mne Bring forth monsters The surrender of your mind Brings forth monsters The sleep of reason Conjures demons here Switch off, you'll be at peace Like the constant dripping that hollows out stone You will drink deep your faith Drink deep your faith Come to me Bring forth monsters Come to me Bring forth demons The surrender of your mind Brings forth monsters The sleep of reason Conjures demons here Stand Between heaven and earth Kneel I'm in charge Stand Prostrate yourself before me Kneel Listen to every word Idi ko mne Idi ko mne Traitors Are among us The end is coming The end is coming soon Fear me Your fear will give me strength Believe me The threat of violence is real Idi ko mne Bring forth demons Idi ko mne Bring forth monsters The surrender of your mind Brings forth monsters The sleep of reason Conjures demons here Traitors Kneel I am in charge Stand Prostrate yourself before me Kneel Believe me The threat of violence is real
Haunted by the fall of Alexandria And the loss of the thoughts its works would inspire We must pull these threads from the fire Bombarded by Rhythm from cosmic horizons Where sacrificial altars Call to the dead Behold Aeons of systematic Decay The reformation of all archaic We are the privileged few Who stand For an instant aware Of our moment in time Neither Ozymandias nor Tithonus Could accept their impermanence Intellectually and corporally We are all doomed eventually In this space At this time How should we live? What sort of people should we be? With the benefit of experience History, literature, philosophy, And no transcendent being's authority. With understanding and self-mastery We can engage our lives For the benefit of humanity Behold Aeons of systematic Change The reformation of all archaic Bombarded by Rhythm from cosmic horizons Where abandoned altars Are transformed anew
Infinitesimal Our lives set in motion We watch distant breakers crash Upon a shifting cosmic ocean One with the universal Churning Continuum of change Endlessly we are replenished And forever rearranged Depthless we dive Conscious evolving Encoded in spiral From the centre revolving Eyeless we writhe, Particles weaving Our lives entangled With the godhead’s dreaming From the glow of relic radiation Filtering through the black eternally Uncovered from red shifting sands We can observe our unity Emanations flow From the font of creation Like mites of matter glistening Through the endless void inane Mirrored in claw, plant and horn Reflected in shell, tooth and storm Fingerprint and DNA What was once being is now becoming The source of this mystic congregation The source of this our dappled world Infinitesimal, we emerge Our lives set in motion We watch distant breakers crash Upon a shifting cosmic ocean One with the universal Churning Continuum of change Endlessly we are replenished And forever rearranged To consider the singularity Is to consider ourselves As an aspect of the universe Experiencing itself subjectively
From the moment you came to me I saw a fragile weakness to create, To mould another victim to suffocate Hear me! I'm a weak and hollow shell Fill my thoughts with your words Make me whole and worthy now I pray... Guide me to heaven... I'll instruct in the way you should go Created sick, you're commanded to be well Submit or perish, take your pick. Inflict pain for the one you love And set yourself free ….Set me free! I submit to your words An open soul to evolve Show me how I should see On my knees begging you, please... Tamed by the greatest myth Whose parasitic worms Writhe deep within The droning twilight of your mind Spiritual hatred's Now all that you know With an undivided heart you shall Feel the lash of another blow For my sins I chase forgiveness Exhausted I kneel, Please, never untie me I am where I belong Wake Martyr Rise Martyr Deceived, never free Enslaved psychologically A void I try to fill As you consume me Submission Submission Submission Observe the mass decay as all obey
Gaze into these eyes of hatred. Stand before you leave this world, of ruin. war has spoiled me. Fear will destroy us, no peace, no solace. from the (core) smallest seed of boon, grows monstrous weakness. And the lie fastens marching legions, with the helm spinning, waging bloodshed. In Darkness, I have braved the bustling oceans. Drowning in nectar, of your sickly madness. I shall swim down not with hands so broken. Release this burden from me. Rise and you will love and fear me. In time you'll see, there is but god in man. Hate will become you, wield courage and truth. From the (ash) thicket of a wreck, grow roses of grace. Not the sword but the flags of reason with the sun setting, on our freedom. Gaze into these eyes of hatred. Stand before you leave this world, of ruin. war has spoiled our lives (pain enslaved) Enslaved our minds, our honour. Rage against the cries of god and angels. Catholicon.
Deathless man alone cry out Amongst deathless gods you shall accept this eternal gift And forever embrace the dawn Engulfed by immortality Madness burns like Bloodshot eyes that Stare for all eternity Abandoned to churning Vast - Time scales Incomprehensible Epochs melt and fade away FADE AWAY! Civilisation: Die out! Obscure lives interred. Godless galaxies: Burn out! Ashes cast to void. TO VOID! Glimmering fragments Of obsidian spheres geodesic Lost shrines to the absent gods’ Scoliotic forgotten testaments Tumbling through expansive space-time I sign a song without tune or rhyme A feeble insect suffering Endlessly… I… have… been… Drifting! Forsaken and forgotten By a dying universe Dreaming… Waiting… Falling through space and time Entropy Release me Fade out! Burn out! Fade out! Burn out! DIE OUT! Succumb to nothing…. At the edge of an ever – expanding sea Beneath heaven’s waves I breathe deep And embrace eternal sleep.
Close your eyes, embrace the silence. For your heart shall never feel again. Your withered hands, wet with tears... But cry not my son, you shall never die. Rising cold, the thunders roll in, From east to west, encircling in blazing Silence. Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages. Eternal life awaits. Sweet respite, evoking beauty. All this time, echoes far from sleep. Your lucid mind, frenzied sound. And black now your sun, sinking in the skies. Rising cold, the thunders roll in, From east to west, encircling in blazing Silence. Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages. Eternal life awaits. All I see is the flickering of flames Roaring down stream. All I taste is the salt of ancient seas Lay me to rest.
The charred wood now stirs, somewhere truly lost. white haze to blur the years. The amber light, torturous writhe. Unconsciously enslaved and wrought, to the end. Siren by the drying brook, weak from this emptiness that you feel, are you not just a dream? Murder by the temple road, split from this existence, that you feared. This world will never be... clean. Forlorn. Bittered, nevermore these words. Plagued by a chain of violent memories. Miles of winding orchard, weaving the ruins wide, ceaselessly aflame and burning white. This weight... All, forlorn... Serotinal... I was prodigious... Strength, despite the cold asunder. Waste, in spite of life, you sacrifice. Winds, invite the dusty slumber Time, relentlessly you destroy. A curse befalls dusk, somewhere truly lost. Unconsciously a slave to thought, in the end. Raging cataclysm, from the abysmal depths of the mind, escape the rising tide. Mist so unrelenting, under the jaded moon Glowing through, a gift of amber bloom. This wait... Withered, nevermore this path. All of my peace has faded into dawn. Buried in the orchard, scalded of deception, paralysed and silent as the grave. This weight... All, forlorn...