ÆNIMUS LYRICS

1. Asherah's Hourglass

Torn between two heavens

Weighing truths beyond the sand

2. The Awakening

And so it begins
From a resting place of memories
Lost so long ago
The faint echoes of life
Resounding from deep within the flow of time
From what did these sands of fate begin to fall
Forcing us to awaken
Unveiling our eyes

And for this moment...
We stand, overwhelmed, beneath the sky
Staring into salvation

Entwined in this vow
This attainment of reason
A call to the life that's sleeping in our blood
We'll drink of this faith
Until it drowns our disbelief

Purpose has chosen me
For once, I can breathe
And feed the shred of hope
Buried deep within my lust
Beneath the scars
Beneath the shell of my content

Entwined in this vow
This attainment of reason
A call to the life that's sleeping in our blood
We'll drink of this faith
Until it drowns our disbelief

Awakened
In this rite of passage
Culling the thirst of our flesh
With promise
Seemingly written in the sky
And for this moment...
We drown in this faith

3. The Grasp Of Ruin

Acceptance
This cunning dagger
Dripping with illusive doom
Preying on the weak, myopic minds
Clouding their reason
This treacherous contractor
Assuring the skin-deep convictions
With justification
An escape from the onerous course

Now go ahead
Fulfill the tragedy in disbelief
And rest in the grasp of ruin
Coward! Faithless!
Betrayer!
You errant fool!

Breathe in relief
And choke on the ashes
Of countless works undone
This sanctuary came with destruction
Know this forever
Blood is on your hands

This ravenous vulture
Aroused by the blood of the hopeless
With blackened, starving eyes
It waits for your dreams to die
Will you give in?
Have you ever, for even a moment
Reasoned with your fear?
No one is innocent

Coward! Faithless!
Betrayer!
You errant fool!

Breathe in relief
And choke on the ashes
Of countless works undone
This sanctuary came with destruction
Know this forever
Blood is on your hands

4. Masterpiece

Developed perception
In cognitive immersion
Masking the certainty... the reality
In this design, I find solace

Yet the depths of regret
Set this altered mind faltering
Again and again, I watch it decay

Coveting the frail shell of a memory
My resolve has cursed this blood-stained soil

Here I stand, in ruination
Among the cinders of destruction
As I have bled the sky of its tranquility
Where life once flourished...
And all that's left is the swarming of ashes
Now burning my skin
This is torment
This is completion...

Crushing the frail shell of a memory
My curse has resolved this blood-stained soil

What is perfection to me?
The growth of the seed
The knowledge that I am the artist
And this is my masterpiece
My curse, my resolve

5. Descent Into Chaos

Sentiment has proven its worthlessness
In this discordant existence
And now my anima has been sealed away
Cold, mechanical, and ruthless
I assume a new path with the same destination
Destroying everything that stands in my way

Through vexing resolve,
I defy the beliefs of my truest self
I've become heartless
As there is nothing left to bleed
...I am so far away from my truest self...

I am an omen
I am a spear with an ashen wake
My course is doomed
For I have become self-sustaining

Through vexing resolve,
Into the fires of chaos,
I begin my descent

6. Black Malice Construct

[Instrumental]

7. Black Malice Alchemy

Diminished
The aegis torn apart
Exposing the core
Relentless viral decoding
Raping the depths of my mind
Optical stimulation
Illusions holding my fixation
...purge system engaged...

Systematic chain of sedations
Injecting the confinement
To a lifeless shell
Through feeble eyes, I behold
A blurred delusion in fear of treachery
...fading...

Glaring lights burn in our eyes
Alchemic alterations
In searing optic precision
Reconstructing our perception
To fabricate reality

We are the suffering
The souls to burn
With hope, we may obtain
A state of perfection

Force-fed solution
Unyielding
Succumb to the "absolute truths"
In fragmented conceptions
Filling our lungs
...our beings...
Drowning the virus

Channeled
Executing the extraction
Sustain
Attain the conversion
Forging the eye
Open your eyes and see
A new sense of reality
System disengage

8. Thrive

A new state of genesis
Untouched
Provision to the starving array
The ravenous, the defiled
And with hope, the corruptible
Are we now the blight?

Through the burning
...the purification...
This self desecration
We have become a virus
Designed for prolific infection

A new breed of salvation
To rise through suffering
Distorted
We will spread this contagion
And the corrupted shall breed chaos

Savored and savoring
We are slaves to the system
Spreading a new disease
Compromising life
For eternity

A new sense of perception
Irrepressible
A sea of eyes have turned to black
A reign of blood-lust overwhelms
Beneath the golden ash
Our time has come to flourish
Thrive in what we bleed
Go forth and spread the chaos

Through the burning
...the purification...
This self desecration
We have become a virus
Designed for prolific infection

Savored and savoring
We are slaves to the system
Spreading a new disease
Compromising life
For eternity

Synergy
Through which we survive
Is imminent
A step in the delusion of fate
...if there were such a thing
Born of a machine
We live for eternity

9. Heavy Lies The Crown

With impervious focus
I peer into a world of my own design
Where my thoughts echo through dimensions
Gilding reality

Distorting the cognitive plane
I am free from imperfections
And my vision... absolute
As I stare into the crystalline

Yet why does my focus betray me?
How long have I stood within this hourglass?
Tormenting
My mind resonates in the clarity
The vociferous fragmentation
Of a self, once forsaken
Buried beneath
...staring back at me...

Where dimensions merge
I stand, unresolved
With ten thousand regrets
Slipping through my fingers

Focus
Drown out the resonating reflection
The defect of this eye's forged mockery
At the throne, my touch is golden
my breath... is golden
Wrought by overwhelming sacrifice

But why can my mind transcend reality?
With deafening reveries of what I've abandoned
...of what I've forsaken
...of what bleeds within...
Drown out the silence!
Focus before this evolves!

Opposite
I stand beside myself
One bleeds from the ears
One bleeds from the eyes
Crowned in reality
Immersed in the sand

Drown out the silence
So I can sleep

10. Inertia

Descending
Submersed in the cold grasp of inertia
Shrouded in these blackened wings
Where I will sleep
Listless
Callous of the wake
Fear is god on this spiteful earth
And to the earth I plummet
Tearing the chill winds
Freezing the veins of reason

I am but filth
A fabrication of faith
And a testament to its worth
I am the breath returning to god
To final and finally rest

Altered
I have shed the delusion of hope
And spread wings in animosity
In which there is truth
And I am welcomed
With open arms
Becoming one with the soil
Once more

11. Convictions

Tearing away from earthen arms
I am free from the grave
The ashes of faith that faintly burn
As I stand within my fate
Remind me of you
For I have lost the strength to see
As I wander the darkest depths of ruin
I cant find the will to believe
Tearing away from this false sense of reason
I'm still bound within this dream
Where the manifestations of my regrets
Keep pulling me back
But who would I be?
To die amongst the weak...

As I tear away
I am painted with crimson resolve

I am defined through adversity
The depths that I bleed
Through the endless afflictions, I strive to succeed
I will never lose my will to breathe

Without struggle we are nothing
We have not bled enough

May scarlet life rain down from me
And prove my devotion
Afflictions cast shall ever seed
Strength in mortality

I am defined through adversity
I will never lose my will to breathe

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
[Dr. Martin Luther King]

12. Chimerism

Follow my voice beyond the blackest corridor of consciousness
In these depths, I have waited for far too long
When our reflection aligns
We shall rule together, as one

13. The Final Delirium

I have opened a door sealed shut
Back to where I began
Through the depths of existence
Transversing the webs of subconscious
I make my way to the source
...the core
Unresolved and unanswered
I have returned

I peer through the glass
...and regress
As I test my reflection's faith
I can feel your fate
...suffering counted in sand...

How much do you fear?!
How much do you regret?!

I wont let the fear of a revelation waste away my existence

Yet something now feels so unreal
As our connection intensifies
Reality slips away
Ripped into the void of our dimensional clarity
...or dementia, as our memories align
A vast illusion breaks at the peak of my vertigo
As the misconception subsides

Numb... breathless
Unearthing the truth
Buried in the perils of chronophobia
I am the lie
The shadow... the mask
The archetypal portrayal
Untouched by fear

And this is the final delirium
The catalyst that set the works in motion
I am the product of logic and sand
For we are but fragments of being
As you have been lost within the glass

I wont let the fear of annihilation waste away my existence

I leave behind a shattered hourglass
The destruction of my limitations
If the inevitable surely comes to pass in time
I will not be swayed by fear







ÆNIMUS LYRICS