ELEPHANT LYRICS

1. Istar Bleeds

A seven-spired temple rising in splendor
The might of Istar in a sky of white gold
The majesty of the holiest city on Krynn
The chosen of the gods lost in their own light
A clergy corrupted by Manifest Virtue
Enslave and exterminate all evil races
All contrary thoughts shall be punished by death
For the Kingpriest to control the will of the mass
The paranoid despot, persecuted by shadows
Desires to rule in glory as the truth of Paladine
The exalted ascent of his high eminence
An insolent ultimatum prompted his doom
Demanding in his pride
What can only be sought in humility

Now the true clerics have left the land
The day of the Cataclysm dawns silent
Calamity turns to chaos
And the pale blue eyes of the Kingpriest reveal a weary frightened man
Ripping through the sulfurous air
A terrible resounding ruin
Judgment came from The Ancient Gods
When the fiery mountain fell

Istar bleeds
A nightmare of weeping, sadness and despair
The teeming fields of summer lie shattered on the ocean floor
Covered by the mercy of the waves

2. Doomed In Cathedral Crypts

Embraced by lightning in the Neutrial Interior
Death rules the air on tyrants wings
Claustrophobic chaos in a maze of prismatic walls
Benighted by the horns of the god

Cabalistic glyphs recall the story of the pharaoh
Keeper of the tomb and the multitudes of undead
Sealed within the 12th Sphere - The Ocean of Infinite Agony
A plague borne upon the triple helix
A hideous fungus of vipers
Mystified before the crystal altar
A sacrifice of light before the silent portal

Dread forms are summoned from celestial planes
Howling in rage beneath the abyss shroud

Sorcerers and kings waged great wars
Shadowed by spells in cathedral crypts
A dark lineage - The night breathes again

By the claws of the moon, sanity is riven from the soul
As Aries drinks the blood of the butchered Aphrodite

Mesmerised by the last flame of sunset
The immortal battle at the edge of twilight
Yet all tears have run dry
From countless millenia of oblivion

3. The Conjuror'S Harp

I awoke upon the plateau beneath an amber sky
I felt the heartbeat of the wind in the land where the rain is born
With aplomb I bled the heavens and watched the cherubs burn
Besieging fabled Titans through malefic invocations
Charming memories of the future haunting the pandemonium
The bitter illusion is all that remains but for me the vision will succeed
Deciphering crude symbols within the black caves
The secrets of the ancient galaxy
Understand the mystery of the Spiral Nebula
Communing with Sith Magicians on the floor of Lake Naath
This robe my only armor, magic my only quest
The dreamlore of Chedudwyn and the candles of Sirrion
Lost among a frenzy of images
I hear the songs of the bards
Boredom catalyzes creation
The gates of prophecy open

Carry onward
Manifested by the force of my will
A thundering pace
The druids come only to bury the dead

My vindication lies at the tranquil flames
This journey mystical has forsaken no wish
A great distance is yet before me
And worlds beyond still await
Soaring unfettered, the crystal sword in hand
Illumined in the mountain fortress, imbued with formulae
I fear my time is short
Hysteria warps my frantic mind
Dimorphing - the structure unravels
Reality has become unreal

4. The Demon Incarnate

Asleep below the freezing earth, stirred by the call of the accursed mask
Old, dark memories of triumph - a sanctuary of pain and hate
Decaying limbs claw through the dirt - the gruesome stench of the past
Grotesque shapes obscured by the fog, the moon a bone-white glow
Primitive ghoulish hunger to kill, to gore, consume
Decrepit are the living, The Demon's will be done
The Evil Eye aflame with the power of necromancy
An immobilizing stare torturing pitiful souls

The cemetery is alive with the lurching undead
Exhuming horrible sins in the dead of night
A lurid flashing light - anguish and torment
Raising all enslaved by death

A grim and turgid darkness, contorted forms and shadows
Ashes of angels fall like snow upon a grey and lifeless ground
The throbbing pulse of The Gravehammer is buried by sadness and gloom
Until only silence is echoing in eternity

In the rotting air, Granath smiles upon Ovu Mobani incarnate
The graveless horror embodied in a zombie's flesh

5. Shadows Of The Conquering Dominion

Far beyond the stars, at the edge of the final frontier
I stand as Emissary of the Celestial Temple
Bastion of the ancient wormhole
Timeless entities transcending the nexus

Awakening visions - a universe in flames
The Pagh Wraiths blazing with radiant hate
The lengthening shadows of the conquering dominion
And legions of Jem Haddar fighting 'til the last

The sword of war will plunder with might - Cardassia in ruins
Amongst the endless fleets of ships smouldering in defeat
Bloodless eyes in a burning lair - a cage of crystal fire
The shapeless menace imprisoned by wrath under the dreaded caves
Enter the prophecy - destiny's ode - the profound wisdom of fate
Eternal rest in the sleep of completion, a wave of infinite sadness

Lightships once scattered by the solar winds
In bold adventure across the immense sea of space
As the nine orbs reappeared in the Bajoran skies
The divine Tears of the Prophets

6. The Sleepwalker

In a dark age, I walked among the tyrants
Six we were - bound in a midnight trance
Every night we would die together
Restless and reckless with no destination but escape
Time to go to sleep, soon the dreams will come
Eyghon possess me, take me anywhere but here
To where nightmares still walk in physical form
Before they were imprisoned in the quiescence of the mind
Drawn by the tenebrous spirits to the bacchanals of Achelous
Gazing into the souls entwined in the rivers of Etruria

Warriors of evil blood gathered in the depths
Initiating the projection across countless morbid planes
A circle of extinction amongst the silent stars
Dormant in the darkness of rebirth

Days of chaos, black magic and sorcery
Feeling the surge of exhilaration for pleasure or gain
Dreading the inevitable leap into the spectral rush
From the edge of this timeless ritual

Treasuring the moments eternal, hearing the somber sounds of the rain
Recalling the premonitions whispered in the crimson mists of the dawn

7. Once Alive, Dying

[instrumental]

8. Dark Halls Of Wisdom

Ensconced in bibliosis before the tomes of reverence
Brooding in the study of the silent tower

The Grey Voyager of the void in pale sleep
Remembering the ruins of endless years
Dance for the rose in the forests of Pylea
The trionic text of the wolf in the pentagram
A bridge to the wisdom of the moon
The nebulous souls compounded in twilight
Ever and anon traversing the sphere of time
The saga of The Narrator within the mirrored walls
The first to witness the fall of Oberon
Of winds and ingate
Inverted coffins, a burning death
Beneath the sun's infinite fire

The answer balances on a legend lost in an age of dreams
Borne upon a cloak of stars, The scroll of heaven aflame
The secret aloft my wizened eyes
On the smiling caryatid's visage
As Iris descended into the earth
To kiss the roots of the ageless tree
In the darkness beyond the door, the altar is being prepared
The last perfect day and the world is near completion
Acclaim the prophecies bound within these halls
Written on the marble stones by my own hand

9. Sands Of Mortality

Footsteps in the sands of Tatooine
In dreams of the lemniscate I've wandered
The glow of the moon devoured by the dark clouds of fate
I know the thunder is for me

Obscured by morbid sorcery on the Plateau of Tarynor
Evoking the third curse of the inexorable storm
Runic incantations upon the oaken wand
Gazing at the soil of the stars
Phantasmal landscapes of magnificent desolation
Feverish hallucinations in the midnight sun
Lost in isolation at the end of the spectrum
The old night willing to conquer

Across the mountains cold, through a frozen ocean of clouds
In the shadow of the Icewizards of Hoth
Nocturnal portrait, funereal fear
At the zenith of pandimensional summoning
I breathe the elder conjuration
Following the skyward impulse of Enoch

Above the bleeding distorted land on the edge of revelation
Suffused in the crimson twilight of the last sunset

A remarkable helix of nebular mist, odd to the guardian's eyes
Before the immortal mural of time, the machine is ever in motion
Riding the visions of the tesseract, ascending the spiral scales
Hurtling toward the binary suns beyond the gleaming vortex

Upon the gallows of a dying galaxy
Exhausted by gravity's constant crush
Death shall be my greatest command to all
As I escape the astral cage

In the dawning winds beyond the diminution of light
I arrive with the book in my hand
Forever treasuring the mania of youth
The future is mine to write







ELEPHANT LYRICS