INANIMATE EXISTENCE LYRICS

1. Om Mani Padme Hum

[Instrumental]

2. Omen

The uncanny churning in my stomach grows, as the storm beats upon me. My skin is saturated and I feel my flesh rot beneath my steps. Though I don't know where to go, I know I must continue down this route. I'm drawn to the glowing in the distance. One lonely light is flickering from a single source of luminance. I follow the fire.

An encampment awaits me. There's a lonesome shelter and a man in dark robes is seated by the flame. As I approach he stands to face me...
"This was coming for some time now." The man utters quietly, "You are the only one who can defeat tyranny."
"What do I have to do with this ordeal? Why must I be the one to slay the god?"
"You are born of divine energy containing concealed power, locked away." he reveals.
"How can I believe in what you say when I don't even know where I am? I must return home."
"The evil ones have overflowed into your utopia only you are kept safe in your dream state. You are the survivor of the apocalypse."
I have a realization of what he speaks, if what he says is true then I must continue. From the slumber I wake to a village aflame. The man's prophecy came to be.
"This was coming for some time now," the man's voice echoes in my brain. As I stare into the pile of the scorched inhabitants. What do I have to do with this ordeal? Why must I be the one to slay the god? Evil flame burning me, only fire I can see, so I sit upon the ground seeming like eternity. I let go from my soul, I let evil take control and I become the fire.

The uncanny churning in my stomach grows, as the storm puts out the flame. Lying before me in the charred pile in front of which I stand a familiar face. The face of my one and only love is staring back at me lifeless. Anger grows in me. I am left with no other choice, now I know this is my destiny.

3. Bioluminescent Photophores

Hours pass like seconds as i stare into the heap of roasted flesh and blank stares
Expressions of agony embedded on their faces
The woman that i love is leering back at me, open eyes hypnotize
She bleeds profusely through her cracked skin

Her corpse begins to levitate, as all other bodies disintegrate
From above she drips blood, Collecting in puddles on the ground
and hardening in piles of human ash, forming an altar
Open eyes paralyze me in fear as she stares through my soul

Gusting winds blow away away the ashes that remain, creating a cryptic Mandala
I enter the ring of clotted blood, crossing the threshold
With both feet in the circle, a light beams into the air and an incredible energy begins covering my body, endless growing patterns that glow with power

Bioluminescent Photophores, siphoning energy from the cosmos, I gain an infinite knowledge
Lightning bolts arc from my fingertips and are conducted to her floating corpse
A final mist of guts is sprayed, she implodes into a beam of light

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

The light opens a portal
Rabbit hole is open leading down into the reaches of hell
Step by step i creep down the staircase forming
With every step i take another one appears, continuing for miles until i reach the gate of iron

Burdened by hesitation, though i have accumulated this inhuman strength, i am still wary of where i am
I open the door and step into the energy chamber

[Solo: Cameron Porras]
[Solo: Joel Guernsey]

I cross through the magic passageway and appear submerged in murky water
Frantically i swim toward the moons illumination and upon breaking the surface i discover millions of dead bodies spanning hundreds of miles
Only one path is visible to me
It leads through the forest and to the gates

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

Darkness paralyzes me in fear, though i summon strength to continue
There will be no returning
The tyrant dwells, waiting for me

4. The Rune Of Destruction

The stars align shining light upon the path
Through the infinite living forest
And as a myriad of overlapping whispers cloud my head
The foliage wilts bowing to their ruler

Tree's guide me along the passage
Until I reach a stone wall that scrapes the sky
Light beams energy upon the obelisk
Pulsating images reveal hieroglyphs
In a language unknown to me
Though I am able to read the scripture
I see the coded word as a picture
I halt my physical sense and i see through the window
Fusing energy growing from the planet with cosmic creation
Fire surrounds me as I read from the epitaph
As I bellow out the prayer a shockwave tears
Apart the wall

Fire burns away the evil ones
Cleansing this broken dimension
And as the dust clears away
Taking with it swarms of the lost spirits
The realm is born again

Recreating this universe through my conscience
In the form of that which has been taken away
I recreate through my power
Form is given to organisms
Through my eyes a gift is given
A chance at life once again

5. The Catacomb Of Mirrors

The sky speaks to me in the night guiding with unending constellations
For centuries i traverse this planet that i have created for myself,
still searching for the face of the ever growing evil deep inside of me
In my mind a demon is laughing at the futility of my intentions,
and curses my mortality, a pain I've never felt

A pain spawned from resentment of evil I've yet to witness
Only as the night comes does it taunt my sleep
Centuries have passed since my encounter with the wise one
The distant event is unreal among the nightly terrors I've faced since
The frigid air or the blizzard is spraying ice shards cutting deep

I have no will to continue as I collapse
Falling from the thin walkway that held me from tumbling down the mountain side that I had spent weeks climbing, but i was unable to conquer
The jaws of the mountain open for me
Cracks of earth devour without mercy
I welcome the gift
I welcome death

I awaken face down in the snow
As I stumble to my feet I am struggling to breathe,
my arms are crippled beyond repair
The walls of the cavern are towering over me
Surrounded on all sides with ice, I am enclosed
I examine my reflection and study the countless wounds
I pound my fist in anger against the catacomb wall,

The mirror cracks
The ice now reflects myself showing me images of the future
A crystal mosaic shining light upon my soul

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

Through the light I am whole, moving remotely without effort
I sit upright aligning cosmic energy with the earth
The tree of life grows from my mind
My flesh becomes the bark
It is within this shell I will spend eternity

6. Staring Through Fire

Seated beneath the tree of life
Vertical and in a trance
Spine is in alignment
And my eyes are closed

Focusing on my breathing
Imagining my pain as a torch
Under my breath i can see it flickering
Creating an intricate dance

Staring through fire

I begin to see the doorway open
Staring through the fire
I can see the doorway opening in my mind

The orange light dances
creating intricate design
Staring through fire
I begin to see the doorway open

Staring through the fire
I can see the doorway opening in my mind

I can see the waves crashing on the shore
I am as high as a cloud
I've risen high above

The wind's gust softly keeps me on track
I can hear a voice calling me back
I can feel her reach for me
Unable to break my petrified stance

All organic tissue has been replaced by minerals
Frozen in time
She weeps at the sight of what I've become

No more shall I exist in agony
Never again to return
My reality is gone
Transcending the earth
My soul now exists
Only within space

I am lost and there is no returning me

I'm a conscious being
Who is perfectly neutral in every way
Existed in two parts
A body and a mind
Now i am one

Staring

[Solo]

Staring through fire
The unending flickering dances with my soul
Staring through fire
I let the light and warmth envelope me

Staring through
Through flame
This is what I was always meant to be

7. Out Of Body Experience

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

The dream continues to live on long after I awake,
my eyes burning in a fiery gloss
I am staring into nothingness, or so it seems

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

Mind projects memories as physical entities
I speak with my family once again
Walking through the village I had lost once before
I have made it home, where I always wanted to be
The physical realm is relative to whoever and however they perceive it to be
The universe rearranges itself to suit my own will

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

My third eye see's without influence of sense,
seeing only what I wish
Gazing into a world deemed unreal, what is real?
They begin to transform, their faces become veiled in dark masks
This is the evil I was sent to expunge
I know where I stand, I follow command and am led into night
I slay the spirits of the demonic

Into night
I will hack and slash without remorse
Into night, I kill everything without conviction
into night
I am hacking and dissecting hearts
I kill the ones inside me
My subconscious speaks to me altering my perception

Projections of evil that come from my mind are stemming from the catacombs from which I spend eternity
Into night
Through purging them I gain atonement

[Solo: Cameron Porras]

I heave the corpses into mass collection
I summon strength from the sky and lightning falls from the heavens
I sit beneath the burning bodies
Evil fades, but the faces of my family remain
It was me all along
What I'd been seeking was within me

8. Dueling Shadows

[Instrumental]






INANIMATE EXISTENCE LYRICS