IN DREAD RESPONSE LYRICS

1. Viral Grounds

Caged in delight, wailing happily through the nuclear fog
Slave of the Carbon 14 cloud, you swing by chains of invisible torture
Puppeteer perverse, your marionette has clipped its own strings
And in the snow -- limbless, bleeding (as the dove breaks its own wings)

In landscapes of wrought iron animals, frozen writhing beasts lurk
Morphing delusively, waltzing in traumatic worlds, we no longer respond
Mechanical wolves, LCD predators waiting to pounce
Victimised, giggling in a realm of objectophilia,
Save me! Oh, pixelated Prince of Peace
Worship the plastic powers!

(born-again Herods with gleaming swords, in firelight conspire)
Endtime prophecy is a needless argument
When the earth's spirit is dead

We are bathing in its final breath
Spluttering in its decay
Playing with its amputations
Caressing its seeping wounds

Bleeding cavern embraces me
Poison tomb infects me
Tower climbers preaching the end
But I'm already tasting skeletons

Eidolons of confusion cloud the inner self
Dementia children roam through parentless hallways
Blindfolded in spiritual chloroform

Corruption seed flourishes
A garden of toxic narcotics
Lead the masses into empty skull caverns
That festers above the swamps of madness
Aglow with the curse of mankind
Let us prey on apathetic hearts
Thrown into swirling oceans of suicide

2. I Paint The World In Solitude

Buried yourself with these lies.
I paint the world in solitude
Through barricades of orphans
Grand white horses sinking to the riverbed

Dwellers of the deep, telling me your stories
Through glowing eyes and black scales
From the light-starved kingdom of subterra

(finish it now, or forever be numbed)
Do not live another day for them,
Your strength is false, they cannot hear you

The wolves run up the stairs, to find you
Through a red haze they see, they see bloodthirsty

Take your refuge, or take flight
For it means ill...

As your silhouette disappears between the stones
I paint the world in solitude
How the moon warps my fatalistic vision
Amidst the sea of dreaming souls!

Gravel and spade,
Tonight I dig your corpse
How lovely the stain glass gleams through the arches
These golden statues approve
Your holy mother on the throne

Your presence means death,
Do not return

3. Cannons At Dawn

I'm inside your galleon, every timbered limb
Gazing through a hazy portal of cracked obsidian
Never to be released from this seafaring tomb
To be condemned before the waves beneath the waning light of the moon

Upon uncharted ocean, a realm unknown to me
Far above the cold abyss, where the deep calls to deep
With no treasures to find, only strange mysteries
Detached and obscured by Neptunian gravity
Of clamorously wailing below ten thousand leagues
In the darkest of tempests the whirlpools beckon me

The kingdom of Poseidon, and its armies unseen
Collecting souls of voyagers centuries before me
Though entire fleets have perished in the gallery of waves
Will my body be disposed outside Atlantean gates?

Waiting in this turmoil to be reborn
Firing at sunrise, we'll hear the cannons

Within the grasp of Triton, I am brandished and thrown
Unto the alter of Proteus, my carcass bestowed
How I long to hear, the morning's euphony
As we stare into the pitch aphotic cavity

Fasten anchors to foundations and be cast into Lethe
Would it rust beneath the waters stirring uncontrollably?
Will the prayers find disaster in the depths of the stream?
Dredgers wrecked upon the rocks of curiosity

Yea, I circumvent the dolmens of azure
Contemplating creatures tangled in cerulean immures
Never to be emitted from the oceanic graves,
From the dismal grip of Thanatos we have escaped

Waiting in this turmoil to be reborn
Firing at sunrise, we'll hear the cannons

4. Scarecrows In The Sky

Scarecrows in the sky!
Spluttering decay through the firmament
Broken winged swans melt to meet painful horizons
As they cry

Wildly leaping down the bleeding mountain
Tormented by the grey ghost of explosions
Becoming one with the furnace of war...

...firing fatal rounds into the buildings
Black angels swooping in and around the city
And dancing with the war

Constructing a bleak kingdom of corpses
Perching to drink from the skull of innocence
Dim lights stray

And cast creeping light around the shadows

The scythes of justice have been crippled
From scraping at the walls of a bombshell waiting
To be ignited

Embers shimmer through th'infernal chasm
Tormented by the grey ghost of explosions
And dancing with the war

Firing fatal rounds into the buildings
Black angels swooping in and around the city
And dancing with the war

...and with the flesh's eyes I saw the divine
Beyond mysterious worlds, witnessing all atrocity
With no terror in its inward glancing eyes
Clotted blood from a spilt cup of bitterness
Has been ignored

Growing, until they reach the sky
Billows of smoke clawing at the stars
I saw the moon as a tyrant
Peering down with mocking distant light
A fearful glowing, from the limbs of victims

Seizuring pyres of troops in ashes
Quivering human refuse in the wind
Still they ride
Upon mechanical murder machines
Sailing over skeletal seas
Only to fight fire...
With blood!

5. Concrete Sanctuary

Vehicles soar on the horizon
The light of a thousand lamps on motorways

Colossal empty storehouses, echoing the sound of engines
Past twilight we see the transformation
Shadows becoming serenity, with dim neon lights flaring
Signals for mechanical empires to arise

Cold grey walls moan and resonate in steel strongholds
Unheard voices shriek through the eeriness
In a distorted mist of confusion

Residents hear in their sleep,
The silent approach of decay
Responding in nightmares and blackest visions
The darkness of our future days

I caught sight of my reflection,
In a gutter filled with oil
Dilated eyes and pallid flesh

When the fruit of the earth is soured
And the land has spat its venom back at us
And the veins of the world have collapsed

You'll find me attached by cables
Hissing and spitting to an audience of crude
Orbiting in life unknown
Circling in unanimated paleness
As moths to a flickering lantern
Like failed broken satellites

Unheard voices shriek through the eeriness
In a distorted mist of confusion

A dismal sound between every building erupts
Through a hollow concrete sanctuary
Playing disorderly tunes, to clockwork hearts
Failed satellites, trapped in wires, waves,
Towering street signs

And we will never take the exit.

Clones climb the walls
Of an abandoned factory
In search of nothing...

And we will never take the exit.

Orbiting in life unknown
Circling in unanimated paleness
As moths to a flickering lantern
Like failed broken satellites

And we will never take the exit

6. Remembrance

Haunted shores beckon me
To an unknown destiny
Force guilt with no sympathy
Though some have carried mountains

Mute these words, in this venomous world
Golden tongues - diamonds ground to dust
Fading lights glowing.. in murky waters, drowning

Hesitant warning signs
Sickening cold at sunrise
Heart became mechanism
Life's grip has lost adhesion, still we-

Mute these words, in this venomous world
Golden tongues - diamonds ground to dust
Fading lights glowing.. in murky waters, drowning
Momentary vow of silence, this hidden monologue
I'll take beyond the grave

So many who play hero, never notice the martyr
The sun sets with so many left behind

Through devastated eyes (broken mirrors)
Trapdoors to emptiness sealed shut (we hope)
Sixteen candles burning so pale
And now we're all breathing with you

Mute these words, in this venomous world
Golden tongues - diamonds ground to dust

However freedom has been lost
The void has spared one more captive...
(a fleet of souls in the thickening fog)

Momentary vow of silence...
This hidden monologue...
I'll take beyond the grave...

Silent explosions in dark serenity
Passing through corridors of dead kids
Hopeless scenes that stain remembrance
Hopeless scenes that stain remembrance
And now...
We're all breathing with you.

7. Lost Avenues

Walking into headlights
Calignosity envelopes all figure
A crywolf sentiment thrust skyward
To be marooned

Lost avenues wandering maimed
Trees leering obscenely across streetlamps
Creaking in the wind
That scatters soured leaves of hopelessness

A phantom,
Waif-like prancing through screeching chariots
Stunned rabbit stare, crouching timidly...

Bloodless admission, the breathing chasm summons
With the voice of whirring wheels

...cavernous eyes...
...porcelain rose
Smouldering efflorescence

Clouds bring rest to the moon's intrusive glare

Dreamt gleaming firelines
Tunnels, lights concealed in gloom

Fragmented crystalline landscape
Draped in garbage and rats
Watched by mannequins in store windows

In sight are the towers of sleep
Confounded by tenuous electrical guides
An orchestra of distant machinery
Pulsing through pavement drains...

I, as the shade
Ghost-dancing among swerving carriages

I am the night apparition
Glowing as vapour in soft lanterns
Incandescent spirit roaming...
Incandescent spirit roaming...

Along lost avenues
Wandering maimed.

8. Call Of The Carrion

Fatigue embraces me
Amidst these mighty oaks
Visions of escaping my flesh
And soaring to another realm comforts

All fear begins to take its leave
A raven choir in boughs above
Shriek dirges and deathlike hymns
In a broken discordant chant

Deciduous trees shed their leaves
On the forest floor beside me
Golden autumn in the shade of broken canopies
'neath the pale sunlight
Crows flock and gather
Ignored, obscured and surreal
To hunt among the brambles

Falling twilight and the dusk sets in
Eyes closing never to wake
At the call of the carrion crow
In howls of pleasant whispers

To leave this wretched body
And its marred flesh
To soar beyond the mountainous plains
Surrendering to the glow of the amber skies
Though I drown in Charon's wake

The beckoning winds unfold their invitation
As twilight draws its deep curtain
I disappear into the dusk of mine
To join with the choirs of Asphodel
And become bewitched by the sylph
Drunk on the nectar of Ambrosia
At the edge of the light

I can taste the dew
Of Heavenshores
Shimmering in the air
Of the Elysian Sanctum

Yet the vines of deliverance
Wrapped around my limbs
Drag me to colourless waters
In the silent courts
Of moths...
Of dust...

9. Stillborn Kingdom

And when the soul can no longer bear
The corruption of this earth and its atrocities
Is it ready to take its leave
To take refuge beyond dark mountains
(it begs the question)

Are we all dead
Have we passed on
Or as half-lives, vagrant in this realm
Desensitised, oh absent empathy
Ringmasters in the circus of nonchalance

Shall we entertain the demons of derailment
And train up master architects of delusion
A listless spell over the residents
Of a stillborn kingdom

Pyrrhonic sentiments aflow in this dissident state
Polyplastic generations swamped in nausea
Let us raise our glasses over fountains of crimson!
(without scanning our minds for decay)

Howling overhead, the winds carrying voices
In torment, between celestial gales
Empty lungs bleeding funeral oratory
To a stillborn kingdom

Conveniently blinded, in the path of ruin
Subconsciously craving disease
Without escape, without release

(conscientiousness has disappeared into the dusk)

The sun mocks us with carcinogenic rays
The clouds are spitting back to us, the tears of suffering
We; schismatic parasites, creating more divisions
Incessant drones ensnared in labyrinths

Traversing through the sordid veils of disenchantment
Cackling in a phantasmic mirror-maze
Spilling the lifeblood of goodwill
Into empty coffins.

10. The Begotten

The earth trembled
All nature sighed
In dread response
A god has died!

The wings of death have opened up
As we nurture the world with pain

Now we are disappearing
Into the cancerous trees
Where the shepherd has lost all his sheep

Empty skies
Our veins are open
Following the radiant voice
Of hopelessness and fear
The temple walls disintegrate
Mortal fears hammered into bloodstone

"Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
We sealed your tomb, begotten one
"Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
They buried you, forgotten one

The sun withdrew its light in shame
As we're trying to reach the stars

For we are the defectors
Of your broken destiny
The crowned heads who first called retreat

Still, in our minds
We'll make attempts
At transcending the imminence
Of suffering and misdeed
Though all the emblems are set ablaze
Reverence never admits defeat

"Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
We sealed your tomb, begotten one
"Sons of the earth - flesh on dead bone"
They buried you, forgotten one

Virtues of worthless black and white
Held captive by sewer-hearts
Spouted from the mandible of nothingness
To appease the never-ending flow of hallowed scum
Writhing in a pious confusion, each wearing a head of plaited thorns
The passionless martyrs acting out ordinance, confined to dreary cellars of sanctity
Abandoned kingdom in the sky, its master is laughing through amnesia clouds

As the crowd descends from the mountain
Through the swirling storms and eruptions
The wingless dove in bloody rags; released

11. Black Soterion

Unto thee a farewell, I speak in vain
Take flight I must, to the emptying place
Where forgotten ones wander and saviours escape
Ego-rituals vanquished by the knights of disdain

Empires forsake in circles of dust
Ruins not worth pecking at for riches nor for loot
As the adverse effect to the Midas touch
Kenosis received by the world-serpent's drains
Into wishless crypts, where all hope has been slain

Remember me as pain
Remember me as war
Remember me as futility
Writhing in bloodsoil...

I am the winds of devastation, on these infected plains
I am the rain of a thousand tears, shed with dead innocents
I am the crown of victory buried with the bones
Lost amidst shrapnel in empty fields.

Remember me!







IN DREAD RESPONSE LYRICS