LASCAILLE'S SHROUD LYRICS

1. Prologue: She Dreams Of Earth

[Sarah Tereshkova:]
I stand in awe at the might of Earth
Immense structures adorn her
My life and love lies here
Yet never can I return

Never will I know your green again?
Never can I return to you?
Never will I bathe in your seas?
Never can I breathe your air?

Every night I beg for this
To return to our home
Every day I cry for this
What have we done to you?

Barren wastes 'neath my boots
Dusty wind against the sky
Cracked view from the gas mask
I can finally see my Earth

A thousand shades of a lifeless hue
Oceans dried and forests gone
Murder the mountains and rape the sky
To make way for the acid rain

A thousand shades of a lifeless hue
Oceans dried and forests gone
Murder the mountains and rape the sky
To make way for your doomsday

My life and my love lies here
Yet never can I return

2. Evolved: Transcendental Cyber-Eroticisms

[Sarah]
We’ve awakened to a world of disease and madness
Our impending doom accelerates the decline of humanity
Swimming through galactic seas in preparation of war
Revelation macroscopic! We are not the gods we think are

[Vincent]
Diving inside of each other, DNA intimate
Seeing through the lovers eyes, Exceeding humanity
Light-speed through bloodstreams, impacting force upon the heart
Passion collides with nature, unstoppable progression

[Ignorance Of Man ]
You will pay in death
For your romantic conquest of circuitry
You will pay in blood
For your disregard of our law

[Vincent]
Creating life rising from empty tides
In nothingness a beautiful skyline born in the image of woman
Ignorance Of Man
You will die!
For your conquest of evolution

[Vincent]
Nature no longer can be applied
Evolution resides in choice
Hypothesize synthesis
To create without medium

[Ignorance Of Man ]
We will be the harbinger of your extinction

[Sarah]
Metallic skin soft as flesh
Artificial eyes bright with life
Legs of steel wrap around
The waists of a newborn race

[Vincent]
Caressing against her
Music of galactic choirs
Sinking into deep passion
Euphoric state found inside her
Embracing synthetic flesh
Feeling the pulse artificial

[Sarah]
Harmonious life rhythms
Two lives entwined as one
We've awakened to a world of fire and betrayal
Our impending doom accelerates the decline of sanity
Treading through galactic seas in preparation of war
Revelation macroscopic! We are not the ones you should scorn

[Vincent]
Diving inside of each other, DNA intimate
Seeing through the lovers eyes, Exceeding humanity
Immune to death: Evolution unbound
The perfect cure, but still I am late...

3. Resist: Fall Into The Arms Of The Sun

[The Divider General]
Breathless and still - Do not make a sound
Motionless and terrified- Shaking erratically
Frantically your heart beats – Each pulse excites me
Let slip a single cry – A single cry...

[The Divider Squad]
Amorphous shadows stalking the planes
Of a realm unprepared and too young to know
The instrument of their demise

Our gaze into you just inches away
The blade resting softly against the throat
We are the phantoms haunting existence

[The Divider General]
I am watching you – Do you think I cannot see?
Sanctuary soon denied – Silent your death
Precious and beautiful – Life extinguished
But I grow impatient – Surmounting damnation

[The Divider Squad]
Thousands of bodies – Pyramid of blood
Those who remain are hunted down
Shrieks of death – Mortify!

[The Divider General]
Yet one signature still remains
A creature who does not fear her death
An entity who seeks to fight

[Sarah Tereshkova]
Through tears I must persist
The sounds of death echo
A cold wind on my spine
Gazing into the void

Obsessively I contrive
Knowing I will die
Burning out the infant star
Bringing down a sun

Obsessively I contrive
With me you all will die
Destroy the infant star
Bringing with me

Hell!
Will envelope all
Burn!
Away my sin
And Pray!
My death be swift
And Know!
They suffer great

[Fear Of Death]
Never will you see them again
Now will you hesitate?

[Acceptance Of Death]
I wish it could be some other way
I do not wish to die here like this
But if my death will bring them life
Then I happily surrender

[The Divider Squad]
Black hole grazing a Jovian
Deadly embrace

[Acceptance Of Death]
Seductive starlight beckoning
I never sought the cold distance

[Fear Of Death]
I leave a world in tears
Cold and fearful (Oh so cold...)
I leave love in tears
Scared and alone

A grand tragedy of time
To die as this (To die...)
To never know the hands
That drown the stars

[Transcending Death]
Deaths not my concern
For I am prepared to die
And when I am dead and gone
In passing I will evolve

[The Divider Squad]
False deities
Queen heretic
Never will you transcend

[The Divider Squad]
Inhuman you seem
Weakness will be found
Mother of sin put to death

[Sarah Tereshkova Transcending]
Perpetual sunlight
To burn away the eternal
Close my eyes, ignite the star
And never dream, never breathe
Fall into the arms of the sun

4. Extinction: Swarming The Sun

[The Swarm]
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind
Fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding
We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence
Before us you are nothing, your extinction is inevitable
We are the end of everything

My kind transcends your very understanding
We are each a nation: Independent, free of all weakness
You cannot even grasp the nature of our existence
We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution
You exist because we allow it
And you will end...

Because we demand it.

[Atlas Aetheriel:]
It all began as he drifted away
Passing by Saturn he saw them all
A massive armada dwarfing our worlds
Treading voids through to Earth

And then a voice, drew his focus
Distant and vague, an alien tongue

The words somehow, he understood

[Atlas Rigel:]
You will soon be the last, the only

[Vincent:]
Alien voices seeped inside
Whispering of impending doom
The universe inhales anxiously
To bate it's breath for the coming storm

[The Swarm:]
You only exist because we allow it
And you will end because we demand it

[Atlas Rigel:]
Follow the stars into dark space
Expand to survive, or conquer and die

[Atlas Aetheriel:]
Hands against the glass he watches on
As Mars is razed by the drifting swarm
Unseen watchers make their presence known
As the third child is soon consumed
Atlas Rigel
Your mind will be shaped to formlessness
To understand the concepts of eternity
You are the spatial architect
The ambassador of baryonic forms

[The Swarm:]
We will end you...

[Vincent:]
Alien voices blast their chords
Shouting of the impending doom
The universe exhaled a mighty wind
It's breath to become infinite storms

[The Swarm:]
You only exist because we allow it
And you will end because we demand it
A feeble attempt from the fleshy machines
Expand to survive, or fight and die

[Atlas Rigel:]
A gaze distant
Shifts...
It's focus

[The Swarm:]
Pulling against their laws and forces
Gravity, Light, Newton and Einstein
Admirable are your feeble attempts
But the Sovereign's eye, cannot allow this

We are infinite, undying
Limitless
You
Mere flesh
Pure bacteria

The insects on the anthill of Earth
Know not the forms, that they attract
Manipulate the laws in place
Shall bring a harbinger of pure destruction

[Atlas Rigel:]
The mind of man is trawled
The knowledge to rebuild
Recreate
Redefine
The cosmic law

[Vincent:]
What do you want with me?
Why have I been brought here?
Tell me now who you are!
Tell me what has happened!

[Atlas Rigel:]
All your worlds are cast to ash
Everything you know, gone!

[Vincent:]
This cannot be happening
What about everything I left?

[Atlas Aetheriel:]
There is nothing that can be done
All that remains is space and them

[Vincent / Atlas Rigel:]
Why all this? Why me?
You are the one who must rebuild

[Atlas Aetheriel:]
Sovereigns unknown swarm the sun
Their vast numbers have darkened our sky
Massive machines dwarf our worlds
And wrap their arms around the shell of Earth

The sky goes black and a shadow is cast
The human race is pushed into dark

Sovereign's arms slowly crush the Earth
Cracks cross continents like erupting veins

[Vincent:]
Alien voices blast their chords
To sanctify our impending doom
Cosmic prophet of galactic law
Declaration of sentient death

[The Swarm:]
You only exist because we allow it
And you will die because we demand it
A feeble attempt from the fleshy machines
leaves a tiny mark on the cosmic time line

[Atlas Rigel:]
Their gaze, distant
Shifts...
It's focus

The Swarm
There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it
I am beyond your comprehension, I am Sovereign.

5. Dreams: Romancing My Own Demise

[Vincent]
I am compelled by a dark logic
My actions betray my words
Are these hands my own?
For they torture and kill

And what of this heart?
Pumping darkness
Is this mind my own?
A strange presence occupies it still

Can you hear me?

Do my victims feel pain
After I am done?
Do my victims feel fear
When they see my face?

[Fear and Disgust:]
When I am done do they know
That I thought nothing of them?
When they are dead do they know
That I would rather it be...

[Madness Observing Love:]
Chained down in the bowels of darkness
Death too simple for my Madness
I revel in her pain, excited by the strain
As she tugs and pulls, bleeds and cries
I love it all!

[Love In Chains:]
I can never see the light of the sun
The stars but a dream that I can never remember
The weight of fear, the extent of disgust
I have romanced my own demise

[Fear And Disgust:]
Do my victims know my name?
Do I haunt their final dreams?
Do they know that I didn't care?
Do they know I did it happily?

Are my victims remembered
After I have disposed their corpse?
Do my victims remember my face?
Do they know I'd rather it be me!

[Madness Observing Love:]
Chained down in the bowels of darkness
Death too simple for my Madness
I revel in her pain, excited by the strain
As she tugs and pulls, bleeds and cries
I love it all!

[Loving Madness:]
We are chained down in the pits of hell
The blackest union will take place here
Lost in agony, happily we breed deep inside each others sin
We care not for the world
We are romancing the fall of a universe!

6. Shattered: Love Lost And Worlds Destroyed

[Instrumental]

7. Epilogue: The Acceptance Of Death

[Atlas Rigel]
The tides of an unearthly shore
The lull of gentle waves
Slipping eternally
Into their embrace

[Atlas Aetheriel:]
Nothing you have ever loved
Will ever be the same
Fire to replace the sky
And ashes as the sea
Clouds will break as new day dawns
And reign down death as rain
The beauty of time and space
Violated, tortured and...

[Atlas Rigel:]
Skies cracked wide
Star eater descends
Erasing existence
In the jaws of nothing

[Atlas Aetheriel :]
Nothing you have ever known
Can compare to this
Fire as if water washes over
The cities of man
Twilight's birth will negate
Any and all resistance
The galaxy crying
Unwillingly she accepts death

[Vincent:]
Burning in cosmic dust
We return to what we were
Sadness and beauty
The new existential canvas

The might and power of all mankind
Put to death under starlight

Falling star
Incinerate all

And in one single instant
The skies are set ablaze
In tears prepared to die

Burning in cosmic dust
We return to what we were
For five thousand years I must suffer
I pray for my own death







LASCAILLE'S SHROUD LYRICS