LASCAILLE'S SHROUD LYRICS

1. Prologue: She Dreams Of Earth

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 burned
Murder the mountains mutilate the sky
To make way for your doomsday

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

2. Creation: Coalescing Particles

Elements thrive in a maelstrom of mass
Condensing existence to a single point
Infinitely dense no laws can be applied
Everything is nothing, and nothing is all

A burning sphere infantile star
A citadel of ice froze upon foreign shores
A transmigration of galaxies
A universe dead folds upon itself

Inside a structure spanning further than light
Have I become a monster, or am I still man?
Questions like a poison infest the mind
At the end of this road is there even redemption?

Super symmetrical dimension compress
The dreamlike view below the river of time
Matter and mass now mine to control
Cosmic strings to weave a grand design

A thunderous roar inside the great halls
Echoes throughout the essence of being
Sparked into spastic, momentary existence
Witness the birth of time

Coalescing particles to form realms anew
Devouring star systems to fuel this inferno
Time, space, matter, and mass
Life and death
A particle universe is born

5,000 years watching in silence
Contemplating the coming war
The universe in the palms of my hands
The awe, am I worthy of this?

A thunderous roar inside the great halls
Echoes throughout the essence of being
Sparked into spastic, momentary existence
Witness the birth of time

An ungodly roar from absent eyes
Eviscerates through ancient machinery
An experiment to begin eternal war
Existence becomes my weapon

Have I become a monster, or am I still man?
Questions that no longer seem relevant
For in my hatred and anger I
Will become anything that I must

3. Memory: The Waves As They Crash Against The Stars

Our minds are the Earth atop the sea
A fragile ship drifting amongst cosmic waves
Immersed in this obtuse reality
Minds separate and drown alone
Winds guide our consciousness to the skies
Where our bodies rest in the seas of Sol
The Earth and the sun drift away, lost forever to the stars

The black hole inside you is consuming your form
Slowly taking you from me
I Cannot believe that I allowed this to happen to you....

Galaxies fall apart
Crumble lifelessly into colliding...
Waves crash against the stars drowning them in our seas
Swallowed with the Earth
Infinity is the only thing I'll long for
Just one more century
To undo all that I have ...
Done to this world, to myself
But I shall remain
Pariah Unforgiven

Our minds we're the Earth atop the sea
A fragile ship drifting amongst cosmic waves
Drowning in this obtuse reality
Minds separate and die...

Galaxies fall apart
Crumble lifelessly into colliding...
Waves crash against the stars drowning them in our seas
Swallowed with the Earth
Infinity is the only thing I'll long for
Just one more century
To undo all that I have ...
Done to this world, to myself
But I shall remain
Pariah Unforgiven

4. Prometheus

[The Archaeologist:]
Prometheus, can you see this?

[Prometheus:]
Images coming in clear, but what do I see?

[The Archaeologist:]
It is death by the thousands
A drop of liquid to destroy existence
Disassembling the twisted ladder of
Our imperfect DNA

Oh Engineer, can you hear me?
Why do you despise us?
What have we done to deserve your scorn?
Why god, why? Tell me now!

[The Infected:]
Prometheus, can't you hear me?
You cannot allow this plague to persist

[Prometheus:]
What is happening, what of this death you speak?

[The Infected:]
Please just listen, for you must kill me! Please!

[The Archaeologist:]
Prometheus, forgive me! For you must sacrifice

[Prometheus:]
Yes, we know
This is to be our fate
Fire on
Ion propulsion

[The Archaeologist:]
LV – 223, your disease will not claim me!
I want to know, I deserve to know!
Seek out my maker, to know my destroyer
And let me fury be known!

5. Bridge To Cross

[originally by Light This City]

Standing over a fault line with a foot planted on either side,
with the only world I ever knew balanced on one shoulder,
and a heart I'm just getting used to beating on the other sleeve.
I stood my ground in a place I knew I might never find peace,
and as my foundation shakes, I'm left to wonder,
did I nurture this expanding divide?

Golden bridges turn the color of flame,
and suicide missions are redeemed when they become fatalities
of natural disasters. My steel core is melting.
Oh, if you only knew about the doubts I allowed
to grow up through the cracks, pushing their way out,
grasping at sunlight.

I can't choose a side, but I can't stay here anymore.
Standing on the edge, a voice begins to whisper.
I've tried to ignore it, but I can't avoid such a groundbreaking
revelation. Standing on the edge of an abyss,
I know where my real home is,
and I'm leaving it behind.
Jump down, and lose it all. I have a feeling I'll fall
anyway.

Standing on the edge of an abyss, because I'm holding onto so much,
I just might lose it all. I know where my real home is.
And I'm leaving it behind.







LASCAILLE'S SHROUD LYRICS