OMINOUS RUIN LYRICS

1. Ritual

Revealed before you a glimpse into darkness
A phantom gateway appears at the confluence
Of glowing black breccial arteries — siphoning —
Choking the luminance from weakened souls

Entities invade your consciousness
Giving you a glimpse into an alternate sequence
Vestigial senses awaken and lead to a nexus of shadow
A ritual reveals a third eye and closes the other two

Free from prismatic confinement
Unto you I relinquish dominion, so begins the ingress of shadow

By unspoken commonality —
They weave the threads of enshrouded possibility —
Guided towards conduits - interfaces to an unseen dimension
Whose subtleties will become overt —
The Oculus sees the nature of triality

By whom or what are we possessed?
Whence emerged this curse which usurps both mind and flesh?
We become hosts;
To a gluttonous hedonistic rot
We wither and crack and seep until vacant

From within intrusive, insidious voices
Taunt and beg to quell their yearning, unrelenting
Beckoning and taunting, begging to become
A conduit to insidious malevolence

Apex of desperation is achieved!
An ancient and nebulous presence is released from its crystalline prison cell
No longer imprisoned
Your being, augmented
Your shadow consumes you
With focus and fervor the ritual consumes you

By what are they possessed?
What dark energy can overtake?
By what are they possessed?
What dark energy can overtake —
Usurp both mind and flesh?

Unto their corrupted Ziggurat of flesh
They present a hedonistic offering
Erode the walls within; collapse deeper into a chaotic world fabricated

Behold calamity!
As your lives completely subsume into dark, corrupted ether
Drain now, humanity!
As you are consumed

By whom or what are we possessed?
Whence emerged this curse which usurps both mind and flesh?
We become hosts to a gluttonous hedonistic rot
We wither and crack and seep until vacant

From within intrusive, insidious voices
Taunt and beg to quell their yearning unrelenting
No longer imprisoned
Deceptive, convincing
How cunning, the third eye, to promise sight unseen

Your essence distorts
Dark matter and human genetic material
Thus the Union is bound, and the nexus opens

2. Attuned to the Chasm

From a Saturnine chasm
Emerge through the nexus
Where the finite live and die
Where an altar was constructed
A cult of the third eye!
A tribute to the vestigial oculus
A gateway to the chasm
Where dwell the beings of smokeless fire and cloud and shadow
It is everywhere else
We are everyone, always;
We are nobody forever
Inverted anti-reflection

A projection of (your) darkness.
A prototype, a simulacrum,
A curiosity, a possibility of you

Projected through a darkened passage
The chasm takes something from you
Trickery - in its place, a mimicry
A somber allusion, a flickering illusion
Become now, as the chasm
A ghastly void to coalesce with you

We grow in numbers
And our dimension swells
Soon, there will be no option but
To spill into your static realm

We grow in numbers
And our dimension swells
Soon, there will be no option
But to spill into your static realm

Where you weave your meager strands;
Inefficient for a greater cause,
Meaningless experience distorts into profundity
Imbued with knowledge of mortality

Soon everything you know will be called into question

You will see chaos, duplicity, multiplicity
A glimpse into the very nature of your perceived reality

All that will be observed
Will overwhelm human cognition
As we tear through the latticework of your existence

What will become of your world, when,
Past, present and future coexist?
What once only flickered will soon flourish
A feast for the shadows; pandemonium

3. Deception

Deception
Duplicitous imposters of humankind
Deception
By fragmented beings
Born of otherworldly influence
Melded by traumatic knowledge of the clandestine
Fractured...
Duplicity of the psyche

It seems that we see
A partial reassembly
Of static filtered through delicate biocircuitry
In questioning everything, certainty
Confrontation; collapse of belief, of reality
Both denial and embrace of a numinous dimension
Augment what is seen
But the strongest desires distort
A primitive shield from calamity
Vulnerable apertures
Fleshy, naive

Enabling the distortion of photons
An exploitation of the limbic and visual systems
An illusion to placate and pacify the mind
Enabling an entire concurrent universe within our own
In which we always nearly exist but that two eyes cannot truly see

Stifling the urge to exhume obscured truths
Punishment for those who choose to look beneath layers

Denouncement, isolation, exile
Come to those who have, glimpses of the chasm, sensed
Vulnerable are the sewn seeds of epigenetic inheritance

A ripple from the edge of the chasm emerges
Peek and your brethren are turned against you
Repugnant outcast, exterminated
From the inside

Ritual of
Deception
Fragmented beings
Born
From otherworldly influence
Fractured...

Bring them to us to devour
Draw them to the chasm
To feed to the ether

Isolation and exile
Come to those who have, visions of the chasm, sensed
Vulnerable are the sewn seeds of epigenetic inheritance

Isolation and exile
Come to those who have, visions of the chasm, sensed
Isolation and exile awaits

Deception
Duplicitous imposters of humankind
Deception
By fragmented beings
Born of otherworldly influence
Melded by knowledge of the clandestine
Fractured duplicity of the psyche
Undulations from the chasm call to darkness found within
Intrusive interception from unseen dimension
Frequencies attempt to gain control from within

Become well-acquainted with cognitive dissonance
Enticed by dark knowledge, unyielding hunger of the forbidden

4. Chrysalis of Flesh

There is an ancient place place of captivity,
Dormant in your being,
That knows of the untold;
There is an ancient soul
A trickster bound to you
That seeks to consume your soul

A world of your own to which you can run and hide
The gates are now locked but you can see what's inside
Look inside your dwelling awaits

Free at last, take this as my offering
Your reward for my freedom
This curse of prismatic confinement
Is now bound to you
Disappear inside chrysalis of flesh
Enter the fortress

Unlock the energies
Of untapped potential

You believe to be in control of your fate
Control, as you know it to be, is an illusion
A mechanism for complacence
At present, without alteration,

Segments of meat
Ephemeral and insignificant,
Timid beasts in a maze
Docile puppets in vulnerable shells
But there are things you do not see,

Knowledge you cannot yet comprehend
Some shells are not meant to be shed,
Emerge from your ephemeral prison
Crawl inside your chrysalis of flesh

Enter prison of the mind

You cannot escape — oblivious!

The obstacles emerged that now bar your way
Knowledge of the tangible fades away
Frenzied, corrupt, cognition
It's becoming harder to leave
Harder to perceive
Images filtered through a dark prism obscure reality

Free at last, take this as my offering
Your reward for my freedom
This curse of prismatic confinement
Is now bound to you
Disappear inside chrysalis of flesh
Enter the fortress

Where you once sought refuge
You're bound to, replacing
Normalcy with knowledge
From a realm chaotic

What was once novelty
Is now symbiotic
Appealing to the third eye
Replace normalcy with chaotic knowledge

Where you once sought refuge
You're bound to, replacing
Normalcy with knowledge
From a realm chaotic

Bars of convolution
Walls of frenzied delusion
This place was so familiar
Now you are a prisoner

5. A Feast For Shadows

[Instrumental]

6. Labyrinthine Torment

The torment of the labyrinth!
Repugnant labyrinth walls surround me
Keeping out, keeping in
Ensnaring
Towering obelisks constrict and I suffocate

Amnesia into bleak uncertainty
The echoing abysmal torment
Remind me of my treachery

Follow oblivion
Voices trapped in stone deceive
Forever entombed
Every path collapses
Into one outcome
Become engulfed by the chasm

Will I break free?

From endless cycles of torment
Crushed by an enclosure of pillars
Malignancy entices as I'm slowly choking to death
Pathways constrict
Lost to circuitous torment
Of the labyrinth
(Torment of the labyrinth)

Malignancy entices
And pathways insidiously constricting
I am slowly choking to death
Lost to circuitous torment of the labyrinth
Every path collapses as I'm engulfed by the chasm
Promises were the means to this wretched dream
Eternity

Every sound decomposes into undulations of madness
Paralysis immobilizes
My flesh craves of stone
Cautioning nebulous voices
Echoes of their misery
Foreshadowing my own

Endless cycles of torment
Malignant temptation
Insidiously fragmented by paralysis

These repugnant walls surround me
Keeping in, ensnaring
Tormented echoes of the abyss
Remind me of (my) treachery
Every path collapses, coalescing into one
Eventually becoming one with the chasm

Lost in eternal torment
Labyrinthine torment

7. Consumed

Consumed!
Frenetic rotations exposing numerous facets
Paralyzed by projections of sincerity and deceit
Fixated by your promise of thriving symbiosis
Tormented by a curse, darkness erodes everything in my existence

Enshrouded by the shadow of a smokeless fire
Glimpses of your possessor are exposed
Breaking character when I strike a nerve
Your transformation observed when you thought to be alone

Inciting my desires;
Urge to kill: rising
A ventriloquy of vitriolic incantations told
Pain and misery for your elation,
Reaching into the confines of your darkened soul

I am perplexed by their actions

Facets are worn down
Erorded by dark counterparts
Insidiously defracting towards oblivion
Casting a shroud and eclipsing all things
Pulling towards chaos
What of the third eye, what does it see?

Concede! This is a losing battle
Getting closer to abysmal failure
Our time is not infinite these crumbling walls are starting to
Collapse
My path seems predetermined
Losing control
Cessation of all motor functions
As forces within engage

Three eyes projecting cartography onto triality
A layer superimposed upon all, yet experienced by one
Three prisms in formation
Shape the prismatic experience
One sided deformation,
Consumed by chemical tryst

Do not underestimate, their reach is greater than you know
Prismatic visions become dull as the third eye takes control

Intuition seems to deceive
Each invocation met with disdain
Cognition seems unaltered
This dark presence is overwhelming

I reached out, trying to grasp
Could not prevent your egress
Perished flesh
Inside the orifice made by your echoing voice

In my grasp, a bundle of perished flesh
That still fuels the fire keeping the curse alive
Orifice created by your echoing voice
Inside the decaying prison of mind

Holding your remains
I wish I could
Obliterate every fucking trace
Of your existence from mine

Our dwelling, a tomb
Surrounded by cob webs and death
Wrap my hands around you and tear
The seething bitterness from your flesh

Facets are worn down
Eroded by dark counterparts
Insidiously
Defracting towards oblivion
Casting a shroud and eclipsing all things
Pulling towards chaos
From the oculus I choose to see

8. Simulacra

You exist, or so it seems
Within a paradigm that you call mankind
The nature of which is not what you might think
You have no claim to your existence; static ephemera

You exist, as do your fellow beings
A brief fleeting speck: trifling, transient, within a fractal matrix

But in truth, it is the most recent manifestation of a sequence you embody as a node in a web of consciousness, simulations of a higher order of beings you cannot perceive

You are pseudo sentient instruments
Nodes to carry out instructions
The means by which a cosmic discourse, existing outside of the realm of perception
May unravel Like a collision of pieces in a game of chance

But in truth, it is the most recent manifestation of a sequence you embody as a node in a web of consciousness, simulations of a higher order of beings you cannot perceive

Imbued with the illusion of autonomy
Constructed so the human mind, in its infancy, does not collapse in bedlam
A fallacy, the fully realized potential, approaching godliness
Forsooth, blessed human be thy name
When does it end?

Simulation of a universal thought experiment
An execution of recursive processes when does it end?

For all but the chosen — those who covet archaic lost knowledge
The complexities of your base reality will remain a mystery

Simulation of a universal thought experiment
An execution of recursive processes when does it end?

A fallacy, the fully realized potential godliness
Forsooth, blessed human be thy name

You are pseudo sentient instruments
Nodes to carry out instructions
The means by which a cosmic discourse existing outside of the realm of perception
May unravel like a collision of pieces in a game of chance
Imbued with the illusion of autonomy
Constructed so the human mind, in its infancy, does not collapse in bedlam

For all but the chosen — those who covet archaic lost knowledge
The complexities of the universal thought experiment
This execution of recursive processes
Repetition from beginning to end
Of your base reality
Will remain a mystery
When does it end?

9. Amidst Voices That Echo in Stone

Those with the brightest light
Cast the darkest shadow

What is left in the wake of shadow's egress
Of a lifetime of chaos after ravaging a world of flesh?

Complacent; permanent disharmony
Left to their own devices
Autonomous ruin

Withering, aging - An eroded skeleton
No passage out, no bridges in
Decrepit remnants

Those brought to this place
Would look at this nebulous encasement of prismatic memories
That through a fogged prism, faintly, are flickering impressions of a spectrum shone

Behold this desolate, decomposing place,
Devoured by monuments to shadow in throes
Scavenged, as carrion picked apart by vultures,
A wasteland of remains; haunted, morose

Whence flowed vitality, before two eyes closed
And before, emerged, O, the accursed third
Now lie only decrepit remnants
The ghost of an entire world

What is left in the wake of this prism's decay
When all its facets have become worn and crumbled
Leaving almost no trace?

But damaged memories waver uncertainly
As the oculus dissipates into nothing
I curse this existence!

Screaming with madness, I have become as the chasm
I am perpetual darkness
Forever imprisoned amidst voices that echo in stone
I am one amongst the shadows







OMINOUS RUIN LYRICS