OUROBOROS LYRICS

1. Scion

Freedom from a place so cold and pale, ashes fall.
Scratch the icon from the stone, for his path is thorned.
We have failed to keep this wretch from killing us.

Spear the heart.
Crack the skies.
Break the chains you bind.
Love is the whole of the law.

I crawled through the dusts of the earth,
cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea.
Life; idle chaos sculpting form.
Servants unto the angels' whore.

Hear me now, king of kings.
I shall kneel before no god, for I am evermore.
Your legs have buckled under crowns of gold, lies and blood.

Wretch...

Wounds, that sting of dirt and sweat.
Here sounds the horn of mules, bleeding ears with empty eyes.
Reason, torn free.
And now the cinders burn out...
To keep this wreath from choking us.

Spear the heart.
Crack the skies.
Break the chains you bind.
Love is the whole of the law.

I crawled through the dusts of the earth,
cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea.
Death; this path is life? No.

Saviour, of death (cry),
Reason, my name (now)
I am the slayer of gods.

2. The Sleep Of Reason

Idi ko mne [Russian: "Иди ко мне", English translation: "Come to me"]
Bring forth demons
Idi ko mne
Bring forth monsters

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Switch off, you'll be at peace
Like the constant dripping
that hollows out stone
You will drink deep your faith
Drink deep your faith

Come to me
Bring forth monsters

Come to me
Bring forth demons

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Stand
Between heaven and earth
Kneel
I'm in charge
Stand
Prostrate yourself before me
Kneel
Listen to every word
Idi ko mne
Idi ko mne

Traitors
Are among us

The end is coming
The end is coming soon

Fear me
Your fear will give me strength

Believe me
The threat of violence is real

Idi ko mne
Bring forth demons
Idi ko mne
Bring forth monsters

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Traitors
Kneel
I am in charge
Stand
Prostrate yourself before me
Kneel
Believe me
The threat of violence is real

3. Horizons

Haunted by the fall of Alexandria
And the loss of the thoughts its works would inspire
We must pull these threads from the fire

Bombarded by
Rhythm from cosmic horizons
Where sacrificial altars
Call to the dead

Behold Aeons of systematic Decay
The reformation of all archaic

We are the privileged few
Who stand For an instant aware
Of our moment in time

Neither Ozymandias nor Tithonus
Could accept their impermanence
Intellectually and corporally
We are all doomed eventually

In this space
At this time
How should we live?
What sort of people should we be?

With the benefit of experience
History, literature, philosophy,
And no transcendent being's authority.
With understanding and self-mastery
We can engage our lives
For the benefit of humanity

Behold Aeons of systematic Change
The reformation of all archaic

Bombarded by
Rhythm from cosmic horizons
Where abandoned altars
Are transformed anew

4. Emanations

Infinitesimal
Our lives set in motion
We watch distant breakers crash
Upon a shifting cosmic ocean

One with the universal
Churning Continuum of change
Endlessly we are replenished
And forever rearranged

Depthless we dive
Conscious evolving
Encoded in spiral
From the centre revolving

Eyeless we writhe,
Particles weaving
Our lives entangled
With the godhead’s dreaming

From the glow of relic radiation
Filtering through the black eternally
Uncovered from red shifting sands
We can observe our unity

Emanations flow
From the font of creation
Like mites of matter glistening
Through the endless void inane

Mirrored in claw, plant and horn
Reflected in shell, tooth and storm
Fingerprint and DNA

What was once being is now becoming
The source of this mystic congregation
The source of this our dappled world

Infinitesimal, we emerge
Our lives set in motion
We watch distant breakers crash
Upon a shifting cosmic ocean

One with the universal
Churning Continuum of change

Endlessly we are replenished
And forever rearranged

To consider the singularity
Is to consider ourselves
As an aspect of the universe
Experiencing itself subjectively

5. Submission

From the moment you came to me
I saw a fragile weakness to create,
To mould another victim to suffocate

Hear me!
I'm a weak and hollow shell
Fill my thoughts with your words
Make me whole and worthy now

I pray...
Guide me to heaven...
I'll instruct in the way you should go
Created sick, you're commanded to be well
Submit or perish, take your pick.

Inflict pain for the one you love
And set yourself free
….Set me free!

I submit to your words
An open soul to evolve
Show me how I should see
On my knees begging you, please...

Tamed by the greatest myth
Whose parasitic worms
Writhe deep within
The droning twilight of your mind

Spiritual hatred's
Now all that you know
With an undivided heart you shall
Feel the lash of another blow

For my sins
I chase forgiveness
Exhausted I kneel,
Please, never untie me
I am where I belong

Wake Martyr
Rise Martyr

Deceived, never free
Enslaved psychologically
A void I try to fill
As you consume me

Submission
Submission
Submission
Observe the mass decay as all obey

6. Catholicon

Gaze into these eyes of hatred.
Stand before you leave this world, of ruin.
war has spoiled me.

Fear will destroy us, no peace, no solace.
from the (core) smallest seed of boon, grows monstrous weakness.
And the lie fastens marching legions,
with the helm spinning, waging bloodshed.

In Darkness, I have braved the bustling oceans.
Drowning in nectar, of your sickly madness.
I shall swim down not with hands so broken.
Release this burden from me.

Rise and you will love and fear me.
In time you'll see, there is but god in man.

Hate will become you, wield courage and truth.
From the (ash) thicket of a wreck, grow roses of grace.
Not the sword but the flags of reason
with the sun setting, on our freedom.

Gaze into these eyes of hatred.
Stand before you leave this world, of ruin.
war has spoiled our lives (pain enslaved)
Enslaved our minds, our honour.
Rage against the cries of god and angels.

Catholicon.

7. Beneath Heaven's Waves

Deathless man alone cry out
Amongst deathless gods
you shall accept this eternal gift
And forever embrace the dawn

Engulfed by immortality
Madness burns like
Bloodshot eyes that
Stare for all eternity

Abandoned to churning
Vast - Time scales
Incomprehensible
Epochs melt and fade away

FADE AWAY!

Civilisation:
Die out!

Obscure lives interred.

Godless galaxies:
Burn out!

Ashes cast to void.
TO VOID!

Glimmering fragments
Of obsidian spheres geodesic
Lost shrines to the absent gods’
Scoliotic forgotten testaments

Tumbling through expansive space-time
I sign a song without tune or rhyme
A feeble insect suffering
Endlessly…

I… have… been… Drifting!

Forsaken and forgotten
By a dying universe
Dreaming… Waiting…
Falling through space and time

Entropy
Release me
Fade out! Burn out! Fade out! Burn out!
DIE OUT!
Succumb to nothing….

At the edge of an ever – expanding sea
Beneath heaven’s waves
I breathe deep
And embrace eternal sleep.

8. Amaranthine

Close your eyes, embrace the silence.
For your heart shall never feel again.
Your withered hands, wet with tears...
But cry not my son, you shall never die.

Rising cold, the thunders roll in,
From east to west, encircling in blazing
Silence.
Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages.
Eternal life awaits.

Sweet respite, evoking beauty.
All this time, echoes far from sleep.
Your lucid mind, frenzied sound.
And black now your sun, sinking in the skies.

Rising cold, the thunders roll in,
From east to west, encircling in blazing
Silence.
Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages.
Eternal life awaits.

All I see is the flickering of flames
Roaring down stream.
All I taste is the salt of ancient seas
Lay me to rest.

9. The Amber Light

The charred wood now stirs, somewhere truly lost.
white haze to blur the years.
The amber light, torturous writhe.
Unconsciously enslaved and wrought, to the end.

Siren by the drying brook, weak from this emptiness
that you feel, are you not just a dream?
Murder by the temple road, split from this existence,
that you feared. This world will never be... clean.

Forlorn.

Bittered, nevermore these words.
Plagued by a chain of violent memories.
Miles of winding orchard, weaving the ruins wide,
ceaselessly aflame and burning white.

This weight...
All, forlorn...

Serotinal...
I was prodigious...

Strength, despite the cold asunder.
Waste, in spite of life, you sacrifice.

Winds, invite the dusty slumber
Time, relentlessly you destroy.

A curse befalls dusk, somewhere truly lost.
Unconsciously a slave to thought, in the end.

Raging cataclysm, from the abysmal depths
of the mind, escape the rising tide.
Mist so unrelenting, under the jaded moon
Glowing through, a gift of amber bloom.

This wait...

Withered, nevermore this path.
All of my peace has faded into dawn.
Buried in the orchard, scalded of deception,
paralysed and silent as the grave.

This weight...
All, forlorn...







OUROBOROS LYRICS