RUNE LYRICS

1. An Affinity

On the eve of destruction
Desolation, and extinction.
Change and continuity
The holy grail of the truth
It took a long time for us to get here
Words that are steps to where something else could be
Something more important than you
And what you think.
This offering swells deep within
The house of life
We are left to lament with this blessing.
A thought, the light in the womb of the storm,
Clenched within the palm of life.
Coming up empty; clouded riding on the chariot of loss...
The words wealth... self consumed redemption.
We are in awe.
We are rich and in love with ourselves
Tearing open your chest to hide in your, your ribcage.
Passing through your veins
In ways of word and phrase.
Confined by what can't occur in our mind
But wait
None of this is real
None of this was ever real.

2. Opium For My Soul

Last night in my dreams... echoing in what seems
The chambers of the sacred-
Whispers that put me to sleep
Twilight harvesting. Priests of navigation
Persistent themes in incessant change.
The future's despair entangled
In ancient past's long reign
Lost is what we'll never know...
Grasp intellect of lost worlds
The inquires of their unwanted
The theories of their most maddened
The shadows of their darkest rooms-
Exposed in this release from reality
Behold the oldest gods... and basking the glow
And lying in the wake the scenery unfolds
A mind marked by abstraction
Harmony in the chaotic breath
All times wind carried away my tonal
Pictures that thought paints-
What I can't shut out
That would go ill with sleep
Steals silence from the night
Dreaming becomes an art
Opium for my soul.

3. Babylon Burning

Limp hand outstretched.
Desperate to touch the hand of god.
Lambs worth of negating and breaking the seals.
Wounds that once caused their death.
Bursts of light flash forth.
Crowns of gold melt into the eyes of kings.
Echoes of time forgotten.
The higher ground shakes with inevitability-inducing this fall.
Collapsed, smoldering empires and dawns markings.
The caress of seven angels.
To be all and end all...
The burning of Babylon.

Merchants weeping.
Abominations of earth.
Not a leaf rustles.
Oceans as smooth as glass.
Winds of the four corners silenced.
Nature's affectionate answer to our neglect.

Blessings of power and riches revoked.
Blood spills of every kindred and tongue.
THunderous utterances. The revelation.
The sun smitten. The moon and stars darkened.

Locusts unleashed.

Words that were not revealed.

The burning of Babylon.

4. Worthless Endeavor

We, the laden and uninspired
Lie dormant at the footsteps of the last day.
Measured outside the dilapidated
Structure of society.
Dead under a sea of waste.
This is the shallow shell we've crawled inside...
The warmth and comfort we'd hoped to find...
The world we occupy.
All is ours to taint with touch...
Fading away.
False hopes breed ignorance.
There will come a time when simplicity shall reign again...
Long after we are gone.

5. This Sorrow

What you can't breath... the chaos of snow and smoke.
What you can't heal... old wounds and scarred skies.
What you dont know... missing memories.
What time will reveal.

On the frontlines in a battle over our minds...
We are the miscellaneous debris...
Coming to terms with how this might appear in hindsight.

In the furture, we are there... blanketed in ash.
Explaining why the ghosts of all the lives wasted
Haunt us. Leaving all things cursed.

Expectations as anchors. Captivation as strife.
Unbridled want controls what might be this life.

Handful of rulers with bloody hands writes
History of the future. Creating all that's in sight.

This sorrow we suffer ails us alone.

How cheap is it to forget?
How expensive to remember?
Could just one joy compete with one death?

When the day comes...
Bury my heart. burn my soul.

One more time around with this pathetic sorrow.
This sorrow.

6. Wilt

Withering away...
The colors fade into one.
The turning of the tides.
To pass from old to new.
Kneeling before the sun,
And seeking forgiveness
No shelter from these piercing rays
That blister my skin.
Scarring the flesh.

Begging for night- for an end.
To the suffering.
Covering the sun
In a darkened embrace
Unable to crawl of from these depths.
I have sank.

Intentions grow weak-
Ambitions begin to fade.
Searching for closure.

Within the reach of another existence.
One day this nightmare will end.
Leaving this life's perils behind.
Withering away.

7. Leaving Form

This is all there is.
Form is dust and pain.
Take these words out.
Pain is life now.
This is forever.
Given from within.

8. Ethereal Bleeding

An incarnation of zerorune.
Sources include guitar synth,
Loops, Moog, and feedback.







RUNE LYRICS