SHADE OF HATRED LYRICS

1. Prodrome

[Instrumental]

2. Martyr

A scourge is looming in the West
Peace and love it does not comprehend
Obsessed it is, consumption and greed
None can stand the force of this consuming stampede

Our ways are imperilled
A legacy defiled

We call upon the ones who hold the faith deep in their hearts
As one, we'll rid the world of the impure
You prey upon the ones who feel they don't belong. Filth!
Machinating minds with promises grandeur

Conquest, brutality remains
The only way to ascend and free this place
Behold the devastation of our righteous cause
Obtained through sacrifice of the ego

Our lives, expendable
Serving greater good

We call upon the ones who hold the faith deep in their hearts
As one, we'll rid the world of the impure
Twisting of perception, erasing their own thoughts
Urged upon a path, eager to meet your god

"What prevents you from attaining martyrdom and the pleasure of your Lord?
Look around you when you sit in comfort and ask yourself: If this how you wish to die?"

We call upon the ones who hold the faith deep in their hearts
Brothers, time to be the liberators we have sought
Consumed by the searing hatred you have wrought
Now they follow blind to drench the world in blood

Valiant and just
Confused and exploited
Calling out to us
Sent to a noble death
Sent to a pointless death

Now I strap martyr's fire to my chest
My cry, enraged I thunder
Wreaking desolation with my last breath
My corpse be torn asunder

3. Evangelist I

Born, raised, versed, imbued
Holy scripture I've pursued
A circle unified of
Brother, sisters, fates divine

Within these harbouring walls
Deception cannot harm
Where hearts are filled with love
Iron minds, reinforced
Bear onto the earth
Sovereign hallowed law

Open wide your eyes
To heaven's searing light
You heathens sanctified
Evangelist I

Set in stone, I made my choice
Though I never heard the voice
A might divine
This spirit holy, surging through me

Where have I gone astray?
On bleeding knees, I did pray
My ambivalence
It leaves me hollow, cold, dismayed

They begin to speak in tongues
A preposterous display
My doubts remain unsung
Buried until another day

Beyond my home I've come to learn
Bridge by bridge they start to burn
My ignorance
Fed to the pyre, rising higher

Arts exiled came to me
Science and philosophy
Enlightening, frightening revelation
Wrenched my spirit free

Look upon us!

How could I've been so blind?
And blazed the trail for lies
I've sown the barren seed
Of a ruinous rotten creed

To dust the wings of faith
Arising from the flames
Anew, I'm standing tall
Etched into the ground

I cast off my former robes,
with sodden steps, I tread into a new dawn

4. Tapestries of Time

Lo, lo and behold
As tapestries of time
Unfold and decay
Before my eyes
Here, here I now stand
Upon the torrid sands
Revelation floods the mind

Oh, such wasted potential
To heal the essential...

...Life
Denied
By sway
Of beguiling coin
Our home
This sanctuary
Is laid to ruin
To waste

Blackened days, all daylight fades
Yet we won't shed our cancerous ways
A drowning haze, the skies ablaze
Man plunged into forlorn graves

Walk with me
I'll make you see
Our weakness and hypocrisy
Perceive with me
As mankind bleeds
To where this apathy might lead

No use for regret
It's much too late
Chant your prayer
While you suffocate

When do winds of change turn to storm
And bring motion to the gears of revolution?

Tremor!
I feel the quavering
Tremor!
Heralding the end

5. Phantoms of a Fractured Mind

Sleepless nights
Haunting terrors
The fabric of reality
Seems tattered
A fog in my head of countless echoes
Once distant and far, seem close

Cries
Clawing away
The veil, torn to rags
Receding lucidity is breeding ferocity

I've come to this place
Forlorn. In desperate need
To put my mind at ease
I beg of you, please

Because far too long I've harkened to their calls
Convincing me there's menace all around
I can't make sense of this madness in my ears
You ask me why I'm here, well...

Aid I've come to find
Craving to define
What is real and what is conjured by my fractured mind
Breaking all the chains
The fire in my veins
Is tearing through my skull and driving me insane

I've completely lost the reins

Well, my friend, there's one thing we can do
All this time we've waited just for you
Sign these forms. Our sessions can begin
His gentle features fold into a grin

All this time the whisperings bore seeming of the dead
Now a gentle face reveals her wardening instead

I bolt from my seat
Reeling on my feet
I meet his gaze
Staring straight through their deceit

The blink of an eye
A violent desperate cry
I throw myself upon this fiend
Attempt to take its life

The doors fling open, others storming in
With twisted limbs and terrifying skin
Grabbing both my arms, searing pain
I'm lost, encaged, never seen again
The needle finds a vein

6. Elysium

The wells are poisoned
The herds lie sick
Progress did cast us
Into a black abyss
Fear amongst the young ones
All weary, hope deprived
Bearing marks of relentless strife
In slums filled with broken minds

The heat, scorching my face
Meadows ablaze
Lightning scars the heavens

The oceans disgraced
My earth defaced
Now fire burns our sky

Abort your cancerous ways
Retract your felonies
Scorned! Reveries erased
Plagued! Our bleak, dismal fate

Upon this tower high
Marble stone and cleaner skies
Like gods above mortals rise
The callous, cruel and heart deprived

You've crossed the Rubicon
Generations dead and gone
Below we sing, in unison
Laments to the dying dawn

Our breaking of chains
Violence in vain
For a haven far beyond our reach
You're safe from our cries
Astray from your eyes
Soundly you'll go to sleep

Abort your cancerous ways
Retract your felonies
Scorned! Reveries erased
Plagued! Our bleak, dismal fate

No mason could ever forge passage
Across this crevice of utter madness

Your care-naught philosophy
Beyond all reasoning
Relentless agony
Condemned... eternally

7. The Silenced Herald

[Instrumental]

8. MAOA-L

No remorse

Pouring rain, a bleak autumn day
This unburdened soul did wither away

Horrible fate, a fierce struggle in vain
Wrenched from this world in a sickening state of dismay
By this monstrosity, this unscrupulous filth's revolting salacity

How we've seen all the cruelty in this being
Amongst us, yet devoid of empathy
Serpent tongue, generic face
How indistinct and commonplace
Beguiling words, you found a way

Out of your cage

How they have failed
Those entrusted with your restrain
Now, can they explain?
Live with this disgrace?

How could it be that this bastard roamed free?
How can we forgive harbingers of such agony?
I'd sentence to death
Willing to sacrifice my very humanity

No remorse
None

Bitter hearts engrieved
Left to mourn in disbelief
Yet this woe, I know
Can't ever be relieved

Now my mind's eye is tormented when I
Think of this night, I imagine her mortified cries
The echoing screams
Face filled with tears craving eternal release

9. Enuma Elish

From abyssal chaos born
Abzu, Tiamat, came forth
Churning a primal storm
Enigma, creation
Tremors in the coiling seas
Of primordial legacy

Their primordial legacy

Three of a might grandeur
Enki, Enlil, Anu
Triad, reigning ones
Countless kin, pantheon
Dwelling in the ocean one
Bastion, Tiamat

Anger grows, Abzu sows
A most sinister approach
Heirs reduced, down to foes
Engulfing rage, they shall know
Vile intention, now shown
Caught in the undertow

"My slumber disturbed
They all... must burn"

"I bear them no harm
Enki, heed my alarm"

Hand of Enlil, stride forth
Towards the far waters
To lay waste upon the All-father
Abzu's demise achieved
A bride bereaved

His bride bereaved

He: Lord of raging winds
Harbinger of violent storm
Marduk: son of Enki
Revered, mountain born

Carving through the waves
Woeful maternal rage
Eleven fiends, she creates

Defeated, tattered, torn
And from her broken corpse
Earth and sky, he'll form

"When the sky above was not named
And the earth beneath did not yet bear its name
No field yet formed, no marsh to be seen
When of the gods, none had been called into being"







SHADE OF HATRED LYRICS