SHROUDED MIRROR LYRICS

1. Tür

Teeth falling out of my head
What glistening image
Fixated

2. Out From Slumber

Fight through the hordes in the ice
To a holy chamber with Her immaculate presence
In the Martyr's altar he resides wearing knight's pale armor
Eternal winter preserved in snow, scriptures made from mottled flesh
Sent here by the chained one for the Gland
I'll battle on

Drink the Nektar, feel a deafening quake
And now he's from slumber
Die in this place or power I will embrace
For he is out from slumber

Wielding the sword and the ice
Now he charges forward before returning into mist
He throws his broadsword through the air
My only window
Brace and fight through the snow and take the upper hand
Swings his weapon backward, then pierce the ice
And then I will strike

Mating steel with flesh, the tainted Nektar has consumed his soul
Tarsus, the original Martyr
I will see him fall

Bring me this alive
I have drank deeply, I have glimpsed into fallacy
Now obey, now obey
There is an escape from the infinite incarceration
I will ascend

[This song is about the video game Mortal Shell, developed by Cold Symmetry.]

3. Illusion Of Rationality

Why surprised
Why surprised, you did this
You know you did this
Sit the fuck down

Look into the roots of the breed
Tectonic shifts in the data not enough to quell your capital gaining vice
Crops are dying, suits are lying
Sustained by greed

Your grimy hands are soiling everything
A multi-billion large inertia high
They pass away indebted to a king
You walk away averting eyes
Averting eyes

Key to the kingdom of magnanimity
Whosever paid the higher price
I would like to see dogs sicced on all of you
Tie him up, Columbian necktie Bartholomew
Famous now for that bloody smile

Lifetimes have been erased
Avert eyes

Time to behave
Stop lynching
Inadequately lying
Pathological liars all for briefly warding off being six feet
Deep down I know you all feel guilty

Some things have to hurt to be learned
Some things have to hurt to be fucking learned

Bring them all to the abyss
Preoccupied with possessions, feeling fearless
Bring them all to the abyss
Drown in darkness

4. Dis

A landslide of hell is upon us
Sit back and laugh as it destroys everything you hold dear
Don't think you can make it as a shell
We all die, we all die, that's it
Those who sing freedom songs bide their time
Nothing we can do to make it better than this

Bones atrophy through time
I'd give up mine
Put me in formaldehyde
I'm going the extra mile

Bring me back some peace of mind
Something not infected with "I"

The well can always get deeper before it gets dry
Well that's a fucking lie

Let it out feel the blood wholly soaking into the ground slowly
Let it out feel the blood wholly soaking into the ground
Let it out feel the blood wholly – I purge myself of this
Let it out feel the unknowing

Seeding, direct sow, growing, germination
The Pit

This breed is killing
Killing itself
But only as fast as
As it decided
Ignorance is bliss
My blood is in the pit
My blood is in the garden
Ignorance is bliss
A landslide of hell is upon us

5. Eldenbrige

Hailing, yellow, scalding flood coming down the mountain
Moving quickly wall of death steps forward
Distance closed before recognition sets in

Surface of the land submerged
Never coming back
Never here
Surface of the land transformed

Surface of the land submerged
Pyroclastic flow
Move, quick, run, hide, no there's no time
Yellow air
Fire inside
Take us back from whence we came
Take us back from whence we came

6. Heliopsis

Nothing left alive in this world
Disgusting horrors lie just below
Concrete jungle splitting apart
Blurring hearts, a rain all upon us

The once nearly asphyxiated city
Subject to the newly mutant flora
Normal pits of water now are burning acid
The vines are closing in
History erased
The world is nothing but a fucking swamp

The evil of homo sapiens corroded away
Mutated plantae holding funerary (Homo sapiens corroded away)
Mutated plantae holding funerary
Ominous floral deity is omnipresent
Ominous floral deity is omnipresent
Twisting vines corroding and melting
No one saw the light leave the last pair of human eyes
The wars, the famine, the greed, the subjugation
The wars, the famine, the greed, the subjugation
The forest brought the end and I was happy to go
Nothing tempted me to fight it
The first to go were the poor but not far ahead of you
(The first to go were the poor but not far ahead of you)
You can try to live through this, you rich fat bastard
Nothing you do will make a goddamn difference
Nothing you do will make a goddamn difference
Soak in shit

7. Breathing Obsidian, Unburning Flesh

Power begins flowing through her veins
Lost and alone, missing for three days
Starving and on the brink of death when a surge of strength begins to manifest itself
Night closing in, no sign of the horizon
"Has humankind ceased to exist, is it my time?"
That's when the air grew warm and she noticed sparks flying from her fingertips
In an instant the forest burst into flame
A hole opened up in the ground and magma started flowing out
She was terrified and surely about to die
But the fire engulfing her cradled her gently and made her feel powerful

She reached out a hand and conjured flame into a beast
The world ablaze and she was sighing of relief
Her demon spirit took the form a blazing Pieces
And she held on as it pulled her into flight

By the night she flew her beast over the land
Volcanoes began to emerge spontaneously from the ground

All of her life she was told she was weak but the power she holds says no
Memories of pain fueled her rage as she burned down everything she used to know
Her hair was ablaze in the wind and the soot became her halo
"Nothing and no one will ever stop me again."

Fire consuming the world as her rage turned into despair
She banished her demon and fell to the ground in a crater, and there
She let out a desperate cry, but realized her pain was now gone
Wings of fire exploded from her back and a phoenix was born

Breathing obsidian, unburning flesh
Demon queen of the world
A reign of fire
Ashen remnants of the old world
Nothing left, no more pain
All of geology at her total behest
The Immortal Phoenix has risen beautifully

She reached out a hand and conjured flame into a beast
The world ablaze and she was sighing of relief
A life of holding in a quiet misery
The night shone bright under her towering, blazing wings

8. Sagacity (A)

Countenance with erudition (So they say)
Leading emphatically to nowhere
The snake oil is moving fast
Guarding the ego hidden well (No)
Instrumental torture working as advertised
Inadvertently uncovered

Sagacity (So they say)
Come on we'll be late
Get in place
We cannot miss what's in store
Torn wings mend not themselves

You know the way
You have control
You know (You know)
You know the way (Know the way)
You have control (Control)
You know

There's this garden where I breathe in slow
Relax my brow
Turning leaves are ecstasy as I cry
Then I turn and walk into my fate

There's no tomb
I am two
Mine and everything
I suspect mind control

Is my suffering worthless?
Is it worth mind control?
Is my suffering worth mind control?

9. Oblivisk

[Instrumental]

10. Unknown Quantified

Given up on life pretending
Given up on eating shit for no wage
No maker's mark imprinted on me
I trade disintegration for a clear head
By the stars, I search the night with no destination
But I watch for signs and catalog their nightly devotions

We don't stand a chance
This human existence is sprinting, beaming towards the end of time
Our time is coming to an end
Living in denial, head in sand and arm up ass
The humans' God, even if it existed
It would keep killing them

Oh, it would keep killing them
No help
No prayers answered
No
No!
We are sovereign over nothing in the end

Wake the self encrusted for so long
Bring forth the truth
Time and death are the same

Give in to the cycle
Much more can be made
From the broken bones and severed sinew

Drench the land in blood, for the time is now
The sand's run out
Recycle life, we'll burn to ash and
Magma will encrust all of the earth
It'll be ripped from our hands
So stop wasting your life disintegrating
Reclaim your trivial, insignificant amount of control
Take my hand, and make your first and last decree as God
Make your judgment

Fly by the night
Exhale for the end is nigh
Emerge from this crimson glow anew

My friend, we give ourselves body and soul to the great unknown
There is nothing else
We sacrifice ourselves to the Vantablack throne
We give ourselves body and soul to the great unknown
There is nothing else
We sacrifice ourselves for the quantified goal: Apollyon

11. Sagacity (B)

The king has fallen (Unconsecrated)
The Pit will swallow its creator
The last remaining hints of life on this burned out rock
Broken families running for their lives
Eldenbrige has brought devastation
The Phoenix scours overhead
Her molten fury has cleansed the earth (This kingless earth)
Death is better than the infection

The Heliopsis has been wiped out
The Pit pulls everything organic inside
Scouring the land for last remaining survivors
She brings the mountain's will to a resounding end
I watch it all unfolding in my mind (Reality no longer mine)

Painfully pulled from hiding
Claws of insanity rip my mind apart
I let the Devil in
I let him in (I let him in)

"Sagacity"
So I fucking said (Oh)
The consistency of reality is undefinable
Consciousness cannot be proven to be more than a programmed apparition
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

Within and without
This conception of "my friend"
This has all been in my head
I've been hallucinating
I've been hallucinating

12. With Tears In Their Eyes And Death In Their Hearts

[Instrumental]








SHROUDED MIRROR LYRICS