ZAO LYRICS

1. Into The Jaws of Dread

[Instrumental]

2. Ship of Theseus

We are the Ship of Theseus
Singular and all
A sum drawn to the surface
By the fragments we recall

We are the Ship of Theseus
Composed of flesh and bone
An atypical anomaly
Unfolding on its own

A lost singularity sprawls out over time
Searching for the space where dimensions can combine
A lost singularity sprawls out over time
Searching for the place where everything will become nothing

Nothing

Nothing can ever stay the same

Disrupted function
Collapse the waveform

This is the Ship of Theseus
(We are) fragments of the frame
Composing a new identity
From the prototypical remains

3. Croatoan

Here but not here, torn from the axis
Torn from the axis, here but not here

We're unable to awake
And we've forgot that we are sleeping
We're unable to awake
And we've forgot that it's a dream

A shell within a shell... within a shell... within a shell...
Within a shell... in a disguise

Pulled from a dream into another dream
Croatoan

4. The Final Ghost

The round of robins
Hunted down the hawk
They were high on honey
From the lion's skull

The robins' beaks were sharpened
The hawk's claws were not
They tore it into pieces
Singing, "Arise to fall."

The sky was screaming
As it rained feathers and bones
Collective dreaming
We're all one and alone

In the beak of the raven
Hangs the rabbit's child
Shrieking in terror
Before its mother's eyes

Mother leapt in vengeance
Her mind aflame
She drove her dull teeth
Deep in that raven's neck

Her mind was screaming
As it rained feathers and bones
Collective dreaming
The All-One is alone

Scurry to cower behind your throne
The last to die will live alone
Calling out to speak with ghosts
In the end the birds will build nests
With your hair and bones
You died up on a throne

You were the last to die and lived alone
You are the final ghost

(And the birds sing songs to the tears in the sky)

5. R.I.P.W.

The reaper's robes were thrown upon me
O' I wore the reaper's robes
A sickle to cut our consciousness from us
Live and death adorn its blade
The snath a crutch to prop us up
A pillar to brace the crushing weight of our final mortal transition

I am sorry your end was so violent
I am sorry for the form in which it came
I was there but I wasn't there for you
You were scared and couldn't hear my voice

There was so much fear in your eyes
Sensing what was to come
Your bones like broken glass
As I held you in my arms
I felt the life leave your skin
I watched the light leave your eyes
Shortly after your last breath

Tears rain from my empty eyes
They crash upon your vacant form

6. The Crimson Corridor

A signal is born from a crooked womb
Into the hands of the chemical sea
It writhes forward towards the Pharos
To infect the corpus and revive the fear

When sorrow's seed awakes in me it takes dominion inside my head
A numb abyss of helplessness authors the visions it embeds

The change begins as I stand within the crimson corridor
I bite off my lip and I clench my fists screaming
"Cut it all away, cut it all away!"
Screaming...

The path is lit, I am drawn to it
The crimson corridor

Eternal recurrence

Lowered slowly into the jaws of dread
Crushed between its teeth
Suffocating

7. Transitions

The snapping of strings
Strange rhythms in sounds
A reminder to us that all things must end

I feel the Sword of Damocles staring down at me
A flower blooms in the final act of self preservation
The mountain and the sky
They collide before the river's eyes

Delusions drain us of safety
Our foundation is rotting
Creatures crawl out confused
The cycle continues
From the season of loss to the season of life

It is in the transitions

Grind and picture
Reform to return

Cycles and seasons

Reform to pass through
Drawing your first breath
The last leaf to fall touches the ground and turns day to night
Cycles and seasons relapse

It is in the transitions

8. Nothing's Form

I watched the heathen plead to the sky
I watched the convert curse God as he died
I watched the ghost wandering without a guide,
No form to abide

I watched perfection put on a disguise
I watched the honest speak only in lies
I watched the mirrors and saw only things I despised that
Lie behind my eyes

I watched the rebels argue the rules
I watched the builders abandon their tools
I watched the heroes feed the innocent to the wolves,
Laughing like fools

I watched the valiant tremble at night
I watched the pious choke on the light
I watched the dead star reform and ignite,
The seeker takes flight

I am the observer
I am nothing more

I watched the heathen plead to the sky
I watched the convert curse God as he died
I watched the ghost wander lost without a guide,
No form to abide

I watched perfection put on a disguise
I watched the honest speak only in lies
I watched the mirrors and saw only things I despised that
Lie behind my eyes

I am nothing's form

9. Creator/Destroyer

Mother whispered to the water
Trembling she made her plea
Turned and said, "I love you"
Then she fed me to the sea

Father took me into the forest
Tied me to a tree
Smiles and said, "I love you"
Then watched the wolves devour me

"O' when the pale white moonlight fills their eyes,
The animals get hungry"

Creator and Destroyer become one

The rings of Saturn shroud your mind's eye

Sickle, Scythe and Harpe
Curse of Chronus

10. Lost Star

Descending arise
Transitioning tides
Of circling eyes
Burst into light before me

The unwinding mortal coil
Makes its home beneath the soil
Now separate from its riders will
To be broken down and then rebuilt again

Process falls apart
The end of the start
As death feeds the ground
Life's born and bows in reverence

The unwinding mortal coil
Makes its home beneath the soil
Now to separate from its riders will
To be broken down and then rebuilt again
As it feeds on you
When your time has come
A doorway to descend
With decay and rot
We fade into fear
Towards and endless hum
Rub our failing eyes
They don't see or sense
All the ruin of life
Why do we exist?

Bloom and decay
The game is displayed
The lost star awakes
And quickly it takes another form

11. The Web

If I were to unbind in body or in mind
I will never be gone just difficult to find
I will find my way back to you after I have shed my skin

Now the host must change, its atoms rearrange
Yet through the chaos and pain, the rider shall remain
I will find my way back to you after I have shed my skin

If I were to unbind, in body or in mind,
(let it be not cause for sadness)
I will never be gone, just difficult to find
(may you be as brave as you are kind)
Now the host must change, its atoms rearrange
(Cast anger from your mind)
Yet through the chaos and pain, the rider shall remain

I will find my way back to you after I have shed my skin

I will be with you always
I will follow the web back to you
We are the web
Long live the web







ZAO LYRICS