Sands of Mortality

by Elephant

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1.	Istar Bleeds 03:35	lyrics	buy track
A seven-spired temple rising in splendor The might of Istar in a sky of white gold The majesty of the holiest city on Krynn The chosen of the gods lost in their own light A clergy corrupted by Manifest Virtue Enslave and exterminate all evil races All contrary thoughts shall be punished by death For the Kingpriest to control the will of the mass The paranoid despot, persecuted by shadows Desires to rule in glory as the truth of Paladine The exalted ascent of his high eminence An insolent ultimatum prompted his doom Demanding in his pride What can only be sought in humility Now the true clerics have left the land The day of the Cataclysm dawns silent Calamity turns to chaos And the pale blue eyes of the Kingpriest reveal a weary frightened man Ripping through the sulfurous air A terrible resounding ruin Judgment came from The Ancient Gods When the fiery mountain fell Istar bleeds A nightmare of weeping, sadness and despair The teeming fields of summer lie shattered on the ocean floor Covered by the mercy of the waves
2.	Doomed In Cathedral Crypts 05:14	lyrics	buy track
Embraced by lightning in the Neutrial Interior Death rules the air on tyrants wings Claustrophobic chaos in a maze of prismatic walls Benighted by the horns of the god Cabalistic glyphs recall the story of the pharaoh Keeper of the tomb and the multitudes of undead Sealed within the 12th Sphere - The Ocean of Infinite Agony A plague borne upon the triple helix A hideous fungus of vipers Mystified before the crystal altar A sacrifice of light before the silent portal Dread forms are summoned from celestial planes Howling in rage beneath the abyss shroud Sorcerers and kings waged great wars Shadowed by spells in cathedral crypts A dark lineage - The night breathes again By the claws of the moon, sanity is riven from the soul As Aries drinks the blood of the butchered Aphrodite Mesmerised by the last flame of sunset The immortal battle at the edge of twilight Yet all tears have run dry From countless millenia of oblivion
3.	The Conjuror's Harp 03:47	lyrics	buy track
I awoke upon the plateau beneath an amber sky I felt the heartbeat of the wind in the land where the rain is born With aplomb I bled the heavens and watched the cherubs burn Besieging fabled Titans through malefic invocations Charming memories of the future haunting the pandemonium The bitter illusion is all that remains but for me the vision will succeed Deciphering crude symbols within the black caves The secrets of the ancient galaxy Understand the mystery of the Spiral Nebula Communing with Sith Magicians on the floor of Lake Naath This robe my only armor, magic my only quest The dreamlore of Chedudwyn and the candles of Sirrion Lost among a frenzy of images I hear the songs of the bards Boredom catalyzes creation The gates of prophecy open Carry onward Manifested by the force of my will A thundering pace The druids come only to bury the dead My vindication lies at the tranquil flames This journey mystical has forsaken no wish A great distance is yet before me And worlds beyond still await Soaring unfettered, the crystal sword in hand Illumined in the mountain fortress, imbued with formulae I fear my time is short Hysteria warps my frantic mind Dimorphing - the structure unravels Reality has become unreal
4.	The Demon Incarnate 06:40	lyrics	buy track
Asleep below the freezing earth, stirred by the call of the accursed mask Old, dark memories of triumph - a sanctuary of pain and hate Decaying limbs claw through the dirt - the gruesome stench of the past Grotesque shapes obscured by the fog, the moon a bone-white glow Primitive ghoulish hunger to kill, to gore, consume Decrepit are the living, The Demon's will be done The Evil Eye aflame with the power of necromancy An immobilizing stare torturing pitiful souls The cemetery is alive with the lurching undead Exhuming horrible sins in the dead of night A lurid flashing light - anguish and torment Raising all enslaved by death A grim and turgid darkness, contorted forms and shadows Ashes of angels fall like snow upon a grey and lifeless ground The throbbing pulse of The Gravehammer is buried by sadness and gloom Until only silence is echoing in eternity In the rotting air, Granath smiles upon Ovu Mobani incarnate The graveless horror embodied in a zombie's flesh
5.	Shadows Of The Conquering Dominion 05:19	lyrics	buy track
Far beyond the stars, at the edge of the final frontier I stand as Emissary of the Celestial Temple Bastion of the ancient wormhole Timeless entities transcending the nexus Awakening visions - a universe in flames The Pagh Wraiths blazing with radiant hate The lengthening shadows of the conquering dominion And legions of Jem Haddar fighting 'til the last The sword of war will plunder with might - Cardassia in ruins Amongst the endless fleets of ships smouldering in defeat Bloodless eyes in a burning lair - a cage of crystal fire The shapeless menace imprisoned by wrath under the dreaded caves Enter the prophecy - destiny's ode - the profound wisdom of fate Eternal rest in the sleep of completion, a wave of infinite sadness Lightships once scattered by the solar winds In bold adventure across the immense sea of space As the nine orbs reappeared in the Bajoran skies The divine Tears of the Prophets
6.	The Sleepwalker 04:38	lyrics	buy track
In a dark age, I walked among the tyrants Six we were - bound in a midnight trance Every night we would die together Restless and reckless with no destination but escape Time to go to sleep, soon the dreams will come Eyghon possess me, take me anywhere but here To where nightmares still walk in physical form Before they were imprisoned in the quiescence of the mind Drawn by the tenebrous spirits to the bacchanals of Achelous Gazing into the souls entwined in the rivers of Etruria Warriors of evil blood gathered in the depths Initiating the projection across countless morbid planes A circle of extinction amongst the silent stars Dormant in the darkness of rebirth Days of chaos, black magic and sorcery Feeling the surge of exhilaration for pleasure or gain Dreading the inevitable leap into the spectral rush From the edge of this timeless ritual Treasuring the moments eternal, hearing the somber sounds of the rain Recalling the premonitions whispered in the crimson mists of the dawn
7.	Once Alive, Dying 04:48		buy track
8.	Dark Halls Of Wisdom 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Ensconced in bibliosis before the tomes of reverence Brooding in the study of the silent tower The Grey Voyager of the void in pale sleep Remembering the ruins of endless years Dance for the rose in the forests of Pylea The trionic text of the wolf in the pentagram A bridge to the wisdom of the moon The nebulous souls compounded in twilight Ever and anon traversing the sphere of time The saga of The Narrator within the mirrored walls The first to witness the fall of Oberon Of winds and ingate Inverted coffins, a burning death Beneath the sun's infinite fire The answer balances on a legend lost in an age of dreams Borne upon a cloak of stars, The scroll of heaven aflame The secret aloft my wizened eyes On the smiling caryatid's visage As Iris descended into the earth To kiss the roots of the ageless tree In the darkness beyond the door, the altar is being prepared The last perfect day and the world is near completion Acclaim the prophecies bound within these halls Written on the marble stones by my own hand
9.	Sands Of Mortality 09:16	lyrics	buy track
Footsteps in the sands of Tatooine In dreams of the lemniscate I've wandered The glow of the moon devoured by the dark clouds of fate I know the thunder is for me Obscured by morbid sorcery on the Plateau of Tarynor Evoking the third curse of the inexorable storm Runic incantations upon the oaken wand Gazing at the soil of the stars Phantasmal landscapes of magnificent desolation Feverish hallucinations in the midnight sun Lost in isolation at the end of the spectrum The old night willing to conquer Across the mountains cold, through a frozen ocean of clouds In the shadow of the Icewizards of Hoth Nocturnal portrait, funereal fear At the zenith of pandimensional summoning I breathe the elder conjuration Following the skyward impulse of Enoch Above the bleeding distorted land on the edge of revelation Suffused in the crimson twilight of the last sunset A remarkable helix of nebular mist, odd to the guardian's eyes Before the immortal mural of time, the machine is ever in motion Riding the visions of the tesseract, ascending the spiral scales Hurtling toward the binary suns beyond the gleaming vortex Upon the gallows of a dying galaxy Exhausted by gravity's constant crush Death shall be my greatest command to all As I escape the astral cage In the dawning winds beyond the diminution of light I arrive with the book in my hand Forever treasuring the mania of youth The future is mine to write