The Defining Choice

by Elephant

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1.	The Voice of Anguish 04:07	lyrics	buy track
I am that which darkness fears The voice of anguish taunting you False evidence appearing real What is not but could be if I am the echo of your failure The grandfather of your despite Standing reserved with arms crossed Glaring, leering, smug and solemn I am the phantom waiting for your fall The possessive lover taking your breath Agony, tragedy, suffering and pain I am the grand obscenity The living mirage of constant doubt See your reflection in my eyes Timid, reluctant and insecure The newborn child is guilty of every crime Ever committed by man Shifting ever inward and away As the final virgin lies slain by the maiden's wrath Nightmares unite with the torture of waking As the first jealousy rises And the jaws expand to devour Sleeping stars awaken the masquerade Disguised abhorrence in the boiling lake Another dies as another is called Inexorable night and the shadows will feed Crying for help, unable to speak Dying unmourned, screaming unheard At the mouth of hell in the valley of the sun All hope is drained in the death embrace Times of crisis, a vision of no future Formless apprehension of perceived loss Twisting of speech from a desperate mind Birthed the legend of the defining choice
2.	Face of Infinite Light 04:09	lyrics	buy track
Intuitive dreams, an inner flow Synergy of visions, the seventh sight Darkness surrounds the fear that refines Journeys heighten the plateau Nothing before knowing, time and the after Emptiness perceived in hindsight If this will end in failure I cannot lose by daring the conflict Minds engorged, brimming with sickness Scared of the suffocating chase Protector, defender, champion condemned Not beyond but all within understanding Perversion is surrendering choice Corruption of purpose Weakness spurred by the waste of an oath Extinguish the groveling flesh Beasts roll in nightmares, bodies found in sunrise No foes but self to mar the way I will succeed where the mighty have failed Because I am not them Compass of infinite stray desires Light the clay black as love Bites precious the eternal realm Burning the ruler's requiem Standing restless Transcending fantasy Nights of thought beyond all craving I'm in the sun, hiding and lost But at the bane of the newest day Blood of the pure will howl as fire Quaking outward from the fault Strange are the moments as chance recedes Yet I continue against the face Covered by the frothing dark My voice is still my own
3.	Serpent of Angelic Evil 03:01	lyrics	buy track
No apologies for hunger No shame of the urge to feed See the blood of balancing life Evil known in a living circle Shadowed dreams of a darkness fair Hawks and doves engaging the mind Laughing nymphs and striding goddesses Sucking on the tongue that devours Consumed by a cruel artistry Avenge the stains of the relentless throne Joyous healing in the revelation of hatred Grief ecstatic in the clarity of horror Animalistic groans ripped from the body Wrenching wild in crazed delight Helpless fly in a spider's web Breathing the fiery musk of greed Tiny victim under control Asking whether to release Raising tension to quaking screams Roaring exaltation Fierce magnificence swallowing millenia The true visage of an elegant tyrant
4.	Ascending the Hallowed Eclipse 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Wait, reflect and take the sands Appearing, transforming, preparing the plunge Renewed in phases manifesting spectres Restored yet contained within a vault Sights before a flying soul Remaining silent, only breathing slow Depths and heights of vindication Humiliated as exalted Metrics of mindflow integrate Transitioning shapes Decipher the metaphor Tearing the world afraid in belief Artful volition of supremacy Pestilent sings the burning eclipse Destiny a consequence of choices made Across the chapter of falling names Swimming an embrace Draining sunrays The shining man belongs of old Near the breath, words are gone Escape the surge of the dying They shall never leave this pit Or the putrefied throat of the wreathed animal Nor shall the hypnotic mouth be shut But remain wide, anticipating the damned Solar might and slithering fear Past the gallows of the hallowed cold Sailing night clings to crawling skin Sentient mercury invokes the task Spirits ascending convulsing Serpents striking from the coil Intricate carving Known beyond the beginning of life Since before nothing was born Long after the universe is naught
5.	Breeding the Ravers 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Error in the creation room Subterrestrial, chaotic and mad Aware of every aspect of self The olden fist of the doctor's path Harrow the kin and slaughter the flesh Attendant spirit, being or devil Hands of minutes destroy the blind Gaining reason at midnight's tune Fashion a chimera from genetic disarray Engineer a race of man, demon, and machine Tormenting persistent wraith Procreating a wicked feast Souls bewitched threaten the unborn Modern ravers of nobility and skill A flash of intuition to a rising revelation Hellish, deranged, roaring and wild Terminate the centuries, hushing the voice Understanding their obscure choices Bleeding suns pour into the veins Fertile embers fanned by funeral winds The ultimate never shall die reborn Words remain as little wars Jaws diseased have been disfigured By all the evil they have spoken Enthroned by thinning screams Swimming an embrace of ritual flames Prying mastermind plays insanity Made inside the creatures seed Born the victim of the lightning monstrosity Strike alive in vain delirium Primal strains of ancient disease Fall in a whirlwind of glowing pain Weapons crafted in a maze of fire He who kills is prouder than the storm
6.	Another Imminent Demise 04:11	lyrics	buy track
From the abyss of night Is risen the glow Silent shells shall open Ghosts who reigned a thousand hells Scripts of life, the scrolls of time Arrive at death's threshold Stars are the eyes of space Sands give untold millenia Cloven darkness unleashed Fire envisioned by the spine Dreams and thoughts fall to the ground Screaming into lands of glass Desire to know the reasons Hanging lunacy bleeds Transparent lifeline ceases Timeless revenge I come in the prescence of my dead While encountering rulers past Trying but the dust wouldn't see Passing the rising writs Heavens engrave a celestial inferno Over the moon and the high horizon Slow ending of a hateful sleep Devastating sins of the lacerating sword I feel now as I did the day I died Myriad earths without system Echoes and songs resting here Flickering in drowning whispers Doorways complete unlock transformation Cold terror preserves the gates So days last as the wind Capture awake the only breath When voice and word upon the air Only down the soul in slumber Obscure despair in debris Mortal lies and scattered flesh Fury prevails, purity forged Awakened and seeking Portals collide In transcendent flight Fulfill all that tramples below In restless dreams of my demise
7.	A Force of Grief and Fury 04:12	lyrics	buy track
A force of fury fueled by grief And the abysmal silence Harvest of destroyed purpose Paragon of suffering Stench of mentals defiles the face Cinders of the womb inhaled Haunting talisman manipulates Binding fields of the thaumaturge Ancient microcosm, inferior command Barren hollow of the terrible mountain Glowing ways of the eternal craft Reaching the mind that dwells within Guided by the blood of the slain Nemesis throne amidst the crimson pyramids Cleansing fires to purge the slate Funnelled through her effigy Daring the magicks This night my legions walk the sky Dark clouds swirl above the breaking dawn Conjure chilly moonscapes and slumbering nightmares Whisper zephyr winds of an alien sun Black worlds under the glare of strange eyes Slitting the throat of the enchanted doe Wine of wrath clips the wings to the kingdom Hear me, keeper of mysteries Conflicted by approaching dimensions Veiled upon the hill laughs a haunted heart Eternity of stars in a netherworld of souls Onyx vision to flowing tonic A burning gaze that purifies the abyss
8.	Fortress In Majestic Trance 04:11		buy track
9.	The Defining Choice 03:52	lyrics	buy track
Reaching for the light of doomed shades Betrayed the wind of sacred sacrifice Leaves are silent as the song of memories Blissful mist in the weary moments Lambent decay of newborn demise Judgment of the graceful warning Here shall all await the heavenly Precious arrival outshines sunrise Lucid thread of jealousy In nothing all shall stand Here begotten unknowing Sightless hope carries the future Points of starlight Appear to die Borne the blessing Of the healer unveiled Downward runs the waiting disaster Shameful death of beauty Shining spell from the hands of the heir Paths manipulated before birth Bountiful choices of misery and wisdom Choose the answer that conquers the fairest Planets divided the sun unbroken Below time bodies gone Perish in obscurity, the vision is true Tired and scared yet resolute Clear are the foes, the dream is near I found my voice through the storm Feel the defiance of the mustering drums Slouching toward the mouth of anguish We cannot get out, there is no way out Clash together the jaws, we shall witness again Home lies ahead not what was left behind But mountains were sadness Chasing gods lost in release Born today is the turning Run the distance in vain Cheerful trial of damnation Mirthless dance of failure So you've chosen my fate? I don't care! When I laugh I can still hear the thunder And I smile