Cast into the dark
Leave you hanging there
Do you know the Word?
Do you know the Abyss?

Scrutinize your heart
Do you feel or care
Have you known the Word?
Have you felt the Abyss?

Break the shell of your mortal form
Cast your life into the void
Clarity leads through the storm
Your soul transcends while your flesh is destroyed

Branded with the mark
That will lead you there
Can you speak the Word?
Can you cross the Abyss?

Break the shell of your mortal form
Cast your life into the void
Clarity leads through the storm
Your soul transcends while your flesh is destroyed

Across the gap
Face the demon
Summoned by your fear
A faithful step
Abandon reason
Reality is near

Leave me now with the shadow of a dream
A light caress that barely touched my mind
Only a whisper yet it screamed in my ear
Never to return but I'll never forget

The mistress of death holds you dear
It's hard to believe but you've known her for years
All is done and there’s no more to say
An unspoken promise  takes you away

Touch me once and then never again
With the midnight air hanging upon your breath
Wrapped in dreams and safe from the world
In silent peace your wings unfurl

The mistress of death holds you dear
It's hard to believe but you've known her for years
All is done and there’s no more to say
An unspoken promise  takes you away

Leave me now with the shadow of a dream...

“Enter the darkness
Let it take you in
Mystified, by the night
Free from guilt and sin”

So spoke the shadow of the huntress to me 
As she guided me through the fields 
Ancient fires and carnal desires
How could I anything but yield?

Under the full moon
By the light of stars
Live this night, live your life
As who you really are

Deny the lies of monotheistic religion
Embrace the majesty of creation
Suffer no guilt for the patriarchal burden
Grant your flesh the true Holy sensation 

Passing through the gateway
Leaving all my morals behind
The demons embrace me
And greet me as one of their kind

They call me mad, but it's not wise to do so
To seek to turn a madman into a foe
And I don't care, just what others may bid
'Cause I'm the only one I have to live with

Through these shattered eyes I see
Someone's looking back at me
Climb aboard and join me in my world of misery

Your voice flows through me and it beckons me to burn
To leave safe ground and never to return
Against all gods on the wings of will we rise
Shattering the chains of celestial lies

We wayward spirits ('re) driven onward
Fire by fire lights the soul
Our reason here remains yet unknown
As does our journey’s path and goal

Our faces shine for we know not fear or shame
We kill our demons just by speaking their names
Face the Paine, in this age, reason is a must
When your sense is the only thing that you can trust

Darkness falls, as Light dies
I face the storm with open eyes

Another day is over, another night's begun
And finding me cold sober: The Desolation

Ravaged by the spirits, demons of the low
The sorrows and the secrets, only I can know 

Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go

I've touched the mountain highs, and unspeakable depths below
I've listened close inside, to hear the river flow

Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go

Why am I cursed with this vision
To see what no one else can see
An uncanny premonition
Of the things that have to be

A bargain with the beast – a pact of arcane powers
One eye given for the gift of second sight
Yet all that we received – for the foolishness of our greed
Was the unwanted vision of the day that we must die

Why am I blessed with this vision
The gift to know what lies ahead
But still my plans of right decisions
End in constructions of the dead

All I know, All I see
The end that lies ahead of me
Hear our woe, Hear our plead
Save us from a fate brought by our greed

The prophecy I’ve seen, I’ll live to see it fulfilled
How can I be sad for the inevitable?

All I know - All I see
The end that lies ahead of me
Hear our woe - Hear our plead
Save us from a fate brought by our greed

All that I know, all that I see
The end ahead of me
All that I show, all that I feel
The prophecy’s now real

No one else could perceive
No one else would believe
With what I know I can no longer pretend
Another chapter ends here 
My vision’s made it so clear 
For now I know that this too must end

I see it now, I see it now, I see it now (repeat)

Now we’re no more (repeat)

Let it be known -  truth lies in death
What has been shown – will now forever be
I’ve seen beyond – nothing will change
All sins atoned – as we embrace eternity