MARE COGNITUM LYRICS

1. Crimson Abyss: NGC 2237

[performed by Mare Cognitum]

Citadel of ancient sorrow
Turn your gaze to the void
Twisted amalgamation
Drift into the cosmic sea

Though your halls echo deep
And even ghostly visages begin to decay
Wander still into the night
To seek the province of the stars

Through years of isolation
The torch continues to burn
Brethren guard, seeking solace
Their dreams lying in the shadow of crimson wings
Beholding, in the distance
A sign of immeasurable hope

Commune - in solitude
Ascend - in nothingness
Flourish - in deprivation
And transfigure the wretched tomb

Hold the flame aloft
Into the black abyss

As hope begins to fade
And time loses all meaning
The brethren lie as stone
Watchers of eternal silence
Until upon their eyes
Rests the blazing sign

Commune - in solitude
Ascend - in nothingness
Flourish - in deprivation
And transfigure the wretched tomb

Hold the flame aloft
Into the crimson abyss

Hold the flame aloft
Into the crimson abyss

A horror of horrors awakens
The nebula stirring with malice
Twisting the wandering walls
Into perverse and abhorrent forms

Waves of anti-cosmic energy
Barrage the crumbling walls
And through the gaping wounds
Enters the hideous infestation

The brethren rise to defend their home as it crumbles down before them
Hearkening the sounding of the bell, and rising to its call

Awestruck terror engulfs the torchbearers
Their home has betrayed them, and becomes their tomb

2. Crimson Abyss: NGC 2238

[performed by Mare Cognitum]

A withered garden flourished thorns of shattered bone
And birthed flesh colder than the frigid storm
A pyre of frost and earth embracing the sky
Sealed with the feeble touch of death

Aside the memories of pallid mountains gleaned with flames,
Rest the calloused hands who held aloft the blaze

Though their eyes fade,
And wither in decay
Though the light fades,
The torch ever burns

Torn asunder by mangled stone and steel
And buried deep beneath themselves
Their voice beneath the earth whispers no more
Silenced by dust through gasping breath

Ghastly fingers run like daggers across the skin
To tear asunder fading blood held within

The sound of torrential suffering
Muted by weight of their dead
The tattered skin writhes no more
A husk of eternal sleep

Though their eyes fade,
And wither in decay
Though the light fades,
The torch ever burns





MARE COGNITUM LYRICS