ÆTHERIAL LYRICS

1. The Penitent Man

The penitent man, will not pass
Anymore than the sinner will
All shall perish

All ye hear these words and weep
There is no escape from the wrath of that final judgement
All shall perish, in a self created Hell
And no penance, can buy you a place in the Kingdom of Heaven

The penitent man, will not pass
Anymore than the sinner will
There is no escape from the wrath of the final judgement
All shall perish
All shall perish

2. Obscurus

The broken man is the most dangerous
Keep your world of continual disappointments to yourself
Don’t scatter you shards here
Don’t scatter your shards
Your failure is contagious

I’m not your beacon
Don’t flock to me
Where will you go
When this fire dies

What time doesn’t change death will
The inevitable can’t be avoided
The comfortable existence that kills us smiling

Like a moth to the flame
They swarm and make me flicker
It drains me
Away on your ragged wings

I find that I can’t laugh with out screaming
When I think about the mediocre vessels we’ve become
Because happiness is a thin veil
That covers a decaying face below
It will leave you ruined but wanting more
In this Godforsaken life you lead

I’m not your beacon
Don’t flock to me
Where will you go
When this fire dies

Like a moth to the flame
They swarm and make me flicker
It drains me
Away on your ragged wings

The broken man is the most dangerous
Keep your world of continual disappointments to yourself
Don’t scatter you shards here
Don’t scatter your shards
Your failure is contagious

Where will you go
When this fire dies

3. The Fallen Will Mark The Way

I will be at the shore
Watching your ship embark to that distant land
Until it disappears over the horizon
You wont see me standing in the shadows
But I’ll raise my hand and wave goodbye

The time for regrets and worldly preoccupations has passed
These burdens are of no consequence any more
So throw them to the breeze forever
Be free and I’ll think of you from time to time and smile

Don’t look at the faces of people left behind
They’ll only draw you back
No words can help them

When all of the hate in your heart subsides
When the words of the few become the truth of the many
And the taste of blood is only a memory

Hold fast and keep going
Struggle out of spite
And grief will feast here no more.

If only the brave or the foolish persist
What is the choice?
Do you pause, but for a moment, whilst passing through hell?
No!

I will be at the shore
Watching your ship embark to that distant land
Until it disappears over the horizon
You wont see me standing in the shadows
But I’ll raise my hand and wave goodbye

The time for regrets and worldly preoccupations has passed
These burdens are of no consequence any more
So throw them to the breeze, forever
Be free and ill think of you from time to time and smile

The time for regrets and worldly preoccupation has past
These burdens are of no consequence
So throw them to the breeze

When all of the hate in your heart subsides,
When the words of the few become the truth of the many
And the taste of blood is only a memory

Hold fast and keep going
Struggle out of spite
And grief will feast here no more

Keep going
Those who have fallen before you will mark the way
Though your heart is heavy
The weight of failure is greater
You will not find solace here
Keep going

And don’t you pause
If even just for a moment in Hell
For you will surely remain

4. The Insignificance Of Us

No such thing as tomorrow
When you’re doomed

Kill the thought we all have some predetermined purpose
Just a myth
Tomorrow will bring change
Stop justifying your existence
It will lead you to despair

It’s difficult to comprehend
This endless cycle
Monotony
Sleep and wake all in the same day, it’s all the same
Free will has released us
Yet left us lost

As I look, upon the evening sky
And bathe in the stillness of its orange light
I realize the insignificance of us
There is only now

The sun still will rise
In despite, of those who fail to rise

We all who exist,
Yearn for the lives of which we imagine
Always seeking, makes a mockery of life

The arrogance of hope
Only retains our dignity
As it has been for a thousand years
So it will remain

As I look upon the evening sky
And bathe in the stillness of the orange light
I realize the insignificance of us
There is only now

The sun still will rise
In despite of those who fail to rise with it

Let it go
Cause once it’s laid to waste
It’s gone forever because, there’s
No such thing as tomorrow
When you’re doomed, when you’re doomed
There’s no such thing as tomorrow
When you’re doomed
No such thing as tomorrow
When you’re doomed
No such thing

5. Back To The Earth

Today I sensed the demise of a man
I smelt death in an unexpected way
The sweet warm earth
Like a grave
In a polite exchange
We went our separate ways

Back to the earth
From which we are all made
We will go again
And all we ever hoped to be
Will blow away, with our bones forgotten

I will carry this burden of impending death
Alone in silence

I smelt the death of a man again
It was not the same
The pungent stench of an institution overcame my senses
He knew I could tell
He was going

Back to the earth
From which we are all made
We will go again
And all we ever hoped to be
Will blow away, with our bones forgotten

I will carry this burden of impending death
Alone in silence

Were these meetings by chance?
I think not
I was not mistaken
I struggle at the thought of what next awaits

I know the secret
The mind hides but the body betrays
I know the secret
I smelt the death of a man

Back to the earth
From which we are all made
We will go again
And all we ever hoped to be
Will blow away
With our bones forgotten

I will carry this burden of impending death
Alone in silence

I smelt the death of a man

6. One Of The Departed

One narrow beam of light is choked with dust
I watch as they fall away to nothing
Like the hours in my days
Just like the hours in my days

The echo of our voices has diminished
The clock has stilled
Sorrow
For all I can see is the ugliness and cruelty in the world.

Heart of my heart
Soul of my soul
You can’t be
One of the departed
Forgive me
I failed to keep you

Where do you dwell?
Where no living breath has been spent?
Deliver me to this silent kingdom

I wiped the dirt from your hands
But they are still too pale
They are still so cold
The sadness of this lonely watcher
Forever gazing
At an endless night
No star can pierce

This one divide
Just cant be bridged

Heart of my heart
Soul of my soul
You can’t be
One of the departed
Forgive me
I failed to keep you

Where do you dwell?
Where no living breath has been spent?
Deliver me to this silent kingdom

Deliver me
Deliver me
Deliver me to this silent kingdom

One narrow beam of light
Is choked with dust
I watch as they fall away to nothing
To nothing
Just like the hours in my days
Just like the hours in my days
In my days

7. Down Amongst Dead Men

[Instrumental]

8. Perpetual Night

I too shall pass

The only thing I’m free from is freedom
Bound to the flesh and its limitations
A grand failure
Filthy and useless

Fine from the outside
I win at every game except mine
An ungratifying pursuit that kills me

The road once held a million promises
But not one of them meant for me
Life has worn off and suicide provides no comfort
I will feel the cold

There will be no end to this perpetual night
No candle can replace the sun

I can’t outrun the shadow of the setting sun
With the weight of these sins on my shoulders
Keep going
Something worse is waiting for me in the dark

I killed my own god
I killed my own god
I killed my own god and now I have nothing.
No one now to take pity on my soul

The road once held a million promises
But not one of them meant for me
Life has worn off and suicide provides no comfort
I will feel the cold

There will be no end to this perpetual night
No candle can replace the sun

And I suffer
And I die more everyday
In this body of fleeting light
All too soon extinguished

I can’t outrun the shadow of the setting sun
With the weight of these sins on my shoulders
Keep going
Something worse is waiting for me in the dark.

Don’t scream it’s right behind you
Don’t scream it’s right behind you
Don’t scream it’s right behind you
Don’t scream it’s here

9. We Who Know The Tempest

I awaken, disorientated, racing pulse
What was it, I was supposed to remember?
I can’t recall the words
Only the pale horse and its pale rider, with its outstretched hands, reaching for me

The storm approaches
The air hangs heavier, than a dead man at the end of his rope.
The incessant dread that is felt by all and seen by none
Abandoned prayers, swallowed by a rising tide, the unfaithful flee to safety
But there is no longer a safe place left, to go.

We who know the tempest grow tired of the calm
Follow me and descend into chaos
Follow me to witness the downfall of man
The wicked heart is repaid in death and the blood that courses though those veins will be let
To stain the ground.

The storm approaches
The air hangs heavier, than a dead man at the end of his rope.
The incessant dread that is felt by all and seen by none
Abandoned prayers, swallowed by a rising tide, the unfaithful flee to safety
But there is no longer a safe place left, to go

We who know the tempest grow tired of the calm
Follow me and descend into chaos
Follow me to witness the downfall of man
The depraved will taste the malice they’ve inflicted
And their blood will stain the ground

The storm approaches
The air hangs heavier, than a dead man at the end of his rope
The incessant dread that is felt by all but seen by none
Abandoned prayers, swallowed by a rising tide, the unfaithful flee to safety
The unfaithful flee to safety
But there is no safe place left to….

10. Spirit Against The Flesh

It looks out from the inside
Takes my life for its own life
Plays on my insecurities
Makes me rage
Leaves my mind in a dark place
Makes me hate my existence
Death is alive
Death is alive

It wants me to fail,
It wants me to fucking die
It laughs in the face

Scars my flesh with its own mark
Hear the words through the television
There’s no relief
There’s no rest
Lost my hold on reality
There’s no hope
Fear and despair surround me

It wants me to fail
It wants me to fucking die
It laughs in the face of god
It wants me to be the same

The body of Christ compels you out
So kill me or leave me now
I can’t stay in the shadow anymore
Get the fuck out

There’s no face on the scarecrow
How the fuck does it watch me
You cant fix this with medication
It is poisoning me
Poisoning me
I am alone
Yet not alone

Kill the master
Yet the master has become the slave
It is death
Death

11. Three Poisons

We are mortal like the Son on the cross
No attainment of divine
I am conscious of a fear I can’t name
Spreads like mist and grips my heart like iron

I faced the sun,
So I’d miss the shadow behind me,
Silence
Still I forced myself to look in me
Deny it all
I wasn’t ready to face
Whatever the fuck I found

Were not as pure as we hope we are
We’re all stained and struggling to contain

We are mortal
Like the son on the cross
No attainment of divine
I am conscious of a fear I can’t name
Spreads like mist and grips my heart like iron

Betrayal of the soul
Now there’s nothing left to protect me
Suffer, behind a face where evil and good look the same
I’m weak
Is this my moment of fate, a war that’s raging

The horror
The devastation that lies behind my skin
God created this as well

I own the power
Born from truth and ill show you
I own the power
Born from truth and ill show you

Were not as pure as we hope we are
Were all stained and struggling to contain

We are mortal like the son on the cross
No attainment of divine
I am conscious of a fear I can’t name
Spreads like mist and grips my heart like iron

I have been given the mind of Christ as have we all
Cling to the light
Hold it precious
For the three poisons will ruin and destroy you
If you allow

12. The Unavoidable Conclusion

Goodbye
Breathe my last breath
Give it life
So I can be with you for one last moment
Sorry, that we will never meet again, my friend

For our time was just a fragment
In the wake of eternity
Not to be repeated or remembered
By anyone but us
Don’t try to follow because I wont be there

Into the dark, I will journey, though I cannot ask the way
The wretched dead sing no praises
Nor do any that go into silence

May my soul, be delivered from death
My eyes from tears and my feet from falling
My friend
Pray for me, I’m sorry to leave you in this world

My grip is slipping
My grip is slipping
Who has come to collect my soul?

Into the dark I will journey, though I cannot ask the way
The wretched dead sing no praises,
Nor do any that go into silence

Through your suffering,
You will grow
And I will be your teacher

Goodbye
Breathe my last breath
Give it life
So I can be with you for one last moment
Sorry, that we will never meet again, my friend

For our time was just a speck,
In the wake of eternity
Now turn your face away
I don’t want you to see me slide
Into the still waters of oblivion







ÆTHERIAL LYRICS