A FLOURISHING SCOURGE LYRICS

1. Tidal Waves

Loathe this bitter place, this monolith of decadence
Reluctant witness to the greatest sins of man
Alone amongst the stirring souls, defiantly gripping gold
Victim to the predication of this sickened seed

Contrived existence

Nothing left to see but the decay wrought in the wake of progress
Sifting through the evidence of what was left behind
I know no hubris or sense of mission
I heal my scars with time

Contrived existence
Contrived existence I will deny

Long live your legacy of glory, king of disdain
As empires crumble I stand unfaltering

This temple, bound by silence
Historian of failure
Transcend the construct of timestream and consciousness
Beyond the island of light, rise

Loathe this place what has become of paradise, what once was one
Thrown away, torn apart, return to me I will reclaim

This temple, bound by silence
Historian of failure
Transcend the construct of timestream and consciousness
Beyond the island of light, rise
The water paces with fury and discontent
Become the ocean of life, rise

This tempest breeze is intoxicating
The writhing seas twist in agony
Death is this horizon I offer you
My vacuous offspring of malcontent

Now witness the end of this abomination
The epilogue to an autonomous thought
As tragedy takes the hand of lamentation
The billowing waves envelope the sun

Through this darkness there will be light
My love knows no end
This song I sing of filicide
Shall be thy lullaby

Now sleep, forever

2. To The Stench Of A Rotting Corpse

Upon the hill I lie
In the shade of an old willow tree
Long lived and tired
Bones and muscles ache, due to time's decay.
It is here, I wish to stay
To bask in the sun's warm glow,
And rot properly
I press my paper thin, wrinkled skin
Upon the rough bark of this old tree
And watch as the sun sets for eternity
To become the dust I came from
Buried in the ground lacks dignity I believe
Please let me give back what was given to me... Life
Let the worms, ants, and wasps feast on my flesh
Let the crows feed their young
There is nothing left for me
So why keep it selfishly

Let my bones hear the songs of the birds and the wind in the trees
Bathe in the pouring rain, and feel the warm caress of the sun.
For when nature is done with me, I will truly be set free

3. Insatiable

Now see the fruits of our vile labor bleeding from this earth
Cauterize the seeping sores of our scorned mother
Rip away the putrid scabs, subjugate the carrion mass
Divine are we the ravenous ones

Feed on life
Embrace this anomalous design
We decide
The travesty of our appetite
The ravenous ones

Grown from calculated birth in prisons built of blood and filth
Flesh is a passage that cannot be dammed
Steaming piles of atrophy, feeding systematic greed
Alone, we will devour this world

Born to die
To feed this anomalous design
We are blind
To our genocidal appetite
The ravenous ones

Burning through the corpses of the ancients
The sweet stench of death from the pyre
Smells of primitive and depraved desire

Breathing in the caustic emanation
Suffocate the population
Praise be to the malignant flame, as we scorch the heavens

Perforate the sky
And bask in the light

A kingdom so vast
A landscape so small
A meager offering
For the insatiable

Purveyors of death
The vessels of god
This harrowing hand
Shall sow our last dawn

At the twilight of time
Epilogue of this feast
Relieved of this hunger
We will finally be

4. Onerous

High atop the pinnacle
Reaching for eternity
Onerous, the weight I bear
Beneath the mountain I crumble

Black out the skies
This body grows cold

Machines of men
Scorch the earth
Behold the miracle
Of our rebirth

Contagion arise
We will black out the skies
This soaring atrocity shall absolve us all of our fate
Translate the burden of the malevolent race

Searching existence for another vein
Devour the stars extinguish the astral plane
Atop the apex of this masterpiece
I bide my time with silent resolve
Of this burden be free

5. Awakened

[Instrumental]

6. Vacant

Awakened vacant
Adrift and forsaken
Absent and incomplete
Stranger to this foreign realm
Of parasitic harmony

Despondent, wounded, left for dead
Wandering this blighted land
Blindly the masses fall
On swords of desperation

Unrelenting multitudes
A lecherous society
Hordes of sickened sycophants
Devour life and cull the weak

Bleed for salvation
And sin for your fears
Pray for transcendence
And covet your tears

Content to be nameless
Forever unheard
Content to be faceless
Existence obscured

Receptors poisoned to the core
These calloused eyes can see no more
Bloated, lifeless, washed away from this cold shore
Lost in a universe of chaos, lust and greed
Content with nothingness, refuse this grim reality
Become the unknown

7. The Hedonist

[Instrumental]

8. Solace

Clawing my way through the impossible darkness of this place
The alluring shadows they beckon to me
The spiraling madness envelopes my consciousness, as I fight to stay awake
What atrocity has deserved me this fate?

Drowning in waves of decay
Suffer through this mortal plague
A nightmare upon us has taken the stage
A twisted amalgamation of death, despair and suffering

Solace I find in you, at the end of this masquerade
Silence the only truth, as this world fades away

Free from this mask I wear
Burdened no more by fear
Dawning the exit of light

Ethereal become
Witness oblivion
Welcome the embrace of night

In my comfort lies the sorrows of mortality
Fleeting moments mark the bane of this reality
Crumbling towers shake the frail walls that keep us inside from the promise of forever
Forever inside

As I look back at a moment of anarchy
And converge into the river of eternity
At last, I may know peace







A FLOURISHING SCOURGE LYRICS