ALLEGAEON LYRICS

1. Bastards Of The Earth

Cursed visions of secret lights
Cast through glass and drawn curtains of fire
Rooms of forlorn abandon
Where the eyes of the mind cannot fathom
Standing in the place where stones of ruins rest unshaken
By intrusions traced through time
On approach light finds the eyes

Thrust into a world
Akin to darkness, ruptured by the sun

A spinning wheel that spells disaster
The circle growing deeper every day

New and overwhelming senses
The warmth arrived and welcomed
Is blinding, white, and deeper into light
Hesitant to enter
Or rather crushed by grave impediment
Incapable of pushing onward
A spirit transmuting

Thrust into a world
Akin to darkness, ruptured by the sun

A spinning wheel that spells disaster
The circle growing deeper every day

Impetuous it must be
Stepping out into the unseen
To carve a valley unending
To break from trepidation and be free

Through growth and decay:
Chasing through overgrowth and horrors
Where once was the way
Led to promise and vision of great salvation

A spinning wheel that spells disaster
The circle growing deeper every day

Bastards of the earth
Now standing pillars to the flames
The hardened monuments to wistful misery

Masters of the earth
Erecting pillars within flames
Arduous monuments of listless misery
Arduous monuments of listless misery

2. Of Beasts And Worms

Whispering wood where emptiness stirs
Where the eyes of the sun dare not linger
Where a cloister of silhouette shapes emerge
And feast on the bodies of beasts and worms

This is the place where I rest my bones
And the river that cleanses me runs alone

To be there again where my spirit longs
And sleep in the soil forevermore

Under the sky where the moon is scarred
Marred by the clouds, the shapes of gods
And devils that spirit away to the souls
To harness the power of grief and woe
Turning away to the mist and the fog
Pulling my spirit away from the bogs

Far from the whispers of bustling streets
Concert of angels is buried beneath
Myriad monoliths stuck in the soil
Smoldering death from the sewers below

This is the place where I rest my bones
And the river that cleanses me runs alone
To be there where my spirit longs
And sleep in soil forevermore

Ragged and weary, awake, trembling
From the snap in the air as the shivering breeze
Mimics the frailty escaping from these
Whimpering lungs that can barely breathe
Dreams that have carried me vanish away
The mist, long arisen, painted in gray

Far from the whispers of bustling streets
Concert of angels is buried beneath
Landscapes that once held a permanent place
Rescind into darkness where they will remain

This is the place where I rest my bones
And the river that cleanses me runs alone
To be there where my spirit longs
And sleep in soil forevermore

The skin is stripped from tender vessels
Clawing and crying out, wholly aware
Of the dawn encroaching bringing with it the pain

Of facing another day
The pain of waking
And facing another day
This pain is never ending

This is the place where I rest my bones
And the river that cleanses me runs alone
To be there where my spirit longs
And sleep in soil forevermore

This is the place where I lost my bones
In the river that cleansed me
To be there where my spirit has grown
And sleep forever

3. Into Embers

As the sun at night and the stars in the day, the emptiness that surrounds me
Is truly amazing, a vision destroyed
Like the sound of a whisper descending in the distant
Darkness

Retreating from the grasp of the hands that burn the world
In the pale light of the daybreak, I change again to stone
Thrust so deeply into the dirt that I can never be surfaced
Like a shipwreck fallen far beneath into the trenches of the deep

Dreams, like memories, lose their taste over time
And the bitterness quickly becomes
All you can remember, so fear not for after
The pain subsides, it will be like you never dreamt at all

I have no way to survive or place to belong while staying alive
Mysteries sealed in cages of steel, clattering far above where vision has failed

Living is the chaos of existence
Dismantling itself, instant by instant
There is no uncertainty or fear within
For living is what creates it

Confessing from behind a mask, insincerity spilling out over the edges
Where the mystery of being hangs, snakes from the mouths of the withered and aged
Like a flame broken into embers
A once unbearable heat has faded away

When the light goes out
The darkness is deeper than if it had never shone
As the light goes out
In this cavern so dark I hope to remain

Like a flame broken into embers
A once unbearable heat has faded away

Shapeless is the mold I'm encased in
Chased by a wraith in a hundred

Places I fear, this dream I once held dear is disappearing
The picture of a world of gray is getting clear
So many differences, interpretations taking place
The dream I once held dear is fading away

Now drifted so far into the distance
This ship of Theseus is sinking

Living is the chaos of existence
Dismantling itself, instant by instant
Living is the chaos of existence
Dismantling itself, instant by instant
There is no uncertainty or fear within
For living is what creates it

4. To Carry My Grief Through Torpor And Silence

The weight that looms above me fills this arid chasm to the brim
A dread that overwhelms me designs the lines wherein shapes
Of distant, strange and often wasted memories
That bear no meaning steal my presence of mind

Through the trees and this tangle of weeds that is leading me deeper
Desperately into a dream where the reaches of fever and sickness of mind can't find me
I come to my feet and careening, screaming into the empty
Looking for something, for anything other than me to carry my grief

My tongue is laced with blades of ire
To scrape away this taste
Left by tears and rain and ashes and waste
The faceless coward within me glowers
Taking and giving out misery

Through the trees and this tangle of weeds that is leading me deeper
Desperately into a dream where the reaches of fever and sickness of mind can't find me
I come to my feet and careening, screaming into the empty
Looking for something, for anything other than me to carry my grief away
My endless grief

Save me someone please
I cannot bear to carry any of this pain anymore
My aching body screams, fading and wasting away
Save me someone please

My tongue is laced with blades of ire
Condemning me to my descent

Through the trees and this tangle of weeds that is leading me deeper
Desperately into a dream where the reaches of fever and sickness of mind can't find me
I come to my feet and careening, screaming into the empty
Looking for something, for anything other than me to carry my grief away

Nothing on the wayside left to waste
Eating all of my fears in empty days, away

Take me further from safety for everyone
Take me further away
Left to waste

5. Vermin

You reapers
You demons consume the blind
Cloaked in gold
Burning futures, destroying lives

So come and take it
Effluent miasma growing

You creatures
Skin of humans, souls of ghosts
Shrouded motives
Pages torn tied into ropes

So come and take it
Jaws open, a negligent nemesis
So come and take it
A monster, a nightmare descending again

You will never take it away, the flame
That burns alive inside these cages that shape us

Vile seekers
The vermin of humankind
Exacerbating
Futility and wringing it dry

So choke and taste it
Jaws open, a negligent nemesis
So cold and graceless
A monster, a nightmare descending

You will never take it away, the flame
That burns alive inside us and rages
You will never take it away, the flame
That never dies, only morphs and shapes us again

Into life
This suffering retired
Into light
Far gone, beyond the reach of their crooked sights

You will never take it away, the flame
That burns alive inside us and rages
You will never take it away, the flame
That never dies, only morphs and shapes us again

6. Called Home

In the web you left behind
I fail to find or forgive myself

Long and cold have they grown
Sunless days in this home
Often and over and over again
Thoughts that won't come to rest

Why did you suffer this alone all along?

All dim, all pale, so lift me on the pyre
The feast is over, the lamps expire

Long and cold has it grown
This road you wandered once
Often and over and over again
Led to inevitable ends

Why did you suffer this alone all along?
What desperation guides your hand to blanket these vacant walls?

By keystroke you wrote, "I, I was called home,"
And through that action I lost my own

Through that action I lost my own home

The peace the trigger granted begat the horror of flesh and bone
I only hope you found, that which was sought

By keystroke you wrote, "I was called - called home."

The dissolution of brotherhood brought by a mist of red - I am home

Carried you thusly and later read
That I, "deserve better," - what this life has fed
Now I must embrace the lessons taught
Everything you taught me

I cleaned your blood from off the screen
Scraped your brain matter, and let loose a scream
Relegated your life to trash and unseen
Shattered but grateful for all you did for me
All you did for me

The role you played was the most important of all
Why did you suffer this alone?
No one was with you when you died
I am home

7. Blight

When the blood finally comes, let it sting
Pumped to the surface from eons, seething
This rising sea, breathe in, bleed out
A billion souls the cost of doubt

First time you feel alive
Is right before you die
Worst time to be alive
Survive to see the night expire
Look out, my soon to die
On lovely blackened sky
Sing fever into every man

Oh, how I loved them, these dying lands
Oh, how I loved them, killed by guilty hands
Worse beyond the fate now set and immersed in
Writhing in the fire are seers and curses

Your future fated with lifeblood, irrigated
This shell I leave behind gently becoming alive
Offered to those below
Fossil earth extends her home

First time you feel alive
Is right before you die
Worst time to be alive
Survive to see the night expire

Settle to the bottom of a world immersed in flame
Upon a pedestal a treasure that invites our fury, emanating
Carving out a vision in the sediment to stay
Beyond the generations that will simply die and fade with age

With no more life to kill
Your heart, it loses will
Unsated, failing, falling fast
You turn your own to glass

You turn your own to glass

First time you feel alive
Is right before you die
Worst time to be alive
Survive to see the night expire
Look out, my soon to die
On lovely blackened sky
Sing fever into every man

Oh, how I loved them, these dying lands
Oh, how I loved them, killed by guilty hands
Worse beyond the fate now set and immersed in
Writhing in the fire are seers and curses

Destroy

8. The Dopamine Void, Pt. I

Holding on, destined to act in the place of a faceless god
Holding out, waiting for great reward at the end of an endless road

Emptiness awaits, everything real will drift into darkness and disappear
No joy to be told at the end of the world

There is nothing
Nothing awaits with arms as a vacuous maw
There is nothing
There is nothing at all

9. The Dopamine Void, Pt. II

You fools
Do you not see the hopelessness
And ambiguity you cling to
Serves not but as a segue
Into crimes against the world?

Holding on, destined to act in the place of a faceless god
Holding out, waiting for great reward at the end of an endless road

There is nothing
Nothing awaits us with arms as a vacuous maw
There is nothing
There is nothing at all

A life best served in expectation
Is not a life but is a self-imposed indoctrination
That buries and leaves behind only ashes and bones
A great cessation of thought bringing birth to the era of horrors

There is nothing
Nothing awaits us with arms as a vacuous maw
There is nothing
There is nothing at all

Turning into waste among the serpents of decay
Into a poisonous and bloated iteration
Of a former state of life as defined as the process of dying
Past the hands of existence and into the fray
Where the carrion crows lay in wait
To desiccate bodies desecrated by the torturing of hope
Hanging down like the end of a rope
Long severed into a well that has long run dry
The lies we tell ourselves to survive
The lives we leave behind

Cancerous, the architecture
Method of believing in a symptomatic system [?] human form
Ever-swarming, chomping at the bit to propagate
A world dilemma fabricated somewhere said to be eternal
Where the worms crawl
Infernal destiny awaits us all
Self-righteous servants
Existing as nothing but thralls

They all lie and tell themselves
"This is how we'll survive."
They lie to themselves over all

There is nothing
Nothing awaits you
Your soul is a vacuous maw
There is nothing
There is nothing at all

10. Saturnine

Forevermore into the light of a star that will never dawn

Woe
In separation from the earth I've grown alone
Emancipating myself from the grasp of this mortal coil
Soulless
Breathing but barely living as days tire on
Joyless actions preceding the oncoming squall

On I go
So nothing more need be told, to do so is pointless
My own story goes into the void
Into the void

Forevermore into the light of a star that will never dawn
Open closing tomes onto hands that are begging for warmth
Forevermore into the night under stars that will never fall
Open closing hope on the hands that are breaking and falling down

No more
Poison slowly coats the wound
No more
Engulfed in horror, sealed inside the tomb

Like ruins sleeping for the ages:
Now so do I
Exhausting options
Left with naught but what is obvious

Into oblivion
I peer into the deep
And finally see the reckoning that waits for me
Forevermore

Into the night, into the light of a star that will never dawn
Open closing tomes onto hands that are begging for warmth
Forevermore into the night under stars that will never fall
Open, closing, choking on hope and the bones of tomorrow

Forevermore
Into the light of a star that will never dawn
Open closing tomes onto hands that are begging for warmth
Forevermore into the night under stars that will never fall
Open closing hope on the hands that are breaking and falling down

Open closing tomes onto hands that are begging for warmth
Open, closing, choking on hope and the bones of tomorrow

11. In Mourning

[Instrumental]

12. Only Loss

God chases away the sacred bull
Brazen and filled with souls

Go, set onward for faltering
Goals, inexplicable like ancient tomes
Driven by a source unknown
Perhaps fear of only coming close
Never truly knowing how to hold a future frozen by time
Like ice, unmelting and growing into glaciers

No hope
No hope for going forward
No love in inescapable odds

Serpents that guide them walking blindly
Into bindings that smother their hearts
Pumping blood unlike the rest of us
As oil emerges and darkens the sun

No hope
No hope for going forward
No love in inescapable odds
Only sorrow just as always

Only loss
Only loss
Only loss

Oh nothing slowly becomes my only home
And in the sun it's always cold

The night, it breathes in a weak and rasping breeze
Through the trees as the music of leaves
That burn beneath the blood on my feet
Blend with the thunder that changes
To rain, this pain is sweet
For it seeps into me and reminds me that I am
Alive and also just so tired

I try to find my reasoning mind, but inside
The light that once provided
Is blinding and scorching my weeping eyes

No hope
No hope for us
No love
Against these odds

I try to die under stars as the seamless sky is crying
Hurting for we and our broken dreams

No hope
No hope for going forward
No love in inescapable odds
Only sorrow just as always

Only loss
Only loss
Only loss







ALLEGAEON LYRICS