BENIGHTED IN SODOM LYRICS

1. Stranded In Consciousness

2. Dreary

For upon this steel I built a crystal palace
Thus above is the glorification, so shall the flesh reside beneath

Each one, a sacrament of this faith
This unbridled love for the comfort that only chastisement can provide

You, too, are in these veins
Come, and I will make for you a place to exit as well

Promises of tomorrow are fleeting when you're dead
Maybe better to just covet serenity from the emptiness at the heart of my dreams

Sinners never receive closure in Heaven
But I know I can drink the poison from the stars in Hell

No time for apologies
Just something to remember me by

Before I ruin life
Without speaking

Maybe better to just covet serenity from the emptiness at the heart of my dreams
Come, and I promise I will find an exit for you as well

3. Beauty In Exile

All I ever needed were these red walls
All I ever needed was a hand on the other side that wouldn't reject my own
Stay with me tonight

Just until I fall asleep
You can whisper razors to me
In fields of flowers beyond these jagged cliffs
Take me there and push me off
Blood among the lilies, blood along the seashore
The sickening silences of lovers and angels
Concentration
At last, the gates to sweet perdition spread their conviction wide to welcome me
From the deserted peaks, I plummeted into your arms
Keeping us buried in my heart, buried in my grave
Such sweet memories
Carbonized

Slash my throat
Just until I fall asleep

Tell it to me again

4. A Skeptic Between Lovers

Gathered around me like thousands of flickering candles
Stars were exploding as I approached the pantheon
I could feel the tunnel narrowing in my descent
Claustrophobia supreme

Head first, frozen flesh and cells deteriorating before us,
We are estranged, but this grip is not
Long after these ties of veins and sacrifice have frozen
Their pulse defies death, post-asphyxiation...

The pain will only make the voices linger
I can feel the tunnel narrowing in my descent
Beg for my life
Shallow ground materializes below me
My wings ignite and flail, disintegrating
Where no prayer can shatter the glass beneath
As long as blood promises remain firm

And slavery goes justified
I asked you not to follow me
And you did because you were a part of my veins
I will eviscerate us together
Agony, like it's meant to be
Then, the silence of an abused and empty paradise

Unfit for all but those that sacrificed their wings
In their descent

5. The Constellations Of Sedation

6. The Amnesiac At The Shore

Here we are again, beside ourselves
That place where not even the universe lends a mindful ear to this darkness
I have seen the monolith, and it crushed the hand that beholds the eye
Here we are again, beside ourselves

Take me to the ocean
One last time
That I might elate my soul
That I might find one of these things I'd lost before
That I might lead us through the silence
That I might
That you might
But I know you won't
I know you will never see what I see
Take me to the ocean
And go away from me

7. ...Gravity Reconciled

BENIGHTED IN SODOM LYRICS