NOCTEM AETERNUS LYRICS

1. Winter Spells

Nostalgia with me every night
Plunging into the mysterious magic
Whispering winter spells
That caresses me with memories of a former life
Embracing me with the cold wind
That slides before me

2. Ahab

Twilight once fell on the flipside of this ancient stone
Built from the searing ash of a current unbound
And longing grasses once rose grasping at a fading moon
Falling in the temptation of your godhead’s light

These winds once built temples, for the sun
In flurries of frost over a realm in nothingness
A glaring shadow that shone to the heavens above ever so quietly
In the shadow of a willow, a raven foretold of darkness’ first utterance
In the bows of an unmoving ship
On the flat palette like hand of no one

So guide me Ahab
I will follow you in the promise of wonders
So follow me
I will destroy everything you built
And everything you have ever loved
For I am time, and this hand is mine to scar

3. Bleeding Night

Cold winter night that captivates me
Let me know your deepest secret,

Reveal yourself to my deep gaze
Full moon, illuminate the path
To the darkest landscapes

Captivated today, my silence has grown
Sadly intense

The shadows surround me
The twilight falls
The night is bleeding

4. Nocturnal Mantle

Wind howls in my mind
Tears this dark nocturnal mantle

The darkest secrets are revealed before me
In this cold winter night

A deep look lies enthroned
Deep in the forest opens the doors to the unknown

An ancient prophecy has been reflected
In the deep of the night

Spirits resurface between cursed shadows
Before the moon

The mysteries of darkness keep silent the darkest night
Between the deep fog of the forest

The moon illuminates a withered landscape
In silence and pain

5. Interlude in G minor

[Instrumental]

6. Autumn Glare

This frayed mirror
Possesses a brilliant light
A light that takes the fight
Out of long foretold trees
May their decrepit branches
Waver to this galante luster
And may you and I
Fade under this autumn glare

This silhouette sparkles
In the shade of a brilliant light
A light that utters
The waning words of dreams
May these shadows collapse
silently in your muted world
And may you and I
Fade under this autumn glare

And archaic mountains
Collapse to the crying voice of time
May you and I
Transcend under the glare of autumn light
This glare dances with us
Passionately
Under a firm grip
It leads us to finality

And you and I still dance in the eves
Where we were once beckoned
Only by chance in autumn’s surrendering glare

7. Diminishing Night

Whom walks in the shadow shall spake it all
For whom discovers the wreckage,
Of their ship is to reap of all
He who once told of a beautiful blue night bedazzling and bright
Now must bear the requiem of his fallen stars
Drowning in the silence
Of your meaningless confession

And to the mute utterance of their screams
The sky turned to the detritus fumes of a prophet in angst
All stars glimmered
In the spastic rule of your king
You are no one, you never were and never will be

8. The Waning Moon Has Fallen

The waning moon falls
The road opens its dark mouth
As I go into the shadows

Like a reverie fading away
Into the thick mist
Darkening moonless

Long walk amongst trees
The breeze freezes my soul
The waning moon has fallen

A million of stars cry
In this night
That whispers
The waning moon has fallen

9. The Final Hill

There is a place upon this flat palette like world
Where the empty white of moors meets a spire like hill
Sitting upon the scalp of this balding plane like an icy crown
It watches the death of those who cease to die

Under the dead luster of a million stars
And in the shroud of forgotten howls
I will fall knowing that the other side I will never reach

But I begin to fade
To join the calm and warmth of vacuity
In the reassurance and comfort of fading
With a million dead and empty stars







NOCTEM AETERNUS LYRICS