UNIVERSUM LYRICS

1. Fractured Archetype

[Music: S. Murphy, M. Soininen, Words: S. Murphy]

Suspended deep within the cognition storm
A shattered perception of existence evermore
The depression born futility burning inside
Fuels the vortex of this mental suicide
Ingesting the darkness as we're lacing the end
An injected sequence of systematic descent
Distorting evolution of the eternal machine
As we turn the page towards our blank infinity

Subjugated, cyber archetypes the new divinity
Mutilated, dark mutations of biotechnology
Desecrated, remnants of the final resistance
Annihilated, the fallen human subsistence

Corroding the existence of this cybernetic mind
The disconnected genetics sci-cloning inside
Processing this state of dimensional symmetry
A million light years inside a cold magnetic dream
Disseminating this disease of tech-pestilence
This integrated sequence of systematic descent
Eradicating the final fragments of reality
As we turn the page towards a blank infinity

Time burns life from the mortal frame
Breaking down the structured bio-machinery

Reborn in this symbiotic state
True retrogression of humanity
Apathetic as we sell disintegrate
Oblivious to this insanity...

Inhuman form ignites, induced from past decay
Ever frozen in time
The emptiness of this depleted energy
Burns forever inside

[Lead: Stephen Murphy]
[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Subjugated, cyber archetypes the new divinity
Mutilated, dark mutations of biotechnology
Desecrated, remnants of the final resistance
Annihilated, this frail human subsistence

Reborn in this symbiotic state
True retrogression of humanity
Apathetic as we sell disintegrate
Oblivious to this insanity...

Inhuman form ignites, induced from past decay
Ever frozen in time
The emptiness of this depleted energy
Burns forever inside

2. Genetic Sequence Distortion

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: M. Soininen, S. Murphy, A. Soininen]

I take these hands
And place them round your throat
Mortality near straight away

And still I run from this fucking pain
Infected, this curse unknown
Changing, distorted, deranged within
The degeneration ends

After this sense of reality
The question begs, why was I chosen?
Powerless in this fight for immunity
Against this genetic sequence distortion

We're all the same and this is not a game
The ones you loved left alone, unchanged
Take the strength and burn it away
Pull it apart and start again
Never again I'll feel this pain
Hauled down to hell, more of the same
More of the same

Lifeless, I take your soul
Absorbing your affliction
Making it into my own

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Re-engineering the mind
Morphing of the flesh
A fate inherited in blood
Infected with malevolence

Malignant strains coursing through these veins
Cut in deep like a curse from hell
Changing, distorted,
deranged within Degenerations end

After this sense of reality
The question begs, why was I chosen?
Powerless in this fight for immunity
Against this genetic sequence distortion

Can you see me now?
My pathogenesis
Cut me from this sequenced chain
Can you see me now?
My pathogenesis
Destroy this relapsing metastasis

We're all the same and this is not a game
The ones you loved left alone, unchanged
Take the strength and burn it away
Pull it apart and start again
Never again I'll feel this pain
Hauled down to hell, more of the same
More of the same

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

You're enslaved
Suppressed in your mental cage
A mutilated sin of my time
Wretched, wasted it all
It takes every ounce of strength
Induced mutated genes
Creation's failed auto immunity
Failed immunity

3. Sum Of The Universe

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: M. Soininen]

Traces of life dispersed through eternity
The onslaught of evolution
Remnants of worlds floating in darkness
This is all our Universum

Meridian lines through space and time
Continuum, bring forth a solution
A small cog in the grand design
Spin us a new revolution

It is certain

Did we exist before time?
Is this our final dejection?
A dissipating point of aggression
Indifferent toward our perception

Can you hear them through the pain
All but one are calling
They see you losing your own way
Closed eyes, no one remains

[Lead: Olof Mörck]
[Lead: Marios Iliopoulos]

I can't feel anything
These thoughts are blinding me
Detached from all that's real
I don't want anything
It's taking over me

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Turn from the world
I'm leaving all behind
Transcending all the lies

Did we exist before time?

Is this our final dejection?
A dissipating point of aggression
Worlds of indifference toward our perception

Traces of life dispersed through eternity
The onslaught of evolution

Remnants of the worlds floating in darkness
This is all our Universum

Meridian lines through space and time
Continuum, bring forth a solution
A small cog in the grand design
Spin us a new revolution

It's uncertain?

Fearless, they're trembling
Ageless, the reckoning
It's damaging
Pure memories
All uncertainty, my mortality

Can you hear them through the pain
All but one are calling
They see you losing your own way
Closed eyes, no one remains

4. Aeon Displacement

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: A. Soininen, S. Murphy]

Enslaved to fear inside
Trapped in this life
The closing walls of time
Tainted transparency
A faltered mind of travesty

I walk the path with none by my side
I've failed to grasp the light

Tears flow from the eyes of pain
This vortex pulls me down

Left bleeding and trapped inside
A dark reminder of the sin I live
Falling, I've had too many chances
The judgement is called, now and I am sinking

Take me away
This fate, forever cursed
Don't leave me alone in my misery

A slave to fear inside
Trapped within these
Closing walls of time
Fading transparency
A faltered mind in travesty

A judgement of death determines my fate

[Lead: Paul Wardingham]

Embodied, a dark reckoning mind
Devolving thoughts, fading in time
Falling supremacy
Shattered versions of reality

In this state of disarray
Of shadows and eternal flames
Distorted figures of humanity
Consumed by this fucking disease

Take me away
This fate, forever cursed
Don't leave me alone in my misery

Enslaved to fear inside
Trapped in this life
The closing walls of time
Tainted transparency
A faltered mind of travesty

Take me away
This fate, forever cursed
Don't leave me alone in my misery
Tears flow from the eyes of pain
This vortex pulls me down

5. 2.0

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: M. Soininen]

Plagued by senseless tragedy
All consuming pain
In the eyes of the other man
Killing is today

Just expect to walk away
I thought he would never be named
Descending on the very mistake
Decisions of fate, is mine for the taking

My delusions surround me
No longer a senseless dream
Are these the threads of my sanity?
It's a side of my emptiness
Blackened thoughts so far
Spare me as I'm the only son

Evil has delivered a changed man
A mind in blackness
Two point zero, in the darkness

My delusions surround me
No longer a senseless dream
Are these the threads of my sanity?
It's a side of my emptiness
Blackened thoughts so far
Spare me as I'm the only son

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Just expecting to walk away
I thought I would never be named
Descending on the very mistake
Decide this fate; mine for the taking

My delusions surround me
No longer a senseless dream
Are these the threads of my sanity?
It's a side of my emptiness
Blackened thoughts so far
Spare me as I'm the only son

Devoid of light, it sees all
Devastation, make the final call

6. Slaves To The New Order

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: M. Soininen]

You and I, one and the same
These eyes so drained
We march as one, numb beings
Slaves to the new order

The higher echelon pre-determined
An unbreakable cycle
A deliberate step into thankless ranks

The certainty of our future
May fire you into greatness
Kneel now and etch your name

Work to live, live to die
All but a few see through
Subliminally shown how to move through life
In everything we do

Deflected all cohesive thought
A droning sound, machines in idle

The certainty of our future
May fire you into greatness
Kneel now and etch your name

You and I, one and the same
These eyes so drained
We march, numb beings
Slaves to the new order

Work to live and live to die
All but a few see through
Subliminally shown how to move through life
In everything we do

Yes we are one, one and the same

Deflected all cohesive thought
A droning sound, machines in idle

7. Take Another

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: M. Soininen, A. Soininen, S. Murphy]

Cold and disillusioned with you
What do you offer?
Pain, self defeat, blacken my view
So be it, I'll take another

Defiance in all who brought me down
Denied oneself from life
Conside in no one else for the fear of truth
Torn from fragmented youth

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Push me beyond cerebral limits
Potential's there for the taking
Drifting through these blackened skies
Set forth upon my awakening

I hear you in the wind
Lead me to my saviour
I stand before my former self
Shadowed now forever

Life transformed to these memories inside
Confined within the waning strands of time
Searching for those left undefined
To find the answers within this life

Push me beyond cerebral limits
Potential's there for the taking
Drifting through these blackened skies
Set forth upon my awakening

Cold and disillusioned with you
What do you offer?
Pain, self defeat, blacken my view
So be it, I'll take another

Life transformed to these memories inside
Confined within the waning strands of time
Searching for those left undefined
To find the answers within this life

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

I hear you in the wind
Lead me to my saviour
I stand before my former self
Shadowed now forever

Life transformed to these memories inside
Confined within the waning strands of time
Searching for those left undefined
To find the answers within this life

We are all destined to one demise
Take hold of what you believe in
Change is for the strengthened mind
Reasons to keep on breathing

8. Asymmetric Dimensional State

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: A. Soininen]

Torn between frayed realities
Shattered forms of oblivion
Deprived of light and sanity
Weakened by this fear and pain

A negated call to reincarnate
From failure to find the light within
Skewed waves of thought located
In this dimensional asymmetry

Delusions filter the light
Human form lives to die
Prepared for endless night
Pain ignites the flame inside

Flames traverse the lines
Of self hate and desolation
Stained in fading transparency
Now what colours do I show?

Past life blinded by fear
And faltered ascendancy
Distorted states of disparity
Ignite the war inside of me

[Lead: Michael Soininen]
[Lead: Ola Frenning]

Delusions filter the light
Human form lives to die
Prepared for endless night
Pain ignites the flame inside

[Lead: Stephen Murphy]

Delusions filter the light
Human form lives to die
Prepared for endless night
Pain ignites the flame inside

9. Morte Noir

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: A. Soininen]

Can you hear demons crawl?
They're feeding on our flesh
A bite into the depths
We proudly wear the scars
Unrest again
Lost in a maze of thrashed nerves
And now unashamed, we've changed forever
We are the haters

So we've lost our way, now we will lose it all
Who is left standing when the black death rolls in?

Devour us all
A seascape of bones decayed
None will stand here as the black death rolls in

We push to reach our limits
And face the impossible rain
Pushing deep into the abyss
Towards our final decay...

Unearth the horrors
That lay beneath the ocean floor
Our ravaged frames for the feed
Few are left to honour
Today the skies are turning grey
Destruction left in your wake

So we've lost our way
Now we will lose it all
None left standing, devour us whole
A seascape of bones decayed
Enduring sleep in pain
None left standing, the black death rolls...

Unrest again
Lost in a maze of thrashed nerves
And now unashamed, we've changed forever
We are the haters

We've pushed to reach our limit
And faced the impossible rain
Dragged deep into the abyss
Towards our final decay...

So we've lost our way
Now we will lose it all
None left standing, devour us whole

A seascape of bones decayed
Enduring sleep, so grey
None will stand when black death rolls?

With so much to give and desire to share it all
And belief so strong the demons can't hold on
Rising fall, taken away
The feeble are left to crawl
Broken and made to crawl

Still we find ourselves so numb
Still we find ourselves so numb

10. Transcendence 0.0

[Music: M. Soininen, Words: A. Soininen, M. Soininen, S. Murphy]

Wade through the pain
Still burns the same
Tiresome, so mundane
Take me away
Wash out the rage
Shattered and so alone

Glass like figures stare through the sphered windows
Passing with the light they they hold
That they hold on

Flames blaze through the darkness that follows in
Burning the creatures that roam inside, they're still alive

Questioning the dark unknown
This unnatural existence

This can't be avoided
The white sun draws me near
But will I reach it before gravity takes hold?

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

Descend into death

Now left behind in the dark
Should I fight or should I deny?
Once afraid, still unchanged
Distant now, fading life

Flames blaze through the darkness that follows in
Burning the creatures that roam inside, they're still alive

[Lead: Michael Soininen]

To await
The flame is dying now
Regret to late
Watch how this day will end

11. Blank Infinity

[Music: S. Murphy, R. Madden, Words: M. Soininen, S. Murphy, A. Soininen]

Breathing in the chilled air
The final taste of these last days
Filled with vast depression
Reminiscent of yesterday

The weathering of old storms
This face of years gone by
Cold with regret, empty wasted life
Standing, watching in slow motion
Conscious thought completely dissolves

Despair calling out my name
Can't protect myself from this anymore
Constantly consumed with these thoughts
Cold as winter's breath
The final moment sets in

Watch until the end
Look into the eye, I'm falling
Nothing lasts forever
To watch, watch until the end,
To gaze into the eye, we're falling
Nothing lives forever

Tomorrow bring me rest
Lay waste to these dying cells
This emptiness inside
To exist where nothingness dwells

The weathering of old storms
This face of years gone by
Cold with regret, empty wasted life
Standing, watching in slow motion
Conscious thought completely dissolves

Hunting, searching for the answers
To an existence never resolved

[Lead: Stephen Murphy]

Live forever
Sheltered from your reality
I've known no better
Deprived of life and normality

Can't control this
Fallen in too deep
Skewed waves of thought reside in me
Bleak dimension of asymmetry
Of asymmetry

And now
We watch until the end
Look into the eye, I'm falling
Nothing lasts for ever
To watch, watch until the end,
To gaze into the eye, we're falling
Nothing lives for ever

Breathing in the chilled air
The final taste of these last days
Filled with vast depression
Reminiscent of yesterday

Hunting, searching for the answers
To an existence never resolved

And now, watch until the end
Look into the eye, I'm falling
Nothing lasts for ever
To watch, watch until the end
To gaze into the eye, we're falling
Nothing lives for ever







UNIVERSUM LYRICS