Netherbird Monument Black Colossal 1. Looming Majesty (Intro) 2. White Noise Sky in Overdrive Lyrics Nephente The fading lumicance These cracking facades Nails dig so deep As reason breaks away Horrendous this curse bestowed upon me Contrasting the beauty that used to be So devastating is the loss of life’s melody High above the radiance is gone The transmission has finally come to an end A whitenoise sky in overdrive An existance in monochrome A whitenoise sky in overdrive In grey i bathe beneath the dome Life noir This is a black dying star Life noir In the end we will all know who we are Life noir Bleak skies to reveal the scars Life noir With all colours paling And contrasts fading The desertion of all meaning So useless and demeaning With the demise of dreams Everything is what it seems The pointlessness of being The loss of visions for the seeing Monochrome is my soul Grey, grey, grey, grey! Tired hands let the cards rest And the ink slowly dries to dust A weary heart loses it rhythm Devastating the loss of existence melody Such a subtle shift To tear away the mind from the flesh There can be nothing worse Nothing more faul, nothing more perverse Than to finally grasp it all, and find it absurd The grand play lost a character the script leapt another way With the whitenoise sky as his only witxness he was cast away Far away! 3. The Faraway View (Interludium) 4. A Shadow in the Garden of Darkness In the year of 1859 Born was a shadow of light In garden where the darkness grew In the garden of sophisticated lies In the realm of ever reigning gloom Where the gardeners trimed the vines Born was a shadow and regal he grew A majestic silhouette to dim their night Oh, dark was the carpet woven Flawed was their perfect design A tapestry destined to be torn One truth and their kingdom was no more A shadow in the garden of darkness One of a light as dark as the heart of the night A shadow born in the garden of lies One of a light as dark as the heart of the night Their garden was of such a delightful darkness Such a relief for eyes that never wanted to see And the less they saw, the more they believed A shadow in the garden of darkness! An empire of eternal lies By the flare of a thought watch it ignite the skyline An aeon of enslavement and strife Like bonfires temple flames lick the night sky Oh, dark was the carpet woven Flawed was their perfect design A tapestry destined to be torn Oh A shadow in the garden of darkness One of a light as dark as the heart of the night A shadow born in the garden of lies One of a light as dark as the heart of the night There can be nothing darker Than a night presented to be the day There can be nothing fouler Than the lie in the guise of truth The truth 5. Strindbergian Fire No stellar flames No stars in their finally fiery rapture Could match this my inferno Some creatures roam this world wide aflame Some of us destined to forever blaze Some of us were never quite capable Some of us were never quite able To harness our flames to tame our furnace To confine our flares Alit, afire, ablaze Ages have passed and the fire still burns The wheels of time have spun We have seen the dawn of so many an age We have kept aflame through the changes Feed our flames Fear our flames Flee our flames Feel our flames The fire i carry, this inferno I am will consume me and all I touch I burn and my flames will engulf your world And I will consume you The fire I am, of horrendous scope And so scorching is my heat These flames will devour me They will burn thee and end everything Some creatures roam this world wide aflame Some of us destined to forever blaze Some of us were never quite capable Some of us were never quite able To harness our flames to tame our furnace To confine our flares Alit, afire, ablaze This furnace I am Engulfs all that I touch All that I see All that I feel Let it be heard I never asked to burn in a world benighted As all beacons I lead the weary astray Yet I sought to lead the way I am the fire 6. The Weight of Vapour In growing numbers They head into the night Familiar silhouettes Of beloved ones drifting by With every passing shadow I wish I was wrong About where they are going And what they will find out there A thousand throats Screaming in silence Slit speechless by her descent The echo of heavens crashing The massive thunder of falling feathers One who does not curse death has not truely loved If I had gods this would be when I would have prayed to them If I had gods This would be when I would raced up to face them I’d cut out their eyes Just as these tears made me fumbling blind I’d tear out their hearts Just as they robbed me of mine and I’d cast them down to die I wish I was wrong About why they left I wish that I could believe That there would in fact be Someone to meet them Someont to bring them all home A thousand throats Screaming in silence Slit speechless by her descent The echo of heavens crashing The massive thunder of falling feathers He who does not denounce his gods has not learnt the meaning of loss I have cursed death And I have known love I’ve slain my gods Only emptiness above Light like vapour I was drifting next to thee Massive the weight as I took my leave I have cursed death And I have known love I’ve slain my gods Only emptiness above Light like vapour you were drifting next to me Massive the weight as you took your leave 7. At the Bottom of the Crystal Artery To some this is an abyss To others a barren shore For all a place of no return Where no path lead onwards When words fall short So weak, so frail and futile And the soul is covered by frost Standing at the crossroads of the lost Rapid these waters Such promising alure A final release From what cannot be endured Such a ghastly glow Bestowed upon the one that let go Welcoming hands The river’s cold embrace A cleansing numbness My “I” is ereased Such an eerie flow Thoughts cease, pulled down below Towards release At the bottom of the crystal artery At the bottom of an end Under the weight of all failures Towards the bottom of the crystal artery So slow the descent to a dark end So slow the descent to the unescapbale end At the bottom of the crystal artery The only escape from the limbo Is down into the alluring depths Only by reaching the bottom Where rock and feet can meet Only then can escape be reached One push up and ahead One kick to break free from the dead The darkness never looked brighter Rapid these waters Such promising alure A final release From what cannot be endured Such a ghastly glow Bestowd upon the one that let go Welcoming hands The river’s cold embrace A cleansing numbness My “I” is ereased Such an eerie flow Thoughts cease, pulled down below Towards release At the bottom of the crystal artery At the bottom of an end Under the weight of all failures Towards the bottom of the crystal artery So slow the descent to a dark end So slow the descent to the unescapable end At the bottom of the crystal artery I push free 8. In the Eyes of Time Have you seen the fire in my eyes Did you think it'd fade? Have you felt the same inside Did you ever think it would go away? Behold the shadow world awake Burning eye brought to defeat Naked beneath the stars we are whole Night silver makes us complete As the strangle grip of another day yields Darkness repaints these barren old fields Where so many has stood before me Watching the same star painted shield Darkness embrace me Night set this tired pale soul free Darkness forgive me Erase me As the silver stars they hit me This lunar spell completes me In the cold distance now I see Sweet eternity In the eyes of time we are forgiven In the eyes of time we are forgiven In the eyes of time we are forgiven In the eyes of time we are innocent I'm a sulphur child infernal No universe can host me Lo and behold the liar Lo and behold the fallen one So many years spent in limbo Eternity, a child compared to me In the eyes of time we are forgiven In the eyes of time we are innocent As the strangle grip of another day yields Darkness repaints these barren old fields Where so many has stood before me Watching the same star painted shield Darkness embrace me Night set this tired pale soul free Darkness forgive me Erase me As the silver stars they hit me This lunar spell completes me In the cold distance now I see Sweet eternity Eternity... Eternity 9. Across the Chasm Clutching her legs in the pained caress Tears cried for everything Fall unseen But you were never quite alone... Dry your red cried eyes Stay another while Please... Born from in shadows Fuelled by their disdain Solitude triumphant The ones that wouldn't change Into the fire Into the world alit We bring desire The unspoken truth of slit wrists Across the chasm From unseen to majesty Across the chasm From ideals to atrocity In truth you are Perfection to envy gods So undivine by choice Sweet salty skin With eyes of midnight skies So frail her muted voice So beautiful To me Rising from the shadows Creatures so depraved For aeons we hungered We are the children of cain So you were never alone! Born in shadows Fuelled by their disdain Solitude triumphant The ones that wouldn't change Across the chasm From unseen to majesty Across the chasm From ideals to atrocity To me you are Perfection to envy gods So undivine by choice Sweet angel kin With eyes of midnight skies So frail her muted voice So divine Dry your red cried eyes Stay another while please... Now let me just ask you Did you ever feel out of place and always so alone That they were right and that you always seemed to be so wrong My dear So did I I just wonder Well now who gave them all the rights when you seemed to have none You are a precious soul in our twisted storm standing millions strong Kära du I hope their gods will forgive them We're invoking the bliss of oblivion The communion of lost souls Sweet and sinful Across the chasm of morals Sweet and sinful Away from their norms and strains Into the sinful domain Oh yes you are Perfection to envy gods So undivine by choice Oh precious bird With eyes of midnight skies So frail your muted voice So divine