- ASPHYX -
- Asphyx (1994) -
PRELUDE OF THE UNHONOURED FUNERAL
( instrumental )
DEPTHS OF ETERNITY
Weary with concealment from the living
Time to break the eternal rejection
To arise from an unhonoured exile
Purposefully leaving the infinite depths behind
The depths of oblivion
The depths of mystery
The depths of obscurity
The depths of eternity
Contaminating the world with death
Ending lives, the way dying was supposed to be
Deceased guided into engless obscurity
Depths of eternity, terminus of the living dead
Set out for an undead journey
Travelling through desolute domains
A sense of frugality dominates the atmosphere
Chorus
The depths of oblivion, better to forget
The depths of mystery, complete unawareness
The depths of obscurity, infinite darkness
The depths of eternity, no escape from death
Chorus
EMPERORS OF SALVATION
Imprisoned in imaginative walls
Stoical glances reach no destination
Fallacy, looking for salvation
Points of contact are missing for an etemaly
Bearing the everlasting pain
Hatred and anger, self-respect is frozen
Fearing what's to come
Agonized by mental disillusion
Dilapidated and declined
Is this life or life's destiny
Waiting for that particular salvation
Which can make everything forget
Emperors of salvation
Death is to one's hand
Just a simplistic solution
Surviving is the driving force
But surviving is a hopeless cause
Narrow-minded thoughts far from clean
Completely turned inside oneself, nothing surmised
Mankind's necessity to live is only a side-issue
Waiting for that partcular salvation
Freed from this life of misery
Taken by the emperors of salvation
To commit the body to the ground
Disposed by the ghost of death
The soul will roam eternally
TILL DEATH DO US PART
The birth of life
A preternatural wedding
Between body and soul
The oath, we all have taken
Perilous to forget
Till death do us part
Cherishing each other
Through sickness and in health
For better and for worse
Till death do us part
Till death do us part
The harbour of souls, left behind
Till death do us part
Dissolving the covenant for life
Violation of the vows, death is soon to come
Divorce is final, your life is no more
Your flesh will decompose and return to nothing
Your soul will vanish to a place, where no man has gone before
No life or after-life
In the spirit world
Only Asphyx will know
Till death do us part
Chorus
INITIATION INTO THE OSSUARY
Entered with perturbation
Unexpected hospitable spirits
An experience by mortals
Threnodies and death-bells
Prevailing silhouettes
At this place of calamity
The ceremony, the exhibition
A lack of sounds
Idiosyncrasy scenes
Without any signs of tangible life
A detached world
The abode of the dead
Originated by transfigurations
Perceptions
Consciously carried out
The initiation into the ossuary
The shining light, subdued by obscurity
Gloryng in inauspicious atmospheres
The environs, ruthless and pertinacious
The ceremony, the exhibition
The unassailable leader of the initiation
Veiled in shrouds and dejected in prayer
The solemnity, surrounded by mysteries
The ritual of death, surrounded by non-attendanse
Prevailing silhouettes
At this place of calamity
The ceremony, the exhibition
A detached world
The abode of the dead
The initiation into the ossuary
Now admitted in the spirit world
No possible way out
Incarcerated in the ossuary
Damned to dwell forevermore
INCARCERATED CHIMAERAS
Incessantly prevalent and magnanimous
Fulminate, convincing and inviolable
Lodging the earthly shivers
Determined not to be vanished
Because it's prophesied and destined for ages
The vaultings and ghastly dungeons
A foundation of hell
Conducive to dominate
Against intruders and predestined visitors
Avoiding could save many lives
Phenomena and vaguely perceptible forms
Which are held, couldn't find freedom
Forever hidden from the outer world
By the statical and substantial edifice of evil
Unknown sources
No past, no future
Just visual attendance
No inducements, no destination
Lodging the earthly shivers
In everlasting rapture
Condemned by time
An unbreakable pact
Housing the roamers,
Separated from their bodies
Charged by the master
The one who disposed the ending of a life
Intolerant desperation
A fane of dissatisfaction
Inadequacy, outbursts, tortures
In the most extreme earthly way
No way out and no solution
Doomed to stay, no turning back
Forever hidden from the outer world
By the statical and substantial edifice of evil
ABOMINATION ECHOES
( instrumental )
BACK INTO ETERNITY
Hazy prospects, londing for established order
The valleys are calling, fallen into oblivion
To reign and flourish at own environs
No settled conceptions, defined to earthly criteria
Shrouded in mystery, considering the return
To the depths, where the quick won't be allowed
Taken possession of souls and lost spirits
The evil task is fulfilled, needless to prolong the stay
Satisfied, the return has begun
To the valleys, the foretold shelter of evil
Assigned by the inexplicable symptoms
Roaming through the vast darkness
Searching, groping after the hidden passage
Despairing yet resolute
Longing for established order
To reign and flourish at own environs
Actuated by the intuition of beasts
Guided by the commission of evil
Now disappearing back into eternity
A release and relief for the terrestrial life
Back into eternity ...
VALLEYS IN OBLIVION
Destitute of concealment for ages
Vestiges, which meant earlier life
Again brought up on an unnatural way
Every stone, every grave, every remain,
Obtained with memories
Remaining from generation after generation
The valleys, where distant ancestors
Battled, triumphed and survived
They eventually became vanished
By the unpredictable forces of nature
Archaeology is the key
For the present generation
Scarcely or not suspecting
What could be damaged by mankind
It's just a matter of time
The same could happen to us
Presumed to be left alone
Like the valleys in oblivion
Powers from the long ago
Could be too strong
Curiosity of manking is
Always an imperfect danger
Attended with inexperience and cupidity
Valleys in oblivion ...
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ASPHYX is :
Sander Van Hoof - drums
Eric Daniels - guitars
Ron Van Pol - bass, vocals
Recorded at 'Stage One Studio' Bunne, Germany, Jan/Feb '94
Produced by ASPHYX & Andy Classen, executive producer R.Kampf
Engeneered & mixed by Andy Classen & ASPHYX
All music & lyrics by ASPHYX, keyboards by Heiko Hanke
Lyrics in plain text format
