Be'lakor

In the space of one night's darkness They have gathered, somehow drawn To where sand and water meet To the place where nature mourns An army of one thousand souls Moved not by force of law But by an end of which they dreamt Returns to wade once more

As I skulked past the gates And drew behind the stones The winding trees enveloped The cloak around my bones Peering through the night's mist I crept through the fen To try and find the totem In the grey warg's den The freezing forest guards The secr

Name the aspect of oblivion That instilled in you such dread In the moment that was waiting Where the causal chain had led Describe the pure finality Of that twisted, cold eruption And attempt to comprehend Unparalleled destruction Unclench your teet

The scene where the battle took place Now only whispers of that war remain Through fen damp and glade deep Crept the fog which was their bane Harkee the pain Welcome your death and the silence it makes As foe cleaves foe in the dawn Bodies are strewn

After one but before the next, In a tree where new life writhed and flexed Two birds emerged to hold the world And grow from feeble talons curled But fate see them part that day As lightning cut their branch away By winds to distant places sent Almos

As the candles yawned, My world grew darker 'Til barely a detail remained Parchment and smoke Through distant chimes Moths carried by the breeze Her finger to my lips, I am stilled in an instant - I sip, and am numbed From here the path winds backwar

Through tainted mass A scourge unseen Brought three winters forth And set between After these hundreds of years The embers and fate will collide Her rotten heart has burst And shattered through dead wood When they drank from the earth, the end was ne

Silent but distant, Real but not seen Here but not happening, Forever has been Into this absence, Two had but strayed Retracing in circles, They surrendered, dismayed Behind them, darkness Ahead, the unknown So they stood, uninvited ...But the roots

In death she spoke of waiting Her final days were long These fields have changed since last she wept Before the silent throng She sits where childhood memories lie Above, beside, within them The carvings have outlived the hand Which bled to first beg

Descending through thickened mist An old man reached inside and tore out my slumber Ivory twists an open claw Set upon the skulls of man Formative years aside Truth blanched in sun's delusion But providence affirmed Destroyed my aberration Mortal see

I knew you some years before Deep in prayer under bough Futile sighs in vital skin Your flesh caressed by night Yet change came quickly A bruise in the air, it staggered within Sweet sickly rot Black wound infection King, slave, child Your fates are

Countless times below me Rivers rose and fell Ageless stones eroding out Across the endless swell Songs to pave the seasons Wounds to follow birth Cries to carry through the night Wombs to feed the earth Countless skies above me Each unlike the next

At beginning of light Where the energy gathered Grew a sentience that was the prime Laced with flickers of madness As these forces drove out into dark And the fires began to form Each holding a mind of its own From whence the star gods were born The

Instrumental 专辑:Stone's Reach 歌手:Be'lakor 歌曲:Husks

In charnel ceilings Rain has formed Held pendant over being Ascendant night Refracted light The sky itself is seeing Organic etchings Bought at once Unseen opposing forces Diurnal hymn Has stirred within The vast divergent courses 专辑:The Frail Tide 歌

Searching, the abstract colours reason But I persist to fail in the absence of faith Cycles bound by throes of attrition Oft united, yet surely more is lost in time Beyond fathom, billions firing Flashes burn and spew prostrate Wisped monads from cri