Compos Mentis

No one here really quite knows The far-off origins of your roots Enough to hoist the colours Up high from whence they came You're towering high and tall As a broad-shouldered giant of small Though the ground may be as turbid from above As the sky see

Away upon waves of red I depart from your gentle rivers of words Now sail me off to strange worlds of plenty, tonight Take me dancing on oceans of death Sacrifice my soul to the blue fields of freedom Let me sail away on uncertain streams of ecstasy

Look into that ancient mirror All dressed in gold, Silver and scentless Flowers in bloom Tortuous tongues welcome you From beyond the dusty glass So seductive But the words have a hollow ring Cannot hold on to the phantasm And the reflection fades aw

Down the streets of the eastern parts of our kingdom Ghosts haunting all the little isles that my eyes have seen Ghosts among the masses rushing down Main Street A little ghost is hiding in the merchant's sack of gold There are ghosts in the corners

And all the pebbled paths feel crooked and winding Behind yellow walls of reminding It feels as if someone is quite near In the garden of the dead I feel cold and lost In the garden of the dead Tumbled tombs and broken sprouts Just outside the dear c

As I look at the river the colours change Fading from bright dark to bloodred green A stream of blood passes while our pride expires Proudly sculpturing a headless culture An old legend that is borne by the fairy tale land A literary masterpiece abus

In my dreams the world dissolves And I'm absorbed into the fragments Leading an army of ghosts I conquer the strongholds of the sky In my dreams I speak with a thousand voices Of dimensions that don't exist I show to the world what it is And exceed t

She aches like she's sinfully untamed in chains Like a wicked destroyer of our sedated world Humming deformed bullet songs from her darkened chamber Dancing like a possessed madman on fire She looks like a six barrel shotgun Adorned with furs that bl

Arusia, Arusia Bones and skulls jut out of your forest floor Arusia, oh Arusia The foul signs of times seep through the pavement Far, far away where the peninsular land Slopes down and assembles brook and town Behind its smile, inside the bowels of A

Soldiers at fortress dania, in you we trust For generations you haven't let this kingdom down We will soon have stopped this invading enemy And this war will once again be part of history It's so cold here in the middle of nowhere Just got command to

Whirling through claustrophobic tunnels Thrown from side to side, relentlessly I'm surrounded by viscous walls That reach out for me I flee with broken wings Through the darkness of eternity Shadows of memories repressed long ago Pierce my thready mi

The ramparts are standing so frail tonight Surrounding the pleasure of our play This view feels so exposed and haunted Now, hold me near to your heart Oh listen, something's rustling at the door Extended shadows looming tall This night a cold breeze

A cold caress awakens me An omen of nightmares to come Illumination and darkening amalgamate Blinded, I resign Imprisoned behind imperceptible bars I am in a daze I reach out for the outside world But it escapes my embrace We are all caught in a web

Chaos surrounds me, my world has crumbled up Only fragments left of what I believed in Leaves me with a broken soul, bewildered I yearn for the times that were Hate flows through my body as I realise Years were wasted, I based my life on a lie Subjec