1. Intro
(Instrumental)
2.
Celestial Blackout
Celestial
Black
out, she has never seen
There
exists the gulf
Separating
you from me
Childlike
eyes that cry and scream at me
A kiss
in a departing gleam of our sheer emptiness
A sermon
of cynicism
Condition
That
can't be
Cruel
tyrant
Whose
fear sews the seam
Mocking
Disposition
Indifference
Urge to
rebel
Trembling
With
malice
Break
the silence
Let the
earth be gone
Looking
for a landslide
Stand
there, so beautiful
Notions
Slip away
Fated to
decay
Conscious
loathfulness
Bewildered
and unrestrained
Torture
You are
bold
Keep it
So
beautiful
The
despot of our lusts
Hideous manifestations
The air
hurts and I need peace
I would
sell the world and retreat
Now hear
my words and understand
This
world will go to hell
Hell
Succumb
and consume it all
What
more can you want
Consign
me to the grave’s embrace
And
smolder and be forgotten
Restless
heart
Adrift
and lost
3.
Poisonous Miasmas
Misanthropic
Disciple
of truth
Fearless
of the inanimate
Poetic
disregard
Of
supernatural yearn
Satanic
pride
To
cynical jeers
Because
they know their deepest fears
The
world without us
Before
and after
The
world without us
Frenetic
blaspheming
Never at
rest
Invocations,
dramatizations
Construct
a sense of purpose
Synthesized,
memorialized
A fraud
they say we need
Ridden
with leprosy
Selling
the fear of death
Meaning
in life: a sophist's song
In this
life of bitter darkness
I deny
everything
With
disdainful dedication
Pray and
lay in stagnation
In stoic
contempt
I deny
everything
Cruel
and tense
I deny
everything you know
4.
Garrote
The
enemy of god
Cast in
ashen wood
Spectacle
of the damned in hell
Discretion
in the art of pain
Succumbing
to our own contrary lies
Crucifixion
all that remains
An
evil-tempered snake
In the
fury of the fall
With
deference to burn
Blame
the author
Who gave
the pitfalls
Pragmatics
overthrow
Illusory
constraint
This
intrinsic burden
Own
either course
Guarded
illegality
Delinquency’s
affair
The
clandestine force
Eating
glass and sand
The
world is your captor
Oppressor
that sustains
Warfare
Dark
compartments all profane to the core
Clandestine
flame
5.
Sundown
Sundown
On dust
town
Where
trains pass through at night
Destitution
finds a home
But what
was found
In the
hallways of the dead
In the
embers of the streetlamps
Nothing
but sunken heads
Filled
with plans and consumer dreams
Ends
that justify the means
Stand-up
families that obscure the needs
Mangled
loved ones in junkyard sheets
Casualties
of nothing that lasts
Victims
of the forgotten class
Midwestern
winter nights
Strewn
out of bars and into the fire
Sundown
Dust town
Born
from dust, return to dust
Damaged
lives beget damaged life
Broken
daughters, battered mothers
Hateful
sons, hateful fathers
How many
suicides sound out along the plains
6. The
Endless Tide
Eyes
drawn
Black out
Irrational
wreck wrung by the neck
A
lifeless shell waiting to be ash
Embattled
with hate
Dread
and guilt
That
distorts life as if in a dream
Phantom
disdain
The
dissident’s fate
Repeating
discourse on internal tiers
That the
only relief is not being here
Departing
refrain
"There
is no other way"
All
becomes clear
You can
be released at any moment
The only
thing you control is how you meet your end
Black
everything becomes your world
No ocean
from this stream
The dead
remain
A
fragile eulogy
Like ash to
the stream
7.
Futility
(Instrumental)
8. Cold
Blue Clay
Carry
out the coffin
Toast to loss
See the
tattered way I live
Our
grinning liars masks
Stir
noble thought
All headed
towards ash
The fear is
replaced by confoundment
Knowing that
I will succumb to madness and die alone, inconsolable
Knowing that
I will die alone
All reduced
to accident
All reduced
to ash
Death is
an old joke but it comes new to everyone
9.
Nature's Bastard
World
without a sun
I was
born to a second one
Linked
to no one in the end
Up root
all the trees
Like there's
nothing underneath
Lay them
in a single row to see
Glassed
eyes on the shore
There's
no one home anymore
Just a
body that walks and talks
Lost
faith in connecting
All the
single people go their way
That way
Borne
from the desert sand
Nature’s
bastard from the land
God of Failure
Lord of Shit
10. The
Great Equalizer
Dead above
Dead below
For
years they've buried the dead
Broken
crosses and roadside graves
She
looked and told me what the soul weighs
Flesh
and bone
Light
and sound
Must
come down
To lose
And live
through pain
Promised
light on the edge of oblivion
She told
me everything dies alone
To strive for shit
Marginal, outcast
Flesh
and blood
Light
and sound
Must
come down
She told
me there is nothing beyond the void
No one
asks to be born
The
conclusion is forgone
What we
love finds its end
Dead and fucking gone
