Augury Concealed 1. Beatus [Music: Patrick & Mathieu] Long lost hours locked in, drenched in fear Faint steps resound closer, impending pains to withstand All senses out to the debauchery, He will come secreting Eucharist again Black robe, the veiled ogre, prayed his way to the fresh meat For the shepherd also dines on lamb and he bends for the frail and tender. Nightly taught in vice, housebroken with virtue, tamed, humiliated, To God the souls, but the flesh he'll takes care of... Magister, Magister, dolorae inferis Magister, Magister, in caudae venenum est Magister, Magister, caro mea vere est cibus. Torrente voluptatis, tuae potabis eos (He stalks the corridors, question which room he'll sneak in Shivering puppies' cringe, praying their turn has not come) Et clamor meus ad Te veniat Pulling sheets overhead in hopes to be spared Exaudi meam, miserere nobis Whence the evening came, he brands his cattle for life After eons it is time to go All of them empty shells walking, overused toys To nowhere they march, martyrs of lust In the making, more martyrs of lust Until guns blow or creaking ropes swing Beatified carrions in betrayed faith [Solo: Mat] [Solo: Pat] 2. ...Ever Know Peace Again [Music: Patrick] Do mourn, the glory days are gone Like roaches scattering under a beaming light Run out of history's backstage As your flags burn over spoiled Eden Looted for you to waste Kings of the hill, inflated frogs, staged heroes, die! Altogether World bowed in disrespect Clenching teeth, towering hate World won't ever know peace again! In none we trust Sowed salt within our soils Fed us what even rats spit up Perpetuating the times When wealth spoke the speech When wealth swung the whip On sweat sown your power Now harvest billions of enemies! Oppression is deserved for who complies to fit within It is fantasy freedom; tied to galleys we row Docile on our way down the food chain Livestock salivating at pellets in a trough A fate to which we almost fell Rolling meat screwed within the Machine Silkworms soon to be boiled, all others denied awakening Like cattle we were bred, raised and processed Baited in with hopes for none to achieve By scarecrows guarded under a gray sky No wonder we were all afraid to open the cage, never... Woe to you, mothers of all sores Woe to the defeated Great eagle fallen, feathered In ire crowds come marching Ignited, ablaze, exploding Don't you smell the sour stench of demise? Forseen all to nothing 3. Cosmic Migration [Music: Dominic] Sol has sunken behind the mountains And the velvet curtain came falling Daily world is put on hold and The less of it we perceive The brighter is the sight to beyond Answer the firmament again The wind plays the reeds A signal for stellar voyagers And like mist they will come Waiting for a sign, back to see old friends Appointed we are in carnation Anointed into stellar civilians Do you remember? As a child you sometimes awoke in tears With a sense of falling And a familiarity to the stars Thoughts pervade in looking for words And stories start being told. [Solos: Mat] 4. Nocebo [Music: Mathieu] "The ultimate recipe for power: First spread the disease, then come selling the pill" Puzzle done! The picture comes clear And the despair comes complete So lucidly we drown in sedation Or else feel the pulse of one's cranium A bruising reverence to the concrete Feel the frequency vanish Shedding suits, setting the actors free Far away, feeling so lucid Peeled the thin veil of lies But soon arms fell down The task, overwhelming utopia [Solo: Mat] Here comes Don Quixote Charging windmills on and on Rise and restart! Hope to overcome... How meagre arms could have shovelled mountains? How could meagre arms break all their chains? Pacified (they are) with games [Solo: Mat] They groan under the yolk of bondage Until life itself becomes a burden! Restless hearts pumping ire... each one in his corner! Passed down as pride, an inescapable animal duty (Possess, procreate) Do fornicate! [Solo: Mat] 5. Alien Shores [Music: Patrick] [Solos: Pat] Wake the world out of slumber From cattle some have raised to redeem memory All shall come discover the world into eyes of lunacy Gateways to the unknown, wide open they call Intuition peeks beyond the veil of lies Lucid delirium in the eye of enemy Seemed like a hoax, now yields verity. We call for disclosure And the curtain is sooner to fall It might give a jolt, release all holds And I swear that this time no one will reel you back in You'll no longer cafe about how it was in your life before Once you'll see that I've seen beyond this crumbling theatre set That we were domesticated to call reality Filigrees all across Mercator, outlandish alien shores Majestic signatures of wisdom lost wait Their names erased, painted over, forgotten More and more (of) you come aboard We are raising anchor to sail far away Against winds and tides We yearn to regain what memories have lost We will walk the Earth with an inner compass steering our way Partake the crusade, to free those minds in need for the horizon The veil torn with word of mouth Absolute weapon lays in all minds In your heart, in your soul, Inquisition visibly carried on, only quit burning people Yet we see the fervor rising, exhilarating Global hunger for illumination Alius sum! Alius sum! A stranger in the eye of the ignorant 6. In Russian Dolls Universes [Music: Mathieu] Rejoice Igne natura renovatur integra Endless rotation work its way round Stars shifted, a New Start Tabula rasa, total renewal In pain ended the Age of the Concrete Their pride by storms dissolved In the early forge world remolded Time will erase all the scars from the careless hand of man Leave a few of them to restart, first redeem beauty disfigured For all warnings went unheard we meant to absterge [Solo: Pat] Seasons have changed Leaves have fallen, elements dispersed The death of cells in the flesh of time Universes keep on revolving A tiny voice in the celestial choir Brought dissonance and got forever silenced... Therefore the great order prevails, undisturbed [Solo: Mat] 7. Becoming God [Music: Patrick] Let there be the art Painful urge to create in all matter embodied Let there be the stars to sign the work For earthbound creation to worship when They'll start gazing upward Let there be light, glowing from a far Like a blasting horn bellows forth our coming Divine architecture drawn onto the veil of existence Your very existence, by sole will conceived Since the first cell divided itself Provided the canvas for the work to bloom Until the time came to make apes into men A sorry pinnacle drawn to regression Creation, you self-predacious kind The canvas you stained in majestic idiocy For eons all was miscomprehended Offerings slain for heaven granted better harvests To vultures alone To our image and resemblance [Solo: Pat] Animals we did disguise [Solo: Mat] Behind a mask of intelligence [Solo: Pat, Mat] The beast can be sensed [Solo: Pat, Mat] Creatures, so unfit for liberty Always at war to force-feed a vision of divinity Manipulating holiness You see evil in all senses Blindly guessing the why you've been Arisen, given speech [Solo: Pat] Made into flesh and blood [Solo: Mat] Given a script and a play [Solo: Pat, Mat] Characters (for which) higher will is reason [Solo: Pat, Mat] 8. The Lair Of Purity [Music: Patrick] From the day my eyes first open Voices inside started speaking Lullabies like faded memories of an Eden in eternal spring Where at will colors reappear, where creation blooms in rejoice Dodging away its mourning mantle In horizon ablaze, the sun shone On those mourning themselves, slowly given back their senses Given courage to hold on longer and a goal to breathe for Desert traveler in a mirage welcome Feeling a presence, yearning for fairy hands To steer the dormant soul back to life again Remote heaven, like an island by all lines bypassed At times seen drifting in the horizon to disappear [Solo: Pat] A mere glimpse was enough to reopen the wound The awakening comes Sorrows held within all want out at once All day sleepwalking, daydreaming over a memory A star around which all thoughts revolve, Worlds feeding on its light, At times the dream comes to life, yet elusive remains Stars fell from the skies, by this marvel overthrown At last breathed life in; from mire, raised Reality comes soiling illusions With its clouds the skies darken Flogged by the wind, howling heavenward To keep away storms marching in On the march of time, so winter won't come again Then the sleepwalking resumes, while the anima sleeps Chews its way to the core, worming within the domain of dreams Beckoning refuge, until the worm wiggles in its sleep In lust for this life again, this constant cycle of hopes and despairs [Solo: Mat, Pat, Mat & Pat] 9. From Eden Estranged... [Music: Mathieu] [Instrumental] [Solo: Pat] 10. ...as Sea Devours Land [Music: Mathieu] One day the sun seemed to fall And the horizon came soaring Clouds racing, ground heaving Crumbles another kingdom Engulfed where skies and sea collide Hear the whistles turning to howls Quicken your pace northward As sea devours land Billions swept away, envied by the living In global mourning, suffering the unison They cry at azure darkening day by day Wilting breed of legends Forsaken breed, Giants have fallen Hitting stones together again Vain calls for a lost light Gathered for the Holocaust They give lives away For gods to embody again Then from the abyss ascended This now happens to you again Under many disguises The wombs yield offerings As they did, as they will Slavery will never cease [Solos: Mat]