Akercocke
Renaissance in Extremis
1. Disappear
In the movement from
Present to past
I simply disappear
There was despair
Beyond care
Now I must disappear
There can be no more triumph
Only defeat
Only defeat
Like a breath upon a mirror
I have come to accept
No more beginnings
No more to give
There can be no other way
I must believe, please let me believe
The memories fall behind
There can be no other way
I simply cease to exist
I disappear
A rain of purification
Onto trophies of defeat
2. Unbound By Sin
Climbing
Rebuilding
Lifted high
Absorb, achieve
Unknowingly reach a zenith
Change your perspective
Assimilate
Educate
Review the mode
Forging on
Achieve your ideal
Become all that you can be
Its been too long
Too long away
Shake of the past
And understand
When the time is right
Be prepared to toil
Your right to win
Dont give up the fight
From darkness comes light
Unbound by sin
Cast off
Your chains
Release
Potential
The will to win
Never give up
Never Compromise
3. Insentience
Means to channel pain
Catharsis in the main
A feedback loop
A fear of change
Hate, hate and anger
Born from wounds
Felt irrepressible
From ancient mind
Animal mind
Unleash the possible
There seems like no escape
The toughest choice to make
Inaction spells an end
Chance what you have to lose
I watched the light grow cold
And felt my soul grow old
Yet I could not forsee
How strength would come to me
4. First To Leave The Funeral
With honesty I repay you
With clarity I betray you
Place my hands gently
Over your ears
To save you the sound
Of my scream
A retreat into reverie
The ghost of hands held tight
If the eyes are closed
Perhaps you never walked away
Cold to the bone
Cold as a grave
The memories
The rain
The tears
The rain is a gift
From the night
When was was the last moment
No final touch
What were the last words?
No final words
When was the last glance?
No final look
From beginning
To end
These are the same stars
That watched you
5. Familiar Ghosts
The pain is howling
insistent and keen
Indistinct
Dissipates
Devouring
Breaking
At the seams
Devouring
The pain is howling
Insistent and keen
End to all
Things I believed
Only a trace
Of an echo remains
In the tumult
Indistinct
Disspiates
Devouring
Breaking
At the seems
Devouring
Wit remains blunted
Hunter now hunted
Found and lost
I was found, Now I am lost
No way back through
The Inscrutable black
That scythes the senses to the quick
Painful patterns
Here to remind me
Create and Destroy
The weakness and the shame
Perpetual loss, no gain
Impossible to touch
6. A Final Glance Back Before Departing
I can't breathe
From thinking of you
I can't breathe
From seeing the truth
Suffocate
Devoid of life
Asphyxiate
Now I'm blind
Veritas
Semblance of truth
Evidence
Without proof
Break, this wall of lies
Curse your intent
I, will defy
With heresy
Abort the bile
That you spew forth
Perpetual lies
I deny
Purity spoiled by filth
Pierce poison mask
Crushed by intent
Without mercy
Don't be fooled
Because I walk & talk
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled
Because I'm dead inside
Don't be fooled
Just dead inside
Emptiness belongs here
Here inside
7. One Chapter Closing For Another To Begin
A phase of life
Blighted by stasis
Suspended and hanging by a thread
Kiting like a spider
Reluctant to go
Then I feel my spirit rise
And I know it's not my time
I can see it in your eyes
This is not my time
Watch the blood meld
With warm water
Watch the blood meld
With warm water
Lassitude not sorrow
Bereft of feeling
Beyond despair
Then I feel my spirit rise
And I know it's not my time
I can see it in your eyes
This not my time
One chapter closing for another to begin
8. Inner Sanctum
There's a place
To which I go
Far from here
No one knows
A pure retreat
Bereft of noise
Regain centre
Regain poise
Anger
Is just a symptom of the pain
Anger
In which so many years were lost
But there's an answer
To it all
Requires conviction
Commitment to the cause
Beware the falls
Beware the pitfalls of the lost
Just don't despair
Many time we fall to rise
Desperation is fought with reason
Drag the threads out
One by one
Don't give up
Give up trying
The sanctuary
Is in my mind
A place to heal
Ubound by time
Individual to us all
9. A Particularly Cold September
Essential pleasures
Curtailed & denied
Desperate measures
Regrettably tried
The evening twilight
Close its eyes
Incomplete circle
Divisions arise
Being paid to keep the memories
No one else would ever want
Recompense for the sights
You cannot un-see
To fatalistic fears
The circle incomplete
Determined to let go
Rejected, decayed
Protected & saved
From further incident or tragedy
To fatalistic fears
The circle incomplete
Determined to let go
Strange to be strangers once more
Palpable distance between us all
Strange to be strangers once more
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