Austere The Stillness of Dissolution 1. Dissolved Exile Drowned in soaked sand Emptied into rotten lungs Chords in locust symphony Murmured by shattered throat Those close didn't care Those afar sent warmth The coldness of wire Hands upon my face Catacomb bone and drowned lung The emblem of my own dissolve Those close didn't care Those afar sent warmth The coldness of wire Hands became familiar Shit flowing through tubes Via gnawing coffin winds Veins drinking a poison Both needed yet unwanted The strangers kept coming Breathe life back into me But was it ever really wanted? Thank you, sweet lady For saving a man with a death wish Thank you, sweet lady For saving a man with a death wish My death wish dissolved Dissolved in exile 2. Time Awry Bury me Beneath a swarm of rats Lost control On something I never had A fractured soul In a whited wreath Clawing at the bottom of despair A vile murmuring cunt I endure it's dagger So nourish me, rat mother Led into the nest Burning the hands of time Upon days of which now gone Endless and wandering A smile in-between blurred lines Upon a mirror of fractured time I face so many truths I burn myself on each Of fractured time Time awry Burning the hands of time Days of which now gone Endless and wandering Adrift in nowhere A vile, murmuring cunt I endure its dagger So nourish me, rat mother Led into the nest Wilted in rotten blood... 3. Redolent Foulness A heart gathering dust Beating slower until the last A life entwined with sorrow With fleeting times of joy A mind that will not stop Fuels desire to be gone A price too high to pay For the withering bouquet Desolation in the air Becoming ever more aware Of the hopelessness born Back inside the womb Enclosed within four walls I'm lethargic and forlorn This rancid, fetid abode Will become my tomb Vomiting the last spark of life Onto the filthy floor As I glimpse dead flowers And try to recall their perfume 4. The Downfall Look around, Tell me, what do you see? So many people Living, laughing, carefree In a world served by grief And a hope that never came A cosmic coincidence It's bullshit all the same Evolving into nothing Back into the dirt Of this dying planet This wretched, cursed earth The downfall began When we developed self-awareness A loss that lasts forever And a will that's so strong To find what others have A sense that I belong Conceive and raise a child Save the human race From its impotent futility But I see it's all in vain The downfall began When we developed self-awareness A reimagined species Heads into the dirt Heading into the dirt 5. Rusted Veins An endless dissolve Inked by oblivion Enthroned upon bearers of decay Unknowing, yet ready to unfold Here we stand firm Defiant in the eye of existence Crossing the bridge of flesh Draped in crimson decay The creeping of time Wrapped in rusted veins Dressed in night's thorned robe Where relics lay wilted Wilted in silence Wrapped in rusted veins Where a soul bends towards the earth Beneath roots clawing at old soil A curse uttered in catacomb dust Within a collection of corroded bones Crossing the bridge of flesh Draped in crimson decay The creeping of time Wrapped in rusted veins Dressed in night's thorned robe Where relics lay wilted Wilted in silence Wrapped in rusted veins Night caresses my remains Seeking tears to shepherd away Only to find parched bones in decay That lay within the claws of time 6. Storm Within My Heart I've seen the colour of spite Uttered behind curtain Your vitriol vomited Sinking into the mire Vile spectres in black Ruined within your ruin Dripping in malice Yet wasted beyond burnt stars These winds take flight As dull knives upon my heart What is it to feel pain? When my soul died within your storm These winds take flight As dull knives upon my heart Within your storm You begged for closure Reopened wounds still bleed Coloured fibres of benevolence Yet this treason dies with you So be still, fall silent now Fade the everlasting grey For the only pastel left here Is your blood upon my soul These winds take flight As dull knives upon my heart What is it to feel pain? When my soul died within your storm So be still, fall silent now Fade the everlasting grey For the only pastel left here Is your blood upon my soul