Nyktophobia What Lasts Forever 1. Once 2. Echoes of the Past From beyond The ageless weathered mountains From far beyond The broken beaten paths Appeared a sound Like a thousand roaring storms Familiar sound Like in centuries before At the edge of sunset All hope had deceased When life had finally left the land Horns resounded As an echo of the past Old days seem forgotten This age is cold and grey In this long corrupted world vanity prevailed Gaze into the fire remembrance returns From days of yore we gathered once beside the warming flames Old days seem forgotten Tomorrow is dead Return us to the olden past we sadly claiming back Far beyond this forlorn world where hope withers away To days of yore the river's tides brought life into the plains Far beyond the mountains I wander through decay To seek the land of birth and joy We lost in halcyon days To seek the land from days of yore we lost in halcyon days But fallen lies the cedar Waterless the streams Fertile soil now desert sand Horns never heard again The horns never sound again Never again Lorn echo of the past 3. Nightwanderer Shadows grow longer hear the ravens call Warning to the wanderer night begins to fall Deep engulfing darkness casts out the dying day The firstborn child of chaos lays down her nightly veil Our world was young when total eclipse reigned Chaotic endless solitude in earth's primal state Borderless void until the birth of day The night a living shadow of this sinister age Beyond the fading twilight near lorn benighted paths Within the unknown blackness no star shines from above Dreadful shades rise chase until the dawn Awakened through the dying light chaos is reborn From deep abysmal waters from forests hills and caves Creatures of the endless night in secret life awake Relicts of a distant shapeless gone nocturnal age Survivors of the olden world seek prey ere break of day Eerie voices summon me a whisper in the trees Gloomy eyes stare at me gleaming full of greed Mother night I beg of thee conceal me from my breed In all devouring unlight lurk my weirdest fantasies Through the night I wander in fear Shadows disappear no raven sings at all Cold mist covers the landscape blood-red awakes the dawn Near beside the pathway a carcass torn and slain A pale white corpse will never see the rise of a new day 4. The Appearance of the Seven Suns The whorehouse finally trembles in fear of coming days The prophets failed a thousand times but now they shall prevail Thorns of mortal mania had left horrendous wounds Prosperity is no more extinction is unbound A ravished world surrenders avoided by the stars On rotten soil old battlefields the lightless sky above Benighted by envesomed winds remains of many wars The last of them will end it all bring peace forevermore Dark is the vision late is the call A season ascends when the rain does not fall Brooks and ponds dried up by the suns Pollution and strife in foreseeable days that will come Rivers and lakes has ceased to be Evaporated is the life-giving sea Leftovers of life all slain by men's guns Choked by the air of the venomous days that will come Kill! From far beyond this withered earth beneath the stars a ray appears On golden wings a gleaming dawn approaching like a firestorm To end the suicidal race a final cleansing stellar blaze From distant shores beyond the waves where it was born in foreign days Dark is the vision late is the call Knowingly facing the final fall Biblical floods, droughts and storms Envy and woe and the upcoming ultimate war Ignorance reigns the fools will obey Prayers unheard fade useless away End time is near cataclysm will come Fear and embrace the birth of the seven new suns 5. Yearning from an Uncharted Grave "Winter arrives I feel its breath The burden of life lies on my chest Cold seems this night may this be the end? A discarnate voice silently whispers for me" "High lord of the dead harvester of life Take my flesh devour my soul my legacy survives The certainty of death no one can deny Though I am mortal glory lasts remembrance is alive" Snow is falling the king is dead Light ascended in the hour of death His royal remains will wither away But the legends and tales shall last for future days "High lord of the dead harvester of life Take my flesh devour my soul my legacy survives The certainty of death no one can deny Though I am mortal glory lasts remembrance is alive" Mortal worm surrender thy fame was lost in flames In lifeless halls forevermore no song was heard again Thy glory disremembered thy bloodline ceased in pain Mortality is thy curse oblivion be thy fate Down below a distant sound A nameless corpse in rotten ground Yearning from an uncharted grave Buried forlorn dreaming of golden days 6. Beyond the Horizon The day is breaking and the pale gray light a symphony of awakening plucks the setting night No star glows from above dull the sky its shine has gone all joy has died A thousand winds that blow through the ripened grain by rising dawn with all its might far behind the rain Where the sky gently wept the memory does not fade is a place I wait for you there I hold your light Never forget the past what dreams may come beyond the horizon Never be past all hope there's a new beginning beyond the horizon A thousand winds that blow through the ripened grain by rising dawn with all its might far behind the rain Where the sky gently wept the memory does not fade is a place I wait for you there I hold your light Never forget the past what dreams may come beyond the horizon Never be past all hope there's a new beginning beyond the horizon 7. What Lasts Forever Where life and light surrender on subterranean ways In darkened weathered nameless halls stillborn in decay Distressed I long for what I've left behind beyond the veil Where colours turn so lifeless beshadowed dyed in grey What lasts forever? Emptiness, afflicting silence Alone I wait in wordless pain Solitude, a faceless yearning All memories are lost in vain Wandering the ruins of withering memories Through corridors age-old and dim not knowing what I seek Baneful visions in my head leading me astray Echoes of a lost existence, a life so far away One moment of remembrance elapsed leaving the pain Hope will die forevermore desire shall remain Still I dream in sorrow eternally half-awake Wondering for which purpose I was caged into this shape Still my hunger rages to leave this void I hate To reach the sunlit deadless lands to gaze behind the gate And so I longed and waited the eons passed it seemed There was no light, no voice I've heard but craving in my dreams Towards all fate and lethargy I left my grave-like cold The remnants of dead generations to see the bliss of old But as I reach the surface the ashes fall like rain Beyond the gate a wasted hell where joy forever waned Still I dream in sorrow a nightmare half-awake Hating for which purpose I was caged into this agonizing shape 8. The Invocation of Erra Erra wake from sleep back to war I summon thee The seven call in unmet greed rise to meet thy destiny Erra wake from sleep lord of plagues I summon thee This blinded world depraved and mean walks straight into fatality Enshrined in seeming slumber no rust devoured thy arms Though wheat grows on the battlefield thy hunger is not past Once upon a time manking feared thy wrath Lest we not forget once thou wast the firebrand Death fell from the sky unleashed the genocide In terror they had cried ashes remained remembrance died Erra wake from sleep lord of plagues I summon thee The rules of war had never changed no peace where never justice reigned Feeble cries fall silent resistance falls apart Hypocrisy forever reigns to numb us in the dark Dream of sacrifice propagandic lies Warfare justified fight for your beliefs fight and die This is how we'll end we shall never bend Downfall is at hand subversion is near the suicide of all 9. Moribund Nothing is stable Nothing shall last Everything must fade On the days of joy follow the days of decline Moribund