Cold, made up of ore and tin
Almost gone, logic has died for him.
Brainless Cry -
Mouths oiling over each order received,
Rusting faces ready to believe
Tarnishing gold shall return to the sky.

Speech that is bound to the praise he receives.
Fading faces, unsharpened and naïve
Take away what was begot from a lie.

We the people, we the power
Bear our brandished, wear our hate.
Though we have been mindless metal,
Clever chaos we create.
Take him to the edge, throw him over.

Now we have come to vanquish
Reclaim the light from the sun –
(True gold)
Rid us of pyrite and enlighten earth with free will.
Pieces of peace converge
Unmake all that’s made, finally end the façade

The time’s come to crack the surface,
Weld together,
Heat surround us,
Light, rush over now!

Cold made up of ore and tin
Cold, made up of death and sin-
Gone!

Silence beckons,
“Fall into gravity!
Fall into victory!”

Rushing over, pushing inward,
Crushing what is into what was.


Purest silence swallows the air
Washing over earth in its cool warning.
Nature opens her ears,
Worlds of words spoken by cool silence.
Vita subsisto insus semita.

Sharp, jagged nimbus –
A crown for its head.
Dark the cumulus
That’s worn on its cold shoulders,
Cloaking it in purple power.

Time is running dry, seconds degrade to take cover.
Left broken and bare, merciless war of brutal nature.

“The earth is my mother…”
“Amen. Amen. Amen.”
“I shall not want from her…”
“Erebus erase us!”
“Turn away from day and-“
“ Grace amazing takes us…”
“She terries within the-“
“Amen. Amen. Amen.”


Nature now abandons us
Cup of milk and honey void of the promise
Barren the fields of fruitful glory,
Earth mother turned away from me.
Her soothing love, her touch
is the hands of hell holding heat.
Water turns into mist.
Reign of rain grants its deadly kiss.
Purified, petrified, open-eyed
Drops of the burning rain from the sky hit the land and boil it dry.

Expressions of horror melting slow in terror scatter from the scoured.
Hands of hell holding heat – water turns into mist.
Reign of rain grants its deadly kiss.
Purified, petrified open-eyed
Drops of the burning rain from the sky hit the land and boil dry.

Dark ash, thick air, billowing mountains,
Tubes of light cut the sky,
Hot tears, seething, screaming,
“Please have mercy! Take the rain from me! Est deus illic? The end! The end…est deus illic…”

***
Savor the brilliance of being trapped in the dome clouding over
Savor.
It’s the final wonder that we all will witness.

Come all creatures, come to see.
See the beauty in the dark fallen!

Savor wonder…

There is fire in the thunder!
Time is gone and now we all must surrender.
Crush the weakness, build the stronger
Sand and soot to build the bricks of the future!

To the temple, to the torture!
From the air the mouth of death sets the order.
Live impossible, live impossible.
And so it goes, as they all fall down, the arms made of ash crumble to the ground…


Fighting the anger, grabbing by the dagger
Jabbing the other to remain the stander
Last of the lasting, peaking how the tower
Aggravate danger drape the gradient color.

Gradient color, bleeding blend – the other-
Dye for the dying changing shade, the bolder
Blasting the blather, silence, slowly smother
Sense of the sentenced, raise the stakes and prosper.

Come with me my love, this is where it is -
Is it?
Pain is the pleasure; this is where it is -
Is it?
This is it, is it?
Body – the pain – the pleasure.
Come with me my love,
Pleasure, pain, the body…

The body, the soul relenting.
The pleasure
My pleasure
Please the pain
Mine.
Eye for eye
The eye of the mind.
Mind your body, mind your eyes.
View the choices, all the hues of you’s and I’s
Rising up or thriving below.
Languid movement, a trade from the sharpness we know.

Scents of all sense, taste for taste-
Fear.
One for themselves,
All for the fight.

This or that, that or this-
Why it was and what it is-
All action.
I only alone, unique;
The only one alone with me…
My purpose.


Wings of love enfolded.
Unseen shroud that cloaked you for so long now revealed.
Open your eyes, open your mind my child of earth.
Child of light, the sun awaits.

Hours and days, weeks to months and years -
All of the time I spent leading you towards tearless bliss-
You ran.

Into the mist, into the mist,
Losing your way strayed from the path.
I followed close, close as I could.
Sun turned to moon, wind into flame.
Into the dark, into the night
Then you were lost, lost as could be.
Tried to stand by, watching you step
Dying yourself, dying for death.

Choose to ascend, choose to ascend.
All that you’ve lost is really a gain.
Feel the ice now melting away.
Isn’t the warmth soothing your skin?
Choose to ascend, please choose to ascend.
I only remain in hope of your choice.
You seem without,
But truly within this is a chance to begin again.

Out of the fog, into the clear,
Into yourself the truth becomes whole.
Running away only cost you more time.
Sent to repent, I then hung my head.
Right wrong and then, dark light and then –
Nothing outside can spark you within.
Only you know what it takes to complete
What life began, what continues in sleep.
***
“The world, flesh and I all dwell on this path I tread.
Quickener of the dead.”


Sunlight enters in and dreams fade,
The whole world is crawling from shade.
The blue dawn paints the shadows that foretell
The triumph of the dreamer night’s taught well.

Make it come true, sit still, ponder-
Through the day let the mind wander.
The red dusk runs down the walls, in the eyes –
The victory of the crimson that he cries.

Swirling memories shift into place,
As the red tears fall down his face.
The scene solidifies in the glorious crimson that he cries-
He cries.

Soaring to the stars above all human kind,
Truth in the glorious rise to euphoria
Thriving as they all follow suit, no longer blind-
Truth in the glorious rise to euphoria.

Stone decays to sand.
This premonition crumbles in the hands of the dreaming one.
Cobalt into scarlet, so is the fed mind.

Soaring to the stars above all human kind…
Cobalt into scarlet, follow and find.

***
“Proclaim to them the future!
Prepare for the power!
Do all that you must, they will raise you…
You must gain them!
Do not fear your fate, they will follow.
With fire comes rebirth! With fire comes rebirth!
Tell them all that you’ve learned, they will praise you
A new from the earth…”

Though dreams will pass, this prophecy lives eternal.


The new vision, revelation:
The heavens will wash the face of all man!
Earth will witness a warm, golden, new sky!
This can lead them to infinity!
Spread the message and time will find fruition.
Restoration awakened-
Quiet all the woes of life!



My time, my breath is realized.
The art breaks from the stone.

This life’s redemption fills the air-
Brightly colored like fireworks,
Canvas that cradles the message.
Reality, lucid dream,
Now it’s mine. It’s right outside -
And it’s mine.
…with relentless time.

Oh yes, yes my eyes,
Circled up within my skin,
Watch how the dark shadow dies.
Trading all the matter-less to live anew
He is success.

Say nay,
Behind the perfect stone wall
Little cracks threaten the fall.
Save – no!
The noise deafens all the senses.

“Leave me sick fancy,
You were what I loved but-
This judgment threatens to take over.
It’s becoming part of me quickly.
Hate the blind light-
Forgive me, puppets shouldn’t speak,
We must have no reason-
Merely pieces in the endless game…”

“So much, so much
With such little purpose
Closed ears and closed minds
All of my love and all my time.”


When love dies in hopeful eyes
Innocence retreats
While the new, jaded ones come to life.
Sorrow is the mortar that bonds us all as one.

“Not another word, no ‘nother
Give up on the sun help eachother
Not another word, no ‘nother
Give up on the sun help each other
Everyone drop out, righteous all tune in
Click silence on, come alive!

Not another thought, no ‘nother
Turn the tables ‘round, help each other
Not another thought, no ‘nother
Turn the tables ‘round, help each other
Yes help each other!”



The sun set so long ago
Yet you continue to linger
Your presence tonight will only contrive anguish
Are you ready?
Do you know what you are doing?
There is a darkness you do not know the likes of
A presence you don’t understand
Do you believe you belong here?
The mist is rising
Bringing change in the air
Fear the darkness


Who's there?
What is your name?

I don't know...
I don't know
I don't know!

The words impair my being
I've lost my way
Desolation is all I know
My umbra lost
Take me home

Take me home
Look at me
See my eyes
Hear my voice
Feel my fear
Return to me
Take me home

Harmony will be found in silence
Tranquility in stillness
Devote yourself
We mean no harm
Simply listen

Why are you here?
Misconstrued apparitions
A single desire to retire to the unfeigned

Harmony will be found in silence
Tranquility in stillness
Devote yourself
We mean no harm
Just listen

Take me home


My youth,
Time of delight
Ruined by my own hand.
Now only affliction,
A response to needless departure.
A judgment of regret.

Blissful innocence
I wished to maintain.
But a darkness,
A melancholy ached to be free

Often I turned to friends,
Only to be let down.
Detachment became the solution.
Isolation.

A relentless battle fought
In mind,
In body,
In soul.

With time madness set in.
The battle was lost.
Time came to a stand still
Only one question was left


Still picture
Ripples in the water
Pale skin gripping with turmoil
A child with blind faith,
Refusing to struggle

Fire burns bright in the distance
Continuous and commonplace
It peers through the cracks
Caressing her arm in columns of light,
Translucent in the boundaries of life and death

Images of hatred and love carried through as one
The truth in her face,
Blurred by the ripples from
A descending tear

Hatred for the begetter
Misdirected at her child
The touch of a loving hand

Serenity attained in one final breath
Peace in a watery grave


'long the stream
Soul slipping away
Wounds bleeding
Consciousness fading

Sense of senselessness
All feeling lost, distraught
Dull figures disarranged
Wavering hope

Promises of relief, deserving
Assistance of a helping hand
Temptations of peace
Eternal bliss
Strive to remain

Voices akin
Obscured paths
Misguided choice

Sense of senselessness
All feeling lost, distraught
Dull figures disarranged
Wavering hope

'long the stream
Soul slipping away.


What are these memories?
Why have you told
all of these,
Stories to me?

Do you not understand it yet?
Have you lost all of your memory?
Memories we once shared

There is a faint memory of a small boy
Of his love and of his loss
What would cause me to remember this now?
All these thoughts now come across

Now that I know
These tales of woe
Now that I know
This child's death

We can begin to realize
Why you are all here tonight
And who I am

Whisk you up
Follow me
It will begin

Now come with me
You will see
Your concluding life


Do you remember my story?
The reason I brought you here?
Do you recall the blind deception?
Or why my tongue still tastes of fear?
You saw it all yet recall nothing?
Tell me….

I took the hand of greed we walked together side by side
And the mist turned to blood as I opened my hollow eyes

Here I live while your will dies.
Tied your hands and taped your eyes.
I was there for the death of hope
I remember the loss of faith
This light that I’ve found comes by the grace of darkness
Love turns to torture and I am alive

Your mind was clouded in haze
Sleepless in unending days
They came for you, both good and the evil
Fate unfolded and you lay still
I know this because

I was there for the death of hope
You must remember the loss of faith
The promise of love broken by blade and bullet
Danger unnoticed in the face of fear.

You couldn’t kiss them goodbye
Dead long before you would die
They came for you with their cold and shaking hands
Yet I still do not understand
Why I was there…

Oh
Now I can see…


I have been undone
I took the wrong way out
I let compassion get the best of me
A task I could not
Continue to carry out
Now I remember everything.

Life was lived as the souless
Never questioning.
Immortal, non-ephemeral
Everlasting.

I’ve been called
Samael
Micahel
Azrael
Charon
The reaping one
I was all of these and
None.

I took the wrong way out
My self-awareness gave me dignity.
The things I had seen
My new conscience locked them out
Now I remember everything.

Warm like blood coursing through me
This new feeling rose.
Out of my cold dimension
Into what I chose

Out of my head and into the darkness
What is compassion, which is love?
Out of the cold rain into the starkness
As the dying wait in their blood.
And if I help them what will that mean?
Saving their lives or aiding death?
Now that I know my name shall I go on
Breathing free will with bated breath?

Out of the clear bliss into the dark deep
Stories you’ve told that are my own
I have awoken now from my deep sleep
Have I the strength to take you home?
All that I wanted was to protect you
Always too early, never late.
This is the choice, I know what I must do
Leave all of life and death to fate…
Come now and we will wander into the night where peace awaits your rest-
Into the dawn of darkness.


Wraiths of night
Your deliverance has come tonight
Kiena has come

A mistaken identity revealed
A proclamation of everlasting mortality fulfilled

It is done

Slumber, Kiena
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01 "Feldgrau" from Meridian I (October 31, 2011) - (Lyrics)
02 "Watersong" from Meridian II (Early 2012) - (Lyrics)
03 "Green Iris" from Inversion (Late 2012) - (Lyrics)
04 "Acolyte" from Stretta (Early 2013) - (Lyrics)

On February 1st, 2011, we began the largest project we have ever taken on: A concept project spanning four albums. The albums will be released over the next two years, so we've decided to give everyone a small taste of what's to come. On the Foreword EP you will find one song from each of the upcoming albums. Enjoy!
Elizabeth Matson - Vocals & Keys
Puyan Hassani - Guitars
Jason Lobell - Bass
Patrick Hassani - Drums & Keys

Additional Musicians:
Omeed Izadyar - Guitars (On all tracks except Obsidian)
Gavin McGuire - Vocals (Watersong)

Produced by Phavian
Engineered by Charlie Park and Nicholas Zagorin
Mixed by Assen Stoyanov
Mastered by Fergal Davis at Summit Studios, Dublin