It is so dark where we go,
there's a chill that gnaws our bones
and we can't cope with the silence.
There's a place we're forsaken,
in the wait for a morning never coming.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
What built our lie is
the conviction of time.
This doubt corroding all our passing days.
Empty graves,
a number far greater still
than all the generations next and past.
Stranded as we feel we'll
ever be
and always have been since
the eve of times,
we turn to you,
to your sepulchre shut,
it's not for God but a man
we're looking for.
Apocrypha illuminata!
The promise stands, that every man
is more than this handful of sand.
That what we've learnt and been won't end.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
We'll close our eyes and firmly cling on
to the eternity that you preach
to feel there's sense in all of this.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
We're taught to fight
the experience of our eyes,
to back off incredulity and believe.
Those who compel
the gift of reason, then,
will spot some truth where others cannot find.
That's how you'll rise
in our collective mind,
but your broken body there is unresponsive.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
The promise stands, that every man
is more than this handful of sand.
That what we've learnt and been won't end.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
We'll close our eyes and firmly cling on
to the eternity that you preach
to feel there's sense in all of this.
Apocrypha Illuminata!
credits
from The Harmonic Demise,
released December 29, 2018
Music/Lyrics: Scrutator Ignotus
Coda - Phoebus
Mixed by Phoebus/Scrutator Ignotus. Mastered by Scrutator Ignotus
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