Cells multiply
They aggregate
Form a being
That in a moment
Ignites
Fills with life
Thus it begins
Thus it starts
The end

Don't forgive me
I couldn't live for you
I didn't want it this way
I couldn't
Live for you

You will grow
You will develop
You'll be a child, a father
You will strive
Through every struggle
You'll find reasons
You'll find excuses
To carry on
Like this

Don't forgive me
I couldn't live for you
I didn't want it this way
I couldn't
Live for you

However much you wish
It won't be possible to contain
Impossible to impede
It will happen
You will suffer
It will reflect in me
I am part of your being
And the tears will pour
From me

Don't forgive me
I couldn't live for you
I didn't want it this way
I couldn't
Live for you

Don't forgive me
I couldn't live for you
I didn't want it this way
I couldn't
Live for you

Life passes
Until one day your moment
Will arrive
No farewell
There is no escape
Don't judge me
I couldn't live for you
Don't blame me
If one day
The earth will
Receive you
Ingest you

Descension

Calm eyes, deceiving,
They follow me from afar with disdain.
They chant lying psalms,
Intentions they evoke only when it suits them.

As soon as it emerges,
Eager eyes,
Their thirst will be quenched,
My will shall roar.

I learn in heated days,
Creeping, sensual verses.
I undertake cold, cunning,
Incredibly natural falsehoods.

As soon as it emerges,
Eager eyes,
Their thirst will be quenched,
My will shall roar.

I surprise in tedious days,
Unexpected, ancient rebellions.
I follow winding roads,
Paving the way for the others.

As soon as it emerges,
(Eyes)
Eager eyes,
(Eager)
Their thirst will be quenched,
(Eyes)
My will shall roar.

(Eager)
Ah ah ah
Eager.

Eager Eyes

Don't come now
I am alone
The fire fails
The evil walks

Pleading
Skittish idol
Cold invades me
Leave my womb
Speak the truth
Do the will
Grinding teeth
Guard the seeds

I find strength
The sprout will avenge
Better times
The dew will fend off
I feel your life
I feel your coming
Strong sprout
Bring me luck
Keep death away
Winds from the north

Don't come now
I am alone
The fire fails
The evil walks
The evil walks
It gets closer
Your father will come
He will bring sustenance
I can't take it
Grinding teeth
I cry agony
Come feel me
Consume this core 
Your father will come
The evil walks
Chest sustenance
Worship the goddess
Flesh decays
Noxious flesh

Don't come now
I am alone
The fire fails
The evil walks

The evil walks
To the sound of the wind
To the suspicious sound
Consume this core


The labor

Fertile smile
A hidden face
Receive this offering
Willingly thine
I ask for nothing
But for life
But for peace
But for luck
And sweet release

From your altar stone
Feel my hand now
Feel all my cold
And my sacred vow

Simplicity
Resides in thee
Receive this part of me
I will serve thee

I will serve
I will serve
Tomorrow, sun
Tomorrow, weather
Tomorrow, moon
Tomorrow, children
I will serve
Keep on your smile

My goddess earth
Bring me my children
Keep war exiled
Make the herds grow
Reflecting cold
Flames burning bright
Burning with fright

Bring me my own light
Wombs now enclosing
A warm, safe holding
Shelters in the night

Mother Earth
Give us life
Give us peace
Give us luck

Keep away death...

Gai'ah

Only one of us returns
The ice outshines the sun
The heaviest of moments comes
When the air is colder still
I find myself stripped of my faith
You are my sacred meeting place

Wound me
Take me
Lead me
Ache for me

The more I need you
The more I feel your absence
More than my woman
More than my son
The hunger swallows me
Sealing my fate

Wound yourself
Take yourself
Lead yourself
Ache for me

The world is frozen now
My fingers are numb
Sliding on your tundra
Damp, and warm, and present…

I wanted to keep your pale warmth
To feel your breath a little longer
To drink your blood while it's still hot
To merge you into me
and taste the metal on my tongue…

Heal us
Make us
Create us
Nurture us

A fated meeting
A sacred sacrifice…

Hunt

Don't go now
I am alone
My chest just weeps
My soul is turning stone

I mourn that I was not enough
I mourn there was no single touch
That could have brought the color back
Or kept your world from turning black
No stronger ties
No warm embrace
Just empty skies
in this cold place…

A gentle life, so brief, it leaves a scar
For one more day, I'd wish upon a star
It pains me to imagine or to reach
For what could be... now silence is its speech
It's loss, it's sleep, it's endless winter…

I'll watch your body waste away
Pale bones, a memory will stay
Of a future that I dared to dream
A void now swallows my silent scream!

Your scent is now a presence here
I offer this flesh to the goddess dear
So she might make me forget this pain
And grant me one brief goodbye in the rain…

And though you're gone, you go in peace, I pray...
It offers little solace for my fray...
A mother's body, drained and in despair
From this deep sorrow that my heart must bear…

May I one day find my own relief...
May I one day hold you, son, beyond this grief...
May I one day forgive my own soul...
May you in me again be whole…

…be whole…

Ultimation

Even seeing everything
That all of you are capable of
I remain here smiling
I remain unreachable

To blame the dark on me
When all the malice resides
Only in your own essence
Only in your own heart

So never blame me for your loss
Use me as a weapon, then escape
My existence precedes you
I witness the flaws you all inherit

I witness with disdain
As you blaspheme and desecrate!
You harm your greatest treasure
And the soul that came from me... 
YOU PROFANE!

I see the terror in your eyes
Facing your own irrational wrath
So build your masterpiece of wrong
With eyes once devoted to all that was good

I foresee it will be this way...
That there will be no end...
My will still warms the lonely cave...
The sacred female will live... 
ETERNAL...

Serenity

When the sun departed from me
In a single pulse of my own chest
I was lost, in an oblique world
Devoid of any sense or test...
Until a brief and tender light
Bent the air in a visible pause
And the trace of a new path appeared
Defying all of nature's laws

A peace attacked me with its fire!
Burning just like an atrocious flame!
At first I thought you were my foe...
But then you showed what I'd become!

Scales now adorn my torpor
From your immensity divine
Your ophidian voice becomes a song
And a wondrous world starts to align
Winged creatures born without a sound
From all your silent, deaf words, they arise
As muted images, transformed…

A peace attacked me with its fire!
Burning just like an atrocious flame!
At first I thought you were my foe...
But then you showed what I'd become!

A strict voice... I stand now in faith
I accept the one and only god
Your venom holds a mystic beauty
Your forked tongue... now sealing my fate…

I will be your servant...
My Noble Serpent God…

V0RT∃X

Feel my warm breath now
On winter's pale design
My calm and sibilant voice
Commands a new life, divine
A golden statue, breathing
A god you now can see
So trust my tongue completely
For just this once, trust me

So you should fear my power
Kneel down and give your thanks
And be in awe of my true power

Tonight, there will be light!
Tonight, the flame will burn so bright!
Behold my garden, an eternal sight
Tonight, the Good News will ignite!

Release your bitter, aching past
The pain that eats you, let it go
Bring me my children, I command it
And in exchange, no horror you will know
Get drunk upon my blessing now
That pushes all your loneliness away
A brand new world I grant to you
With the power of a single hand today

Don't fear all of my power...
Kneel down, and let yourself forget...
Feel your old life start to rot…

Tonight, there will be light!
Tonight, the flame will burn so bright!
Behold my garden, an eternal sight
Tonight, the Good News will ignite!

Approach me now... but take great care...
My venom has not been distilled…

I erase a whole immoral life...
The order of the serpent now takes flight...
The celestial serpent... takes flight…

V∃RT∃X

I saw the truth
I saw reality
What we have known, what we believed
Illusion, illusion... foolish, naive creeds...
Don't take me wrong
But take me seriously
I saw…

Gods do not smile!
Gods don't ignore!
One day you all will know the score!
So follow my direction!
It's the only way you'll find
The blessed garden for all mankind!

Why do you look at me this way?
Why do you laugh at what I say?
Don't say you don't believe a word
Come now and see it for yourselves!
Don't think that these words are a sin...
Don't make me give up and give in...
I saw…

Gods do not smile!
Gods don't ignore!
One day you all will know the score!
So follow my direction!
It's the only way you'll find
The blessed garden for all mankind!

My body won't be an obstacle!
Even broken, even sacrificed!
My voice will not be silenced!
So hear my scream, 
hear my desperate, 
hopeless cry!

Even humiliated...
Even finished...
I will be rewarded...
I saw...
I saw...
I saw...
The sweet reality…

Exhibition

Just us...
We are alone...
Don't question me
Don't you dare!
Your journey now belongs to me
Don't think that you will rise again

Forget... don't be afraid
Forget your old and dying creeds
The childish tricks, the feverish lies
Just forget
And just obey!

You see how you have made me cruel...
As I now break this pagan shade
I'll do whatever must be done
To save you from this dark charade

Forget... don't you dare tremble
Forget the heavy sentences
Delusions, offenses, all your youthful dread
Just forget
And just deserve it!

The cold is only the price to pay!
The night will be hard and without an end!
Like the reward that I deserve:
A wholesome land, so warm and so divine!

Don't cry...
We are alone...
Just us...
The road is long...
The night is endless...
Just...
Forget…

Respect

Just us...
We are alone in this hell...
Look what you've done
How could you dare!
Your journey brought us to disgrace
How can you still insist, and fight?
How could I let this be my plight?
Your words, your empty threats
Have signed the sentence
for our final night…

The world against us now
And you, so certain
So sure of yourself!
Our final hope, our dying light
The flame now whispers
its chilling farewell!
With no return from this dark brink
For you're the one who broke the key,
made our world shrink!

Oh, what a deluded man...
But I am worse, I understand
I took no part in this grand lie
But followed one who let his honor die...
There is no light
Only dread and fear
Just the hollow promise you held so dear
In your own empty vision of a garden…

The world opposes us now
And you, so certain
So sure of yourself!
Our final hope, our dying light
The flame now whispers
It's chilling farewell!
With no return from this dark brink
For you're the one who broke the key,
made our world shrink!

And everything just fades away...
Nothing in me tries to stay...
I see only the comfort now
In welcoming the final blow
that's coming for me…

Two gleams...
A grinding sound...
Blood... frozen...
Frozen blood...
Oh, man of mine...
Don't depart like this, into the cold!

Frozen blood…
Frozen blood...
Echoes... and icy claws...
Your hope...
was our...
downfall...
downfall...
END!

Ember

Serpent-One... 
we have a situation in your sector...
Your contact...
I repeat... your contact has been lost.

Feeble beings
Useless creatures
They serve no purpose
So I manifest
Eyes in a trance now
Eyes full of shock
Their blood is frozen...
Why do you weep now?
There is no reason for your tears
Behold my work…

Did you lose something?
That useless thing you served?
There is no reason to serve him
Come to me, be part of me
You want your man back?
Ah! Such a small mind...
Don't you see he was only bad for you?
Don't you see you're happier on your own?
Is this what you desire?

I will grant your little whim
But you will unite with me
You will be a part of my grand plan
From mud you came...
To mud you shall return!
Take this useless body...
With the breath of my essence...
And a piece of her own flesh and fire…

Serpent-One... is everything under control?
Very well...
Mission accomplished.

Dispatch

Succulent!
I invite you
Come on! Touch me
You know that you want to...

A garden of eternal life
Will never be enough for you
The serpent's proposition
Will bring your mother-light anew
A young calf offers itself
Taste its tender flesh, it's true
But the fruit that's always ripe
Makes your judgment go askew…

Succulent!
I invite you
Come on! Touch me
You know that you want to…

Beside you now, your husband stands
So proper, once a man to fear
In these slow, tedious, boring lands
Come and taste this with me, dear
I am your inner voice, you see
So sly and so infernal
A voice that memory can't set free
A desire, primal and eternal

So what would happen, after all
If you found out these secret things?
Nothing can be so bad at all
In a world that has no sufferings
What do they want to keep concealed?
Is it the key to their whole world?
So only gods, their power wield
And keep their little fates unfurled?

Don't say I didn't warn you...
You'll transform when you disobey...
You'll transmute into mysteries...
Come on...
Touch me...
You want to…

Attempt

The time is the wind
The wind is the soul
The soul is the cold
The cold is the fear
I feel the moon
I feel the crack
I feel the anguish
I feel the lust

Hmmm... feel the bitter taste
Hmmm... feel the broken moonlight
Hmmm... feel the silent cracking
Hmmm... feel the sacred sweat

Everything is sound!
Everything is color!
Everything's a seed!
Everything is present!
A queen or a witch now
A killer or a victim
Fire or water
Alpha and Omega!

A landslide...
A flash flood...
A naked sprout... like grass...
Feeding a deer...
A birth...
A stillborn child...
Simplicity, serenity, agony...
Singularity...

Hmmm... feel the bitter taste
Hmmm... feel the broken moonlight
Hmmm... feel the silent cracking
Hmmm... feel the sacred sweat

Everything is sound!
Everything is color!
Everything's a seed!
Everything is present!
A queen or a witch now
A killer or a victim
Fire or water
Alpha and Omega!

All united...
Simultaneous...
In a single bite...
In a single beat...
...Beat...
...Beat…

Beat

The truth now fills me up inside
Infinite knowledge... nowhere to hide...
How much simpler it was for me
The ignorance I used to be...
Until the heavens start to fade
The truth I held is now betrayed
The man in you begins to wane

All that's left now is a scream!
Devastation!
The colors peel and fall apart
The winds now tear my very heart
All that's left now is a scream!
A cataclysm! A raging roar!

And with the truth, it all returns
To desert plains, to dust that burns
And in the center of it all...
There's only your eyes
Just your vacant eyes, so dull
Just like your smile
Indifferent to everything
A placid smile…

All that's left now is a scream!
Devastation!
The colors peel and fall apart
The winds now tear my very heart
All that's left now is a scream!
A cataclysm! A raging roar!

You are no longer here with me...
You are no longer here...
Confirming what I already see
That I will never have you back, my dear...
I'll never have you…

So keep on smiling...
While my own scream
Remakes the world...
Just my scream...
Just my scream...

Nuance

Peaceful...
Vast...
Desolate...
Lucid...
The time is all relative
The landscape, restored and new
I feel the life, the gust of air
My mortality, sung and true

So walk with me
Sustain me now
Protect me... but don't be deceived
You will never overcome him
So face me now
Oppose me... indifferent
In your eyes, I remember the serpent

The brand new leaves
The brand new grass
The time returns
Brings me back
Everything, but...
My dearest one
My lover...
My own terror
My greatest fall

So walk with me
Sustain me now
Protect me... but don't be deceived
You will never overcome him
So face me now
Oppose me... indifferent
In your eyes, I remember the serpent

So tell me now...
What do they want from me?
Give me space... give me distance...
Give me remorse and all the sorrow...
Just don't escort me...
With that appearance of his…

In desperation...
Remain in your indifference...
Remain...
Indifferent...

Beast

The pain...
where does it come from?
The cold...
where does it come from?

Does it come from me
or from no one?
From the river
or beyond?

This weariness that holds me now,
I walk alone with someone.
The silence comes along, somehow,
my inner light is withdrawn.

Red, just like the dawn,
as handsome as before.
A face that has not mourned,
tamed, quiet, evermore.

No!
Don't you dare hold me this way.
In vain...
I feel my pulse betray.
I'll take you in my bed to lay,
but in secret, I hide the prey.

While the rain insists and falls,
refusing to hold on to the skies,
the same way, I accept it all,
the same way, I hold back my cries.

I take care not to let it show,
a mask upon my face I wear,
so I don't make it easy, no.

No!
Don't you dare hold me this way.
In vain...
I feel my pulse betray.
I'll take you in my bed to lay,
but in secret, I hide the prey.

I wish so much
I had your old ways back...
The world hasn't changed that much
on this long track.
I wish so much that I
could have met you just now.
I wish so much
this soul would leave, somehow.

No!
Don't come with that tranquil voice.
Don't aim for my body,
aim for the center of my chest.
Don't do it like this,
I surrender without a choice.
Don't say you adore me...
...that is no longer a request.

Is your house now empty?
What once filled up the space?
Was it just the furniture...
Or illusions you embraced?

This presence now invading
Today, these are your seeds.
Memories in creation,
traumas taking lead.

When two pairs don't make four,
Would you know if there were more?
Leave all the dirt aside...
The animals awake when they play and hide.

Come, oh my blood,
Be my company.
Though you don't know that someday you will see
What will sprout from the essence of us.

Be my reflection,
See all my glee.
Though I may pour all my mockery,
You'll come to me, you'll seek revenge.

We shared a single womb,
So small and welcoming.
And yet, before this world
So vast and harrowing...
Now look into my eyes,
And feel your oppressor rising.

Come, oh my blood,
Be my company.
Though you don't know that someday you will see
What will sprout from the essence of us.

Be my reflection,
See all my glee.
Though I may pour all my mockery,
You'll come to me, you'll seek revenge.

'Cause I'm a viper,
Born from a race
Prepared for the ambush,
A carnivorous embrace.

A mutual attraction,
A taste for the depraved.
It finds the innocence...
Slender, agile, evades.

The animals awake when they play...
The animals awake...

Preparation,
I gave my heart with dedication.
Expectation...
Is the mother of frustration.

Feel the aroma
Of my own devastation.
So much smoke here
Exposing my humiliation.

If I could just stop time,
There would be no better moment.
My entire body is just numb,
I only see one person so content.
If I could...
I'd keep this flesh so intact.
If I knew...
I wouldn't suffer from the impact.

Our father would be happier,
The creator, so compliant.
Our mother would be laughing softly,
My offering would burn so brightly, defiant.

If I could just stop time,
There would be no better moment.
My entire body is just numb,
I only see one person so content.

If I could...
I'd keep this flesh so intact.
If I knew...
I wouldn't suffer from the impact.

If I had... 
been born with another complexion.
If you had... 
a chance to go back to conception...

Why not me?
Why did it have to be this way?
Why take everything from me today?
Why did you refuse my feast, my display?

STINK

If the journey displeases you,
Know that it's no different for me.
My mission is to roam this hell,
Capturing all these people, you see.

I don't intend to harm you,
The healthy ones are far more prized.
But do not test my charity...
Red-haired trinity, be advised.

I won't promise you'll be happy,
But no one's ever died of hunger.
Just keep on moving, wanderers,
The earth provides for the ragged ones under.

Stay watchful on the path ahead,
I won't be sparing any strays.
At the journey's end, a river waits,
The life and soul of our sacred ways.

I don't intend to break you all,
Alive, though weak, insidious.
Just see the other skinny captives...
Move on with us and you'll be saved, it's obvious.

I won't promise you'll be happy,
But no one's ever died of hunger.
Just keep on moving, wanderers,
The earth provides for the ragged ones under.

Some will say that you are slaves...
No... Don't you think that we are vile.
Just see the brighter side of life...
Red ones! See how... kind... we are.

GOOD

Hours turn to decades
of this damp monotony.
Footprints in the mud,
songs of drudgery.

While the water flows and flows,
the riverbed churns the pain.
The current can't wash the horror,
it twists the light into a clang again.

Until our matters, our own souls,
meet in a subtle touch.
I see the heavens under the robes
of mud that hides so much.

Take my torso,
I feel its numbness...
Down to the bone.

From the clay you came,
return to me!
The hidden stone
beneath the calm stream
will reclaim your life,
bring back your senses!
From slave to goddess,
from goddess, essence!

Take from me these memories,
so ancient... and so lost...
Where is your strength now?
Where is your own will's cost?

See now, woman, where you stand...
Knees deep in the mud,
serving a false flame's command.

From the clay you came,
return to me!
The hidden stone
beneath the calm stream
will reclaim your life,
bring back your senses!
From slave to goddess,
from goddess, essence!

Remember: who you are,
what you have been through.
That from this very mud,
it was me who pulled you...

So you may live!
So you may scream:
REBELLION!

STONE

I feel like a grain,
fingers without a hand.
A bridge to nothing,
a leaf without a branch.
A hanging seed...
sweat and exploitation...

Who knows if the blood
will make me germinate?
Who knows if the hunger
will make me rise and stand?

Golden vision!
Paralyzed!
Life in life,
grain by grain!
I catch the torn scraps,
I thresh the ears,
I pause in the air...
dreams of lives!

Don't you be ready
when the reaping starts the game.
A dark profession,
a roar, a tumult...
On the other side
there'll be no one left to tame.

Who knows if the blood
will make me germinate?
Who knows if the hunger
will make me rise and stand?

Golden vision!
Paralyzed!
Life in life,
grain by grain!
I catch the torn scraps,
I thresh the ears,
I pause in the air...
dreams of lives!

seeds that were planted...
souls that were harvested.
seeds planted...
souls harvested.

KIRN

Stone upon stone laid,
The climbing of my devotion made.
Promise upon the ruin sown,
moves the earth in its deep pulsation known.

Sap flows now,
sacred monsoon's vow.
Light transforms all,
sprouts and blossoms tall,
seed of light enthrall.

family... cycle...
start... return...
peace... certainty...
faith... and ground learn...
humanity...
goddess...
communion burn...

grain upon grain shown,
Water... pathway... vastness known...
nothing is lost, only donation,
sweat and blood... life... communion...

family... cycle...
start... return...
peace... certainty...
faith... and ground learn...
humanity...
goddess...
communion burn...

FLOW

Stone before stone...
Paralyzed, I see the rot and groan.
Ruin built on a promise's bone...
I need to feel your pulse again, your drone.


My own lifeblood...
(repressed in this peace)
A sacred flower's bud...
(a pain that won't release)

Family: addiction.
Enemy: return.
Struggle: affliction.
Like a dog, I learn.
Tenacity,
a muse for me,
depravity!

Hand over hand is laid...
Sin, rhythm, a tense charade.
Everything is felt, a slow degrade.
I need to feel your pulse again, unmade.

Transform and break me...
(sprout now and bloom)
This seed of light will take me...
(a pain that finds no room)

Family: addiction.
Enemy: return.
Struggle: affliction.
Like a dog, I learn.
Tenacity,
a muse for me,
depravity!

Saliva and semen...
loss...
seduction...

Family: addiction.
Enemy: return.
Struggle: affliction.
Like a dog, I learn.
Tenacity,
a muse for me,
depravity!

PURE

All that I can do
is watch you suffer through.
If I could, I would take this pain for me...

Doo-doo-doo...
This pain for me.
Doo-doo-doo...

For days you scream in agony
and nothing breaks through, not even
this expectation that corrupts the scene...

Doo-doo-doo...
Expectation that corrupts.
Doo-doo-doo...

I've been through this before, I know,
this pain that afflicts you is bound to go.
But I feel that something's different here...
Your contagious pain is felt by all, my dear,
only one remains indifferent, I fear:
the source of all my horror, standing near.

Then, finally,
from your womb, it breaks free,
what should have been a gift for me.
It shows itself so cruelly:
viscous, concupiscent, you see,
monstrous, repellent, horribly,
agonizing, depressing!

Doo-doo-doo...

With your final, dying scream,
I say goodbye to my own hope, my dream.
I surrender to the gleaming chance
to be taken in accordance,
to eternal irrelevance.

Doo-doo-doo...

PITCH

From up above, it's all so subtle now...
It doesn't seem so grave,
It doesn't seem so vile.
With yellow iris eyes,
I register the end
Of all complacency,
Of patience wearing thin.

All for the single seed I went to sow,
And for the smooth stone that I left below,
Placed strategically within the hand
Of such a child...
So pure, you know,
With so much promise left to grow...

And laughter floods my soul...
She thinks the evil takes its toll
From deep within her,
That she's been scarred...

Without a clue
That her own fate, you see,
Was carefully designed by me
Before she was even born to be.

She seeks for peace in self-imposed exile,
Ignoring that the grand design,
That sacred axiom of the divine,
The thing they call her destiny,

Was plowed upon a fallow field,
Was carved into a stone, concealed,
Until the skull itself was cracked,
Until my hidden gene was sealed.

And laughter floods my soul...
She thinks the evil takes its toll
From deep within her,
That she's been scarred...

Without a clue
That her own fate, you see,
Was carefully designed by me
Before she was even born to be.

Upon her pale skin, a new light glows,
The scales of the conductor start to show.
An unstoppable escape from light,
In essence, he who guides them through the night.

Don't blame yourself like this, my child...
Although all hope has been defiled.
You were created in the likeness of,
You're sowing now... 
your destined heritage from above.

SKIN

(Movement 1: The Desolation)

There is no redemption.
There's no transfiguration.
There is no evolution...
Just Transformation.

Vision divine,
vision of the earthline.
Vision of blood spilled,
a fictional vision fulfilled.

Bones made of stone...
lights made of glass...
a truth that's hard-worn...
a living lie to pass...

(Movement 2: The Echoing Memories)

The pain... where does it come from?
(I feel the pulse inside my chest)
Is your house now empty, numb?
(This presence puts me to the test)

I sowed a pre-destined inheritance,
from our sacred leaders, a new creed...
Remember: who you are, what you went through since,
even if it's an incomprehensible deed,
even if it's magic...

I was just a part...
I was just a part...

(Movement 3: The Collision)

Promise over ruin!
Ruin over promise!

Why am I here right now?!
Here I am now,
confronting my own brow!
With no impulse to react, no vow!

(Movement 4: The Resignation)

I say goodbye to hope's last gleam...
I say goodbye to hope's last gleam...

I see all of this memory's stream!
I see all of this heritage's scheme!

and nothing more...
...and nothing more.

VEIL

Hiss of air
Wind gets dense
Red star above
Blinking, warning
Something supernatural
From sky... awakens

Take my hand!
Protect me, brother!
Fragile embrace
Face the destruction!
Take my hand!
Red star... rising!

Bodies in air
Chaos spinning
Screams on wind
Muffled "no's"
Red dust rising
Dorsal fury
Crying in lights
Brutal whirlwind!

Take my hand!
Protect me, brother!
Fragile embrace
In awe of destruction!
Take my hand!
Red star... shining!

when it stops...
silence enters...
intact circle...
your tranquil gaze...
Fateful calm.
we are two... chosen ones...
(united...)

Slit eyes...
Golden...
old eyes sizing us up...
Terrified.
Claims us...
in superstition...
Take my hand...
Red star... fading...

BOND

I will rest...
In water... blood... and mud...
At last...
I will rest...

This is why I'm vile
This is why I ignored
All the cost
All the pain
That I caused...

I won't ask for forgiveness, children...
I did what I did...

What I´ve done?
For a greater good?
What I´ve done?
See my strength! See the flood!
What I´ve done?
Nothing else matters!
What I´ve done?

See the inversion!
The river runs in the sky!
Like fish swimming
In my aerial flood!
The boats fall!
Shatter on the ground!
Men melt... like beetles...
Beneath my sandals!

What I´ve done?
For my obsession!
What I´ve done?
Such indifference!
What I´ve done?
Nothing makes a difference!
What I´ve done?

Until the witch...
Red as the dawn...
Shows me her talisman...
The same stone... that once...
Marked me as a sinner...

The dry thud
breaks my skull...

What I´ve done?
For a greater good!
What I´ve done?
See the flood!
What I´ve done?
Nothing else matters!
What I´ve done?

But I can still see...
The river fall like time...
I was searching for her...

The great mother...
The great goddess...
Who holds me...
At the end...
At last...
I will rest...

SAME

Dagger
Leather
Seed
Skull
Claw
Arrow
GAYAH!

Ornament
Filament
Guts, boughs
Vestment
I can't take it!

All trash!
All filth!
All waste!
All abject!
All except...
Stone, object!

Monster
Naive
Danger
Strenuous
Omen
Traitor

Insane
Profane
Levity
Arcane
Tyrant
Mundane

Human?
Mistake!
(Mistake!)
Human?
Mistake!

MEMENTO

After all the terror lived
After all the pain I give
Disappointment in the fog
Here I am, just like a dog

Outside, the world is cruel and cold
Even if life feels uncontrolled
Sovereign of my own bone
Subservient to the unknown

Clean the waters!
Clean the courses!
Clean the waste!
(Useless like me...)
Clean the waters!
Clean the courses!
Clean the waste!
(Useless like me...)

But in your eyes, I found the peace!
No judgment there, just sweet release!
Incomplete form, you take my hand
Refake me now, help me to stand!
We found a miracle!
(In the stump!)
We found a miracle!
(In the stump!)

Unexpected, no surprise
Admiration in your eyes
Everything I needed then
To feel like I am whole again

My being is now remade by you
Unexpected, vibrant, true
Nothing matters, nothing’s wrong
Until the miracle comes along

A blessing comes
It grows in me
(My leg returns!)
It grows in you
(A life to be!)
Concluding both, the circle seals
We will be three!
We will be real!

We found a miracle!
(In the stump!)
We found a miracle!
(In the stump!)
We will be three!
We will be real!
We found a miracle!
(In the stump!)

We will be real...
(It grows...)
We will be three...
(In the stump...)

STUMP

We are together in promise and dream
Come to my altar of chaste scheme
Bring our banquet of hope, my dear
Be my husband, eternal monster, here

See my effort, see my strain
We have it all, and more to gain
Wipe the blood from your slack smile
Take my body... stay a while
In a long joy...

Exchange the symbols of living rings
Branches hold the weight of things
My fine dress, veil sublime
Exposed to this conjunction in time
Captivating me...

Smile a new and red madness!
Beg your bride for a little gladness!
Raise me to your height, divine!
Feel the kiss... of this design!

Feel the kiss of my displeasure!
(Blood attests!)
This union divine!
(Bathes my garland!)
Purely mine!
Strength I seek in arms so thin!
I raise in proof your ended eyes!
Your ended eyes!

Kiss.
Captive.
Joy.
Divine.

KISS

Sweet calm, a life so empty
Peace of mind, inner aphasia
Dreams disturb me, treacheries plenty
My foot slides, a serpent’sasia

Which eyes are watching me?
Life or subconscious plea?
I don't feel my wife near
I don't feel my son here

Again and again!
Torture!
Unconscious state!
There is no escape!
No path!
Dizziness!
Inclement fate!
Again and again!

I wanted it so much
I receive the offer now
My freedom, just a touch
An end to this anguish, somehow

That I desire so deep
With a price too steep
An unpayable cost
My external blood lost
My eternal bond tossed!

So I surrender!
I can't take anymore!
So, my son!
So, I hand you over!
(Heir!)
I hand you over!
(Heir!)

I hand you over.
(My freedom...)
I hand you over.

HEIR

I am the root
I am the vigor
I am the calm, the constant trigger
So do not dare
To challenge me

I feel the blood beneath my feet
I feel the death within the sleet
Crushing restart, anathema splendor
A soul released, no returns to sender

And even so, I face the crack
The portentous snap, the attack
I still perceive, beyond the gloom
Of this dead world, inside the room
What it means to die...

I am the branch
I am the fear
I am the storm, the howling sear
So do not dare
To stare at me

All air of the world traverses through
My lungs, shaking the salvo cue
Every seed hides from the knife
The world I took, devoid of life

I realize what I became
The noisy fall, the brutal game
Now I know the violence
The final judgment, in silence...

I am the flame, the growing light
I feel like a leaf, spread in delight
Drinking rays of the rising sun
Transcending now, the deed is done
My limbs are strong branches
My chest, a round trunk
Each beat in my heart
Sets the rhythm of the art
Of the Gods I used to adore...

I am the leaf
I am the bough
I am the sap, the stunning vow
So do not dare
To contest me

I tore my own path, raw and new
No one will fail to bow to you
No more humiliated, weak or bare
You'll have the strength, the cure, the care
(You will worship...)
The name of Zua.
(Duh.)

VIOLET

Pit of my soul, staring back
Face my darkness, face the black
From this trunk, high above
Your sin is just a fake love
Like this viper, charmed and bright
Trying to seduce the light
See how it hisses, traps and lies
How could I resist those eyes?

Sing more, pretty snake
See me languid, see me break
With your promises so bold
With your twisted words of gold

(You have me here...)
(I want him near...)

So much time, so much lack
I will yield, I won't attack
I surrender to your wand
To the magic of your bond...

Look away...
(Just an instant...)
Look away...
(Is sufficient...)
Look away...
(Cutting buzz...)
Look away...

Open up your shining head!
(Buzzing cut!)
The seed falls down, the heavy lead
To the bottom of the cell
Creating flow, breaking the spell!

Pulsing glow...
(Mother's soul...)
To the sky...
(Distant goal...)
Beam.
Beam.

BEAM

There is something beyond
What I believe, what I bond
Beyond the edge of this knife
My honor returns to life

I believe in my fate
My son, my weight
So I thought to give him away
Assented to slay... today

But facing you, vile pair
I see the order, the snare
Chance and command
Are not sealed in this land
Not linked, not still
I have free will!

So I make of this bed
The cradle of your death!
Red as her hair!
Black as her soul!
I smile for a moment, losing control!

I embrace the sleepless child
Soothe his cry, meek and mild
I face my father, so far away
The blood that flows in me today
Enters my limb, signs my name
On my nature, the cruel flame

Future settles...
Future aligns...
Future at last...
Father and son.
Father and son.

Yet I cannot touch him
Descendant of the snake
I cannot hate him, no, I can't
I feel so alone, awake

The blood runs in me
The blood runs in me
No more
No more alone
Never
Never alone

We are linked by the vein
Associated in pain
I want to hate him, no, I can't
Still so alone, I pant

The blood runs in me
The blood runs in me
No more
No more alone
Never
Never alone

Mock me, executioner
I wish I could give my life
My own life, disgust and strife
Rather dead than alone in this!

But she came on my trail
Aware of the madness, the veil
And in the lapse of a breath
She cuts the head, corrects the death.

Future settles...
Future aligns...
Future at last...
Flows...
Empty.
(Sigh...)

SIGH

(Finally peace...)
(So strange...)

Maybe because I don't feel it
Maybe because I know
That everything is flawed
That everything is fragile, low
Maybe that is why
The light that rises in the sky
Warns that there is no time
Warns there is no chance to climb

This pain, this discomfort
Does not pass, does not leave
Does not fade, does not grieve
The nightmares, my hand chokes
Until they turn purple tones
My tongue dries in the wind...

Unsatisfied!
I see no other way!
Crippled!
Rejected!
Enslaved!
Domesticated!
Hallucinated!
Mortified!
Where are you?
My other half?

The river calls me
The serpent inflames
Throbs in my foot
Until the flames
Attract the men
Like moths to the light
To my domain...

There will be no peace!
We are side by side!
Opposite sides!
Do not smile!
From me you will see your death!
And only one of us will exist!
And only then!
And only then!
I will have peace!

Can'naã.

SIGN

(Chaos breathes...)
(Chaos breathes...)

Behold the beam, the light reveals
Like a sun that an eclipse conceals
Fixed eyes on the promise, sealed
In the abyss, a haunted field
The sea in its false, quiet calm
Is ready to expose its harm
Prepare the body, prepare the soul
For the chaos that I now control!

Walk light, little girl!
Covered in purple blood!
Your essence rules the world!
In light or in the mud!
Your eyes, from black to violet
Reveal the calm is just a threat
Destroy the palaces of old!
Walk light, as your soul unfolds!

Take this present, oh mighty sea
The head the earth feared to see
An offering I came to bring
From the oppressor, the former king
Without strength, but with cunning art
I cut the torment with a kiss, apart
I ended the ancient agony
Like a laugh in my memory!

Men in dark robes, a heavy line
Cover the horizon, a warning sign
Shadows of burns, a searing scar
Like lightning striking from afar
In the vanguard, a face I know
The one who was my brother, long ago
Today a specter, forgotten ghost
Guiding the darkness, the empty host

Apparition! Monster of the blue!
Tamed and sweet at my shoe!
I follow the path no more
Of the one who had faith before...
I am no longer Zua!
I am the storm and the tempest!
I am the mothers! I am the truth!
No longer human, the girl has died!
The vesper chaos... is me!

Bend your knees, humble men!
Calm as the sea overflowing then!
Bring the women, say their names!
Today is the day we break the frames!
Cut the heads of those who yield!
To the will of the serpent in the field!
Leave submission!
Cut the heads and their affliction!

Don't come now...
I am alone...
The fire fails...
The evil walks...

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