Ashes Lie Still

With Broken Wings

Hymns From The Apocrypha

Dim Veil Of Obscurity

Blood and ashes

[CHORUS]
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock,
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock"

[INTRO]
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
      And the mome raths outgrabe.

[VERSE]
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
      The frumious Bandersnatch!”

[CHORUS]
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock,
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock"

[PRE-CHORUS]
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
      Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
      And stood awhile in thought.

[BRIDGE]
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
      And burbled as it came!

[CHORUS]
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock,
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
“Beware the Jabberwock"

[VERSE]
One, two! One, two! And through and through
      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
      He went galumphing back.
He left it dead, and with its head
      He went galumphing back.

[Celesta solo]

[OUTRO]
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
      Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
      He chortled in his joy.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
      He chortled in his joy.

Beware the Metal, my son!

I tasted death before—
I heard her heels behind.
I know just who’s a friend,
And where my foes reside.

⸻

Each night I’d start a war,
But all would walk away.
And I stood all alone—
A prisoner of the play.

⸻

I tried to scream—
Then I began to sing.
I chased the ghost
Of what I had to bring.
Back to the fight,
But every time it came…
I only fought myself—
And couldn’t end the game.

⸻

I ran, and ran in rings—
This loop would never end.
I prayed for snow to fall—
To freeze that bastard’s breath.

⸻

Each sunrise gave a knife,
A promise I might kill.
But truth was never real…
So love became the will.

⸻

To love the ones who left,
Who never left a sign.
Or carry love instead—
When there’s no exit line.

⸻

If you declare a war
Against yourself again…
You’ll sink beneath the waves,
And vanish with no name.

⸻

You’ll go under,
Like all who tried
To kill the one
They kept inside.

A Coming Unperceived (Redux)

Ingested