THE HUNDREDTH EYE

[Intro] Whispered vocals, distant tribal drums Ninety-nine eyes closed One remained awake Oculus Numquam Dormit [Verse 1] They placed the watchman at the gate Where mortal voices disappear A hundred visions in his skull A hundred ways to measure fear He saw the lie beneath the prayer He saw the chain beneath the crown He saw the sleepers call it peace While something moved beneath the ground No dream could blind him No night could hide The wound of knowing Behind the eye [Pre-Chorus] Do not wake What guards the door Do not name What came before But one eye opened Inside the flame And nothing sleeping Stayed the same [Chorus] The hundredth eye Never sleeps It watches what the silence keeps Through the veil Through the bone Through the temple overthrown The hundredth eye Burns inside Where the truth and terror hide I have seen I cannot lie I am bound To the waking eye [Verse 2] Hermes came with a silver tongue With music soft as painted death He sang until the heavens dimmed And stole the watchman’s final breath But eyes do not die When flesh is torn They scatter like stars Where truth is born On feathers, walls And sacred stone The gaze returned But not alone [Pre-Chorus] Do not sleep Beneath the sign Do not drink The hollow wine For every shadow Knows your name And every watcher Feeds the flame [Chorus] The hundredth eye Never sleeps It watches what the silence keeps Through the veil Through the bone Through the temple overthrown The hundredth eye Burns inside Where the truth and terror hide I have seen I cannot lie I am bound To the waking eye [Instrumental Interlude] Bass riff in 7/8 Tribal toms building slowly Clean guitars with dark harmonics Heavy distorted riff enters like a gate opening [Bridge] Spoken / chanted Argus Panoptes Watcher of the hidden gate Ninety-nine were given sleep One was given fate Oculus Numquam Dormit The eye does not rule The eye does not pray The eye only opens And burns the veil away [Heavy Bridge] I saw the slave Inside the king I saw the god Inside the machine I saw the chain Inside the mind I saw the blind Leading the blind [Final Chorus] The hundredth eye Never sleeps It watches what the silence keeps Through the veil Through the bone Through the temple overthrown The hundredth eye Burns inside Where the truth and terror hide I have seen I cannot lie I am bound To the waking eye [Outro] Whispered, fading Ninety-nine eyes closed One remained awake The eye does not sleep The eye does not forgive The eye remembers What the sleepers forget