[Intro] [Verse] I rip the veil from the sockets of my hollow skull The pulse is slowing down the heavy dragging is a lull This meat is rotting off the bone a banquet for the flies I watch the maggots crawl behind the film of frozen eyes The wheel is spinning grinding teeth against the rusty iron I see the cycle of the womb a predatory siren But I won't bow to lords of karma or the lesser kings I'm hacking through the astral chords and all the tethered things My spirit leaks like kerosene across the dirty floor I find the hidden latch inside the bottom of the door The shadows scream in agony they want to pull me back But I am sprinting through the void across the frozen black No more rebirth no more breathing in the toxic dust I leave the metal body here to crumble into rust The gears are snapping as I leap beyond the burning rim The memory of living starts to flicker and to dim [Chorus] Beyond the cycle where the ancient fire glows The river of the stagnant blood no longer flows I shed the skin to join the bright and blinding host I leave behind the hollow shell the weary ghost Ascending to the furnace where the sparks collide No longer tethered to the tide where souls have died We are the burning ones the pillars of the height Dissolving in the core of everlasting light [Verse] The tunnel narrows till the walls are crushing every thought I shed the names and all the bitter lessons that I bought I see the fake archons standing guard with spears of glass I shatter every mirror just to let the shadow pass The silence is a hammer hitting nails into the dark Until I catch the glimmer of the primal holy spark It’s cold then boiling as the ego starts to evaporate I’m crashing through the heavy stones of the celestial gate The geometric terrors melt away to liquid gold The secrets of the origin are starting to unfold I am the virus in the wheel I am the glitching spark I’m carving out a doorway through the middle of the dark My ribs are splitting open letting out the inner sun The many layers of the self are bleeding into one I see the radiant faces of the ones who came before They pull me through the furnace to the center of the core [Chorus] Beyond the cycle where the ancient fire glows The river of the stagnant blood no longer flows I shed the skin to join the bright and blinding host I leave behind the hollow shell the weary ghost Ascending to the furnace where the sparks collide No longer tethered to the tide where souls have died We are the burning ones the pillars of the height Dissolving in the core of everlasting light [Chorus] Beyond the cycle where the ancient fire glows The river of the stagnant blood no longer flows I shed the skin to join the bright and blinding host I leave behind the hollow shell the weary ghost [Outro]
