[Verse 1] The last light Extinguished I spread my blackened wings Prepared for flight I scour the night Eyes enshrouded In nocturnal delight A taste Hibernal Caressing my lips A scent that surpasses Transdermal My old yellow bones Lurch forward Limbs unfurled Eyes lock, built of Draconian descent Pupils constrict Their dilation goes vertical Iris swallowing light In a manner unnatural In one fluid motion I begin a rapid ascent Black pinions slicing Through the frigid expanse The treeline recedes As the landscape bends Every breath growing deeper Every heartbeat immense The clouds coil beneath me As moonlight grows pallid something within me Turns ravenous, rabid The air bears a fragrance Malignant, acrid I follow its trace With a hunger ecstatic Far below, something wanders Unknowing, unaware I taste it through distance Its terror laid bare My senses sharpen To scents in the air whatever it fears Hath reason to fear I descend without warning With scarcely a sound My talons extended My prey yet unbound A silhouette falters Then turns to look round But the night hath concealed me Till I am upon it My jaw pulls wider Than bone should permit The musculature shifts As something awakens within My tongue tastes the air I savor the scent While the shape of my hunger Becomes more intent No prayer can avail it No plea can prevail For I hunt without haste I hunger without fail The creature before me Turns pale and frail As I emerge from the darkness With death on my trail [Pre-Chorus] A colossal shape eclipses the latitude Descending with deliberate magnitude Horns rake the air as its mandibles separate Its breath hangs fetid, corrosive, and sulphurate [Chorus] Ancient wings obscure the sky Something vast has now arrived Every living thing looks small When that shadow covers all Ancient wings obscure the sky Something vast has now arrived Every living thing looks small When that shadow covers all [verse 2] I spread my wings atmosphere convulses, pressure propagates Whole valleys tremble, the resonance ripples, the distant horizon vibrates I drive the air before me spires cant at an angle, then topple in my wake The pressure trails after, a violent undulation that fractures whatever it takes White vapor spills from parted jaws, incandescent, corrosive A luminous torrent, effulgent and molten, consuming whatever it covers The soil beneath my exhalation blackens, vitrifies, glows every living thing in the incandescent reach is swallowed in heat I descend through devastation, deliberate, sedate My talons carve through earth or flesh with equal appetite, insatiate The scattered remnants surge beneath me, a living tide without direction I watch the mass compress, collide, disperse a convulsion without correction I feed from the living masses , a seething terrestrial tide One passage through the tumult leaves silence on either side I gorge as the remnants converge, then scatter and stagger apart The frenzy keeps feeding my hunger; I follow its trail through the dark Something moves beyond the devastation small enough to overlook I turn toward it slowly every instinct it has tells it to run Its path grows frantic, erratic, doubling back through the ruin I follow without urgency patient, persistent, already knowing where it ends I spread my wings once more, the membrane swallowing moonlight Rise through remnants of clouds, ascending beyond sight The world below diminishes to scattered sparks and distant cries I climb until the darkness itself is all that fills my eyes [Chorus] Ancient wings obscure the sky Something vast has now arrived Every living thing looks small When that shadow covers all Ancient wings obscure the sky Something vast has now arrived Every living thing looks small When that shadow covers all
