[Intro] I wanted to see... (open your eyes) Not to pray... To see... [Verse 1] I tore the first veil... Then the second... Every ripped image made me greater... (taller) I named the shadow... I mapped the abyss... I believed that knowing was already reigning... Gnosis rises... It dresses the void with knowledge... It says: "I hold the secret."... It says: "I am no longer of the flock."... It builds a throne with what it has understood... [Pre-chorus] The more I see, the higher I climb... The higher I climb, the more I mistake myself for the light... (blind) [Chorus 1] GNOSIS... I know... I see behind... I no longer need to be small... The veil is at my feet... The center is what I found... (I am the center) Ascend... Again... (Again...) Until the knowledge becomes a crown... [Verse 2] I judged the images... I filtered the unconscious... I called that awakening... Every revelation protected me from kneeling... To know so as not to lose... To understand so as not to die... Gnosis was not an opening... It was a shining armor... (heavy steel) [Solo] [Bridge] Then it collapses... Not like an argued defeat... Like a throat that has no more theory... Kenosis... (empty out) To empty oneself... To no longer hold the secret as a possession... To no longer be the guardian... To no longer be the center that "saw"... What I knew did not make me more real... It made me heavier... The knowledge was rising... He, He was already descending into what I refused to be: nothing... [Chorus 2] Kenosis... I have nothing left to show... No more map... No more collected veil... The High did not need me to understand Him in order to Be... To empty out... To leave the throne... To leave even the light that I thought was mine... [Breakdown] Climb higher, if you want... (go on) Pile up your visions again... At the end, there is no god smaller than you... There is the void where you cease to be the scholar... [Final] Gnosis: I rise to possess... Kenosis: I descend to no longer be full... The one dresses... The other strips bare... And the One Who Is has never inhabited the crown that I had made for myself with what I knew...
