Transcend the Rubicon
Album - 1993 - Debaser id 120390

There's a disease a wrenching bane
Adverse twisted minds
Grip of fear within the flesh
Is eating you alive
Ruins the lives of innocent
A fitful waking sleep
Sadly the world it shakes it's head
And begins to weep

And now to sleep perchance to dream
But you cannot hear your cries
Memories run like rivers flow
Blackened waters of the mind
Phobias, fear of crypts and caves
Oblivion denied

All you see such a lie to behold
Born through a cradle of time
Stomach wrenching, sweat runs cold

Pointless nightmares of bizarre and sublime

Summon them now, arise your fears
Release the pain or drown
Acidic noise like knell of doom
Darkened passages revealing gloom

Nightfear

Creeping on the skulls of man
Softly at the dawn
Sharpened edge of nightfears blade
Pray you now for rising morn

Divine faith a childish prayer
Drilled into you from birth
Yet nightfear continues on
Returning with a curse
Now the fortitudes in light
But darkened eve draws near

Dawning on a ghoulish thought
The night belongs to fear

[From : "Transcend The Rubicon", Live] Crawl on our knees through the gutter From an untimely demise By remission of all sins Forsaking old and wise Violation of domain An area of conquest Which only we have one Don't stagnate within your self Transcend the Rubicon Suffering, torment, anguish, pain At life's shore slowly breaks the waves Turn of the tides, revenance of rage Blistering so were the thoughts When shackled to a wall Flagrant ways of conformation Your death sentence appalled Now plead for a worthless life Deny us for your guilt Escape within the stoney tomb Which you yourself have built Independence of a drug To satisfy the need Orgies filled with travesty To sow all mocking seeds Originality the one Who's screaming at the crime Sinister the ways of wisdom Expand or face the fire Sterile splinter of self doubt Thorn in your boney hide Counterfeit within adept Colossal is the pride Breeding cynicism Grandeur crying in your face Overture derisive laughter Hateful human race Incantation of your thoughts Upon this mortal coil Open wide the jaws of hate Serving them so loyal Reeking contradiction When you're laughing as you fail Believing in your innocence Tells a sorrowed tale Autumn fall upon a life This season at an end Darkened shadows all around And yet without a friend Realisation dawns on you It's time for you to face Hateful human race

Cut, dissected from within
Like clockwork run the cells
An unearthly silent din
A constant toll of bells
Mocking laughter evermore
No sight of a refrain
Waiting on my lonely quest
Asylum of the brain
Brain

The darkest caverns of my mind
Hold terrors so consuming
Look within and soon you'll find
Your psyche I'm subsuming
More than flesh and blood can bear
Ensnared within my brain
Eyes in fear, eyes in terror
Adversity is pain
Adversity is pain

Pain...

Within the faculty of fools
Leering warders, intimidation
Playing games at all my rules
Is feeding their frustration

The blood inside my temples pulsing
While I'm locked away
Thoughts within my head convulsing
For the time my captors pay
Stop the torment, cut me loose
Unbind me from my chains
Before my eyes a veil of mist
Encompassing and grey

Once again
Momentarily free of pain
Pain...
Pain...
Pain...

Stop the pain and rip me open
Tear out my tormentors
Release me from agony
Blinding my nerve centres
Only known emotions
Are the anger and the sadness
Overshadowed totally by
Unrevokable madness

Held inside this sterile box
My thoughts turn now to charnel
Fantasise, yet I remain
Still locked inside eternal
I'll not escape but I will wait
Patience will run true
Visitation you will see
This madness is in you