The Catalyst

Gatekeeper!

Tell me of the time that you looked down to the brook to see

My time-forsaken brother as he sank past reality

Space stood between us

There was no looking back

I chased, I tried, my God denied

His body usurped by our accuser

The ink has spilled across the page

Shaping surviving sun to shade

And that bird's been circling round my door

Crying out for "nevermore"

Illuminate your child into the depths of the sea

Where darkness thought to rule the deep

May you forever reign supreme

Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate

Nothing turns to nothing

Being torn from essence

Theodicy like gravity pulled us apart

Recompense for existence

Past the point of paranoia to the precipice of fear

Shudders the bones of every unrequited squire sleeping here

We looked upon such suffering

And knew in one moment that we were no longer

Capsize the ship

Tie a noose to its captain

I defy you, stars

Your fate is a coward

We cast a line into grey waters

And reeled back dry heaps of ash

What have we done?

We dwell without the sun

"The dreams of reason have produced monsters

The dreams of reason have produced monsters"

I saw the dark wood

The moon sinking in the moor

Oh sleeper, sink down to spindles

As acheron carries you away from our hands

To wake into numbness

To open our eyes

Consuming decay

Fertilize our demise!

You come like a thief in the night

So lord won't you cut me? (lord won't won't you cut me?)

They locked you away

They put you to sleep

But I'm not ready, there's no surcease

She'll speak in your dreams

Keep the word on your lips

Your ear to the ground

Awake in his sleep

Cracked bells clanging out false calls for freedom

And when I slept in that garden

Lord did you see me as I was dreaming?

This is no grave for the salt of the earth

This is no flame for the light of this world