Striding the Chasm - 1349

Trailing karmic death

Dark ore of obscurity

Enrooted from blood soil

Void-birthed from flesh of gods

From the scorched abyss

Black veins branching through cosmic soil

The rotting edge ever closer

Chasing fire, the opening of the bones

Towards the subdivided levels

Detach disintegrating soul

Towards eternity and far away from time

Follow blackest beacon through the mist of man

It has always been here

Weaving into the fabric of flesh

Striding further into darkness

Roots so old, touching soul

Striding the chasm

Upon black clouds of magic

Turn earth to flesh and sun to gold

Beyond underworld maelstrom

Hunger of the arcane hand of old

Striding the chasm

Striding the chasm

Engulfed in slimy depth

Each step a myriad lifetimes

Tide turn against testimony

Possessed through rot in rapture

Striding the chasm

Striding the chasm

Inverted as below

No trace of root above

I’m striding the chasm

Striding the chasm

Growing in the endless shadow of the soul

Dark pillars through Sephiroth passage

Gliding over gargantuan depths

Upon the rim of monolithic chasms

Bearer of the abhorrent mark

Engulfed in earth the pitch of tar

Channeling the ravens of death

Soul hunger of eternal shadows' claw

Star of fire, melt my soul

Striding the chasm

Like limbs of the soul

Striding the chasm

Darkest roots taking hold

Striding the chasm

Like limbs of the soul

Striding the chasm

Darkest roots taking hold

The opening of the seventh gate

Phantasmagoria walk with death

Through the crooked spear of time

A widening rent of absolute nothingness

Striding the chasm

I stand in mute testimony

Stone cold on the ritual arena

Soul built upon cromlechs of bone

To macabre depths, black root pillars of balance

Striding the chasm

Striding the chasm

Inverted as below

No trace of root above

Take wing on hallowed soul

As I’m striding the chasm below

Growing in the endless shadow of the soul

Dark pillars through Sephiroth passage

Gliding over gargantuan depths

Upon the rim of monolithic chasms