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From the breathless pall of shadows he emerged without a sound

Lifeless gaze, yet so alert

No eye seems to perceive him as he treads the hollow ground

Where hailstorms flog the rancid dirt

His silence cold as dead stars, his mind like a black hole

He stared for so long beyond the nighted brim

He walks the spheres so empty with emptier still a soul

Dead to a world that's dead to him

He fears no form that sight reveals

He faces liquid mirrors with a madman's grin

He breathes the agony that no time ever heals

Reaching from the abyss that gapes deep within

Dread his call, hide or crawl

The truth he guards would shatter us all

One with none, born undone

No solace to be found under the sun

The glacial choirs of silence, the wisdom of insanity

His sole companions when the flaming tide arrives

Mourn not for him, forsaken ones, but weep for your own misery

No death can purge the stain of countless painful lives

The sleep of reason entombed you in this maze

Yet to your chains you cling and blindness you beseech

He comes to bury into his wounds your ways

To dissipate every delusion on which you leech

Let it be known, let it be known

In the beginning the one word was alone

Let it be done, let it be done

Before all else the ending had begun

Who would follow him down the pits of the unknown

Through vaults of wounded light where shadows turn to stone

A dark already ancient before the aeons came

Pray death may find you before he speaks your name

When the pillars quake

And shatters the key

Let your mind break

In madness you'll be free