Mount Palatine

Souls transcend the passage of time

The see-through veil of eternity

A camel and her calf wandering in a dust storm

Come night, they are gone

These mountains of sand rise and fall

The specks of time hear and see but do not talk

In the night of desert magic

Starlight dances on vapoury skins

Until the sunrise over the infinite dunes

Wanes the mirages once more

Souls transcend the rivers of sand

A handful of dust slipping through the fingers of time

Caravan shadows are drawn against the sky

And their guides are the stars at night

Lyrics: Jean the Baron

We are alone

We are part of their story

See them waiting for

Some unknown fate unfolding

They are forlorn

They are part of our story

Fields glow red and gold

Who’s now to reap their sorrows?

They aren’t alone

And they are here to stay

Stories of old

And people clad in antique rags

Lighthouses are

Scattered along the distant shoreline

They’ve seen many come

They’ve seen many go...

We are forlorn

We’re stranded far from the shoreline

Clandestine horror

Smoke and mirrors are leading us further

Malachi sent down to witness

The covenant royally fucked

Voices speaking with forked tongues

Eerie whispers like snakes in your ears

See them taking blows

Where blood wets the sands

And repeatedly

It goes on and on

Peering through the window

In a lighthouse far from the shoreline

They’ve gone too far

Strayed there where many go

Now, see the world

Shining in all of its glory

Vanity and awe

It feels that I'm part of this story

Lyrics: Jean the Baron

Lonely traverses the walker

Under the murderous skies

The unstoppable train of time spirals into the void

Leaving behind remnants of the past

Yet my essence is immortality

Thus I wait, mere one more aeon

Onwards moves the hearse

To the dead house; the way of all flesh

The unstoppable train of time spirals into the void

Echoing its relentless march

I have parred the eternity

And found a way to discharge myself from me

Lyrics: Lord of the Groove

Trees, they reach over me

Branches reaching down on me

In the murk near

Green eyes stare at me!

Deepest green

Those eyes all I see

It sees! The leopard sees straight through me

Its fur a map, follow it closely

Woven in the aura of things to come

I’mma follow it closely

Sweat drips from the brows

Intoxicating scent like this is an omen

Now show me the hand of god

And I'll bite it off if it ain't mine

Hide! Claws are nigher now

Abide! The panther eyes getting wider

Nightfall

Jungle comes alive with heat and sound

Let’s play ball

The time has come

Predatory sequence

Honed instincts

Facing, terror

Tracing, feral

Outcries, caterwauls

Maw of hunger

Pulsing

Eyes of silence

Waiting

Restless screams

In forbidden dreams

Come around

Beast unbound

Lets out a disarming growl

The world around deafened by the roar

Sweat drips from the brows

Intoxicating scent like this is an omen

Now show me the hand of god

And I’ll bite it off if it ain’t mine

Unyielding grip, a harbinger of the end

Enter the hour of reckoning

I’ve been shown the hand of god

Now, cards fallen like dead leaves on the ground

Fear is a ravine beneath my feet

A light beckons from my mind’s abyss

Forever see those all-seeing eyes of heaven’s night

Peering down from the holes in the sky

Lyrics: Jean the Baron

The haze of dawn, a man above the ground

A light gentle sound, seeks to be found

He cannot feel, the colors in the breeze

There are shades on the way, in the darkness of a day

Sweet like the tears and a gleam in a lucid dream

The bright shine of a mind leading to the blend

Beneath the veil, glimmering a light of a day

like a fierce creature, sucking his feeble twin

He cannot see, the forest and the trees

Not to know the vast, separating the future from the past

Lyrics: Count Boogie

As if nothing had ever been

The darkness breathes

the absence of light

and summons fragile shine

Nothing remains unchanged

Dawn takes its shape in the swirling motion

The universe’s wild ballet

Calls to praise near eternal beauty

Time and space take their places

To allow perfection to come

One cannot exist without the other

The share of twins heart

It’s newborn

It’s a newborn sun

It’s newborn

and shines like nothing before

(It’s) newborn

It’s a newborn sun

It’s newborn

and bright like nothing before

Nothing springs from emptiness

For the sequence is endless

Supreme recreates itself

It’s bright like it once was

Though time shifts

The chain endures, unbroken

The weave holds firm

Yet welcomes within

It’s reborn

It’s the reborn sun

It’s reborn

and shines like never before

(It’s) reborn

It’s the reborn sun

It’s reborn

and brighter than never before

It’s newborn

It’s the newborn sun

Lyrics: Count Boogie