Radiance, by Lunarscathe

Radiance

by Lunarscathe

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1.	Radiant Moons 06:09	lyrics	buy track
I yearn, for lunar power Lusting for an entire life Screaming to Titan and Ganymede, To Dysnomia and Phobos, and all known between Radiant moons – shine! Radiant moons – divine! They breathe me in with tongueless languages Ascendant beckoning I transfix my gaze to ever blackened skies Overwhelming sights Leveraging their cosmic ways My body contorts, forms new shapes I become their satellite Reborn, from ancient stardust My lust finally fulfilled Radiant moons – shine! Radiant moons – divine! I molt the flecks of life’s true origin The knowledge within An omniscient and moonlit reverie Overloading senses All secrets of the universe Revealed at last All questions ever asked – I can now answer All life ever ended – I can truly comprehend All empty gods before me – I can now usurp All power ever imagined – I can now wield
2.	Formication 05:20	lyrics	buy track
Skin oozing blood I must claw away the aged I need to molt again Discard my old flesh Discard the human remnants I have transcended since The sense of formication Lunar insects crawl within Breeding their divinity at my behest They crawl! I watch them in blurring vision Chrome dust mites infesting Penetrating the hypodermis Setting free my old innards But I feel faint, old life draining Just a byproduct of rebirth Can’t lift my head Powerless over self Insects keep crawling Cut, carve, unearth Darkness seeps more deeply Limbs no longer movable In a puddle of stale blood I’ll soon reincarnate in cosmic light I am lifted – the blood puddle gone – now in motion – but not yet strong Not yet strong, not yet strong Not yet strong… ...but soon! I know this to be true!
3.	Palliative Care 05:38	lyrics	buy track
I awake to angelic luminescence These are the thousand moons of my dreams I reach to touch but my limbs are fragile Shackled in buckles and chains Does my sight deceive me? Try to reconcile real and dream Does my memory betray me? Nothing is sure but these chains Pull with all strength, pull Push with all strength, push But it’s futile These aliens laugh My immobility an amusement This gurney a plaything My limbs made mere toys Palliative care, I hear The words offer no solace Against my will I lay In static agony I lay in demonic coalescence These are the thousand nightmares awake I’m forced down in these contraptions Needles forced into my eyes Have my ears been removed? No difference in scream or silence And the extent of my wounds? I thrash again in these chains Palliative care, I wretch A patient or a prisoner? A recuperation or an end? Medication or inebriation? The cost of sustenance Paid by free will
4.	Cacophony 04:00	lyrics	buy track
I scream aloud for hours it seems Laughs resound from the halls Their senseless words form discordant sounds A mutilated cacophony Syllables stretch in wavelengths unhearable but to the deaf Watch their mouths for the answers But they form unformable shapes An impossible dichotomy Of noise in a soundless tomb An unexplainable sensation Only spoken in words without existence Like voices of the sirens Treading deathly noise upon me No! Their commotion burying me Suffocating cacophony Suffocating, the weight of sound The vile syllabic symphony My screams muffled by black tape They’re castrating my vocal cords Laying in a desert of silence With any lifeforms only far away Life around belies me The stillness of silence binding
5.	Beneath Hope 03:44	lyrics	buy track
Beneath hope Beneath hope, there hides in wait a void An amalgam of doubt, despair, and sorrow Life falls beneath Through the bleak seams A vast abyss – cold emptiness Pure mass, a gravitational weight Enveloping spirit and strength Willpower and desire drained Crushing to ashes of disdain When disdain and despair are above What lies below? Beneath hope, and further beneath Beneath hope, lingers a shade of death The only option left to heal the distress Life falls beneath Through the bleak seams A vast abyss – cold emptiness
6.	Malice 03:42	lyrics	buy track
Malice, all that’s left A hungering hatred The devourment Of the abyssal sands Imprison me, will you? In the name of ‘health’, but I’m well again The toy no longer The suffering ends tonight Channel the lunar bodies Their tides bolster my vigor Attaining again my true cosmic form The cocoon bursts in rage Malice The punishment dealt Interplanetary law is mine to define And the law decrees execution Pools of crimson I channel the blood moon Such unearthly pleasure ... Ravish me!
7.	Feral 05:24	lyrics	buy track
Hunter becomes the hunted Omnipotent one becomes hated The lunar bodies demand more, more sacrifice I launch spines from the shadows They lurch through bedrock and mud Impale the bodies of the innocent, mounted trophies Feral, thriving on chaos Eliminate all resistance Innocent or otherwise – prey To me as the cosmic maw Panic crushes their spirits My influence grows by the hour The lunar bodies have endless hunger, I must serve Feral, thriving on chaos Eliminate all resistance Innocent or otherwise – prey To me as the cosmic maw The unfolding entropy Worn as a glorious crown A starlit trophy Branded as an enemy Bending the limits Of human belief My immortality unquestioned Draped in celestial carapace - I tread unknowable pathways Ferocious at heart – ferocious in spirit My lunar shield verdantly grows Hunter reaches the apex As the moon eclipses the soul
8.	Red Eminence 05:32	lyrics	buy track
Pulsars, speak Reach and embrace Could it be? Their presence shown Their presence felt, for me alone to know Call to me, play with me Scald my flesh, with your icy beams Pulsars speak, such tender songs Unending psalms, of lunar worship Enchant me, enrapture me Port my vessel, into your dreams Red eminence Lights pulse for miles I weep in joy All senses stimulated Enveloped in euphoria The alien source, it was you all along I’ve punished their transgressions I’ve slaughtered in your names I’m ready to transmorph A newborn demigod Born! Under the pulsing lights Born! Under the red eminence
9.	Pioneer 04:56	lyrics	buy track
The serene silence of space A majestic realm to traverse I’m the first former earthling To rule this interplanetary domain The boundaries unknowable In an ever expanding universe Unafraid and ambitious Call me the pioneer The lunar bodies, whispered in tongues I listened closely, became the pioneer The human-named solar system Left light years behind I’m planting infinitely-faceted flags On the stars left in my wake Incalculable, unfathomable speeds Vigintillion phantom limbs on a centillion worlds The lunar bodies, whispered in tongues I listened closely, became the pioneer Moving faster than expansion The black end coming in sight In moments, I’ll truly know all The universe’s secrets revealed A black wall crash! The lunar bodies, whispered in tongues I listened closely, became the pioneer All matter, space, and time are mine I become an infinite deity
10.	Radiance 06:30	lyrics	buy track
Snap awake to a bright room, curved puffy walls Soft to the touch, but my limbs are restricted A strange device hums nearby, near this plastic chair Tug at the shackles, simultaneously tug myself back to reality In my silence, the room is mute – the air is stillness In my muffled screams, the room hears naught – no one to care The needles snap back, a forceful injection What’s inside unknown, sustenance or venom? My stomach feels full, a lack of hunger Without the ingestion process, at their control My mind feels clear, a lack of haze Without critical thinking, at their control The absolute powerlessness Restriction of all flesh and form An unchosen cage for an unknown time Their needles probe, prod, prick away Am I alive, if I’m not free? Am I again a mere research toy to play? I strain to recall the lunar names But my memories have been erased My synapses cultivated by doctors As alien to me as anyone has ever been The end of radiance The end of free will A prisoner as a patient A corpse in suspension Brain tries to gestate Body tries to create Their needles simply erase