We hold the light, across this void Crossing through time, sacrifice this life Claw down the deep where nothing grows To tear the light from the day There's a space between, where we fall away We don't know the end, but we want to stay For no good reason Just a vain sense of self No one is waiting at the end for you Hold tight to nothingness Fall away in the deep, you'll see no light But you'll find your fate The winds they take away The sands of time decay And we all live to face another day The planets they collide You and I must day The stars will fall away from the sky

Eons have passed since the ghosts in the sky breathed souls into simians birthing mankind Traces untrodden their faces forgotten whilst men are besotten, bewitched by their machines Once prey they crawled from their caves to reap All they could claim Now this apex predator shall inherit the planet Earth Revolution A new era of man is at hand Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being) Evolution The singularity progress There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest) Embedded within the brain An interface to fathomless realities Modern marvels combined with an ancient artifact Emerald effervescence sparked the digital sentience transcendence Implementation of a new kind, enter the human hive mind Revolution A new era of man is at hand Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being) Evolution The singularity progress There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest) Pushing the threshold of perception And the digital blindfold of untold deception AI enabled this streaming of consciousness Indistinguishable from Dreaming or Waking life No gods but our flesh Unlocking the AI phenomena Mankind devolves into automata Digitized augmented fantasy With rhapsody to dreams they flee Their minds free of reality Integrated into society, currency, and hive mind psychiatry Cybernetic life-force invasion Of unknown source it guides the course of Earth's future with without remorse

For centuries I have languished within the confines of this wretched storm Sealed away by my progenies who sought to usurp the throne As foretold - In my midst treachery seeded Unforeseen - The deeds of my seed bleed greed succeeded Sealed away None possess the might to slay Lead astray, betrayed Cast away, frayed And left to decay Blasphemous lies divulged with efficacy At the mercy of insidious spawn The unbeknownst crown soon a pawn "My liege, please heed these words of prophecy. The golden throne shall be seized by treachery The days of your rule have foregone." Blessed be the oracle's vision They have foreseen my demise Deeds of treason Thus I began purging perfidious ranks from my legions A creation to ensure my legacy Willing a consciousness into being Manufacturing the means to my eternal rule Compressed memories and accumulated knowledge of centuries Converged into a flourishing vessel Artificial, autonomous, yet intertwined The gleaming tesseract primed Replication of the divine contents that lay within my mind In my absence it shall wake Rise to retake in fervent state Decimate those who dared to displace Hastily summoned by my generals To distant stars Unveiling their ethereal phenomena Planetary rings Several of my spawn joined ranks with thee Once trusted advisor turned adversary The words you spoke as prophecy Foreshadowed this act of treachery Unsheathed to claim the hides of heretics Crimson rings will adorn your throats Blood becomes mist as I claim the first of the iniquitous Perniciousness will be your demise Suddenly seized by cyclonic force Sins of his seed were the only source Altercation would be their downfall And thus they created a celestial squall Paralyzed by the insurrection Deprived of the verdant mind in my possession Chain upon chain of magnetism confines me to this maelstrom prison These distant memories replay obsessively hauntingly daunting my sanity My immortality staves off fatality And when I finally break free of This exiled sentencing There will be a reckoning

Disoriented in a state of vast darkness Graveless corpses jolt back to life Bewildered masses awaiting drudgery Minds untethered awakening As though it all were all just a dream They bear witness with their final moments of consciousness Awe-stricken eyes gaze upon empyreal skies Veridian waves devour the face of the horizon A rift betwixt worlds steadily forms Veiling the deity scorned Its crucible met by violent storms As if to protest the god reborn The celestial aperture exposes the passage to oblivion His apparition peers in from perdition And from the vaporous vortex Of eternal imprisonment The deity's immensity Spews through the sky with magnificence Centuries of plotting now at long last This destiny shall come to pass From the clutches of exile To revival arise reprise that which was deprived Reemergence of power forgotten and lost Sheer volition fuels the quest of this ravenous god Upon the reunion of crafter and artifact Knowledge once lost comes crawling back Bestowed dispelling delirium Though seething hatred remains Dwelling in disbelief beneath the bastion Simians fall to the digital veil again Bound to serve their true master Forever is their sleep Atop the citadel a declaration is made To sweep and swiftly conquer what remains of this plane Heeding the call of their overlord deity The hive mind sets out to do his bidding Once they complete this mission Anu will pursue his true ambition From exile to exaltation This journey from abnegation Begins with liberation ends with domination and Damnation for those that oppose From exile to exaltation Begins with liberation Ends with their domination Revelation, devastation For those who oppose the golden throne

Noctambulists repeat their history Slaves to the otherworldly For eras, I've influenced your minds Now I control the Simian hive Insatiable - escapists consume, rest, and resume For they fail to see The fantasies on which they feast Merely ripen them for the beast A vicious cycle Ceaseless autopilot mindless drones become clones Destined to be fodder for the seeds that have been sown Clandestine insanity I have replaced everything that you see Digital dominion eclipses your reality Unsuspecting marionettes have relinquished Unto me their every limb Thought, and memory Every human a vessel for my design Each skull a prison of the mind Noctambulists repeat their history Slaves to the otherworldly For eras I've influenced your minds Now I control the Simian hive Thralls of flesh will fulfill this destiny And conjure forth a deity Mortal hands will in time create a gateway that splits the skies And when the time is right I'll free their minds For just a moment to feast upon The glorious return Of a banished eidolon Now it's nearly complete This ziggurat shall be the means of liberation From your transcendental cosmic cell By blessed blood These Simians shall receive the gifts of the revenant Recreated in thy image The time is nigh A new era spawned upon this beacons ignition Every effigy bends at the knee to see With eyes unclouded and yet under my decree Drawn to your leader (Drawn to your leader) Your greatest deceiver (Greatest deceiver) Vapid believers of the visitant Tethered together for life Plague on the soul (Plague on the soul) Plague of the body and mind (Plague of the body and mind) Are the chains that bond your black mirror prison To an echo chamber Tethered together for life (Tethered together for life) Starved of divinity Humanity leached Fed by their ghosts Control has been reached Puppets shall hang by their throats Under the weight towed by their strings

Condemned, yet before I cast the befouled Contents of my mind across the wall I wish to unburden my soul That fateful eve we found ourselves In the shadow of an ivory cathedral Compelled to behold the ghastly grave of a ghoul And extract an artifact In an effort to quell life's ceaseless ennui We have descended into depravity The abhorrent art of grave robbery Crack the lid, apex of our endeavor Round the neck of this corpse lay our treasure And when I seized the jade amulet it began Echoing through the graveborn mists as if calling from the abyss Distant baying, colossal entity hellbent on slaying And the foreboding gaze of an unnaturally well preserved corpse A haunting presence of chilling Malevolence shattered our solitude night after night Baleful shades, creeping moonlight, and that accursed growl I had an inkling that we were jointly going mad Until the beast reared its loathsome head Bloodcurdling screams shook me from sleep Shreds of my mangled partner littered the streets The assailant flashed demonic eyes And bayed as it took to the sky No doubt the same fate would befall me Lest I somehow break the curse Once again in the shadow of that ivory cathedral Crack the lid, unveiling the vile thing caked with fresh blood And shreds of flesh I cast inside the cursed jade amulet Startled awake by the whirring wings and Torturous baying of that horrific thing A swift demise is the only mercy this world has left to offer Before I find myself betwixt those cursed teeth With this revolver, I embrace my fate and choose to obliviate