Striding the Chasm Lyrics

At the edge of existence
Firm on ground, growing roots like swords
Speak the hidden words

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 chssm

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 gates
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 bones
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