Loss (Under the Shadow of a Thousand Sorrows) Lyrics

Floating Through curtains of velvet darkness
That lead into the depths of memory
Treading upon planes of indirect reality
To gather at the gates of eternity

Where we'll trade our voices for the shadows
That haunt these halls of our passing
And hide them deep within ourselves
To shelter the sorrow of innermost loss

Falling through the withering surfaces
Under the shadow of a thousand sorrows
Drifting upon waves toward uncertain finality
Enshrined in the flames of damnation's rise

Where we'll shed our flesh in blessed heresy
To awaken the spirits of our loss
And hold them deep within ourselves
As we search for the darkness within us all

Suffer wounds of your own disillusion
Cry for sanctity in divine absolution

While day declined their voices could be heard
Their scornful laughter commanding the charge

The thoughts that we caress in our most silent moments
The images reflected in the fractured mirror
Converge into streams flowing toward eternal shores
To wash the blood from the hands of our imagination

Following the carnival of shameless destitution
To pray before the idols of your shattered institutions
Of decadent degradation and ignorant faith
The crumbling towers of divine inspiration
Shall fall into the ruins of obscurity
And entomb your soul for righteous indignations

Under the shadow of a thousand sorrows
Drifting upon waves toward uncertain finality
Enshrined in the flames of damnation's rise

Where we'll shed our flesh in blessed heresy
To awaken the spirits of our loss
And hide them deep within ourselves
As we search for the darkness within our souls

Suffer the wounds of your own disillusion
Cry for sanctity in divine absolution
Discover the fallacy of your ways
Surrender to the enlightenment of decay