No Place Like Death Lyrics

All poured out, cloak of cold scars
Astray and stranded though all roads led there
Skin on stone, chill meets chill
Outside the barbicans and into the black
A skullish grimace 'neath a halo of stars
Beyond the bridles of hope and despair
Imply but facades of what time fulfills
The hammers that forge, the hammers that wrack

Waters fall in restless choirs
Wrung hands so worn, so white
Grasp for visions between silver fires
Awaiting the plunge over the edge of night
Is this where we're left to stand when laws are twisted?
Still the speed of silence could never be outrun
For the soothing arms of laxity melt to tears of wax
Each time my hollow eyes rise to meet the hollow sky
The gate stands wide open
Offering no glimpse of what unfurls ahead
Temptation chants its mantras for the obsessed
Darkest humors rush to fill the cracks that swathe every envenomed soul

Another wait unfolds
Lowered in the womb as quiet breaths defy the haggard day
Over and over names migrate from flesh to stone
It feels like coming home by now

So many voices perturb the timeless stare
Not one footstep reaches these pavilions
Dinted banisters, dust-draped hallways
A wordless hymn in praise of oblivion

This curse we all breathe
Gone be thy name

New dawns may rise beyond these walls
Ablaze to transgress each movement and form
And down among the shadows radiate distant calls
For sleepless toilers to weather the storm