The Ship of Stone Lyrics

[In lost spheres the trifold vortex brew
As one: favourable illusions
Tearing down as four angles
Delusions may escape once again

From a point a line
from a line a surface
From a surface the seas
Through the vortical cross the death is spread]

Open the gates
Diffuse the breach of being
Turn the seas
Down to the frozen womb

Sinking
in the currents of abyssal hymns
Pouring
as a thickness of dreams

The dark stream of cold water
Squeezed into echoes and shapes
Of circulating current beneath
All from the same river mouth

A crescentic boat is sailing
In the valleys of the deepest well
Carrying the rays of the Sun
The patterns of depth's slumbering arts

The Stone bell of doom
The Doom bell of stone
The coiling of the abyssal depth
The coiling of the abysmal depth

The coiling of the circles
From which the weird is woven
The dreamer's gate
Pulsing through

Following the shape of the black bird
Guided above the night fog
On the long path of the grave-fish
All the threads must be known

[Solo by V. Viskari]

Above coniferous castles
And the graves of the old
The vortex evolves further
As the ship of stone

An ellipse with a dragon-like face
Eyes see through the star ice cold

Coated by the equinoxial night
The wind salutes that sculpture
The carvings which tend the stars
Spiralling devotion

Highest octaves of the winged sun
Gather around the presence of the purple maid
As the shoreless night floods upon
Under of the turned seas
Coniferous shadows whistle no more

Serpentine motions, a presence so strong
Oh, the fine worlds behind revealed
Floating on the moulting fields
In the rhythm of a geometrical sway

Construction reflecting the structure of the universe
The womb and the grave
Navigated by the golden temple
In the sea the fire should be found

Ethereal vapours of strange light
Dissolving away time and space
Summoned by the crystal gate
Countless eyes from the unspeakable planes
Dissolving to the one...

The continents melting to liquid
Soaring up as mist
The limits of space immense
Are covered by stonen scales

In the light of stones in the ring of dimensions
Sounding the sea of endless space
By the secrets of the purple maid
Withdrawing within eternity