Variation II.ii - Genèse Lyrics

Formed by the chaos of shackled greed
Beyond all reason in spite of its venerable spring
Courage be cursed, my honour forfeit
Hell haven I made: purgatory settled unto my name.

I recognize this pretence
I flee company
Believed nothing could ever be left
To bequeath unto other...

I've faced the known world enough
To behold the chasteness of its thoughts
Becoming hardened, corrupting by your touch
A venereal disease you've made of my word...

Yet I feel... My innards set ablaze...
Confined to a coward's cold embrace.
Cascading wild storms of rebellion
Within the walls of my sanctum
Beckoning in hopeless abandon
Legions of voices to cry out: treason.
In vain I've stayed my tongue in self-deception
Silence: sole idol borne deadened my motions;
Atrophy: the slow decay from grace
Consuming its path to your heart
You wither from within

Weakness is found in the
Cradled life you've sown your credence
Eviscerate the light within
Consecrate your word to worlds beyond...
Dedicate your life to truth beyond
Reborn

No more... Muteness carries its own disease
Fear ends here — release
I must give rite to this sacrifice
I owe myself life and the air we breathe
Terror arises from the threat of perversion I foresee —
Frail, sick minds will never seize [see].


A prodigal return
Rended from the tyranny of other
Let the fables of old begot, guide and shield
Ingenuous spirits down from on high
To foster the cynosures of being
To descry the I that is I shrouded [thriving] in other

Follow the light, the archetypes concealed
Wrestle stifled shadows; strife is the germ of all freedom
Stark symbols are sundered shards
Shepherds aloft, above as stars
Vagrant and fluent.

Can we be held in blame
To have fallen ensnared by the phantoms of our Halcyon days [daze]?
We conceived ourselves as kings...
Hark [Hwæt] He whispers:
I am here even now
I am here, eden now
I whisper back:
I am here in this body
I am here, this I vow
I am here, naked [present] to your imminent might.

Squandering noble genes estranged [in vain]
We all must come to face the wyrm [wyrd]
To foster the cynosures of being
In defiance of ingrown, inbred selfspeech

Bygone echoes, purge thy solipsism [despotism]
Lapse in time from lethe through anamnesis
Reaving the credence of peace by ways of dispassion
The ironic disposition of this fated [sacred] kenosis
I feel my end [name] renascent
Can we be to blame
To have fallen enamoured by the veil?

De sang et de suie, puisse le verbe émerger [hériter] de cette genèse

Weakness [meekness] is found in the
Sheltered life you've sown your credence
Eviscerate the light within
Inseminate your words to worlds beyond...

I Am