Fen - Our Names Written in Embers (Part 2: Beacons of Sorrow) lyrics

To march again and again Under the sanguine banners that draped the skies Clouds rain sodden ash and her eyes stream with tears All that lies before us Carrion seas and vulpine cries Carrion seas and vulpine cries Aeons crushed Time-lapse devastation Epochs fold The breath of civilisations forged in ash Our names were written in embers Are carved into the bedrock of the fallen Sand blown carca**es weave a weathered tapestry On which we paint the lexicon of extinction Litanies of loss Chanted at bruised skies Scarred by the violence Of ideals embroiled Dogma – credo Unstitch reason Cauterized – the feverish mantras That brushed the lips of the spectral prophets Crimson ichor stains the maw of the apostle Desolation flows in torrents Beacons of war Beacons of sorrow Illuminate the d**h-throes That welcome the ‘morrow Dead this wasteland where once stalked phalanx of dreams