Fen - II (Penance) lyrics

Time That humiliating arbitrary adjudicator Your cruelty builds in an endless cycle of decrepitude Skin slackens with each pa**ing seconds Flesh weakens and softens Bones stiffen in agony Dreams dissolve Hopes slough A blackened pulp of deepest despair A mind enfeebled and afraid Gazes back upon a path of waste and regret Gazes ahead only to t he cold and the empty All will fall All will fail All will fall All will fail And so with each heavy, broken-backed step I inch closer to my reckoning Sinews stiff, sloughing, sagging Resonating with slow decay like catgut strings Draped across a stave of rotting timber The cathedral looms... Tearing, oppressive, stentorian Cries once echoed in the chapels of cold stone Where cowled figures dripped with feverish piety And candles of reverence flickered in the torpid darkness of unanswered prayers Stoic monolith that bleeds black redemption Onyx shroud shed like skin Penance driven into the maw of the soil Stygian crust that chokes on the carca**es of the forgotten There is no room here Suffocation... Rejection... A hopeless soul slithers in vapid vestibules Echoes Silhouettes Fading notions of what once breathed false proclamations Granite shaped by the echoes of supplication Myriad visages gaze in judgement A solemn phalanx stands as one One singular totem of accusation Choral, somnolent striking the marrow Of a soul laced with corrosive regret Guilty - Pathetic - Cringing Crushed by stone Withering within the inquisition cloisters The last shreds of waning hope thus scatter I cannot see what lurks within these sepulchral shadows Emanating whispers of a thousand past condemnations One thousand past condemnations! Freezing hands reach - coiling, cloying My name is but dust And I flee again