While Heaven Wept - In Aeternum lyrics

Tearstained are the halls of my empty soul Melancholia's haunting call is the only one I have known Innocence has lead me into this void While years eroded a youth I never enjoyed Through childhood I slept unsheltered from the scorn Now I've awakened with age to love ever lorn Forever and ever I'll search for the solace Which can only be found in an embrace In throes of desolation I prayed unto divinity I endured the emptiness and frigid pain but even god had forsaken me I prayed to find a solace for my heart bereaved Only to be forgotten by the god I once believed Now I serve this punishment under the ice condemned For my loss of faith to hell I was damned Downfallen in iniquity, desolate I'll be My somber stare traverses sepulchers lonely Eternally, my limbs sealed in place Livid, and dead I bow my face The only shelter from the cold Of the ninth circle of hell To see what awaits in forever A lifeless gaze, my final endeavor I looked through the blackened skies And beheld the radiance of paradise My eyes have frozen in false sanctity Eternally bound, my tears have turned to ice [Lyrics by: Tom Phillips] [Copyright 1994, 2003 Vast Music Lachrymose]