Argus

216 Guitar Solo: Watson Circle of fire - the final test along this road To brave the flames there must be peace within the soul Our journey here - a proving ground where there's no rest To rise from fields of fire, to reconcile all regrets Guitar S...

Cold chill of morning as we two meet again I seek the answers you won't give Did you know when you were leaving you were walking out the door a final time? If you knew you'd not return to me why was it that you never said goodbye? My eyes are choking with te...

Black - and so enters night, the dawning of evil A darkness descending, the borders of hope are obscured Lost - we've run from the light, our iniquity knows no end As one drawn to fire out pathway to pain is assured There's a curse on the world - Forward to H...

As a Thousand Thieves I have crossed unto the shadows I have sinned against my own When life began to fold in on me I turned my back and disavowed my home Sinned against my own Leaving you a thousand pieces A wreckage of your hopes and dreams You...

Welcome to madness Here inside of your mind where the soul never rests A place where we relive the pain of regret You feel you can reach it If you just close your eyes you can touch all the scars But as you get closer you grow ever far One deep breath - cast...

Beyond (Part 1 - Eternity) Crossing dark horizons, taking leave of these turbulent shores By quietus bestowed the key to this life's final door Receive me now, in halls of starts Enfold my soul, in your waiting arms Follow now the heartsong, of the l...

Heedless to the stars sinister alignment Omens thus arrayed, willful eyes blinded Each and every step - one step further from sanity Boldly Stride the Doomed - toward the jaws of calamity They are the damned! Heedless to the pleas of those who passed befor...

By Endurance We Conquer 1914, in voyage from England 28 cast their fear to the gods Poised to conquer the frost covered base of the Earth At 6 moths ensnared in a solid sea prison Men and ship are beset on all sides Abandon all hope - what the ice get...

Cast Out All Raging Spirits Hell - hear the coming storm - your heart seething The walls quickly closing in - and you're paralyzed No return to simpler times - only forward No path forward through the past - nor through anger Cast out all raging spiri...

Devils of Your Time Striking with swiftness and fury An unbidden start in the dark An unrestrained evil piercing serenity's heart A fear that envelops you wholly Contracting, constricting your breath Its hands 'round your throat as you wonder if this...

I'm a phantom, my demeanor...facade Broken smile speaks the truth of my soul I am envy, I delight when you fall I am malice, wishing ill on the world Reflected Soul A mirror though my eyes Devils, Devils arise ! I am wicked with deceit in my heart An imposte...

At Rencesvals they gathered, the rear guard charged to protect the king Twenty-thousand feeling no dread of death A treachery revealed, ambushed by the Pagan army Four hundred thousand numbered the Saracen horde Honor-bound they stand forth, Sword held high R...

Crossing dark horizons Taking leave of these turbulent shores Through quietus bestowed the keys to this life's final door Receive me now In halls of stars Enfold my soul In your waiting arms Follow, now the heartsong The beloved who lie just ahead What death...

We till this soil of plaques Harrow discordant tongues of the depraved We invoke the Gods of spite Blessed be the wellspring of sorrows in our lives Silver light fades, the empress dies Stark remnants of our toils Gaunt apparitions adrift in bleak turmoil M...

Four Candles Burning This darkened world is collapsing on me I've fought to hold it at bay but my back is breaking Traversing paths I can no longer see Four candles burn in the dark And they're all that's guiding me I fear the choice that lie before...

Lonely road, this twisted path that leads out of despair Unending struggle to reconcile with grief and carry on The will seeks to submit, the heart to bleed all love away The soul to lose all faith Rise...Looking not to surrender Embrace the hell, self-redeem...

Hour of Longing You were the rock on which I learned Your wisened words would anchor me In losing you I lost part of my soul I felt deathly alone Sometimes in the stillness I can hear your voice Reaching out to me across the years In the grips of...

Infinite Lives, Infinite Doors "Freedom!" my spirit did cry Bound by these mortal shackles no longer Though in great I did approach these darkened portals of mystery I now cry "Freedom!" Infinite lives, infinite doors All that's to be has been before...

Johnny (Thin Lizzy cover) Somewhere on the waterfront Johnny's hiding with a gun Swears he'll kill any man that tells his story He's ain't sorry for what he's done He broke into a drugstore Just to cure his daily need Didn't mean to shoot the guard...

Call the pain again inside my wound Pour sea water and then I remember Your ocean of feelings Filled up with drops, up with drops Of my tears and blood. Tears and blood Divide my soul and sky Devotion and solitude Are moved into my broken heart. In dr...

No Peace Beyond the Line What measure a man's worth When honor steals away and break from his beliefs? Left clutching at nothing No handholds as he falls into the grasp of grief There is no peace, there is no peace, there is no peace To crawl as a b...

No Right to Grieve At eventide the sun set on our love Into stillness you passed to the peace of beyond Through my soul does rage I must hold it close Though inside I break, I won't break my vow The love that you gave belonged not to me I won't twice...

We rise, lift our heads up to the skies This day we anointed shall be saved Our lord soon arrives the prophet says We pray - on our knees proclaim our faith [Solo - Jason] In white, we ascend the highest hill Our lives, here on Earth we've left behind We wai...

On the Turning Away (Pink Floyd cover) On the turning away From the pale and downtrodden And the words they say Which we won't understand "Don't accept that what's happening Is just a case of others' suffering Or you'll find that you're joining in T...

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? You - beauty, grace, boundless life's energy And I - inward drawn, shrouded in misery You - she of joy, stricken by fate's cruel plans Victimized body and mind with rot and deathlike trance I...

Sleeping Dogs My blood's been thinned down too many times It's wise to leave things be, Don't stir up old grief Let Sleeping Dogs lie, tonight, or suffer The mountain tends to call me back within it's stately borders You've got a friend in oblivion,...

The Coward's Path Baptized in pity's robes I've failed to dam the rising tide of fear Unmoving and unmoved your words of hope have fallen on deaf ears I'll burn our bridge behind to ash Alone I seek the coward's path Repelled by outstretched arms, th...

Through divinity I dared to raise up Hell's minions to me For four years and twenty as servants we lay at your feet! The price for such power, my soul hath I granted in blood The stars move, the time runs, the clock strikes for Faustus we come! The wages of...

The Hands of Time Are Bleeding The hands of time are bleeding Drawing the hours from me This once vital heart no longer beats Darkness I do beseech you Obscure this world from me For these forlorn eyes wish not to see Blind My Eyes Blind My Heart...

Sleep now, oh my brother - let my voice now be thy guide As you transcend earthly ties Rise now, wake in slumber - what you see is not unreal It is valid, it is true For through dreams I have seen lives untold And through dreams I have seen my own soul In yo...

A life in solitude, this desolate keep my home Wandering corridors of damp and crumbling stone Outside the trees in grotesque twilight groves Blot out the sun whose light has never warmed my soul Through ancient brooks the world beyond me has been bared And l...

Trinity We reached into the obscure To change the course of the world Now I'm become death, destroyer of worlds At once the birth of a sun Beauty and horror as one A triumph for knowledge but yet what have we gained? A pathway to peace or the door...

Cold, the air - dark wolves of twilight lay siege at my door They cry for me How fleeting time from dawn's first embrace until dusk's final kiss How brief the light Have mercy, mercy, mercy on my soul In vain, I grasp at notions of youth, at memories past T...

You Are the Curse Guitar Solo: Watson Beset by waves of misfortune - in pity you lie Damning te world that surrounds for your plight Looking not to the evils you've unleashed in your time Now the cold winds of consequence bite As all you've loved an...