Madder Mortem

Chamber of the mourner Ashes of a morning mass Six feet of earth to lay On wooden home forever Chamber of the griever Hope of dawn cut away Bowing to defeat This time the path cut short Chamber of the sorrower Mausoleums closed in silence Wow given to ful...

A Different Kind Of Hell There are many names for the place I'm in It's a different kind of hell There is room enough but too many stairs No one asks and no one tells With each door you pass, another set of traps revealed Pin-on smirks that smell like...

All I Know All I know is the light of lanterns hanging from the trees and the sound of the heart that beats to keep me here And then the darkness falls (It always does for the likes of us) Stripped of voice and thought and cold on the ground I fall betw...

I'm handing in my guns now I will stop slipping away like sand between your fingers For better or for worse, I yield to you I will lay my armour down, claim the hunger and the words that were always on my mind Any triumph breeds defeat Any blessing holds a...

This is where forever opens This is where all flesh is grass This the mask and this the virgin This is where it falls apart Holy mother, triple goddess Dream and death through blood evoke Through your womb we bleed and burn and now: Rise again Breaker of w...

Storyteller, bring your stories to my pyre You, the tame man, be what I have learned to loathe Tell me the secrets buried underneath a thousand years of dirt Tell me the fever chills your blood You were the last I'll be the first Fall as you are and for good...

What are the words of the queen on her throne? Spite and splendour, cold under stone This is her promise What is the name of the gift that she brings? Sleepless slumber under her wings This is her promise Cold, cold stone Cold stone that buys and baits y...

When your hands speak, my body converted to ears When you grasp for air, all my words undone This is it When your longing grows, I shall encircle you Where the nights are old Where the morning will not come Hot breath on naked skin Unconscious, mouth to m...

All I ever wanted was a little discipline A master’s touch to give me some serenity within Now I know there’s no one there to save me from myself All I ever needed was a minute of safe rest A stronghold to give shelter from the pressure and the test Now I know...

I open my eyes today To leave the world of dreams behind We all know the nothing A hole in our hearts we try to forget Or drown in jest and jokes So I open my eyes today To let myself be torn apart In the rigid chill of my vow All my dreams will die My blo...

This is where the bodies fell Feel the pressure on the surface Too long buried arrogance rising up to reign Palpable and crystal pure Sovereign and without master Perfected and far too sure It is on its way Save us Stay your hand We are born too far from mor...

All will wither, go to sleep The ones you love you may not keep All you touch will fall apart The dreams you kill will break your heart There's no mercy, there's no rest The void will scream within your chest No one knows and no one will So leave this...

[spoken] so I am invited but still I hesitate though a thousand tracks preceding mine lead inwards not one single print emerges 

Speak it solify, I will hear you Through your words are insincere All your talk amounts to nothing And that nothing's not for me Through a thousand smooth Your voice still rings in my ears If you'd remember who you were I could take hell out of your care I c...

Blood to bind and love to damn me Formed in clay, the fire has made me faceless Torn to shreds, but I’m still standing Never sleeping, never blinded Sweetness taken from me in the moment I misspent All good ripped out from me and the silence never ends Blo...

Time bent out of shape A swirl in the waters of Lethe Time stretched impossibly thin Webs beneath the laughter - Silence for the master - Time striking poses at life A prancing and prideful accountant Time dragging cold feet behind Webs beneath the laughter...

So now the bringer of unease has reappeared He has dared to show his face within our walls His visage hidden in the mouldy earth and his fingers in the waters I had calmed His intrusion is a presence in the air and the fire is a nuisance to our hearts and he's...

I know that death hides in my eyes And screams from my song I've left the bright lights Left for the river without bridges Slow and silent In its waters I can dream of peace I know of no hope Down and into the flood will be my way And to my hangman I...

He who longed for the stars They would soothe him In this painful world, no one is spared He who longed for the stars Their icy silence Frozen eyes, just frozen, ice in his words Come down Where’s the reason? Who’s to blame? Well, my darling love, you left...

Head on pillow Hand and mouth like dust that softly, softly falls Spirit and flesh, wait and see In time it all amounts to bone 

Hypnos Sleep, take me now and never let me wake Still in your hands, in your kingdom I'll be yours to break Sleep, I am tired I have blundered on to a path where I don't belong Still in your hand, I'll be safe from where I could go wrong Promise me a...

Words vomited into a face Cold leavings, there’s only bleak and lifeless duty Moan into my ear, though I know You would break me but I will watch you choke I’ll tear myself into pieces and grow out stronger and colder I turn the tables on you There’s no plac...

I do recall that face I've done my best to wash you away But still your fingerprints on my skin And still your scent all over me There's no more time to waste Now all these fine days are smothered and grey And I have never felt this low before And never will...

You know that something's coming and even fools would see the signs So let's set fire to heaven and smother hell between our thighs And we will live and we will breathe (As it will always be) All the world right at our feet It is our right, it is our place (A...

No one to trust or depend on no more Nothing is left of what I found before Tears of blood as I bury your name Easier to deal with anger and shame Cut the pleasure to the core Am I scared or are you bored Silently drifting, or on your shore Why is it and who...

M For Malice Hold the curse close to your chest Now let the game begin Whisper a silence of disease That will never end Just give a changer all control And the pallid king your hand Lay your head gently down on hate That will never bend M for malic...

See these bleeding hands that you left to dry Your garden is stolen, your flowers died Bow to your own deeds, bow down in shame May the woods have mercy on your soul Let the water flow again Vapour rises in my eyes Shedding my tears on the water And watching...

My Name Is Silence Spelling my name in analogies Pulling your eyelids down Over my silence, over your blind eyes Building myself an anomaly Building with breaking hands Shutting the noise out Driving the nails in I have no name My name is silence I...

Here I am in Necropolis Run my fingers down my spine ‘Neath my feet a thousand ruins Coming here in my own time Here I am and here I’m staying Queen of all that crawls and dies Queen of crippled, blistered bodies It’s all done and it’s all mine Lay down al...

Oh, little figures that toil under weather and sun Your backbreaking labor is earning you nothing but hopes undone Here nothing is sacred; what pride there is left will not hold The price of your failure is shown in the trinkets that weigh you down I’m swimm...

Useless words and scattered earth Wring that neck for what it's worth Curse the flood and hate the sun I will see the damage done Plague holds this land, flooded with milky tears Life dripping from their eyes Burning their hearts to sleep Pure salvation on...

When the time and the place is not my own I’m okay just as long as you are around It’s just like Eden’s door is ajar and desolation’s peeking out Coiled like a snake lies the shadow of a doubt that gnaws at the roots of my heart and dismembers my peace When...

I am so sorry. I’ve made amends I’ve kept my peace and bent my neck I know the pattern, I know the sound and I have twisted it around The chance to speak passed me by Remaining frozen in dead time Honesty stripped of its meaning I would not hurt you again You...

This ordeal has made you fret, but you know it's not that bad We thought ourselves beyond its reach Well, it seems we've both been had See, it flows so easily A ruthless piece of art And it grows and speaks of mysteries to be and flips itself to show the deu...

Send him from this land, he's bleeding A display of pain worn as a crown Are you strong? Are you worthy? Are you pure? Are you clean and wholesome? In his face the plea of mercy Like a child corroding to a man While the blood still flows he is enchante...

Silence has already spoken They have all failed to hold their chairs Shame left its print on their faces Muted and perfectly there And so am I Rust, cleansing in harm Echoes of laughter and beauty Cleverly disguised and still and cold In every eye silver...

Fate, I see your stare Underneath your pale eyes All is here, holding it's breath to have life Smooth, sleek smiles howl at my door To hold me down or more me on? The pace makes it unclear They smell of lust Of sweetly silky rotting dust Once they'll measu...

This is all yours if you want it My sick landscape, dry and fevered My survival and the hunger Growing older in a heartbeat You took us by surprise Stepped in where no one goes In forcing open doors you sacrifice us both This is all yours if you want it Th...

You make my blood boil You make me real You show me what my life could be You make my eyes burst with stinging joy You chain me down and I am free The time for laugh has gone by Now you should bow your head and cry Your smiling sins not forgiven I dive dow...

A daring step The waiting crowd A hungry child must learn to bow Yes, this is all the bitter truth The gritty sand beneath your feet The taste of failure on your mouth This is a game of hurt Yes, this is all the bitter truth Yes, this is cold reality Thi...

Where do you go? I don't know Cold carbon air Breathing out filth Breathing in burning blue Nothing breaks me now Go! Let my hands go Go! (Today The hour on time The breathless second Another perfect view) (Today A contradiction that talks one way A blin...

Time floats so slow here We won just to lose Here all walk solemnly No light shines through Here the waves break for you Deep blue the spell on us Old, sick and drained All creation turned its face away to leave us blind and torn and failed Here t...

This morning reeks of disaster A storm waits to unfold Lover, come feed me your silences Words could be too sharp and cold Don't leave me out I search for signs beneath each stone you're turning I don't know how to keep myself un-bound Oh, lover, you smile m...

Nothing can turn me now Come the terror, come the turmoil Close over breath and bones On the tide will flow Rivers of vibrant life Come the fever to the dead soil Stream with my dormant dreams On the tide will flow Cold is the waiting stone Come the change,...

.....and when the ocean washed me up onto you shore, was I then saved? Oh, loveable liar You whispered tales to me at night, but how come you never gave them voice? Staring into enticing darkness, you chose to close your eyes I could never have predicted thi...

Like a rolling tide Like a gentle slide nears the point where you and I converge I won't have you say that my wilful ways is a vast new land just now emerging You know what I am I'm the fire you thought you’d lost I'm that breathless touch of frost The one s...

Heaven knows I’ve not been good to you Heaven knows I’ve not been true to you Wasn’t nice to cut you up Wasn’t nice to make you bleed So much time and so much love So much time and so much love I’m on to your tricks I’m on to you Darling So much time and...

Oh, it’s really alluring These mortal sins of the flesh I never toy with amusement And I have no time for repent Down over my head Silence, nothing unpleasant has been said Define me and touch me and kiss me Pretend I am your puppet on a string Pretend I a...

On the eleventh day, he reached out his hand and made the sign of parting, spoke the words of taking leave and of never going back To breathe the air of dreams To walk upon a path of bodies To know what carnal means To live the law of hate and cold flesh W...

I see myself through read, dead eyes I make myself this prison For Babylon the time has come This time I'm sure you'll listen This is the day (A given word) This is the hour (was broken twice) Nothing's forgiven and nothing will even the score I hold my se...

Turn, turn Let the rosegrove burn Turn, turn Watch the flies and learn Turn, turn Grinding it down Turn, turn Make it go on Sleep tight, wait long Hold on, stay strong There is a beast within And there's no peace without I speak the lie as true And it has...

The mist has covered my eyes And whispers of sleep in my ear The past has been swept off my hands But I still remember your name So lull me to sleep in your arms Bestow your sweet kisses upon me ‘Cause this love is all that I have And I’ll never long for mor...

Something’s changing I feel I see Tearing me to dust Stillborn laughter My master is here How do I know? Undertow tells me so Down I go Hard-eyed mirrors I look I see Longing to be air Long time missing, but waiting around How do I know? Undertow tells me...

There's a man far from here who made sure to stay well clear of taking hold or letting go, always choosing not to know. But then his bridges burned Sometimes still he stops and turns, listening to open skies for broken words and severed ties. And I bel...