Toward The Empyrean Lyrics & Chords By Adora Vivos

As silence falls the cadence fades Words so vile escape on wings born of tongues Infecting the mind of the shattered soul Evoking the frailty of ignorance Setting ablaze the serenity unspoken word Had long entombed in silent litany A facade of calm amidst the agony Spiraling back to the start of this depravity To rest in the solace, the arms of despair Amidst the idle agreement of false peace Or face the flames of adversity To accept the wisdom of scathing tongues For am I failure, the collapsing icon of loss For am I one with the bleak aethyr of nothingness Facile to yield to despair, the arms of tragedy Yet to what end shall I resign to agony And with every step I take Forsaking the path of a life forlorn Ascending the torment of the mind Forging onward toward the Empyrean Shadows of a past life Drenched in black aethyr Frozen in this coldness The strength to conquer my despair Flames of hatred rising Awakens the struggle to survive The will to recreate life The lure of nihilism endures In this moment, the failure of life and desire must be cast aside Exhausted, the final escape, this shell must depart in the flames of resurrection To the iron grip of solitude, I succumb, suffocate and thus transcend And wrest vitality from the cold hand of the dying soul Resolve to defy the chaos within The frail ideologies of this world For the mind is one's own, I am subject to none Save for those inflicted upon myself For every memory consumed in flame For every moment of life's past, inhumed in dusk These ashen remains, I cast unto the wind Resolve to embrace the fear and rise again And with every step I take Forsaking the path of a life forlorn Ascending the torment of the mind Forging onward toward the Empyrean Imposing walls within the mind, dull and glazed were these lightless, apathetic eyes Weathered by the shame of this unending storm, I lit the flames of hate just to feel alive again For shall I bend to another's will, embrace the fate given me? Or hold their lives in a steadfast grasp, rise from these ashes and erase all despair Lost was I upon this path of negativity An awakening of the soul, from death to life again A promise of a new beginning, and to transcend Through dark and light I walked these roads and found serenity And a peace that no one truly knows Acceptance and negation of this mortal coil