1. Inception, The Bleeding Skies
[Instrumental]

"When the sky opened it's mouth, revealing an infinite abyss, it spewed spyres of flame to the surface, giving birth to the realization of heaven's true intentions to wipe the earth clean, to bleed down the absolute, devouenig inferno"

2. Pillars of Serpents

"I'm alive! I'm alive!"
Final words of a god left drowning
Burned alive! Burned alive!
Scorch the angels out from the skies

Building up the walls to surround us in
From a world built on sin
Building up the strength for the release
From a world corrupted

To be unseen with the eyes
For it's the ground that we lie on
Open wide, open mind
Nail your mouths shut it's this world

Building up the walls to surround us in
From a world built on sin
Building up the strength for the release
From a world corrupted

Wasting lives away
Consume to filling
Only waking
For the feeding

Give me spark to light the world
Up in flames reignite
A changing to better times
End this now

Pillars! Serpents! Make it over!

Give me spark to light the world
Up in flames reignite
A changing to better times
End this now

So no more are these dreams of angels
Washed away with the tears
So no more are these dreams of angels
Washed away with the tears

Solo [3:44-4:10]: Matt Heafy

Pillars! Serpents! Make it over!

3. If I Could Collapse the Masses

In time you'll realize
That life is but a mold

To be one with the seas
Is to fly on broken wings

Craft it to how you see fit
Recognize powers you hold

To be one with the seas
Is to fly on broken wings

I swear by the blood I have shed

In this battle I still stand opposing
Burning away conformities shackles
To rely on the hand that still feeds you
Suffocates all that you could have been

To achieve the victory
Is to set yourselves free

To be one with the seas
Is to fly on broken wings

I swear by the blood I have shed

In this battle I still stand opposing
Burning away conformities shackles
To rely on the hand that still feeds you
Suffocates all that you could have been

Burning! Burning! Faster! Faster!
Are your revolutionists
If I could collapse the masses
We'd be free to grow our wings

Solo [3:23-3:38]: Matt Heafy

In time you'll realize
That life is but a mold

To be one with the seas
Is to fly on broken wings

I swear by the blood I have shed

In this battle I still stand opposing
Burning away conformities shackles
To rely on the hand that still feeds you
Suffocates all that you could have...
In this battle I still stand opposing
Burning away conformities shackles
To rely on the hand that still feeds you
Suffocates all that you could have to set yourself free

4. Fugue (A Revelation)

As I stand at the edge of existence
Nameless shores of infinity

Perpetual unbirth unraveling distance
Clandestine truths unveiled

Inborn imperfections preprogrammed shells
Spawning from the maelstrom

Mechanical drones feeding from thy mother
God machine reproduce

Untruth is this my fate
Coerced my life laid to waste
Untruth is this my fate, coerced my life laid to waste
All hail execution

As this dream comes to its grim end
Blind pray to God to make them men
As all hopes crumble truths unveiled
The world we know's an abysmal hell

Disturbed state of consciousness
Incessant black madness

Perpetual unbirth unraveling distance
Clandestine truths unveiled

Untruth is this my fate
Coerced my life laid to waste
Untruth is this my fate, coerced my life laid to waste
All hail execution

As this dream comes to its grim end
Blind pray to God to make them men
As all hopes crumble truths unveiled
The world we know's an abysmal hell

Solo [2:54-3:24]: Matt Heafy

Untruth is this my fate
Coerced my life laid to waste
Untruth is this my fate, coerced my life laid to waste
All hail execution

As this dream comes to its grim end
Blind pray to God to make them men
As all hopes crumble truths unveiled
The world we know's an abysmal...
As this dream comes to its grim end
Blind pray to God to make them men
As all hopes crumble truths unveiled
The world we know's an abysmal hell

5. Requiem

How can you just stand there and stare
The world burns alight the air
Fire of passion ignite
Open yourselves to fight

To reinforce the will
Deafening call to kill

The structure of archetype, abhorrence

To collapse all I've learned
To absorb with open eyes to see this

Revelation, new serenity
Destruction, disharmony

To see this I'll wait for you
To rise from this dream
I will be waiting for you
To rise from this

Gazing at twilights end
Arms raised chant extol

The structure of archetype, abhorrence

To collapse all I've learned
To absorb with open eyes to see this

Revelation, new serenity
Destruction, disharmony

To see this I'll wait for you
To rise from this dream
I will be waiting for you
To rise from this dream

Solo [2:53-3:24]: Matt Heafy

If our world ended today would you suffer
Or just sit there awaiting damnation

How can you just stand there and stare
The world burns alight the air
The structure of archetype, abhorrence

To collapse all I've learned
To absorb with open eyes to see this

Revelation, new serenity
Destruction, disharmony

To see this I'll wait for you
To rise from this dream
I will be waiting for you
To rise from this dream

6. Ember to Inferno

In birth just an ember a spark of creation
Towards genesis
With vision of dominion and godliness

With vision godliness
It will take all you have held

In evolutions design it will burn up
All obstacles
Changing opposition to a carnal ash

With vision godliness
It will take all you have held
Sacred! Sacred with vision godliness

Stay here till the windows stop burning for your dreams
Till the windows stop burning for your

From ember to inferno...
From ember to inferno...

In birth just an ember a spark of creation
Towards genesis
With vision of dominion and godliness

With vision godliness
It will take all you have held
Sacred! Sacred with vision godliness

Stay here till the windows stop burning for your dreams
Till the windows stop burning for your

From ember to inferno...
From ember to inferno... Sacred!

Solo [2:46-3:04]: Matt Heafy

In evolutions design it will burn up
All obstacles
Changing opposition to a carnal ash

With vision godliness
It will take all you have held
Sacred! Sacred with vision godliness

Stay here till the windows stop burning for your dreams
Till the windows stop burning for your

Solo [3:46-4:11]: Jason Suecof

From ember to inferno...
From ember to inferno...

7. Ashes
[Instrumental]

"Of fire born was the existence at creation, but the phoenix surrendered it's wings for rain and wind to ravage. Now all that remains are scattered ashes"

8. To Burn the Eye

A mind lost within its own self
Existing to feed its hunger
Your body hollowed empty shell
Awaiting feed of the ages

Darkness will cover the mind
Casting a shade on reasoning
Immolation of the human self
Conflagration of the ego

Burn in your own hell
Life grand holding cell

Two become as one
One become a slave

Burn the eye to blind
Keeping truth from mind
Breathe in the life
Breathe in the lie

No longer are you human
Just a leech of the addiction
Loathing 'till insanity
Mental deterioration

Burn in your own hell
Life grand holding cell

To destroy the faith
In humanity

Burn the eye to blind
Keeping truth from mind
Breathe in the life
Breathe in the lie

Life shell-shocks your empty shell
Hatred for those privileged unlike you
You think you will win, but you can't face
The system of self destruction

Life skins mind bleeding dry
Hatred for the self and the life

Solo [5:05-5:26]: Matt Heafy

To destroy the faith
In humanity

Burn the eye to blind
Keeping truth from mind
Breathe in the life
Breathe in the lie
Burn the eye to blind
Keeping truth from mind

Solo [6:10-7:01]: Jason Suecof

9. Falling To Grey

Solo [0:00-0:32]: Matt Heafy

In this day aspirations star decayed
It was the light of our desires
A fire burns in the mind
Torching once fundamental truths

Downfall! Downfall!

Self loathing it's your state of mind
Drowning in dejection
Homicidal of your talents
It's mental suicide

Downfall! Downfall!
Downfall! Downfall!

One by one they all drown
Down the path I can't hear
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain I'm falling to grey
To feel this pain with you

Buried dreams will withered dried
Sorrow is your guide
You haven't the will to carry on
You'll feel better when you're gone

Downfall! Downfall!
Downfall! Downfall!

One by one they all drown
Down the path I can't hear
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain I'm falling to grey
To feel this pain with you

Solo [3:59-4:24]: Matt Heafy

If I may realign the scriptures
For fallacy's decay
Reclamation of the spirit
First step in taking back your life

Downfall! Downfall!
Downfall! Downfall!

One by one they all drown
Down the path I can't hear
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain with you
To feel this pain I'm falling to grey
To feel this pain with you

10. My Hatred

So you think you've won
Come take a walk inside
This enraged pissed off mind
It's calling for you

Feel, feel my hatred!
It bleeds down on your faith

Lusted for so long
For the moment
Lying broken in a corner
Here it comes

Feel, feel my hatred!
It bleeds down on your faith
Feel, feel your ending!
It's so grim and cold here

How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you
How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you

Ancient and immortalized
Will be my hate forever
For your kind
Human kind

Feel, feel my hatred!
It bleeds down on your faith
Feel, feel your ending!
It's so grim and cold here

How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you
How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you

Solo [3:06-3:36]: Matt Heafy

How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you
How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you
How can this be for real?
I thought I already killed you

11. When All Light Dies

In this chasm lying broken
Is a child charred inside
No more is there any hope
Shattered bones bloodied scars

Deliver me towards the soil
Close up the sun grant me rest in worms coil

It's so beautiful
World outside of this cell
With a somber gaze
I take in what will never be

Prayed to be free
Broken on my knees
God won't appear
When all light dies

It's my only wish to die
Free myself from your reign of terror
So many times swear I died
Why won't the blood loss kill me

Deliver me towards the soil
Close up the sun grant me rest in worms coil

It's so beautiful
World outside of this cell
With a somber gaze
I take in what will never be

Prayed to be free
Broken on my knees
God won't appear
When all light dies

Make me swear if I see your face again
I'd make you pay for the years of abuse... Fuck you!

Tie you up make you bleed tear you apart - limb from limb
So many years I've held this in, I want to take your life

Solo [4:34-5:01]: Alex V.

Make me swear if I see your face again
Tie you up make you bleed just like me

12. A View Of Burning Empires
[Instrumental]

"And it was the last thing they saw. Everyone seemed to freeze at once and watch for it was the most beautiful and frightening thing anyone has ever seen. The blaze climbed the horizons, eclipsing the sun. The cerulean skies exploded into blinding white. The earth convulses and seizures. All goes black"