From clay and dust we were formed By water and salt sustained But we shall ascend to speak with the stars None save us know the nature of the universe the secrets of the stars The procession of eternity All that we observe in the heavens Calculated, codified But tainted by our mortal minds The flesh that forms our thoughts Is vulgar, profane Unworthy of the firmament We must seek to change ourselves Rid our flesh of salt and earth To be reborn in quintessence Reborn in quintessence Abandon life Free your soul Temples built From salt and bone Lay the foundations of our rise To the firmament Flesh and bone profane but suitable for this purpose Sculpt a tower of suffering and skulls To climb ever higher and reach the stars And reach the stars Abandon life Free your soul Our spirits rise From ash and stone From clay and dust we were formed By water and salt sustained But we shall ascend to speak with the stars

Cold Deep Bleak Infinite Salt Black Void Hungering Falling forever/ Please forgive To blackest depths / Let me live Endless / Black abyss The salt water roils Bound before the mouth of the abyss The final fall to come Dying of thirst Drowning in salt water Tides will rise and wash away our works Our sacrifices wasted Waves break and salt the earth O! Salacia, Oceanus, We weep and we bleed your essence But we have drained your compassion And offer nothing you desire That which preserved becomes poison That which endured enacts vengeance Abyss consumes earth Salt water rises Falling forever / Please forgive To black abyss / Let me live Tides rising / Why linger in false hope? Waves crash Wasting

A serpent encircles Coiled around the world Scales the black of void The red of dreaming days Imprisoned at the dawn of time Punished for an unknown crime Venom forced to flow Dissolving its own flesh Ouroboros, Suga'ar, Jormungandr, Hesaya Its true name unimportant, the mystery is this: Was it put there to ensnare, to swallow sun, to bring despair, Or to be boundary from what lies behind in wait? Infinite, coiling, writhing, boiling, Lusting, scheming, feeding, needing, Dissolve, digest, regrow, suggest, To us that we should seek to escape our home Venom flowing, starlight glowing, Poison is in everything, we should not seek a cure, Daylight swallowed, night to follow The moon will shed its shadow as a serpent sheds its skin The cold light shines, but does not warm The serpent writhes, devoid of form Protector or jailer Rebirth or swift death Why are we afraid to share in the cycle we've been left? That which hides behind the stars Wants nothing but our silence No rebirth waits in the void, We are not quintessence The cold light shines, but does not warm The serpent writhes, devoid of form Our entropic demise (Our wasting lives) Shall not be marked by ceremony (Need no praise) Starfires consuming the skies (Heaven's lights don't burn for us) Or fading out one by one The salt of our bones shall return (The salt of our bones) To (is) the earth While the serpent writhes (Forever more) And the moon sheds its shadow

O! There's no rebirth Not for the salt of the earth Not for the salt of the earth Imprisoned, yes, and awaiting the grave Enslaved by she who rigged the game We return To her arms The cracker of bones The Skeletrix! Skeletrix: You will return to me one day The flesh you wear is just a mask When your charade of life is over I will have your bones again Our flesh inert Return to earth A grisly homecoming Her grin never fades Back to her hearth we return There to be unmade Unwoven mind and bone Skeletrix! Thus we imagine Romanticise our end A return to a lover, the arms of a friend But there is nothing beyond or below No spurned goddess, no peace to bestow O Skeletrix, I wish you could exist

Here, on earth Quintessence Not above But within The preserver Purifier Don't look upward To air or fire Soldiers fortune Sinner's penance Taste of sorrow Quintessence So much waste of dreams and judgement Searching for the fifth The matter of the firmament The universe's gift It calls to us We are not whole From our sweat and tears and blood The answer's in the action The final piece of alchemy The product of reaction It has always been The sacred that's within Demarker of demons Pillars of penance Healer of wounds Crystalline weapons The preserver Purifier Don't look upward To air or fire Soldiers fortune Sinner's penance Taste of sorrow Quintessence