THE AFTERGLOW OF WHAT MAY LIE AHEAD

TAINTED WITH SO DEEP A RED

WITH SPARKS OF BLACK SHINING DIM

IN WHIRLING WINDS, SO TENDER, SO GRIM

SOULS ENTANGLED IN THE BRANCHES OF A DEAD TREE

SHATTERED DREAMS OF ONCE BEING FREE

SHINY WINGS ACROSS THE SILVERY MOON

DESCENDING UNTO THE TORTURED EARTH SOON

TAKE ME UP, I'M NOT WILLING TO STAY

AND CARRY, CARRY ME FAR AWAY

WHEN LEATHERY WINGS WITH GRACE CARESS

I'LL SOON BE REBORN IN DARKNESS...

SO WHERE ARE YOU HEADING TO NOW, BLACKEST OF ALL

WHOSE MADNESS CAN'T BE CALMED

BY ANY SECRET UNKNOWN REVEALED?

YOUR PRIDE A GLORIOUS HALO RADIATING LIKE THE DYING SUN

OVER THE NEVER ENDING DESERTS.

YOUR STRENGTH OF AIR, WATER, EARTH,

AND THE ALL CONSUMING FIRE.

AND YOUR DESPERATE BEAUTY IN THE EYES OF THE WILD...

THE FALLACY OF REVELATION,

OF CREATING A "BEAST"

SO DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE KNOW OF YOU

ENSTRANGED VISIONS WILL NEVER

ENTER OUR HEARTS DEDICATED TO YOU

SHATTERED LIES WHO DOES NOT KNOW

SHATTERED BY HIS OWN CREATION,

ILLUSION COME TRUE

THE NIGHT IS OURS, THE NIGHT,

THE PALE MOON, AND THE STAR DESERT

PATHS THROUGH ICY MOUNTAINS

AND OVER BROKEN BRIDGES

GUIDED BY THE RADIATING LIGHT

NO ONE THERE TO FOLLOW WHO

DOES NOT FEEL

WHAT DRIVES US ON AND ON

BUT WILL BE LOST IN ETERNITY

THESE PATHS CAN ONLY

BE PASSED BY US

ALONE

THE NIGHT IS OURS, THE NIGHT,

THE PALE MOON, AND THE STAR DESERT

AS WE'VE BEEN CROUCHING

IN DARKEST PLACES FOR MILLENIUMS,

NOT TO BE SEEN BY THE MORTAL EYE...

AS WE'VE BEEN WITNESSING STARS DYING

AND SNOW COVERING ANY TRACES ONE MIGHT HAVE LEFT...

AS WE'VE REMAINED IN THE SHADOW'S EMBRACE BY NIGHT

WE'VE BEHELD A WORLD IN WHICH WE NEVER BELONGED

WE'VE KEPT OUR MYSTERIES IN OBSCURITY

OUR WORLDS OF THOUGHT AND EMOTION

OUR WISDOM AND MAGIC,

THE TRULY TRAGIC EXISTENCE IN THESE REALMS...

...WE ALWAYS KNEW THAT THIS

WOULD END

WE AWAIT OUR REBIRTH IN DARKNESS.

ETERNAL DARKNESS...



[MUSIC: IXITHRA, LORD OF THE SYLVAN SHADOWS]

[LYRICS: VETHARANYN, EMPRESS OF THE WITHERED STARS]

[& IXITHRA, LORD OF THE SYLVAN SHADOWS]