While Heaven Wept: Of Empires Forlorn (2003)
progressive doom metal
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Tom Phillips -- guitars, keyboards, vocals
Scott Loose -- guitars
Jim Hunter -- bass, vocals
Jason Gray -- drums
lyrics:
tearstained are the halls
of my empty soul
melancholia's haunting call
is the only one I have known
innocence has led me
into this void
while years eroded a youth
I never enjoyed
through childhood I slept
unsheltered from the scorn
now I've awakened with age
to love ever lorn
forever and ever
I'll search for the solace
which can only be found
in an embrace
in throes of desolation
I prayed unto divinity
I endured the emptiness and frigid pain
but God had forsaken me
I prayed to find a solace
for my heart bereaved
only to be forgotten
by the god I once believed
now I serve this punishment
under the ice condemned
for my loss of faith
to Hell I was damned
downfallen in iniquity
desolate I'll be
my somber stare traverses
sepulchres lonely
eternally, my limbs sealed in place
livid, and dead I bow my face
the only shelter from the cold
of the ninth circle of Hell
to see what awaits in forever
a lifeless gaze, my final endeavor
I looked through the blackened skies
and beheld the radiance of paradise
my eyes have frozen in false sanctity
eternally bound, eternally bound
my tears have turned to ice