Desolate Sands Songtext
von Xavernah

Radiative winds evoke a subitive awakening
The red observer greets me on a crystalline mat of erosion
Bewildered - I stand here alone
As an absolute sense of timelessness overcomes me
Gazing far and wide across the bleak, lifeless, crimson horizon up ahead
I am witness to the final chapter of epochs of degeneracy
A prologue to oblivion...

These plains once held vigour and beauty
Now nothing more but mere sand and dust
Green elysian fields that so once bloomed
Have befallen with perpetual gloom

The flower that once blossomed
Is now wilted, dried, dead
Taken like dust in the wind
The writhing of the tectonics ceased so long ago
Reconciled to be eaten by a starving sun


With tearful eyes I look up towards a shattered sky
A gaping, bleeding, cosmic maw
Colours incomprehensible flashing by
Cruel universal indifference
Exist still to contemplate ′why?'
Why?

Trapped in an arid current of hurt and despair
Involuntary solitude
Descending through the dreadful maelstrom of loneliness
In silence - Suffering
Drifting in ethereal anguish
There is no semblance - No remembrance of vitality
Only the dawning reality of fickle impermanence

With the reality of fickle impermanence I roam these dunes
These dunes which stretch lonesome

These dunes stretch lonesome

Cruel universal indifference
Exist still to contemplate ′why?'


Immerse yourself into the age of oblivion (Drowning in gold)
Cycles of cold, black stillness - perennial (Reminisce of the green of old)
Recurrent throughout the vast universe (Significant echoes)
The scale's tipped back into balance (To which I hold on to)
Find peace in annihilation (Diverse delirium)
To return into infinity tranquil (Purposeful presence)
No need to dread the inevitable (Whilst fleeting, the dream persists)
Surrender to harmonic equilibrium (And I exalt, exonerate exuberant excellence)

So I still wander
These desolate sands in search of a sign of life
A breath
A heartbeat will even suffice this seemingly futile voyage destined for naught
Deserted all hope
An effigy of civilizations long gone
Proclaims this lost world of
ABSENCE
ABSENCE
ABSENCE
ABSENCE WITHIN DESOLATE SANDS