Evoken Promo 2002 1. Omniscient instrumental 2. Coveting Elysium Through the imperishable night Mist falls upon your shapeless form Down into a swirling white shroud Draping all in ethereal latency An enchanted voice Cuts through the mystery Singing to the soulless ones Searching... (in vain?) Opalescent world - Hidden beauty Take my spirit away To the land of silent dreaming My limbs ache, so I must crawl Towards this melancholia Sorrowful yet divine It soothes my weary body For I am lost and the path has been obscured. The light - the sound Of infinite joy I long to feel them once again Come forth through the darkness and eddying haze... Take my spirit away. 3. Reverie in Tears Thoughts migrate nowhere, sullen birds of prey Swallowed by jet black dreams of death in foul slumber A world beyond affliction; When the calling lulls us into our infinite beds And the droning pulse of nihilism mocks us From across lightless fissures of consciousness. Writhing...Burning Alive only to host the Stygian torment Pitied we are When deep sleep falls upon mankind. Hopeless we fall Into the fathomless depths of this virulent dream. And from the haunted arms of Morpheus, We arise to a different despair. [note: now called "Pavor Nocturnus" on the Antithesis of Light album] 4. The Last of Vitality I watched... From mountains of spirit, Where gods claim the universe. I watched... As life lingered in sordid desperation. My hidden, true form Became a mask of solitude A prodigal reflection Of human depreciation Utter isolation approaching nirvana. Beckoning me to my womb... Back to the earth The end arrives peacefully - with silent finality So swift, across cons Not even legend remained. Streams of pain descend Like purifying waters In this hideous bliss - I taste the last of vitality 5. Antithesis of Light Eternity has no bottom It is the breath of a dying sun Exhaling its icy last gasp Above the pillars of the dark corruption. Hanging low in the vast nothingness, Symbol of destiny - mirror of the ages Eternity is an illusion Burning quickly away into molecular shadow There is no measure of it; it's depth in endless It is in the eyes of all who see. Elusive, the antithesis of light devours life And eventually, eternity shall endure When all else has fallen to myth; And no dream is left to believe. Eternity is dust - a churning sea of pale dementia Burying, reaping beneath the ashen shroud of heaven. Desolate father of all time Awaits the final breath...and stands a lonely vigil To greet you in the inevitable darkness once again.