Elysium
      Elysium

1. 	These Bleak Enshrined Emotions

[Lyrics-Stuart]
[Music - Stuart/Hamish]

These bleak feelings enshrined within
The clouds of the past
Emotions as dead
As the decaying autumn leaves
Now that I have lost you
To the sands of time,
Only pain is left
When a loved one dies.
What is the point of going on
When all I've lived for in life is gone,
Depression remains.

Manic depressive
Painful existence
Meaningless life
Devoid of feeling
What is left?
I'm dead inside

Let death take me
Forging on in spite of myself,
Living on through self torment,
In losing you I've destroyed myself,
I'm of the grave.
Through all the pain I've suffered since you died
Blaming myself for all that transpired,
My life null of positive emotion,
In depression I've no will to go on.


2. 	As Agony Fades

[Lyrics - Rob]
[Music - Stuart/Hamish]

Hide behind the asperity
of my stone cold face
As I stand here withering
within winter's embrace
the sun eclipsed
by the gloom that shrouds
What was once smiled upon
Now is frowned
weeping tears of blood
like the summer's rain
sorrow is my life
As agony fades


3. 	Griefstricken

[Lyrics - Stuart]
[Music - Hamish/Stuart/Roy/Rob]

Ice gales they chill my soul
As I walk the path of my own demise
I've smelt the erotic flowers of love
To have them wither from my touch... they wither
Oh what pain is life
is true happiness only a farce?
What is left and what can be
when tears flow for eternity
to the river of my heart
It has run dry
Famined from all love
this drought has had its way
Oh what pain is life
Is true happiness only a farce?
What is left and what can be
When tears flow for eternity
Always hating myself
Is solitude I cry
What I am should not be


4. 	The Infinite Trails of Sadness

[Lyrics - Rob]
[Music - Stuart]

Forever entombed within this twisted fate called sorrow
Crying tears of blood from pain deep inside
Tears fall to the ground like rain hitting dust
Life is gone, life is dead for life there's no lust

Seek death for comfort, seek death to forget
Only sour memories will be left
Seek death to escape, seek death to hurt
The cherished ones I leave mourning on the earth

Walking my own funeral path
Loved ones are paying their last respects
Upon my headstone is engraved
The sorrow of love cause of death
Within this wooden tomb lies my dying carcass
My soul forever doomed
To roam these infinite trails of sadness

Forever entombed within this twisted fate called sorrow
Crying tears of blood from pain deep inside
Tears fall to the ground like rain hitting dust
Life is gone, life is dead for life there's no lust


5. 	Opaque Dreams

instrumental


6. 	Within the Crystalline

[Lyrics and Music - Stuart]

millenniums old an ancient life form
Splendid in its eerie glow,
Those who look are compelled to stare
As the crystalline entity ensnares their mind
Drains them of will, destroys their mind
All life-force is stolen by the crystalline,
like being frozen in ice
Glacial flow of forgotten time
A mind left that is destroyed
As thoughts are trapped in the realm of the never.
The wells of life and drawn, desire is all but destroyed
Nothing but fear is left, a mindless substance, an empty husk
within the Crystalline time has no meaning
The turmoil of thousands of souls still trapped within this entity
Feeding off their thoughts
Building strength off their darkest dreams
An alien nightmare taken form of flesh
Will no one be spared this destiny?
Forever trapped within
This meaningless void,
used as nightmarish fuel,
Never to be set free... no release.