LILITU LYRICS

1. Introduction / The Seventh Aeon

Everything is tied to this day
Until we take the time to look away
As we ask ourselves just "how do we feel?"
...And determine if those dreams were real

Raise your fist and cry to earth
The only shelter that we've known
As once more we reminisce from birth the only seeds we've sown

To close my eyes and then I'll see...
To close my eyes and then I'll see
what thee beholds and then I'm king
Kingdom of ashes and tears that fall...
Tears that fall endlessly

Taste my blade and feel my pain...
A gift you gave that I can't take away
I can't throw away my hate for you
So, I save it for another day...
One which leaves me cold and in shame
I can't throw away my hate for you.

To gather my sorrows with paper and pen
To comfort my soul and die once again
I sleep within the deep of night
And bleed my sorrow with such delight
I can't take away my hate for you...

2. Firmament

Forgotten, forbidden, forsaken the skies
My god of ancients, I crumble and die,
My castles in ruin, buried beneath me
...exalts with desire into destiny

...and I look up to the sky
and pray to a god that doesn't know my pain.
Times since passed for you and I...
Molden flame to flame

My nights of dreams, my blood so faint...
Leading from shrines, so empty and vain
My heart so weakened by all this shame
Behold enduring skies, molden flame to flame

...and I look up to the sky
and pray to a god that doesn't know mym pain.
Times since passes for you and I...
Imprisoned by all this shame...

Imprisoned by my heart and soul...

A prayer to the sky...
I trust that you will hold me
In your firm embrace
Please... let it be her...
The one who bared my childbirth
(...And between us and boundless eternity,
we will be united once again.)
Would you walk with me in this place called heaven?

(When the earth in her hunger cries for food.
To raise his soul high above the firmament
That he may foretaste our tomorrow
And to keep his body groveling in the mire
That he may not forget his yesterday.)

["Firmament" is dedicated in loving memory of Carrolyn Elizabeth Franks Bonner, Betty Ann Willis, and Elizabeth "Bette" B. Jones.]

3. To Burn Before The Sun

To live, to watch the nights of the living
The winds await and question our presence
But we, the sleepless and all-knowing
...Shall rise again, like rivers flow to oceans

To be, to rise, to burn before the sun
Awaken before thee, ever remembering of our life
Longing for dust to mist, beholding the sky
As I a fragment of her ashes turn much stronger

Nor fate for life, no meaning can explain
Between horizons, my hope will die
Yet we are held by our own deliberation
Shall set forth unto an ever ceasing life

The sun persists to burn, but no longer shines for me
I now exhaust myself and become
A memory

(...And vanish like a wasted sun with embers of emptiness that shroud my very soul)

4. Dead Yesterday

Mother of my chained divinity
Woe upon earth's vain fertility
What sun arose to give me birth?
Had I not a choice?

For you have burdened me with life
Thus I have burdened man
What sun arose to give me birth?
Had I not a choice?

Yesterday, dead yesterday
I have paid suc ha toll just to walk in the shadows...
And with your death, you conceived me deathless
Shall you return with tomorrow
...and wake with life's second dawn and that I may erase your clinging memory from this earth

Through my yesterdays in exile consumed
I died at childbirth to visit her womb.
With slumbering eyes, had they been mine
From a weary heart... I'm banished from time

5. Rise And Fall

I'll wake with bitter life...
As earth has burdened me
So I have burdened man
But less cruel have I been

These days that leave me yearning for you...
Times since passed for you and I
...And in my dream, embracing eternal sleep

Holding you... I reached my death
I offer you my final breath
A kiss to say goodbye
Would that I may rise

What flower hath fallen from heaven?
What flame has risen from hell?
...as we shall rise and fall again

(...and the breath of your burning heart
I redeem and dwells within my soul)

How would I know?
It is the fragrance of brooding life...
That I would breath now and
Forever more

I shall not vanish into nothing
I would not live could I but die
For the weight of the aeons are upon me
And the sea exhausts my sleep
(...and I vanish like a wasted sun)

6. The Earth We Shall Inherit

At dusk... all is silent and still
Our withered hearts remain the strongest of them all
For they do not know to accept such obedience
Conquering the weak, leaving civilization behind

Rise beneath the sands
...and summon thee in man
...and then you will know our vengeance is real

In a time beyond consciousness...
Rivers ran about their feet
...and their heads rose in majesty
and spoke like distant thunder

Turn the seeds into oceans
To feed the life into others...
Then you will know our vengeance is real!

(To plant the anguish in the heart of man. To drink the blood of the feeble race.)

Their heads rose in majesty above the world
...and swallowed the hills...
They spoke like distant thunder
...and with the winds...
Odors of dead things
The truth of the feeble ones...
The master titans of life

(The scent of burning flesh, sweet and bountiful.
I would breath it
Now and forever...
Thrones, built upon the ashes of generations)

Parched with thirst are the ancients...
My quest to make the cupbeaerer (DEATH!)
Then you will know our vengeance is real
(man is good for the gods!)

7. The Earth Gods

[Instrumental]

Oh, the affliction of knowing.
The starless veil of praying and questioning.
Which we have laid upon the world,
And the challenge to human forbearance
Earth gods, my brothers...







LILITU LYRICS