Nocturnal - My Flesh Is But Rot

I saw my corpse in a dream
Floating in an air of despair
He whispered an omen
Of my own mortality

Exhale...
And drown in your disease
Bleed...
In a darkness so deep

I saw my corpse in a dream
Spewing black streams of death
With rotted tongue
He brings forth tears

Exhale...
And drown in your disease
Bleed...
In darkness so deep

Breathe in the last days of summer
Breathe in the first days of death
Breathe in the essence of my sorrow
Mourning the birth of all ends

Frozen steel
Bleak the will
Thy crimson pain
Runs through thy veins
Stillness divides
Pure evolved emptiness
This emptiness inside

My temple of darkness...
Decays
My temple of darkness...
Betrays

Nothing left of light
Nothing left of life
Thy crimson pain
seeps through thy veins
Stillness divides
Pure evolved emptiness
This emptiness inside

My temple of darkness...
Decays
My temple of darkness...
Betrays
This cold void inside

Be still my brother
As the emptiness inside consumes
Be still my brother
As the emptiness inside entombs
Be still my brother
As the darkness now descends

This temple of darkness
This temple of night
My temple is emptiness
My temple is draining all light
My temple is drained of all light

Suffering is that by which I measure all
I understand your existence
As the definition of absolute misery
I acknowledge it through your death

My nail
Your flesh... Is the word

Tears... Intertwined with desperation
Open wounds like epitomes of pain
Behold your yield
As you wallow in your own humanity

My nail
Your flesh... Is the word

Anxious
Isolated
Too many holes in the fabric
Too many layers of pain
Far from the light of salvation
Too many miles from sane

It lasts an hour
It lasts a day
It lasts a week
I've chased the silence so long
That I can't speak

Supreme decay
Those wounds that never heal
Those doors that open into spaces
Where the lifeless feel

Dress the mind in hurricanes
Let loose down endless lanes
Nothing's sincere, nothing's fake
When you're broken past the break

It lasts an hour
It lasts a day
It lasts a week
I've chased the silence so long
The silence speaks

Supreme decay
Those wounds that never heal
Black candles dripping pain
On minds that never heal

One,
I remember
A bleak dark november
I spent screaming

Screaming songs of the dead...
... Of death.

Endless
Dead trees
The smell of death
On the breeze... Screaming

As a ghost
I have haunted
These tombs of sorrow
Ghastly shades
Of bygone misery

As in a distant dream
My silent scream
As I realize I am dead...
... I am dead

You have no idea
What it's like
To feel so empty
To walk through this existence
And the only pervading thought
Is they can see through this empty shell
This empty hell
Behold the great emptiness of death

I have seen more pain
Than I can bare
More cruelty
More hatred
More destruction
Broken pieces of conciousness
Have thrown me into this black hole
I have taken all I can

I have seen my soul drowning
In the great emptiness of death
And I believe in the will of darkness
To bring forth great sorrow
And I believe in the will of death
To bring forth the end

Behold the great emptiness of death