Madness of the Beast

[Verse] Turning burning widening wellspring Malevolent maelstrom rips heartstrings Still shadow smothers, envelops all things A crystalline clarity that night brings Beneath the surface a yearning for peace Ever elusive just beyond my reach Pulled back under by desire to leech Sating hunger in hopes it'll cease [Chorus] Here I stand fallen from the path My true nature come to me at last A last vestige burning up in wrath Gone forever, rushing to the past [Verse 2] Vitrified quicksand a stark frozen field Ossified heartwood a jagged dead weald Sanctified sepulcher silently sealed Amplified nexus divinely revealed Etched in the glass an eternal gyre Amid still wood sinking into mire Ranks of the fallen aligned in a pyre From the prime locus bow to your sire [Chorus] Here I stand fallen from the path My true nature come to me at last A last vestige burning up in wrath Gone forever, rushing to the past