Long ago, beneath the gods of Olympus Beneath the mortal realm Where the chain of balance comes to an end There was the underworld and, at its heart The god Hades and his unwilling bride, Persephone There, amongst darkness and death, his power was limitless But Persephone sought this power for herself By pledging eternal loyalty to Zeus, king of the gods She was granted the blade of Olympus, which she used To impale the dark heart of Hades and steal his monstrous power However, as the goddess of the underworld She remained incomplete, alone.. And so she began to search for a mortal she could transform into a god One who would conform to her every command One who wished for death...

I found myself in these dreams of disaster Will I fade away? And leave my torment behind me That’s the easy way Out of this misery that I brought on myself It’s such a shame that i have to destroy you Eos sleeps, missing a century of my indifference To other dreams of enemies in my interior Only living with the suffering of what's in front of me I never wanted to be left with nothing in my bitterness From the clay, indicated as the mortal who would discover The wonderment of human emotion Who forcibly starts to hunt for the one I'd die for Sever the head of the Hydra, kill the 'rymanthian Boar Cleverly tether a lion, how do you ask any more? Couldn't see it but your word was a fallacy And the role that you played was a masterpiece Stole from the grave of the corpse you put out to sea I found a siren underneath these sheets, deceitful beast I found a siren underneath these sheets I found a siren a deceitful beast I found your secret that you burried deep in your heart You will never be a part of me Not anymore Praise the gods! A gift to me A Cerberean heart to set me free What should I think When you took the vision from me? When this illness steadily fills me, stealing energy and memory 'Til I'm a vacant shell Can't you tell the way I'm built? A monolith A work of gods, but still a victim Against the odds, I've given into My enemy's disadavantage, I'll never understand it The feeling I'm gettin when doin damage Transfigured into a man that's abandoned I fancy the solitude, never the stagnance I Can never open up again, even if I wanted Suppressing the former self, trying to be honest Except when I face myself, a deadly Adonis Falls under the spell of mirages Will I return to this place if I fall away? (Return to this place if I fall...) If I fall away from flesh and pride Just before I turn away her light... Iniquity resides within the folds of skin and fear I fought A Cerberean Heart, a gift from the gods to guard If I fall...

We bear ourselves unto the fates Engulfing our mindstates Waiting for proclamations of our destitute situation I couldn't have known, your eyes were so cold Goddess coming out of the darkness But of all men, you involve me, with your motive Send me across oceans, I'm steady coastin upon your skin And now here you are Up against the flesh, for millenia Secrets I confess, when I'm in and of You, become a nest, get the feelin of Leaving all regrets, And I'm building a Shrine for only you Burn the sage and do rituals that require worship Vulvar pirene, I play in circles Your nectar will make me servile Enslaved, to your ways and body Your name, is the brand on my eyelids I can't, get away from your mind tricks For days, I was laying in silence I would never leave your side, I'm giving my everything I'm fallin to my knees to cry, I wanna be more than a body I'm feelin you and I'm not even trying, but I can't stop me, erdicated all the power inside me But I don't wanna be strong.. I came upon a false Aphrodite, the pain inside me falls into the darkest fog, What are feelings for? I will lay with you and lay down my own mind It seems the weakness in me thrives From the depths of your lies When you long for the taste do you use me? I tell myself your lips won't help Your power over me, I know What I want you to be Is out of reach Awaken to fantasy A story olden She adorns me, the golden fleece Gift from Colchis I cannot, move Can I face, you? Who's dreaming while awake? Needing your skin and your embrace Fiending for this, you know I wait For you to admit, the way you play See the image, it all remains Addictive, your skin is so... What you're doing to me Is something I could believe is suddenly turning vicious In a sense, I was giving in Really just wanna pretend that I don't even know your intentions Those eyes again Those thighs again My mind begins, to release endorphins, and a forceful lust givin me horses But I'm remorseful for the weakness that I display Could've rejected you the day I found out that you never wanted me I just wanted you to see It seems the weakness in me thrives From the depths of your lies When you long for the taste do you use me? I tell myself your lips won't help Your power over me, I know What I want you to be Is out of reach You never meant what you said While lying in my bed, you lied The message between Silk thigh, flower drips with the end in mind Succulent, the coming, then, the going Like the river Styx, your waves wash over me Euhporia of drowning in your flower's scent Glorification of body, and soul With nowhere to go, and no where to hide I just run to you, I put down my pride We are not the same, you are in disguise These are all my mistakes Seeking for words to say It seems the weakness in me thrives "Come, come to me..." "Fall between mountains and embrace the sea..." My goddess, I am here

I'm lookin' for peace inside of you I get so weak inside of you My demons seem to hide the truth Beneath your skin and perfume I'm lookin for peace inside of you On my knees, I cry for you My demons seem to hide the truth Seduce the Medusa in you Wrapped inside of this shell Mapping all of my failures Only person could've helped me was me And I failed you Monster, deadly, havin no conscious Infatuation been squandered, killer villain with a flawless win against a novice Every time I look to you You see right through me, and time pauses Hard to think it through, when my nemesis is in my closet Your ignorance by far is the catalyst to split my noggin Far from living by sky stars, through fog and mist I find I'm heartless Entering the depths of your caves, I wept for 10 days, I slept with the snakes Hard to envision the enemy with fangs when I keep on revisiting curves in my face Oedipus, blind to the things which define my purpose Gave my all to you, was certain You'd complete the first and last of verses Scriptures in my story, but so distorted, I gave annointings to leeches I never should've appointed, Ignoring you, I created torment If I could take it all back I would, I'd treat you different for sure I should've never looked at you, venom seeping through There's no cure I'm lookin for peace inside of you I get so weak inside of you My demons seem to hide the truth Beneath your skin and perfume I'm lookin for peace inside of you On my knees, I cry for you My demons seem to hide the truth Seduce the Medusa in you So, many times, I looked into your eyes and turned you to stone So, many lies, each time amplified, they continued to grow I, am defined, by the infection I spread, there's no contest Between the two of us, wean the fruit of lust, from your breast, I lie in depths, uterus A great beast inside me, definition of a mythological premonition Physical demolition of the feelings I hid within me Comforting spirits never gave serenity since the beginning Now you feel that you should leave, see that the gorgon lives in me Keep all the torment underneath, now awakened, it's all because of me My mistakes, seduced the medusa inside you, bringing life to the darker side, Behind your eyes lies a monster rivalling my assumptions Character that you never wanted Spending years on a quest, not knowing The sum of us is the god of monsters None of us can suppress the gorgon I'm lookin for peace inside of you I get so weak inside of you My demons seem to hide the truth Beneath your skin and perfume I'm lookin for peace inside of you On my knees, I cry for you My demons seem to hide the truth Seduce the Medusa in you From man to gorgon, vision distorted My lust for blood is ever-rewarded From skin to stone, the mistake I atone My lust for you is forever torture (Do you see the gorgon in my eyes) (Before you sleep, before you say goodnight) Goodnight

Raw map of the mind Human instinct is bold and mindless I fall backwards in time Memories serve as cold reminders Of the beautiful face that I confided in My emotions divide and fight against what I had for you Confused, if I lay here with you then does that mean I lose? Cause you're just a memory , feelin' feelings, affinity Kindred spirits, you meant to me More than what you could ever be But what you did to me, killin' images of bliss and serenity, serving all of my enemies Then surfaced every sin in me Said that was my fault, or my wrong, but in my thoughts, I couldn't let you walk off I couldn't let you walk off No you don't No, you don't wanna become what I became A memory lost within her mindframe I bet she callin' my name My name Look what you created, A being with many faces, put me in a cage Vacate phase 8, alien genetic mutation I face, many demons on a daily basis, no wonder why I hate you Do I hate my life more, afraid to fight for The ones who might war for me, cause you never would Feelin' kinda lucky to be rid of you for good Monsters, everywhere inside of me, feral, my instincts, I'm the hunted Hard to run from someone that you trust in The hull of this ship is rough and rusted Done enough sin The blood will rush in, forgetting the feelin' of bein' conscious Hennessy spillin' over the bottle, any minute finna hit the throttle... Rw map of the mind Human instinct is bold and mindless I fall backwards in time Memories serve as cold reminders Of the thoughts that I process The cold depths of your breast You're a venomous creature, a negative reserve The motivation for one's death No, you don't No, you don't wanna become what I became A demon that burns within her mindframe I bet she callin my name when she lonely, when you're lonely No, you don't No, you don't wanna become what I became She ready to turn to another page But I'm still waiting for change, but I'm still waiting for pain (I signed over my soul, you left me all alone) (I'm dying from the cold in these catacombs) No, you don't No, you don't wanna become what I became She ready to turn to another page But I'm still waiting for change, but I'm still waiting for pain

No one could see The malice between you and me I was in a dream A place where you haunted me And the fates came to cut us from the thread But I didn't choose to run and hide... Four nights of this.. I supply my foresight with vicodin There's really nothin left to fight against The feeling hits, the feelings hit You were the reason that I existed A major spillage in a painted picture My face the description of what it all means I used to lie awake and make dreams Contemplate, but not face things Facing the thing you fear most is sometimes suicide The fruit that I bring Is rooted by me I steadily drink Vivid nectar of Aphrodite, thighs caress me Comfort I never knew, being with you, but you were still the message Lessons learned in my lifetime, you never really have lifelines The ones you hold close, will stay on the ropes, even when your light dies So I'm climbing, high tides and, risking life to see destiny Ended up wreckin my soul, Pent up aggression unfolds, too many blessings on hold, but there was no key Frobidden fruit, that you were lowkey tryna feed my soul, I was so weak Stained words from your lips, and I cherished them cause that's so me No one could see The malice between you and me And if I could replace time Girl, I would not Cause I learned many things from what you did to me I trusted in your lies, error of mine And now the fates tell me I won't survive Stygian Eye Can't get around this concept, I been feelin too many cynical thoughts, left With the inescapable, gape a hole up in my chest Fake a whole fuckin relationship in the process Now, you submit me to the fates, in a dream or a nightmare I can't escape Kneel before the great ones, the Fates come The Stygian witches, open a fissure and take blood I mistake blood, for gold, their faces are sunken and old They say as time grows I'll feel even worse and it shows, I never wanted to know But the eye tells all My fate is spoken to me in riddles I Could've bypassed everything, straight to the source But the fates confined my inner man Fated to die from the pain I stow away The Eye betrays and finds innocence Nowhere left to hide, I close my eyes Acceptance pours over me, as I die The illusion of time, It was always your choice It was always your choice And if I... I trusted in your lies... Error of mine... Stygian Eye...

A dark veil Over your eyes, signifies the first time I saw Hell Now black sails arise, failed to recognize parts of you behind tall tales A cold night through these marked trees A rite of passage, my heart ceased Obols placed in my eyes, before I arrive to die at the dark sea Aeacus at the gate, sitting and ready to judge Sealing eternity's fate, hatred is lesser than love, Sacred initiatives run, I feel for the sun But see the images of women and children in blood Oh god, please save my soul Oh gods, I crave control No lie, I've been flayed into a mold, of past experience Witnessin empathy take its toll You were there in the black dress, singing As my soul took to the air, creating a vast demon A Behemoth, that transformed from a sad being Givin' up all of my energy, appease the queen who murdered me I'm fillin' the cup with borrowed souls and dreams I see Persephone, and I become Hades Even when I sleep, I can't breathe in, or release it, 'cause you made me You've stolen nectar from the skies (From the skies) The human inside, the mind of an empty mortal Transformed into a god With regret I become the knight (Become the knight) For the surfacing darkness inside of you Solidify your right as the Hades bride Your decision to call maliciousness an act of giving Was the penance sentenced I gave you realness, gave you forgiveness But you're smoke and mirrors you don't see the difference Your vision was to make me believe that everything I needed resided in you I couldn't be more wrong, Been hating it so long, I steadily freefall Taste the fruit of an eternal darkness in a mind confined Truly gifted, yet I'm truly blind Contemplating the roots of suicide, I lose the fight, the truth is I proved you right I'm foolish, I.. Could lose it, my... Composure's conclusive to suit the bride The truth of illusions is through the eye The noose is tight, but Zeus isn't choosin' sides Fruit of the vine, the nectar of the gods Given to only the individuals proven to go against the odds Moving through time, I try to escape you But your face stays a gate placed with great tools Disfiguring the goddess, make sure that sentiment is rotting And feelings steady fading Became the god of the underworld for a girl Why the hell did I let her change me? You've stolen nectar from the skies (From the skies) The human inside, the mind of an empty mortal Transformed into a god With regret I become the knight (Become the knight) For the surfacing darkness inside of you Solidify your right as the Hades bride [ERIK VERSE] (The Hades Bride amplifies the night) (And you can see all the souls in her eyes)

This, my absence from you The last time I will fall into your lies Your eyes tonight, they confide in me all the lies you keep But can you see that I want you more than anything? This, my life in your hands Tightly you grasp it I cannot see past the wall you set up All this time... Imagine waking up to imperfection A memory of love, a demon's reflection, as you drink The Ambrosia of sacred breast A second closer to facing death Who are we alone? Not defined by the experience we've come to know Everyone wants to drink The Ambrosia of sacred breast The one you hope for is emptiness The Ambrosia of sacred breast A second closer to facing death I'm willing to set aside all of the beauty my mind holds for you

And so, having freed his mind of the curse placed upon him The Hades sentry ripped Persephone's heart from her breast Imbuing him with all the power of the underworld No longer a shadow of man, but a new god He took upon himself the name Penthos For he had defeated his own grief And, thus, he began the climb Through the darkened caves of Tartarus Up the chain of balance and forward To the Cerberean gate The rise to earth As he grasped the sun's rays and drank of the Acheron And kissed the dirt and mud beneath him He had but one provoking thought... To wage war upon the gods And forge a sea of Anemone atop Olympus...