Dark Tranquillity

eliminate; be in contradiction with

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I struggle to find the words that negate my meaning

I fail to comprehend what message is given

intricate; marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

It is when truth is turned to lie, that death is most alive

Set flame to the ensnarers and pierce that ornate shield

Branded by what claims you, you wear the mark of death

division; being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

As it crashes and burns far from our grasp

The ages-old dichotomy

Between knowledge and belief

criticism; a mild rebuke or criticism

With opinions close to the chest

Hurtful, cold, beyond reproach

Resisting to be called

temporary; one who stays for only a short time

(Control, control, control, control)

Resistant, transient

Let me go, let me go

ordinary; found in the ordinary course of events

To days of endless grey

If I could merge the mundane and the magic

We'd forge a new unknown

disposition; your usual mood

Mad is the soul

We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament

This is the dawning of a new age

destroy; kill in large numbers

Famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder

Eradicate the lungs and take us higher now

separation; separation into component parts

Inside the particle blaze

A chamber of dissolution

Proclaiming the end of days

prior example; an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time

The torched remains

You set the precedent

Of innocence betrayed

shame; changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

Take it in, and spit it out again, that measly filth

Focal degradation bring the chaos into light

Cathode ray sunshine, burns

send; transfer to another

Carry our streams, lift up our less than elated lives

Transmit our selves, we breathe out

Where no one take in all the dark light, turn the night time into day

separate; arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been love or friendliness

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Alienate, block out all amid the breaking of the light

See it again, and again, single sight

warp; make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

For every hour in my head

The mind distorts

So what can the broken ever say

expand; increase in size, volume or significance

Force each and every thought

To amplify fear

To the tune of the apocalypse

stubborn; persist stubbornly

Break it to pieces

That obstinate mind

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distinguish; detect with the senses

Early on the fascination intense

How to discern just where right belongs

Something has got to give

threatening; threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

So nebulous (so nebulous)

Yet ominous (yet ominous)

Is the terminus (is the terminus)

trouble; a severe or trying experience

Drowned by tears of northerly blood

Runes of force, fulfillment of a somber ordeal I know

Pierce the side of the never-ending blindness

fleeing; lasting a very short time

Our guardians were blind

My lightbringer ephemeral

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active at night; belonging to or active during the night

Above us minds went sailing free

And blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea

Paragon of beauty

perfection; an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

And blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea

Paragon of beauty

Oh, spark of Creation

saved item; an antiquity that has survived from the distant past

In carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky.

The relics of myths that exploded and died!

Dismantle the sun and stars in their rise.

degeneration; the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

That spanned over cultures in rage

Crimson masses, steeped in decadence

Holding our tongues to the thirsty sun

come from; proceed or issue forth, as from a source

We need not the horns

That emanate from our dying, haunted bodes

Seven in number they are

hate; find repugnant

What we always fear and loathe

Becomes of us

waste; spend thoughtlessly; throw away

You wash your hands in blood

You squander time

We borrow from eternity

fascinate; attract; cause to be enamored

What if you were to measure the hollow,

That captivates and devours you?

Then you are loneliness,

difference; inequality or difference in some respect

You are identical to none

Why this disparity of thoughts

When you are identical to none

available; (often followed by `of’ or `to’) yielding readily to or capable of

Oblivious by design

Not susceptible to any mind

Entertain the thought that

improve; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

An enemy to define ourselves

An enemy to refine our hate

Encouraging on the negative scale

capable of exploding; liable to lead to sudden change or violence

As signals cross defiantly

Into this volatile mix we charge

And the stubborn mind repeats

fixed belief; a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

What if this feeling contains a truth,

What if our dreams give away to the dogma of old,

What lost desires can be found?

deserted; a person without a home, job, or property

With links merely death can break

Stains of pride, derelict

In feverish visions of agonising light

continuous; currently happening

Against all function

Ongoing choices, the trials will end

Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left

unimportant; lacking worth or importance

Keeps you with me 'til the end

Inconsequential I may be I know

Inside the silence

give up; do without or cease to hold or adhere to

Core of the incensed

Waive the right as truth be told

In empires now lost to time

harmful; contrary to your interests or welfare

Noncommittal

Adverse mode

Given is the taking

hold back; keep under control; keep in check

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A flesh to restrain you

No heart to forgive you

inactive; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

Of the blood to devote

We keep the dormant fragments,

Of self destructive code