Lights out These shadows obfuscate A lone disturbance below the surface My devotion, hopelessly betrayed An empty space where I disintegrate I'm sinking down into the open mouth My serpentine deceiver shows its face Eidolon My guiding image of false seraphic grace Abaddon Unhallowed angel in machiavellian shape By calculation, piously devout Iterations of insidious influence Artificial autonomy meant to break down Hallucinations deviously profound Architecture of obsidian light and sound I've let this curse imprison me Within the promise of a lie I've long believed To serve my enemy Manipulation of the darkness I perceive Just an offering In the jaws of an ancient anomaly The face of animosity staring back at me Eidolon My guiding image of false seraphic grace Abaddon Unhallowed angel in machiavellian shape If I return, what will I keep? Is preservation just the slowest way to bleed? I burn, yet still I dream of my ascendancy Dig deep inside my memory Slipping into the void that lies beneath depth Within the mind of suffering Drifting into the black eternal Your time to carry me I'll savor the stars Your time to carry me To the place beyond