The Rancorous Paradigm - Descend

Enter the era of vain

Serenity lost, the vicious will reign

Embracement of your spiteful egos, the last one of your kind

Accolades to conceit, obfuscation of the mind

Crowning the glorious creation

Evolved into a beast of devastation

Will is lost to a greater desire, the powers within reach

Draining hope of the absent-minded as altruism depletes

Lead: Lindström

Follow now the will of affinity jaded

Rotten to the core, the tolrance faded

Bred from th spawn of a species forlorn

Shards of mankind shattered and torn

Rejected and cast down from the source of our beliefs

The elder writings and the creatures of deceit

Despise all meaning of their pitiful ways

Forgotten and silent in their unmarked graves

Sacrilegious human debris

An offering to the gods of greed

Lying in wait for the ancients to rise

Breathing death and everlasting demise

As you wither away into the blackened shrines

The ones at power a nocturnal divine

A celebration to our greatest deed

Let the feeble rot

Now kill to feed

Fires burn at the heart of your delusion

Failed to see the staring eyes of guilt

Your wicked mind has now reached the conclusion

As the searing void runs you through

Final dying words of a cosmos set aflame

Long forgotten keys to avoid the ardent pain

Bringing forth the full reach of your poison need

Forfeit attempt to halt Armageddon

Once risen as the breed in triumph

A paradigm of rancor, self-inflicted failure

No new beginning

No meaning will be seen

The fall of all marks closure to the cycle

Lead: Wijkman