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Utter grief - Sorrow freezes within

Coldness gathers in the icy cave

of the barren mind

Emptiness - lack of feeling

Limbs go numb and my thoughts

have no ambition

Revel in disgust

To stop thinking I must

Reside inside my shell

And escape from all around me

Cross into another state

of consciousness

Life for me will fade away

to nothingness

Wallowing in Misery

I deal with my pain

Fate has dealt a swift blow

and all I feel is rain

My inner being shall rise above

this storm of gloom......

(solo)

You can turn your miseries into strengths

Power shall be attained

Exaltation of the self

Focus must be maintained

(solo)

In my eyes the clouding sea of serenity

spills forth it's hideous embodiment.

In the final moment of a Darkening Deluge

I am swept undercurrent and cast into

a temporary state of Numbness.

Covered by a blanket of exterior bitterness..

....I enter the Stygian Hue.....

Convocation of Acrimony

Emerge to reach the zenith

The bleak density of Nonentity

Writhes in all of us

LYRICS: Mike B. June 1993 -

MUSIC: Mike B. Sept/Dec.1993/Feb.1994