...And Time Begins
(Decrepit Birth - 2003)







1. Prelude To The Apocalypse
2. Condemned To Nothingness
3. Thought Beyond Infinity
4. The Infestation
5. Rebirth Of Consciousness
6. Shroud Of Impurity
7. Concepting The Era
8. Of Genocide
9. ...And Time Begins






1. Prelude To The Apocalypse

BEFORE TIME IT EXISTED A LIFELESS BARREN ROCK
ORBITING PERPETUALLY THE SPHERE OF LIGHT
INCUBATING LIFE UPON THE JEWEL OF OMNIPOTENCE

HARMONY (BALANCED WITH/WITH CHAOS)

INSTINCTUAL PROCESS
LEARNING CONTINUOUS
CALLING UPON EFFORT TO SURVIVE AS A WHOLE

LIFE BRINGS FORTH LIFE
THROUGH WILL AND DETERMINATION TRIAL, ERROR
THE TEACHING OF EXPERIENCE

GENERATING GROWTH

THE CATALYST STIMULATING EVOLUTION BLOOD
THE COLOR OF A NEW BEGINNING

AN ERA EMERGES

AND THROUGH THE FARTHEST REACHES OF THE EARTH
CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDED, ONE DIMENSIONAL
STANDING CONTRADICTING TO IT'S VERY NATURE

AND THROUGH TIME EVOLUTION BIRTHED A PARADOX

TWO TRUTHS CONTRADICT BUT BOTH EXIST
NATURE-REALITY AND EVOLUTION
IMAGINARY THOUGHTS SPAWNED FICTITIOUS LIE.






2. Condemned To Nothingness

FORMED A RACE OF CARBON TO CRUSH THE SOULS OF MAN.
A more perfect structure, one of greater thought.
Bestowed by the creator, betrayal of our lives
they bring fourth disease upon our mortal grounds,
the earth bleeds fire.
our service to him is not suitable, for his spirit to endure everlasting.

They have come to banish, into thought, our weakened souls.

TO RID him, of his mind, of our plague, nothingness
things once familiar are now nothing. we are now nothing.
life within a life, Physically...

Our nothingness, breeds their servitude.

to an aging god, fearing death, envious of mans free will.
In selfishness he condemns mans consciousness through his creation

god incarnate a vicarious union to reclaim his omnipotence
self imposed through his vanity. the eras of vengeance return.
restructure of the trinity,
thought in spirit, image of god, god the flesh

having no sense of their perdition man becomes the source.
Physical metamorphosis of man,
channeling energies of potential into light provides him life.

Understanding that they are bound ...eternal
never to achieve secrets of time, infinity. answers, unknown
THE SPIRITUAL REALM, IS CONDEMNED WITHIN THE MENTAL DOORS OF OF HIS
MIND. The heavens can live on through our torment.






3. Thought Beyond Infinity

The void of unexistance, Seeps the lies of humanity
The holy ground, our earth of the physical
as the cross erodes through the vortex of the nothing
I walk amongst the flesh - unknown
I reflect the aura - of the future, through my being.
As the cycle will be stopped and a mirror of humanity will be viewed

Epoch of spiritual consciousness
The circle consumes as life spiritual begins the quest for oneness
Without the sign of god

Destination, all knowledge - our uncreation
to respawn the birth of the next
I am the chosen - Incantate power of my will

Break the cycle of the earth condemned - begin I evolve

the soul of man, and the light of his son is I

(recreated/re-envisioned)

Recreated through the astral order
Of the universal comprehension

As we unite without the boundaries of the cross
and we are surrounded by the parallel cycles of life infinity

I AM YOUR KINGDOM OF GOD...






4. The Infestation

CYCLE UNENDING IN ENDLESS QUESTION
INFECTS (MANKIND/THE PURE) LIKE DISEASE

EVERLASTING LASTING SEASON OF DISTRESS AND ANGUISH
FEW THOUSANDS ENDURE DEEP IN THE CRACKS OF THE EARTH

UNABLE TO WITHSTAND
LIVING ABOVE GROUND
NO CHOICE BUT TO INFEST

BURROWED DEEP WITHIN
BREEDING A NEW RACE
KNOWING NOT (WHAT ONCE WAS/WAS IS ABOVE)

DELUSIVE DURATION
SUFFRAGE UNENDING, WAKES THE BEASTS WITHIN
LAKES OF FIRE OVERFLOW, UNLOCKING THE GATES OF SHEOL

AGELESS FORM NOW FREE
(UNLEASHING MINIONS)
FULFILLMENT PROPHECY
THE END TIME IS HERE

(IN THE EARTH THE PEOPLE SCREAM/HERE THE ANGELS SCREAM)
A SICKENING HARMONY
PASSING ON IN DEFEAT






5. Rebirth Of Consciousness

Drawn into the light of deception
The warmth of it's beauty flows through my being
Strangulation, a sensation alien in nature to me
Eyes open and here I am
A dream tells me of my (abduction/conception)

Remembering the ancient dream of a memory
CONFINED TO THE PHYSICAL, INSIDE A CONCIOUSLESS HOST
Euphoric hypnosis, vivid reality
The addiction, the substances necessary to the illusion - LIFE
I remember my (conception/abduction) and how I was taken,
with the countless number
Cease to be, free existence
I remember the weightless warmth and the light coming from outside the womb
The naked cold of your lie - BIRTH

I commend you on your deceit
A prison so perfectly concealed
suffer, and gain salvation
favor, in your eyes
earn, the privilege of (slavery/servitude)
Bleeding through the doors of rebirth
Brought back to life with a bullet to the head
I thank you for the key, death without fear
the only doorway to re-existence
Now you stand before me, and I before you, the uncreation you regret
I am the living doorway to re-existence
with a single breath you can be forever
I am the (messiah/savior/deliverer) of all






6. Shroud Of Impurity

THE SHROUD TRANSCENDS
CRIPPLING ALL IN IT'S PATH
CORRUPTING THE HEARTS OF MAN
SEGREGATION OF SOULS

THE AGELESS FORM EMERGES
THE ANCIENT POWERS, UNBOUND BY TIME
BESTOWING JUDGMENT - INFINITE REIGN

(TIME/FEW WILL LIVE)
(TIMES/TO CONGREGATE)
(HALF OF TIME/IN OPPOSITION)
THE PROPHECY BECOMES

DUALITY WITHIN, MIRRORING DIMENSIONS

A DIVISION OF TWO SEPARATE TRUTHS BOTH MUST BE, PURE, IMPURE
(HUMAN BEINGS, MUTILATED/SACRIFICING HUMAN BEINGS) FOR BELIEF
BALANCE OF POWERS, UNBALANCED. DESECRATION OF TIME

ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS DISSOLVE
BLACKENED ASH SHROUDS THE SKY

OVERSHADOWED BY THE NOW

DESECRATED CREATION
ALL THAT WAS HAS COME TO PASS
WRONGS THAT CAN NOT BE UNDONE
EARTH IS ALTERED






7. Concepting The Era

THE CRESCENT MOON BECKONS MY GAZE
CRADLING VENUS
BEHOLD THE EVENING STAR

I WITNESS AGAIN THE SIGN
THE SKY - ALIVE

SPEAKING TO ME STORIES OF THE ANCIENTS
THE SECRETS OF A BYGONE AGE

BESTOW THE PROPHECY
THE END BECOMING
REVEALING THE IMAGES
THE PLANETS ALIGNING
A CONCEPT OF A NEW TIME
THE RAPTURE - COMMENCE THE END BEGINNING

VISIONS RADIATING WITH WISDOM WRITTEN IN THE HEAVENLY BODIES
THE STORY UNFOLDS - TIME - THE SUN DESCENDS INTO THE FADING SKY

A FACE FORMING IN THE CLOUDS
TELLING ME AGAIN THE MESSAGE
UNDERSTAND MY TRUTH IS YOURS
COME BEFORE ME

PLEASE HEAR ME

THE FACE BEFORE ME
NOW BLEEDS WITH FIRE
AS THE LAST GLIMMERS OF SUNLIGHT
ARE SEEN FROM BEYOND

THE SEED IS OPENING
TIME IS CONCEIVED
THE MYSTERY IS REVEALED
A THOUSAND SIGHTS UNSEEN

TRANSFORMATION - ENVISION THE BEAUTY WITHIN
I AWAKEN - SEEING THOUGHTS BECOME FORM






8. Of Genocide

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9. ...And Time Begins

THE EYE IS OPENING
JUPITER HANGS - SUSPENDED LIKE A TEAR
SHED UPON THE FACE OF THE TIMES BEFORE US

VISIONS MANIFEST RIGHT BEFORE MY VERY EYES
I SEE THOUGHTS

MY INSPIRATIONS EMPOWER ONE ANOTHER
BRIDGING MATTER AND SPIRIT
THE ART OF TEMPERANCE - TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE
BEFORE THE SACRED KEYS - ARE GONE FROM US FOREVER

I SEE BEYOND THE BLACK AND SILVER SPHERE
ABOUT TO COMPLETE IT'S CYCLE

PIECES-THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS COME TOGETHER
I REFLECT UPON THE IMAGES, THE SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING
RETROGRADE - TIMES TO COME - TWILIGHT - THE PASSING OF TIME, BEGINS
SLOWLY FORMING ...STRUCTURE

FINDING WARMTH WITHIN IT'S DARKNESS
I STARE UPON THE MOON - WHICH HAS DILATED IN FULL
IT'S CYCLE AGAIN COMPLETE,
THE MESSAGE IS SHINNING THROUGH TRANSPARENT CLOUDS

IT'S EPRIVESENCE HIGHLIGHTS A HALO OF BLOOD,
A WARM WIND BLOWS
I PROPHESIZE - A WILL NOT MINE
A CURSE FROM WHICH MANKIND WILL NEVER RISE

I'VE COME TO UNDERSTAND -
THE VISIONS THAT ARE PLACED UPON ME

A PERCEPTION OF THOUGHT BEYOND THE INFINITE
THE VISION I SEE TORMENTS ME.

A TESTAMENT OF THE AGE, MAN WILL WITNESS CREATION CHANGE
CONTINUATION - THE FIRST MEASUREMENT OF TIME
BEGIN THE CYCLE NEW
EXPOSED- THE LIGHT OF OTHER DIMENSIONS
TIME IS RENEWED.

SUCCESSFUL DIVISION OF A SINGLE ATOM

...AND SO I SEE MANS' PROPHECIES WERE ALL LIES,
ARROGANTLY HE HAD LIED TO HIMSELF,
THE ANCIENT POWERS RECLAIM THE EARTH
ASCENDING, I LOOK DOWN UPON WHAT USE TO BE MY BODY
...AND I SEE JUPITER... AS IT BLEEDS FROM MY EYE







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