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Preface

Janus

Janus hides his face from man

And lives inside the lie

Janus is the face of man

Who only lives to die

Once guardians of hidden gates

And doors that stand between

The world and reality

The seven gates of dreams

Janus hid his face from man

When Abel ceased to be

Of goodness in his soul that died

And left but Cain to see

Now Cain is just the shadow

The dark side is all that’s left

A cruel and hated killer

Where Janus hides himself

The Last days Of Cain

To the men of Lachish

Know then thy brother lies dead on the field

Thy time is short!

I used to like searching for riddles

Aesop his fables jumping right out of the page

An innocent game to play

Time and time again caught by those riddles

Ways of escaping

Tearing my face from the page

An innocent fear at play

Sometimes those shadows get down in between

The words are constantly warning

The fable’s no riddle

It’s somehow quite real

Like shadows I hear them calling

Red like sticklebacks spines at the ready

License to injure

Pulling me into the page

No innocent game to play

House spiders that change to black widows

Nothing escapes them

Finding myself in the page

No innocent fear at play

Who wrote the shadows into the page

What hand has scrolled that warning

Of a man who plays God at the end of the day

He will find there’s nothing left by morning

He will find there’s nothing left by morning

He will find there’s nothing left by morning

There’s nothing left by morning

(a) Dead Man Rising

Running a high fever

In the middle of the night

My body’s cold and twisted

But a fire burns inside

Suddenly my eyes open

Into a blood red plain

Of scattered limbs and corpses

Of dead and dying men

(b) Tears Of Tomorrow

Far off in the distance --- Take in your arms

There’s a tower rising high --- These my children

A voice cries it’s Jericho --- Though they be cold and afraid

The place where souls reside

The bodies that surround me --- Show them the tears of tomorrow

Once dead stir with life

Those cold and white blood corpses --- Give them the soil of their graves

Turn over as they rise

A voice from behind me --- How many times have we taught them

Speaks softly in my ear

You are a dead man rising --- How man treats his brother as slave

There’s nothing you should fear

So follow your companions --- His mother he rapes and his sister

Into the mortal’s grave you

Forget you once were living --- Gives birth to the monster she laid

Remember now you’re slain

Now all the shadows they welcome you

For now in the last days of Cain

Dreams of the darkness can hold you

Compel you to stand face to face

With all of your heart you are giving

The choice of your love or your hate

Dreams of the darkness inside you

The seed of your old father Cain

Who’s paradise Abel he murdered

Destroying the love with his hate

Dreams of the darkness that guide you

Towards the last door of your fate

The world that surrounds you forsaken

Ploughed up by the claws of your hate

Now as the shadows take over you

Your now in the last days of Cain

Joshua’s children all marching to Jericho

Blow on your trumpet the walls are about to fall

Instrumental

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