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volume i-rising from denial

the deep trench of my transgressions
visited me one night as i nodded off the peer of conciousness
for so long i thought i was asail,
but i was swimming deeper,
and when i heard the music calling i...

i said to my ghastly guest i guess you'll
do as you wish with me and i will listen for a change
and the silent water's singing deafened me,
and i was swimming deeper,
and when i heard the music calling i...

when i heard the music calling i could only breathe
and then i screamed
purify me
purify me
purify me

the bubbles showed me the error of my ways
and i saw that it was damn sure time for me to change
for so long i thought i was asail
but i was swimming deeper
and when i saw a piercing ray of light i...

so when i hear the sirens calling i'll remember that
when i heard the music calling i could only breathe
and then i screamed
purify me
purify me
purify me
and then i saw a piercing ray of light

volume ii-temptation and doubt

waking, i remember the word,
"purify" as i walk in the daylight
...it seems like the first time.
with a ringing in my ears to
remind me of a new covenant,

i take my first breath of paradise,
but i still remember the world
as i've seen it while adrift,
and i walk along the shore

and i want to walk in the water
i want to wade in the water
but if i succumb i'll want to
let go and drift away

walking in the sand, i become
familliar with all this newness,
though i can't yet comprehend it.
if i had wings, i'd just rip them off

i don't know why
where am i
i don't know why
this is no paradise
i don't know why
i must be mistaken
i don't know why

volume iii-a hidden door

what have i found?  beneath my feet a door.
...and so i kneel to brush away the sand, and
i descend a spiral stairwell to a path that's
paved with words and images:  the path of shadows.
i begin to believe.  i begin to conceive, and now
i know "this" is my paradise.  though dark and lonely,
i see much more clearly here, and i embrace  with
closed eyes and open arms what some call insanity.
i breathe.  i change. i remember.  i am.

there is a door that you must close your eyes to see.
there is a door, and on the other side i'll be
it opens when you ask of it
it opens when you're free

i have come to shed the pathe behind
a dirty dig, a worthy find,
a hidden door, a silenced light.

volume iv-a secret place

i walk upon the lonely path of shadows,
and as the darkness grows
my vision sharpens

i see beyond horizons from
this cantage point i've found
my vision sharpens

and as i look around, i know i can't be seen
and so i turn my back to walk beside a memory.
'cuz it's all that i can do to communicate to you
without words which would betray, what it is i have to say
when i stop, i stand upon the edge of all i know, and
from the peer of counciousness i can hear the sirens calling.

so i walk the lonely path of shadows,
and as the darkness grows
my vision sharpens
and as my vision sharpens,
i peer withing your heart.
don't mind the gash i carve
into this vantage point i've found.

volume v-affinity

an affinity for encrypted gateways to places in the mind
leads me down the path of shadows.  i turn each page of
this grimoire with raging faith and curiosity.  reaching
into the shadows' domain, it appears that i am withered,
and i shiver for i am fearful.  reaching into the shadows'
domain, i am withered...

i die every time i peer through this keyhole. apothecary,
i know you see me looking into your dark and wild world, I
cannot be detained from reaching out for the darkest sunset.

pages turning fluidly as i'm left to my own devices, detail
and subtlety whisper codes and secrets of the shadows' domain