Tarkus

I. Eruption

1, 2, 3 4!

II. Stones of Years

Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?

Have the days made you so unwise?

Realize, you are

Had you talked to the winds of time

Then you'd know how the waters rhyme

Taste of wine

How can you know where you've been?

In time, you'll see the sign

And realize your sin

(Ah-ah-ah-ah)

Will you know how the seed is sown?

All your time has been overgrown

Never known

Have you walked on the stones of years?

When you speak, is it you that hears?

Are your ears full?

You can't hear anything at all

III. Iconoclast 06:27-07:43

IV. Mass

The preacher said a prayer

Save every single hair on his head, he's dead

The minister of hate

Had just arrived too late to be spared

Who cared?

The weaver in the web that he made

The pilgrim wandered in

Committing every sin that he could, so good

The cardinal of grief

Was set in the belief he'd be saved

From the grave

The weaver in the web that he made

The high priest took a blade

To bless the ones that prayed and all obeyed

The messenger of fear

Is slowly growing, nearer to the time

A sign

The weaver in the web that he made

A bishop rings a bell

A cloak of darkness fell across the ground

Without a sound

The silent choir sing and in their silence

Bring jaded sound, harmonic ground

The weaver in the web that he made

V. Manticore

VI. Battlefield (including Epitaph)

Clear the battlefield and let me see

All the profit from our victory

You talk of freedom, starving children fall

Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?

Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?

Did you stand beside the spectral torch?

Now the leaves of sorrow turned their face

Scattered on the ashes of disgrace

Every blade is sharp, the arrows fly

Where the victims of your armies lie

Were the blades of grass and arrows rain

Then there'd be no sorrow, be no pain

Confusion will be my epitaph

As I crawl a cracked and broken path

If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh

VII. Aquatarkus

Thank you