Shylmagoghnar - No Child of Man Could Follow lyrics

Wanderlust in my heart Restless blood, fiery veins As grim ghosts of my past came haunting Seething with doubt I could sparse hold my ground Searching for signs when a raven struck down Judging my soul with an ice cold stare Ages of wisdom Ageless black eyes A soul laid bare before those pits Bereft of want and fancy Of aspirations made by man Fool's gold- false glory Relish in the dream untold Within it grander paths unfold What once was dear proved meaningless Our need is far beyond So meet me on the winding road where only the desperate dwell Behold in me a vision three They shape the flow of all In days of yore I craved release Now must decline death's invite sweet It was far too soon our paths would meet Yet part of me is still there For I was damned with clarity A path of thorns and agony Transfixed in eerie silence and overwhelming woe Existing out of space and time it spoke with not a word: "I'm here to give thee counsel... But never consolation..." And worlds I knew came tumbling down in crumbling ruins and ashes Dead planets and extinguished stars as far as the eye could see Did fill my soul with ecstasy and nigh inhuman glee Did shatter all that had been thus far, for the first time I could see Then in the cry it uttered That shattering banshee's wail A universe within enclosed did lay, proclaimed in unknown tongues Yet my heart, it understood each poison word Did strike the anvil of my soul Of my soul And every road entwined did graze Adrift where lost souls wallow On pathways where my answers lie No child of man could follow Cosmic storms swept all I was The end of my existence Within I braved a horror though never did I flinch For in these dreadful eons my essence was reforged An influx of wisdom blinding the virgin retina Witness to damnation Shepherd of the end My despair is hollow It heralds of rebirth "Rebuild then in the places Where only thought exists As the others taste but ashes In the furnace of your will" A mighty fall, now forced to be A vessel for purposeless misery In remembrance dear I once lived more Mere shadow of what was before Such rigid sight, a puzzled past Of what should be yet could not last Not here nor there yet lost between I am trapped in the eye of the Raven It was the sound of rustling wings Tore me from my vision grand Deafening silence pierced my being Like a storm of nails Lifeless, torn and broken The beauty of my own demise I collapsed unto myself And plunged the heart of the abyss Drifting Lost in a timeless void Cursed to eternally behold The mirrored path unfold How I howled and wept Laughed and cried Lived and died I was empty - whole and perfect A creature most fulfilled