Wavering Radiant 1 Year Anniversary

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the release of Wavering Radiant, we've decided to reveal the lyrics to the entire album. It's hard to believe it's been a year already! Thanks for all the support and Happy Cinco De Mayo!

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ISIS 

01. "hall of the dead"

the great stone walls rise above our heads, cold and sad pale light, a dusty veil

the sun makes its way in destitute, weak you're at my side again faithful guide unfailing, here we stand among the others the living among the

dead

veins still flowing full lungs filled with white light

push forward lifeless bodies swept aside they are on us cast a net of armor over our heads hide our life lest it be lifted from us

we must leave this place of deathly decay

don't look back, press on

02. "ghost key"

it's cold snowing blue light dusk settles

a fire burns with failing light against the growing darkness

bending over the dying flames you were with me then as always

through the fluttering veil of frozen blue a hooded figure cuts its path

to cleave the night in two

pull its outer husk from its body and the rest escapes

and there upon the ground the remnants of our struggle

this is the ghost key

03. "hand of the host"

it is here that vice indulged bleeds the living of their trust

hand of the host extended from his fingers dangles scented flesh

bodies offered spun from infant minds perfect in their empty conception

to be devoured by my lustful heart i am commanded "do as thou wilt"

through the halls i am lead following i am lead

'writhe and gnaw each other's flesh'

he lies uncovered this ancient man of bristle and bone hoary and unwashed his lonely soul

fills the room

our reverie lays broken on the floor cast him out into the throngs into unholy laughter

04. "wavering radiant"

05. "stone to wake a serpent"

we four, bound by blood standing in the crossroads

on the underside of the world waiting our turn

here we see coiled serpent black and baking in the sun

stone is flung serpent wakens arrow of poison pierces our hearts

teeth sink into tender flesh lightning strikes, too fast to see

we seek succor for the stricken pleas met with spiteful laughs

slow advance, not to stir the poison its course fast and merciless

merciless, merciless

in vast halls, buried in hurried hordes no help found here, only dreadful tears

06. "20 minutes/40 years"

tendrils extend from the cloudy black mass

they slither and slide through the ones and zeroes prophecy of collapse unfolds last grain of sand spirals down the hole

chance has graced me with a gift grasp at gold before the dark descends sun beats down and panic reigns in this time of endings

eyes are shut, feet are bare for this journey i'm unprepared

i walk on sight renewed seek new life i seek new life walk on

seeking her, the one i wish to see she wanders the outer lands from the grasp of wolves i will pluck her

twin arteries flow with the pulse of one mighty heart

07. "threshold of transformation"

i've arrived city of lucid dreams

before me a building looms caked in inky grime

the act unknown actor in sleep here i enter, and here i see the circle and bones made in haste

winds to anoint the faithful

amorphous specter turns from old to new rests in faith beside me we wait for the quiet fire to be born and there it is embodied by a boy

his voice small and grey whispers smoke to the chosen

upon our heads he places crowns sewn with hiss and higher tones

the boy presses whispers into her and they bathe in valley's pale rain