Lyrics:
Ascendio

*Verse 1 (Luke) How could I be more than just an orphan? More than just a burden without a home? But there?s no hope in hoping in the future. I learned

path forsaken Of our universe What coheres matter Forming gas and solids Or the breath of life Enlightened forms realize Their master seek ascendance

Steps ascend to a loaded gun The scent of matches hangs in the air A lit one flickers out in a heart beat We don't want to see this A flash of light that

that's the way it is and always has been let's begin with love we can go from there check the fabric of space-time and search for a tear bound to ascend

[The Chronicler of Antediluvia:] Long ago, before the Third Great Cataclysm reshaped the face of creation, one nation rose above all others in the antediluvian

[The Oracle of Logres:] It was a time of change. The descendants of the Atlantean mages had fallen before the New Praesidium, and the wolves were baying

Beneath the ice, the endless ice of Pangaea's now axial Eternally frozen frontier Entombed for countless millions of years The lost cities of Antarctica

of the Universe opens! Through this astral art the secrets of the cosmos are mine to know... for the stars are my dominion! Empowered at the periphery, ascending

[Instrumental] [17 October: 1893] Such grim musings as have been occupying my mind of late unfortunately seem to suggest a possible link to the fate of