PROLOGUE In a dark room, bathing in the flickering light of two bedside candles, a man lies in agony in his bed, with only his praying father by his side. His eyes are closed, as he dares no longer face the devastating reality in which he lives. In his mind, amidst ever darkening thoughts and slanderous whispers, he has found a secret place and locked himself away. Yet he is not alone... ENTITY, parts I - V I) DISCONSOLATION (THE HIDDEN THREAT) Father: Fall on your knees and believe... Can you hear me, fighting your disease? Man: ...and here I am, still on my feet Father: There's no reason why you should be afraid Man: Hear me calling out for your embrace Father: There's a life here, waiting for you, only you Man: Leaving all my troubled yesterdays Father: The day will come, you'll see the light of day Demon: I hide in the darkness your mind once created A flash through the dark, your eyes are burning Lost in the void, there's no balance between the darkness and light A soul usurper The echo of my name will ring in silence A coarse reflection The silent redeemer of a life that's no longer denied Man: I stand all alone, on my own... Father: Here I am, still fighting for your soul Man: ...here in this darkness where the shadows fall Father: Find the light you've known within, your own Man: Loneliness, my one and only friend... Stay with me until the bitter end Father: Your time will come... And deep inside of a sacrilegious glare where you'll find shelter from that thing that you most fear... A minded creation, but not one of this earth A mindless formation, and the voice that whispers slowly burns Man: I'll find a way, another day Another world where I'll belong...goodbye! II) A FAREWELL TO REALITY Drifting away His eyes are escaping reality His mind awakens... Lost in this world he'd fight the battle between the darkest of lights The call of the wicked Incantations of fear, a presence appalling Drawn to darkness by the entity's praise and into its might Man: I've seen the truth in your eyes Demon: A time to repent all your lies Undisguised in the universal light A profound betrayal of human insight As deep as the black of the night Here inside where seeds of sanity grow and evil is life Man: I welcome you to teach me everything And to find the path on which I have to go The secrets of a life worth living But at what cost? (That of) a life I've never known? III) INTO THE ETHEREAL SHADOWS (Lead: Håvard) He came to witness his own execution But his mind never laid to rest Full of fear, his eyes looking skywards no more There inside, facing his own expiration and all the lies that were heaven sent He denied the truth that was already told ...and then he ended his life Man: For all eternity Thine is the darkest sanctity (Lead: Leviathan) Man: I am you, and I am for you My life was pure but long overdue Your light shines through and all over you Now, come inside and find your truth Father: Don't let him into your mind He's taking over your soul He'll feed off your fears and walk over you He'll alter your mind and hide your truth IV) ABANDONMENT (Lead: Andreas) All the lies he lived out in anger to forget what he endured inside All his hope would lead him to darkness All alone in the back of his mind Demon: This is the new beginning All the angels conceiled in the skies Clouds divided are gathered; their reason to die (Lead: Diego) I am the storm, revealed insanity A dormant vulture awakened by your silent screams I am alive! Fed through the hungers that burn in your mind A force is rising in the depths of your dishonor Hallow thy enemy... Unveiling the entity and all your everlasting sorrows V) UNDER ABSENT CLOUDS Man: And here I am, hiding under falling stars again I'm out in the cold All my days have passed, a fallen man It all just seems so far away It all just seems so far away... (Lead: Simen) Demon: I crave a new world of apathy in my reign through eternity Where all your losses make my fruitful gain And I, the end of your innocence, will bring fear and obedience to your tortured soul Possession has been claimed! (Lead: Simen/Jon) Man: And so, reality is a state of disillusion No glimpse of truth behind the door... No life of purity will deliver you from darkness Or even shield you from your war (Lead: Håvard)

ENTITY, parts VI - IX VI) A STOLEN PRAYER Man: I hide my tears away in search for sacred solitude And try to find a place to hide Below the surface where everything is black as night There's nothing left for me to find But I'm not afraid... (Lead: Håvard) Demon: I'll stand where the fire rages through the pages of your sanity And thus be throned on fire and bone in a chamber sealed for all eternity I own this soul, my shadowed throne in the deepest ruins of your mind And the horns will sound my triumph when existence has failed and none are left alive (Lead: John) I am the war you're fighting for, the incarnation of another life unpure Your mind controlled by malice, and your desperation illuminates a soul about to die The fires are raging and they're burning high At the end of all the sky will fall A Narcissus rising that's never meant to die Man: Father of all, hear now my call I need you to know and care for my soul Father of all, please hear my call I'm dying inside with nowhere to hide Demon: Deep inside a twisted illusion The god you have trusted hath faded away Your silent prayers disappear in the shadows All is lost as you're drifting away into a silence where your own senses are frozen And the only thing that you'll feel is my gain The time has come, this misplaced pariah will come to flesh and then burn you away Breaking out from the chains of illusion Out of mind and into a presence of might Time to burn and wither before me I am the downfall you'll face at the end of the line ...and now is the time that you'll die! (Lead: John/Alex/Noah/Andreas/Leviathan) VII) A CRACK IN THE CLOUDS (Lead: Sean/Håvard/Alex) Man: The world you see was not made for me I'll carry on to a place far beyond And there I'll find some peace in my mind I'll wander on to where all life has gone And here with me, there's someone waiting for me Adrift in a silent light... Demon: A distant shade, now becoming Your loss, your fate, your life uncreated No more a voice inside, but still the last to die No more endless dreams or ever silent screams From darkness unto light where your soul ignites Beneath a darkened sky...thine is the wish to die (Lead: Andreas/Justin) Man: And here we are, like falling stars, to live again until the end For all the world to see, our new reality We'll find a way of life VIII) THE BARGAINING Demon: I have lived in the dark in an altering silence I'm the voice that you've grown in your mind All the thoughts that you'd vault in your sadness Turned to scars when you opened your eyes Bear not these chains of treason And only I shall remain by your side Break away from that grand misconception And all the lies that were left in your mind Through laws of grave deception They're hunting you down I'll face them alone when they're weak in their mourning And when they fall they'll lower their eyes to the ground Father: For every time you've seen the light... Man: You're the answer to my prayers Father: ...in all the emptiness inside Man: Here I stand, one solid man! Demon: Face your death! And your life ends before me Choose your light and you'll never be free End the days of your life, an illusion And all your sorrows will wither away Hear my call! At the end of eternity I welcome reality Now this shattered soul is finally whole And I know the secrets to a life unpure Live by your hate And never debate on the ignorance of fools Hallow thy enemy Unveiling the entity I am your everlasting sorrows IX) ENTITY Man: I was so alone, I had no place to call my own And then I found the secret door I opened up my heart and soul And now I have found my way back home (Lead: Andreas)