Sumptus Ignis - Voices of the Dead Lyrics

Whispers from the long-departed
Songs of stillness carved in silence
Sorrowed secrets, words of anger
Locked in time like wasps in amber

Clutching hands
Fever shakes
The concrete bed so cold
Rags over bone
Staring bloodshot
Insomniac dreams intrude
Staining the landscape
Obscenity unseen

Desperation lingering
A broken thing discarded

Ragged nails
Plow the scars
The hunger digs below
Deep in the soul
Boiling empty
Chew the dregs
Digest the filth of decisions past

Desperation lingering
A broken thing discarded

Every waking moment
Voices of the dead
Phantom vicious babble
Drains his sanity
Constant mental battle
Hear them screaming
Nightmares never buried
The traumas trail his life

Eyes closed
Still the visions remain
The past tears through the comforting lies
Cracked skull
The walls are crumbling down
Burdened by atrocity

Whispers from the long-departed
Songs of stillness carved in silence
Sorrowed secrets, words of anger
Locked in time like wasps in amber
Whispers from the long-departed
Songs of stillness carved in silence
Sorrowed secrets, words of anger
Locked in time like wasps in amber

Blistered grin
A vulture's laugh
Like rusted links of chain
Dropped to the earth
Broken shackles
The guilt undone
Forgiveness comes with a gift of silence

Whispers from the long-departed
Songs of stillness carved in silence
Sorrowed secrets, words of anger
Locked in time like wasps in amber

(Every waking moment )
Whispers from the long-departed
(Voices of the dead )
(Phantom vicious babble)
Songs of stillness carved in silence
(Drains his sanity)
(Constant mental battle)
Sorrowed secrets, words of anger
(Hear them screaming)
(Nightmares never buried)
Locked in time like wasps in amber
(The traumas trail his life)