Noveria - The Gates of the Underworld

"A stinging like a burning spear
A piercing light, a sudden veer
As the world blurs out around you
In a vision, it appears..."

Step onto the road before you
Shining the way through obscurity
Paved with salt it lurches onward
Desolation creeping under your skin
Look around, your eyes adjusting
Smoking pits everywhere
Nothing here may grow or prosper
A barren wasteland of darkness and despair

Oh the road it drags you forward

Only nothingness beyond
The portal to the unforgiving void
(The Gates of the Underworld)

Through the blackness, human shapes emerging
Writhing, corrupt and deformed
Withering slowly as the portal approaches

Wretched souls, lost and forsaken
Pulled in your same direction
Hear all their voices scream in fear of their fate

Ancient guardians
Of the borders of this world
They're calling you
They're calling you to come on closer

Only nothingness beyond
The portal to the unforgiving void
(The gates of the underworld
Calling you name
The portal out of this world)

Towering above you
As you coil before their scorn
When those gates will open
You'll be broken
Everything you are
Will be gone

An unremitting energy
(The iron gates are opening)
Merciless, it pulls you in
(The iron gates are opening)
The iron gates will open... now

Watching in horror as it unfolds
Matter tearing in its folds
A gaping rift
The great divide
This is the final stage
The final scene

Inside, a vortex, the hungry void
Unrelenting it revolves
There is no light
There is no sound
Feeling it reaching out
To touch your soul

No more emotion
(No more life, no more death)
Expire in solitude

So close to touch your impending doom
A sense of burning in your core
A purple flame, A million eyes
Something else reaching out
It pulls you away

No more emotion
(No more life, no more death)
Expire in solitude
Face the end alone

Ascending from the depths
Darkness left behind you
far away
Confusion fills your mind
Apocalyptic scenes go by
In a haze

You can't hold on to pain
Let it go, lest nothing else remains
Still can't erase the stain
That you'll be back down there someday
Not today

Only nothingness beyond
The portal to the unforgiving void
(The gates of the underworld
Calling you name
The portal out of this world)