The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Lyrics

In the shadow of Providence where time warps and whispers linger

A man sought secrets too dark for mortal minds to fathom

Through alchemy through cryptic rites he reached into the void

And something reached back

In the shadow of ancient halls where secrets darkly lie

A whispered tale of cursed descent beneath the ashen sky

Dust to dust and salt to flame the echoes never cease

From cryptic rites of Curwen's craft to horrors he released

They rise from the ashes their voices cold and strange

Through time and space their shapes distort their essence rearranged

They whisper in the silence where shadows start to creep

From realms beyond the mortal veil they wake us from our sleep

Through cemeteries overgrown through crypts of ancient stone

The alchemist's grim legacy claims this earth as its own

His bloodlines tainted by his sins his name an eldritch scar

He called the lost from dust and void from realms of time afar

They rise from the ashes their voices cold and strange

Through time and space their shapes distort their essence rearranged

They whisper in the silence where shadows start to creep

From realms beyond the mortal veil they wake us from our sleep

The stars align the salts ignite the gates begin to crack

In the echoes of forbidden chants there's no turning back

Through whispers deep and spectral lights the horrors softly call

The past entwines the present's chains and time begins to fall

They rise from the ashes their voices cold and strange

Through time and space their shapes distort their essence rearranged

They whisper in the silence where shadows start to creep

From realms beyond the mortal veil they wake us from our sleep

And so it ends where it began amidst the dust of ages past

Charles Ward's fate like Curwen's spell dissolved in shadows cast

But heed this warning fleeting soul some doors once opened never close

For the past is never buried deep when the stars again impose