Hello Vivec, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a curse was softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of madness
In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of magmastone ‘Neath the halo of a redlamp I turned my heart to cold and damp When my soul was stabbed by the flash of Lorhan light That split the night And touched the sound of madness
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand dunmers, maybe more They were talking without speaking They werе hearing without listening They were writing songs that voices never share No one dare Disturb the sound of madness
“Fools” said I, “You didn't know Silence like a Corprus grow Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” And my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of madness
And they, beneath me, bowed and prayed To immortal god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said “The words of the prophets Are written on the elder scrolls And tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of madness”
