Nile - The Language of the Shadows lyrics

Abandon hope and I shall become free
And with freedom acquire emptiness
With the mind cleansed and empty
There is the void known as despair
A gateway upon an emptiness endless and vast

In despair the language of
The shadows is intelligible
In madness all sounds become articulate

Terror and despair
They guide me into nightmares
That follow one upon the other
Like windblown grains of sand

I have become as the wastelands
Of unending nothingness
Now shall the night things
Fill me with their whisperings
And the shadows reveal their wisdom