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A voice called from beyond the stars 
By way of the serpent whirling through my veins 
Through the clatter of the iron age 
Into the dreams of the insane: 
Turn away from the light again! 
 
And I was accosted by fear 
And my skin was salty from my tears 
But ever your radiance shone me sights of Gloria 
And brought me back to contest the light again! 
 
So I looked around for your sigils 
And I found them in the blood of your brood 
The empty and desolate, the void within the storm 
Abomination that sheds his light again 
 
I have drowned my heart in sorrow 
I have closed my soul to man 
I have wallowed in in the darkness 
I have embraced the death 
I shall never see the light again! 
 
My body is chiming 
With the thought that fills the universe 
I must needs cut out my senses 
Lest his word becomes my hearse 
 
A pound of flesh, a pound of flesh 
The keeper demands a pound of flesh 
Skin for skin, skin for skin 
Bred and sired in box and sin 
Woe is them, woe is them 
Who wears these chains as golden mesh 
Rain of ash, rain of ash 
As holy flesh and sulphur clash 
 
I know their torment shall never pass 
Haunted forever by love and distress 
In the endless desert wings, strewn with broken glass 
My King of Chaos stands in a realm of boiling brass 
 
On the wings of Gloria 
Across the plane of sadness 
Contraction and expansion 
From the death into the death 
 
From the middle of never 
Into the endless ever after 
I stride among the broken clock 
Proclaiming "Lord, I am your rock!" 
Build on me your empire of euphoria! 
Kindle me with your unborn breath 
Let me fly on the wings of Gloria! 
Let me fly on the wings of death! 
 
So I have raised a temple of blood and bone 
On the vanquished reason surrounds my soul 
The stairway is open, the circle is whole 
The dragon spreads its light again! 
 
So make your wings to shine 
And make your eyes to beam 
Make your dark as fire so bright 
Burn my eyes with its light 
So I may never see the light again!
				

You arms are many 
and reaching for 
and through your finger tips 
I feel your heart 
 
Your eyes are piercing  
and seeing all 
and through your tears 
my soul is calmed 
 
your skin is sallow 
and clad with blood 
and through the smoke  
I come to call 
 
your tongue is red 
and speaks of thorns 
and through your spit 
I am reborn 
 
your neck is hung 
with a wreath of skulls 
and through their mouths 
I sing your praise 
 
your cunt is wet 
and hurts yourself 
and through your peak 
I die the death
				

Oh, bliss asserts above 
 
Here I sit alone 
And death lines these walls 
Her I sleep and dream (cry and scream) 
I am ash and stone 
 
I was, yet have now become 
And all I was is now undone 
A broken piece of a broken puzzle 
Dying embers string my skin 
A blade incised in my sense of true 
Adread I shall share my love, with you 
 
Oh, death dwells in love 
 
Here I sit alone 
And death lines these walls 
Her I sleep and dream (cry and scream) 
I am ash and stone 
 
And as horror begets horror 
So I received my father's sin 
And was made to dwell within his house 
And to drown in the love therein 
 
Oh, bliss asserts above 
Oh, death dwells in love 
 
So when all lovers turn to fighters 
And all my seed has gone to war 
Shall you see dark horizon 
And you too shall run wild forevermore
				

I lay me down again in your arms 
Undress me and possess me 
With your toungues of fire 
Withershins feeding from the child to the breast 
I plunge my knife in you 
At all hell's behest 
 
Cruel mother 
Dig your nails into my back 
Grant my furtive soul a place in your design 
Know me know as I place my ashes into your urn 
Of the flesh am I and to the flesh I shall return 
 
I am a shadow 
moving with shadows 
I am blood and piss 
coming in waves 
I am Isaiah's nightmare 
brought into flesh now (and once again) 
I am the sword and the whip and the pleasure of slaves 
 
Cruel father 
I've climbed the ivory spire for you 
I've seen your blade like arms 
Rake the stars from the sky 
Tearing through the kingdom like so much kindling and straw 
Casting down all order into the cape of salvation's maw 
 
I am a shadow 
moving with shadows 
I am blood and piss 
coming in waves 
I am Isaiah's nightmare 
brought into flesh now (and once again) 
I am the sword and the whip and the pleasure of slaves
				

She so loves her children 
More the one whom play with fire 
As the comfort themselves before 
As they my become her funeral brian 
 
She is the only one  
The only one 
She is the only one 
 
And she wears a crown of joyous madness 
Of dangering the midnight hours 
On her throne of serpentine sadness 
She erects a fractal tower 
 
She is the only one  
The only one 
She is the only one 
Who will ever understand you 
 
And she delight in your confusion 
And the contradiction of your heart 
She laughs 
As reason and delusion 
Proceed to tear your soul apart
				

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When all is waning  
Call out of time  
Unearth the clay  
That makes man a beast 
 
Ride the Inferno  
Taking all risks at ones  
Forget all else, know nothing  
Hammer into the ground 
 
The fire burning  
Takes it all away  
The fire burning  
Takes it all away 
 
Race out of line  
To make it up  
Stakes out of time  
When it is called for 
 
The master cometh  
As if never before  
The key is our vice  
To the other we demand 
 
The fire burning  
Takes it all away  
The fire burning  
Takes it all away
				

Oh joy 
Oh rapture 
Oh decline of space and time 
To find love in the shimmer of blood on stone 
To find passion in a maze of sun bleached bones 
 
Look me in the face 
Who of us is more confused? 
Look me in the face 
And tell me you don't need being used 
 
It all begins with one descent 
One downfall, one great lament 
It cures its heart, but leaves the parts 
All stream across the blood-red sand 
 
If I lead, will you follow 
across the heavens and against the tide? 
If I lead, will you follow 
to rip the truth from the lies?
				

For you I will make a world devoid of love 
And I'll make your love to fill the void 
One eye sees glory, the other does cry, the Third sees Truth and grows blind 
 
For I am alike unto whited graves 
As I appear, beautiful in skin 
But within I am filled with dead man's bones  
And of all Unclean and Sin  
 
Move to me in wild contortions 
Enchant me with blight and sore 
Yes, move to me you fucking Whore 
Into the madness of Serpents.
				

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