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Consummation
06:16
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In relentless pursuit of you
I follow
Your screams magnetic attract
Closing our distance
Tempting, you beckon
Inviting this forceful union
On this amorous nocturne
My dreams and your worst nightmare
Become one reality
Your garments quickly torn
My night of romance is born
I enter violently
Into where I can't return
Blood's noxious fumes
Taint the love in the air
Crimson droplets divulge this secret:
I've taken more than your peace of mind
Fresh claret steams
And nether fluids interweave
I'm torn; your tears so precious
Stir up compunction and aphrodisia
In my vacant recesses
I could almost feel something
But alas, my harlot
My search has failed once again
Just another worthless tramp
You really weren't that great
Writhing unerotically
Screams just above a sigh
I divorce you quick and not so painlessly
Again a bridegroom for just one day
For in the eyes of our maker
A polygamist am I
Sodomize, brutalize, traumatize
Ruin lives
Oh such temporary wives
You are not alone, join them now
Your body, my spirit dead
Like this lifeless soiled dove
My soul is gone
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Minstrel maniacal
The threads of black we bear
Reflection of a million wary stares
Zealots and artisans
Of a soundtrack to a world most vile
Craving enrichment for an arid life
Barely worthwhile
Human outliers
Of a most unearthly kind
Reject a planet anesthetized
Dark dispositions
Cradle hearts unfeigned
Oh how pitch-dark vesture
Shadows a blissful soul
Stirring in harmony
With the darkened song inside
Emperors of the black cloth
Emperors of the black cloth
Evermore
Not of mortal men
Eternally to sing the nightfall's hymn
An unlit path we walk
Beyond the end
Fangs bared in a roguish grin
Truly, without the pipeline
To a sound divine
'Tis a world devoid of meaning
Spirits forever pine
Beyond the end
Fangs bared in a roguish grin
Emperors of the black cloth
Emperors of the black cloth
Evermore
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3. |
The Prekarus
02:39
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A blanket of blackness
In dormancy
On the precipice of thought
If it exists, it doth breathe
Tapestry of nothingness it seems
Weaved painstakingly
By oh so careless tongues
Of vanity and jocularity
Comes this conjuring
We know not what we've done
Prekarus
Prekarus
From the collective mind
That spake its name
And thus so devised
Spurned by foolish eyes
In dreams it was birthed
On nightmares it dines
Prekarus
Prekarus
From the collective mind
That spake its name
And thus so devised
Spurned by foolish eyes
In dreams it was birthed
On nightmares it dines
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Oh, lover! My sweet
Our ardor so scrumptious
How delicious was the bond we shared
Why did you spoil it?
You let us go bad
Our affection left out too long to rot
Your astringent words I'll silence
Bound to the chair, muzzled, and gagged
In this aphasic state
You look good enough to eat
Oh no! It does appear
That you expired overnight my dear
I've really overdone it this time
Cook up a scheme to erase this crime
My cold raw former bride
Meet my culinary side
Unite
Be now intertwined
Simmer down, my flame
Can't let you go to waste
I leave you now to baste
In your final resting place
Is this too shallow a grave?
'Twill only be four days
May you be embalmed with spice
Let this oven be your shrine
And this crock pot your crypt
Steam rises from your shell
Your broth bubbling
Could this be your essence effervescing?
Oh! We've gone too far
We're both in hot water now
My darling, roast in peace
Your features gone
Still somehow you're babbling
Through aqueous means
Shut up!
Death's stifling hand
Powerless against
Gynecic tongues
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5. |
Sanguine Departure
01:39
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Instrumental
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6. |
In Ethereal Sorrow
03:57
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Suddenly gripped by apprehension
In this haunted abode
An aura of guilt and death
Hangs in the air
She was found naked and still
What once was breathing turned bloodless and nil
A grin from ear to ear
Just below the chin
Geyser sprung by razor's edge
A flawless body painted red
Broken spirit now free
Yet never to leave
Creak of the floor
The slam of a door
In darkness with loathing she roams
No longer alone
Your gaze meets her own
You're not welcome in her home
Beauty obscured by deadened eyes
Icy cold and wide
Fear consumes your mind
Frozen in terror
Glowing in azureous light
Skin pellucid and white
Mouth agape she cries
In ethereal sorrow
A loving God couldn't let her burn
Nor will He save her from the hell she walks on earth
Beauty obscured by deadened eyes
Icy cold and wide
Fear consumes your mind
Frozen in terror
Glowing in azureous light
Skin pellucid and white
Mouth agape she cries
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7. |
Elixir
04:11
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I feel it inside my body and mind
I need sustenance in more ways than one
Your gorgeous eyes and gentle smile say yes
With gratitude I take your hand
My wish shall be granted
As my thirst is quenched tonight
I am compelled to fulfill my ever longing thirst
Oh what a view I have from below
Lying underneath heaven
The proof of God's existence
Rests before my eyes
In you I find the brine to sate my longing
From the well of life it springs forth
Thy elixir so bitter is sweet to me
Holy water pours into my ever gaping maw
Is this a sin?
It cannot be
Evil cannot exist
In something done so passionately
Let the river flow
From its source sublime
This is not perversion
This is pleasure in my mind
And it's all mine
As I imbibe thine nectar divine
We all need water to survive
From where life is birthed
There's an endless supply
Is this coincidence?
Or design from God's own hand?
Who cares, but this I swear
I will be there when nature calls again!
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8. |
Ravaging the Dell
03:49
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Rural destruction comes
Laying waste the countryside
Asseveration made
Kindling the want for thrill
Tedium forsworn
Vikinglike this pillaging
On barren lands
Purging; this shall be done
Dairy cows and waterfowl are falling at my feet
Oh farmstead, so tempting
Approaching soon
Trembling beasts awaiting
Your family's doom
Butchery! All creatures slain
Blood's stench ascends
Rousing savor for death
Presently quenched
Bloody tracks will point the way
An ungodly mess
Fearful prey bides
Oh farmstead, oh reaper
'Tis what you've sown
Now witness your daughters
Become my own
As you succumb
Oh farmstead, oh reaper
'Tis what you've sown
Now witness your daughters
Become my own
As you succumb
Set alight the patriarch
And his soiled seed
His acreage burns
Our work is done
Ravaging the dell
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9. |
Gates of Eternity
04:45
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We step over tonight my children
Our exodus is on the way
Oh to leave this earthly dwelling
Let us make this a beautiful day
Could these be the ravings of a madman or god?
Recitation behind us
No place to flee, no plans to fight
This is the culmination
Give up the ghost on this last White Night
Implant
Imbibe
Your lives
Are mine
Eliminate all of the defectors
Not one slave will get out alive
Tie up loose ends
For we drink tonight
Raise your cups to me
As we pledge our souls to eternity
A pavilion of mortality
A glorious revolution
Ignore the screams of agony
Slumber now with dignity
This is for the People
This is for me
Brainwashed fools drop like flies
Reluctant men, infant cries
Your deaths delayed, I'll take instead
Poison of lead straight to the head
I've failed you all
I have won
Looking upon my creation
Heaps of lost minds forever gone
And so a coward rides a bullet
Into oblivion
A commune
A temple of death
Mass grave over nine hundred strong
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10. |
Sanctum of Serpents
06:36
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A bullet to penetrate your phony smile
One to release hollow brains on the tile
I implore you on mankind's behalf
We all could sure use a laugh
I beg your pardon, my worthless friend
Empty suits look better in red
My foot on your skull
The crunch of your head
Music to cynical ears
Die like the snakes that you are
All evil vipers should burn
Lie when we've cut out your tongue
Slowly bled out and fed to the worms
'Tis the apex of insanity
To choose in your room who our masters will be
Your existence a cruel mockery
To "slaves" who will kill to be free
Evil mindless vermin
Cannot rule the world
With world domination in your mind
I won't be lorded over by swine
Not my mouth or mind
Die like the snakes that you are
All evil vipers should burn
Lie when we've cut out your tongue
Slowly bled out and fed to the worms
To imagine a hell
A simple wish of mine
My soul I'd happily give
To watch you there
Tortured for all time
Gone mad with rage
More than words on a page
This time the vitriol is real
So very real
Your home is just another cesspool
Yet to be destroyed
How Eden-like this land will be
Strangling the void
Bringing smiles to the faces of God and man
Die like the snakes that you are
All evil vipers should burn
Lie when we've cut out your tongue
Slowly bled out and fed to the worms
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11. |
Equanimity I
06:17
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Instrumental
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12. |
Equanimity II
05:36
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Instrumental
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13. |
Equanimity III
06:52
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Instrumental
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Never more
Shall this view rest uncorrupted
Through childlike eyes
Mirth has been ruptured
Enter a blackness to seethe inside
My rumination: ruination
Of innocent complexion
As this, the cruelest of jokes
Evokes a hearty laugh
Is creation so trivial
To include
Worthless nothingness
Living is an offense
Against what should come
Yet live I shall!
Eyeing our looming fate
Some meet it too soon
And others much much too late
And on that day cessation calls
Gladly go I
Glimpsing your filthy blood
Staining his scythe
An applause for mankind's sacrifice
Terminus of life
Thus your deserving end
Belatedly draws nigh
Nameless you remain
Guarding your life blood
From a fitting spill
It took an angel
Turned succubus by malevolent will
Her silence is a cloak
Shading scum much like you
I loathe you, your day shall come
As mine shall too
Every shred of my finite being
Longs for your torture and demise
Pain eternal
Was meant for you
I'll see you as the rotting corpse
You should have always been
If only in the deepest chasms of my mind
And on that day cessation calls
Gladly go I
Glimpsing your filthy blood
Staining his scythe
An applause for mankind's sacrifice
Terminus of life
Thus your deserving end
Belatedly draws nigh
The tragic end of billions
Was merely meant for you
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