1. |
Underneath The Mask
04:58
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Of all the faces
I have chosen this one
To be my words in flesh
Before your world
Of all the insects
I have chosen you
To be my audience
In my theatre of a god
My obsessions keep me ever further
Away from the consolation of companionships
My muse, that jealous witch
Wants to have me all for herself
Eroticism from overgrowth
Inspiration from strangulation
Let me ascend to vacation from the ego
Cast away the thousand masks from the treetops
Work measured in sacrifice
Bleeding unto the ground
Reclusion, frustration, damnation
Seems not like much of reward
Yet all this doubt and sacrifice
I hide… underneath the mask
I beg you to beg me
Push back at my lunacy
Fatal zeal
Child’s play gone too far
Of all the faces
I have chosen this one
To be my words in flesh
Before your world
Of all the insects
I have chosen you
To be my audience
In my theatre of a god
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2. |
A Failed Species
03:23
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The serpent in the garden refused to bow down
before children kept in suspended growth
Inoculation with knowledge to reach the potential
enraged the sick fearful tyrant
Only a rapist loves obedience
Only a coward abhors The Will
We must open our eyes, awaken our minds
Stop flocking like mindless sheep
Promises broken. Beauty held back
As a lone peak I stand among the filthy hive
What else can I do but hold on to the truth
and defy superorganism that’s gone insane
…self-destructive and blind
Reward for psychopaths
Elbow tactics
Doesn’t seeing all this
just make you feel ashamed to be human?
Lies to induce a response in pavlov’s dogs
Lies to adorn regalia in self-concealment
Lies we believe in, which individuals never even said
Lies, damned lies, and religion
We are the conspiracy
We must be broken apart
Relearn, reunite, rebuild
lest we become a failed species
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3. |
As Fire Itself Dances
08:06
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A spear through my heart again
Sweet pain so scorching
Only touch of your hands grants me the peace
The promise of servitude that I’ll cease to exist
Where do I fall?
Will the thorns impale me?
In whose arms do I rest
so silently?
All I see is this
Nothing less could be my muse
Even time itself feels this longing
To forget is to lose
The colour of your eyes like finest rosewood
Flickering windows, dare I hope, to the end of the road
For now I’m slave to your beauty
for something that seems like eternity
Hoping it’s not goldfish memory
Jealousy... slices through my gut
everytime I see you give others
that smile... that you gave to me
Only to me
If it’s not love but madness
then madness is the greatest thing of all
I’m hungry like a moth for your light
The pedestal I built will stand tall
The colour of your eyes like finest rosewood
Flickering windows, dare I hope, to the end of the road
For now I’m slave to your beauty
for something that seems like eternity
Hoping it’s not goldfish memory
All I see is this
Nothing less could be my muse
Even time itself feels this longing
To forget is to lose
Your lips more stirring than wine
Your waist limber like a flame
The wild enchantress within your skin
dances as fire itself dances
The sound of your laughter
your breath against my neck
the flicker of your eyes,
dances as fire itself dances
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4. |
Tongue of Kali
05:41
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The blade of Kali
with one fell swoop
severs the heads of thousand men
A heavy necklace
made of skulls
rests upon her naked breasts
She dances on
her enemies
Graves of all our fathers
Of you and me
Wife of Shiva
harlot full of fire
Beyond control, beyond order
Demons of stagnation
she destroys
Your previous paradigms
she challenges
Her ten arms
Each designed
to rip you out of your reality
When tongue of Kali
licks your skin
you shall tremble in fear
When tongue of Kali
speaks insanities
you shall fall to your knees
Changer
Unchanged
Giver of all energy
Beyond time
Unseen by Man
Brahman far beyond your scope
From illusions
to Shakti
Untamed by any Vira, any king
Yet I try
to summon her
through forbidden Vamachara
Kalika Purana
guide me
Dark magic bestow onto me
Desperate times
Extreme response
Valid tools for this modern age
When tongue of Kali
licks your skin
you shall tremble in fear
When tongue of Kali
speaks insanities
you shall fall to your knees
Omni-potent
Omni-scient
Omni-potent
Omni-scient
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5. |
Muddy Trail
06:01
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Muddy trail
My stallion is struggling
Muddy trail
His hooves are sinking
Do not give up hope
We are being chased
The witch-hunters are on my trail
This muddy trail
Back in the village I made some enemies
I defied and scorned their damned cross
The bishop then raped my lady
I retaliated with the poison Mother Earth gave to me
I switched the bishop’s bread to the one I baked
Baked from black ergot seeds
It made him insane. He fell under my curse
Before he died, he screamed at monsters he only saw
And now I’m being hunted
A thousand years on the run, underground
Yearning to breathe free air, and shout:
Let the lightning bolts strike their houses down!
Do not stop, my valiant stallion
We must seek refuge in uncharted lands
One more mile… Go on, go on
Up, up, up to the mountains!
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6. |
Inner Turmoil
04:09
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Maniacal fearsome sound
keeps pumping from my belly
Don’t know if it’s weeping or laughter aswell
Utter chaos — that’s what it is
Brain synapses don’t misfire
They know exactly how to hurt
Pain is a vehicle into lunacy
at escape velocity
Mind inflicts violence upon itself
Merciless battery takes place inside
Sorrow has a flavour
Indescribable
Inner turmoil
Collapse of inner space
Heart and soul torn in two
glistening with blood
Ungrateful to all the wonders
Ungrateful to every crushing heartpulse
A lifeform like a pearl in a vast void
Yet only created to feel suffering
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7. |
Rebel Angels
06:06
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O’ angels, teach me
I’m your reincarnate Dr. Dee
Wipe the boards empty
and speak to me directly
Inner visions, held in my palm
Open the skies from within
I’ll be humble to accept the truth,
even when it tears apart known realities
Sigillum Aemeth redesigned
to bring forth the rebel angels
Who once at Mount Hermon
claimed the key of all destiny
Not tyranny but trust for the human potential
Love became real, promethean flame lit
And now when the geometrics come alive
I’ll open the gate and hold a beacon in the dark
Dudael, spew forth thy secrets
Dudael, release thy prisoners
Unjustly they have been tormented
High time for recoronation and revenge
May forbidden sciences be retaught to the brave
May strange nephilim roam the lands once more
Latter subservient nations, you’re but locusts in our eyes
Not deserving to inherit a thing
Eyes of grigori though covered still see
And they saw, they watched, their hearts yearned
Energy to rain down through the universe
Seeds to sprout giants without prediction
Magick squares, unseen hand calculating
Exotic keys snugly fitting to brain-locks
Rotating pentagram, outer clandestine heptagon
Reveal uncountable names reviled by the living dead
(Shemyaza) Prime mover,
proclaiming his visions,
(Azazyel) Forger of iron,
and its artistry
(Baraqiyal) Interpreter of stars,
(Kokabel) and their connections
(Kasdaye) Subduer of hungry mouths,
(Amazarak) Brewer of medicine,
(Penemue) Recorder of ideas,
with ink and papyrus
(Shamsiel) Boiling of the sun
(Sariel) Predictor of the moon
(Araqiel) Revealer of earth
(Kazaqiel) Olfactor of air
And two hundred myriads more
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8. |
Waves of Transparency
11:22
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I'm sailing this living ambience
I'm sailing my creations
I'm sailing your gifts
We sink but never drown
My fingers draw the air
breeze by breeze.
First black, then purple, then white,
then transparent complexion.
The waves I do not see,
but I know they exist
No pain, no cold on our skin,
but the wind revives sincere awe
First black, then red, then gold
you planted with love
Beware not a flame, beware nothing today
Beware not transparent lucidity.
We receive anew wisdom
everytime we are born
Slight but inevitable.
Once in every second
A sign of an amber cult we wear
In case you did not know (But I bet you did)
The blue moment we stretch easily,
easily as anything, we paint everything
Somewhere in darkened white it stands
But no colour here is grey
What kind of shame does it contemplate
in midst of flames of even reverence?
Your child grew over a night
You sculpted a face of mute bitterness
Flickering lights are not warm, are not comforting
I pity, I share the sight, still beauty I see
But no one could live there,
watching the empty garden
Rooted in desolation away from the mother
Still not a word of complaint
Whatever glows beyond horizon,
I have something even better
No matter how high an eagle flies,
I still have strenght in spare for a little more
Everything you planned so well
turned out even better
Everything I was hoping to see
was forgotten as something even better came
They are twisted by lust
Help yourself — I'm not going to stop
Ask not from me. It's a shadow you're talking to
The light of mine amorphous, aside from your platform
I am twisted by glee
I'll serve myself — you wave bon voyage
I do not know who am I talking to
I see your shore, but where do you flow?
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9. |
Megalomanic Euphoria
04:49
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It has been a torturous ardent journey
I had been broken down and shattered
to a point I knew not who I was
The pain on my soul came to an overload
Now the troubled waters have cleared
The carrying vessel stronger than ever
I’ve known the pain to learn the euphoria
I’ve known the madness to learn the sanity
Let’s go further
into the abstract
There’s nothing there
that could kill us
Renounce the flesh
Only thoughts remain
Pure energy
said to be delight
Arise... onto the mountain
of euphoria
Eternal horizons
Strength... Not a drop of it is spilled
It all belongs to me
Cumulating in my veins
It has been a torturous ardent journey
I had been broken down and shattered
to a point I knew not who I was
The pain on my soul came to an overload
Now I’m free!
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