All Hope In Eclipse

A thousand nights once succoured Me

In the shadow of Miss Anne Thropy

Sat gargoyle-limbed amid My licking flame

A cruel tongue at work in Her secret vaults

Sent Rebellion's embers into revolt

The comming of extinction

Synched to whimpers of my name... Legion I arose, a flood of inhumanity

An acid reign to purify the world

The Asp at Pharaoh's breast

The Atom split under duress

A sniper at the gates of spattered pearl

My heart, torn apart, left a rifled grave...

Save for an unfurled flag of hate

To enthral a mindless zombie race

All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine's gift

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

Black bibles I incribed,

The words "Damnation through design"

Seemed a bitter truth far better for the lie

For as hope was felled by reason

Forlorn became the season

And Death was swift to swallow on the hells of life

Lowered souls, growing cold, tentered easy prey

When heaven's flock, a fair game, dropped

I bored of war with God with greater thrones to claim...

All heil, all heil, all heil the Libertine's wish

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

(There was not a prayer left in this wretched world)

Then between the past and the ravening dark

A sly Messiah came

In the thick of treaty with obligatory greed

She stole the soul hate had sold away

An ancient chil blew down the centuries

That night atonement's eyes

Lit a burning man in Me

When love lay bleeding

And Fates sate feeding

From wounds gored 'neath

Those cherubic wings

She of kindred light

Gladly sacrificed

Eternity

Just to be

With Me

As the moon whose silvered fingers play

On words and dreams too cursed for day

She led my hand to lands I'd not accrued

Where the Faun Dawn bathed Her golden hair

And faith renewed, leapt joyous there

I praised their worth, then planned their conquest too...

All heil, all heil, all heil the serpentine's gift

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

All heil, all heil, all heil the Libertine's wish

All heil, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

...and ignorance is truly bliss.

Born In A Burial Gown

Sibilant and macabre

Walpurgis sauntered in

Skies litten with five-pointed stars

The work of crafts surpassing sin

As She graced Her window ledge

- An orphaned gypsy nymph

This issue of the forest's bed

Skin flushed with sipped absinthe -

Her eyes revealed, as Brocken's peak

Tried once concealing Hell

A snow white line of divine freaks

In riot, where they fell...

The circus lurches in, a ring of promised delight

For seven days and seven festival nights

What wicked wonders lie within the comfines

Of the panther's den

She watches from a maypole, on the rip of Her tongue

The restless spirit of Christmas to come

A Gretel sick of merely sucking Her thumb

Than gingerbread men

Spawned scorned, abhorred by the aerial

She was the light of the world going down

War-torn, forlorn and malarial

She was found

Born in a burial gown

Unloosed, the chain of Her god-given cross

Seduced, now pagan ribbons swathe Her repose

In a carnival of souls sold and similarly lost

Too many decades misfit and mislaid

In innocence, a tender legend of prey

Parades Her second coming, now they're running afraid

Spawned scorned, abhorred by the aerial

She was the light of the world going down

War-torn, forlorn and malarial

She was found

Born in a burial gown

Now She moves with a predator's guile

Beyond the firelit circle of life

She soothes your cold heart for a while

Then matches its beat, synching in with a knife

She wrestles Her dreams with a delicate case

Espied by Her cross on the wall

And should She awake, through embrace or mistake

She would take Jesus

Bless foot forward and all...

Sibiliant and at last

The circus crawled away

With another lover in its arms

Dancing on Her grave...

Summer Dying Fast

Through acrid clouds of summer flies

The garden swells with a thousand more wise

Forever flung to celestial dreams

Clawing at the grave of the dead nazarene

I watch the storm approaching

The darkness calls my name

The trees are growing restless

They feel the season change

Their fruit has putrified

Forbidden once and bound to die

The thread of life lies severed

On the brink of paradise

Grinning winds of hate unfurled

Dash towers tall that grip the sun

Talons stretch her veil

Reclamation, our time has come...

Autumn spreads its golden wings

And lays the path for those unseen

A tangled web of evil spun at last...

Winter spawn from barren thighs

To readdress, to slay the blind

And throw the reins untethered to the skies

They pray to the full moon rising

Diana moving with such infinite grace

Wrapped alone in a blanket of nightfall

How many secrets can they read by your face?

Will they know of majesty

Of beauty held in dream-dead sleep

And scarlet seas that bleed the frozen shores?

Will their "god" of bridled love

Assuage our rule from planes above

Or shrink in fear from Chaos roused for war?

WAR!

Wrest askew the nails

That have held you, lurking deep

September prayers are waning

Burn the shrines of fettered sheep

Spearhead the insurrection

Of a world that seeks no end

"We are what we are, what we shall be, again..."

Appear; draped in terror

To the comfort of your kin

Stain the milky sunset red

And let the other in...

Summer's dying...

No Time To Cry

[Sisters of Mercy cover]

It's just a feeling

I get sometimes

A feeling

Sometimes

And I get frightened

Just like you

I get frightened too

But it's...

[CHORUS]

(No no no) No time for heartache

(No no no) No time to run and hide

(No no no) No time for breaking down

(No no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've

Got to shake the hand that feeds you

It's just like Adam says

It's not so hard to understand

It's just like always coming down on

Just like Jesus never came and

What did you expect to find

It's just like always here again it's...

[CHORUS]

Everything will be alright

Everything will turn out fine

Some nights I still can't sleep

And the voices pass with time

And I keep

[repeat]

No time for tears

No time to run and hide

No time to be afraid of fear

I keep no time to cry

[CHORUS]

Suicide And Other Comforts

I pace, alone

In a place for the dead

Overcome by woe

And here, I've grown

So fond of dread

That I swear it's heaven

Oh sweet Mary,

Dressed in grief

Roll back the stone

With these words scrawled in a severed hand

Tears fall like shards of glass that band

In rivers, like sinners

Swept with me to join the damned

A darkened sky

The day that laughter died

Fell swiftly into night

And stayed within Her sight

Staring at the knife

Oh God, how easy now the sacrifice

My life, to have Her with me

So farewell to distant thunder

Those inept stars I've worshipped under

Fall father, their Father

Lies in wait in flames below

Whilst my love, a blood red flower

Calls to me from verdant bowers

Graveside, I cry

Please save me from this Hell I know

A darkened sky

The day that laughter died

Fell swiftly into night

And stayed within Her sight

Staring at the knife

Oh God, how easy now to sacrifice

My life, to have Her with me

An eye for an eye as espied in the bible

My faith is lost to the burning of idols

One less cross to press upon the survival

Of this lorded agony

And I, (much as I have tried

To bury Her from mind,

Fate's tourniquet was tied, when She died...)

Still sense Her presence so divine

Lithe arms about my throat

Like pining swans entwined

Footfalls at nightfall close to mine

Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release

I snatch Her whisper like the wind through cedars

See Her face in every natural feature

Midst the mist and sleepy hollows of fever...

With glee deceiving me

Suicide is a tried and tested formula for release

I hear Her voice from where the grave defies Her

Sirensong to sing along, no finer

Suicide notes, harmonised in a minor

Strike a chord with misery

No light nor reef

No unsinkable of romance keeps me

Safely from the stormy seas

Now drowning, resounding

Death-knells pound my dreams

Unthinkable to dredge through this

Listless and lonely winter frieze

A darken sky

This day hereafter dies

Falls swiftly into night

And stays within my sight

Staring at the knife

Oh God, how ease it was to sacrifice

My life, to have Her with me

No more a victim of a crusade

Where souls are strung from a moral palisade

I slit my wrists and quickly slip away...

I journey now on jewelled sands

Beneath a moon to Summerlands

To grace Her lips with contraband

The blaze once in my veins

Dinner At Deviant's Palace

[Backwards]

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

The Black Goddess Rises II

Thee I invoke, bornless one

All woman, pure predator

Wherein conspiracy and impulse dwell

Like a seething fall from grace

Thee I worship...

Thou art darkest Gabrielle

Lilith who rode the steed

Thou art pale Hecate

Rising from Thessaly

Crush their unworthy idols

No church shall bar our path

Seductive Evil, drink your fill

Of the bleeding christ in your arms

Thou art in my dreams

The darkness in my eyes

The rapture in my screams

Black goddess arise

Nothing will keep us apart

We could kill them all

If our desire tore free

Our union is one, sweet, sinful Eve

As the night draws in beside her

As we embrace the dark with designs

I pour my soul to those eyes of fire

As I bury my seed deep inside

Archangel, snare the flesh

Suck dry the ebbing wound

Leave them lifeless and broken

My beloved...

Oh, how I craved for you

You so pure and other-worldly with your scent of Winter

Am I to bleed myself dry to see your delight?

And the fear retreats forever

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

When my secrets are buried in thine

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

Under seven stars we came together

(Come to me... Black Goddess arise)

To plot the new age's decline

(Come to me... ARISE!)

Ishtar my Queen

Come forth to me

And help me seize

My future from the House of Death

That in the release of immortality

I should slay their fucking nazarene

Ah... the lies... the jew... I kill for you

Hidden lusts will break the gates and swarm

As love secretes the thrill for war

The virgin raped shall seek to whore

She-wolf bare your snarling jaw

Scorched Earth Erotica

Sunset, expect

This to be your last with Our vast return

As Death is set

At three sixes where hill-beacons burn

Darkness, undress

Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar

Blood-red, yet still unfed

Lips distend ending, time to falter

Welcome, arms tied down crucified...

The slaughter

Lightening freezes seven

Outtakes from the rape of the world

Sins expelled from Heaven

Now befoul from the bowels of Hell

Where the tragic in theory and practice fell

Last prayers, hang in the air

Each unto their own rag and bonemeal saviours

Strung where crippled vultures dare

Golgotha

Coughs another cross to grave God's failure

Once the forests spired

Nurtured in Nature'heart

Now dreat cedars feed the pyres

Need-fires lit for greater harm

As Her children toy with razors

Sightless and deeply scarred

And the moon arose to phase Her

Cracks a grin so wide it hides the stars

And lights Our path

Back through the shattered glass

(We come like drumming thunder

Tides enwreathed in scum and plunder

Kraken-teethed to tear asunder

All those too blind to see...)

Where the tragic in theory and practice meet

Deranged, uncaged

We rage like a plague through this age of greed

Sowers of discord, growing wars to reap

A terrible crop to beat a vicious retreat

Scorched Earth, rebirth

Disintered in the writhe of the lone survivor

Whose worth is worse than the curse

Of Sardonicus choking on his own saliva

Who shares the last laugh now

Dead wedded fates fulfil their vows?

Foot in mounth of sacred cows

Facedown in dust and poisoned ground...