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 AlbumDark Angel  2007.04.05. 18:53  Damnation And A Day 2003 
01. Fantasia Down [instrumental]   02. The Promise Of Ever   In the beginning Rimmed with wind and storm A great black wrath of infinite math Spat snarling into form And there was Heaven Lit up with precious stones Each one could fall but for the rule Of Faith and love and stronger thrones And therein rose vast wonders Affections to be seen Fathered from the plundered Reflections of a dream Fogging into nightmare For him whose place was set With wayward stars that absent, marred All creation with their theft In the beginning Bewinged and ringed with dawn This favoured Avatar, enthralled Swansongs from those that thronged this shore With Gabriel and Michael He shone with fierce intent For loyalty, their joy to see Him spur the hymns to heaven (sent) For sculptured lips of seraphim Whom fate then cruelly rent (With sleight fingered strains of harmony) Each note to grim portent As grinning nimbus gathered Over spires arabesque For Him that blazed with holy praise That for a jealous God was meant Shining Feriluce Lustrous scourge of fallen spirits Basked in glory, flew To lakes in sacred altitudes Sweet haunting music swathed the breeze With curling tongues that lapped the lead As through thick mountain mist (with thoughts adrift) Until at last, past grasping trees He paused to draught forbidden streams That whispered siren promises To drown his thirst (for sports amiss) These waters held secrets Like raped Russian dolls Wherein evil and good Tore his soul for control And drunk with the verse of desire's first words The weight of the universe Slunk in rehearsed Horror in numbers too great to discern The rotting of worlds to the conqueror worm And love a rare orchid so fragile in bloom Espied gasping breath under dark sheeted moons Shining Feriluce Reflected in jaded mirror Climbing from the noose Of time in divine servitude And thus a strange new melody Of will and wanton fantasies Whetted by the veiled, seen Danced from his ashen lips In red dawn scores, the silver scream Of truth and her deleted scenes Was taken up as far, it seemed As God his words eclipsed (Those waters hid visions Like butchers in war Perverting the course Of life's blood evermore...) In the beginning Skinned well with gibbous tones Of countenance and ignorance In equal measures sewn A marbled arc of Angels Sworn to the morningstar Shared His pride and deep inside Felt Chill Shadows sweep their cards   02. Hurt And Virtue Distant vistas
 Swathed in the haze Of the reddening sunset Fell to whispers 'Neath stars that marred descending skies From the cusp of midnight mountains Wending as a mist Rebels truced with Feriluce (In truth, few could resist) Came praising his hellraising through The sparse and marble clime Where Virtue bathed, their ravings made Her fountains flood with wine Lifted with the gift Of their dark seductive songs She drifted from the path She was surely set upon Courting chaos Prized in sight Of the covering angel Taught in ways of Smothering another lover Other than God Worshipped in each other's arms Like spider eidolons The moon conducted like a charm Those strange attachments on And this is how they came to be Dragged before the throne Through tongues that hung whilst theirs were run On soft white throats and punctured moans Though fated now than later By his tutor that had been He baited the Creator With the future he had seen Of Michael, psyched with jealousies A reich right by His side And worming Man about to be The apple of His eye His children lost to free will And the cost of beaten hearts Like the night 'twixt vice and Virtue When Her kiss became a scar Seraph enemies Why has my lord forsaken my judgment Am I not free as He to indulge my darkest fantasies? From embittered lips These words were slathered Split with the whips Of their witch hunt gathered He sought Her grave Midst drowning crowds that howled in rage... Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Though she was gone Not lyriced to the song of their spirited throng But ghosted back where she belong... A grace embracing Michael In a lace of tears that bleared his pride He swallowed Blood followed Though with spit for all things divine Though with spit for all things so fucking blind His seal He tore And to the floor He threw this tie to heaven Signifying holy war And watchful of this sign A thousand flames, unauthorised Left celestial posts To coalesce and, unified Return their fallen leader As he turned one final time And threw a glance Like a downward lance That stung like guilt in every mind   05. Peredise Lost [instrumental]   06.Better to Reign in Hell Better To Reign In Hell Heart in hand passed clasp of painIn dark lowland that set bad blood in veins
 Burning, like penal fires roused to strain
 The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses
 The golden dawnLay lost to mist where
 Emboldened thorns
 Made their bed with toppled stones
 He closed His eyesSunken to dream there
 Of crow-black skies
 And a great white empty throne
 Horror stalked the bilious fogs
 That balked his visions
 He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wryAnd drifted back to when His stung its target
 The sneer of Michael on a glorious high
 Of angel dust and Virtue by his side
 Better to Reign in Hell Drowning in the pastThat downfall seemed like yesterday
 Though blurred moons passed
 As enemies in high places laughed
 Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy linesHe rose snowblind, through shifting sands of time
 Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines
 The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine
 She came to HimA little whip of tantrums
 Thrashed on velvet skins
 That lines Her wishbone Henge
 Her name was SinA warming spurt of mantras
 Splashed on occult tongues
 That whispered sweet revenge
 For the shame of their crawl from graceCold and hollow as the grave
 And for a rape and ruinous scourgeSpared for souls that shared God's worship
 For now their throats coated notes with dirge
 That poured from parapets to the pits below
 Drowning in the pastA wretched scream like yesterday
 Died at last
 With the rising of the revenant dark
 All sharpened claws and blunt discharge "I shall bow no more to the dogs of the LordTearing at my carcass heart
 I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes
 Of Virtue slipping into bondage masks...
 Better to reign in hell"
 And with new wingsUnfurled and spoken
 He took to things
 That would desecrate the world
 The seduction of both woman and manFor a bastard masterplan
 Drowning out the pastFool Fates unwound cruel yesterdays
 beneath the stars
 That staggered from the blast
   07. Serpent Tongue [part I] So adept was unspoken Man
 At dusting ledgers of the seraphim That Lilith swept across the broken land In a whirl of lust to pleasure him   This bland Adam, a reaper of the sun In bone dry season, for Eve was busy sucking thumbs Pricked in rosy gardens as he spattered into shells And ran with morning fauna; His mastiffs and gazelle   Breathless as the wind Adam, prowled, fell foul to Sin But not before She spread Her grin Across His silent lips At crack of day, though what was shame? The raptor's nest wherein they lay Bore witness to Her soft parade Of fingers come to grips   His undivine attention won She deftly spun From 'neath His thrusts to writhe above In ecstasy Pendulous She swung As if her limbs imbibed His tongue To spill, as with His rod The secret name of God   But no seed passed those fruitful lips For fearing Her who grasped, He slit Her throat from ear to where She fled With tail and blood between Her legsss...   [Part II]   So very kept was the virgin hand That brushed the treasures of Utopia And how the greed swept across the desert sands In late August just to measure Her   This hallowed Eve, a creature of the moon A simple dish born with a silver spoon Giddy sniffing orchids that opened after dusk Incubus and Prudence, two such swoon to touch Her   Restless as the skies Temptation, bloomed, found room to rise And snatching breaths between Her thighs He crawled to Eve... At dead of night, the sticky clime Smelt perfect to this serpentine This shining Angel Palled in mysteries...   Her undivine attention won He deftly spun A web of for the one Great sacred tree Bejewelled and lit As if a thousand shades did flit About boughs of forbidden lore Hidden for the want of more   And when seeds passed those fruitful lips And Mankind basked in vast eclipse A Devil shot of thin disguise Surmised to better paradise   08. Carrion Burning flesh,Dripping sweat,
 Using them all,
 like the paralyzing snake,
 Charmed and enchanted by the babylon whore
 Lurking in the shadeOf dark and fragrant trees
 Shirking from the rage
 That tore the heavens free
 A vagrant Angel
 His with span to see
 The garden swell with terrors
 To banish man and Eve
 Another fall from graceWhiplashed from the gates
 Half-naked and insane
 Full-blooded, breasted
 Nerve ends tested
 To behests of pain
 A sombre lot to gain A storm slid inBorne by carnal winds
 The upper ether thinned
 And therein sat abominations
 Satan seated thereSavouring the reek of desolation
 Their dank despair
 Moved His speech to leech the air
 "Behold the golden doorTo paradise is lost
 So praise Me as you raised your Lord
 And I shall thaw this gnawing frost"
 Another fall from graceWhiplashed from the gates
 Half-naked and insane
 And destined for a spiteful Fate
 Wherein evil sought the shamed
 As pawns in greater stakes
 Across this cosmic game
 To win the hand
 Of darkness and
 Set Her in her rightful place
 "Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow thou shalteat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles
 shall bring it forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
 field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
 return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust
 thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."
 [Genesis 3:17-19]
 At the throat of the human raceWith claws engorged and poised to rake
 With that the pact was sealed
 And as creation reeled
 Bewitched oration filled
 The hearts of all
 Who came to crawl
 Upon these earthen fields
 A sombre lot to till A wracked black acid songSpat from the massive throng
 Of Seraph knelt along
 The deep red welt to domination
 The deep red welt to domination   09. Sewer Side Up [instrumental]   10. Present From The Poison-Hearted Reigning at the feast of Phantasia Heightened pleasures were endeavoured to bow Before My coronation and vocal aspirations To rule this fool creation fallen 'neath me now   I knew deep eyes Of a distant Christ Were scarred from afar under starry lustre   Sighting my recitals on the rites of vice Perverting Virtue Enslaving grace Behind the glittering mask of pride Saving face finding thorns to pierce His side   Desire, the fire Spread hell throughout my soul And higher the wire The more I sought control   Straining from the leash in exultation Head to the wind to breathe with ravenous lungs The global scent of fornication A writhe of many vipers deciphering tongues   I whispered schemes to dreamers then To pursue an Eden That screamed of me supreme again As my world bloomed So too the moon Through Adam to Seth, Enos, Cainan Mahalaleel and Jared blew Perverting virtue Enslaving grace Behind the slippery guise of lies Saving face making waves to drown their faith   Messiahs, Pariahs Aeons reversed the two This higher, their spires The more cursed grew their roots And suffering...   I swept cruel seas On the galley of the shadow of death   A fist in the cunt of the spread horizon A kiss for the sun risen red once dines on The coast of Menses   Discharged from celestial wombs A first degree murder of ravens Followed in fugue through the crack of doom   The Goat of Mendes I set regime In the galley of the shadow of death...   Angels in raiments As pure as coal Taking their payments In tortured mortal souls A bold direction The abyss edge But on cold reflection One they warmed to nonetheless   As they preyed the paths of the righteous Through the myth of thistled orchard floors Bearing gifts of plenitude, for The apples of the Lord were rotten to the core   Temptation, my ambassador   Attila, Hesiod, Pharisees and Nero All begged of Me for more   Down dark steps of history I waged war with a heaven I could not see... Beyond my wildest fantasies   Throwing sixes over deadly sin I traded whose who played to win Skin for precious kin... And that that wormed within   Staining the reams of revelation Etching ever-afters in accursed verse The limpid rags of resurrection From papal parapets were to dirt dispersed Desire, the flyers Spread hell throughout their souls And higher the fire The more I held control   11. Doberman Pharaoh To and fro, through freeze and thaws
 From zenith to nadir The universal tug of war Saw lines drawn in the sands appear Divisions of a promised land And Hell for those that dwelt Beneath a Pharaoh's granite hand Where death wed something else   Millennia swam passed Since the covened Ark Ran aground on Ararat...   But anew, tempered shadows grew Out of Midian, strewing fear Over verdant lawns, the resurgent storms Led a desert son to sear   From the palace orchard I espied... (Where swooning trees and moonless beams vied For the painted eye of the royal bride Whose gliding curves were deified) ...beyond Her grace where love would die Wretched destiny arrive   Back and forth the prophet came Riddled with a tongue of plagues That would render might Egypt lame If the rage of God stayed unassuaged... I listened with a heavy heart But unveiled to the threats This Hebrew in a jackal's mask Would dredge into effect   Thenceforth the Nile reddened s if Set stretched His hand To beset the damned   And bruised with flies The skies grew leadened   But these miracles, feared Were all but reared By nature, whose law alone Stood that revered   This hysteria passed, but still the mark Of Yahveh burned on in the dark   One final time, on the steps to the shrine Of Thoth, I twined with fate "Let my people go" "Still my word is no" "Then Death shall be the deciding plague"   Since the crimes divine I left behind I'd warred with every tribe that plied In holy vestament, but with time Bored sore of clawing what was mine I laid my bones and made my throne With a view to paradise   Thenceforth the heavens deafened As if great beasts Were unleashed to feast on man   And with carrion span Michael was weaponed   To descend with scorn A dark reform Through Pi-Ramses Skinning mine and Her firstborn   Thus suspiria passed each sacred mark Of Yahveh, bleeding in the dark   With nauseous dawn, a cry, forlorn Unified from plazas deep The prophet's curse Far worse had worked To wrest the war in me from sleep   Drowned in light, a downward light Bathed the snaking exodus Through the wilderness As the Aeons crept Impressed with fresh bloodlust   14. Mannequin Led to other worldsBy the girls she curled within
 I took their skins to see Her
 Be my
 Be my mannequin
 I cannot rememberHow it was that we first met
 Curve of moon and haunted shore
 The stars were not those Heaven sent
 Did we come togetherAt masked palatial Balls
 In silks and flesh and leather
 Or did we come at all?
 I dreamt a midnight castle
 The eerie song of wolves
 And eyes that danced with fire
 As they have forever more
 Our rites of sinHave long fathered a hymn
 To burden Him
 Whom by slip of after whim
 At genesis
 Dressed Her like the wind
 In Autumn gowns
 That pinned Her down
 To be my
 Be my mannequin
 Always poised on winterBut never would She break
 My lovecraft and black witch heart
 That pounded in Her wake
 We kissed on distant balconiesA law unto Her own
 Thirteenth dark commandment
 Of figures pressed to stone
 Turning cream with fantasies
 That God alone would know
 We graced vomitorium
 With the sweet excess of Rome
 Flagrant into the pastOur names were deeply carved On the tree of life in long dead
 languages
 Led to other worldsBy the girls she curled within
 I took their skins to see Her
 Be my
 Be my mannequin
 I tongued the nuns at LouviersBut not one word possessed
 Her divine right, an archetype
 For mortal Goddesses...
 Be my,Be my,
 Be my mannequin
 Be my mannequin
 Be my,
 Be my,
 Be my Mannequin
   15. Thank God for the Suffering I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May
 'Neath whose rays we lay together And those bright nights on glassy waves When we would glide lightly away From the grain For wicked flights of pleasure   Those visions fade Like ghosts to life's parade Though incisions once made her so vivid A scarlet whore With both heels in the door Of a heaven severed from me, insipid   And midst the writhe of parapets Where angels sigh, lonely she sits Upon the lip Only a slip from whence I beg Her   That I would wish Her kiss a chrysalis To break to make my fluttered heart amiss And in those frozen moments won From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun in drapes inwove with deathshead wing I thank God for the suffering   Love would have conquered all But for the Rapture That ancient plan for my defeat Denied Faith skies that would have set Her free It seems again dreams wend to capture   Once dancing in a spotlit waltz Through shadowed dimension Given to the rivers that bedizened Her eyes The world drifted by in lost momentum   With no divine intervention   Regardless that the author Of sin was me and I Lay chaste of hate in Faith's embrace As Mortals warred with more besides   They warred with life itself   And in those frozen moments won From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun In drapes inwove with deathshead wing I thank God for the suffering   And I thank God for the suffering As still I burn For Her return I would make my peace with everything   I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May Consigned to flames like secret letters And midst the writhe of parapets Where angels sigh, lonely she sits Upon the lip Only a slip from whence I beg her   That I would wish Her kiss a chrysalis To break to make my fluttered heart amiss And in those frozen moments won From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun In drapes inwove with deathshead wing I thank God for the suffering   Love would have conquered all Were we not parted Her splintered loss rekindles rage The winter frost dwindles across my stage Lit up once more to score finales started   Love would have conquered all Love would have conquered... Hate   16. The Smoke of Her Burning Earth and sea cower from my screams
 As I climb into the skies Atop sins towered heaven high for me From whence I see no reason why I should not smite with vengeance And hurl thieves down from paradise For storms before were as nothing more Than a breeze next to this night   I am Methuselah of the Tribulation The Moonchild come to harm A riot of stars shaken from their station   The choking smoke of Jerusalem burning Six vices become wrath   And though half-blind with ravening Like Phineus now I see The end declared from the beginning Love won through my defeat But now I fear I will never peer On Her radiance again I shall glimpse instead, the slurried red Of faces pressed to bloodstained panes   Betrayed and played by God Who alone but He Scapegraced and goated me? Now I wish to piss on His parade   Angels, clawed with burnished wings Still loyal, kiss the seal Bent on knees and harrowing Promise overkill   Know that you shall die like whores And the cries of your writhings shall rise To please their Lord... So before the sword Side with me in slaughter   I am Methuselah of the Tribulation The Moonchild come to harm The spoken horns of desolation   Drink the pouring of my fury Those darkened waters spur The brink of war as my judge and jury And rapist executioner
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