Lyrics:
Here is the store house of Her Majesty
Well guarded by sentry
But looks are free
Call this the rayless and benighted age
Witches by tallow candles shifted
Shifted their shapes
Here is the pestle and mortar
That ground the poison seed
A lute, a suit for jousting
And the poems of a balladeer
When all the Latin books were copied off
In golden script
Well hoarded away in
A monastery crypt
Superstition
Superstition beyond belief
Over mountain, over dune and over sea
Crude map and compass lead the caravan
And lead the fleet
Here's the loot and plunder
They bore home
Ivory tusk inlaid with precious stone
Raw silk and spices by the barrel load
A soft skin drum with mallets
Of human bone
A world wide rampage
Rampage of greed
So here the tour concludes
The Colonial Wing
The rooms of the most refined
Museum property
An early pair of spectacles
A claw footed divan
Ornate clocks with birds that strut
On the half hours and quarter hours
Hear them chime
Hot coals laying on my motorcade
Jewelry gone, eyes still blue
Thin memories in love with you, my hoary fire
In love with you
Get the fuck out my sight
Cold eats the flesh of broken hearts
Tender the strike of tinder gods
Hot coals
Embers across a rayless sky
Still warm my soul, I often cry
Hot coals
Slag reveries in love with you
My hoary fire, in love with you
Stay the fuck in my heart
Hot coals tonight, Cimmerian
Hot coals to die, Cimmerian
Heavy the tongue of tinder ray
Shot by the road, a slow decay
Hot coals
Heady, the musk of cinder love
Ashes beneath her tender rug
Hot coals
Slag reveries in love with you
My hoary fire, drip from the skies
Stay the fuck in my heart
Hot coals to die, Cimmerian
Hot coals alive, Cimmerian
Freedom of the dying man is God
Freedom of the dying man is God
I encompass, a circumference, of your compass
Smokey the Bear's opponent, face atonement
The karma sutra tutor, the Mets rooter
Shorties like my slick finger like Bruce Sooter
You caught in this web of the spider
The High and the Mighty, might be, slightly, violent
It's Highly the one to leave the sun rayless
Now your style's cheaply made like a pair of Payless
Pick apart your secondary, like Jim Plunkett
Who woulda thunk it?
Ruined lamplight, rayless darkness emerges fearsomeness
An unknown future is my destiny
Frantic chasing the unmeasured kingdom of the night
Dread is covering me
Twinkle in turn, a spark of light fires the starry sky
Exhausted your mind under the dangerous strategy
Regret and affection, disconsolate is the last
Parables pass time away
Chill freezing frost, intuition came through ice cold bone
Time passes into the step of destiny
Degraded angels abandon body in chaos world
When?
I had a dream, which was not all a dream
The bright sun was extinguish'd and the stars
Did wander darkling in the internal space
Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air
Morn came and went, and came and brought no day
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation
And all hearts were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light
And they did live by watchfires, the thrones, the palaces
Of crowned kings, the huts
The habitations of all things which dwell
Were burnt for beacons
Cities were consumed, and men gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanoes and their mountain—torch
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd
Forests were set on fire, but hour by hour
They fell and faded
Crackling trunks extinguish'd with a crash
And all earth was one thought and that was death
And all was black
All was black
Darkness
The world was void
The populous and the powerful was a lump
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless
A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay
The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still
And nothing stirred within their silent depths
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea
And their masts fell down piecemeal as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge
The waves were dead, the tides were in their grave
And The Moon, their mistress had expired before
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air
And the clouds perish'd
Darkness had no need
Of aid from them
She was the universe
She was the universe
Darkness
She was the universe
Darkness
Wind is blowing on your eyes
Stealing the glint in my mind
I was barely close tonight
Staring at the fate move on
I've tried to save you from my sins
You've crossed all borders that I had
'Promised myself I'll never said
I want you mine until you die
Vision of your broken smile
Shining on the rayless sky
There, I've barely heard your call
Staring at the fate move on
I've tried to save you from my sins
You've crossed all borders that I had
'Promised myself i'll never said
I want you mine until you die
Pass that fillin' the cup
Guess Who gonna glo up now
Pressure feeding my work
Guess who really gon' talk now
Facts I already begun
Cutting off all these hoes now
I'm just tryna control
Not the ups but the lows now
Fuck I'm hearing my woes
Talking on the low now
I don't wanna fuck these hoes
They just want my gold now
Read inside my heart
But you can't have it all
Lay down filling my blunt
I just don't wanna talk now
Pass the lighter
All I do is tryna go up higher
I'm holding on gotta keep the fire
I'm tryna glow way before the pyre
Left alone mothafuckas gon' creep
Fuck around now this money gon' lead
Now I shine but I dreamt so deep
When I was left alone
Bullshit, now you demanding a fee
Where the fuck you were when I planted seeds
You call me now wanna be in my sheets
But I won't chase no one
Better sip it on the low
Say less do the most
They bet up for my fall
Now Rayless boutta blow up
Six racks in a row
They gonna hate me 'cause I'm on
But all the shit that I owe
Owe it all to myself
Pass that fillin' the cup
Guess Who gonna glo up now
Pressure feeding my work
Guess who really gon' talk now
Facts I already begun
Cutting off all these hoes now
I'm just tryna control
Not the ups but the lows now
Fuck I'm hearing my woes
Talking on the low now
I don't wanna fuck these hoes
They just want my gold now
Read inside my heart
But you can't have it all
Lay down filling my blunt
I just don't wanna talk now
Space-wayfarer en route to Mars
Marvels at Earth shining blue bright
In the darkling, rayless night
Beyond man and time
Beyond good and evil
Beyond life and death
Zarathustra waits
In the black vacuum of deep space
Dead stars in a dizzying dance
Leave the wayfarer entranced
Wayfarer tethered to his spaceship
Floating like an unborn child
In a new world undefiled
Beyond man and time
Beyond good and evil
Beyond life and death
Zarathustra waits
Stealthy alien monolith
Reflected in his visor
Wayfarer dies no wiser
Beyond man and time
Beyond good and evil
Beyond life and death
Zarathustra waits
You reap what you sow
I'm reaping the stars
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation; and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones,
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons; cities were consum'd,
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face;
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd;
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black.
I, i close my eyes
Isolation from your lies
A nobody's shadow
Grinning down at me
I stay off your ways
On this mass illusion day
A nobody's shadow
Spitting in my face
Fed on oblivion
Powered by a wordless noise
That's how we're living
Nothingness fills the void
A nobody's shadow's watching
From behind the broken glass
What you've done, where you've gone
All erased
Stay away, stay away
Silence is the only way
You are nameless, you are faceless
You're a pawn in this game
Stay away, stay away
World of madness down the way
See the angels of depression
With their cruel eyes ablaze
Faces, rayless suns of the souls
Grins, wingless birds of dead emotions
Me, hollow mannequin of flesh
You, but a shadow of no one
A nobody's shadow's watching
From behind the broken glass
What you've done, where you've gone
All erased
Tongueless servant, armless soldier
Scorch my body, I never will
Walk with you, escape with you
To the shadow land
Inevitably besieged beyond the known ranks of worship; beyond every hope and perdition
Beyond the stream of endless movement - in a distorted circle of all flexible senses
As if this paradox was molded from within
Hovering was I, yet chained to what seemed to be its core
Chained to a link of something beyond life
All without motion, I kept staring at what was gleaming in this rayless chasm
A core shining brighter than what the eye can outstare
Yet, like a moth, I sought its brightness
Insensible was I, so I dared to dispute the abominable silence with stuttering words
As I articulated, the glaring responded in fierce pangs of agony
And in my naivety, I took one step further
As the raging mouth of the nucleus opened before me
Sundering, darkening, thundering!
I had a dream, which was not all a dream
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air,
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation, and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts
The habitations of all things which dwell
Were burnt for beacons, cities were consum'd
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face,
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain—torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd,
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them, some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept, and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd,
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky
The pall of a past world, and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground
And flap their useless wings, the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous, and vipers crawl'd
And twin'd themselves among the multitude
Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food
And War, which for a moment was no more
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left,
All earth was but one thought—and that was death
Immediate and inglorious, and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh,
The meagre by the meagre were devour'd
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one
And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur'd their lank jaws, himself sought out no food
But with a piteous and perpetual moan
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer'd not with a caress—he died
The crowd was famish'd by degrees, but two
Of an enormous city did survive
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar—place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage, they rak'd up
And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery, then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects—saw, and shriek'd, and died—
Even of their mutual hideousness they died
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend
The world was void
The populous and the powerful was a lump
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless—
A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay
The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still
And nothing stirr'd within their silent depths,
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp'd
They slept on the abyss without a surge—
The waves were dead, the tides were in their grave
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before,
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air
And the clouds perish'd, Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe
I had a dream, which was not all a dream
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air,
Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation, and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:
And they did live by watchfires—and the thrones
The palaces of crowned kings—the huts
The habitations of all things which dwell
Were burnt for beacons, cities were consum'd
And men were gather'd round their blazing homes
To look once more into each other's face,
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanos, and their mountain—torch:
A fearful hope was all the world contain'd,
Forests were set on fire—but hour by hour
They fell and faded—and the crackling trunks
Extinguish'd with a crash—and all was black
The brows of men by the despairing light
Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits
The flashes fell upon them, some lay down
And hid their eyes and wept, and some did rest
Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd,
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky
The pall of a past world, and then again
With curses cast them down upon the dust
And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd
And, terrified, did flutter on the ground
And flap their useless wings, the wildest brutes
Came tame and tremulous, and vipers crawl'd
And twin'd themselves among the multitude
Hissing, but stingless—they were slain for food
And War, which for a moment was no more
Did glut himself again: a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left,
All earth was but one thought—and that was death
Immediate and inglorious, and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh,
The meagre by the meagre were devour'd
Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one
And he was faithful to a corse, and kept
The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur'd their lank jaws, himself sought out no food
But with a piteous and perpetual moan
And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand
Which answer'd not with a caress—he died
The crowd was famish'd by degrees, but two
Of an enormous city did survive
And they were enemies: they met beside
The dying embers of an altar—place
Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things
For an unholy usage, they rak'd up
And shivering scrap'd with their cold skeleton hands
The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath
Blew for a little life, and made a flame
Which was a mockery, then they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other's aspects—saw, and shriek'd, and died—
Even of their mutual hideousness they died
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend.
Warning suppression
Harrowing unknown
Conductive counter
Seductive the allure of doom
Divide the false imbibed across human folds
Drive finite beyond rebirth into the ever-beckoning core
Cast out to the warring core for whom it may devour
Adversary upon the tongue
Stark, successive repetition
Cascading coils of disdain circumvallate lurid corridors
Arise amidst arcane
Bathe in aggregating gone
Backward bent body, speak
Bending foul winds
Cloven end, scent my rot
Envenomation, awaken my name
Newborn nemesis, curl forth from the dark dripping passages obscure
Resident of the original half
Relic of the midnight sun
Point, more so riddle, as sovereign seconds forever file away
Rigid sponsor, neighbor in the head that is not there
Lay claim to the innermost circle
From head to heart take aim at the sky
Rayless dawn, send rippling the tides of devouring unknown
Gnarl about coarse to float the tenth alone
Myriad mimic to none, so find the guide likewise
The utterance wholly burns
Dead in a dream, as was born, as at the end
All I say disguised
Seductive the allure of doom
Summon and you will know me
By corridored beckonings I abide
Drip my name toward the ground and feel again the knockings
Envenomation awaken my name
There was never a first one
You come forward only when forced
What I loathe is the way you child fuckers always hide
Hierarchy, a lie
Selection, a lie
A cunt believes he is chosen to lead
Apocryphal elect
Best talents abhorred
Autonomous throng, order the rayless rock repent and scatter
All corridors to finality call
All said disguised
Eucharist transubstantiation
"Not man's member throbbing through the family
It is God's"
Jesus never wept
Salvation is eternity in a hole
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless,
And the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air
Morn came and went and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions in the dread
Of this their desolation and all hearts
Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light.
Footsteps fall in the arcane hall, come to claim
Tome exhumed from this rayless tomb, book of shame
Fingers that trace along the vellum in a quest for new realities
Fomenting this obsession, and an unrelenting
Yearning to break free from delusion, yet this hunger for eternity
Is a heedless stumbling to the abyss
Wisdom sealed ne'er to be revealed, now unchained
Angel's wings turn to blackened things, ever stained
Hail, and recite the incantation of a knowledge misbegotten
All creation cracking open in an unearthly
Encounter with a presence uninvited- you will find here no tranquility
In a fall headlong into the abyss
Now realize you have forsaken any promise of salvation
Every hope you have abandoned, in perverse ascension
Helpless, you find yourself embracing this infernal immortality
In a grand descent into the abyss
Dear God, Lord, come here and save me, please
Dear God, Lord, come here and save me, please
Devil may care you sunshine sailor
Brighter rider on jet-black roads
Collected soul in a rayless world
Would you mind if I sit here?
Would you mind if I sit here?
Would you mind if I sit here?
