1. MANUSCRIPT 408

Words written down so long ago
In a language already gone
From hand of scribe
Down through the pen
And marked into vellum
Cloaked in darkness
The secret remains
Hidden from us for all time
The ravings of a madman
Or learned scholar
We may never know why
Brought forth while in possession
Of knowledge from other realms
Through supernatural process
One may obtain
That which is withheld
The scryer, the seer
Can talk to beings
Who remember the ancient days
When men were more
When they weren’t lost
In their mathematical ways
32 gone, 240 remain
Torn out by a dark mage
Who knew of the power
Held within
They are in use to this day
Herbal
Astronomical
Biological
Cosmological
Pharmaceutical
When all combine
Madness of the mind
Destroy all life
And reset time
When all combine
Madness of the mind
Destroy all life
And reset time


2. NATIAIWS

Throw away my cigarette
Watch it bounce across the pavement
Mindlessly walking
Tryin’a figure out where the day went
I don’t seem to know much of anything anymore
Can’t seem to get my life back to where it was before
I sit and stare at the wall
I don’t know anything at all
Sometimes I want to kill myself
Is writing it down a cry for help?
I wish you’d all leave me alone
An infinite cage was my home
Not all that I am is what’s shown


3. MAN SITTING IN A FIELD OF GREEN GRASS

Sometimes we need to sit in the grass
Relax our minds and let the time pass
Each blade has thoughts it could tell us
But sometimes they won’t because they’re jealous
Let our minds separate from our flesh
We don’t need them anyway
Relax a little and just take a rest
We have nothing to do today
Roots sprout from our thighs
Sitting Indian style
We’ve been here oh so long
We’ve been here quite a while
Shake the seeds out of our hair
Where they land little we’s grow everywhere


4. ILLUMINATIONS FORETOLD

Watch all matter form
Into giant terror worm
All enemies defeat
Crush, kill, mangle, eat
Watch all matter form
Into giant terror worm
All enemies defeat
Crush, kill, mangle, eat
Crush, kill, mangle, eat
Illuminations Foretold
The coming of one through the fold
Time is illusion old
Nothing ever grows
Illuminations Foretold
The coming of one through the fold
Time is illusion old
Nothing ever grows
Nothing ever grows
Entropy reigns
Disorder takes hold
Forever expand
Forever cold


5. STEAL AWAY FROM HELL

There are things I hope to find
I’ll be gone when they arrive
There is nothing left inside
Memories now lost in time
In much wisdom is much grief
Gaining knowledge sorrow increase
In much wisdom is much grief
Gaining knowledge sorrow increase
I’ll run until my lungs burst
From my mouth blood runs
Break this prison
Devour the frame
Defeated by none… save myself
Take shelter from thyself
Bid the world farewell
Spring forth from out of torment
Try to steal away from hell
What is this that they call life
All we know is hurt and strife
What is this that they call life
All we know is hurt and strife
I’ll run until my lungs burst
From my mouth blood runs
Break this prison
Devour the frame
Defeated by none… save myself


6. ASTRONOMICAL UNION

I saw you in a constellation
You were looking straight down at me
With stars for eyes, you lit up the sky
And even in darkness I could see
Your hair fell in trails of cosmic dust
Your figure connected out of the dots
Will you come down to me?
Or should I come up there and see?
We know each other but no one knows us
We know each other but no one knows us
We know each other but no one knows us
We know each other but no one knows us
We know each other but no one knows us
We know each other but no one knows us


7. THE BLACK BOOK OF HOURS

Bow to the virgin
Prostrate thyself
In the hour of death
Cry forth for help
Then descends
From out of the pitch
Cloaked in the sins
You would never admit
O Intemerata Obsecro Te
O Intemerata Obsecro Te
O Intemerata Obsecro Te
O Intemerata Obsecro Te
The Memitim’s come to take you away
The Memitim’s come to take you away
The black book of hours
Upon its wrists
Pray to your god
This cannot exist
As the heart panteth
After thee
From that book
Beg do not read
The black book of hours
Opens again
Upon your death
Its pages read
Oh god
Break the teeth of their mouths
Fangs of the young lions
Tear out
Oh god
Break the teeth of their mouths
Fangs of the young lions
Tear out


8. NIGHT

(Instrumental)


9. CRYSTAL COUNTDOWN INTO ALPHA

Root Chakra, Red
The Sacral, Orange
The Solar Plexus, Yellow
The Heart Chakra, Green
The Throat, Blue
The Third Eye, Indigo
Crown Chakra, Orchid


10. THE BEARDED MAGE

The bearded mage
The bearded mage
Beneath a sickle moon
Reads the ancient tome
The bearded mage
Lost in the glow
Of the candle by the window
Fire burn slow
The trees are laden with snow
Fire burn slow
The trees are laden with snow
I have ascended straight into the clouds
Spoke into them and made lightning burst out
All power lies in the book upon the page
It lies in waiting for the bearded mage
Gaze among the shelves
Many hoary volumes dwell
All known too well
Indecision casts a staying spell
Settle on the same
It’s been read and read again
Familiar decay
Tales of hurt and sorrow and pain
I have ascended straight into the clouds
Spoke into them and made lightning burst out
All power lies in the book upon the page
It lies in waiting for the bearded mage
I’ve seen my death in the flames
Stared for hours on end
When one gets this old
He knows nothing but pain
Constant pain
Old and decrepit
Life beginning to wane
All birds fly away
An image cast upon the lake
By my hand the sky shall fall
And the earth shall quake
And the earth shall quake


11. ADORATION OF RA

Adoration of Ra
When riseth he
In emerald horizons
East of thee
That which existeth
That which not yet become
Leadeth in his train
Toweth in triumph
In the name of the doorkeeper
The one who does not rest
I have poured the water on
The cuttings of the flesh


12. INFINITE REQUIEM

(Instrumental)