1. START WITH A HEARTBEAT

He was but the shape of a man,
Formed from dust, raised from nothing
A rough silhouette caught in its timeless sleep

He was bound to eternity, remaining the same,
The same enslaved to perfection

This is the son, the first born from that womb untouched
This is a self thought man
Words for creation
A forceful thought into light

Lids open:
The lips disjoint, the chest filled with life
Time starts with the heartbeat

This is a new beginning, this is a birth,
This is the time of the first times
This is a fall, this is an end, so come my I awake

He was but the shape of a man,
A rough silhouette caught in its timeless sleep
But a word in mind
So come awake from your timeless sleep

Come, come; here comes the void, here comes reality,
Here comes the mortal world
So long, womb of the holy


2. MAN THE SERPENT

Lights are out
Voices have faded away and the night has slowly flowed in
Around the dark waters are yet still,
But hear them shiver in the distance -
Shivers that herald the tempest to come

Alone, it's all that I am and anywhere I ever will be
A lost soul, a broken heart, a lonely wayfarer in the dark
And no one but me knows what there can be

From the swamp, an evil chill rises to grasp on the throat
Whispering trees are plotting in the fog
The bitter air poisons the tongue: here they come

Hushing, hushing serpents are the first,
But soon comes the rest of the horde
Circling, circling always nearer -
Circling my fragile little boat

And I know there is still more to come,
After the beasts that bite and scratch and tear the flesh apart,
After the savages that grind the bones to dust,
After the fiends, after the devils that set the mind ablaze

Hushing, hushing serpents are the first,
But soon comes the rest of the horde
Circling, circling always nearer -
Circling my fragile little boat


3. THE GREAT DISMEMBERMENT

The ground dismembers me
I'm dismembered and nailed to...

Nailed to the floor - a raping ground,
Back and forth it comes and up and down, like a hammerfall
And coming back and coming forth, ramming my,
Ramming through my doors, again and again,
Assailing the shell

Needles in my eyes
Needless, I'm already blind
Needles in my head
Needless, I'm already nailed to a raping ground,
Coming back and forth,
Up and down like a hammerfall, like an animal
Again assailing the shell,
Again and again until I'm nothing but a mountain of pain

A dead rat on the sideway
With dried limbs and guts thrown everywhere on the floor
A dead rat on a highway
With insides on fire spilled everywhere around

And I'm lying there still, with my face to the ground,
The body aching like hell: dismembered, that's just how it feels
And my empty head still I don't know who I am
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm coming from...nailed to the ground
Spears, strokes to the brain, sharpened light to burn the self
Broken bones shoved up my limbs:
Savage fight to burst the flesh

Here they come again


4. NEW KING, DARK PROPHET

Listen all of you, what I bring is great news!
Leave your shack and tread near
I can tell you, with mine eyes I've seen
He has come back, he is here:

The Lord, the Savior, the Great Philosopher,
The chemist who knows the names and the signs
I've seen how the skies have colored in gold,
I've seen the clouds open to let him through

Here, he is the long awaited,
The two-headed serpent with infinite coils in an infinite swirl

Listen all of you: nor am I high, nor am I drunk
Truly, I saw the trumpets! I swear I heard the angels sing
Oh lost souls,
Let us raise our hands as horns to praise that heavenly son


5. THIS IS NOT A DEAD MAN, YET

I came here on a centipede - an evil ride, what a clumsy beast
Always so close to throw me off
I came here in a dream, a floating drift all rolling and pitching -
I'm still seasick
I came here I don't even know how, a black hole in a black wall
And just that nauseous feeling

And diesel dripping down the throat, and breathing dust,
And the soothing smoke
And whisperings of anguish and haste,
Nursing hands holding me - all those anxious hands...
And the blurry crowd eager for help,
Beseeching fear in their eyes

Oh look, he moves
Look, here I am
His eyes open
The dead rat awakes

Look, he awakes
Look, here I am
He has come back
Collecting dead memories and limbs just the same

Look, he awakes
Look, here I am
He has come back

And white bodies everywhere
Dancing with arms thrown high in the air
They sing and shout and act like the snake

The skies have sent their son
Now all will be good
I said the skies have sent their son to reign over us:
For years and years, Eden on earth -
And he will let the rush last forever, and we will suffer no more


6. CARCASSES

And I wear a head of me
Oh, arms burn
Changing faces, changing wings,
Changing skin behind the mask

Oh look, I'm a bird of prey - but I could be a dove, a deer,
Or a coypus of vultures circling the yellow skies
Here they come, here they come for me
Come!

I am a better place for you
I'm a better place

My sweet, my brave, my servants:
Annoying bugs on the floor, faces in the wall
They speak to me
Come, I'll tread on you
May the pest fall onto you

Come here, whores!
Oh, come carcasses, make my body swing!
Come here, whores, come make my body swing!
Oh, come carcasses!
Pour down

Come here whores, down from your holiest
Come carcasses, pour your heavenly delight
Come here whores, let the sceptre reign
Come carcasses, let my sceptre fiercely reign over you


7. THE CHYMICAL FIANCÉ

Come out
Elevate your mind and embrace the great whole
Look how much brighter it is than man has ever imagined
I'll show you worlds no man on earth has ever seen

Come out
Elevate your mind and embrace the whole

Seven are the worlds, seven are the spheres,
Seven times wise you can get
Golden steps towards the light
Seven are the worlds, seven are the spheres,
Seven times wise you can get
But ropes bind you here seven times

And you have fallen to the deepest of prisons
Where reigns weeping and gnashing of teeth
The darkest place where the light is but a spark,
So come out and burn

But see as above so below;
What is way up in the skies is way down in your soul
As above so below,
So just turn the mirror upside down

And step into the deepest parts of your heart -
And you'll walk among the stars
Step into the brightest parts of your heart
And you'll walk among the mighty stars
The embrace and the heart, your open mind,
Your elevated outcome: the watchman


8. DAWN

I walk through the night for a long time
I walk until the houses disappear
I enter lands I've never been, with hills and mountain tops against the whitening sky

I walk through the rising dawn
I walk to the mountains near
I climb and crawl to reach the top
And there for the first time to my newborn eyes unveils this world

And what you'll see will make you speak:
"I won't be able, I am too weak"
And that is the truth, that's how you are

A storm is raging over the land,
A storm that defies the strength of its wings
The skies have unfold and gloom has ravished the light

The king has been killed
Cities wage war on cities, and corpses jam their doors
The brother kills his brother
The friend kills his friend
Madness now reigns in the night

And what you'll see will make you speak:
"I won't be able, I am too weak"
And that is the truth, that's how you are

But this is the load you have to carry:
You'll be the watchman who runs from east to west

And I see the world is a lump of coal close to be consumed
And I see the sky is a giant veil falling on life
And it swells up in the air
And it glides down stretching its wide wings to suffocate all breath
And I see this universe seized inside the seven spheres
They open a black mouth to devour it whole
A mouth that sucks the world to nothingness

Then I see nothing