1. HOPELESS MAGIC

Disturbed humors
The unwavering voice is heard
A beak filled with herbs
Flowers to kill the smell
A black waxed robe

Bone from a stag
Venom from a scorpion
For every corruption can be reduced by its opposite

Pale skin
Mars in the sky
Spear and shield
Iron shavings
Desperate measures

Black spot
Such a little thing
Ground elm
Leeches
Tumours in every direction
Tumours in every direction

The unwavering
The unwavering voice
The unwavering voice is heard

Had you been born into a different time
What cruelty?
What cruelty?
Had you been born
What could I have done?
What could I have done?

Starved of answers
What good could I have done?


2. ARROWS AND CLAY

Crashed rover
Arrows and clay
Scrap metal headstone to see where they lay

Impenetrable blackness
Meandering trail
Distorted reflection
Two creatures flail

Satanic ritual of hate and sorrow
Leaking vessel
Claws brittle and hollow

Deafening croak
Jutting reeds
Overrun
Split in two

I've known you longer than anyone
But you'll never be mine
I've known you longer than anyone
But you'll never be mine


3. MOLOCH

Baked earth
Horned creature
Atop a trove of colour

Wretched colony
Plundering the earth
Dancing around the edge

My luck began when I was born
No poison can strike me down
I fear no hellish thing

Dead town
Peeling skin
Magnanimous structure
Unspeakable act
Dead town
Peeling skin
Magnanimous structure
Unspeakable act

Wrapped in a bay leaf
I can turn invisible
Wrapped in a bay leaf
I can turn invisible
Not even he can find me


4. THREE-HEADED MOTH

Carved in stone
Held aloft
Show us the way o' three headed beast
Branded on skin
Benevolent
Show us the light o' three headed lord

Let your flag be flown above all others
Let your day be undeniable
Let your screeches pierce the morning mist

Behold
Our fluttering lord
Still draped in moon dust
We bow for our creator
We bow for our saviour
We will ride atop fragile wings
And you will guide us until the end
The end of our days

A tiny drop of venom
A glistening ocean
A sun across our neck

Our marvellous creature
If not for you
We would be laid bare

Behold
Our fluttering lord
still draped in moon dust
We bow for our creator
We bow for our saviour
We will ride atop broken wings
And you will guide us until your laboured breath fades


5. SUNLESS MORNING

A glistening trophy
Lessons learnt then unlearnt
For they are guilty spiders
Trapped in a corner

Hideous doctrine of a murderous infancy
Within our grasp

Undead tradition
It cannot be killed
It cannot be satiated
A group mind is an inhuman entity
Breathing in silence

In the gaps between
Hidden violence
Same bloodshed
Same weakness
We welcome generational trauma
With the clear ringing of silver trumpets


6. ANCIENT FOR SOMEONE

Always searching for something
Beyond these walls
Something to hold
Anything at all

Always searching for something

Family heirloom
An old timepiece
A rug with a lion
A lost ornament

I heard we came from Annan
But I don’t really know
I think one of them stole a shoe
But I don’t really know
I heard we came from Annan

I don't know if you were happy to be here
I don't know if you'd be happy anywhere
But two ashes grow in your place
I think that they feel each other's presence
Until they blend into the layers
Closest that you'll ever be

I feel at home, but I don't
If I could only
I feel so close, but I’m not
If I could only