O lucent pariah
Dweller in the muted depths
Of calcified hearts
Grant me wisdom archaic
And a resolve unrepentant, blasphemous
To soar beyond the pale
A phoenix apostate
For I cannot return
I will never return...

I've seen the blaze
On bloodred nights
And I've wept at its wane
Dimming like a dream each dawn

Immerse me
In jubilant flames
With iridescent tongue
Lick away the skin
Don't dare be kind
Paralyze me in paraffin
And spark the match

Teach me to tear chitin back
To flirt with fear
To tunnel through
From a new morning womb
To splay out anew
Coarse and naked as the truth
Each digit like a compass pole
Glowing starlike in the white-hot heat

I will coax you out
Like vermin hiding
In every crawlspace in your heart
And you'll flow out, blinding

An opalescent river
Molten being of vigor
Hurtling toward oblivion
I passed straight through
The eye and screamed
May we all be

When I reach for you
When I stretch out my arms
And beg your guide
You should know
I speak not to you
There is no you
You never were
I speak to me - I command me

I see you clear as the dawn
There's no more hiding now
I feel the ache that gnaws at your heel
Did you think this was any less than fate?

Feel your spring
Boiling up from the black
Like the eyes of a bride beneath her veil

Ecstatic and resolute
Abduct the absolute
Dismember the deceiver
And rise
Bury your mask and burn

Man-machine
Paralyzed
By eyes that gleam
In vicious luminosity

Glint of chrome
Formaldehyde
And ozone
Bio-transformation

Slip the needle in
Narcotic hush to calm your trepidations
The sense awash
In vaporous information

We'll pluck out your eyes
To bring new vision
Divine
Consciousness liquefied
Extracted with precision

A small price
To pay
To end
The pain
Of your condition

Let it begin:
Scalpel pirouettes
In deft abominations
Red landscapes
Carved with reverence
To mark your pilgrimage
To the holy land of the post-human

Voyager

Catatonic voyeur
Inept omniscience
Another crippled god
In phantom creation

And when you've reached the end
You'll bear witness
To the new leviathan
Thriving in the void of consciousness
The liminal spaces
Between the real and the imagined
Sublime, lay down your mind
Immanentize the new aeon

[Instrumental]

The tides rise again
Carry me close to see the skin

But these arms cannot mend the vision

The waters fall trembling
Cast out beneath the heavenly tree

And still we dream
The hand of god will lift
Weary Tantalus
To fruits that gleam
To cease suffering

Rise, Tantalus
Unfurl your chains

Arise in flame, Enochian
I'm robed in flame, Enochian
Free from this dream, Enochian

Unfurl your wings

Beat me back but I'll keep on climbing

When you're lost in the dreams
Of the dead
And the final sun burns
Oh, the battle begins...
Prepare for brutal ascent

With sword in hand
(Succumb to steel)
Cast out the leeching demons
Don't give in
(Succumb to steel)
Remember, You are the mountain

Keep climbing, journey within
Your weary heart will burn again

Charge headfirst into the wind
Soul aflame, fate abreast
Feet light as air
Let arrows fly
If they despise you

Become the tempest

And the deceivers, they shall kneel
Before your fiery blade of steel
Obey your will's command
Shaad'oah!

And the gods who mocked each step
Will bow before you in the end

Rise, oh flesh-bound demigod
And hear the cries and moans
Of the false gods and deceivers
Collect your spoils

You're the master
Of sea and sky
Of fire and air
The thunder from above
The flames beneath the earth

Keep on climbing

Let your chariot ride across the sky
Pierce the shield of the universe

I'm alive
I'm alive in the flames

Obelisk to creation
Molecular assembly
Dancing in the Garden of Eden

Ionize
Hybridize
Sensitize
Idolize

The ontological mysterium

Let there be light!
Behold the Garden of Eden
Bathed in ultraviolet and fulmination
Nigh-infinite untold worlds
Unseen, lost and forgotten

Organic crystallization
A magma miasmic, bubbling, swirling
Whispers of primitive chemistries
Poems and prose in scripts of replication
Mutatious lexicon
Genesis
Imminent speciation

Flowing with acrid ichor
Division, swelling, expanding intensify
Dominion, animated, ascendant
Transcriptional and nucleotidal
Prolifically suicidal
Encumbered by growth itself

Hark! Life becomes death

Gradually petrified
Self-inflicted genocide
Reproduction rectified
Suffocate solidified
Atoms cease, vitrified
Coils writhe, unalive
Unalive, unalive

Boundless becoming bound
Burning spark terminal and fated to be
A headstone of aeons
Ontological mysterium

Triumphant obelisk
Calcified effigy of what once was
A monument to the unliving
Cenotaph of centuries
And glories past
Testament to the ancient

To all the creatures
In gossamer disguise
With phantom hands
And hagfish eyes

Toothless cretin
Blind to the promise of spring
Grasping at ghosts
Follow your nose off the cliff's edge
Just let me sit in peace on the precipice

Anemic dinosaur
Drunk on nostalgia
Clinging to crumbling walls
Wipe that grin off your smug face
Before I teach you what life's about
What it really means to suffer
Don't bother making my bed
In your ghost town

Dense automaton
Digging up graves
To please gods lost to history
If you need me, god forbid
I'll be out back shooting at stars

Small-minded misfit
You think I'd spend a moment
Of this ethereal voyage
Basking like a lizard in your twilight?

I'm ringing the Death Knell
Go To Hell

Kneel for no lord
Time's too fuckin' short

Strutting all night,
Satan nips at our heel
Decked Out In
Leather And Steel