The lesser gods have taken their withered placement back from man
Soul consuming time teeth travel centuries of non-space
Assemble the sacrifice and drip the offering through cracks in the earth.
Grey blood of ancient dressing stains the skin of the elder ripe
Solar winds breed laceration
Old birds scream of slit throats languages burned by minds
[Music & lyrics - Mick Barr] Enriched in wind with temperature guidance, Sands surrounded in dry cold With lichened stone and unwanted growth, Nearer
[Music & lyrics - Mick Barr] Creator mind lending healing To beings that ceaselessly assist the evolution of the spirit, Hate courses through the weakest
Rot encompassing stone To peel back this reckoning Masses of brain masters pitted As life returns this passing waste Proud to be living in the echo
As if the light never shone And humans never thought All that are left shall be subject to suffer All left shall suffer The escapers made their pact
The eye seeks a desert The anchorite sits, pensive Thought encumbered Pillars of cracked rock and The catarrhs of coarse winds The bleached bone offerings
[Music - Nick McMaster, lyrics - Michelangelo] The soul tries out a thousand cures, in vain; Since I was taken from my early road, Vainly it worries
[Instrumental]
Once gaily painted And awash in joyful Rites and the blood Giving warmth to the slumbering crowds The wise man who is not wise Sits and broods And
[Music & lyrics - Colin Marston] Hands and knees grasping earth The shining rust Eggshell eyes Brimming madness Drink deep The tumult fades, The silence
Wake, nurse your aching brow, the cloud behind your eyes For now soothed by gentle thoughts of oblivion And sexual release Inside every man is a beast
The silence already funereal spreads a pall His lips not drinking there or baiting breath Its muzzle all aflame with savage howls Idol of Anubis Aflame
