Hageny

The veil will close on us as suffering grows tedious

Feed their gregarian appetite Salivate at the trough The snake doubles downward Death crushes bone Seize on this silence, seize on this violence Abandoning hope Behold! This fate was always yours These spiders in the your skull walk the walls Death has always been yours Come down to me, mingle in this agony Limbs are stacked horizontally The spineless have no identity Their bones are only dust in the shadows Lay their flesh near the shore Suck dry all their marrow Abandoning yours Behold! This empire of sand will decay Their cries are drowned out by the swarm Death has always been yours Fool, bend your head before me, beg for release, for your pain to subside--that I may swallow the grief In the ash the skin curls back from the bone In this insidious wrath that I have Abandon all hope Ancient seas, bones wash ashore Dirty tides, the vortex churns Flesh feeds death, ever onward Leave no trace, blank face, forward

Deceit remains Darkens the day Each one they kill Remains a dream Each one they kill lies naked in the streets, every holocaust born in belief Over bodies angels weep Under skies He watches, horrified Another affliction of mankind Bathed in a glorious light all will die All crawled for peace at the hills of Zion Children slaughtered Lambs martyred And still they rose to the dawn of a new day... Struck the apostles low All our children cried as the Zionists raged on All their taste for blood old as the visions of St. John The cries of angels could only say it once--Revelation Horses in the distance raging on, the seventh seal is broken Death will come Man is God Man is his god--but what has he done...

The fat larvae hatch in her mouth, the dirt falls under her feet, the moon is fat, cascading on her empty nest. Crippled, she trembles, no longer do we play. Lift your weak head, there is just a sigh, that is just the melody. Sense the regress, taste the vacant future. All is blind, you hatched inside your own abyss. Come calling, come crawling to these arms again. He watches you, he’ll punish you because you let him. He watches you, he’ll annihilate you because you earned it. The dawn will break, but only on your paper skin--thin, aging, you drift alone into the harbor. Call her, believe that she will carry you. For all time, for the moment I will crush you. Soothe, clean the ooze on my face. I am crushing you, every time you hear my voice; each time you go to sleep, I feel around your sad insides. The milk is dead, there is a serpent on the chest. The moment dissolves, you palm the wall, praying for light. The creases deepen, the senses weaken, forgiveness will not be given. Fall asleep, inside of me, there is nowhere else for you. Fall asleep, latched to the breast, there is nothing left for you. 

Symbology suffers its greed Thirty three masters arrive for the feast Divine order loses its form Chaos draws forth Broken corpses at my feet, a prayer begins Rusted waters, hidden heads of my two daughters Disembowel the sun, pray for the young The predators flock to the feast The voiceless will speak of their own suffering My withered hands groping for Spring, aching in the confessional Shadows cooling the flesh, obeying the call of the Beast The purpose is given by predators pulling the strings In this Holocaust I will leave my sternum open In the dirt--alert!--I know the truth is coming

AN: The fourth verse is borrowed from Elton John's Tiny Dancer.