WE TORE DOWN THE FIRMAMENT FOUNDATIONS CRUMBLING, DEFILED DEVOURED BY UNTOLD DISAPPOINTMENTS AND LIES  HEAVEN AS A CONSTRUCT HAS FAILED FOR MAN NOW REMAINS A REFUGE, A LOST PLACE TO HIDE AS YOUR WORLD SUCCUMBS TO MINE CONSUMED BY SEVEN, MY CHILDREN BRED AS PARASITES DISOWNING HEAVEN, MY MAGGOTS SPREAD AND MULTIPLIED  BACKS TURNED TO SAVIOURS, REFUGE SOUGHT IN SIN AND PAIN FOR SHE IS SOLACE AS THE TAINTED RAIN ON TERRA’S PLANE OUR FATHER, YOU FAILED THEM OUR FATHER, YOU FAILED US ALL OUR FATHER, I REDEEM THEM OUR FATHER, I RULE ALL THE INSECT’S CHAMPION, TO SCORCH YOUR NAME AND UNDERMINE RETRIBUTION SCARS BURN BLACK AS ICE INTO UNFETTERED VEIN A BLOODLINE SAVED TO CARRY ON THE WORD OF LAMBS RUN MEEKLY TO THE SLAUGHTER, HER BLOOD SHALL SET FREE ALL OF MAN A THREAD UNBROKEN THAT THORN-PIERCED SKULL COULD NOT DENY A LINE DESCENDING FROM THE LOINS OF SUN ONCE SANCTIFIED HER PASSIONS FLEETING, HER FUTURE SHALL BE AS WAS DUSK AS EVE ONCE LED THE FALL, SO WILL SHE BE MINE   LEAD: ‘Deus Vult’ (Lee James Appleton) THOUGH MY SUN BE UNPARTISAN, ASSUMED BY ALL TO GORGE HIS FILL MY DAUGHTER’S TRIBUTARIES SHALL SEEK TO BRING “HER” ILL AND YOUR HEART’S REMAINING LIGHT BE DIMMED, AND YOUR FAILURE… COMPLETE OUR FATHER, YOU FAILED THEM OUR FATHER, YOU FAILED US ALL OUR FATHER, I REDEEM THEM OUR FATHER, I RULE ALL FOR THEE I GAVE MAN FROM THEE I CLAIMED HER WOMB FROM THEE I’LL TAKE “HER” AND SIN WILL CONQUER ALL

I AM THE MOUTH THAT GORGES EDEN’S DELIGHT AS ALL THINGS WRACK AND RUIN, RAVENOUS BLIGHT AS I DEVOUR GAIA SUCCULENCE DRAINED, AS WE CHOKE ON LIFE WHAT IS WILL NOT AS CHOICE BE TWISTED ILL INSATIABLE, RELENTLESS AS GUT BE SWOLLEN STILL THE RAPE OF ROOT AND STEM WE VIOLATE WE CONSUME WITH NO THOUGHT FOR ONES TO COME AS WE DESECRATE I AM THE MOUTH THAT GORGES EDEN’S DELIGHT AS ALL THINGS WRACK AND RUIN, RAVENOUS BLIGHT AS I DEVOUR GAIA SUCCULENCE DRAINED, AS WE CHOKE ON LIFE MYOPIC GLUTTONY TO DRAIN OUR RESOURCE NOW TO TAKE ALL THAT SHE HAS TO OFFER AND DEPLETE HER FRUCTUOUS FLOWER WE TAKE! WE BREAK! WITH BURNING, GRASPING HANDS! NO REVERANCE FOR THE BEAUTY SLAIN, WE WANT IT ALL! AND SO WE RAVAGE SHE WHO GAVE US LIFE AND SO INDUCED INTO BELLY DISTENDED, TO TEAR APART THAT WHICH FED YOUR FLESH FROM SUSTENANCE TO ENTITLEMENT ECOLOGICAL MURDER, USE OUTSTRIPS ALL NEED NO SYMBIOTIC REPLENISHING, YOU FUCKING PARASITES! LEAD: ‘Mesmeric Pandaemonium’ (Lee James Appleton) SUCH BOUNTY! SUCH BEAUTY! WE MUST FIND A WAY YET MAW SO (over) FLOWING WE ARE STOPPED FROM SCREAMING   HAIL MOLOCH! THEY OFFER THEIR SEED TO THEE OUR CHILDREN’S PATH, RAZED. DENIED. WE’LL FEED THEM DUST ABOMINATION A HOST STRIPPED BARE, FOR FEAR WE WILL BE DENIED

LEAD: ‘God-shaped Hole’ (Lee James Appleton) PRINCE OF HELL, LORD OF THE GAP, CAST YOUR DOUBTS, SOW SEEDS OF DEBATE INVITE DESIRE, DUBIETY HER PATH BE STREWN WITH THORNS RIPPED FROM THE VINE TAKE HER HAND, BA’AL PEOR LEAD HER FROM LIGHT INTO TEMPTATION TAKE HER HOPE, TAKE HER FAITH APATHY, DEEP INTO HER SOUL WITH CONSCIENCE PRICKED INVADE HER MIND WITH HORRORS OF HER WORLD NO JUST GOD WOULD DESIGN WHEN SHE PRAYS BLOCK OUT “THE WORD” NO COMFORT EAR, JUST BLEED REALITY WITH PRAYER UNANSWERED, NO PAIN DIVINE IMPLANT THE CANCER INDIFFERENCE OF MIND LET HER SINK, LET HER FALL TO ASK THE QUESTION… HAS HE FORSAKEN US ALL MY CHILD BE PULLED BACK TO THE LIGHT MY CHILD LET DREAM BE VESSEL LOSE NOT ALL FAITH IN ME FOR I SHALL COMFORT THEE I AM IN THEE AND IN THEE MY LIGHT, YOUR SCARS SHALL BE STIGMATA DENY ENTICEMENT, REPEL SEDUCTION THIS DAEMON CLOUDS THY MIND WITH BLASPHEMY   I AM IN THEE AND IN THEE MY LIGHT, YOUR SCARS SHALL BE STIGMATA LIKE GODS DEPARTED, HIS LIGHT EXTINGUISHED BELIEF ONCE STRONG NOW SHATTERED LIKE GODS DEPARTED, HIS TRUTH SHALL LEAVE ME LIKE EMBERS BURNED, AS FLAMES BE STILL AND DEVIL MAKE WORK FOR IDLE HANDS AS MISCHIEF DANCES AND FAITH ABANDONED SEARS THE SOUL LIKE ONE WHO LOVED AND LOST LIKE GODS DEPARTED HIS LIGHT EXTINGUISHED BELIEF ONCE STRONG NOW SHATTERED LIKE GODS DEPARTED LIKE EMBERS BURNED, AS FLAMES BE STILL

LET IT REIGN! A SHOWER OF GOLD FOR PEASANTS CHEER SPEARHEAD, CRUSADER FOR VICTORY THY WORTH IS WORTH THEIR FALL AS PARASITE, A LEECH TO SUCK NOT BILE, BUT VIOLATE WITH GLUTTONOUS ABANDON, TO STEAL, TO TAKE… TAKE! TAKE! TAKE! I AM THE NEW ICON I AM FALSE IDOL PRAISED A PAPER GOD TO FLATTER WHO DECEIVE US AS FATTENED SWINE GATHER TO SERVE ME SO QUICK TO TURN, ALL PRINCIPLES ABANDONED AS EVIL’S ROOT, I BURY MY THORNS IN SPLENDOUR I DRINK MY FILL THE SWEATY NEED OF REPULSIVE OBSESSION FOR MAMMON’S SEED IS MANKIND’S TRUE CANCER NO CONSCIENCE SHATTERED, NO IRON WILL TO BEND TO MINE RESOURCE PLENTY, TO NURTURE, TO SHELTER ALL AS HORDE GROWS MONSTROUS STILL I AM THE NEW ICON, I AM FALSE IDOL PRAISED A PAPER GOD TO FLATTER WHO DECEIVE US AS FATTENED SWINE GATHER TO SERVE THEMSELVES LEAD: ‘Le malaise vagal’ (Paul Alan Ryan-Reader) LEAD: ‘A Fine Day To Lie’ (Paul Alan Ryan-Reader) YET WHAT DO I BRING THEE? ETERNAL WAR! FOR DUST SETTLES TO DUST WITH NO ADORNMENT SHINING AND WHAT DO WE BRING THEM? ETERNAL WAR FOR DUST SETTLES TO DUST WITH NO ADORNMENT SHINING I AM THE NEW ICON I AM FALSE IDOL PRAISED

DEFERENCE, REVERENCE, EXALTATION DECEPTION’S CROWN GLEAMS BRIGHT IN THE SUN A VACUOUS FAÇADE THAT MAKES STERILE VIRTUE BUILD A CULT OF PERSONALITY AND THEY WILL COME TO TASTE THE SIN OF THE SERPENT’S POISON TO DRINK THEIR FILL AND SATE THEIR LUST TO GIVE THEIR ALL IN PYRRHIC SURRENDER ANOTHER IDOL REPLACES ANOTHER GOD ANOTHER ICON REPLACES ANOTHER GOD HOLLOW. A SHALLOW MASK CONCEALS ALL THAT LIES BEHIND THIS VACANT STARE THAT BLINDS AND BINDS WE GIVE THEM EVERYTHING, WE YIELD TO ESTEEM AND CELEBRITY TRUMPS ALL… DON’T LOOK TO THE SKY FOR REFLECTIONS CANDOUR WILL SHOW JUST WHO YOU ARE EMINENCE BESTOWED A LUST FOR GRANDEUR ECLIPSING TRUTH SUICIDE, SUICIDE, DON’T YOU KNOW ME? WILLINGLY SUBMITS AS PRESTIGE CALLS TO LOVE. TO WORSHIP WITH VERMIN SMILE SUCCESS BE MEASURED AS STATUS SHINES DECREED IN NOTABILITY FOR HE SHALL RISE, TO CONQUER ALL FOR ALL EYES TURNED TO THE STARLIT HAND THAT GUIDES, MANIPULATES BORN OF FLICKERS, OF SERPENT TONGUE BORN OF FLICKERS, OF SERPENT TONGUE TO FEED THEM OFFAL AND EAT IT A GIFT UNDONE ANOTHER ICON REPLACES ANOTHER GOD HOLLOW. A SHALLOW MASK CONCEALS ALL THAT HIDES BEHIND THIS VACANT STARE THAT BLINDS AND BINDS WE GIVE THEM EVERYTHING, WE YIELD TO ESTEEM AS CELEBRITY TRUMPS ALL  

NO GODS NO MASTERS NO KING OF KINGS NO REDEEMER BORN TO DIE NO SIN TO BE WASHED CLEAN THE WORLD OF MAN IN TORMENT LIES AT MY FEET A WRITHING MASS OF DECAYING WORMS TO WORSHIP ME FOR VANITY FOR REDEMPTION FOR A LEGACY AS RULER OF THE BLIND FOR VICTORY FOR DEATH FOR MY IDOLATRY OF SELF LEAD: ‘’Malignant Narcissim for Beginners’ (Lee James Appleton) DIVINE I STAND AS THE SKULLS OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR “HIM” SHALL BE MY THRONE NOT FOR THE VENGEANCE NOR CHAOS BROOD NOT FOR THESE SAVAGES CREATED BY MY INFESTATIONS FOR VANITY FOR REDEMPTION FOR A LEGACY AS RULER OF THE BLIND UGH! TO PULVERIZE TO BANISH HIM AS HE ONCE BANISHED ALL TO TAKE THE THRONE TO BE THE ONE THROUGH BLOOD AND BONE NO FALL SHALL FOLLOW THIS ASCENSION LEAD: ‘Culmination purblind’ (Paul Alan Ryan-Reader) FOR VANITY FOR REDEMPTION FOR A LEGACY AS RULER OF THE BLIND FOR VICTORY FOR DEATH FOR MY IDOLATRY OF SELF

FAILURE A RANK TASTE SO BITTER SO FOUL THE LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS ECLIPSED BY VANITY AS FACILE VERMIN SWARM TO DENY THEIR BLOODBORN MOURNING LIGHT THIS WASTE OF FLESH AND BONE REPULSES, UNDIGNIFIED TO STUMBLE FORTH, TO SABOTAGE UNEDIFIED AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RAGS BURNED RICHES BESTOWED FROM HIGH THE GREAT DECEPTION, THAT TONGUES UNSPLIT BE FORKED SQUEEZE THE LIE TIL SANGUINE DRIP, FOR MAN SHALL LIVE FOR NEVERMORE HATE REIGNS, IN HIS NAME, THE GOD OF WRATH DUPLICITY DIVINE THEIR VENIN POISONED MINDS SHALL WREAK MY HAVOC, ROIL SOW DISCORD, NO ABEYANCE FOR I SHALL DENY THEIR DEMISE LEAD: ‘’Suit & Tie Scum’ (Lee James Appleton) Turning and turning in the widening, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, A blood-dimmed tide, and everywhere; The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty (one) centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ‘The Second Coming’ W.B.Yeats, 1919

GODFROST, GODFROST UNLEASH THE PLAGUE, TURN HEAVEN ON MAN GODFROST. AS HELL FREEZES OVER I GNAW YOUR EAR, INGEST YOUR FEAR ALL YOU HAVE, I HOLD, TO VOMIT FORTH REGURGITATED LIES WHAT ONCE WAS HIS ,PENETRATES SUBVERSION, DISTRACTION, AS MY TONGUE FLICKS DEEPER GODFROST, GODFROST, UNLEASH THE PLAGUE, TURN HELL ON MAN GODFROST, AS HEAVEN FREEZES OVER I WANT IT ALL, IT BURNS TO FAIL I COVET THEE AND ALL THAT IS THINE ALL I WANT IS LOVE, ALL I WANT IS THE ONE THING I CAN NO LONGER HAVE GODFROST, GODFROST, UNLEASH THE PLAGUE, TURN MAN ON MAN GODFROST, AS EARTH FREEZES OVER

Awake my child, embrace the winter kiss A cold caress of tidal fears, pulling you down to drown with me (or him) Don’t sleep again my child, for eternity’s breath won’t warm thy sallow eyes again, or see the future scarred Unbarren you stand as saviour No choice We don’t have a choice HATE! REDEMPTION’S PATH ONCE TRODDEN BY A MOTHER HATED BY MANY SCORNED WHOSE ROTTED, MANGLED FEET DID TREAD THROUGH FETID TIMES   THE SPEAR WHICH CARVED HIS SIDE AND RENT APART A SPLINTER FOR YOUR MIND’S EYE A JAGGED SEED WHICH GROWS (and grows and grows and…) A HAND WITH FINGERS SPLAYED AND BENT AND SNAPPED AND SHATTERED SHALL BE YOUR ONLY CORRUPTION, ONLY SEDITION, ONLY RELEASE FROM THE SPIRAL THAT DRIPS INTO YOUR MOUTH NO BLESSING, NO APPLE FRESH, TAINTED BURDEN YOU’LL TAKE HIS SCARS, STIGMATA’S CROWN AND INFECT THIS EARTH WITH HIS POISON YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE! AS CANCER GROWN ON SAVAGE SILT IN PERDITION’S JAWS WE SPAWN AS TUMOUR SWELLS TO SAVIOUR SOUL INTO CHAOS’ ARMS WE MOURN   OPPRESSION’S CHILD OR FREE WILL BURNING? A SHARD COULD END IT ALL HIS LIGHT, MY DARK, THEIR PATH, OUR FATHER FRACTURED TO MAKE US FALL   MY HAND, THIS WORLD, THEIR SCARS, OUR HOPES WE’VE SERVED TO KILL THE TAR SHALL SMOTHER OCEANS BLACK COULD YOU KILL WHAT YOU LOVE TO SAVE SO MANY (hated) ? SEVEN PLAGUES CORRODING ALL WRATH! LUST! SLOTH! GREED! ENVY! PRIDE! A GLUTTONY …OF SINS TO PASS TO OFFSPRING BORN TO DIE TO DESCEND WITH HATED CHILD TO LIVE, TO BREATH, TO NEED, TO SHUN THE LIGHT NO SON COULD SEAR OR SANCTIFY WE HAVE NO CHOICE WE HAVE NO CHOICE WE HAVE NO CHOICE WE ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE