THE AXIS OF PERDITION LYRICS

1. To Walk the Corridors of Hell

[Intro speech:]
Cygnus X-1 was discovered as an X-ray source 30 years ago This binary system, distant of 2.5 kpc, consists of the O9.7 Iab type
supergiant HDE 22 and a compact object orbiting around with a period of 5.6 days. The mass of the unseen companion, significantly
larger then 5 solar masses, suggests that it is a black hole. Focused wind accretion from a primary star being extremely close to
filling the Roche lobe drives the powerful source of the X-ray radiation. Cygnus X-1 is one of the brightest X-ray sources in the sky.

Fall...........
Seasons of crippling pain as I walk the corridors of hell
A disturbing contortion of the mind revered
Unending hypocrisy when faith removes your eyes
Fall..........
Stretch your fingertips and feel the barbed shell of your prison
Huddle freezing on the immaculate steps to my temple
Which lead in (intertwining) spirals to your nightmares

Burn the havens that justify the light
And watch the smoke invite the shadows in
Shadows so deep they are infinite chasms
The foetid jaws of hell

A mummified god clinging like a parasite
To an earth that pathetically complies
Shall be swallowed by that gaping maw
All that lives shall die

Fall and fall again into the horrific maze of your undoing
To me it is a reflection of my supremacy

2. Chained in the Damnation Asylum

See the beast in the forest of interchanging mirrors
Feel the stinging breath of the hounds upon your neck
Pouring ravenous from sky-cathedrals riddled with chthonic pulse
Beyond the breaking point of human conceptions

(Through the) dark embrasure....

Crouch paralysed in the circle of salt and await the end
Torch-beams glitter on the rust-caked torture implements
The vile, barbed accoutrements of the chambers of agony
Blind, slithering chains scatter the circle heaped around you
The bloodstained hooks glide eagerly towards your flesh
While you spit your soul into the filth

Pull down the stars and brand them into the shrivelled eyes of God
Grind the temples into gravel and tear his face with the shards
Sunder the cross into thirteen stakes and pierce his emaciated flesh
This is the promise of those who make us as insects

Let Satan cling feebly to god, they shall be destroyed together

All engulfing pain seeping through the vulnerable angles
The hounds slip on the breath of night and vault the shadows
While horrors whose face-tentacles twitch in eagerness
Consume the crumbling idols of your gods...
Human gods...
All-too-human gods!

Tindalosi be our salvation....

3. Born Under the Knife, Live in Pain

Inconceivable claws wrenching at the gates of time
Torrential incandescence of the atomic wellspring
Churning in its infinity amongst mindless dancers
Lurching to the twitching cadence of discordant flutes
This is chaotic abhorrence, mercurially envisioned horror
The incoherent howling in the untamed void
Of a malformed child stretching its emaciated limbs
Amidst the unbearable pounding and the stench of vile smoke

...Skin-graft ugliness...
...Implacable gaze...
...Towering disdain...
...Insectile grimace...
...Talons stretched...
...Muscles taught...
...Burning scars...
...Waiting to be born...

Cruel, haggard eyes locked in incurable amusement
Contorted grin on the face of inhumanity
Stirring the convulsions of its puppets
Stapled down and force fed misanthropy
Cavorting primitive playthings
Bastardised on the ruins of a wasted heaven
Eagerly devouring our own minds
Mouth and eyes sewn up but still we shriek and stare

In the alleys that weave between (gulf-spanning) sky-thorns
Graffiti hung derelict towers (pinning down the earth)
Litter scuttles blindly away like fear-crazed insects
Crumbling city walls echo their terror (back at them)
In the filth stained underpass we wait
Dangling limply on chains, hung from another reality
Empty minds waiting to create pain
Waiting to be born.







THE AXIS OF PERDITION LYRICS