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BABYLON WHORES LYRICS
"Cold Heaven" (1997)
1. Deviltry
2. Omega Therion
3. Beyond the Sun
4. Metatron
5. Enchiridion for a Common Man
6. In Arcadia Ego
7. Babylon Astronaut
8. Flesh of the Swine
9. Cold Heaven
1. Deviltry
"Oh rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm that flies in the night / In the
howling storm / Has found out thy bed / Of crimson joy / And his dark secret
love / Doth live destroy"
Oh fallen star of wormwood grace / Grant me the smile of Janus face / Give me
a twin identity / A false integrity
To my city set upon the hill / With a godlike view at my own will / Give me the
cure for the world's pain / Give me the god of cain
For damned in forbearance I have crawled / Half awake I've gotten old / I got
the gum card of every sin / Sent for the Christ to win
Deviltry / Some simple deviltry of sin / Give me black deviltry / The vice of kings
and knaves / The king of kings and knaves /Bunch of slaves
For I got no promises to keep / Wouldn't bother to sow even less to reap /
And I know there's sense in being sane / There's reality to blame / But I still
got something resembling pride / So one more time give me a ride / Crush in
my nasal bone and ride / Rattle my spine
2. Omega Therion
For want of an angel / For all the lead that you thought you turned gold /
There is something that you still want to know / Il Penseroso led you astray /
To the woods and the wild / The pathless way / And you followed the trail that
Shelley fared / Gazed on dead kings with your sullen despair / Even the dome
of the rock in Blake's city / Bore no trace of St. Augustine
And you studied Plotinus / Thrice great Trismegistos / Knew the reign of Hister
and Niebelung / Nietzsche, Vril und Gotterdammerung
Do you want an angel / Heaven clad as the stars fell / Do you want an angel /
Poison of god to make it well
For want of an angel / For all the blood that you turned into ink / You found
yourself still searching / A Heosphoros for a Golden Dawn / A scarlet sunrise for
Babalon / Someone to stop all the watches now / Someone to bring this
shithouse down / All things must have an end / All things for all men
Oh forget the Tuesday baby / Let it be a doomsday baby / Come on and suck a
megaton / Omega Therion
So it is time / Unbind the lines of horizon / Omega Therion / Take you away
3. Beyond the Sun
Well if a tree falls down / Does it make a sound / If there's no one to see? /
And if I'm all alone / Everybody's gone / Then it's the real me / Right?
And if you found yourself / To be like no one else / Who would that no one
be? / And if you blew your cool / With life as an april's fool / The truth could be
seen / Right?
Ain't no world in a grain of sand / No flowers to hold in our hands / Didn't got
no million in prizes / The shoe didn't fit in none of the sizes
Pull down the shade / On your window / Go paint it a smiling face / Lose
yourself in the shadows like days
And everything is new and bright / Like vomit kisses on summer nights / A
tooth for an eye / An eye for tooth / A truth for an eye / A lie for a tooth / They
say
Well if there is a Beast / And your soul's diseased / Would you take its hand? /
If God don't love you / Just be a man / And be God damned
Oh won't you let it come / Meet the enemy of sun / Oh it's there just look
deep within / Growing bigger with your feeble sins
Pull out your heart / Through the rib cage / Go paint it a smiling face / Leave a
scarab in its place
Would you believe that the earth is hollow / And our path is the straight and
narrow / Tooth fairies and Santa Claus / There's troll's blood in all of us?
Would you believe that there's nothing more for us / No more hate / No more
love / No fight and fuss / When everything is said, denied and done
Beyond the sun
4. Metatron
Given to crescent moon / Chaldean echoes of spectral gloom / Like a pen pal of
the gods / No horns no reply
Flowers of sorcery / Like pearls before the swine / Defying space and time /
Sez the pineal gland of mine
Like,
Given to dreaming witches' lie / It's sweet to close your weary eyes / Given
to pentacles and more / Drunk with the blood of the whore
Gimme some Metatron / Damn my immortal soul / But show me something that
I don't know / Gimme some Metatron
Given to waning moon / Septuagint whispers of impending doom / Cautes and
Cautopates / A shit load of bad ass deities / Wore out my shovel / Burying
monsters where they popped up / And it's OK / Doesn't matter anyway
For Babalon above / For Babalon below
Gimme some Metatron
5. Enchiridion for a Common Man
Need me a bar on an alleyway / Death on a pale horse to ride away / A
disease bacteria culture dip plate / Bagged take away / And it's all right / Just
let it ride
A fleet of dragon barges at berth / To sail off the edge of the earth / Setting
sail for some bad luck / Could fuck some mean shit up / And it's all right
Just let it ride
And if I should lose my very soul / In some distant port of call / I would still find
my way home / If I took pride and I should fall / My wings could not be shorn /
My heaven would just be cold
Saw life as a girl from the avenue / Daddy's sunshine with eyes of blue / Been
more content with a cross eyed witch / Back in an alley ditch / And it's all right
Just let it ride
For all the things I've said and known / I guess some reason could be shown /
Life can be easy / Life can be kind / Plain sodomy from the behind
Show me a bar on an alleyway / A cross eyed witch to steal my soul away /
For I could die on an alleyway / With a smile on my lips / For all the yesterdays
Show me a bar on an alleyway / This is the bar on an alleway
So, let it ride / Now come on and ride / Just let it ride / Now come on and ride / So, let it ride
So, let it ride
6. In Arcadia Ego
In Arcadia ego / Twisted the rose did grow / Sucked up the sap of this world /
Blood red the petals pearled / With some wisdom absurd
And outside these walls / The night took the rose / Bound it with moonlight /
And cut it up with the morning star
In Arcadia ego / A rose to drown in snow / A sepulchre by the sea / Marble to
slumber beneath / Lulled by a mountain stream
And outside these walls / The night knows us all / In dark woods wandering /
Detached of our soul
"Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride / Bring roses if the rose be
yet in bloom / All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes / Our Father Rosicross sleeps
in his tomb"
In Arcadia ego / How fast the years did go / And how bitter is the wind /
Blowing from shores of Arcady
And outside these walls / The night knows us all / In dark woods the roses
grow / In hardship the soul
In Arcadia Ego
7. Babylon Astronaut
Two feet have I / Pillars of putrid meat / Standing so tall among my / Icons of
filth / With gargoyle eyes / I see / The Christ he's smiling at me / His
phosphorous grin / An absolution for all my sins
And in this room / The walls covered with flies / I'm seen through their /
Myriad eyes / The alien eyes / I'm seen somewhere else / Seen through the
windows of Hell
A few million / Light years from home / I am searching for a different kind of /
Insanity / The Babylon astronaut
Could you leave it all behind?
(There is no evil)
I see the stars painted on the window's glass / Seven planets supporting the
nothingness / And I am happy / Nothing more, nothing less
(There is no evil)
Something came to my room / As flies on the ceiling / Coming down on me /
One by one / And their hairy limbs / Crawling on my naked skin / The
motherfuckers screwing on me / Insect sex
No I won't move / As my ears are laden with eggs / Close my eyes / And
dream of being back in the womb
"Under the juniper trees Talking cats and silver boots filled with Blood"
Could you leave it all behind?
Under another sun / I'll grow saturnine / Lay siege to heaven / In fever
dreams / And I smash my head / Into the window's glass / And see the stars
come down at last
8. Flesh of the Swine
Shiny like marble kissed by sea / Some Castaneda dreams / By William
Burroughs means
Feeding the devil with a spoon / It is the length / Not the skill nor stealth or
strength / Like / Do you got what it takes to know yourself / To kill the
universe / You try to twist into a curse?
True flesh of a swine fattened on her brood / Will bark at the sun howl the
moon / Go grasp the meaning of universe / Or kill thyself
No four and nine is a twelve / No ten and three is a twelve
The new born moon did burn you blind / A Horus of plucked out eye / Trying to
map the sky / To find a place to go when he dies
Bride wealth of the sun / For the wife you wed / A templars' Baphomet /
Crown that fits no head / Pork jelly fed / No suckling to sodomy and sin /
Cheap wine pissed in the wind / Gonna get it right
For true flesh of a swine fattened on her brood / Will bark at the sun howl the
moon / Go grasp the meaning of universe / Or kill thyself
Seasons they change / Winter did come / Washed down with blood / Gulped
down your sun
And ogre brood souls / Gnaw cheese from the moon / Dream of wells by the
road / In darkened bedrooms / But no coffin lid nails / No n demon names /
Create no interest in Hell / You got nothing to sell
For no nine and four's twelve / No ten and three's twelve / No such thing as
yourself / Kill the universe / Get it right
9. Cold Heaven
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