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BABYLON WHORES LYRICS
"Death of the West" (2002)
1. Life Fades Away
2. Hell Abloom
3. Mother of Serpents
4. Lucibel (The Good Spirits of Europe)
5. Dating With Witchcraft
6. Death in Prague
7. A Pale Horse Against Time
8. Eveningland
1. Life Fades Away
How high the Sun
For the Lovers, for the Moon
For the Hanged Man
For the Fool
Tread gently with your dancing feet
Over past men in righteous sleep
The princes pale the life that has failed
Poisoned they too once had their day
Dance over the graves
And scream for solace out of day
With a grimoire, syringe, a mind unhinged
Oh come what ever may
Watching the world
pass us slowly by
A corpse into quicklime
Black beneath your eyes
Hey
Life fades away
How high the Sun
For the Devil, for the World
For the Temperance
The Death's dance
In garden green the worm and fiend
Weave beautiful each our dream
Eat at the timbers of sanity
And then we wake up into
Dance over the graves
And scream for solace out of day
With a grimoire, syringe, a mind unhinged
Oh come what ever may
Watching the world
Pass us slowly by
A corpse into quicklime
Black beneath your eyes
Swords to sever limb
Wands to grind the bone
Cups to drain the blood
Coins to shut the eyes
Life fades away
Dance over the graves
Come what ever may
2. Hell Abloom
She would lie upon the bed and stare into the wall
Where the shadows flicker and they beckon and they crawl
Cloakina's children grown in bottles in the dark
Seen and heard by the heresiarch
Boiling in fumes pregnant of the black gold's sweet perfume
Noxious the flowers by the light of the moon
Some play with poison
And some kill themselves in love
And turn to heavens
Then to demons
Or just nothing at all
Roses are red violets are blue/Lillies pale as death
The flowers of evil/Bloom for you
Ashes we'll be both you and me
Ashes we'll be so let us burn
Just properly
The city sleeps and dreams in neon tinted urine streams
Oh chime the night and all the things that dark redeems
There is not a place tonight on earth I'd rather be
Both feet in the hell's abloom in the night around you and me
And down fell the stars that no one made a wish upon
Down like the star of the morning proud Babylon
Some play with poison
And some kill themselves in love
And turn to heavens, then to demons
Or just nothing at all
Roses are red violets are blue/Lillies pale as death
The flowers of evil/Bloom for you
As we are now so will we be
Once tasted of the ecstacy
Of being free
In hell abloom
Roses are red violets are blue/Lillies pale as death
The flowers of evil/Bloom for you
As we are now so must we be
Once tasted of the infamy
We're never free
In hell abloom
3. Mother of Serpents
Oh do not wish for a thing
'lest the gods punish you with it all
The things you're looking for you'll never find
In this life
For all the auguries vague
Oracles drunk with a sulphur spring
Still sought the three-faced Hecate
Cursing holes
On moonless nights
For what is more
Forever or never more
Never or forevermore
Seek not the gloris of the world
The fleeting beauty of things soon gone
The flowers of the meadow that spiders suck
Black as disease
Don't look for coins in the ground
Don't turn the roadside carcasses
And don't you loaf too long on a crossroads
On moonless nights
This for good kings of Argos
This for their gold and silk
Opium, honey and milk
Up on the navel of the world
Beneath the Mother of Serpents
The fear of life
Burn our future sibylline
In the fires of a Roman dream
Where do we go
Mother of serpents
I don't want to know
The night and Erebus proclaimed
And therefold Hecate of hundred names
Who minds or who revenges injured love
On moonless nights
Oh don't eat the yellow snow
And don't you never give all thy heart
Don't believe the voices of the dead
On moonless nights
This for a coin from the ground
This for what's already mine
Never ever look behind
4. Lucibel (The Good Spirits of Europe)
Deep flows the stream
Beneath the hills of Occident
Dark as blood running through the ages dim
From beginning 'til the end
In cave and grottoes spied
Renounced, reverend and scryed
By men with dolch and bell
Roma, Amor; the ill and well
For good spirits of Europe
men come with staff and scepter alike
With Tafur hordes, on horses high
Paint the Devil on the wall
Paint it black and paint it tall
But as Montsegur endures
There will be your light
On Lucibel
And when we shall burn alive
With sulphur crowns shoot up the sky
Then we shall be your light
Oh Lucibel
Pale is the horse
Upon which sits merciful fate
Crimson of the hooves
To tramples fools beneath its gait
Heretics and warlocks
Their vernal equinox
Gods suffered not by Rome
Gods men know not
Gods men forgot
For good spirits of Europe
Men come with cudgel and claymore alike
With Tafur hordes, on horses high
And it's not the life that's given
But the death that's taken
When all that we're worth is vanquished
Damned and undone
The good spirits of Europe
Stand with Abraxas behind the sun
We'll burn in your fire, Lucibel
Burn through the night, Lucibel
Burn as the sun, Lucibel
5. Dating With Witchcraft
On the first of May
Toads grow fat on stolen Hosts
In little boxes crucified
Bled and divined
When all the girls
Suckle beasts within their arms
Pact-bound familiars
Spill their guts on secrets spied
On Midsummer's night
All true love is undisguised
In philtres foul by lasses cowled
Brewed and derived
Some fat of an unbaptized babe
A finger of a corpse
Dug up from the grave
Dating with witchcraft
And come the Fall
When the fires light the night
Summer's love grown old and sad
Will die away
On Samhain's eve
Blood of swine will wash them clean
From the memories good and bad
The spells of May
And for those still in dream
Summer's green eternally
Stolen away by the Sidhe
Noone knows they've ever been
A tongue of a snake
The head of a dog
Ground mummy's powder
Piss and snot
Dating with witchcraft
6. Death in Prague
Kings adored, abhorred
Apple, crown and sword
Lions green and red
By fire killed and wed
One more day you'll see
Master good John Dee
Wisdom's granted me
To live eternally
And shining the apparition
On the western window smiles
On our Golden Lane
The Powder Tower than knows
No night from a day
Death in Prague
The bell tolls on the square
The twelve apostols' snare
St. Vitus' sun wheels
Look down on broken seals
And as wheel obeys the sun
Abide Europa's son
If dying is the answer
Then dying be done
And golden turned his face
Under torches and death runes
Like all glories short
For those who stand too tall
In black, in Prague
Death in Prague
I'll give you eyes of blue
and hair like gold of sun
A mind to see beyond
the light of life undone
I'll give your blood so pure
as it runs right through your hands
Your stone to pain you
when you're old you'll understand
I'll give you letters five
to wear above your eyes
The wisdom of the ages
sought by men all-wise
I'll give you a forehead
to scream death of living god
I'll give you life I'll give you death
Death in Prague
7. A Pale Horse Against Time
One smile for love, one smile for hate
And one for both in ecstasy
One out of, one in our time
One smile for pleasure, one for pain
And one for both in Satori
One above, one against the time
Never on nobody´s side
Take two lines and make a cross
A snare for light and time
Crucified between two thieves
Sun of the evening lands
And hushed they spoke of a white horse
Upon the horse a rider
A Pale Horse against time
A dance for creation, one for destruction
And one for both in ecstasy
One out of, one in our time
One for remembrance, one for oblivion
And one for both in Satori
One above, one against the time
Caught between the lines
Out of love for the other world
Iron and sadness our machines
Built the Golden House
For rabbits turtles to chase
They say there is a white horse
Upon the horse a rider
With the rider a sword
By the sword the judgement
A Pale Horse against Time
"Out of of the loss of memory
The loss of understanding
Out of the loss of understanding
All evil"
Kali Yuga
Kalki
Avatar
They say there is a white horse
Upon the horse a rider
With the rider a sword
By the sword the judgement
A Pale Horse against time
8. Eveningland
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