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PATH OF GOLCONDA LYRICS
"The Threshold Diaries" (2006)
1. Metropolis Rotting
2. Serpent Gate
3. Sunset and the falling Leaves
4. Catafalque
5. Promises in Stone and Fire
6. Another Hell Unearthed
7. Foul Winds through Utopia
8. Stabbing Love into Her
9. Those pale, grey Shrouds
10. Between God and Gutter
1. Metropolis Rotting
Babylonic in their effort to ray
They reversed their fate in tongues
In a language of defy and decay
A thousand devils became one
So sardonic in their effort to slay
So demonic came the end of days
So splendid they had sought their fall
None for none and woe for all
Was the season
From Chaos, bred, into the heart
Born without reason
Looking glass, looking glass,
Menace on the wall
Tell us how that city grew
A whore called Babylon
?And claiming the skies from holy flame to soma
the god they derive upraise from peace and coma
Many be the plagues of wrath until forgiveness
Swarm the land to His command and curse??
And still I dream
Of her Belladonna eyes
Gazing far to sweet oblivion
I am afraid?
So still it seems
Her porcelain heels did crack
As she fell with morning light
I am enchained?
Enchained to the carcass of becoming
Growing, glowing like the moon over tombs
Far from perfection but close to addiction
Petrifying hopes to a stairway to Hell
To Hell?
And to Hell they wane?
Debris rushing by as swiftly we tumble
Turning in a maelstrom of sin
It was me, on my knees, who prayed for a shotgun
Scorched Vergil´s fires and the din within
Behold! This is the end.
So draconic in our effort to lay
An ambush and the blame
In a language of defy and decay
That we tried but failed to tame
So sardonic in our effort to slay
So demonic came the end of days
So splendid we had sought our fall
The tidal turns, our turrets crumble, drown
The darkened skies stifles our cries and frown:
It´s rotting down.
And still I dream
Of her Belladonna eyes
Gazing far to sweet oblivion
I am afraid?
So still it seems her porcelain heels did crack
As she fell with morning light
I am enchained?
And if nightmares part us I will stand
But fiercer spectres have returned
?It was her and delicate smile
gilded by the gloss of her despotic verve
that slithered like a tongue on dead lips
from vision to life in every limb, every nerve
with punishments lured for the poison and cure
I craved for this sticky caress
Like a moth to the moon and a venomous spoon
The night in her eyes dimmed the burning guile of Death?
2. Serpent Gate
Now behold the storm is brewing
Leaving lands gone rack and ruin
Above, below all ropes unhinged
While you shall never reach the serpent gate
You try to find
You stumble blind
So far behind
The Path of Stars
Lo! The ocean wide as black waves collide
A genocide of proud upheaval
What has risen once now exalts to dance
Infatuating in the masque of evil
Though deeply scarred, we travelled far
Blessed by grace and wrath
For the blindness
? and the kindness
of those who sharpened knifes behind our backs
Better watch yourselves!
Words and wind within our sails
To new crusades in larger scales
The course is set, the cause is black
Take what you get, give nothing back
(Come on!)
Dead inside, seeking lustres
Of divine morning stars
And poisoned fruit, alabaster?
My quill to thrill the zombified
But still we stand
Rich of contraband
In our hearts and hand
We grasped it though
We´ve been licking shit
To meet with gold amidst
Slit the holy wrists
As prey to bleed this sacrifice?
My poetry is suicide
The key and seal of serpent gates
Entwining with the songs we sang
Of winter, mist and darkness
Though deeply scarred, we´ll travel far
Lest we steer our barque
To the brightness? of a haven and a home
Or the likeness and the crushing foam of cliffs and riffs?
I´ve seen the daze go by
I have scribed white lies
In the gloom of the tomb
Of the world´s lost saviour
But still we stand
Rich of contraband
In our hearts and hand
We grasped it
Enthralled by fierce hysteria
We´re rushing fast
As long as sight and stanzas shine
From proud iconoclast
3. Sunset and the falling Leaves
4. Catafalque
This dry massacre to crack her and shatter
her ruby tears that sever ?or better ? forget her
Yes, I had the choice of murder
Yes, I chose to be at war with God?
? but from the start I lost?
Beat the Devil´s tattoo over the quicksand of your life
Meet the shores your verses line, and hopes, so well defined
And down your throat, no antidote will fight the fire there
Only higher flames aspire on drama and despair ?
?Lose yourself? ?
my parole mocked my tongue
Pleased myself,
sought control in her song
Balletal, skeletal grace surround her
Excite a younger soul to an ivory sceptre
( a whirl of regal spine and a delicate minor)
from the fecund abyss where her heart stroke the bell
with her dulcimer throbs as a foreboding of Hell?
So I learned I will be fading
long before I´m gone
In her eyes the mourning prayers
that to the erudite dead belong
Catafalque
No perfect wave, no ancient grave ordain those feline ghosts
That whisper racked to me, in rags, truth´s overdose
We have all grown old
but what have we sold
what treasures, promised pleasures
have we spilled in vain?
Like the wine we praised as manna
or our morbid diorama
as we died a thousand deaths, faced the gold-cage of tristesse
and more sombre panorama but revived again
No! Never so lost now
No! Never so lost?
Now the die fell on you
Bitter pills to consume served on a dagger
Forever
Sealing Neverland´s tomb
Plundering Venus´ womb
Somewhere the fog is rising
contouring elder terror in the minds of man
suspended strength, so soon declining
filled my books on hate with life again?..
5. Promises in Stone and Fire
Oh, how cold have been the nights
When I, hushed at your side,
(inside a Hell in white)
would fail to keep a single flame alive?
And fragile were my words
A promise without worth
Carved into stone and earth
Above a silken shadow print of hope?
? and future vows?
Never had I seen the Gods hide at duskfall
Never had I felt such solitude
Nor grace coalesce with a devilish nemesis
As the moon waned in horror of the funerals to come
? of one that had begun undone
but shone a score more than the sun
Artemis, oh Artemis
How could your eye not foresee this?
Save me a prayer, save a kiss
Before you leave to black horizons
Artemis, oh Artemis
Though like a sigh in storms aspired
For Death and sweeter reveries
I scream my promises in stone and fire
New moon was tolled and she was told
To shadow her cruel hunting
And their affair ´neath divine stares
Was but the stairs that led to war!
See the blood spoil over a sickle
As she faints so broke and dizzy
I deemed you immortal
To order cosmic plans
From birth to Death those waters
Crashed in glass moments
Leto, has she helped you?
Hear the comets cry
And fall as fiery mortar
To prison those who died
Burn!, burn my agonies
Incense my feeble pleas
Of grace and lunar daze
As thunders roar and mountains fall for thee?
Though planets lost their way
Of War, Lust and disgrace
To just befoul hearts mazed by graves
I shall brave torments ?
Never had I seen the Gods fear the sun rise
Never did I greet it as a long lost friend
As when embedded, spearheaded my emerald passed
Heading new directions to eternity skies
It was the ill-will of this dying world
That stole you from my arms
But this I swear: I shall be there
Each night to guide your starlight dance
A stillborn silhouette that twinkles from the frost that crept
That eve
Sealing sublime constellations
?thou art now immortal
Thou art now immortal
6. Another Hell Unearthed
From the ground of green seas
Or the failure of belief
A vision begins breathing with
A toxic breath-
As a vested demise
We court this Lord of Flies:
Satan wrapped in leaves and scum
Of bittersweet Armageddon!
It´s another Hell unearthed
This is the second cumming?
But the Cunt that choke was an acolyte
To this God of life and lepers
Who crossed the Styx
With Boogieman tricks
Tooth and Nail?
And me:
? so cold, so dead ? must be a human heart
Ascend! Commence!
The trees are burning?
A hatching plea bore this mundane grief
And the urgency of will
And black brazen doors
Hid more corridors
To the even blacker heart of nature roused to drill-
A hurricane scar on her children bred to
Kill?
Never was a Devil
More sibilant
Maleficent
When this hissing, chthonic prophecy
Named them stars
And stole my heart
With the glimpse
Of Love and Death under will?
Away, away, away from me!
Had I not seen the dying of the heart
I´d entered Heaven before it fell apart -
It was a smothered hell on earth
That spit another spell, unearthed
And as this heaven stirred for riot
An other one remained so violently
Still
Rise!?
? so cold, so dead ? must be a human heart
Ascend! Commence!
The trees are burning?
A hatching plea bore this mundane grief
And the urgency of will
And black brazen doors
Hid more corridors
To the even blacker heart of nature roused to drill-
A hurricane scar on her children bred to
Kill?
? again and again- until the bleeding stops
7. Foul Winds through Utopia
Back on the track with a slithered attack of grief
We are
Side by the side with the night as a voyeurist thief
We awake?
Trodden to the floor, rotten to the core
My sultry eye seeks more
Windows to boudoirs, tongues that force encores
And darts to the arts that are
Rotten to the core, trodden to the floor
My lipless mouth seeks more
Kisses from the corpse, necromantic thoughts
And darts to the arts that are
Grave, windswept?
Blow! Blow our name
Set the world aflame in covetous games
And the
Pain pours as rain to regain what they stole
From us
Glad to gladiate the damned?
And he throws his inner sanctum
Into this vast arena
Fodder to the saints and lions
That as in fever
Deflesh, obsessed
By bestial savageness
And crash the crest
Of waves of appetite
And I, one of them
Would die to pleasure them
Cold hands writhe for prayers
Mock in colder stone
Weaving lay and layers
Frenzied, alone
Whetting thy dear brushes
Paint the pack´s town red
A phoenix from the gashes
Heal this gangrene
Trodden to the floor, rotten to the core
Decline´s ambassador
Hymns to the bizarre sounding from afar
Bewinged by the winds that
Blow! Blow our name
Set the world aflame in covetous games
And the
Pain pours as rain to regain what they stole
From us?
There´s so much beauty that was sown
The fruits of heaven reaped by carnal autumn storms
There´s too much beauty to prolong
The chants of virtue when vice could rise this pleasure dome
8. Stabbing Love into Her
This is the new dimension:
A giant fist burst raw to life
The ancient wheels were set in motion
Stirring mud to magnetise
The poundings of a clockwork nova
Just on track with genocide
Burning white and burning eyes
And left me, tempered, mesmerised
Oh these prophecies of damnation
Never would I dare to seek them in my heart
But dusted streets have brought me, an orphan
Straight before the doors of carnal arts
Counting whores like prey and raptor
Truth announced in grave-deep throat:
Speak!
(The ill-fated truth unfurled at last:)
?All of it were lies, all the cries I despised
crystallised ? how could you leave me?
Deep down in the lies I despised
To inhale, paralysed? My Hell is calling?
All of it were lies, all the cries I despised
crystallised ? how could you leave me?
Deep down in the lies I despised
To inhale, paralysed??
Stabbing love into her?
It was this black and pinching suit
That like poisoned ink tattooed
On my skin, in my blood
And the soul beneath
This mark of falling stars
In the afterglow of Mars
A battle lost to Venus
And the role I thieved
A maddening, threatening silence
That hushed Amors within me
To leave the shore towards war
Of worlds and divine order
Now this is a new addiction
Fixed with tender voodoo chants
The world beneath unfolded its Fauna
Serpentine and rotten but paradise
Despair grew though hopeful mantras
Exercised my demons to haunt libertines
For one alone, a key, a secret
Was torn from me by phantom knives
Soon desire forecasts a tragedy
Thrashed into the faces of all noble dreams
By melting plots and midnight speeches
A passport to the shadows on my own decree
Back and forth, this Slash-o-rama
Call it lost, I call it soul
?All of it were lies, all the cries I despised
crystallised ? how could you leave me?
Deep down in the lies I despised
To inhale, paralysed? My Hell is calling?
All of it were lies, all the cries I despised
crystallised ? how could you leave me?
Deep down in the lies I despised
To inhale, paralysed??
So hide this night, your crimson smile, inside
A secret softly saved from all these vulgar eyes
Six feet deeper than their stares could ever seek our
Demonlove
A venom wind within the whirl we´re in
It seemed those hours weren´t ours to begin
But never shall I lose the fate and wisdom to embroidering the stars?
? a world of glass
? that we grasped
? and lost with every lovelorn caress
That is not supposed to be Death
Nor is it my armour of wrath
They´d never gonna get us
They´d never gonna get us
They´d never gonna get us
They´d never gonna get us now?
Oh no!
Pour your soul into my veins
Strength shall now eradicate
This world, so dazzled, numb of woe
And leave me, drunk on vertigo
Storms awake in my again
Tear down the prison I hid in
- I have never fought so strong
Against all dread to see
But your face cried for the moon,
Shall haunt the graves I left too soon
In every sea that leads me forth
And makes me hoarse and stabbing only
Me.
9. Those pale, grey Shrouds
10. Between God and Gutter
With wrath unleashed
As the mayhem feasts
In the cold, white light of rage
Smolder bloodscythed eyes
Seeking sacrifice
From crystals templing whispers
Soon to blight with ice
? I rise as storms roar out my name
for thee, belief and this holy shame
of a million promises and hope aflame
A world benumbed in vitreous wonder
When misery and myth like a burial gown
Coffined the void between God and Gutter
- I watch it faithful?.
Lost-love affairs left footprints on a marbled ocean
Wasteful purity decoys a coy sunrise
The essence of beginning in each breath aspired
Towards the twilight gates of Paradise
My feet have failed the steep vicious conservation
My sombre view faith- to-faced comforting morgues
Will my pulsing screams reach this sharpened distance
Or will it fade in agonies?
A seething rupture through the skies
- white silent Death before me
as poor as mankind´s lonely lies
as quiet as their mourning.
When nightfall crawled to Eden
A snake to stay, another tragic crime
The frost that grew on dusky meadows
Of mortal souls- this frost was mine.
This frost was mine?
I have fallen asleep
I have fallen so deep
I touched the stars that are all but hole
It was a cataract glare
So no one was aware
That every night was as bright
As the finale?
My tracks
Faded black
In the endless white of our aberration
Sunsets
Defect
The glorious grief of my sole horizon
I have fallen asleep
I have fallen so deep
I touched the stars that are all but hole
It was a cataract glare
So no one was aware
That every night was as bright
As the fucking finale?
A seething rupture through the skies
- white silent Death before me
as poor as mankind´s lonely lies
as quiet as their mourning.
When nightfall crawled to Eden
A snake to stay, another tragic crime
The frost that grew on dusky meadows
Of mortal souls- this frost was mine.
I kept breaking the ice
As I swore broken lies
I counted steps to my dead-end kingdom
With a storm-weary glance
I missed the last chance
From a darker daze
To the grace of graves
My aim
Was the same:
Still the endless white of our aberration
Unfold
The cold
For behind you lurk missed destinations
I have fallen asleep
I have fallen too deep
I touched the stars that are all but hole
No one was aware,
No caryatides there
But ecstasy, apostasy
And pearls that wet in porcine
Scum?
(I stripped my robes to feel this pain?
?it´s the end of the line
I´d end the line for you again)
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