BABYLON WHORES LYRICS

1. Errata Stigmata

Oh well hey / What did you learn today / Of all the world and its pain / Of
Archons insane?
Oh there's a hole up in the sky from where the angels fall / To bring us
sword and sire children that grow up too tall

Oh there's a hole down in the ground where all the dead men go / Down
purgatory's highways they gun their souls

Oh say you love Satan

Yeah right

What did you learn today / Crossing your fingers / Applauding the play?

Cough up all sixes that you know all signs of horns that you can show /
Maybe you too are like unto the Beast unto the Fiend and Foe

For certainly the hoof and horn must be whereever hair will grow / To call
upon the spirits foul to dance upon your goddamn soul

Oh say you love

Say you love Satan

Yeah right

2. Radio Werewolf

Tune on / Tune in / And drop out / Drenched in ye olde Teufelkunst / Licked
from perdition's mouth / With steel beacons high / Against the blood red sky
/ The pitchforks sing the lullaby

And I'll say / I wanna be alone just go away / And I'll say / I wanna be a
star for just one day

On Radio Werewolf

Tune on / Tune in / And drop out / Come in Tango Omega / King Fear is on the
dow / Up from the roof of the world / He plays our little lives / As LP's on 45

And I'll say / I wanna be alone just go away / And I'll say / I wanna be a
star for just one day

On Radio Werewolf

The sleep of monsters produces reason

And I'll say / There's gonna be the hell to pay / And I'll say / I wanna be
a star for just one day

On Radio Werewolf

On turntables emerald and green / On sieges perilous 13 / Play twinkle
twinkle little star / And I'll wonder what you are / Oh how we wonder / Just
what we are

3. Hand of Glory

Ashen the world creates itself / Up the branches down the roots / Pecked at
by birds / By worms gnawed / At the crossroads / By the graves among the
rowan trees / Nailed white as ivory / With skulls that grin amidst the rot

For strange are these woods to fare / Stranger the fruit they bear

Oh hang me high / Upon that tree / For all the secrets to find me / As
ravens' claws / As eagles' bills / As Wotan's eyes upon the hills / Oh ten I
have of fingers fine / For all the evil's work in the night / Oh baby I will
grow for you from a tree

Burning with glory

Given to trolls and ogre broods / Days will drown in twilight's gloom /
Where black dogs howl / Pulling up mandragore / Chained to the ash forever
more / Deaf to the world's grey roar / Digging up treasures vile and foul

Eye for an eye for a rune / Drawing down the waning moon / Howled at by all
wolves / Ensnared 'til the day of doom

So hang me high / Upon that tree / For all the secrets to find me / As
ravens' claws / As eagles' bills / As Wotan's eyes upon the hills / Oh ten I
have of fingers fine / For all the evil's work in the night / Oh baby I will
grow for you from a tree

Burning with glory

All crooks and ghouls who understand / Cherish the work of idle hands / All
of the pages turned / All of the treasures yearned / All of the fingers
burned

Burning with Glory

4. Veritas

All of the battles lost and won / All of the things we've said and done /
Become the dark that wells beneath the floor / Lost in a world that I don't
know

Anymore

Where no truth will set you free

All of the lessons that we learned / All of the bridges that we burnt /
Boons for a cruel, jealous god to trade / Lost in a world that slowly turned

All insane

Where no truth will set you free

All beauty houses the heart of pain / Kissed by the evil / In good contained
/ And all truth's grown sad with ages taint / All of our charmed lives
estranged

Where no truth will set you free

5. Skeleton Farm

Kissed by a snake / You will give birth to a worm / That eats into the small
black hearts / Pumping poison as it turns / Eyed by a basilisk / You will
get stoned / My love has serpents in her hair / She combs with a rake / And
stares beyond

Oh what is life but an open grave / What is today but tomorrow's yesterday /
Hey / Pluck out the eye that offends thee / Raise hell or lower the heaven
at least

Yeah it's a skeleton farm

Look in the abyss / And it looks up on you / In snake pit balanced are the
scales / All souls damned versed in the truth / Devoured by sulphur / In the
belly of wind / Monsters kill monsters / Who kill monsters / In the small
hearts / That smile within

Oh what is life but an open grave / What is today but tomorrow's yesterday /
Hey / Pluck out the eye that offends thee / Raise hell or lower the heaven
at least

Yeah it's a skeleton farm

6. To Behold the Suns Below

Well hail Caesar / Horses in the Senate / Where did the eagles fly / Back in
the German woods ?

Lost by the walking wounded / Fleeing the devils of the forest / Taken to
graven idols / Down in their shrines beneath the ground

Oh to behold the suns below

A heart that used to house your love / I offer you below now / As once above

A mirror for simple souls / That tend to stray away from the day / This
maggot ridden horror /To sing you of summer's decay

Oh to behold the suns below

7. Exit Eden

Apples and silver bear the trees of paradise / Visions of heaven to unfold
before our eyes / Where cherry orchards bloom eternal summer's night / Upon
a sarcen stone we dreamed / Our sweet old lies

And into the dreams bewitched / We'd hear the haunting song / That beckoned
us to taste / Of the dark of unripe dawn

If pride doth go before the fall / The summer never was / Promises gilded
and hollow / No longer do bind us / All knowing and all wise

We'll exit Eden / By the sunrise

As pestilence falls down as rain upon our heads / Still paved with gold
become the roads that we now tread / Covered with sores and drunk with plain
mortality / We have no thing so dear we couldn't / Part with and leave

And if plague and hail they say / May purge a righteous man / Tears wept in
anger / Shall be wiped away / By the Devil's hand

If pride doth go before the fall / The summer never was / Promises gilded
and hollow / No longer do bind us / All knowing and all wise

We'll exit Eden / By the sunrise

(All sacred secrets and serpents / Grow old and tangled in shadows coiled /
Under bridges over Alpheus stream / Carrying their dust on to the sea)

8. Sol Niger (v2)

Under the sea / Dead cities in the dark / Dreaming themselves to be / Alive
once more / And in darkened rooms / As vaulted tombs / We hear them call /
As sea devours land / Towers yield to the sand

Oh shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage / As a disease on all fours risen
from sea / Yea shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage / And that which never
was shall always be

And I would see the world revolve / Around the crosses tips / Fleeing the
sun / The vulture / Swooping down on a carrion / Laughing into the
nothingness / That we flee / In mortal fear

Oh shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage / As a disease on all fours risen
from sea / Yea shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage / And that which never
was shall always be

For what is eternity / But a shoreless sea / One eternal day / That sees us
come and move away

9. Fey

Oh my old friend / How did we get so far so soon / Chasing dragons in the
white of the map / In the blue of your veins

Maybe we'd played / Our little games / In the dark of the world / For a bit
too long / And lost our souls

And with death's release / The knowledge comes / It was the life all along /
We'd been afraid of / In carriage golden / Drawn by horses blind / I saw you
leave this mortal life

Oh my old friend / We grew up boys with a shadow of a man / And neither one
of us was afraid to die / Had a cyclops asked

For had we not / Buried a graveyard / Of screamings ghosts / With a bitter
pride / And called it life

And all tomorrow's games / Are just a memory / Of all the things you dub too
common / In carriage golden / Drawn by horses blind / I saw you leave this
mortal life

Oh do not want too bad / Or the price will be too dear / And do not want too
much / Or you're not ready to let go of / And do not judge / For what do you
know / Of a life with nothing to gain / And everything left to loose

In carriage golden / Drawn by horses blind / I saw you leave this mortal
life

[For Christopher Krogius 1969-1998 - I.]

10. King Fear: Song for the Damned

Pray tell me / Wise Trevrizent / Are not the good ones all dead / In shallow
graves / In distant lands / Banished from castles of the Grail

Into the mansions of the Sun / Where Doom is housed in golden rooms / In
amber dreaming / Kept by silent halls / Like all crystal / There is to fall

In girun i mus nocte et consuminur igni ingirunimusnocteetconsuminurigni In
girun i mus nocte et consuminur igni

Pray tell me / Wise Trevrizent / Is not our life like our love / Treasured
and clung to with tooth and nail / Yet uncomplete until let go of

Into the mansions of the Sun / Where Doom is housed in golden rooms / In
amber dreaming / Kept by silent halls / Like all crystal / There is to fall

[Ike Vil 1997-1999.]







BABYLON WHORES LYRICS