Black candles dance to an overture 
But I am drawn past their flickering lure 
To the breathing forest that surrounds the room 
Where the vigilant trees push out of the womb 

I sip the blood-red wine 
My thoughts weigh heavy with the burden of time 
From knowledge drunk from the fountain of life 
From Chaos born out of love and the scythe 
The forest beckons with her nocturnal call 
To pull me close amid the baying of wolves 
Where the bindings of christ are down-trodden with scorn 
In the dark, odiferous earth 

We embrace like two lovers at death 
A monument to the trapping of breath 
As restriction is bled from the veins of my neck 
To drop roses on my marbled breast 
I lust for the wind and the flurry of leaves 
And the perfume of flesh on the murderous breeze 
To learn from the dark and the voices between 

This is my will... 

The forest whispers my name... again and again 

When the moon is full 
We shall assemble to adore 
The potent spirit of your Queen, 
My mother great Diana. 
She who fain would learn all sorcery 
Yet has not won its deepest secrets, 
Then my mother will 
Teach her, in truth 
All things as yet unknown 

I walk the path 
To the land of the Dark Immortals 
Where the hungry ones will carry my soul 
As the wild hunt careers through the boughs 

Come to me, my Pale Enchantress 
In the moon of the woods we kiss 

Artemis be near me 
In the arms of the ancient oak 
Where daylight hangs by a lunar noose 
And the horned, hidden one is re-invoked 

The principle of Evil 
Evolution has been recalled 
Beneath the spread of a Magickal Aeon 
I stand enthralled 
...In the whispering forest 

"Pale, beyond porch and portal, 
Crowned with leaves, she stands, 
Who gathers all things mortal, 
With cold immortal hands, 
Her languid lips are sweeter, 
Than love's who fears to greet her, 
To men that mix and meet her, 
From many times and lands."

Thee I Invoke, bornless one
All woman, pure predator
Wherein conspiracy and impulse dwell
Like a seething fall from grace

Thou art pale hecate
Rising from thessaly

You're in my dreams
The Darkness in my heart
The rapture in their screams
Black Goddess Rise...

I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May
'Neath whose rays we lay together
And those bright nights on glassy waves
When we would glide lightly away
From the grain
For wicked flights of pleasure

Those visions fade
Like ghosts to life's parade
Though incisions once made her so vivid
A scarlet whore
With both heels in the door
Of a heaven severed from me, insipid

And midst the writhe of parapets
Where angels sigh, lonely she sits
Upon the lip
Only a slip from whence I beg Her

That I would wish
Her kiss a chrysalis
To break to make my fluttered heart amiss
And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
in drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering

Love would have conquered all
But for the Rapture
That ancient plan for my defeat
Denied Faith skies that would have set Her free
It seems again dreams wend to capture

Once dancing in a spotlit waltz
Through shadowed dimension
Given to the rivers that bedizened Her eyes
The world drifted by in lost momentum

With no divine intervention

Regardless that the author
Of sin was me and I
Lay chaste of hate in Faith's embrace
As Mortals warred with more besides

They warred with life itself

And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
In drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering

And I thank God for the suffering
As still I burn
For Her return
I would make my peace with everything

I, I still recall, the first fullmoon of May
Consigned to flames like secret letters
And midst the writhe of parapets
Where angels sigh, lonely she sits
Upon the lip
Only a slip from whence I beg her

That I would wish
Her kiss a chrysalis
To break to make my fluttered heart amiss
And in those frozen moments won
From grief that creeps to wreathe the sun
In drapes inwove with deathshead wing
I thank God for the suffering

Love would have conquered all
Were we not parted
Her splintered loss rekindles rage
The winter frost dwindles across my stage
Lit up once more to score finales started

Love would have conquered all
Love would have conquered...
Hate

Lead to the river 
Midsummer, I waved 
A 'V' of black swans 
On with hope to the grave 
All through Red September 
With skies fire-paved 
I begged you appear 
Like a thorn for the holy ones 

Cold was my soul 
Untold was the pain 
I faced when you left me 
A rose in the rain 
So I swore to the razor 
That never, enchained 
Would your dark nails of faith 
Be pushed through my veins again 

Bared on your tomb 
I am a prayer for your loneliness 
And would you ever soon 
Come above unto me? 
For once upon a time 
From the binds of your lowliness 
I could always find 
The right slot for your sacred key 

Six feet deep is the incision 
In my heart, that barless prison 
Discolours all with tunnel vision 
Sunsetter 
Nymphetamine 
Sick and weak from my condition 
This lust, a vampyric addiction 
To her alone in full submission 
None better 
Nymphetamine 

Nymphetamine, nymphetamine 
Nymphetamine girl 
Nymphetamine, nymphetamine 
My nymphetamine girl 

Wracked with your charm 
I am circled like prey 
Back in the forest 
Where whispers persuade 
More sugar trails 
More white lady laid 
Than pillars of salt 
(Keeping Sodom at night at bay) 

Fold to my arms 
Hold their mesmeric sway 
And dance to the moon 
As we did in those golden days 

Christening stars 
I remember the way 
We were needle and spoon 
Mislaid in the burning hay 

Bared on your tomb 
I am a prayer for your loneliness 
And would you ever soon 
Come above unto me? 
For once upon a time 
From the binds of your holiness 
I could always find 
The right slot for your sacred key 

Six feet deep is the incision 
In my heart, that barless prison 
Discolours all with tunnel vision 
Sunsetter 
Nymphetamine 
Sick and weak from my condition 
This lust, a vampyric addiction 
To her alone in full submission 
None better 
Nymphetamine 

Sunsetter 
Nymphetamine 
None better 
Nymphetamine 

Nymphetamine, nymphetamine 
Nymphetamine girl 
Nymphetamine, nymphetamine 
My nymphetamine girl

It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
but it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says
It's not so hard to understand
It's just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find
It's just like always here again it's...

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep

[repeat]

No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry