Bethlehem Thy Pale Dominion Supplementary Exegesis The shriek blockaded machinery tears me away in this very moment deep dark night embraces me like a casket black rain cauterizes the protecting surface It's not only one which fulfills me with fear there are lots of like a mask for each situation another countenance like cadaverous fire it overcasts my being I can't see the course any longer death is no expectation truth is broken in mediocity and in there repeatedly rituals I got the crushing perception of my own insignificance The marmoraccon angel offers me an occult smile but I only see the mourning and the dissociation in it's eyes It's not the religion which delivers me like a ship in the deep black sea it's the animalistic abyss A really flowing stream perverted desire I could show my paradise but you won't understand I could snatch the blindess away from you and you would perish with me Wintermute Produced from the maelstrom of neglection my nocturnal prayer died away in the unreality of a never ending happiness "My prayer...?" "Died away in eternity!" If there's live before death it's not for me who spreads his dark cold pinion over the eternal silence of a gnawed frosty winter landscape "My prayer...?" "Died away in eternity!" The answer of the mystery which is put into my hands is the unholy property of a longest forgotten insufficiency which built on rusty pillars indulges in senseuality to the morbid repulsiveness of ruin "and what moves there in the shadow?" "It's your image!" "Who calls there in the mirror?" "It's your comprehension!" Unrestlessness whispering appearences shatter the frail ear which escapes with the folly of an unconcerned remonstration up through black dirt into the light