Code
Resplendent Grotesque
1. Smother The Crones
[Lyrics by Kvohst and Fenriz]
What would it take to smother these crones?
From scratch starts the sloping off
To a wilderness
Undertow colossal leads me like lead
Past life trespassers
Sold strange to my soiled my eyes
Underwater rain parade
I can't collide!
Oh Lord... What would it take to smother these crones?
Let's get skeletal
Necro-spiritual
There's murder in the cronehouse tonight
Their skullharp scriptures
Catholic boyschool
We'll smother the bones of our past tonight
Let's get skeletal
Necro-spiritual!!
Skulls grin from passing cars
Through the traffic of the dead
They laugh me up their ancient sleeves
Into the borderless beyond
Wayside pastors gracing black pastures
"I'm boarding sinking ships" [Jonas Raskolnikov, 2008]
Oh please God smother these crones
Let's get skeletal
Necro-spiritual
There's murder in the cronehouse tonight
Their skullharp scriptures
Catholic boyschool
We'll smother the bones of our past tonight
Let's get skeletal
Necro-spiritual!!
RIP Jesuit mindfuck MCMXC
2. In The Privacy Of Your Own Bones
[Lyrics by Andrew Nicol]
I am bone and I am silence
I am a tongue without a word
I am dust and I am violence
I am never heard
For I am the ghost of should have been
I am the ghost of almost near
I am the ghost of never know
I am never seen
Take my face in place of yours
And through your eyes I shine
Kiss your child goodnight and say
These lips aren't really mine
Oh these lips aren't really mine
I am bone and I am silence
I am a tongue without a word
I am dust and I am violence
I am never heard
For I am the ghost of should have been
I am the ghost of almost near
I am the ghost of never know
I am never seen
Take my face in place of yours
And through your eyes I shine
Kiss your child goodnight and say
These lips aren't really mine
Oh these lips aren't really mine
And should I die
Bring my shadow to me
Roll it up and swallow it
Withdraw my touch from all your hands
Recede and remain
A memory of absence
Through which a null wind unfurls
To disorder your world
And I shall breath in all my words
My fingers return to bone and curl
3. The Rattle Of Black Teeth
[Lyrics by Kvohst]
On a mattress of salt
On a sea of wounds
And only my arms for oars
White-knuckle dream ride
Cling on for dear life
Fare thee well my black-hole bride
My mirage cocoon of horses sail into the sky
It's so strange
What life looks like
When you're falling
Falling
Falling through the cracks
Is there anyone there
On the other side?
Do they know who you are?
Can they bring you back?
And in my deepest darkest dreams
The rattle of black teeth is growing and growing
In the heart of my brain
There's something coming
And it will never leave you behind
It's pulling you and tugging you
Til the light goes out in your eyes
When fate hangs you out
You out to dry
When you're finally coming apart
Then you'll start to know why
And in my deepest darkest dreams
The rattle of black teeth is growing and growing
In the heart of my brain
On a mattress of salt
On a sea of wounds
And only my arms for oars
White-knuckle dream ride
Cling on for dear life
Fare thee well my black-hole bride
4. Possession Is The Medicine
[Lyrics by Czral and Kvohst]
The statues are tilted
In priest-like poses
They're moving their arms
In rhythmical dreams
Possession is the medicine
For the tainted blurred within
Lined up on pedestals
In pestilent postures
Possession is the medicine
For the tainted words whim
Imprisoned in spine
Tending lights in the tunnels
Speaking in tongues
Shining in spasms
The invisible presence
And his toxic torrents
The clocks have all slowed
To the sound of howling throats
Acrid fumes on the horned horizon
Altars stained with blood
Cutting off thrones to spite the face
All phantoms underground
Walk with me now
Possession is the medicine!
Memorial wolds of fanaticism
Medicate the worship within
Nefarious roads of old omens
The overpowering will
Disturbance in the root of the self
A loose thread reveals
In too deep to turn back now
Just a spoonful of hate
Helps the medicine go down!
Possession is the medicine!
5. Jesus Fever
[Lyrics by Andrew Nicol]
Is this all, the dark circled
Cracks and the crested eyes
Our deliverance, our deity cries
Watch me, watch me arise
This is the emergence of youth!
I have to break the face
Lift the effervescence and align the sky
Break the rocks and empathy deny
This is the emergence of youth!
Caught locked and brutalised
Thrown down you are the body, I am the mind
You deserve only suffering
I am divine
Here I am truly Scythian, alive
I evolve the world
My destruction belies
The buds of genesis, the fruit, the wine
I break the gables, the column, the vine
I am laughing in the temple of youth!
Jesus fever
Grievous Diva
Mischievous Shiva
Jesus fever
6. I Hold Your Light
[Lyrics by Kvohst]
Parlour magician
Saw me in half
Pull me from your hat
Break my body, break my back
Drag me through wives, lawns and suburbs
You the great destroyer of my childhood
Like a ship that was lost in a storm
I will lie in my grave and stretch out my arms
I will lay this body down
I will lay this body down
When the evening of judgement has come
When all the stars in the sky come undone
I will lay this body down
I will lay this body down
On the miry road
I hold your light
That bursts the banks
Of the rivers of my limbs
Brain set on fire
In a flavour of the celluloid
You're my odyssey, my glory
My last chance at reality
7. The Ascendent Grotesque
[Lyrics by Andrew Nicol]
I am bloodless and cry
My vessel breaks releasing
Ire
My shoulders raise and break
The cradle of the sky
The stars are falling
I am awake and should play
This is the end of days
The end of days
The end of days
My eyes split horizons
The ellipsis my maw
This is a call to war
This is a call to war
A call to war
My shoulders raise and break
The cradle of the sky
The stars cascade
My hands shred moonlight
My voice the joy of the sea
Searing you all with sound
With sound
I grab the earth and shake
The dead from the ground
I bask in light
And infinite vision
I am joy and destructions
Violent collision
8. A Sutra Of Wounds
[Lyrics by Andrew Nicol]
There's something in here
Choked, pleading, turning on a tourniquet
Leather bound witches skin dolls sway
Long lithe naked faceless bodies slide
And the pain
Is sensational
And in the dark
Your succubus
Is gibbering
And hungry
Scream your elegy to me
I'll christen you with scars
Follow me beyond
The measure of fatigue
Scream your elegy to me
And I'll christen you with scars
I'll break you on the shores of fatigue
Close tight and caged
Tumbling, cascading
Arms and mouth restrained
Numb limbs a nimbus of pain
And the heat
Is sensational
And as you fall
Almond eyes turn
And the heat
Is sensational
And within you fall
The distance
Is vertiginous
And hungry
Scream your elegy to me
I'll christen you with scars
Follow me beyond
The measure of fatigue
Scream your elegy to me
And I'll christen you with scars
I'll break you on the shores of fatigue
Irradiant fires
I desire oblivion
Across our eyes is enscribed
Dominion
And will these wonders end
Irradiant fires
I desire oblivion
Across our eyes is enscribed
Dominion
And this wind hastens night
And in the night
On the borders of fatigue
Here flesh is a language and through
It you speak
On succulent blades
You are crippled and maimed
Walk with me
On the landscape of pain
Chain yourself to desire
And I'll christen us with scars
Kvohst (Mathew McNerney) - Vocals
Aort (Andy McIvor) - Guitars
Viper (Yusaf "Vicotnik" Parvez) - Bass, Backing Vocals
Session:
Adrian Erlandsson - Drums
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