All Hope In Eclipse

A thousand nights once succored Me 
In the shadow of Miss Anne Thropy 
Sat gargoyle-limbed amid My licking flame 

A cruel tongue at work in Her secret vaults 
Sent Rebellion's embers into revolt 
The coming of extinction 
Synced to whimpers of my name
Legion I arose, a flood of inhumanity 
An acid reign to purify the world 
The Asp at Pharaoh's breast 
The Atom split under duress 
A sniper at the gates of spattered pearl 

My heart, torn apart, left a rifled grave
Save for an unfurled flag of hate 
To enthrall a mindless zombie race 

All hail, all hail, all hail the serpentine's gift 
All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse 

Black bibles I inscribed, 
The words "Damnation through design" 
Seemed a bitter truth far better for the lie 
For as hope was felled by reason 
Forlorn became the season 
And Death was swift to swallow on the hells of life 

Lowered souls, growing cold, tendered easy prey 
When heaven's flock, a fair game, dropped 
I bored of war with God with greater thrones to claim

All hail, all hail, all hail the Libertine's wish 
All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse 

(There was not a prayer left in this wretched world) 

Then between the past and the ravening dark 
A sly Messiah came 
In the thick of treaty with obligatory greed 
She stole the soul hate had sold away 

An ancient chill blew down the centuries 
That night atonement's eyes 
Lit a burning man in Me 

When love lay bleeding 
And Fates sate feeding 
From wounds gored 'neath 
Those cherubic wings 
She of kindred light 
Gladly sacrificed 
Eternity 
Just to be 
With Me 

As the moon whose silvered fingers play 
On words and dreams too cursed for day 
She led my hand to lands I'd not accrued 
Where the Faun Dawn bathed Her golden hair 
And faith renewed, leapt joyous there 
I praised their worth, then planned their conquest too

All hail, all hail, all hail the serpentine's gift 
All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse 

All hail, all hail, all hail the Libertine's wish 
All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse 
And ignorance is truly bliss