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[NB: The booklet lists “Ruinous paths...” and “… to Babylon” as a single song]

Death seeps into earth pulled down by pyrrhic force to blackness absolute

and the stillness of lost eons a procession to lost eons: a procession to the Abyss

[Thus I become:]

Starveling sojourner

of Sennacherib reborn in triumph

heralding tramp of Babylon

of boundless vice

Bedouin of black sand

of the nightmare seconds of endless time

[Thus I become:]

Dukljan made flesh

of disentombed malice

Vigilant caretaker of Gethsemane

of excoriated fingers rattling mournfully

Death’s susurration

of sweet mortification to wither untimely.

[Thus I become:]

Sir and one to snare thy disobedient spirit and cast within, into

an Abyss of doom. in chains and fire to consume, burn, sip, and

lay blaze thy embryonic flesh, for all of eternity thou didst create.

Come now into the bowels of depravity to know thyself and the bottomless well

for this writhing cesspool, among all foul souls, eaten up with rust and blight

BURNING IN CELESTIAL POISON

[Go Now:]

Onward through the mutilated

wound of the world

that we may together lick the torn flesh

and so infect the earth with depravity.

[Go Now:]

Onward through the stinking and

fetid womb

as we further rip apart akin, breathing rose

stained breath onto gangrenous gash

[Return:]

As before, beast with redolence irresistible

to the most exalted and most insane

As bearer of the dagger of misericordia

I speak now and command!