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Where Black Stars Beckon

From a silver void

We needful seekers

Surrender to receive

From empty ewers

Our old renown restored

The way is opened

The mask does not deceive

Have you heard?

Did you know?

We can be great again

Where flap the tatters of the king

Carcosa is forever

Time without time and dream

The city of occlusion

What awful sight unseen

Carcosa is forever

Apocalypse obscene

The city of conclusion

The lake becomes a scream

The lake becomes a scream

From vapor waves breaking

Sprays opiate froth

And cloying nostalgia

Glazes our eyes

We yearning bathers

Play out in the surf

Grey children beneath

The argent mirror skies

He will repair

He will restore

Our reputations lost

At last, he lifts his mask

Carcosa is forever

Time without time and dream

The city of occlusion

What awful sight unseen

Carcosa is forever

Apocalypse obscene

The city of conclusion

The lake becomes a scream

Carcosa is forever

Apocalypse obscene

The city of conclusion

The lake becomes a scream

Carcosa is forever

Though gilded rafters shake

The city of obtusion

That haunts the wide awake