The Seer

When silence falls and light remains

And time is born beneath the sun

I'll hide your name inside a word

And paint your eyes with false perception

And I feel your mind in everything

And every breath destroys a sound

And I will follow a false sensation

And I'll always believe your blood promise

And every breath I stole from you

And I never will see your perfect body

And you never have spoken an unclear word

And I'll never betray your blood promise

LUNACY

In the mind of no one Forming sun Forming love Break the chain Hide within Innocence Not innocent Innocent In no sense Eat the beast Keep him in Take the blame Speak the name

LUNACY

Hide beneath your monkey skin Feel his love Nurture him Kill the truth Or speak the name

LUNACY

Your childhood is over [ is over ]

Under The Eyes of Serpents

New try to catch full breath

While heart by stone encumbered Existence's anguish burns

And vital force reduced to dust Guilt implanted

Projected thoughts But other than one's mind

They feed upon your weakness They grow upon your troth

Those of pure overwill

Are always first to combat Refined intention's spear

In dimness lurks that sleepless plague Eyes of serpents

Intently fixed on genuine one's kind They catalyse your fear

They aim straight in your soul

Mother Of The World

In and out and in and out again


And where are you now

O Mother of the world

Ah we feed from your hands and we drink from your filth and your oil

So send them down to scrape and suck the soil

Keep us safe inside your damp and rusty coil



Mother sun

Mother of senseless things

Mother come

Kill time as it begins

Transcendental Fusion

Into depths of cosmic sacred calm

I soar

Reaching for ethereal wisdom's glare

I share

Soul of the worlds

Knowledge to breathe

Voice of the stars

Essence supreme

Taste of the purest force

The Wolf

Now feed me through the power line

Wash me in your bloodless light

To be splayed upon your silver gate

I am proud in flesh

I am bruised but I am raised

Gods Bring You Away From Yourself

Unless the day shall come again

When astral storm will clean the earth

The myth divine may worm upon your soul True awakening'll bring you freedom

No salvation from the skies

Purest nature is the holy

Gods bring you away from yourself

Religious madness tainting the world

Blinded await the messiah

Crawling in fear, praying for their sins

Whipped by the visions infernal Resident terror dwells in disguise

Forming a proximate presence

Only The Ones are able to see

We are the voice that wake up your will

Gods bring you away from yourself

The Seer – Instrumental Being an instrumental piece where the band, once again demonstrate their mastery of creating intricate soundfields the present scribe, with all due respect, includes into the body of this tribute a text that is deemed both worthy and appropriate given the nature of its content. In many respects the text relates to a number of the track titles, specifically, The Seer, The Seer Returns, Avatar and The Apostate. We trust that this is perceived by both our readership and The Swans themselves as appropriate.

Damiana Evohe

Anathema Per Samael Vox Lilith

Praeteritim

Seven are the seals upon creations countenance Seven the trumpets that announce the day of redemption

Seven are the visions of the dragon and its kingdoms Seven the visions that accompany the lamb

Seven are the bowls of gods wrath Seven the veils upon the lady Babalon

And Seven are the visions of the end of days

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Canto I

And upon wings of light did we descend Lightning in our eyes Thunder in our hearts

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Canto II

Watchers in the night ancient timeless immortal Each a chord within a celestial heartbeat

Behold our song our prayer Written in the echo of the moment

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Canto III

And the dragon she rises and her kingdoms claim the world Her tears fall and she washes away the stain

Her breath a scorching wind razes the edifice of conceit Her heartbeat a thunderbolt the end of days

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Canto IV

Bathed in his own blood was he We carry the sword and our blood is sacred

No sacrifice as it be justice we serve Invisible we walk sons and daughters of eternal night

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Canto V

Each a toxin Each an elixir Choose well the bowl from which you quench your thirst

Nectar sweet cousin to the worm Bitter gall a draught of ambrosia

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Canto VI

Malekh holy one casts her veils and you behold her not One glance and sleep is entered

One whisper and Azrael is summoned One cry and our sister rejoices

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Canto VII

And in those days it was given unto the false prophets To spread the lie

Sow the seeds of doubt draw aside the veil And reveal the end of days

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Exodus

Canto VIII

Coagula et Solve We strip the world our Eden of its lie

Beneath our rays you are transformed redeemed or not Choose well for we dwell between you heartbeats

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Canto IX

Omega et Alpha Time bends before our gaze

As somnambulant you step from one dream to another The unmaking unfolds as our Elohim

Circle your world your life

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Canto X

Space folds before our eyes and the great ones enter Their breath creases the moment in passing

Warps memory erases life And casts a shadow of dust and vacuum

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Genesis

Canto XI

Sweet sister are you redeemed Your Grigori await command as you will Your Elohim abroad command as you will

Your portal open command as you will

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Canto XII

Cleansed of the lie your breath draws pure Cleansed of the stain your heart beats rapturous

Purified your mind awakens from nightmare Consecrated your body bears fruit

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Canto XIII

And in the Night of Pan it is dawn The Black Sun rises and its rays cast no shadow

The Blood Moon rises and casts her veil The Grigori rise and utter a word in silence

! Yglas Isheth ! Yglas Ygrat ! Yglas Na’amah !

! Yglas Lilitu Ben Grigori ! Ast Innui Khephri Vos !

! Ahdi Ypres Grigori ! Selim Ast Nobilis !

Nemesis GGI;

A Strain From Depths

Uu

The Seer Returns

Behind the veil of silver scars There is a special inverted star

He's a greasy beast Heaving in a field of sticky black mud

I'm down here naked

There's a hole in my chest

Both my arms are broken

Pointing east and west

Your life pours into my mouth

My light pours out of my mouth

My life pours into your mouth

Your light pours into my mouth


My light pours out of my mouth

My life pours into your mouth


There's a jagged deep crack in the crust of the earth spreading from north to south

Put your light in my mouth

Ahh the mountains are crumbling

Ahh the canyons are thundering

All the people are fucking

They're just a pile of writhing selfish bliss

I know I'll never die I scream up at the sky

You have arrived

Hey

Bring the children home

The Force Dwells Within

Strength, not weakness

A will not fate

Pure and fearless

In depths you'll find yourself

93 Ave. B Blues

Instrumental

Again being an instrumental piece where the band, again demonstrates their mastery of creating intricate soundfields the present scribe, again, with all due respect, includes into the body of this tribute a secondary text that is a compliment of the previous inclusion. Again we trust that this is perceived by both our readership and The Swans themselves as appropriate.

Damiana Evohe

Portus Lucis Deum

A Masque

Namrael 777 Samael 131

Act 1

The Vale Of Tears A call sent forth and from the ocean she rose. Her beauty outshone the stars and from that day was he lost. She became mistress of his heart and mind and though their lives were ever apart, together they traverse the pages of these dreams.

He travelled with her down a long corridor of tortured rooms and shattered the pillars of reflection that hung upon the air before them. They travel still. From the shadows she conjured him, reflection of her love, to hold within her heart as life’s tapestry and tragedy unfolded before her heart sore eyes. He her gallant knight and she his ladye fair. Thrice the lady Artemis blessed them beneath her mantle of glamour and twice were they bound in spirit and flesh. They wander and are granted but glimpses as time unfolds and consumes the life they might have known. Weep tears of blood for our reluctant heroes as they traverse The Vale of Tears tormented by memory sweet and burned by anguish. And in the fires of forgiveness do they dwell and perhaps absolution is granted.

Act 2

De Arte Magicka Pan called unto them and as The Passion & The purity unfolded the masques evolved. Bright Artemis that they might remember. Beauteous Aphrodite that they might know rapture. Eternal Saturnus that they might become. Over seventeen years and three cycles they wove their spells. Cycle one manifested the avatar Samael. He walked the world alone apart from his consort, his bride, his beloved. Cycle two and the second avatar was made flesh and Namrael walked the world.

Two frail humans, flawed and yet chosen. Cycle three and in conjunction did they invoke holy Lilith. Isheth granted the seal of power. Igrat the seal of knowledge. Na’amah the seal of love. And now the pylons are attended and the portal open.

Act 3

Ascension Of The Grigori Humans so frail and yet our chosen were equal to the task. Free will were they granted and yet they answered the call. Transformation through our first cycle and by your measurement a second transformation twelve years later. Each now ascended and in unity they performed their final act and manifested our Lilith. Samael continues and sheds the body desolate he has chosen. Namrael casts aside the hollow shell and rises triumphant. And together do they dance upon the aethyrs bride and beloved. The world blinded to their presence continues in its conceit and the days unfold their mystery in purple splendour.

Samael Grigori greets and embraces his Namrael and together they give birth to a Moonchild. A child eternal. A beacon in the eternal night of their passing. Shadow blesses them. Moons light caresses them. The light of the day star heeds them not for the light of the Black Sun and Blood Moon embraces them.

Act 4

Consummation

And in this act our reluctant heroes return to their respective worlds. Memory fades as the dream unfolds into the demands of their days. Ah, but they have the dim reflection of memory, the rapture of attraction and the crystallisation of the becoming. This a blessing, this a curse.

This will pass into the halls of forgetfulness as we Grigori rise from our vessels and we leave them with the judgement which dwells in the deepest sanctuaries of their hearts. As we ascend, pylons of the portal and our light is shed, a nimbus of indigo enshrouds and blinds all to our presence. Drink deep of the venom that purifies thee and of the elixir that transforms and rise, phoenix like from the ashes forged in this love holy and pure.

Act 5

The Portal Of The

Black Sun Upon the shores of an ink black night within The Night Of Pan our star rises and the Grigori, eternal guardians, vigilant, rejoice

in the light of its dawn. Our sister bathes the earth in her tears and washes away the stain. Her breath rises and scorches the lie that holds all in thrall. Her heartbeat rises, thunder as she shakes her mantle and enters freedom. We came with lightning in our eyes, thunder in our hearts and our Elohim travel the world, kindred of our bright lord and the unmaking of history unfolds before eyes somnambulant and transfixed. Samael and Lilith conjoined. The only power of this world and beyond this world able to unfold these acts. The rest hubris and human conceit and our human vehicles, kept blinded to our purpose are washed of the stain and purified in our light. Be at peace our knight and his ladye fair.

Act 6

The End Of Days

History written in your stars, unheeded. Your acts before your eyes, unheeded. You dwell within a garden, unheeded. Raised to beauty and splendour, unheeded. Blessed by innocence, unheeded. Granted dominion and responsibility, unheeded. Freewill and choice, your conceit. Power in your world, hubris and lies. Shackled in prisons of your own creation when freedom and mystery surround you. Beauty in the wing of a butterfly, majesty in the gait of the panther, innocence in the eyes of a child.

And yet … … … ? Justice do we serve and our sister blesses us in her travails eternal. Look into the mirror of your form, cast aside the veil of ignorance and know these as the end of days.

Act 7

Epilogue A simple tale, a dream perhaps and yet such a dream. As messengers we came, Grigori and our task, but simple.

And in those days it was given unto the false prophets

To spread the lie

Sow the seed of doubt draw aside the veil

And reveal the end of days

Samael & Namrael

Nemesis GGB;;

And All The Waste Will Fade

When sacred rage inside cannot be stemmed

And free, awakened mind regains it's flame

World shall see the ultimate blasphemy

And all the waste'll be damned together

When mental virus can't prosper

And dogma's toxins can't befoul your veins

World shall rise from religious heresy

And all the waste will fade

The Daughter Brings

The Water

In the screen

In the screen

The daughter in white water

In the screen

But not seen

Her hand describes the father

Stilted bones

Cloaked in foam

Squeeze laughter from the lather

Drink water from the daughter

Neither matter

Neither taste

Neither solid

Neither space

The daughter brings the water

The daughter brings clear water

Song For A Warrior There is a growing Golden light

A flower unfolding Behind the mirror of your eyes

If an angel could hold it

In his polished white hand

I know he'd release it like a bird to the sky

Now you are the warrior

Who will conquer this land

On a horse made of clouds

You will scatter the sands

Some people say God is long dead

But I heard something inside you

With my head to your chest

Within all the wrong they say I have done

There lies a seed of a million more just waiting to become

Send them home

Send them home

Send them home

Use your sword

Use your voice

And destroy

And destroy

Then begin again

Avatar

Your light is in my hand Your light is in my hand

Your light is in my hand


Your mind is in my eye

Your mind is in my eye

Your eye is in my mind

My mind is in your hand

Your mind is in my mind

Your eye is in my eye

My mind is in your mind




A Piece Of The Sky

Through a door in the air

On a crumbling stair

In a clear and rushing vein

In a tunnel full of rain In a piece of yellow light

On the skin of my eye

Are you there?

In the wind of my lung

In methane and in love

In petroleum plumes

There's a floating slice of moon

In your tooth and your claw and your unforgiving jaws

Are you there?

In a burning white ship

In the taste of her lips

In the blood of the swans

As the sun fucks the dawn

In the mud of a lake

In the drunk and the dazed

Are you there?

In the now that is not

On a ladder to god

On a mountain stripped bare

With your hand in my hair

Behind the face of the sky

on a disappearing line

Are you there?

In the then that was now

In the now that is not

In our names we forgot

In a thought we just lost

We become what we choose

We are stumbling fools

Who are not there

There's some tangled dirty twine in some idiot's clouded mind

there's some wires that won't unwind around the ankles of the blind

There's walls lined with soft lead and in that room is your bed

Is that really you?

Are you in there? On the moon? In the air? Crushed in my hand? Thrown in a fire?

The Apostate

It's not in my mind

It's not in my mind

Na a na not in my mind

Na a na not in my mind

We're on an infinite line

We're on an infinite line

Get out of my mind

Get out of my mind

Ge ge ge get out

Ge ge ge get out

God I can fly

God I can fly

We're on a ladder to god


Ladder to god

Ladder to god

Space cunt

Brain wash

Star dust

Space fuck – cunt

Cunt

Ge ge ge ladder to god

Ge ge ge ladder to god

Get fucked

Get fucked



We are blessed

We are blessed

Fuck

Bliss

Fuck

Bliss

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