Prelude: (And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from the heaven unto the earth And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit As the smoke of a great furnace And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit) The pale landscape, ice and debris Incubation jilted, perfect surround Foul thrust, insipid s**m Enter madness blossoming splitting new d**h Vestibule of ribbed charcoal Essence of misery held Opening veins running a river
To turn to dust, dust to turn to this earth Three points of the trident Through shroud dividing The other side, penetrated Three wills, three heads, three minds Bleak sky veil Breaks all hope Devoid of light Shadows endless Stream through their eyes, left blind And to them it was given, that they should be tormented And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth And unto them was given power As the scorpions of he earth have power To the end of this world To the end of all worlds I am oblivion