Babylon Whores - In Arcadia Ego lyrics

In Arcadia ego / Twisted the rose did grow / s**ed up the sap of this world / Blood red the petals pearled / With some wisdom absurd And outside these walls / The night took the rose / Bound it with moonlight / And cut it up with the morning star In Arcadia ego / A rose to drown in snow / A sepulchre by the sea / Marble to slumber beneath / Lulled by a mountain stream And outside these walls / The night knows us all / In dark woods wandering / Detached of our soul "Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride / Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom / All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes / Our Father Rosicross sleeps in his tomb" In Arcadia ego / How fast the years did go / And how bitter is the wind / Blowing from shores of Arcady And outside these walls / The night knows us all / In dark woods the roses grow / In hardship the soul In Arcadia Ego