Elephant - Dungeons of Soaring Oblivion lyrics

Nighted, mystical, soaring dungeons - demesne of the gallant dead Frozen shrines and blazing palaces, undulating opaline towers Above the coruscating majesty the stone sky casts a pall In the grim and gelid dawn of winter's foul despite Sorcerous winds and turbulent seas Rise and fall like a dirge Monstrous suns and fiendish storms An armada of cruelty and horror The new universe - a strange thrill - a five-sided equation Divergent paroxysm of Anaak Gigas, atavistic pestilence Bone and blood - obdurate permanence - spawn of the nemesis star A towering sphere of glowing ichor, the forest far beneath The lilies have turned to asphodel Panacea which was once liberation Anodyne into living d**h Your womb shall become your grave Sycophants of the hybrid dictator Sentinels of the island empire The creator needs an author to justify his land Occulted in the lore that dragons keep As some lamed master bereft of theurgy An equinox of mordant fear A malignant ferocity in the ebon lake Beneath the revenant of the dolorous moon Inverted abysms within the mind's lair A riot of raving madness and paramnesia Falling upward through invisible gates Vertigo of mirrored portals This baffling prescence A suspended void of cosmic hate I saw the gleam of my ambition And I saw the machinery behind it