Embrace Lyrics - Singles - Angel Corpse

What is to be of this pestilience 

That makes empires tumble like tears 

The dust of millenia - fallen ages 

Staunches the flow of dawning horizons 

Obscuring - 

While the days crumble as their hours unfold 

A sensual swooning - prophetic mocking 

As the soils swallow the seeds of the past 

Each one of us to his own 

Embrace 

Drowning in hallowed solitude 

Swallowing the void 

The pallid hope revealed at last 

Embrace 

"Why should I fret in microcosmic bonds 

That chafe the spirit and the mind repress 

When through the clouds gleam beckoning beyonds 

Whose shining vistas mock man's littleness?" 

Throw off those shackles of sufferance 

This penance of one thousand ordeals 

I wield the scepter of destiny 

Choose the means of my own death 

Give me both nails and a hammer 

Harness those ecstasies of death 

Prostrate myself on cruciform 

At last... 

With swift feet I made my way 

Helmed by a cacophony of despair 

Deaf to the legacy of youthfullness 

And beauty and joy since pined away 

Yet now a rush falls upon my ears 

Of dripping - whispering words 

The hole of emptiness I pour through 

Unveils the caress from far beyond 

Now no longer can I ignore 

What goes before has gone again 

The silence of immorality 

Satisfied with this one fell step 

Plunge beneath the waters - 

The freezing embrace of the goddess of death 

Quote taken from H.P. Lovecraft's "Phaeton"