Scorched Earth Erotica (Original Demo Version)

Sunset, expect

This to be your last with our vast return

As Death is set

At three sixes where hill-beacons burn



Darkness, undress

Your descending skirts yield a thirsting altar

Blood-red, yet still unfed

Lips distend ending, time to falter



Dominus, dominus



Dominus

Welcome arms wide and crucified

The slaughter



(Dominus) Lightening freezes seven

(Dominus) Outtakes from the rape of the world

(Dominus) Sins expelled from Heaven

Now befoul from the bowels of Hell



Where the tragic in theory and practice fell



Last prayers, hang in the air

Each unto their own rag and bonemeal saviours

Strung where crippled vultures dare

Golgotha

Coughs another cross to grave God's failure



(Dominus) Once the forests spired

(Dominus) Nurtured in Nature's heart

(Dominus) Now dread cedars feed the pyres

Need-fires lit for greater harm



(Dominus) As her children toy with razors

(Dominus) Sightless and deeply scarred

(Dominus) And the moon arose to phase her

Cracks a grin so wide it hides the stars



And lights our path

Back through the shattered glass



We come like drumming thunder

Tides enwreathed in scum and plunder

Kraken-teethed to tear asunder

All those too blind to see



Where the tragic in theory and practice meet

Where the tragic in theory and practice meet



Deranged, uncaged

We rage like a plague through this age of greed

Sowers of discord, growing wars to reap

A terrible crop to beat a vicious retreat



Scorched Earth, rebirth

Disintered in the writhe of the lone survivor

Whose worth is worse than the curse

Of Sardonicus choking on his own saliva



Who shares the last laugh now?

(Who shares the last laugh now?)

Dead wedded fates fulfil their vows

Foot in mouth of sacred cows

(Foot in mouth of sacred cows)

Facedown in dust and poisoned ground