Arcane Secrets by Astrophobos Lyrics

Vague, lightless was the vision
Forced through my fractured soul
Dark whispers warped cognition
Gaunt longings seized control

I was eaten by a yearning
Seeking old, forbidden learning
I was delving deep into
A somber, hidden lore
Seeking out the twisted, rotten
Maggot-eaten, long forgotten
Cryptic tomes of sickly knowledge
Mankind must abhor

I see him loom, I wrought our doom

The one who hides
Behind the yellow silken mask
The Magnum Innominandum

After days of chanting manic
I was drowned in scorching panic
When the one I’d summoned
With unlawful tongue arrived
Speaker for the voiceless screaming
He who’d whispered in my dreaming
How I wish my feeble mortal frame
Had not survived
Strange were the wonders that I’d come upon
High was the price for the wisdom I’d won
Dark were the beings he broke from their bind
Dead was the god that swallowed my mind

I became unhinged at seeing that repulsive, vicious being
Monstrous is too small a word to paint just what I saw
And I would regret forever the success of my endeavor
I could only stand and watch with horror-ridden awe

Black was entity I had released
He, the nefarious primordial priest
Foul is the spirit whose master is blind
Yellow the mask he was hiding behind

Soon comes the time
When our race is destroyed
When he arrives from the listening void
I am at fault for the horror that came
Naming the one that no one must name