Detestable Illumination by Astrophobos Lyrics
Behind accepted boundaries of all
Known corporeal things
I travelled through cascading vortices
And depths on borrowed wings
An unlit passage leading to a place
Made long before our time began
Where all perspectives are askew
That wasn’t made for man
There are vistas unlike any other
Unmoving, yet flowing like waves
And structures with intricate markings
That wind in hideous shapes
A pattern would suddenly open
Display its meaning like a whole world
Spinning, twisting and changing
Rearranging constantly
One view into that world of an ornament
Of a rune of unfamiliar shapes
Forced harrowing insights upon me
That I wish I could efface
A place where no one should venture
That I wish never existed
No words can describe the sick grandeur
Of its delirious majesty
Heedless, onward, where man should not go
Over immensities that only they can know
Into the distant gulfs where stars disappear
Whisper to the darkness and the darkness may hear
Drawn into that lambent, shifting, strange
And undulating ornament
I shudder the moment that I grasp
What it’s carved to represent
If only I had known the things that waited there
What I at last would find
It is terrifying to be seen
By the screaming blind
Everything around me is writhing
Not even the mountains are still
There is twisting wherever I look
Like a myriad crawling worms
Then from out the meandering landscape
Tread the true denizens of this world
Entities hinted at in writings
Concealed in the foulest crypts
An amorphous entropy twitching
Enveloped in discordant tunes
Enthroned at the center of disorder
A living atrocity
A despicable conscious cloud
Surrounded by its progeny
A countless slithering mass
With the scent of an open grave
Heedless, onward, where man should not go
Over immensities that only they can know
Into the distant gulfs where stars disappear
Whisper to the darkness and the darkness may hear
Known corporeal things
I travelled through cascading vortices
And depths on borrowed wings
An unlit passage leading to a place
Made long before our time began
Where all perspectives are askew
That wasn’t made for man
There are vistas unlike any other
Unmoving, yet flowing like waves
And structures with intricate markings
That wind in hideous shapes
A pattern would suddenly open
Display its meaning like a whole world
Spinning, twisting and changing
Rearranging constantly
One view into that world of an ornament
Of a rune of unfamiliar shapes
Forced harrowing insights upon me
That I wish I could efface
A place where no one should venture
That I wish never existed
No words can describe the sick grandeur
Of its delirious majesty
Heedless, onward, where man should not go
Over immensities that only they can know
Into the distant gulfs where stars disappear
Whisper to the darkness and the darkness may hear
Drawn into that lambent, shifting, strange
And undulating ornament
I shudder the moment that I grasp
What it’s carved to represent
If only I had known the things that waited there
What I at last would find
It is terrifying to be seen
By the screaming blind
Everything around me is writhing
Not even the mountains are still
There is twisting wherever I look
Like a myriad crawling worms
Then from out the meandering landscape
Tread the true denizens of this world
Entities hinted at in writings
Concealed in the foulest crypts
An amorphous entropy twitching
Enveloped in discordant tunes
Enthroned at the center of disorder
A living atrocity
A despicable conscious cloud
Surrounded by its progeny
A countless slithering mass
With the scent of an open grave
Heedless, onward, where man should not go
Over immensities that only they can know
Into the distant gulfs where stars disappear
Whisper to the darkness and the darkness may hear