Oh, my dearest, the sweet music in the air Albeit, daresay I, the lullaby of an everso dark sleep My precious, likest thou what emergeth yon the distant? The throbbing and breathing of life's machinery Wanion, its, oh, so damndest soul With the devil instrument, it we shall reap After the banquet obscured in our thole Its blood so lovingly across our faces smear Lord of carnage (lady of carnage) One funeral maketh many (swarm God's acres) Two indeed more, blest treat of delight Give praise for the blood it bled Grant a rose for the dead (grant a rose for the dead) Enraptured by the timeless beauty of the shadow sphere We two abide the overlooked time of the watch Make this cherished feast last But until the new dawn ascendeth Be still Harken the lure of night Bale in each its damndest shadow Clothe me in night, ne'er feel rue In its face, behold naught save grue Wane to dust the wight (pray, ne'er come) Misery it in velvet fright (ne'er come hither daylight) Velvet darkness, velvet darkness, thee we ourselves bestow