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The Black Work

by Alex Andre

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1.
I wake up in my room Alone again I cling to the echoes Of my dreams For there I am surrounded By friends Before they fade back To memory So I crown myself With Sorrow And lament the loss Of sleep I hang my head In my hands And I weep, and weep And weep I get up and put on My slippers I climb down the mountain Spine of stairs The atmosphere sends me A shiver And the shadows have me Running scared So I'll hide away My treasures And withhold The light of day I'll scorn all joy And pleasure And I'll make my Home of clay
2.
A Door 05:02
It was the first time that we spoke I remember still You had a fragrance and a look My blood was spilled I count the days since we met With smiles that wilt You summon sorrow and regret But it's my hilt I walk the desert now With my camel will Decry the tears I would have wept Through my gills. I follow in the footsteps Of mountain hills I hope I make the steep ascent I've heard it kills Spiders creeping through my hair With fear I'm filled I curse the land on which I sit My veins are chilled
3.
Hollowed by darkness Harrowed by rage Broken by longing And hate-fixed gaze Rise now before me Failure tainted worm Wretched writhing maggot Of universal spurn "You are become me By providence divine Eaten up with blindness To writhe by my side Heaven has abandoned you Left you here to rot Your prayers are but an effigy Of covenants long since forgot Drown yourself in hopelessness Wallow in despair Dust shall be your nourishment And weakness you heir God has appointed me this task Misery within An endless spring of uselessness Vanity and sin Contemplate your mortal sorrow The gnawing pangs of doubt Meaningless whirl of torment Wafting ash about" I am not your servant For you are the slave of all I am not become you But give you voice to fall Heed now the voice of your master Release all that you hold dear Return now to oblivion With your dread and your fear Let the silence of darkness be broken Let it enter into the silence of light
4.
Stay away Can't you see that I'm bleeding On the side Fade away Can't you feel that I'm needing Like a child And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all Tilt your face Show the side that believes in My name Come the day One of us will be eaten Or flayed And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all Keep it all to yourself Choke on your hatred My dear You must be out of your head All you see are your demons Not me And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all And it's alright to feel it all It's alright to feel at all
5.
They'll feed it down Through tubes and sounds Again Into the trough We're eating of Within And so they preach Weakness and disease Because they need their food To crawl on its knees With step and sign We'll fall in line They say The animal Is pitiful And debased Hypnotic waves Breaking and unknown Leaving us Aching and alone There's help and hope In other spells Bahlasti! Ompehda! I banish the shells Abrahadabra; The reward of Ra Hoor Khu There is division hither homeward A word is not known Spelling is defunct All is not aught Beware, hold, raise the spell of Ra-Hoor-Khuit Let it first be understood That I am a god of war and of vengeance I shall deal hardly with them Choose ye an island Fortify it Dung it about with enginery of war I will give you a war engine And with it ye shall smite the peoples And none shall stand before you Lurk, withdraw, upon them! This is the law of the battle of conquest Thus shall my worship be about my secret house Amen

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The Black Work is a musical expression of the first stage of the Alchemical process, in which the aspirant putrefies and destroys old patterns which will not serve in the journey towards self-perfection. Though it be an inherently painful and distressing process, it is crowned with the knowledge that there is "help and hope in other spells". The death of the old is the birth of the new, and the invocation of Ra-Hoor-Khuit (in some places described as "myself perfected"), the crowned and conquering child, brings us to the next stage in all "his" triumphant glory.

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released August 18, 2015

Guitar: Alexandre Lapuh
Vocals: Alexandre Lapuh
Percussion: Socrates Cruz
Cello: Alexandre Lapuh
Bass: Socrates Cruz
Keyboard: Socrates Cruz
Effects: Socrates Cruz


Recorded at Achtung Lab (Boston, MA)
Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Socrates Cruz
www.socratescruz.com

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