Verse I
By the power of the sacred dreaming, and, within the conclaves
The lights of the body are the eyes, therefore, they are glimmering
Elision/Supposition I
Extrication from the thralldom
Verse II
Oily splashes lurking, lapping and licking the rotten timbers of the jetty
Faint green spirals of froth coiling upward on the pillars,
While the hallmark traces the fumes of a spasm awakening
Chorus
Nightmare in the eyes intensify
They wax, increase and they outshine
And still those slippery steps usher down
Down + down = deeper down
Chimera silhouettes the sky: encroaching the scum-laden tide
Verse III
Vapours of paradise, oblique and against the light
The diagonal reaches the pike, yet the parapet’s glacis height
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Verse III
Verse IV
Infinite billowing
Unlock the brightness it locks
In-betweeness gathers
Casting off disembodied emanations
Frenzy of distraction
Radiance covers flesh
Verse V
Darkening to a silhouette against the pallid, azure sky
The brazen moulding broke away revealing a slab of the squirming worms
Elision/Supposition II
The blare of diffidence is also the voice of Apsû
No gulf too wide, no cleft too deep, flung into lows and goaded onto heights
Elision/Supposition III
No gulch too vast, no rift too broad, churns into depths and narced onto
heights
Elision/Supposition IV
Unctuous waters, turbid with dreams degenerate the last baluster
Elision/Supposition V
The blare of diffidence is also the voice of Apsû
Repeat Verse II
Repeat Chorus