All Hope In Eclipse Lyrics

All Hope In Eclipse lyrics

All hope in eclipse

A thousand nights one succored me

In the shadow of misanthropy

Sat gargoyle-limbed amid my licking flame



A cruel tongue at work in her secret vaults

Sent rebellion's embers into revolt

The coming of extinction

Synched to whimpers of my name



Legion I arose, a flood of in humanity

An acid rain to purify the world

The asp at Pharaoh's breast

The atom split under duress

A sniper at the gates of spattered pearl



My heart torn apart, left a rifled grave

Save for an unfurled flag of hate

To enthrall a mindless zombie race



All hail, all hail, all hail the serpentine's gift

All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse



Black bibles I inscribed

The words, 'Damnation throughout design'

Seemed a bitter truth far better for the lie



For as hope was felled by reason

Forlorn became the season

And death was swift to swallow on the heels of life



Loered souls, growing cold, tendered easy prey

When heaven's flock, a fair game, dropped

I bored of war with God with greater thrones to claim



All hail, all hail, all hail the serpentine's gift

All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse



There was not a prayer left in this wretched world

Then between the past and the ravening dark

A sly messiah came

In the thick of treaty with obligatory greed

She stole the soul hate had sold away



An ancient chill blew down the centuries

That night atonement's eyes lit a burning man in me

When love lay bleeding and fate's safe feeding

From wounds gored 'neath those cherubic wings

She of kindred light, gladly sacrificed, eternity just to be with me



As the moon who's silvered fingers play

On words and dreams too cursed for day

She led my hand to lands I'd not accrued



Where the faun dawn bathed her golden hair

And faith renewed, leapt joyous there

I praised their worth then planned their conquest too



All hail, all hail, all hail the serpentine's gift

All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

All hail, all hail, all hail the libertine's wish

All hail, love fails, all hope lies in eclipse

And ignorance is truly bliss