Last year, Akhlys afforded me the distinct honour of writing lyrics for one of the tracks on their magnificent album House of the Black Geminus (available here). My contribution was the song "Through the Abyssal Door." The official video has now been released and may be viewed above.
Through the Abyssal Door
The seismic storm rages
The chasm is sheer
This descent reveals
The abyssal door is a mirror
A shriek of swinging hinges
The groan of an opening door
Beckons me to the unsettled fringes
Of the dream with dread at its core
Stairs, like a ladder of blades
Lead me to the labyrinth below
Where a massing of shades
Reaps what the sleeper shall sow
I dream of a burning cord
That binds my heart to this maze
Of discard & pain & discord
Let me feel the Astеrion’s gaze
Aberrant whispers, tеrrors untold
I bow to the ever abhorred
Whose form darkens the threshold
Of the abyssal door
The seismic churn of a portal
Yawning deep in the Earth
Eternity chanced by a mortal
This night of daemonic rebirth
Reveal
Conceal
Reveal
Reveal
Conceal
Reveal
I reach with a vein of fire
& sear the heart of my kin
I seed the unseen with crooked desire
I pass through the abyssal door
I pass through the abyssal door
Lyrics by Richard Gavin
(copyright 2024)
