And Death I Leave with You Lyrics


Lyrics inspired by Baudelaire & Nietzsche

They travel like apostles, like the wandering jew

And nothing is enough for them, not wheels nor sail,

To flee the dreaded retiary. Yet a few know how to kill the foe before they learn to crawl.

Embarked, we'll set our course across the sea of shade,

Like youthful vagabonds adrift with carefree heart.

Do you not hear those voices, beckoning and sad?

Comfort us with poison! Desire so fills the brain

It burns us with a lust to plunge ourselves into

The gulf of: hell or heaven, which? They're both the same.

Within the unknown's depths we still seek something new!

O' Death, old captain, raise the anchor! It is time!

This land has wearied us, o' Death! Let us depart!

And even though the sky and sea are dark as wine,

You know the brilliance of the light that fills our heart!

In god, a hostility towards life

To nature, the will to life

In god nothing deified

The will to nothing sanctified

For it will be contrived of purest light alone

Drawn from the holy rays of primal energy

In god nothing deified

And death I leave with you

Which to the eyes of men,

Their splendor outshone,

Plaintive mirrors of obscurity...

And death I leave with you