The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus Lyrics


Think on the devil? How could I not?

The gloomy shadow of the night dims the earth and sky with her pitchy breath

Such a life was promised to the studious artisan

Be thou on Earth as Jove is in the sky

How was I glutted with temptations of Sin

But thou didst love the world. O, thou hast lost celestial happiness. Pleasures unspeakable, bliss without end. Now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee. For the jaws of hell are open to receive me.

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss

For heaven is in these lips

Thou art fairer than the evening’s air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, more lovely than the monarch of the sky.

Here I shall dwell

Despair and Die. Satan claims his right

Hell fights with grace, for conquest in my breast

How can I shun the snares of death?

O, Accursed Faustus

Here I shall dwell

Bell of the hour approaching fast

Time playing part of the horses of the night

Alcoherient musing now cast from the heavens

Enticing falsehoods

Forswear oneself of a God

Resplendent glory thou hadst set in yonder throne

Shades of violent bastards feasting on my carcass

Artificial enforced sin, set in motion

Destroying the Holy Spirit’s grip

Now face eternal grim

Nevermore, shall bliss be of mine

Outright cries die in this jaded light

In Death, I be not proud

In Life, I was here crowned

Blackest Magick was said to be divine

Display, a tale of such decline

Accursed Death be not long now

Regret, that sorry little life

Fucked, from this state of strife

Bell of the hour approaching fast

Time playing part of the horses of the night

Alcoherient musing now cast from the heavens

Enticing falsehood

Forswear oneself of a God

Resplendent glory thou hadst set in yonder throne

Shades of violent bastards feasting on my carcass

Artificial enforced sin, set in motion

Destroying the Holy Spirit’s grip

Now face eternal...

Whims of mine, repentant cries

Impotent, brought to my knees

Now is the time, death shall be sublime

Encaged by this curse in which I wrote the verse

The author of my death, this work be his best

A painter that only paints in red

My life was gilded in gold

My death, I witness unfold

Lucifer, the hand strikes eleven

Turmoil saute’, delirious envisions

Hellfire, burn at my heart

Quietus, release me from this earth and give Wagner what is mine

Midwinter is far colder, beauty was always cruel

Snow kissed lanterns enlightening, existence for chosen few

Midwinter is far shorter, for Death is always true

No simple indoctrination, shall set our true course through

Moondials taste the twelve, set the pyres alight

His presence has come, his promise has scorn

True malice has reached this palice

Death plagues this night

Bene disserere est Finis logices

Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus

The beast, draped in death

Accompanies prophecies, breeds all disease

Gouging the eyes, drawing the breath

Depleting all air, smothering life

Fallen from grace, with serrated blood grin

Their dialect, not of human tongue

The taste of flesh, such precious fun

Bene disserere est Finis logices

Ubi desinit philosophus, ibi incipit medicus

My time has come, death comes on wings

Brought forth by own doing, by greed and of lust

Slumber awaits, have no one to blame

Listen to me, this is human, this is real, this is shame

I, a cancer of man

A petty case of paltry legacy, and of ruin

Heed thy plea or end up as me

Why then belike we must sin, and so consequently die?

Fair magic has ravished me

More so than the pale breasts of the Queen of Love

I had it all, and I tossed aside

A chance to love, a chance to find

Myself in grace, in pearly gates of land divine

Maybe I hide? “Return or I’ll in piecemeal tear thy flesh!”

Throwaway life, tragedies insurmountable

The jaws of hell are open to receive me