Altar of Despair Lyrics


The Healing church, the Choir of phantoms

A Call Beyond, a rite of secrets

To reach the plane of abstract darkness

A ceremony to achieve communion

Altar of despair, host of the Great One

Secret of the arcane, Daughter of the Cosmos

"At times, failure is the mother of invention"

Exploding stars born the human error

The unknown in the cosmos,

Forbidden to our race

Man's reach exceeds his grasp

His pride will seal our fate

"Trying to make contact with the outer reaches of space

We realize the sky and the cosmos are one

That gods are not abstract and infinite beings

And their knowledge is at our hands"

The unknown in the cosmos,

Forbidden to our race

Man's grasp exceeds his nerve

Our pride will doom the Earth