The sky is overcast
with concerts of the celestial
empyrean ringing splendid
windchimes of tinsel crystal
propounding from their fathoms
its lissome gist of starry bright
tonight the eventide was the "aria"
preluding "nocturnes" flight

let us sell our souls
for the infinite truth
and live and learn
let us sell our souls and burn
and live and learn

(chorus)
toil and peer - fulfill the rite that draws us near
recoil in fear - and live not forevermore

and when the innocence is burned
-live and learn

Gehenna, I have found thee
lathed in sulphur and fiery brook
the kingdom aeon, ionian fire
kiln for those forsook
She meanders here at her liesure
at night, in crimson lucid dreams
in black clouded amoral recessions
and aimless odyssey

(chorus)
toil and peer - fulfill the rite that draws us near
recoil in fear - and live not forevermore

and when the innocence is burned
-live and learn

-Xander MoriVond