Infernal, terrestrial Celestial, ever-changing... The skies dyed red now Basking in crimson And solemn silence As midnight sighs Welkin turning The stars descending Such frail magic As blackness veils thy eyes A vessel of a deity Untouched beauty Thy sacred womb shall Carry the grandest prize Incarnation Resurrection Virginal conception Of the dark mother She governs the grim gates of death... In exultation I sense her coming Like distant thunder Thickening air On thy breasts now The obsidian serpent Herald of the nightside Reciting her names She was there when Babylon fell On Nineveh's final cry On Troy's dying knell And watching the Nazarene die... We who wait veiled in the dark Call out your name through the night The queen shall rise now The wait is over She'll be reborn again to rule This stranded earth The queen shall rise now The wait is over She'll be reborn again to lead Our mislaid hearts Moon of a thousand forms The terrible dark one Infernal, terrestrial, celestial Ever-changing mistress of the night And behold the mystery and the majesty Secret queen of a hundred fallen empires Born out of the shadow of the moon From beyond the birth of time The woods whispered a woeful tune Rustling leaves in autumn hues Her steps imprint the nightfrost hoar Forevermore