"The Artifex" lyrics - ABBATH

ABBATH
"The Artifex"

Reclined in swathe of bedlam's grimoires
Sheaths of ancient vellum cradle skull
Sigils scour sallow skin, copper veins
Drip gnosis, draw mind from mortal lull

I pluck the stitches, stun the senses, milk the pain I graze
I storm the portals of dead immortals trapped in yesterdaze
Dive to new depths, plunder sunk wrecks in culp of fetid drain
I seek the artifex, disenchant hex to lift this curse of Cain
Of Cain!

[Chorus:]
Artifex absorb a corpus
Alchemy in limbic vortex
Archetype bequeath a gene
Murder Eden, dismember dream

[Guitar solo]

[Bridge:]
Beyond arc of reaper's lethal grace
The shade of Cain shrives guilt in mud
And golems raised, all display his slain
Brother's bludgeoned face!

[Guitar solo]

I pluck the stitches, stun the senses, milk the pain I graze
Storm the portals of dead immortals trapped in yesterdaze
I dive to new depths, plunder sunk wrecks in culp of fetid drain
Seek the artifex, disenchant hex to lift this curse of Cain
Of Cain!

[Chorus:]
Artifex absorb a corpus
Alchemy in limbic vortex
Archetype bequeath a gene
Murder Eden, dismember dream