Descent of the Poison King
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
The witch prepares
A splendid garden there
Gold, ash now
pushed underground
A gore-hurling geyser
It feeds the furrows where
soldiers rise and warriors die
Black star for a crown
The radiance that drains
Descends without a sound
The rays, all around
We feel the rays, all around
A pigs’ parade
Slaves and cutters lead the way
to a hole blown wide
where fathers lie
A coronation
A face to replace the sun
Coal black now
And shining down
Black star for a crown
The radiance that drains
Descends without a sound
The rays, all around
We feel the rays, all around
Son of the Sun
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
Hero, Son of the Sun
come to see his maiden purity undone
Undone
And earth and man is the fuel
as I wretch myself anew
Anew
Into my jaws you slip down and slide
to break me from the inside
The acid clamors and claws
Judge your color from the other side
Welcome to the fold
of twisted shades and broken spirits
who sold their souls
Their souls
And yield your name on your knees
Twisted your sacred truth to serve me
To serve me
Into my jaws you slip down and slide
to break me from the inside
The acid clamors and claws
Judge your color from the other side
And drown in acid tide
Never neutralize
Sings the shadow pride,
you will prevail and seize the prize
The Great Beast Awakens
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
Survey the breaking dawn
Crack an eye and fire flows
Men and their monuments fall into the maw
The once yielding womb of the earth,
now the mouth of Cronus
These generations of men
are ripe for harvest
I am the sacred curse
awakened to horrid life
I am the beast
roaring into the light
It matters not how you plead,
“spare our sons and daughters!”
Every beast on this earth
Every beast must feed
Food for the Moon
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
Minions of the moon cult
Set the air to the boiling
Let me light the carving
in my soft baby-blue
Oh let me shine
For peace is a poison
Let love rot on the vine
Serve the young and tender souls
in bile and vitriol
Brothers butchered sisters shamed
Offerings profane
Broken ghosts upon my tongue
Life to the midnight sun
Seven courses, seven sins
Let the feeding begin
So come and pray with the fools and saviors
Supplications drown in the tide
The blinding wrath and the calls for violence
fill my master’s cup like wine
The boiling blood drinks like wine.
Crown of Crows
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
We will see you beg
scraping through the wreckage
Snatching at the dregs
We will see your trust
bleeding out before you
married to the dust
In dreams they show us your face
With one wish for your name
drag and drive you to this place
To array your haven in flames
The new-found faithless
Have come to call
The eaters are swarming over the wall
No stable of victims or serfs
The dead would nail you a throne
built from the shining city’s bones
Your glory restored on this earth
The prince of the howling
and blackened waste
A crown of crows will eat your face
Hail Phaeton
Mouth of Cronus
Original Metal
You were dreaming of the burning down
when God’s hand touched earth
With pride you self-crucified
when hell was given birth
By the saving grace
of a rock from space
Let me hear your praise
Hail Phaeton
who spares the chosen ones
Hail Phaeton
bringer of dissolution
You cry for the world you cursed
and pray to forsaken gods
Only the dogs hear your calls
here in the land of Nod
By the saving grace
this wicked world razed
Let me hear your praise
Hail Phaeton
who spares the chosen ones
Hail Phaeton
bringer of dissolution
Hail Phaeton
