Nepenthe

I drink the milk of ceres
Dread elixir
Crude nauseous willful poison
Healing wounds unhealed
Purge, vomit, convulse, collapse
I gain the knowledge
Separate mind from body
I break open the skull

Papaver somniferum
Amrosia of the ancients
Morpheus, god of dreams, grants
Me entrance to the den of the wicked
Anarchy of dreaming sleep summons
Long dead harlots
I kiss the queens of hell
Cleansed from the dishonours of the grave

Potent destroyer of grief
Abyss of divine enslavement
Thou hast the key to paradise
Nepenthe
Nepenthe

(Guitar solo)

Every night I descend into chasms and sunless abysses
Depths below depths from which I am hopeless to reascend

Thou hast the key to paradise
Nepenthe
Nepenthe