Fin de siècle round twenty-one, catch XXII Conciliation with thy maker through his irritation Bipolar minds spawned a singular war Catharsis through the cataclysm Selective retrograde amnesia Masses tried by fire, then cleansed by the flood Idle hands do the devil's work indeed Rest no longer Pound the drum of the global strife Hear it sing The hammer of ungods, too heavy and too cold See it descend, hear its call Mouths of the crippled Spit forth the hangman's hymn The chorus howls in unison Of thy closure, praising thy fall The century of contradiction Autocracy of force-fed happiness Gluttony, glamour and rape Melpomene mocking Thalia Twisted mirrors distorting each other Winds of madness O, hear them howl The tombs look nice tonight The dead glow at night They are forever With the light coming from their tombs So we can appreciate What comes next Betwixt tigerish wraiths In the shape of human shadows Drug-induced sheol Forget and be forgotten Psychonautic tear-stained evangelion You bet we had it coming O, hear them howl