Wolfsbane and Ivy Lyrics

Where branches twist their boughs
Throughout the blackened woods
Broods that masque, Edenic asp
Sought on lip and hood
Singing snare
Fathered into this dance:
Where once love strode each wild's command
Now vows more Satanic entrance...

String me wayward totem
Shadows put to toothed means
Sheep bleat, fear our hollows
Wolfsbane and ivy

Abandoned to a purpose erst never in our seed
"Whet the jaw! Blood the sabbat! Bewill us to fly!"
Appropriated, our bones for the church his cancer decreed
Bonfire fruit to soothe the wound of the manger
Virtue deemed to have fled these Hecatonchires
After Eden's serpent struck their gardened root
Those born to join the forest in its worship
Turned and left the birthright to witchcraft and soot

Now our psithurisms reek of spited sons
Prayer made the pungence of their bodies burning
But what blood said to devil our sylvan hymnals with its baths
Can efface such paths?

Come back!

Leaves green this skeletal reach in longing
For no further urge to fall...

Still, the unintestined grotesque
Of creation's inverted edifice:
Claws and palates slaked to usurper's whim
Which promptly fosters worms and fungi within

But where slaughters the spell
An older law detrita knell...

Necrophagous shoots and spores
Wnwind their constant gospel through the ruin of death
Lichening the blasphemies beshrouding our dark
Until there's nothing left

The rites that drank your babes
Unmade while we pine
Oh, unbloodied air
Each prodigal spring divines!

Meet me ageless totem
Shadows true and green
I, darksome peace, I am the wood
I am for your good