Imp of perversity at work on the soul of man Spurring on towards the precipice An obscene hunger for annihilation Vicious impulse to drag down and destroy Led like rats before the piper By the poison of human nature No escape from this cycle For all energy has dissipated And mankind crawls Like a beggar on his knees A beast howling in the dark, trapped for so many years Now free to exalt in its barbarity Beckoned to a global tomb Grinding inexorable doom Inexorable doom..... Lost among the ashes Common grave of all Destroying just to destroy, raping life out of spite We are all cannibals now.... Beckoned to a global tomb Grinding inexorable doom Coercion with force, Thoth Amon Mass-grave of humanity, marked for all the ages By monuments of sharp black iron As a black rain falls amidst the dust Shall we crawl the last mile into the pit? It's not so far at all... Trapped for so many years Now free to exalt in barbarity Pinioned by abjection Through viciousness and squalor From nowhere to nothing...