Writhe under the lash of submission For dreams are too short To compare with this rapture Stretching into an infinity of blessed torment The eightfold mark I wear... Realisation through abasement... Smeared with the clotted blood of abandonment What was reality compared with this rapture? Sinful mask I wear, flesh to tear Hedonistic pain ritual Sacrosanct perversion Black dream of violence Flesh falls to rapture in hell Ascend to permission Wear their mark upon your skin All things are permitted Under the law of rapture made flesh Hedonistic pain ritual Glorified in torment In pain the limits of flesh transcend Borne on wings of torment The eightfold mark I wear Flesh to dust... Hedonistic pain ritual Sacrosanct perversion