MURDER OF THE UNIVERSE

Altered Beast, RETICENT RACONTEUR, LORD OF LIGHTNING, BALROG, ACRID CORPSE, HAN-TYUMI, SOY-PROTEIN

A NEW WORLD

Chapter 1: The Tale of the Altered Beast

As soon as the dust settles, you can see

A new world in place of where the old one had been

Your skin is crawling with dry, crusted mud

And your naked feet are wet in a pool of blood

And the whistle of the wind in your ears is so loud

That your memories have blown up in a mushroom cloud

And as your eyes accommodate

There appears by the meadow

A brute like a bear with a long, dark shadow

And you violently shake over what you have seen

As you remember the tale of the Altered Beast

ALTERED BEAST I

I think I see

An altered beast by the tree, oh

Take a peek

If you would dare

Half made of man

Half of bear

He came from underneath

I met an altered beast

I think I see

An altered beast by the creek, oh

Altered face

And altered skin

Altered horde

Of altered kin

He came from underneath

I met an altered beast

I think I see

An altered beast in my dreams

In a dream, you can wake in your bed without pain

But know with conviction, it's here you'll remain

I met an altered beast

With an unsteady gait, the critter moves forth

Feel his rhythm as he tramples the earth

And you stare at his figure, stupefied in dread

As his gaze locks to yours and bores into your head

And the pulse is so loud on the inside of your brain

And you find that your feet are stuck to the terrain

Closer he comes, making dust out of stone

Forsaken you are, and what's more, all alone

I think I see

An altered beast by the tree, oh

I met an altered beast

ALTER ME I

For all its revulsion, and warp, and taboo

A part of you wants to be altered too

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me!

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

ALTERED BEAST II

Now dear listener, we crossed the foe

The foe with the weapons and heavy cargo

I am the sabre, the catapult, and bat

The top of the food chain in my habitat

I am the demon bearing misery and fear

And I spy you convulsing from way over here

I could pull you apart or I could cut you to pieces

I could make you weep crimson tears from the lesions

But the thing that I lust for and the thing that I'll get

Is to take over your body and to be in your head

I see you

I want to

Break your head

Crusty bread, oh

I won't quit

If you quip

See to it

That you slip, oh

I see you

I want to

Seize your brain

I'd like to put it in my head

To me you are game, just a sweet bit of meat

Come closer and drink malevolence from my teat

Tell me would you honestly

Dare to face up next to me

Sugar coated pills won't keep

You from feeling so woozy

I am an Altered Beast, oh

What harm could a mere mortal like you do?

I am the golden wolf and you are caribou

My left hand is a knife and my right is a fork

I will pull you apart like a butcher pulls pork

I see you

I want to

Make a waste

Of your home, oh

I won't leave

I might tease

I'll be there

Await your death, oh

I see you

I want to

Seize your brain

I'd like to put it in my head

I see you're nervous, I see you're fumbling

Come hither my friend, my stomach is rumbling

Tell me would you honestly

Dare to face up next to me

Sugar coated pills won't keep

You from feeling so woozy

Tell me would you honestly

Dare to face up next to me

Sugar coated pills won't keep

You from feeling so woozy

I am an Altered Beast

ALTER ME II

Your dumb human head is full of naiveté

Your impending fate, is to be one with me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

Now we cross to our friend on the monster's plate

In time he will turn and reincarnate

ALTERED BEAST III

I know I see

An altered beast

By the tree

Find a place to hide

Where I could steal a peep

Look to the sky

And I see angels weep

And he said:

"I see you

And I can see right through

I see you

And I will take you to my altered world"

Nine white teeth

(Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed)

My gums bequeathed

(Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed)

Hair on my skin

And I'm feeling beastly

Feel it trickle in

A new life in me

And I said:

"I see you

And I can see right through

I see you

And I will take you to my altered world"

Nine white teeth

(Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed)

My gums bequeathed

(Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed)

Nine pearl fangs, a true sign that you're deformed

Once a man, now a monstrosity reborn

I see you

I can see right through

I see you

I can see right through

I see you

I can see right through

I see you

And I'll take you to my altered world

I am an altered beast!

ALTER ME III

No more consternation, no longer insalubrious

The beast's DNA has dug into your nucleus

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me!

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me!

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me!

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me!

ALTERED BEAST IV

You don't feel a thing in your sinuous head

No love, no pain, and no fear of dread

Your apathetic dispassion has made you distort

And your savoir faire is to kill for sport

You'd wound a small creature and watch it wiggle

And lust to feel so bad, that you'd force a giggle

So crooked and curled is your point of view

There is no other creature more malicious than you

I'm completely satisfied

My other life I will not miss

An altered beast until I die

And I will not give up on this

Never!

True, I went to hell and back

But it was so I could be this

An altered beast until the end

And I will not give up on this

Never!

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

Altered Beast within me

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

You're ruthless, and savage, and sadistic, and vindictive

And you find human flesh is incredibly addictive

But the longer you live, and the longer you kill

There's a void that gets harder, and harder to fill

The void that you feel within would suggest

That a canyon has opened up inside of your chest

And whatever you do, there's no turning back

You've reached the end of the cul-de-sac

Emptiness inside of me

And hollowness all around me

I cut myself to see it bleed

And now I don't feel anything

Never!

Insincere and trivial

The world is void of all meaning

And gone is all that's visceral

And now I don't feel anything

Never!

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

Altered Beast within me

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

Altered Beast within me

I don't feel heinous

I don't feel no pain

I don't feel nothing

I don't feel anything

The sole thing that will make your void obsolete

Is to find someone new, some sapid fresh meat

Altered beast

Alter me

Altered beast

Alter me

I think I see

An altered beast inside me, oh!

I am an altered beast

LIFE / DEATH

Are you you? Are you me? Or someone in between?

You lost track inside the labyrinthine

You lost your will and your sanity

You certainly lost your humanity

In life, you have taken much more than your worth

Now it's your turn to give back to the earth

May you return to the ground and ossify

It's time for you to die, die, die

SOME CONTEXT

instrumental

VOMIT COFFIN, MURDER OF THE UNIVERSE, lyrics, han-tyumi, Balrog

THE RETICENT RACONTEUR

There is a secret I've been keeping, a story true and genuine

And I have not the candid heart to keep its burden clandestine

For its gravity is as weighty as a mountain capped in snow

And its memory repeats inside of me, ostinato

And every time I think of the poor lot, I recall

The fear upon their faces and the doomed fate of them all

I saw death become of light, and life become of fire

I saw it from my hiding place, within the quagmire

I bringeth forth the drama, unabridged, and unignored

The battle of the Balrog, and the mighty lightning lord

THE LORD OF LIGHTNING

Lord of Lightning shifts his gaze

Points his strong finger our way

Electricity escapes

Leaves destruction in his wake

Lining up his target like the huntsman points his rifle

Waves of flaxen flames as he mutters his magic title

Lightning, oh!

Nonagon, nonagon

Nonagon infinity, yup!

Howling like a horde of demons greatest battle cry

The violent lightning lord points his arms into the sky

Floating fire

Golden wire

Silver trails

Flashing spire

Guns are cracking

Bombs are smacking

Cat o' tails

Whips her lashings

Lord of Lightning moves our way

Sends a crooked look at me

Electricity escapes

Lights the sky in citrine fleece

Lightning, oh!

Nonagon, nonagon

Nonagon infinity, yup!

One more time the vault lights up with carnival of paint

I endeavor to watch the panic, but I worry that I will faint

Floating fire

Golden wire

Silver trails

Flashing spire

Guns are cracking

Bombs are smacking

Cat o' tails

Whips her lashings

Lord of Lightning's closer now

Our world's only rain and cloud

I'm not sure we have the power

Need to smite this evil down

Lightning, oh!

Nonagon, nonagon

Nonagon infinity, yup!

Nonagon, nonagon, oh!

And from the Lord's electric snare

One goes in his electric chair

Lord of Lightning shifts his gaze

Points his strong finger our way

Electricity escapes

Leaves destruction in our wake

His electric trap has electric cyanide

The luckless hostage has been thoroughly fried

Lightning, yup!

Nonagon, nonagon

Nonagon infinity, yes!

And as the cadaver lay static with open crusted eyes

The smoking corpse began to twitch at my great surprise

Then the figure sprung up and at once it caught alight

And the creature known as Balrog was born that very night

THE BALROG

Balrog, balrog

Balrog, balrog, yep!

You made the atom split

It caused a massive rift

And he came screaming through

Here to bite the head from you

Balrog, balrog

Balrog, balrog, yep, oh!

Balrog fears not the Lightning Lord

He's fixed on us, has him ignored

Feel a tingle

Rolling up your left arm when you

Think of evil

Lurking in the darkness where you

Shine your eyesight

Something tells you this is not right

Take some advice

Have you heard the murmurings of

Balrog, balrog

Balrog, balrog, yep!

You caused a massive rift

You made the atom split

And it came screaming through

Here to bite the head off you

Balrog, balrog

I build the bravery to sneak a glimpse at its expression

And beyond the flames I see him smirk at our present depression

I fear that God's a chef and he's thrown us into a great pot

He is here, fully formed, and glowing red and lapis hot

Heated menace

Comes to gouge the heart out from us

Blazing zealot

Preaching on the apocalypse

I don't want to

Submit to his awful torture

Save me from him

Have you heard the murmurings of

Balrog, balrog

Balrog, oh!

Skin begins to burn

There's nowhere we can turn

There's no way we can win

The devil puppets him

His pyre muscles flex

We are his next subjects

His power has us floored

Kneel before the overlord

Balrog, balrog

Balrog, yes, oh!

For them, the future was as laid out as the burnt path he swathe

And so the damned remaining lot knelt before the red behemoth

And as they prepared for afterlife there appeared the endemic monstrosity

The Lighting Lord is back and charged the Balrog with animosity

Furious he pummeled his breast, and a blaze alit the heavens

The stage was set for war, and to the Balrog, the Lord's finger beckoned

THE FLOATING FIRE

Clouds begin to tear

Sky is bleeding hair

God is weeping tears

You are full of fears

Vehement lightning quake

Head begins to ache

Lord has thunder snake

Balrog he will break

And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned

And we are reminded who lords over this altered world

Floating fire sky

Everything will die

Floating fire

Golden wire

Silver trails

Flashing spire

Guns are cracking

Bombs are smacking

Cat o' tails

Whips her lashing

Lord of Lightning safe he

Pulls a golden stake

Launches into space and

Mutters to the beast, one word:

Lightning, yup

THE ACRID CORPSE

And as the acrid Balrog corpse smoulders just like it began

Its crimson-orange light melts into the setting sun

And leaving us, not without a final clap of light

The Lightning Lord escapes as day fades into moonless night

WELCOME TO AN ALTERED FUTURE

Impertinent and ignorant

Deathless and restless

Cold contrite cowards

Digitised satellite

Augmented entities

Unremembered God

The world fades to black

Digital black

Welcome to an altered future

DIGITAL BLACK

Digital, oh!

Despondent, lugubrious, no future

We turned our bodies to computer

We are our own nature, abuser

No future, computer, abuser

I can tell every day I stay

All the whiteness turns to grey

All the grey to Cimmerian

As the black is setting in

Digital black, oh!

We've sunken into our illusion

We've fashioned colossal confusion

I am the word of the last human

Illusion, confusion, last human

I can see it all around the land

I can feel it with the back of my hand

I can hear a roaring silence

Of the murky caliginous

I've heard the dark beast has said

That the world is like a brittle egg

He can crush it with only breath

And he can bring a black wave of death

Digital black

The last who feels the pain from the wound

The last to be birthed from the flesh of a womb

A wretched life in this altered place

There must be more I can embrace

Oh!

No future, computer, abuser

Digital black!

Illusion, confusion, last human

Digit, digit, digit

I can tell every day I stay

All the whiteness turns to grey

All the grey to Cimmerian

As the black is setting in

Digital...

HAN-TYUMI, THE CONFUSED CYBORG

Hello

My name is Han-Tyumi

I am a cyborg

Born

If you may call it that

In a world that is dense and black

Created without a desire to draw breath

Without a desire to have being

Without a yearning of just to be

I'd like my desire back

My life back

My soul back

My humanity

Oh how I long for it

For an era I have meditated

Like the primordial Buddha beneath the Bodhi

My pseudo-mind pseudo-wandered

I climbed and I clambered

And I ambled upon some understanding

The gold beneath the virtual rainbow

I am bereft of two human things

Two things that a cyborg can never do

Two things that I strive for

Two things between myself and mankind

Death

And

To vomit

I want the perspiration

I want the nausea

I want to be sick

I want to feel the hot piquant nuggets

I want it to find passage through my cold figure

I want to make a mess

I want the odour

I want the spectacle

And I want it again

I want it all

And I would like to die

A noble death

Or a coward's death

A hero's death

Or a lonely death

To die in the arms of a lover

Or the arms of an alien

I desire my cache of experience to pulsate through my quasi-synapses

And then to be gone

Expired

Perish

Fallen

Dead

For evermore

SOY-PROTEIN MUNT MACHINE

So I built a machine

A human machine

I made it with steel

And soy-protein

Born from a test tube

And into a vat

To live and to heave

And to die just like that

VOMIT COFFIN

Oh, vomit coffin

Vomit coffin

I don't feel blessed

With the vomit

In my chest

I feel like coughing

Vomit coffin

Vomit coffin, oh

Queasy green

Rotten scoff

Vomit cough

And when I declared to my design

Like Frankenstein's monster:

"I am your father, I am your god

And you the magic that I conjure"

The thankless swine

The blasphemous jerk

My creature had no love for me

Which made me berserk

I am covered in vomit

I am coated in sick

I have no name and no place

This is no way to live

So I took over my creation

The spew coated protein

I plugged myself in

And became one with machine

I don't feel blessed

With the vomit

In my neck

I feel like death

Vomit coffin

Filthy green

Rotten scoff

Vomit vomit vomit vomit

Vomit vomit vomit vomit cough

MURDER OF THE UNIVERSE

The spatter becomes a spray, the spray becomes a stream

And the stream becomes a waterfall

Munt is finally cascading from my input

The creeping sick moves from my breath

And into my heart where it is pumped to every inch of my body

I feel it snake through the knots of my deepest veins

And eats through the walls of my cells

It bleeds through the pores of my skin

And it smells good

It drops from my crotch on to the floor

And with a heavy slap it hits the ground and spreads

Inside my body

The pressure is too great

And like some ancient geyser I erupt

My head hits the roof and my body breaks apart with the force of the liquid blast

Vomit bomb

Chunky shrapnel tears through everything around me

I am vomit vomiting

I grow and disperse

Bleeding through walls

I force myself upon others

I slide up legs and crawl down throats

I integrate

I am double

Triple

I am ten times the size

I turn lakes into porridge and buildings into bile

I am a noxious soup filling valleys with vomit-torrents

Castles crumble in landslides and I munch the rubble

It tastes good

Ten thousand times bigger

I seep into power sockets and travel along the wires

At the speed of light across vast electrical networks

I am electric

I am on fire

This is sex

I am every one and every zero

One million

I am supercharged flaming puke storming every cell, molecule and atom I can find

I am cancer

I am flying

I am a rainbow unfurling across the sky

I am floating

I am omni

Five hundred million

The world is my interior

It no longer spins

It is altered

My density forces me outward

I am in orbit

One billion

I am Saturn's rings and Jupiter's storms

I am the weather

I am the sun's heat

I am the night sky

Five hundred billion

The solar system is puke

To the Kuiper belt and beyond

I fill the void

Exploding suns vomit comets

Comets vomit acid rain

Spilt milk over the milky way

One trillion

The stars are my cells

Racing faster outwards

Upwards

Downwards

Inwards

Losing track of my place in the vomit-verse

Every-nowhere

I am heavy

I am gravity

Nebulas pregnant with barf pulsate and burst

Expansion

I shoot arrows of time in all directions

I am a black hole shitting into the void

I tear through the skin of perception and into the next

Nonillion

The cosmic microtone background becomes transparent

Like rising damp

Munt soaks into the walls of the cosmos

And it topples like soggy bread

I am dark energy accelerating

Multiverse

Entanglement

I am time

Centillion

Time is sick

Critical density

Contraction

Singularity

Everything and nothing

Life and death

Murder of the universe