CACTI MAXIMUS: THE FINAL LAYER OF THE VORTEX
(C. DeCracken)
[There Goes the Neighborhood]
[symphonic instruments start]
[metal instruments start]
[spoken] This is where it stops. This is where it ends
years passed, your oppression
cries for help, enslave then
pursue the fate, perplex in
the nature, abomination
self destruction
powered riffs, blastbeat lies
hypnotize, contrive
synth layers, prison, demise
the mind, inside, years left by
[spoken] This is where it stops. This is where it ends
[Chorus]
We have the code
we have the code
we are the code
[b/g vocals] up, up
down, down
[b/g vocals] left, right, left right
B, A
start!
dimensions fuse, one, consecration
surrection, loosed vises, an ocean
naked minds, clothed dreams, destination
lives, communion, submission fallen
hope, fulfillment, completed
depraved will, laden
shackles, deprived of millions
your dominion, false inception
[spoken] This is where you fail. This is where it ends
[m.b. Dune Miniseries] “We need desert power”
[Chorus]
[m.b. Dune Miniseries] “We need desert power”
May the desert world fill this place
Arid heat arise and restore
[m.b. Dust Devil] “The desert wind”
sand cyclones reborn in a storm
[m.b. Dust Devil] “grew wings”
basalt cores rising into form
[m.b. Dust Devil] “and flew”
bannered by the sun
[m.b. Dust Devil] “like a bird”
desert terrification
[b/g vocals] Making this world
a desert way
[b/g vocals] it is now
and forever be
[b/g vocals] as it was before
there was life
The cactus is the desert
and the desert is the cactus
[m.b. Dust Devil] “The tracks lead straight on... to open desert”
Among the valley
an oasis of life
dunes of peace
whirlwind of dreams
[m.b. Dust Devil]
“There are no more police, just you and me. No countries, just this... open desert!”
[spoken] This is where you fail. This is where it ends
[Chorus]
Unseen truth, hidden revelation
unveiled against enslaving inclination
Before you no simple flesh
but Cacti Maximus reincarnate
in five souls, desert father
ancient one, older than existence
secret remembrance in the heart
awaiting my presence from afar
The mind never knew
the heart never forgot
[spoken] Before all was, I was
[whispered]
Remember? Do you remember? Your longings, veiled memories of a familiar presence, looking toward the sky, toward the stars. You felt something so far and yet so close. And memories... memories of a desert planet. Deep inside, you knew me, you prayed to me, crying... crying out to me, crying out for me. I am here my children, and forever to remain
[m.b. Children of the Corn 6]
“ ‘He Who walks behind the rows’ ”
“Who is ‘He Who walks behind the rows’ ?”
“Me”
Evil bands
release the throne
loose dominion
vomit power
submit to divine
righteousness
[m.b. Dust Devil] “He must work through human form while he’s in this world”
but now I have come to reclaim my throne
take my wives and rule the cosmos
[Chorus]
Now the prophecy shalt come to pass
come and bear witness
the marriage, designed before time
proceed, my apocalypse, proceed
Come my brides
Metal shalt be my first bride
Rock, her sister, shalt be my second
One wife is perfect
but two is better
[m.b. Dust Devil] “She and he are one... the circle is completed”
[m.b. Dust Devil] “The desert knows her name”
For her the desert parts
the sands bow in praise of her
she is beyond queen
she is the desert goddess
[m.b. Dust Devil] “The desert knows her name”
The blue desert shall be her orb
sandstorms manifest her throne
scorpions and vultures resolve as jewels
[m.b. Dust Devil]
“She and he are one. When she looks into a mirror, she will see his shadow... blown by the desert wind on and on and on”
Enthroned beauty
[b/g vocals] harmonic benevolence
technical patterns
[b/g vocals] of revelation
the polyrhythmic
[b/g vocals] layers of mercy
structured by
[b/g vocals] righteous electric chords
and synthesized empathy
[b/g vocals] behold the
desert queens
[b/g vocals]though as one
For the desert is the paradise
and the paradise is the desert
The code has been completed
Metal at my right hand
and Rock at my left
The worlds, aligned
The universe, sanctified
[metal instruments stop]
The spheres of Rock and Metal
belong eternally to the side of good
evil exists no more
[spoken]
Holiness and serenity shall always remain, and rock on as you would want others to rock on. This is my universe, this is your universe, for in the end we all live in the intestines of Quetzalcoatl
[metal instruments play]
We have the code
we have the code
we are the code
[b/g vocals] up, up
down, down
[b/g vocals] left, right, left right
B, A...
[all instruments stop]
[m.b. Dust Devil] “The circle is completed”
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