And night fell over the dissonant ranges Here, where it all began, as the ground trembles The wraiths of what was un-god, anything before Bestows itself prostrate before us, prepared for annihilation Engraved on the ground where we walk is this warning; "Everything is now destroyed Do not seek to be anything other than this You will be divested of every garment until none remain What is born must become whole by annihilation By the gates of the first time By the glittering flight of arrows into all twilights of knowing By the din of the waning light" What was spoken, what was heard, what was seen Beyond the shift
[This song was added to the “Moon's Milk (In Four Phases)” compilation in 2002, nearly four years after the first “Moon’s Milk” EP. This Coil track incorporates many lines from “Description Of A Mandala” by Angus MacLise, a poem/reading from September 1976 which can be found on the 2003 MacLise compilation album “The Cloud Doctrine”. From his Dreamweapon series to “Smothered Under Astral Collapse” MacLise was certainly an influence on Balance’s Moon phase lyrics.] 245