Set Yourself Alight - Black Moth

Dawn has cussed the black sky

Dread is slowly creeping in

That bitch has sent her rays to prize

Our crusty eyelids open

Wicked, lazy, saturnine

Stargazing, drunken parasites

We’ve built a vaulting wall of thorns

I’ve seen you pruning fondly

Set yourself alight, surrender to the night

We built ourselves a pyre while we waited for a sign

Set yourself alight, illuminate the night

No longer paralysed by the impulse to survive

Here they come, torches raised

Asking how we spent our days

But it takes time to cultivate

A squalor quite like ours

We’ll be baptised in paraffin

Fumes will hide the stink of sin

Pink like pork and saccharine

The gods will feast tonight!

Set yourself alight, surrender to the night

We built ourselves a pyre while we waited for a sign

Set yourself alight, illuminate the night

The body’s sacrifice sees the spirit catalysed

Set yourself alight, illuminate the night

No longer paralysed by the impulse to survive

Set yourself alight, the immolation rite

Like a moth drawn to the fire, all desire’s realised