(Petrified in the) Hypogean Gaol Songtext
von Cryptic Shift

"Orbital Debris" - A. Bradley |

Blast off from the lunar settlement, orbiting moonbase looms overhead.
Nuclear core ignites and consumes;
Blighted dwellers hover lifeless in stasis.

Internal atmosphere is spewing out,
Yet the targeting course is unaffected.

Bludgeoned escape pod drowns in
Moisture from the oxygen rich composition.
Towering spires reach for the thermosphere
On the bleak horizon plagued in black ore.

Old Earth laments in dismic woe; lingering throes of this alien world.

Glide over foliage and into the soil,
Leaping quadrupeds scatter the land.
Outer seal of the capsule released as
Tempestuous utterances spew from beneath the ground...

...In a scoured, beyond alien tongue.
Speaking inoculated truth of a perennial quest.


Tribal clans tell of a chthonous terror where
Ancient structures ooze beneath miles of mud.
They lead me deep into the heaving earth,
Where an age old bas-relief is sculpted inevitable:

A grand triptych of a celestial
Emissary unleashed from it′s hypogean gaol.

| "Hovering undescribable thing" - Riley |

Enraged in translucid stimulus through
Divine emanation. Petrified embryotic dormancy.
ADAR KAIMANU AG-KIA-ZI
(Translation: Satur - Fire to the Earth spirit!)

| "Spurned immortality mythos I" - Riley |

| "A riposte of crepsculated lunar presence" - A. Bradley |
| "Tumultuous meridian occurence" - J. Bradley |

Upon pensive waters the beast is defeated in cacophonous splendor.
Vanquished by moonbase cannons quantized for moonshot blitz.
It flees through a tremendous portal: An astral conjuration.
Plasma trails arcing from garroted ancient spoils.

As cystic marrow falls,
It's cortexial cruor visibly spills from the frontal lobe.
Miasma of dying titan flesh.
Its molten corpse, a harbinguous cenotaph.

| "Spurned immortality mythos II" - Riley |