Horology

Horology is the seventh song in the album Polygondwanaland.

Lyrics
Once upon a time there was a

great hermit dominion

Veiled from inside and out

Ruled by a lone eremite

Bringer of an inferno

Conduit to Satan himself

To Tchort, Abaddon, and Set

A demented figurehead

A heinous looking thing he was

Cold and terrible

A Long and aquiline nose

between swollen temples

His green eyes; a window to the ninth

circle of hell

A tiny neck supporting a head filled

With an unbending desolation

Seditious bands storm the bastion

Alive with revenge

Grand intentions

Unbeknownst protomartyrs

Indoctrinated with impalement

Just like that, the plot was crushed

Brushed away without a thought

Some were found alive, though

Left to roam without their skin

Cauterized and blistering

Forever marked for all to see

Reminding those who think dissent

Is a bridge across the sea

One did make a pilgrimage in

search of a family

Evaporated in the dark

Stolen by the despot

A journey made all the worse

Having had his eyes gouged

Left without the gift of sight to

Face his true destroyer

Across the land he walked with death

Parading his ossuary

Upon reaching the castle walls

A twist of fate

His mind baulks

"Sit down weary traveller

I am that which you seek

Join me in a meal to hear

Of my repentance'

"Lift the veil from your eyes

and look beyond the three

Now you know the truth behind;

it's tetrachromacy"