Helleborus - Prayer of the Undying Lyrics

Before the Kypris starlight, Night Mother of gods and men
O blessed goddess of stillness slumber moonlit
I call to surrender Amaryllis before your children Mandrake
Upon the Ash I've fallen to you as the Hanged man

I come to you naked below an ark of bleeding doves
Nine times crucified in the heart of dawn
Three nails between life and death
All the blood I make is equal to blood I take
Entangled in the Silver Gate
Resides the Serpent of the Grave

Below my shallow I do reach
To Sacrifice Attis on the Pine
To receive Light in you
You give all, you take all

I sing of Thy Night...
In heavens, upon Earth
Hear my cries, hear my roars
Rooted above a buried Sun
Strip me of this poisonous flesh
Strip me of this putrid soul
Strip me from the light of my eye
Drag me through the deep, drowned yet undying
Never knowing saffron's curse, my great work is complete

When the salted clouds have cleared and blood has raked the air
The Mandrake will scream
Crucify me between pure being
Within a darkness is glowing under my skin
In serpentine dance surmounting to all horizons
A serpent above me, a serpent below me
I coil among them in the fluid of Thy womb
The essence of Fox Glove hallows through the blood of my heart against the current
Could this be the heavens
O great mother Kypris
I've fallen from the Spring of Life
No grace, no glory...
Through fire I walk, through baptism of death
Let me rise from Thy gift of pain and silence