Arcturus - Painting My Horror lyrics

It was a dark night, I couldn't see; And senses were unbound in ESP When in dream awake, I'd paint. Subconscious, the expanse I saw The portal to minds eye, open! - I contemplated Who it was that pulled the strings Of those things I saw in dreadful masquerade Of stark madness went merry round with my head I pa**ed out, embraced their world Savoured the poetry of revolt - Sheer elegy of menace I have not been the same since, I took on the profession of a devil The world I see in a grotesque light Evil perform with the gestures of a clown Pure I live in blasphemy Mephisto I am hidden in Madonnas gown From the code of common sense I'm free To bad you are not here to partake my strange horror 'Cause here is where our ways will part I will not exchange this power, spring of my suffering, I do not envy the conscience pure of the blind man in his bliss world I would not be devoid the fruit of guile