V. The Storm of Lust

INTRO (Wind. Breathing. Tremolo guitar.) They did not walk here They were carried By hunger By memory By the gravity of unfinished touch Above the abyss The storm circled endlessly. VERSE I Bodies spiraled through the crimson sky Like ash caught inside a furnace eye Lovers tangled in electric chains Kissing through the hurricane Perfume drifted through the rain Sweet as rot inside the veins Every heartbeat struck in doubles Every pleasure sharpened trouble Their voices blurred into the gale Half confession, half animal And every time the lightning came I saw another forgotten face PRE-CHORUS No ground below No stars above Only the endless weather of desire CHORUS Storm of lust Pull me through the wire Where every touch becomes a wound And every wound catches fire Storm of lust Tear apart the skin The hunger never wanted love It only wanted in VERSE II A queen with shattered diamond teeth Reached through the cyclone after me Her velvet tongue spoke poisoned scripture Soft enough to sound like mercy Around her throat were broken halos Spinning slow in neon flame And every soul that kissed her shadow Forgot their own name The winds accelerated violently Cathedrals torn into debris Columns spinning overhead Like monuments to starving flesh INSTRUMENTAL SECTION (Frenzied prog-metal passage) Chaotic tempo changes Dual guitar harmonies collapsing into dissonance Drums shifting unpredictably between groove and blast sections Male and female vocal layers intertwining: “Closer...” “Closer...” “Closer...” “Fall apart...” VERSE III I saw lovers fused together Mouth to mouth and eye to eye Their bodies stretched impossibly By appetites that never died Some were laughing Some were screaming None could tell the two apart The storm consumed distinction itself Until pleasure became machinery Until longing became gravity Until identity dissolved completely PRE-CHORUS And in the center of the cyclone Something watched without desire CHORUS Storm of lust Beautiful disease Every dream becomes a chain Every chain another need Storm of lust Spin me into dust Heaven was not lost through hatred But through wanting far too much BRIDGE Then the winds began to sing In harmonies of shattered wings And all the damned reached upward blindly Toward a light that wasn’t there I felt the storm invade my lungs Like liquid fire made of memory Every love I’d ever buried Rose alive inside of me And for one ecstatic second I wanted never to escape FINAL CHORUS Storm of lust Infinite embrace Where all desire devours itself Without leaving any trace Storm of lust Crown me in the rain The heart is just a hurricane Learning how to say your name OUTRO (The instruments collapse gradually into ambience) Wind remains Distant moaning choirs A final whispered line: “THE STORM REMEMBERS EVERY TOUCH.”