Altering The Beast Lyrics

I've walked the path, I've searched the hallowed grounds

I seek forbidden knowledge, I walk the path!

It started with discovery

Curious tome of the unexplained

This moment I was not prepared

Unleash the darkness

Within these pages lay despair

Unbeknownst this unholy affair

Instincts tell me these are

The workings of a nightmare

Hands shake as I caress the spine

These tattered pages are now mine

Subdued by these concepts, becoming a slave

Unaware that this book condemned me to the grave

There was no turning back

I've become a hollow shell

There was no turning back

I let the power take control

This is my work, refining the strain

Upon these pages lay chaotic scribblings of a man gone insane

Anticipate the forthcoming feast

Augmenting the madness, behold

Altering the beast

The man was weak for letting this power take complete control

Complete control

I feel my innards start to rot

Pain of hunger's what I've got

With great efficiency I cut

Exhilaration from the hunt

Having succumb to the curse

Animalistic urges take hold

Humanity deteriorated

My fair maiden, your flesh is the sweetest

Oh what have I committed, these obscenities

My one true love, I will bury you at dawn

But I wouldn't oppose another slice of meat from your corpse

There was no turning back

I've become a hollow shell

There was no turning back

I let the power take control

This is my work, refining the strain

Upon these pages lay chaotic scribblings of a man gone insane

Anticipate the forthcoming feast

Augmenting the madness, behold perfection

This is my work, refining the strain

Upon these pages lay chaotic scribblings of a man gone insane

Anticipate the forthcoming feast

Augmenting the madness, behold

Altering the beast