The Garden of Earthly Delights

INTROIT

Ipse dixit, et facta sunt
Ipse mandavit, et creata sunt

PART I: EDEN

Verse 1

Take my hand and there's no telling
All the wonders we will see
In this Paradise our dwelling
Where we eat of every tree

Chorus 1

Harmony between all things
In the Garden
All around creation sings
In the Garden

Verse 2

Each of us made for the other
I am yours and you are mine
Made one flesh to praise the Father
All according to design

Chorus 2

My soul's love is for you
In the Garden
My mind says it's good and true
In the Garden

PART II: THE GARDEN

Verse 1

Where my emotion dictates
As a metaphysical state
Is the place
I will go
Morality
Doesn't enter my mentality
As a reality
This I know

The submission
Of my mind's volition
To my passions
Is how it will begin
No more
Of the conscience pangs I try to ignore
I've felt them before
But now I'll soar
On the glory of my sin

Chorus 1

Gotta find some other place now
Where I can quell my appetites
Eden's joys won't satisfy me
I need a Garden of Earthly Delights

Verse 2

Out of light
In the blackness of my soul's dark night
I never knew what was lurking out of sight
Where now I rove
So much I wasn't able to see
Didn't think what I wanted would be
In this weird grove

All my wishes
No matter how vicious
Are fulfilled, and even these fishes
Of behemoth size
Inflame my carnal wildfire
Just like the women clad in nature's attire
Before my eyes

Chorus 2

I don't need the joys of heaven
Or the beatific light
Just the fruit that tastes so luscious
In the Garden of Earthly Delights

PART III: HELL

Verse 1

You chose to subject your reason
To the whims of your desires
Sinful pleasures for a season
Are rewarded with Hell's fires

Verse 2

Demons playing bagpipes greet you
Tree-Man wears a crooked smile
Your new family wants to meet you
Won't you stay a little while?

Verse 3

See that fellow eating dinner
Prince of hell with cauldron crown
Watch as he devours sinners
And excretes them upside-down

Verse 4

Ears that wield a sharpened penknife
Hear the damned musicians play
You chose this in what was then life
Welcome home, you're here to stay