[Intro]
Cold halls hum
church bells bent wrong
tongue taste rust
eyes burn in the fog (huh)
candles stand still
flames sleep in the wax
dead choir breathe
through the holes in the cracks
[Chorus]
Novus Ordo Seclorum
creep in my cerebrum (yeah)
ghostly god on the podium
crown made of radium
Novus Ordo Seclorum
chant in the atrium
I bow, I crawl, I orbit
to your obsidian ultimatum
[Verse 1]
Silk words slither
sycophant prosody drip
praise so heavy
my backbone slip
hand on my skull
puppet string halo swing
your name on my teeth
black-gold signet ring
Dominate legato
long notes choke my lung
shadowy sermon
in a dead Latin tongue
every compliment poison
coiled under my jaw
every nod that I give
carved into your law
[Bridge]
Who watching from the rafters?
Who feeding on my fear? (who?)
Mirror in the chapel
swerve, never come near
I hear hands clap
no hands in the room
I smell incense
straight sulfur and doom
[Chorus]
Novus Ordo Seclorum
creep in my cerebrum
ghostly god on the podium
crown made of radium (radium)
Novus Ordo Seclorum
chant in the atrium
I bow, I crawl, I orbit
to your obsidian ultimatum
[Outro]
Paranoid trance
floor tilt, walls bend
thoughts bleed pixels
edges never end
ghostly god grin
static in your throne
I wake, I shake, I mumble
this world not my own