Dark Cathedral

They say Rome wasn't built overnight
But please,pet, do your best
Build me my buttresses, my parapets
My panning walls and waterfalls
Build it and grow it up fast

They say that darkness is unsure
But please, whip, see your best
Shine me my lights, my rosary windows
My stained glass all Hell and Limbo
Light it and burn it up fast

I want a dark cathedral
To worship the creaks and echoes
All the dead spaces between
The plaster ears of the saints
A confessional
To simmer over with gossip
And terrible trappist tales

They say Animals are without dominion
But please, kids, commit it all to fables
With no thumbs you're most adept
For molding effigies and mounting scaffolds
Throw up hands and give it up fast

A little plot with no substance
Where do the spires fill in
From what quarry is the marble raped?
Do they not wound the soft clouds
With their serrated shit shingle-teeth?

Emaciated Christ
You're quite the sex symbol
Mounted so histrionically
Upon an ancient symbol once profane
You're the ultimate whip
You deserve all my reverence
On an altar hewn of decadence

They say angels are without libido
Then why, lamb, endow them with lusty songs
Voluptuous limbs and luscious curly crowns
All positively primitive from A to Z
Fetch it and slick it up fast

Lock the radiant corpses in the tabernacle
Distill the bones to breakable bread
Fill the cup with essense
And gild away the sin