Vathek was a caliph and he
Wanted to learn the secrets
of the universe
He built a tower to study the stars
Astrology was his craft
and an omen he read
of a man who would
come from an unkown land
The man soon came and he was
ugly as a dog
brough a cimitar with
two messages in the blade
"this land is wonderful"
and "damned will be
who wants to know
what is forbidden"
But Vathek wanted to know
he had visions of the demon-faced man
forty human sacrifices
and abandoning
the muslim faith would buy him the key
to the palace
where a crown would be given to him
He became the ruler of pain
and misery
he terrorized his land and his men
he worshipped demons
and his soul was dark as the night
as black magic
the new art of his life
and he was truly lost
forty men were killed
the califf was brought in trance
to a mountain
were the Earth opened to him
he descended
saw the fountain of slavery
and of the power
of man over man
He descended into hell
The greatest temptation
to him
An hour of spacey, dreamlike new music from Ducktails. “Daffy Duck in Hollywood” boasts mirage-like songs with laid-back melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2017