This ain’t the road to heaven This is the road to you Ahhh… We can begin No… No hiding You called me in You begged me in You let me in I’ll take you by the hand Take you from the inside Let me slide… in you Take the first step It is the hard one The rest… I’ll guide you past the Rotting Ill Fates Scared, are you? You have nothing to fear. (Nothing to fear but me) #lyrics #poetry #DarkAmbient

Background info

This is a study for gig and later ltd ed cdr release The Serpent Rite.

Not much of this draft got used in the end. Lines about roads were first spotted on Face or Fall and then found their way to Inducer.

The only part remaining from this version on the final ”Rotting Ill Fates” was ”I’ll guide you past the Rotting Ill Fates”, where it got repeated several times in part and in totality. In addition there were lines in Fate voices depicting what they saw: ”I see pain / I see humiliation / I see death”. The guiding voice leading the mage along the way and around the Fates.

Reading this now I’m seeing things I could work into something completely new.

Fedizen of the mastodon.art at @ovro@mastodon.art, come say hi.

Ovro

2025-07-14 20:56:45

Face or Fall

[monotone]Face the Void See it stare back relax honey, it will only hurt a little

Face the Void See what stares back it will only hurt

Face the Void Face or fall

Is it… Your indifference? Your mis-placed pride? Illusion of silence curing all? Hoping avoidance would keep out the fall? this road ain’t to heaven

Is it… Pure selfishness? The want to keep cool? Your shattering shell equation of feeling and fool?

(Face the Void Face or fall Face the Void Turn back or grow tall)

Break the circle Face the Void Face and grow tall Face the Void Break the circle Face the Void Face or Fall

#lyrics #poetry #DarkAmbient

Background info

I think this is the oldest surviving draft of a piece that got through a few rewrites before getting played and released. Lines in italic marks a different voice entering the scene in a saccharine but sarcastic tone, while the main voice is more monotone. The second last part now in parentheses was crossed over as redundant.

”Relax honey, it will only hurt a little” and ”it will only hurt” later formed a major part of a Vipera Aurea track Scarlet Calls.

The same piece of paper this version was written on included scetchy notes for sentences of ideas to be condensed into lyrics, like ”the hope that closing your eyes will make the troubles/it all go away?”, ”thinking unattended does not exist?” and, for some reason, CLOCKBITE in all capital and large letters. That word has nothing to do with any facing of Void, I had simply needed a corner to scibble that word down.

Thematically, this is lyrics for ritual music – or rather, words to be recited over music in what was to be a gig playing out a story about a ritual working. And, a ritual in itself.

Let’s insert a hastag or two here: #ritual #magick

---

Fedizen of the mastodon.art at @ovro@mastodon.art, come say hi.

Vorpal Angel, by Ovro

from the album Mosaick the Serpent / Vipera Aurea

^{Some Place Else}

Hide your virgins I’m coming! And the air streams with the ejaculation of trees.

Hide your virgins I’m coming! There’ll be hoards of sons and daughters of god.

#poetry #lyrics #DarkAmbient

Background info

Silly little song about… allergies. And the Great God Pan.

Somebody on an IRC chat was compaining how all the tree semen was making their life miserable and I went ”hmmmm!”. The rest isn’t exactly history, but I had fun. Hopefully those exposed to General PanIck found it funny as well.

This track is related to Summoned I Summon, where some other deity is definitely… coming.

In a song format, ”Hide your virgins I’m coming” was repeated quite a few times in different tones and modes of urgensies. The other two lines were pretty much uttered just once.

I sometimes played this live and finally released on version on Ten..

Fedizen of the mastodon.art at @ovro@mastodon.art, come say hi.

General PanIck, by Ovro

from the album Ten.

^{Some Place Else}

Ovro

2025-07-10 15:16:17

Summoned I Summon

He's coming He's coming

the father of your father's your father's father's son

He's coming Like you my young one

the father of your father's your father's father's son

He's coming He's coming

The lust of your mother's what are you my young one?

#poetry #lyrics

Background Info

“Summoned I Summon” was a track I played live in the early 2000s and released on Vipera Aurea and then with a live version on Ten, which consisted of odd versions and live / live only tracks from the first ten years of me making music.

In a live setting the vocals were usually performed by Niko Skorpio as a quest vocalist, with me on the machinery controlling music, calling for the audience to wake up and proclaiming that he IS coming.

Ten is still available at:someplaceelse.bandcamp.com/alb…

---

Fedizen of the mastodon.art at @ovro@mastodon.art, come say hi.

Ten., by Ovro

17 track album

^{Some Place Else}

“the noose is waiting it is your friend your one, last, only

let it all hang end the game, the shame, the blame

let it all hang

come, meet the noose you should, you know, you should end it the noose is the end you want it, you should

look at yourself you fool! unloved, unwanted, shamed

solution – the noose

let it all hang! you should!

end it you want it you should

who would care?

all forget you as they should you are forgotten before you even end it

let it all hang come, come to noose it is your friend”

#poetry #lyrics #DarkAmbient

Background Info

These lyrics were written in 2003 while I was really not feeling well. My then FWB had unilaterally decided to switch to ditching the ”WB” after meeting somebody new, but did not tell me about it until they got suffiently drunk and I asked why the sudden cold shoulder in the tenderness department. Until that revelation I was left feeling I must be utterly revolting. With the body issues and resulting insecurities that have been my life long companion things were bad. After? Not that much better. While I learned it wasn't that I had suddenly become undesirable, to my mind I was simply so much less desirable than somebody else – perhaps even anybody else.

To make things worse, my long time SO had started to drift away to the world and values of their father-figure-like boss and that relationship was heading downhill.

In my 2006 released double EP Mosaick the Serpent / Vipera Aurea this track’s liner notes said:

”You know how some people say they hear voices in their head, coaxing, advising, ordering them to end their lives? Have you ever wondered, whether these voices are “merely” the result of mental instability of the person in question, or whether there is somebody else there stuck in the same body (and partly mind?), wanting to be let out? Interpretation of such coaxing voices, written by putting meselves through practice of thinking in different states of mind.”

In reality, this is what was going trough my head at the time. Writing these thoughts down and naming the voice as another was a way of banishing.

On the album, the track ends with whispered words: ”Be banished!” Better stay banished.

MtS/VA is available atsomeplaceelse.bandcamp.com/alb…

Fedizen of the mastodon.art at @ovro@mastodon.art, come say hi.