He Came from the Sky Lyrics

The crawling chaos . . .
I am the last . . .
I will tell the audient void

A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land
And out of the abysses between the stars
Swept chill currents that made men shiver
In dark and lonely places

Into the lands of civilisation came Him
Swarthy, slender, and where He went rest vanished
For the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare
I burned with eagerness to explore his uttermost mysteries

And I saw the world battling against blackness
Against the waves of destruction
Whirling, churning, struggling
Around the dimming, cooling sun
I screamed aloud that I was not afraid
That I never could be afraid
But my power to linger was slight

Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious
Only the gods that were can tell
A sickened, sensitive shadow
Writhing in hands that are not hands
And whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation
Corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities

Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things
I half-floated, quivering and afraid

I half-floated between the titanic snowdrifts
Quivering and afraid into the sightless vortex