Mictlan
The Amenta Lyrics

Feathered serpent embrace arrest staggered breath
The capture of the person is heralded by the embrace of a feathered snake and their breaths become laboured due to their fading strength.

Weeping wound on heaving chest
The person's chest heaves as they weep, suggesting they are in immense pain with a deep wound.

Mask of four sun filth
The person's face is covered in the filth of sacrifices made under four suns, suggesting they have committed great acts of violence.

Hide tracks of torture
Efforts are made to obscure the evidence of the person's cruel actions.

Sear the weeping flesh
The person inflicts great pain on themselves or others, causing flesh to burn and weep.

Smear trails of rot
There is a trail of decomposition left in the wake of the person's actions, suggesting they leave only death and decay behind.

On fiery toothed stone
The person's actions take place on a surface that is likened to the maw of an infernal being.

Feel rancid breath
The person is able to detect an unpleasant and foul odour in their environment, representing a sense of impending danger.

Break on suppurating heels
The person is physically weak and their movements are laboured due to a serious health condition.

Tongue sup wine from
The person takes pleasure in drinking the blood of others, perhaps as a form of ritual.

The flesh that it steals
The person takes life from others, consuming their flesh as an act of domination.

It burns like venom
The person's actions are extremely harmful and destructive, akin to a deadly venom.

Lips back from teeth
The person bares their teeth in a menacing snarl, exposing their primal nature.

In insolent rictus
The person's snarl is disrespectful and defiant, displaying a disregard for common social norms.

Touch the skin it mars
The person inflicts injury on the skin of others through their touch, leaving behind permanent scars.

Above two silhouettes
In the distance, two figures can be seen.

Arms entwined like hissing snakes
These two figures are embracing each other, but their embrace is likened to the writhing of serpents.

Applaud the hound cremated
The onlookers cheer as a dog is set on fire and burned to death.

As blazing thirst slaked
The onlookers quench their thirst with the burning remains of the dog, a symbol of their twisted desires.

A soul mate for the soulless
These two figures are connected in a twisted bond, as they lack the human capacity for empathy and emotion.

Charred, relentless cur
The dog that was burned to death was a tenacious and unyielding animal.

Thick taste of death rise
The atmosphere is permeated with a tangible sense of death.

In flames from burning fur
The dog, in its suffering, is consumed by flames and its fur is the source of the fire.

Blacken to ash
The dog is completely destroyed, reduced to nothing more than ash.

Writhe in the glow of embers
The burning embers cast an eerie glow on the writhing remains of the dog.

The bed burns hot
The fire is so intense that even the ground upon which the dog was burned is painfully hot.

Screams inscribed in smoke
The dog's pain and suffering is made tangible in the form of smoke that bears its screams.

Carved as knife cuts in bier
The dog's screams are etched into the air, reminiscent of knife cuts on a burial platform.

Life reduced to putrid carrion
The dog was once a living, breathing creature, but in its current state it is nothing more than decaying matter.

Thrones at the apex of bones
Those who have caused great destruction and pain rise to positions of power, seated at the top of a pile of bones from their victims.

Dead in pyramids piled
The dead bodies of countless victims have been arranged in a macabre pyramid, towering over the onlookers.

Cool ecstasy of immolation
The act of destroying something, particularly by fire, brings a perverse sense of pleasure to those who commit such acts.

Court of the skeletal king
The surroundings suggest an otherworldly place, ruled over by a king who is nothing more than a set of bones.

Tiers of flame shed light
The light in this place comes entirely from the flames that surround the scene.

Set sickly faces to burn
The situation is such that it is expected that one will become sickened or disgusted upon witnessing the events.

Contort themselves against its glare
The firelight casts an eerie, unsettling glare on the faces of those who witness it, causing them to writh in unease.

The two of cruel countenance
The two people previously introduced are cruel and unfeeling, as evidenced by their actions and expressions.

Will them in darkness keep
The two people possess the ability to keep others in a state of terror and darkness through their actions.

Tearing life from life
Their actions involve causing harm to others and taking away their vitality or lives in the process.

Beware Mictlan
This phrase serves as a warning to others about the dangerous and frightening world they inhabit.