i am the king of the great islands of grey windswept and scarred bent and confused my castle s my ruin the moldering grave where the memory fades along with the mourning cry of the mother i am the king the ruler of the grey islands i m the emperor of the void i am grey the weakened ruler of these islands i m the emperor of the void who counts the wounds who sees the hunger the flight of denial the fibers the nerves that raptures and bursts from artery to cell continuously repeating the hymn of life and death and the holy whore desecrated in desperation i am the king the ruler of the grey islands i m the emperor of the void i am grey the weakened ruler of these islands i m the emperor of the void i stand before destruction touching the stone of my realm so dignified unmerciful without empathy you saw my birth an ornament in your grain you see my death terrible and divine i am the king the ruler of the grey islands i m the emperor of the void i am grey the weakened ruler of these islands i m the emperor of the void