The veiled virgin and the bitch that sings Have closed down the curtains These sheets are damped and cold like stone Vanished souls in that place called home Sacred sins of sunlight fancies Devotion in perversity In the house of heaven Ritual offering has begun Qedesha! Qedesha! Qedesha! Qedesha! Another whine in the darkest shrine To lure away the secrets The foolest custom in Babylon Between the legs of the temple holy one Drops of revering lust Fleeting desires Vanished like vapor Naked skins exposed to strangers Qedesha! Qedesha! Qedesha! Qedesha!