Alpha Omega

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"**Alpha Omega**" is an October Noir song included on their first album *The Haunting and the Powerful*, released in 2017. The song is split into two cantos. The first canto, "The Lamb and the Tyger", has Tool-like industrial grooves with organ hooks, with really high-pitched string from acoustic guitar and keyboard hum that sounds like faint horn in the interludes, and the second canto, "An Veritas an Nihil", has Type O-like rhythm then high-pitch guitar going up and down the pitch.

The title simply means the beginning and the end. This song is about Tom's ex girlfriend who called her Angel got possessed by a demon with experiences based from the two romantic poems by William Blake—"The Lamb" in *Songs of Innocence*, and "The Tyger" in *Songs of Experience*, hence the combined title of the first canto. This song can also be titled "An Veritas an Nihil", which is Latin for "The Truth, or Nothing", which refers to a narcissist attempting to understand, but ultimately realizing they’re just worthless liars. The Latin phrase is chanted sixteen times in faint choir-like vocals.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "The Lamb and the Tyger"]**

A rose on the left

chains on the right

One side was death

the other was the light

She laughed like torment

her smile full and bright

Emotions of deliverance

can only mean goodbye

She's missing again

no trace of where she ran

This blood stain poison

the message of the lamb

She was an angel

with demon wings

She was deceptive

with all living things

There was fire in her eyes

and freedom in her heart

She wanted to end the lies

All she needed was a start

She's missing again

no trace of where she ran

This blood stain poison

the message of the lamb

**[Canto II. "An Veritas an Nihil"]**

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

With dusk just setting

the succubus awakes from slumber

Gorging on the innocent

words of ecstasy beckon

But you're just a liar

kill the poisonous liar

The whole truth

and nothing but

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

An veritas an nihil

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, guitar and acoustic guitar (on original version), bass, drums (on original version), keyboards, organ, writing, engineering, mixing, mastering, production
* Doug Lane – guitar and acoustic guitar (on remaster version)
* Tyler Fleming – drums (on remaster version)

2. "Volatile"
3. "Trinity"
4. "**Alpha Omega**"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "Deep Woods"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

1. "Tombstones"
2. "Burn"
3. "Spellbound"
4. "Little Drummer Boy"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

1. "Fate"
2. "Windows"
3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
 ***Letters to Existence***

1. "Spring"
2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "Deja View"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "For Honor"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men (RIPeter)"
* "Lips Like Sugar"
* "Wicked Game"
* "Race War"
* "Cry Little Sister"
* "Love You to Death"
* "Crimson and Clover"
* "Nights in White Satin"