| A voice called from beyond the stars
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| By way of the serpent whirling through my veins
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| Through the clatter of the iron age
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| Into the dreams of the insane:
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| Turn away from the light again!
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| And I was accosted by fear
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| And my skin was salty from my tears
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| But ever your radiance shone me sights of Gloria
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| And brought me back to contest the light again!
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| So I looked around for your sigils
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| And I found them in the blood of your brood
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| The empty and desolate, the void within the storm
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| Abomination that sheds his light again
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| I have drowned my heart in sorrow
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| I have closed my soul to man
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| I have wallowed in in the darkness
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| I have embraced the death
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| I shall never see the light again!
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| My body is chiming
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| With the thought that fills the universe
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| I must needs cut out my senses
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| Lest his word becomes my hearse
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| A pound of flesh, a pound of flesh
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| The keeper demands a pound of flesh
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| Skin for skin, skin for skin
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| Bred and sired in box and sin
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| Woe is them, woe is them
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| Who wears these chains as golden mesh
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| Rain of ash, rain of ash
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| As holy flesh and sulphur clash
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| I know their torment shall never pass
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| Haunted forever by love and distress
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| In the endless desert wings, strewn with broken glass
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| My King of Chaos stands in a realm of boiling brass
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| On the wings of Gloria
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| Across the plane of sadness
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| Contraction and expansion
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| From the death into the death
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| From the middle of never
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| Into the endless ever after
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| I stride among the broken clock
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| Proclaiming «Lord, I am your rock!»
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| Build on me your empire of euphoria!
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| Kindle me with your unborn breath
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| Let me fly on the wings of Gloria!
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| Let me fly on the wings of death!
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| So I have raised a temple of blood and bone
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| On the vanquished reason surrounds my soul
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| The stairway is open, the circle is whole
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| The dragon spreads its light again!
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| So make your wings to shine
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| And make your eyes to beam
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| Make your dark as fire so bright
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| Burn my eyes with its light
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| So I may never see the light again! |