Seraph in Travail piosenki

Sculpted here a statue fair, as by Phidias, in stone And likened so to human form- its skin, its flesh, its bone Left not unhewn: its poignant flaws nor the filth seeped from its pores Flattered not but chiseled true, each of its festering cankerous sores...

Echoes the sound that splattered the walls As I carve on the keys a message in code If you’re reading this then it’s probably too late Here I lie, entrapped and entombed Viciously waving a knot are the sounds Of E, B flat, G, C sharp and A I sweat like...

From where have you come Bearing the dust of earthly lamentation From wandering to and fro in the tears Of a thousand forgotten generations? Sentenced to walk amongst us Hunted for your graces rare But those who’d taste your blessing Must in all your s...

Break me apart and incinerate my wreckage Blind me to all that I could ever see For in sweetest temptations and carnal delights I am lost to the beauty of sacrifice Drunk on a chalice of sawdust and sand While my soul dies thirsting for waters of life...

There stood a dragon whose smile like glistening towers gleamed Solar in its glare and hellish in its heat Once I’d slain her for my glory, and so my pride obtained I planted in most fertile fields each of her razor teeth Was my conquest not complete? Wa...

For the rain, the abundance, the fruit of earth in plenty To Molech the tyrant all Cainan brings their seed Wherefore upon his outstretched hands Do they pass their firstborn sons and daughters to the fire of his greed A dissonant band of flutes and tambo...

The night has closed around me And hymns perverse and purposeless haunt the ears that guide my steps For in this lightless valley, my eyes are too deceived Even nature’s glory, by chaos and cacophony Is shrouded in the smoke of altars heaped with stillborn...

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to heaven When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for And she's buying a stairway to heaven There's a sign on the wa...

Before the storm, before the day of the last death Apollyon assembled his lords to stand against you For all their wisdom, do they not know? Their kingdoms are torn, shorn for the slaughter Under whose reign for centuries past, the upright have obtained...

Shut out the darkness that feeds on sour soul Shed all the scales of sorrow fixed to your flesh Are despair and frustration your comfort and defense? Your enemy prevails while you’re betrayed from within Adversaries unnumbered assail Even the walls close...