White Stone - Funeral Mist

Numbered, weighed, and found wanting…

A white stone and a new name

At peace with the lord and freed from blame

All debts remitted, thy should washed clean

O glorious splendours of the rebirth

…But that stone is a lump of coal

For thou hadst a whore’s forehead

Thou refusedst to be ashamed

A white stone and a new name

Restoring the years that the locust have eaten

Again clean enough to speak his name

Oh happy vantage of a kneeling knee

…But that name is a ghost unseen

For thou hadst a whore’s forehead

Thou refusedst to be ashamed

Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin…

Thou refusedst to be ashamed

Numbered, weighed, and found wanting…

A white stone and a new name

Thy lamp removed from the altar of shame

But that name is a ghost unseen

For thou hadst a whore’s forehead

Thou refusedst to be ashamed