Revenant - Lantern

«A question unto thee: what suffering made you linger?»

You show me Italy in late sixties, winter’s time

Catholic belief still struck so deep in your fingers

The priests flogged and conveyed against their thighs, moaning…

Should you attempt to shun and avoid the light, sadism stormed in

Abused, and dry you bled, your dreams in death stayed spawning

Wrath upon the Lord: the son and ghost your lust sees bleed

«Befoul the sabbath of light!»

Force them brightness the way you were forced

Force them the visions you suffered in death;

the timelessness since

Expel their god out from your flesh for demons to witness how

The revenant prays at his church

Sleepless one… Your corpse will house your wandering spirit

When the moon… Is waning gibbous, your remnant’s they shall dig:

Sunday dawn… A foul wind will clatter

The bones lay hidden within the church soil

Evil spirits turned away for centuries shall again be embraced

To host the cellars, crawl the estates

Join the risen for a sabbath of underworld

«Something's rotten…» the parish may say:

A morbid stench… The draught from cellars swiftly conveys

'cross the halls… The light in the tunnel of darkness shall shed

To divulge the dead spread out at sacrament

…Befoul the sabbath

Falls a sea of light

This space and time

Absorbed by the laws of the other side;

Commence the christenings to the coven of revenant

The wafer and the wine, feces divine, poison healing

Reversed christenings — atone the sins by dying

Confessions of the flesh, intestines and fresh blood

Take one last goodly grasp through the icon glass —

The light will take you to god

Sheep of god… The light will take you

Sheep of god… The light will take you

Where you’re dreaming yet your soul’s awake

For endless nightmares to feed

Yearning, grief, hatred, true inner darkness

Shall be yours eternally

May your flesh, mind and soul linger for eternities

«Befoul the sabbath of light!»