Apparition of the Revolution - Sabbath Assembly

It is torture that you kill me

As your knife goes gliding in

Cut my vein to the spirit

Of the child I have been

My life screams as you carve me

Hold my guts inside your hands

Heaven brings newly warmed blood

As you drain my heart again

With blind acceptance I swallow all your lies

Yet consumed by rage I learn only to reside

In fear of the apparition of the revolution

Apparition of the Revolution

Poised at the edge of destruction

Fist held straight up in the sky

I marvel at the corpses moving

Is it I who give them life

And still am I to blame

As the water’s closing in

Submerged in futile tragedy

The rumbling of The End

Yet a 1,000 armies' poisons never could stop my grief

Some angels had the nerve to interrupt my peace

In admiration of the apparition of the revolution

And in a wild and sudden dance

We mocked at Time, Fate, and Chance

Singing, «God is Joy, and Joy is Love»

And in our eyes there flashed a glow

Of brightness to and fro

And in this all our song arose

You spoke, ‘I see your eyes grow dim

With all the sorrow of men

Now wrapped in dreams again

Be still, my friend'

Apparition of the Revolution

Finally I grasp your pleasure

It’s to see me slowly burn

The revelation no longer ghostly

Solid form of rebellion

[A mother dreams of her sons united

Her children’s eyes drawn blank and flat]

With each step I further fall into the void

With each life I lived I stopped just slightly short

In dreaming of the Apparition of the Revolution

By hunting for the Apparition of the Revolution

In dying for the Apparition of the Revolution

Out of love for the Apparition of the Revolution