On the Wings of Gloria - The Devil's Blood

A voice called from beyond the stars

By way of the serpent whirling through my veins

Through the clatter of the iron age

Into the dreams of the insane:

Turn away from the light again!

And I was accosted by fear

And my skin was salty from my tears

But ever your radiance shone me sights of Gloria

And brought me back to contest the light again!

So I looked around for your sigils

And I found them in the blood of your brood

The empty and desolate, the void within the storm

Abomination that sheds his light again

I have drowned my heart in sorrow

I have closed my soul to man

I have wallowed in in the darkness

I have embraced the death

I shall never see the light again!

My body is chiming

With the thought that fills the universe

I must needs cut out my senses

Lest his word becomes my hearse

A pound of flesh, a pound of flesh

The keeper demands a pound of flesh

Skin for skin, skin for skin

Bred and sired in box and sin

Woe is them, woe is them

Who wears these chains as golden mesh

Rain of ash, rain of ash

As holy flesh and sulphur clash

I know their torment shall never pass

Haunted forever by love and distress

In the endless desert wings, strewn with broken glass

My King of Chaos stands in a realm of boiling brass

On the wings of Gloria

Across the plane of sadness

Contraction and expansion

From the death into the death

From the middle of never

Into the endless ever after

I stride among the broken clock

Proclaiming «Lord, I am your rock!»

Build on me your empire of euphoria!

Kindle me with your unborn breath

Let me fly on the wings of Gloria!

Let me fly on the wings of death!

So I have raised a temple of blood and bone

On the vanquished reason surrounds my soul

The stairway is open, the circle is whole

The dragon spreads its light again!

So make your wings to shine

And make your eyes to beam

Make your dark as fire so bright

Burn my eyes with its light

So I may never see the light again!