Of Nails And Sinners lyrics

Song information

Artist: Arcturus
Album: La Masquerade Infernale

Lyrics

"I know that without me god cannot live a moment;
If I am destroyed he must give up the ghost."
[Angelus silesius]

I beseech you, god to whom many sinners pray
From the depth of the dark abyss where my heart fell
Expelled I was from your tedious grace to the pits of hell
So can you please cease to deplore my opposite, nay only way
For aeons I descended down
Till I saw the dreadful truth
Of which man wouldn't know
I, degraded bearer of thy sacred light
- to which I never again will bow
When I rise to avenge myself with darkness
The anger of the damned shall flow

I was cast out by the retinue of angels weak
Shone to the few who me would seek

A rebel I was, radiant my glow, afar
My wisdom fathomed by the morningstar

And o you fools, in herdlike fight, stampede
And when creation falls, you must build anew
With nails that sting my hands - they grow passionate on a lie
But you know the veracious one was i

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