Well dammed if I do,
And damned if I don't, so
I'll flay off your skin
To stitch back my own.

Then salt all the shadows
Of wounds left behind,
To heal that old fracture
Of rhythm from rhyme.

Because
Black swans are swarming
And circling ahead,

Unveiling epiphanies and the
Shedding of dread
Wrought in the rot,
Born from neglect,

As execution falls
From where you least expect...

Because
Everybody knows...

Something must give.
Something must break.

Some Thing
Is sneering
While sanity shakes.

For alone in this deep
Primordial abyss

Something's awry.
Something's amiss...

So pray all you want.
Pray all you will.
Gawk from the altar as you
Go unfulfilled.

For the silence is screaming.
Your whispers unheard.
Your sonshine eclipsed
By the tempest you earned.

'Cause superstition's defied in
Cardiac skies,
Where vacancy's same as
Murder on high.

For it's Redrum in heaven!
The moon crimson in flood,
As your saints
Are all drained of
Their parasitic blood.

And it's raining and
Pouring and
Covering the earth, as
Millions and
Millions and
Millions desert.

Raining and
Pouring,
Bloodstaining the earth, as
Millions and
Millions and
Millions convert!

For the tempest is here!
The tempest is now!

Your train is derailed,
Rats scurry about!
Blind in dismay,
All your angels at bay!

Nativity and cradle
Bloodwashed away!

For the tempest is here!
The tempest is now!

Your apocalypse unfolding, so
Where's your God now?

Because it's terror in heaven!
As a Wolverine wakes.

And the coven of seven
Cradle their snakes,
Three with two faces,
Another with none.

This Joker's a riddler,
Tribulation unspun, and

Fueled by the cries of the
Lost and unheard,
The Monster resolves to
Erase every Word of the

Gospel of death
Sewn into their skins,
From their moment of birth -
Delusional sins!