The Sacrament of Flagellation Lyrics


My portrait is a mosaic of disfigurement

A wrecked hive for the crawling larvae of terrible past lives

My sins are unforgivable and my faith is weak

Yet I am the beauty of so much pain and I dwell in the house of the lord

I cannot die

I can only relive as darkness within the forbidden corridors of time

Each day, I am the hurt that makes you love again

I am the sorrow of so many unfulfilled dreams

And I live within you

Beneath my ribs you'll prick your fingers

Just so that my heart can be yours...

Your access to the void;

Step inside, never look back

But remember this forever in my terrible sunshine

You returned, and achieved immortality

Be as I am today

Perish in the depths of becoming

That you would fall short of divinity

Because our destiny is reserved for sinners

And you were merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be)

And you were merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be)

And you were merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be)

As a vagrant shadow

And you are merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be)

And you are merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be)

And you are merely an insect

(Destroying yourself to be closer now to God...)

I cannot die...

I live within you...