- Conspiracy of Exarchs
Gateways span the diocese
Where the patriarchs nest
Under the veils of rosaries
And the aegis of the blessed
Where the exarchs patrol
Consuls of contracts and vice
In search of weary souls
- Madness of Beggars
Poverty’s chosen have no place
They hide their own faces beneath the waste and leave no trace.
Friends of the flies
Trembling pariahs and husks sentenced to be forever scorned and chastised
Madness…or so they say
No asylum can be found in this place.
The vows of the Crown can only betray;
- Plague of Pawns
A populace torn into factions, all fractured, broken and hewn
Numb and unaware of the infected, festering wounds
Maggots line the lips that spit those aspersions
Archdevils devise and conquer with oligarchic coercions.
The Jagged King presides over this chessboard
To the prosperous priests, he is lord.
They must create this contagion for you
- Psalm of Insurrection
As fevers rise with the snowfall
And wrath swells within us all
Celestial wingspans banish the darkness of doubt.
There is nothing left here to praise
No hope to be found from the magistrates
We set hearts ablaze to warm the hands of the devout.
Processions carve through the finest armor
- Revelations of the Fallen
Anointed by a vermillion rain
I rip the veil, shifting planes
Baptized at last in this polluted storm
And the promised Hell finally takes form
Plunge this place into the pit of everlasting pain
Let them see all that awaits
For the judgment of the slain.
- Song on the Times
You working men of England one moment now attend
While I unfold the treatment of the poor upon this land
For nowadays the factory lords have brought the labour low
And daily are contriving plans to prove our overthrow
So arouse! You sons of freedom! The world seems upside down
They scorn the poor man as a thief in country and in town