Deceiver

The foul taste of forbidden fruit rots forever on our tongues

Deceiver, tempting serpent, what has our passion wrought?

Forever made to suffer, in exile from the Garden

Bittersweet the taste of fruit, there’s no hope for pardon

Thou hast abandoned your creation to the whims of fancy

While angels and fallen demons vie for the souls of the weak and empty

Innocence lost forever, tempted by the fruit of knowledge

Pleas for mercy go unanswered prayers go unacknowledged

Why? Father!

If you truly are omnipotent then you knew that we would succumb

With this knowledge you condemn us to fall

so tell me who is the true deceiver?

Blissful ignorance, now gone for all eternity

Burdened with the knowledge of death

condemned by the father of enmity

Take us away on the wings of a prayer,

deliver us from material bondage and despair

Omnipotent being, the creator of all,

what has thou forsaken your creation to the fall?

Cast out of the Garden, and exposed to a cruel world,

before a host of lowly swine, you cast your finest pearls

Why hast thou forsaken us? Why hast thou abandoned us? DECIEVER!