Charlatan's Host

Sleep takes its hold with a sinking pull

And now that I'm alone, this burst of light

fills my lids and I'm awake to the songs of horror

Your ill-bought greatness, he's seen it all from the frame

One day you'll reap the seeds of a shadowed past, and I can only hope I'm there

You tried to satisfy the thirst of a thousand ages

But built a stack of bones as your monument to dead vanity

It's just a shrine to the words you use to wreck

Tell me, How can you sleep?

How can you just welcome the wine and throw out your nets?

You throw out your nets and set fame to bait the noose

Set fame to derail whats innocent

Why spare the life of inglorious waste? Why let him live?

He's just hunting your own! How can you just sit there and watch?

Because I love you more than you know

Look again and tell me what you see!

In the window was me

The massacres were all me!

Oh God, please! Please! deliver the penalties for all of this from me

I'm not finding justice, no warrant for mercy

don't give up on me. Don't give up on me!

What happens when I turn and run again? And again, and again?

I will forgive you

And what happens when I lie to your face?

I will forgive you

Oh my God, I can be so defiant to some one who's arms stretch to me

I will forgive

Don't give up on me! Don't give up on me!

I have forgiven you!

I'll awake to new purpose to fight this body

No longer will I play the dark shepherd

Let not my words be ripped from the throat of a horror

Oh, forgiver! Where is justice in letting me live?