I For An Eye

[INTRODUCTION]

This tale I tell that all may see,

behind God's truth lurks treachery.

[VOICE OF GOD]

'Mine is the right to glory and light,

and you shall have heartache and pain,

yours must be Hell -

for in Heaven I'll dwell,

I care not for that earthly domain.'

[HOST OF RIGHTEOUS ANGELS]

'For crimes against divinity -

the loneliness of purgatory,

your kingdom rule - Humanity,

Mankind shall be your Hell.'

[LUCIFER]

'Why have you done this to me -

tell me what is my crime,

I'm tried and convicted -

guilty the fate that is mine.

You say I'm a Devil -

then by Hell the Devil I'll be.'

[NARRATION]

'As aeons passed without cessation -

brewing hatred from damnation,

in darkness Satan waited -

laughed as God the Earth created,

and man in his own image made -

unaware that plans were laid,

'till from the dark eternal night -

a serpent crawled into the light.

And so from darkness a rage without measure -

burst spreading the cancer 'cross Eden,

corrupting and tempting and never relenting,

abusing man's newly found freedom.'

[LUCIFER]

'Out of the abyss I come the avenger

shapeless and faceless - Yet I have a name,

I shall tighten my grip on your now flawed creation,

endeavour to show you the meaning of pain.'

'It soothes my heart,

to see you cry,

when I am done,

you will learn as I -

to suffer in Hell.'

'Impaled on the horns of a dilema -

it seems what were my nightmares,

are now naught but dreams,

for you who have riches know paradise well,

and I who have nothing am burning in Hell.'