Anteinferno

Dante: Master, what is it that I am hearing?

And what people are these so crushed by pain?

Virgil:

That is the manner of existence endured

by the sad souls of those who lived without occasion for infamy or praise

They are mixed with that abject squadron of angels who did not think

it worth their while to rebel or to be faithful to God, but were for themselves

Dante:

Master, what is it that lies so heavily upon them; that they call out as they do?

Virgil:

I will tell you very briefly

They are without even the hope of death

their blind existence is of such abjection that they are envious of every other fate

The world does not remember them at all

Mercy and justice treat them with contempt

Let us not talk about them

Look and pass on

I had roamed into a deep dark forest

Lost the way my heart pounding on my chest

Oh that place overpowered my mind

So full of fear on that wild ruthless night

I rushed headlong down the slope I had climbed

And saw a beckoning old man by the hillside

Anteinferno – It burned in my mind

All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise

Anteinferno – Still creeps down my spine

With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle

And through the gates of hell we went

Saw ghastly things can't comprehend

Millions of souls it came to pass

Eternally damned

Deep and thorny the passage that we walked

Down and down into depths of dark fort

We had come to a place swarmed with pain

Everyone here crying out to die again

Howlings resounding here under no stats

And words so hoarse tones of anger and gall

Anteinferno – It burned in my mind

All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise

Anteinferno – Still creeps down my spine

With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle

And through the gates of hell we went

Saw ghastly things can't comprehend

Millions of souls it came to pass

Eternally damned

And once my journey was over I knew

Inferno's hallway an abyss of doom

After my journey when my time will come

I'll stand at the crossroads to choose my fate damned or saved?

'Through me you go into the city of weeping

Through me you go into eternal pain

Through me you go among the lost people

(All this pain upon me)

Howlings resounding here under no stars

And words so hoarse tones of anger and gall

Anteinferno – It burned in my mind

All the shrieks of the souls that will not rise

Anteinferno – Still creeps down my spine

With master Virgil I entered the dark aisle

And through the gates of hell we went

Saw ghastly things can't comprehend

Millions of souls it came to pass

Eternally damned

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