Ironside

I cannot accept this as true

Found my life’s purpose in conversations with you

Counterpoint to violent mind, to my excess, is laid to rest

Forgive me for what I’m about to do

I’ve searched and I’ve tried but there is no other way

For you, death was a door

For me, a secret passage into the hollow sanctuary of my adversaries

Open your eyes as I feign closing mine

Withering, yet alive

Mimic their saccharine savior and rise

All of my life has led me to this, I will not fail

Farewell, my love

So long, my sons

I was baptized into deception before this unholy immersion

How foolish must you be not to see that we only made it this far with

Fraud, deceit, bloodshed and treachery?

We are feared as the eye of the storm

Will your dead God hung from a tree descend, intervene?

Fight back as long as you please

You’ll never be rid of me

I’m in your teeth, in your skin, in your bones

I’m under the sea

With the stars

In the stones

March through the streets

Candles and cross held high

Crowds gather round

Thinking the storm passed by

To the altar I sail

Dagger pressed to my chest

It’s time

My sacrifice is satisfied

And the world will finally see my hardships transpired

Now, I rise

And taking them all by surprise

Draw my blade, unafraid

Don’t move

Make my last move

King takes Bishop

I take the crown hostage

Follow me down to the locked gates

To let the nightmare into your dreams

You thought you could hold back the tide

Of history and entropy

We will not meet again in heaven

The blood on my hands made sure of that

Though it grieves me to know that I’ll be alone

Beyond this world, my name will be known