"Castigation Choir" lyrics
The sound of a clarion blare
Through the crowd as the carrion stare
The sound of a clarion blare
Resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were, the noise of thunder"
Lo! It now rings
Piercingly clearly
The people falter in their tracks and stare
Amid the floods
Within the flames
Among the influence
I imagine it would be ignored
If not for the gathering darkness in the sky
The sound of a clarion blare resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were
The noise of thunder"
Is this how they said it ends?
Children burning in their millions
Yet blackened throats squeal "Hallelujah!"
Hands raised, ragged, praying in exaltation
Dancing in the ashes of their neighbours
"Rejoice! Hallelujah!"
A murder of darkened clouds across the horizon boil
An approaching choir of disembodied flame-tongued whispers
As the ocean surface slickened and corrupted with oil
My heart grows blacker still
This is no judgement, trial, no weighing of the scales
You spelled it in 'omniscience'
All destined to fail
I say we mimic our creator
And the worm will swallow its own tail
As below, so above
Sadistic father, broken son
Children burning in their millions
And blackened throats squeal
These are the last days of humankind
And Hell's mouth is open wide
Hell's mouth is open wide
The sound of a clarion blare
Resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were
The noise of thunder"
This is how they say it ends
Bear witness to the smothering darkness of His castigation choir
Untold wings eclipse the sun as the firmament on high descends
These are the last days of humankind
And Hell's mouth is open wide
Through the crowd as the carrion stare
The sound of a clarion blare
Resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were, the noise of thunder"
Lo! It now rings
Piercingly clearly
The people falter in their tracks and stare
Amid the floods
Within the flames
Among the influence
I imagine it would be ignored
If not for the gathering darkness in the sky
The sound of a clarion blare resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were
The noise of thunder"
Is this how they said it ends?
Children burning in their millions
Yet blackened throats squeal "Hallelujah!"
Hands raised, ragged, praying in exaltation
Dancing in the ashes of their neighbours
"Rejoice! Hallelujah!"
A murder of darkened clouds across the horizon boil
An approaching choir of disembodied flame-tongued whispers
As the ocean surface slickened and corrupted with oil
My heart grows blacker still
This is no judgement, trial, no weighing of the scales
You spelled it in 'omniscience'
All destined to fail
I say we mimic our creator
And the worm will swallow its own tail
As below, so above
Sadistic father, broken son
Children burning in their millions
And blackened throats squeal
These are the last days of humankind
And Hell's mouth is open wide
Hell's mouth is open wide
The sound of a clarion blare
Resounding echoes across all nations
"And I heard it as it were
The noise of thunder"
This is how they say it ends
Bear witness to the smothering darkness of His castigation choir
Untold wings eclipse the sun as the firmament on high descends
These are the last days of humankind
And Hell's mouth is open wide
