[I - The forbidden words] [II - Incantation] [III - Passage of time] [IV - The silent threat] [V - Archilles heel] [VI - Covenant of souls] [VII - Face to face] [VIII - Disintegration] [IX - Aftermath]
Let no man breach the gate to this most blasphemous of halls Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst reap He must n'er become a slave to this Child's beck and call For she must never waken from her Crimson Sleep.. The monastery stood towering above the ruined city It shadowed all the new emerging settlements and homes To look down on the ruins was to sympathize and pity All the suffering and heartache, all the graves and broken bones For buried there a testament to the evil of a queen A misery that spread across a weak and stricken land The crimson birth that swamped the earth in dark and deadly dreams And all mankind did bow beneath the power of her hand
And in the monastery garden sat a woman with a book A manuscript that lay within her frail and trembling arms She looked around her nervously as guilt rose in her heart But the sway of curiosity had drawn her out too far
She wavered on the threshold of a dangerous decision For this dark tome was no for human eyes to ever read The pages dripped with legions of persuasive words and visions So the volume had been hidden well, but now it had been freed
For no apparent reason had the woman been drawn in Perhaps it was a twist of fate, an absence of real thought She wandered to a room that before she'd never been And all at once the interest of her senses had been caught For no apparent reason had the women been drawn in Where rows of dusty books lay in an ominous display
But one ancient leather binding had the grain of human skin And seized with curiosity she stole this book away
And now she sat alone in the concealment of the night She was hungry now to liberate the writings from their cage The glimmer of a feeble moon provided her with light As she opened up the cover and began to read the page Fly, soul, the body's guest, Upon your impish arrant Let none be guiled by false confession Truth shall be your warrant Fly soul for your body must die
But for those who seek eternity For those who yearn prosperity From this single act of sanity Will raise you far above humanity
Oh willing host who doth not know The full desire of this prisoner You walk where angels fear to go Thou shalt soon embrace the reckoner Thy halo of glory, hope's true gage May prove to be an evil pilgrimage
Something had happened beyond her control A moment of madness unfettered a soul That would relish a freedom denied once before By a desperate nation with it's back to the wall Within a split second of reading this text The spirit was free and had fled from its nest It was eager to grow from this sudden reprieve And thus in the woman a life was conceived From the beginning the world was misled As a baby was born in a monastery bed The miracle happening here on this Earth Was perceived as a glorious new Virgin Birth
From the moment in time that baby was born The sun did now rise on a new Crimson dawn And the creature just bided its time undiscovered So safe in the cradling arms of the mother
[Lead: Dan]
But for those who seek eternity For those who yearn prosperity From this single act of sanity Will raise you far above humanity
Secure from the world, the child remained hidden A serpent disguised in the Garden of Eden And all who looked down on this newly born babe Were ignorant now of the path this would take The people were blind to the subtle control That was exercised daily upon every soul With no room to question this delicate life All fears would be drowned and all doubts would be stifled