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Better to reign in hell |
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Heart in hand passed to the clasp of pain |
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In a dark lowland that set bad blood in veins |
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Burning, like penal fires roused to strain |
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The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses |
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The golden dawn |
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Lay lost to mist where |
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Emboldened thorns |
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Made their bed with toppled stones |
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He closed his eyes |
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Sunken to dream there of crow-black skies |
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And a great white empty throne |
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Horror stalked the bilious fogs that balked his visions |
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He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry |
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And drifted back to when his stung its target |
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The sneer of |
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Michael on a glorious high |
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Of angel dust and virtue by his side |
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Better to reign in hell |
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Drowning in the past |
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That downfall seemed like yesterday |
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Though blurred moons passed |
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As enemies in high places laughed |
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Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines |
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He rose snow blind, through shifting sands of time |
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Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines |
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The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine |
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She came to him |
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A little whip of tantrums |
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Thrashed on velvet skins |
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That lines her wishbone henge |
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Her name was sin, a warming spurt of mantras |
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Splashed on occult tongues that whispered sweet revenge |
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For the shame of their crawl from grace |
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Cold and hollow as the grave |
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And for a rape and ruinous scourge |
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Spared for souls that shared |
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God's worship |
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For now their throats coated notes with dirge |
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That poured from parapets to the pits below |
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Better to reign in hell |
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Drowning in the past |
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A wretched scream like yesterday |
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Died at last with the rising of the revenant dark |
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All sharpened claws and blunt discharge |
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I shall bow no more to the dogs of the |
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LordTearing at my carcass heart |
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I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes |
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Of virtue slipping into bondage masks |
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Freewill made me better to reign in hell |
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And with new wings unfurled and spoken |
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He took to things that would desecrate the world |
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The seduction of both woman and man |
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For a bastard master plan |
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Better to reign in hell |
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Drowning out the past |
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Fool fates unwound cruel yesterdays |
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Beneath the stars |
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That staggered from the blast |
