Fallen From Grace Lyrics - Singles - Amebix

The wind of change transformed the plains into the desert 

And on the lower levels demons scream delight 

Places of worship have ceased to serve the purpose 

The age of reason took a ride into the night 

Where there were idols there is idleness 

Unholy churches light their fires upon the moor 

They sealed the pact with blood and honour 

The machine spits blood and lurches into war 

[Chorus:] 

We have fallen, it leaves such an embittered taste 

Erectus is now crawling, we have fallen from grace 

There is a black tree in the wilderness 

Older than time itself and riddled with disease 

It feeds on clotted blood and rotting flesh 

The hunger we all seem too willing to appease 

When all before you lose their heads into the block 

When e'en the proudest bend their knees before the flock 

They seek salvation in the depths of madmen's eyes 

Knee deep in blood and gore they look toward the skies 

They sought the means by which to transform the gods 

Burnt the books, created death camps on the way 

A new religion from the ashes of the old 

A social order one of masters and slaves 

They dreamt of everyman, we merely have regressed 

Into the animal that can't perceive the will 

Look at the embryo, so twisted and grotesque 

This is your superman, the legacy to kill