Of Nails And Sinners Lyrics - Singles - Arcturus

("I know that without me God cannot live a moment; 

If I am destroyed He must give up the ghost" 

Angelus Silesius) 

I beseech you, God to whom many sinners pray 

From the depth of the dark abyss where my heart fell 

Expelled I was from your tedious grace to the pits of hell 

So can please cease to deplore my opposite, may only way 

For aeons I descended down 

Till I saw the dreadful truths 

of which man wouldn't know 

I, degraded bearer of thy sacred light 

- to which I never again will bow 

When I rise to avenge myself with darkness 

The anger of the damned shall flow 

I was cast out by the retinue of angels weak 

Shone to the few who me would seek 

A rebel I was, radiant my glow, afar, 

My wisdom fathomed by the morningstar 

And O your fools, in herdlike fright, stampede 

And when creation falls, you must build anew, 

With nails that sting My hands - 

They grow passionate on a lie 

But You know the veracious one was I