Damien Lyrics - Horror Show - Iced Earth

So the beast resides in me 

Deep down I always knew 

I never really did fit in 

So diverse from all of you 

Let him who comprehends 

Know the number of the beast 

It's a number of a man 

A number just for me 

As the boy becomes a man 

Father's minions pave the way 

Set in motion now, Armageddon, 

Final conflict, end of days 

I embrace the hounds of hell 

And the power they oblige 

For the task that lies ahead 

The Nazarene I'll crucify 

They'll see the raptures of our kingdom 

They'll see the truth to mankind 

I'll show what hell truly is 

The monotony of their lives 

CHORUS: 

When the Jews return to Zion 

And a comet fills the sky 

The Holy Roman Empire rises 

And you and I must die 

From the eternal sea he rises 

Creating armies on either shore 

Turning man against his brother 

Till man exists no more 

Nazarene, what can you offer? 

Since the hour you vomited forth 

from the gaping wound of a woman, 

you have done nothing but drown mens' soaring desires 

in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. 

I was conceived of a jackal. 

Your pain on the cross was but a splinter 

compared to the agony of my father. 

I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, 

you profaner of Isis. 

Cursed Nazarene, 

I will avenge thy torment 

Now Disciples of the Watch 

See your Prince of Darkness rise 

Through famine and destruction 

The Four Horsemen at my side 

I demand a victory, I demand a sacrifice 

Or spend all eternity 

In the flaccid gut of Christ!