Charlatan's Host Lyrics - Oh, Sleeper

Sleep takes its hold with a sinking pull 

And now that I'm alone, this burst of light 

Fills my lids and I'm awake to the songs of horror 

Your ill-bought greatness, he's seen it all from the frame 

One day you'll reap the seeds of a shadowed past 

And I can only hope I'm there 

You tried to satisfy the thirst of a thousand ages 

But built a stack of bones as your monument to dead vanity 

It's just a shrine to the words you use to wreck 

Tell me, how can you sleep? 

How can you just welcome the wine and throw out your nets? 

You throw out your nets and set fame to bait the noose 

Set fame to derail what's innocent 

Why spare the life of inglorious waste? Why let him live? 

He's just hunting your own 

How can you just sit there and watch? 

Because I love you more than you know 

Look again and tell me what you see 

In the window was me, the massacres were all me 

Oh God, please, please 

Deliver the penalties for all of this from me 

I'm not finding justice, no warrant for mercy 

Don't give up on me, don't give up on me 

What happens when I turn and run again 

And again, and again? 

I will forgive you 

And what happens when I lie to your face? 

I will forgive you 

Oh, my God, I can be so defiant to some one 

Who's arms stretch to me 

I will forgive 

Don't give up on me, don't give up on me 

I have forgiven you 

I'll awake to new purpose to fight this body 

No longer will I play the dark shepherd 

Let not my words be ripped from the throat of a horror 

Oh, forgiver, where is justice in letting me live?