Bitter Sacraments Lyrics

In solemn silence seeking solace in the cross
Hung around the neck like an executioner's noose
shackled in sorrow by a sudden loss
through grit teeth as she questions the Truth

"Is there a light - beyond the darkness?
Beyond all the decay?"
To know the glory - beyond the darkness
she surrendered to the deity

Once still as mountains
Now her faith is shaken
skeptical and afraid

The sacraments like ashes in her mouth
As if her soul has faith betrayed

Panic stampeding, a terrified swarm
Belief lying bloodied in tragedy's wake
Now only silence meets rituals performed
A divine oversight or celestial mistake?

This fallen angel - hardly luciferian
Cast into a world of chaos - with no narrative arc
She scratches and claws - at the lid of life's coffin
Hoping to illuminate the dark

Terrified - and gasping for air
a horror stricken mind that grasps
the grim reality of heavens abandoned
We're moments away from nothingness

Once high as mountains
Now faith has crumbled
it is her soul her faith betrayed

In seething silence she surrenders the cross
tight around her neck like an executioner's noose
once consecrated now an albatross
from ashes of divine wreckage a new belief blooms

"There is no light - beyond the darkness. There is only decay"
To find the light - before the darkness we must purge the deity

There is only decay