The Hesychasm Unchained

The plague has come to rouse forth its rats

Sing for Year Zero!

Woe betides us all

The ashen and the hollowed

How might we escape the sentence of gehenna?

Doomed as we are to rouse forth our rats

Sing for Year Zero!

Woe betide us all

The sick and the sallowed

How might we escape the judgement of gehenna?

Doomed as we are to rouse forth its rats

Sing for Year Zero!

The plague will come to rouse forth its rats

Again and again

Until we're given nothing- forever

We'll have ourselves to blame

Before a dying god

Where might the thieving rats burrow?

When a titan falls, a Judas hangs

The plague has come to rouse forth its rats

Sing for Year Zero!

Woe betides us all

The haggard and the haunted

How might we escape the sentence of gehenna?

Doomed as we are

To rouse forth our rats

Sing for Year Zero!

The plague will come

To exact its revenge

Before the fall

Give them nothing- forever

Who then stands to gain?

Before a dying god

Where might the thieving rats burrow?

In heaven, or in hell on Earth?

Another flood is coming

To wash away the excess of a golden age

There is no way back from this place alive

If we dare to stand where better men died

At the terminus of unfreedom

Is a chorus of teeth impotently gnashing

Reeking in excrement and filth

Like grains of draining sand to the hourglass

Have we passed this event horizon?

Did the age of free will end?

Has the will of the world collapsed?

Take a look at what you've done

If we are but meaningless animals in a meaningless place

Who are we to question the Lord thy God?

"Men must endure there going hence. Even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all."

Doomed as we are

Must the cowards among us

Lead us to war?

Doomed as we are

With the gallows above us

And our shadows below

Doomed as we are

Must the cowards among us

Lead us to war?

Doomed as we are

In heaven and hell on earth

The plague has come to rouse forth its rats

Sing for Year Zero!

Woe betides us all

The ashen and the hollowed

How might we escape the sentence of gehenna?

They yearn for what they fear

They fear for what they yearn

And there time, too, will come