Throes of Atonement

On the riverbank, she stood there motionless

And looked at her, malicious devilish

The queen of gloat, her beauty she won't mourn

Dissident, she stood there sacrosanct

A spouse of Christ, saint untouchable

And she despised the brightness of her mind

A jig of misery, the ballad of the fallen

A sad sad song, untuned and lorn

Blown out by the wind

For all the harm you've done

Now penance has begun

Betrayers, deceivers

Rats and unbelievers

I stare into their eyes

Fragments before she died

Just craving for some help

Throes of atonement

A rivalry, adolescent jealousy

Burning deep, reducing in cinder and flames

The beliefs of a childhood's tale

An unclean creature, Chimera of the Old One

Preacher, impure and servant of heathenry

She deserves her destiny, oh

A jig of misery, the ballad of the fallen

A sad sad song, untuned and lorn

Blown out by the wind

For all the harm you've done

Now penance has begun

Betrayers, deceivers

Rats and unbelievers

I stare into their eyes

Fragments before she died

Just craving for some help

Throes of atonement

For all the harm you've done

Now penance has begun

Betrayers, deceivers

Rats and unbelievers

I stare into their eyes (Into their eyes)

Fragments before she died (Before she died)

Just craving for some help

Throes of atonement