Better To Reign In Hell

Better to reign in hell
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 Better to reign in hell
 Heart in hand passed clasp of pain
 In dark lowland that set bad blood in veins
 Burning, like penal fires roused to strain
 The jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses
 The golden dawn
 Lay lost to mist where
 Emboldened thorns
 Made their bed with toppled stones
 He closed His eyes
 Sunken to dream there
 Of crow-black skies
 And a great white empty throne
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 Horror stalked the bilious fogs
 That balked his visions
 He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry
 And drifted back to when His stung its target
 The sneer of Michael on a glorious high
 Of angel dust and Virtue by his side
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 Drowning in the past
 That downfall seemed like yesterday
 Though blurred moons passed
 As enemies in high places laughed
 Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines
 He rose snowblind, through shifting sands of time
 Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines
 The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine
 She came to Him
 A little whip of tantrums
 Thrashed on velvet skins
 That lines Her wishbone Henge
 Her name was Sin
 A warming spurt of mantras
 Splashed on occult tongues
 That whispered sweet revenge
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 For the shame of their crawl from grace
 Cold and hollow as the grave
 And for a rape and ruinous scourge
 Spared for souls that shared God's worship
 For now their throats coated notes with dirge
 That poured from parapets to the pits below
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 Drowning in the past
 A wretched scream like yesterday
 Died at last
 With the rising of the revenant dark
 
 All sharpened claws and blunt discharge
 "I shall bow no more to the dogs of the Lord
 Tearing at my carcass heart
 I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes
 Of Virtue slipping into bondage masks...
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 Freewill made me better to reign in hell"
 And with new wings
 Unfurled and spoken
 He took to things
 That would desecrate the world
 The seduction of both woman and man
 For a bastard masterplan
 Drowning out the past
 Fool Fates unwound cruel yesterdays
 beneath the stars
 That staggered from the blast