Revenant Songtext
von Lantern

"A question unto thee:
What suffering made you linger?"
You show me Italy
In late sixties, winter's time
Catholic belief
Still struck so deep in your fingers
The priests flogged and conveyed
Against their thighs, moaning...

Should you attempt to shun
And avoid the light, sadism stormed in
Abused, and dry you bled
Your dreams in death stayed spawning
Wrath upon the Lord:
The son and ghost your lust sees bleed

"Befoul the sabbath of light!"


Force them brightness
The way you were forced
Force them the visions you suffered in death
The timelessness since
Expel their god
Out from your flesh for demons to witness how
The revenant prays at his church

Sleepless one...
Your corpse will house your wandering spirit
When the moon...
Is waning gibbous, your remnant's they shall dig:
Sunday dawn...
A foul wind will clatter
The bones lay hidden
within the church soil

Evil spirits turned away for centuries shall again be embraced
To host the cellars, crawl the estates
Join the risen for a sabbath of underworld

"Something's rotten...
" the parish may say:
A morbid stench...
The draught from cellars swiftly conveys
'cross the halls...
The light in the tunnel of darkness shall shed
To divulge the dead
Spread out at sacrament


...Befoul the sabbath

Falls a sea of light
This space and time
Absorbed by the laws of the other side;
Commence the christenings
to the coven of revenant

The wafer and the wine,
Feces divine, poison healing
Reversed christenings
Atone the sins by dying
Confessions of the flesh
Intestines and fresh blood
Take one last goodly grasp
Through the icon glass
The light will take you to god

Sheep of god...
The light will take you
Sheep of god...
The light will take you
Where you're dreaming yet
Your soul's awake
For endless nightmares to feed
Yearning, grief, hatred
True inner darkness
Shall be yours eternally

Sheep of god...
The light will take you
Sheep of god...
The light will take you
Where you're dreaming yet
Your soul's awake
For endless nightmares to feed
Yearning, grief, hatred
True inner darkness
Shall be yours eternally

May your flesh, mind and soul
Linger for eternities

"Befoul the sabbath of light!"