The Conquest of the Witch-Queen Lyrics

the smell of ash and bodies burning in the forest... the night, darker than black, held no peace as screams pierced the thick smoke. i was one of many, a sister of a coven of green, but they called my goddess a devil and forced baptism by flame. i was bound by thorns to the tree i had tended since birth. i could hear my sisters crying out as their flesh was burned black. they read me the rite of a god they claimed true, then they took the torch and set the branches aflame. i awoke from my ashes when i heard a goddess weep, but, when i stood from my grave, i saw my mother gray and diseased. commanding life and death, i pulled my sisters from the earth and made an army from their bones to wage a war against these false thrones. and, when we storm their castles, we will slaughter the men, save the priests, who will be taken and burned like we once were. and, when we find the kings, we will nail them to their thrones and melt down their treasures, then bathe them in their molten gold. i was one of many, a sister of a coven of green, and now they call me queen of witches who were once beneath.