Fall of the Leaf Lyrics

Peace finally made with what is to be done
believing to be prepared
but the pain is yet to come
Led to the street & drug through the mud
flesh savagely removed by red-hot tongs

Too weak to stand
bound to a post
incessantly flogged
in & out of consciousness

Blessings & Holy water offerings
tarnished shirt prepared & forced upon
crowd filled with joie de vivre
poor sinners fat to be collected soon

Beatings increase in their intensity
degenerate declining physically

Thinking only of the end
there is no fear
A noose carefully placed
behind their left ear

The body approaches the death throes ever more
chants of repent as the folds open in the floor

Crowd pushes to get a closer view of him
gathering nearer while he trembles violently
witnesses to the fall of the leaf
hanging until someone else will do