Dance with Divinity Lyrics

He slept alone that night
Like many times before
The bitterness within him
Pushing away the one he adored

She placed her faith in the gospel
He said, “Faith is for the weak”

One night they were talking
And she urged him to believe
But he drew back and declared
“My love, you’ve been deceived”

“Your faith and your gospel are fable and myth
The church is a company, they just want to get rich, and richer”
She said, “There’s more to this than money, there’s hope, and love, and life”
He grabbed her by the shoulders and spoke his final statement: “God is a lie!”

The anger welled inside him
A product of their pain
In an act of desperation
He ran out into the rain

“My world is a sinking ship, and I have lost control
An infinite derision for the spirit and the soul
I must take power back that’s overtaken me
A fiery attrition will dispel this mystery”

“So abandon logic and clutch blind faith
I will be the reason you question divine fate”
He went forth to take control of the flow of human life
Disguised by darkness he waited to make his strike

“This is the night (this is the time) I lay my hand on destiny”

“I will smell your lifelessness tonight
I will watch your blood spill forth tonight
I will write history
I will end your story here”

“Hold this power! Feel this rush!
Sacred fate nullified
Take this rage! Seize this lust!
I, myself, deified”

(He returned that night, wet and cold but warm with the dark sense of justice and power he had assumed. The memory of his action continuously possessed his mind, as though drawing him like an addiction. He reveled in the concept of single-handedly controlling the destinies of lives, but he also resolved to simultaneously rid the world of some of those he had grown to consider his nemeses. Indeed, it was his hope and aspiration that his isolated killings would erode the faith of his wife, whom he still yet loved and desired. But the seeds of belief had fallen on fertile soil in her, and would prove difficult to uproot.)

She knew nothing of his deeds, but his departures brought her fear
It was with her memories in his heart that he often disappeared

Noticing the emptiness inside her house and heart
It was with best intentions that a stranger came to call
He inquired whether she was satisfied with him
From there, the light inside of her grew dim

Though they wanted only to be together
Each one ran away from the other

II: THE TRANSFIXION OF GODHOOD

“I am God for the pagan thousands
And I am devil for believers
I carry vultures on my arms and I bid them circle my prey”

“Divine justice spreads its wings, changing life to death”

“Arbiters of minds! Sell your wicked schemes!
Harbingers of lies! Meet your end in me!”

“I am God for the pagan thousands
And I am devil for believers
Because I have existence and form
While their faith speaks of spirits and sins”

Over time many more were left to die
Met by thirst for things divine
Driven into madness
He cared not for the sanctity of life

“Scum of earth, vermin, sheep
They defile purity
Underneath their false mold
Cross-shaped pockets filled with gold”

“Manuscripts of fantasy, worshipped now as history
Who could not see the truth?”

“Do you want to find God? Come my child, I will show you God…
Do you want to find God? Come now child, I will be your God!”

“I am the panacea for the illness of this world
I can heal the scars of centuries
I will touch the wound like their Messiah
And rip open the sore, to bleed out the poison
Religion is a disease, and I am its cure”

“I’ll open their eyes
Followers of Christ, resign!”

“In their faith they stand, even when sense demands
A faltering, an ebb and flow, a tempest or a vertigo
To control their fate should insist their doubt and fear
But let it be, another fool draws near…”

III: THE BURDEN OF BLOOD

Long nights of absence wearing patience down
Zealous resentment bred when she is around
Unanswered questions tearing her apart
“Don’t worry, love,” he says, “Someday I’ll have your heart!”

Past the stroke of midnight, he waltzes through the door
Greeted with a glare of “I can’t take this anymore
I don’t know where you go or how you spend your time
But I won’t live with you while you live in your lie!”

“O cruel fate! your apprentice has learned well
But never has such majesty brought me so near to hell
I know I must rescind this power to ever bring her back
But not tonight, for swelling pride demands one last attack”

“What is a life, what is a soul? (Why should I ask what no one knows)
My life is lost, to death a slave (It’s just the passing of the age)”
Blind in darkness, out of focus, shocked into denial
All his passion feeds his memory of the ones reviled

He slept in the shadowed pathway, never knowing she’d pass by…

The satisfying splendor, an all-familiar sense
Subduing his perception, no thought to consequence

It was his custom not to know his victim’s face
But this last ritual, he cast that rule away
And anonymity was swallowed by reality
“(ohh…) The beauty in those lips, I recognize
(ohh…) There’s no mistaking the color in her bloodshot eyes
(ohh…) This last dagger, Medusa has finally glanced my way
(ohh…) Petrified and silenced, fate has had the final say”

“Lightless and loveless, I alone am to blame
I am as worthless as the plague I despise
Waving my white flag, I give up everything
Fate is not mine to control!”

“I’ve severed my heart from my soul”

He fled and hid himself away
And watched the next day for the news
But his heart stopped its frail beating
When he learned he’d murdered two

“Not only my bride, but my flesh and blood?
Truly, it is the end of my tyranny”

“The very thing I hate is what I have become
My vultures circle in on their final victim”

“Never could a price be paid
To cover all of my mistakes
Executioner I’ve played
Come now, judge and jury await
Leading to my resting place”

“Is this life what it seems?
Or is there something more?
I’m not afraid to dream
I’m not scared to know
The fate written for me”

IV: THE JUDGMENT OF FATE

“Tearing through space and time
My body stripped away from my mind”

“I don’t understand, can I have been wrong?
Did fate have a master all along?
This blackness pervades my very being
Yet I cannot touch or hear or see
But wait, a choir resounds in the distance
My soul is opened and I am lifted…”
“HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, GOD ALMIGHTY…”

“One by one all of my victims rise up
Then all at once they bow down to the throne”

“Dumbstruck I behold He Whom I denied
I fall to my knees and begin to realize
All the judgments I’ve made now to be judged
Because I chose malice and pride over love”

And the judgment began.

YOU REJECTED THE TRUTH WHICH I SHOWED YOU WELL
YOU EMPTIED YOUR HEART AND DEMONS INDWELLED
YOUR MASSACRE SENT THESE SOULS TO ME
AND ALL OF THEIR PAIN, NOW YOU SHALL SEE

He watched as children cried and families split apart
He heard the mournful songs and saw the shattered hearts
Then came the story of the ones he held most dear
But he could barely stand to look, choking back his tears

She could not find love in his heart
But another beat for her
She found comfort in his sympathy
And the two conceived a third

IT IS TIME.
I hang my head in shame.
I know I am to blame.
In silence I await
The sentence of my fate.

DEPART FROM ME, FOR YOU KNEW NOT THAT I AM.