Lust of the Blade Lyrics

As I float through the eons
Sometimes there comes a day
There is one who is chosen and I enter his frame

I took to this vessel a virile young man
I do not remember his name
Sometime in London I just left Japan
Where the last that I was died in shame
I come for the cleansing I am what I am
A spirit created to kill
Traveling and scanning the cosmos and time
Now this one's succumbed to my will

Stalking my prey in the night
The fog brings the shadows alive
All the filth and perversion
I hunt with a cane and a cape
Wielding my blade like a surgeon
On prostitutes I operate

Once in a lifetime someone like me with the lust of the blade
Shadows and sunlight, there's nothing left of the souls that I take
Throw me a lifeline, no coming back from the mess that I make
Call it a love crime, so hot for blood is the lust of the blade

A minstrel of madness this circle of blood
Nary a clue would be found
An agent of chaos sent here from God
To brine wrath upon this wicked town
Brazen and daring again and again
Slashing with this mortal coil
Covered in red from the blood of the dead
My top hat and coat tails are soiled

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Lust of the blade

So if you find yourself staring at me face to face
And see the gleam of my silver blade
Reaching to you for a taste
Run as far and fast as you can
Don't ever turn and look back
I am the Ripper, they call me by name
Others have known me as Jack

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