Providence Lyrics

Fear alights ten billion bilious
Slouching toward Bethlehem
Hordes burn and horror breeds boredom
For fortune favors a slave

No god, no grace, no providence

Neglect brings plagues of fire
Frail and failure forges pale disgrace
Fortressed lathe of forbidden wisdom
Carcass scalded, crushed carapace

Boil the bones
And steal the stones of sanctimony
Salt the wound
And crush the tomb as testimony

No god, no grace, no providence

Kohoutek ecstasy, blind blade bleed
Sacrificial lamb intransigent
Ablaze in wisdom, ash of wilderness
For the furnace does not forget

Parasitic venal sludge
Broken, scoliosis
Paroxysmal holy host
Spinal column cruciform

Thorns like spirals clash and crawl ecclesiastic
Where horizons cease
Where grace is dead
Where nothing lives
So be it
Amen