Penance Knight

The second single from our upcoming album, The Command From Stone. This one is titled Penance Knight.

Lyrics:

If a jester, a blasphemer am I

I shall repent - but not yet

I shall seek that sickly god that slumbers

Where all rivers of the land go to die

In the palm of its hand, fingers like the pillars

That carry the heavens, and canyons crease

The flesh, feeble and diseased

I strike my knees and head to the ground to bare my soul

Not yet deceased

When all chance I have crushed under my heel

To the life that led me here

I shall turn my back, and with a smile

Hold in my hands that mask, inscrutable

Let me be the nameless tool that elevates or

Strikes down

If a liar, an apostate am I

I shall seek forgiveness

The withered husks of long gone conscience

In this judgement hold no sway

Their road was pure like that of every saint and paragon

They wore the mask and donned the armour that ravaged their flesh, devoured their mind

They expired as they lived, heeding that call

That did not care to know their names

To wear that visage, beautiful and unreadable

To crush all chance under my heel

My road would be pure, my being with purpose

Not mine, but for me to enact

To play the wondrous games of providence

Only not out of conviction

Bereft of conscience

Shielded behind a mask

Perhaps I could go gentle

Into that good night

Into the fading of all light

Let my name be erased

Let not a soul ever know my tale

Forgotten, smashed against stones

Scattered, like ashes, into the winds

Forever buried in sulphurous mires

But only if…

And yet what lies or blasphemy?

And yet what jest or apostasy?

Whence repentance, what for forgiveness?

And yet here, even gods suffer and die

This chance I now crush under my heel

If we live in misery, at least let it not be hollow