“SILENT SCROLLS OF A DYING PROPHET”

(C. DeCracken)

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[Spoken]

Slandered as a coward

[b/g vocals] “You never fell from grace” 

Ever thrust downward-- yet

[b/g vocals] “cause you never stood in place”

because I-- 

 

[b/g vocals] Always felled in battle

when none others stood

[b/g vocals] Been destroyed in battle

Because none others would

 

[b/g vocals] Always carried others 

across the river fold

[b/g vocals]as I bleed to death

in the water cold

 

[m.b. Nightbreed] “He hasn’t saved us. He’s destroyed us”

 

[CHORUS]

I--

[b/g vocals] can’t sleep

I--

[b/g vocals] can’t breathe

I--

[b/g vocals] can’t sleep

I--

[b/g vocals] can’t dream

I--

[all vocals] stand alone

 

[b/g vocals] Shunned when I speak

and my words are twisted

[b/g vocals] Now I cannot speak

and I am berated

 

[b/g vocals] Always helped others

While none helped me

[b/g vocals] Now I am the problem

Why can’t you see?

 

[m.b. Nightbreed] “He hasn’t saved us. He’s destroyed us”

[m.b. Dominion] “God is not here today, priest”

 

[CHORUS (2X)]

 

[spoken]

I can’t speak

I can’t act

I’ve been beaten down

And I’ve been destroyed

Why couldn’t I just die?

Yet I’m terrified of the afterlife

 

[m.b. The Seventh Sign] “Will you die for him? Will you die for him?!”

 

[CHORUS (2X)]

 

[m.b. Conan the Barbarian] My child, you have come to me, my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring from which you flow. What would your world be without me… my son?

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[spoken]

Now that I have died

and pained this endless life

I ask for only one thing--

to weep and mourn in the lake of sorrows

 

[m.b. The Seventh Sign]

"Will you die for him? Will you die for him?!"

"Yes! Yes! I will die for him!"

 

 

* DeCracken set out to make the darkest, most pessimistic song after the success of Depression in D Minor.

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