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At a tender age |
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By the high priest chosen |
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As the fairest maiden, from her parents taken |
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In the hands of shamen |
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For the great initiation |
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For many months it never rained |
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The fields were dry, the wells were drained |
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The barren land would yield no game |
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The people looked to lay the blame |
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The elders hung their heads in shame |
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The harvest failed again and again |
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Living in her dreams filled with nature's delight |
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Dancing in the streams in the dappled sunlight |
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The beacons glow across the hill |
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To summon folk to watch the ritual |
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Her heart begins to pound, she cannot make a sound |
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Feet frozen to the ground, with ashen face |
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Her purpose now is known, the horror hitting home |
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They lead her to the stone, her fate awaits |
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The sacrifice; venerate the master! |
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The sacrifice; blood awake the master! |
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The sacrifice |
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Cold slab of slate, the altar;the blade that must not falter |
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The swaying candles dance, the chanting turns to trance |
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The ground begins to shake - the sleeping beast awake |
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Emerge ye spectral ghosts, take shape ye thunderous hosts |
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Oh lord of death and birth, we invoke from the earth |
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She lives on in their dreams, in every ripe seed of grain |
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Still dancing in the streams, in every droplet of rain |
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Laid out for all to see, no struggle to be free |
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Her final memory - there's no escape |
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Her garments are torn off, her yielding flesh is soft |
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The knife is held aloft, to consummate |
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The sacrifice; venerate the master! |
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The sacrifice; blood awake the master! |
