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INTRODUCTION |
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This tale I tell that all may see, |
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behind God's truth lurks treachery. |
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VOICE OF GOD |
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'Mine is the right to glory and light, |
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and you shall have heartache and pain, |
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yours must be Hell - |
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for in Heaven I'll dwell, |
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I care not for that earthly domain.' |
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HOST OF RIGHTEOUS ANGELS |
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'For crimes against divinity - |
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the loneliness of purgatory, |
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your kingdom rule - Humanity, |
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Mankind shall be your Hell.' |
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LUCIFER |
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'Why have you done this to me - |
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tell me what is my crime, |
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I'm tried and convicted - |
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guilty the fate that is mine. |
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You say I'm a Devil - |
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then by Hell the Devil I'll be.' |
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NARRATION |
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'As aeons passed without cessation - |
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brewing hatred from damnation, |
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in darkness Satan waited - |
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laughed as God the Earth created, |
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and man in his own image made - |
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unaware that plans were laid, |
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'till from the dark eternal night - |
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a serpent crawled into the light. |
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And so from darkness a rage without |
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measure - |
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burst spreading the cancer 'cross Eden, |
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corrupting and tempting and never relenting, |
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abusing man's newly found freedom.' |
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LUCIFER |
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'Out of the abyss I come the avenger |
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shapeless and faceless - |
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Yet I have a name, |
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I shall tighten my grip on your now |
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flawed creation, |
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endeavour to show you the meaning |
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of pain.' |
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'It soothes my heart, |
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to see you cry, |
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when I am done, |
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you will learn as I - |
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to suffer in Hell.' |
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'Impaled on the horns of a dilema - |
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it seems what were my nightmares, |
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are now naught but dreams, |
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for you who have riches know paradise well, |
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and I who have nothing am burning in Hell.' |