Soothsayer

When the dust first breathed life

Child don’t touch the fire

Guess the ashes have called from the start

In the chaos and calm

Cut a slash cross your palm

Promise blood, it poisons your heart

From the shadows of the crowd

There’s a hand reaching out

It can offer the things that you seek

There’s a price to be paid

But ain’t that every trade?

You’re just looking for strength when you’re weak

Oh you know there's a flickering darkness

And it sings out like sirens to you

Yea it’s sickly sweet and elegantly violent

But these debts that you take

They will someday come due

Hungry hands reaching up

Crave for more, lust for blood

Bring the fattened calf and slaughter the sheep

Fingers wrapped ‘round the crown

Like they tore at her gown

Who will die for the secrets you keep?

Oh you know there's a flickering darkness

And it sings out like sirens to you

Yea it’s sickly sweet and elegantly violent

But these debts that you take

They will someday come due

Ravens come like oracles

Speaking in tongues

And it sounds like a song

That has never felt lungs

The thing that you hate

Is the thing you’ve become

Blessed are the words

Of the soothsaying son

Oohs

Oh you know there's a flickering darkness

And it sings out like sirens to you

Yea it’s sickly sweet and elegantly violent

But these debts that you take

They will someday come due

But these debts that you take

They will someday come due