Death Be Thy Shepherd

Can you hear the death knell
Of his design
I drink of the fallen’s impertinent wine
I wash with ichor of innocent lives
Surround my body with marble with swine
Fuelled by this demon that lives deep inside
I’ve been burning in pain all this time
I can’t hold it back any more
No more
Carnal atrocities fed by thy will
Licentious desires sanguine at the thrill
Forever denouncing the plague from her womb
Revile at the words of the lamb in the tomb
Fuelled by this demon that lives deep inside
I’ve been burning in pain all this time
I can’t hold it back any more
No more
Death by the shepherd and hell be thy name
Reaping the cattle
Forever, collecting blood split in my name
Witness the horror
People are dying
People are crying out
I am the countess, the scythe and mortician
I have the power of utter perdition
You eat the flesh, I eat the whore
My life’s a harvest I always want more
Fuelled by this demon that lives deep inside
I’ve been burning in pain all this time
I can’t hold it back any more
No more
Death by the shepherd and hell be thy name
Reaping the cattle
Forever, collecting blood split in my name
Witness the horror
People are dying
People are crying out
The burning depth
Bewitcher of the weak
The chosen one
Debase of sympathy
The libertine
The serpent of the free
Sanguinity
Complexion built on death
I try to hold on to what’s me
But it’s hard to believe it’s there any more
Death by the shepherd and hell be thy name
Reaping the cattle
Forever, collecting blood split in my name
Witness the horror
People are dying
People are crying out
People are dying
People are crying out