Fragments in Stone
The sun descends the priest makes haste and seals the doors
The cracks of stone the moon gives womb to evil flight,
The wizard laughs, He cackles at the shackles forged to hold down the beasts
The spell takes shape a leather wing beats at the fog
Once upon a pact of men the council sealed his Fate
Banished to the caverns to live out his final days
But fear had gripped their hearts and they set out to cast him down
Held above his cauldron where the deed was wiped and burned
Sworn to vengeance brought to life by the moonlight taking lives
Thy guardians shall betray you and thy church shall crumble
The gargoyles breathing fly, dive unholy shrieking
The ivory fangs drip with the cost of lies
The soulless monsters deconstruct brick by brick
Gods house gives place to an orgy of the sick
Where the monsters eat the flesh of the clergy and the king
With one foul swipe they behead Jesus lost among their wings
Their sworn protectors now a weapon of the devil
Born among the fiery pits of hell to sleep in stone
The inquisition slays their steel will crack at the incarnations of evil
Battering the soldiers of God
They kill without remorse, brought into being to usher the fall of Christ
Send out the call from rooftop to cemetery
The hour is nigh to stain the past with the righteous of blood
The pews are set ablaze, hell recreated in the holy walls
Natures justice is done, the vessels of vengeance flee from the sun
They fly black protectors of night
All they have held dear is taken away
The guardians of heaven
Now freed from their stone prison
To turn on the gate keeper and cast down God
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