Bounds of the kingdom divine From the horizons of God The angel beholds our world in flames And the crowds who rejoice In both pleasure and pain Her heart is filled with tears Heavy as wings of the raven dark For her father the lord forbade her To taste the apple That fell to the ground For all the pleasures of heaven are shallow Though eternal I would trade this for a day Among the mortals For just a day I would sacrifice all that was given to me My whitest wings, my faith And my virginity, so take my soul Blacken my wings and let the gates Of light be forever closed Mortals Open your arms And greet me with what never was Given to me Initiate me into all that was Hidden from me My hunger is insatiable, my wish for fire Is deeper than the skies And like the fallen angels we will ruin All that is trying to hold us back Virgin maidens are to be engaged In the obligations to those of the damned And the angel prayed To ascend in our world As she was given to the flames For we are not the children of God And we aim not at the kingdom high All that is divine is to be dead And all that ever was in decline For shallow are the pleasures of God And I aim not at the kingdom high So give me pain Teach me to know myself again For selfdenial is the norm On which all my thoughts And identity was formed So show me pain Fulfill all my dreams That have been veiled in vain For my blood and my veins are of sin And my soul has been sold so show me pain
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