Disciples of the desert kneeling Golgatha's hills were dreaming The light, the world Through sacrifice Baptized through your knives And as I saw My life leave me The cross, barren, cold A penance against the world Do not weep for me but For all the things that never changed For all the sorrow, I am absolution I am the light Feathers fall Raise the hammer, set the nail Drive them deep The Hour of Dying will prevail Daughters weep Silver cascades on this night Ad maiorem dei gloriam Ash is grey and dark is light Hunger strikes the prophets Woe will greet their doors Lust will be their gospel Sanctify the whores Adonai Elohim Iehova Tetragrammaton The howling of the Marids The cries upon the wind The flames that do not burn The paradox within What is it that we want? What is it that we seek? The given light Cuts sore and deep Oh father, maybe all of us have somehow lost their will? Forgive us, for our eyes are blinded Feathers fall Raise the hammer, set the nail Drive them deep The Hour of Dying will prevail Daughters weep Silver cascades on this night Ad maiorem dei gloriam Ash is grey and dark is light