Virgin Steele
Hymns to Damnation
Child heart with bestial eyes
Like tears in spider webs a perfect disguise
Down came rain like seas of blood
Lost in Salem's wood entombed in your eyes
Swift as the raven's flight
To lie, here in my arms
Justice Night on perfect mist
In every ring of cruel murder remains
Here we live like thieves of blood
The beauty we conceived is never humane
Swift as a vein of white
To lie, here in my arms
Hymns to damnation
Hymns to deceive
Life there's no salvation
Reign here with me!
There's no God
Hymns to Damnation
Hymns to deceive
Life there's no salvation
Reign here with me, reign!
Dusk appears fallen like a thrown cross
Wolves, magick, hungers true like our rituals
There is no God, maimed here with me
Long Shadows spill
On Gallows Hill, they swing in the cold breeze
Many have died, many too returned
To the distant house of death
Awful the stars
Hymns to damnation
Hymns to deceive
Life there's no salvation
Reign here with me
Hymns to damnation
Hymns to disease
Lies there's no salvation
Reign here with me, reign here with me
Bloodstained bride that darkness hides
Like terrors of the sea shipwrecked in your eyes