Requiem For A Crow

Palladium Muse

 

Give yourself that shadow smile

And dance to the call of the dead

Offer the truce and all the while

Listen to the treachery in your head

 

Can't remember the room

Can't remember the way

Can't remember whom

You're supposed to be today

The world is a shroud

For the Hell beneath

Covered with a bloody cloud

That rains onto the streets

 

Vengeance is but a dream

Righteousness the nightmare

You are exactly what you seem

Dead man walking, bullets in your hair

 

Heaven has Death on its side tonight

An angel without mercy stalks tonight

Monsters hunt monsters for their meat tonight

For sins of the past deed tonight

 

Can't remember the room

Can't remember the way

But you know exactly whom

You're supposed to kill today

Emerge from the shroud

From the Hell beneath

Wear the dark cloud

Wash the blackened streets

 

An appetite to be sated

Unrelease through horror

Atrocity keeps you baited

Until you even the divine score

 

Pain is the ebony mummy's wrap

That keeps your soul tied here

You are the terror that can entrap

Those who don't know how to fear

 

Now you've found the room

Now you've found the way

You've dealt retribution to

The ones who needed it today

Death comes at last at last

True death for the weary

Merciful kiss the Hell is past

And lifted is the burden you carry

 

And on that silent night

And through the silent graves

Granite angels weep for what God has wrought

The free will God granted, come to naught

But a whisper slides through the sleepers

Who rest for eternity

"I'm coming home, Shelly.  It's me."