Litanies to Satan Lyrics


You among angels consummate

God stripped of honor – God betrayed by fate

Prince of exile who suffered wrong

Who still undaunted rise up ever strong

Lord and master of the occult art

Wise healer of the harrowed human heart

You through love beneath malignant skies

Give lepers their first taste of paradise

Satan – have pity on my long despair!

Teaching girls to act like whores

Bring them to rags and syphilitic sores

You on a tall building outer ledge

Propel the sleepwalker toward the edge

You to soothe his soul inspire man

Make the best gunpowder that he can

You with death – your darling delusion

Invented hope – that beautiful illusion

Satan – have pity on my long despair!

Agios o Sathanas! Agios o Baphomet!

Sanctus Sathanas! Ave Sathanas!

Adopted father of the fatherless

That God thrust in terror and nakedness

Glory and praise to Satan on high

Reign in heaven once yet vanquished lie

Deep in hell now – in dream and silence

Grant my soul rest in your presence

Under the Tree of Knowledge which shall spread

Its branches like a Temple overhead