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He in a stable so adored

Not once upon a rhyme

In a manger weaved from straw

It ripped the fabric of time



Yet something else was born that night

In the Devil’s care

Fed nourishing at the breast of beast

Lord of lies beware

Wrapped in warmest skins of goats

Bassinette of coal

His mission, to murder God’s son

And protect our swallowed souls



Through the hourglass they became friends

Playgrounds in the sand

The eyes that pierce remaining soft

Patient with dad’s demands



Growing up with a twitch of mad

Lusting for the spear

Listening too long to those prayers

Harboring no fear

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

The cradle will fall

Fall

Fall

Integral passion for changing the world

To its primitive ways

Collapsing all the towers of light

Into a kingdom of shades

Now with the force of dragon

Evil brings a hammer down

On his foe’s whole life’s work

And forever kindness drowns

Victorious in the killing of it

Cloaked he’s moving on

Into the brothel where Christ’s mother prays

Her virgin womb be gone

Spreading the legs and anxious to come

Proud father stomps a hoof

Waging a war inside this whore

Satan’s second son the proof

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

When the bough breaks

The cradle will fall