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I thence invoke thy aid

To my adventurous song

That with no middle flight

Intends to soar above the pain.

What in me is dark illumine

What is low raise and support

As I spin this yarn of war

Waged in vain with no remorse.

Cover your ears and close your mind

Or hear the tail of how we died.

It all began with trumpet calls

On blackened wings the dark one falls

This ancient war was never won,

In this struggle for life we were overrun.

Archfiend:

So come with me, if you believe

'Tis better to reign in hell than serve his creed.

Is this the region, the soil the clime.

Is this the seat we trade for Heaven; this gloom for light?

So come with me, if you believe

'Tis better to reign in hell than serve his creed.

Narrator:

Thus spake the apostate angel

Racked with pain and despair.

Tears such as angels weep burst forth

As his sighs found their way.

Archfiend:

Henceforth his might we know, and know our own.

If our black insurrection rise to confound Heaven's purist light.

A heart that's full of lies

Is a heart I understand

These innocent creatures will be putty in my hands.

Narrator:

How many lies led you to this ground,

A child of God now fallen down

To the place from whence you came

Where everyone knows and hates your name?

Fueled by jeaoulsy and hate

Let your anger forever reign

Where they live to see you die;

Tell me how many lies?

Archfiend:

Life is not unlike a dream

Nothing is as it seems

But I have seen his face.

Damn the light in this place!

God:

I preach messages of forgiveness and light

I sing songs full of love and full of life

My heart is big enough to hold you all

I'll be there for you if you stumble or if you fall.

Archfiend:

I am anger, I am hate!

Fill your soul full of rage!

Raphael:

Beware the Archfiend, now fallen from the light

His intentions are dark indeed, prepare yourselves to fight.