Graven Image Lyrics


I am the lord thy god,

Give thanks to none before me

Sit not before the demon’s table,

Disparate faiths of heresy

Crusades span centuries,

Blessed divine genocide

Antioch, Jerusalem,

Tenets of peace are inverted

Engulfed in flames of reverent fire

As kingdoms fall and aeons pass

The heathen slaughter, in the name of faith

Crucified in the presence of your graven image

Lead (bartley)

Fight those who don’t believe,

Give firmness to the believers

No peace is found before surrender,

One god infinite dead

Holy inquisition, burning at auto-da-fé

To be baptised or embrace death,

32,000 are slaughtered

Violence in reverence,

Dehumanizing doctrine

The angels are adored,

By corpses of the righteous

Shepherds locking horns over questions of morality,

Bones of contention break, under timeless lies

The endless war sustained,

By irreconcilable difference

Idols negated,

Faith undiversified

Lead (bartley)

Sermons of suffering,

Hatred old as time

Gospels for the slaughtered,

Doctrine for the dead

Sermons of suffering,

Books of holy lies

Gospels for the slaughtered,

Doctrine for the righteous martyred dead

I am the instrument of god and my hands are the spear of holy death.