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My path to absolution

Is found within my screams

I must achieve redemption

To have my soul be clean.

I offer up my body

My skin is free to thee

I’m sacrificing my flesh

My faith grows as I bleed.

Self inflict

empathy

Pain is my homage

Shackled and tormented

To feel worthy.

On my knees

Arched back

The lashes commence.

Kisses of leather

Touch flesh

I’m at peace.

I bite my lips

And taste my flow

And clench my fist

And swallow the agony.

I watch the dark

Before my eyes

And slip into

a tortured paradise.

I feel his swath replace my blood

Masochist’s worship.

Man’s diseased

His hedonistic ways a plaque to all

I’ll show them the wrath of god

I pray for thee

Their salvation and uncertainty

I’ll show them the wrath god.

I’ll show them the wrath of god.

Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

Lost, wayward, falling to earthly vice I surrender them to you.

Castigate my body

Strike the flesh

Save my soul.

Mutilate my body

This vessel

of damnation.

Castigate my body

Burn the flesh

Blind thine eyes.

Anticipate

My elevation

Through salvation I shall rise.

Rise!

The ecstasy

Of my misery

From the purging of

My impurities.

Rise above

My mortal need

For faith and love

And worldly greed.

Outro:

Father forgive them

For they know not what they do

They have been the fodder of temptationFor too long.

I slaughter to wash them of their sins

Father…Castigo corpus meum. (2X)