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[INTRODUCTION:]

This tale I tell that all may see,

Behind God's truth lurks treachery.

[VOICE OF GOD:]

"Mine is the right to glory and light,

And you shall have heartache and pain,

Yours must be Hell - for in Heaven I'll dwell,

I care not for that earthly domain."

[HOST OF RIGHTEOUS ANGELS:]

"For crimes against divinity -

The loneliness of purgatory,

Your kingdom rule - Humanity,

Mankind shall be your Hell."

[LUCIFER:]

"Why have you done this to me - tell me what is my crime,

I'm tried and convicted - guilty the fate that is mine.

You say I'm a Devil - then by Hell the Devil I'll be."

[NARRATION:]

"As aeons passed without cessation -

Brewing hatred from damnation,

In darkness Satan waited -

Laughed as God the Earth created,

And man in his own image made -

Unaware that plans were laid,

'Till from the dark eternal night -

A serpent crawled into the light.

And so from darkness a rage without measure -

Burst spreading the cancer 'cross Eden,

Corrupting and tempting and never relenting,

Abusing man's newly found freedom."

[LUCIFER:]

"Out of the abyss I come the avenger

Shapeless and faceless - yet I have a name,

I shall tighten my grip on your now flawed creation,

Endeavor to show you the meaning of pain."

"It soothes my heart,

To see you cry,

When I am done,

You will learn as I -

To suffer in Hell."

"Impaled on the horns of a dilemma - it seems

What once were my nightmares, are now naught but dreams,

For you who have riches know paradise well,

And I who have nothing am burning in Hell."