Four of Swords Lyrics

Album: Effigy

Fallen from the tower

She’s the abused, inverted fool

Fortune’s wheel bears this enchanter

Love’s ascent with the moon

The sun will set (judgment)

Render its judgment (death)

Impending death

Dealt by their hand

He can’t protest (torment)

Entry to torment (death)

There’s only death

For the hanged man

The lonely deck was scattered, incense burnt and gone

The ordered fate has fallen, celestial imbued

This priestess weeps, for nothing could foreshow

Four of swords have come to bury him, bury you

His arcana they seep and bite

Isolate and delude

Jealousy leads the lover’s lie

Weak pentacles three follow suit

The sun will set (judgment)

Render its judgment (death)

Impending death

Dealt by their hand

He can’t protest (torment)

Entry to torment (death)

There’s only death

For the hanged man

The lonely deck was scattered, incense burnt and gone

The ordered fate has fallen, celestial imbued

This priestess weeps, for nothing could foreshow

Four of swords have come to bury him, bury you

This devil bears his Judas gospel

Manipulates cards where they fall

Whisper his lies, eroding whole worlds

Blood pours out from the chalice below

This devil bears his Judas gospel

Cards align to dark beats of their star

Four swords abscond to their gray chariot

Fool’s hammer forging cruel despair

The hammer strikes the hanged man’s head from behind

But he isn’t knocked out

Zip-tied and bleeding, downing powder and pills

His suicide will be forced

Wrap him in a bag

Choke until he’s dead

Tranquilized, he’s victimized by them all

In senseless depravity

Asphyxiated by his so-called friends

Left to rot in empty woods

Wrapped him in a bag

Choked until he was fucking dead

Echoes from the past

Reminders of their crime

Build over blighted earth

Four of swords

Exiled

Was it their intent

To take my life that night?

Betray at his behest

Four of swords

Exiled