Anti-Life Saviour Lyrics


Listen to what is in some ways the first great speech of the poem.

Satan, cast down by God to Hell with the other Rebel Angels, sees close by him One next to himself in power, next in crime.

Beelzebub, Satan's lieutenant

And satan addresses him like this.

"If thou beest he; But O how fall'n! how chang'd

From him, who in the happy Realms of Light

Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst out-shine

Myriads though bright: If he Whom mutual league,

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope

And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize,

Joynd with me once, now misery hath joynd

In equal ruin: into what Pit thou seest

From what highth fall'n, so much the stronger prov'd

He with his Thunder: and till then who knew

The force of those dire Arms? yet not for those,

Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage

Can else inflict, do I repent or change,

Though chang'd in outward lustre; that fixt mind

And high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit,

That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend,

And to the fierce contention brought along

Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd

That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,

His utmost power with adverse power oppos'd

In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n,

And shook his throne."

[Paradise Lost, Book 1, 84-105, read by Ian Richardson]

With every dream of dark fantasies

blood is dripping down from the ceiling

taking form that reminds you of all the shadows of the past

the body is dead now, you can never take it back

from the sun, from the brightest light

reveal your heart at its purest.

Born of flames, baptized in fire

Burning chaos inside this shell of flesh.

Hold the scepter, burn the eyes of your god.

This is my wolf pack, you are my prey.

Twisted faces take form

with the way further

of your window's class.

Humanity now

what have you done?

As years go on,

you just wipe them away

with a grin, behind your mask.

You keep on looking for answers, but don't like the ones I can give

Dig your grave deeper and deeper

until you're at the point and can't reach the edge

Come face the light of my guidance, you say

But frightened of those who walk towards the light

Blessed are we, who dwell in the night.

"What though the field be lost?

All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,

And study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yield:

And what is else not to be overcome?

That Glory never shall his wrath or might

Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace

With suppliant knee, and deifie his power,

Who from the terrour of this Arm so late

Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed,

That were an ignominy and shame beneath

This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods

And this Empyreal substance cannot fail,

Since through experience of this great event

In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't,

We may with more successful hope resolve

To wage by force or guile eternal Warr

Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe,

Who now triumphs[...]"

[Paradise Lost, Book 1, 105-123, read by Ian Richardson]

You keep on looking for answers, but don't like the ones I can give

Dig your grave deeper and deeper

until you're at the point and can't reach the edge

Come face the light of my guidance, you say

But frightened of those who walk towards the light

Blessed are we, who dwell in the night.

Born of flames, baptized in fire

Burning chaos inside this shell of flesh.

Hold the scepter, burn the eyes of your god.

This is my wolf pack, you are my prey.