The Meads of Asphodel - The Angel with One Eye Lyrics


My dried up tears, a lingering mist

Festering shades of heavenly bliss

The hatred of god has never ceased

With mirthless sorrow from buried smiles

No resurrection, no falling sky

Just an angel, with one burning eye

No god decrees my sins forgiven

for all I am is heaven given

With one eye shut and one eye open

With one wing strong and one wing broken

I reek of sin, of flower and thorn

Deny me not this wine of scorn

I dream of death, alive I breathe

In sacred silence, on fear I feed

For I am legion, I am many

I am nothing in a land of plenty

I am the fallen, lost among sheep

A celestial star that never sleeps

A burning memory of dark divine

A turning century of another time

Lives of men can never last

What is now will come to pass

I looked for sleep but sleep found me

now I rest, now I’m free

I am the angel with one eye

East, West, North, South

I am the angel with one eye

East, West, North, South

Fishing for dreams with hope on a hook

I am the abyss, the sunless brook

A hang man bites in nethermost springs

A nightmare caught and there he swings