This Is Not Your Grave

from The Stag by Ophidian Memory

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lyrics

I cast a shadow
And in its wake
Left are the ashes of those caught in its gaze

No sign of warning
None left to tell
That faith was just a mask
To open up your inner selves

Powers seditious
And powers beyond light
Were used to show
The weakened creatures fear and might

Lo and behold
Subsequence unfold
The greatest tragedy that the world has ever known

Breathing
Feeling
Seeing
All just taken For granted
Until they're ripped
Out of our lifeless hands

Bleeding
Pleading
Seething
All just forced and then ravaged
Until they've dug
Deep into our own souls

Where you lay
You will stay
But this is not your grave

Come to pray
Then Turn away
Cause this is not your grave

Erode yourself with haste
Existence such a waste
They'll be none left to save
And this is not your grave

I must strike you down
Return into the ground
I find your kind so brave
But this will never be your grave

Your Light falls
New Life calls

How long I've waited patiently
To see you grieve insatiably

You've done so well to pray to me
Here's your reward for zealotry
This form that no one else can be
Birthed to destroy humanity's lands

And lead them straight to my grasp
As you perpetuate collapse
There is no rest for a god
Who seeks that which is unbound
By the text, eternal power in your soul is found

I saw hordes of demons
Crawling forwards
Towards the burning
Fields of sorrow
Come tomorrow
None will be here
What remains is
All but lost

Where you lay
You will stay
But this is not your grave

Come to pray
Then turn away
Cause this is not your grave

Erode yourself with haste
Existence such a waste
They'll be none left to save
And this is not your grave

I must show you how
To make the humans bow
You will die without shame
But this will never be your grave

Your grave