sabbat - i for an eye lyrics

[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,
endeavour 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 dilema -
it seems what 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.'