Reason as curse The plague he sent upon us His own seed, in his own likeness Drowned by chaining hands Reason as name, reason as light Descending to the sink of iniquity To bond the bright flame Of old mother night Extending his reign, defining ubiquity I drown my heart in acid tears To soil his flesh with cold rejection My open heart for eyes to pierce A perfect foil to a mind's dissection Guided by the laws of hopelessness Pining for redemption I seek to eviscerate His name, his fire, his love forever Exhaling father's breath Exhaling father's breath To reduce the self to plain dissension Raising secrets on his dying flame As a monument of undimension Where death alone is mine to claim This gate is open now Peeling flesh from bones and bones from spirit I surrender mind and blood and tears of reason evermore Unmasked as heaven's breath Compelled as knowledge's death Your will has made me what i am And never was meant to be I received your light, i received your wound As a funeral rite for a heart entombed As stigmata, envoys of the grave of holy creed As your hand demands to fear Your canon requires to persevere To claim the heart of those