Predestined to suffer A life of loneliness Bearing the sorrow and sin Agonizing death a compelled catharsis I've crucified myself for you With every tearstained page Reprising the role of the damned Every time I've bled upon the stage No blessed mother weeps for me As the nails split to the bone A supposed savior of souls Yet I cannot save my own I've crucified myself for you With every tearstained page Reprising the role of the damned Every time I've bled upon the stage Scourged at the pillars of mockery Broken and bleeding and crowned in thorns Pierced by the spears of destiny Bursting the heart of the forlorn The call of the dawn rang thrice And you had forsaken me To die with a heart of ice By the nails of prophecy Banished from paradise Into my hell so deep Remember my sacrifice Whenever heaven weeps