《The Clerical Conspiracy》歌词

[00:00:00] The Clerical Conspiracy - Sabbat

[00:00:03] I have wealth beyond measure

[00:00:05] My treasures are words

[00:00:08] Forged by time in a tale of

[00:00:10] Such beauty they cry to be heard

[00:00:12] Still a young fool was I as

[00:00:15] My story begins

[00:00:16] Yet like all fools considered

[00:00:17] Myself to be wise

[00:00:21] A match for all things

[00:00:23] But the lessons I've learned

[00:00:24] I will never forget

[00:00:27] When your teacher is life then

[00:00:28] Success is survival and

[00:00:29] Failure is death

[00:00:32] From early years I saw the world

[00:00:34] Through tunnel-vision eyes

[00:00:34] My cloistered mind philosophized

[00:00:36] And fossilized

[00:00:36] Secure in my belief was I

[00:00:39] Assured throughout my life the

[00:00:40] Only things that could sustain me

[00:00:41] Were the words of Jesus Christ

[00:00:42] There is no way to fight a foe

[00:00:44] Who strikes from the inside

[00:00:45] And once within we can begin to

[00:00:47] Smite this pagan pride

[00:00:48] We shall take their graven images

[00:00:49] And grind them in the dirt

[00:00:51] For that men can live in paradise

[00:00:52] Must be the Devils work

[00:00:54] The clerical conspiracy begins

[00:00:55] We shall wash away your sins

[00:00:57] We have come to purify

[00:00:59] To purge you of your liberty

[00:01:02] Absolve you of all sanity

[00:01:04] The 'truth' you want to hear

[00:01:06] We shall provide

[00:01:07] How can we hope to save these

[00:01:10] Heathen when we know not of

[00:01:11] Their ways

[00:01:12] One of us must journey southward

[00:01:14] Infiltrate and then assuage

[00:01:15] Only when we have this knowledge

[00:01:17] Can we finalise our plans

[00:01:19] Greet them with a velvet glove

[00:01:21] Then crush them 'neath an iron hand

[00:01:50] Christian soldiers armed with virtue

[00:01:52] Hearts afire with blind obsession

[00:01:53] Cannot see the difference 'twixt

[00:01:54] Compassion and oppression

[00:01:54] These were the days I believed that

[00:01:56] Salvation was mine

[00:01:57] When I worshipped apostles

[00:01:58] Believing their gospels to be divine

[00:02:00] My life drifted by in a warm summer haze

[00:02:02] And I thought I would bath in the light

[00:02:05] Of our lord 'till the end of my days

[00:02:09] But destiny mocked me

[00:02:13] And fate did bequest

[00:02:14] That the strength of my faith in

[00:02:18] The Lord God Almighty be put to the test

[00:02:20] My son your word is matchless as

[00:02:21] A scribe you have been blessed

[00:02:23] Your skill and faith in God doth

[00:02:25] Qualify you for our quest

[00:02:26] You will sail to Southern England

[00:02:29] And recount their blasphemies

[00:02:30] For the first step in their cure

[00:02:33] Must be to learn of theit disease

[00:02:34] For one so young so great an honour

[00:02:36] To be chosen for this task

[00:02:37] Have I the stength

[00:02:38] Would I be worthy

[00:02:39] Questions that I dared not ask

[00:02:41] Was I to be a missionary searching

[00:02:42] For lost souls to save

[00:02:44] Or just another pawn in their

[00:02:45] Monastic power games

[00:02:46] The clerical conspiracy begins

[00:02:47] We shall wash away your sins

[00:02:48] We have come to purify

[00:02:50] To purge you of your liberty

[00:02:51] Absolve you of all sanity

[00:02:52] The 'truth' you want to hear

[00:02:53] We shall provide

[00:02:55] How can we hope to save these

[00:02:56] Heathen when we know not of

[00:02:57] Their ways

[00:02:58] You Wat Brand must journey southward

[00:02:59] Infiltrate and then assuage

[00:03:00] Only when we have this knowledge

[00:03:02] Can we finalise our plans

[00:03:03] Greet them with a velvet glove

[00:03:05] Then crush them 'neath an iron hand

[00:03:06] Christian soldiers armed with virtue

[00:03:08] Hearts afire with blind obsession

[00:03:09] Cannot see the difference 'twixt

[00:03:10] Compassion and oppression

[00:03:11] And so with terror in my heart

[00:03:13] I learned what had to be

[00:03:14] That I must tour these foriegn shores

[00:03:16] My cross for company

[00:03:17] Those who had preceded me

[00:03:18] Of pagan devils warned

[00:03:19] With fearful tales of christian souls

[00:03:20] Since martyred on their horns

[00:04:06] In my tale I will tell how we

[00:04:08] All were decieved

[00:04:08] For in truth I was hunted not

[00:04:10] Hunter as I had believed

[00:04:11] How could I have known that the

[00:04:13] Guide they'd provide was to

[00:04:14] Show me far more than I'd ever

[00:04:16] Imagined I could have desired

[00:05:03] So soon would I learn

[00:05:04] What a fool I had been

[00:05:06] There is more than one side to a coin

[00:05:07] Life is not what it seems

[00:05:09] It's no more than a dream