The Death Bell
 

Ding, dong, the death bell rings
I know another life is gone
Perhaps I should care?
Well I don't, not at all

I can feel the tremors shake my soul
I can feel defiance stir my bones

All defiled lives inside me
Everything wild cries around me
I hold what you don't want to see;
I feel what you don't want to feel...

humanity's trash can, there for the hell of it
an unwilling demon, God's little experiment

the lashes of the dead sear my back and
the blood of the sky turns my black red

rain from the sky, my fiery delight!
the lives I have taken, shuddering shaken
the souls I have broken, innocence sordid
the mothers I've beaten, raped and defeated
the children I've slaughtered, torn up and murdered
(their cries are my trinkets, my sorrow deleted, deleted!)

and then there are the doves whose strength I've sapped.
and then I see the lovers whose tears I've lapped.

and then the boy whose turmoiled heart I've trapped...

I hear the death bell ring and I fly forward
To kill and crush my pain I need much more
Death and destruction is my relaxation
just being hated's a working vacation
(fighting his love is my one true vocation)

they don't expect Death to come with a smile
they don't expect Hell, they're lost in denial

they're used and abused, lied to not cried to
don't know there's no heaven, no place for their brethen
don't know I'm all that is
don't know God don't exist
don't know I'm all they've got -
can't they be satisfied with their lot?!

*why* do they try to rise above?
*why* did they invent dumb things like love!?
for all my black wings, I'm human too!
I've fallen in love, just like they do!

so that's why I laugh when I swing my scythe
and that's why I cry as I sleep at night
and that's why I block my eyes from their sight
that's why I disappear, it's from fear

fear of them and their ways more twisted than I
fear I'll be left alone when he dies

which he will, because that's what they do
he plays with death and I paint him a fool
needless to say, he'll be gone soon
and I'll be left alone beneath the graveyard of the moon

the death bell rings
hell's angel sings
dead walk again
none are my friends
it never ends

I want it all to be a dream
I want to wake up with you beside me
I want all of time to stop

and just for one moment you smile
and everything shatters
and nothing matters

the death bell rings.