Plague Worship Lyrics

A crown is dawned

Heads are bowed beneath it's weight

And every knee is bent

In reverence and decay

The rot is taking hold

In chapels built of blighted bones

Sanctuary in the weak and the old

A god born, as foretold

Of that by which we're overthrown

Laying claim from within every soul

Baptized in the flood of a virus

Anointed by its dregs

While acolytes cloaked in putrid pelts

Collect each tithe of flesh

Redemption for the pious

Whose faith is made to spread

Those who would offer up themselves

And all their dearest friends

A crown is dawned

As the weeping congregate

Their every tear communion

To ever-thirsting plagues

A world is drowned

In these oceans of decay

Our every prayer falls silent

As we are washed away

Praise sung by those we've silenced

Through lungs breathing their last

They stagger and they falter through carrion and ash

The air on which we choke

From pulpits redefined as thrones

Painting the lies that spill forth from tender throats

With every bitter stroke

Death sentences redressed as poems

Binding together those whom our doctrines broke

Slaves, now, to our messiah

The age of man has passed

Now piled upon the altar

In a putrid blackened mass

Slaves, now, to their defilers

The faithful now the chaff

Their deaths to be exalted

Their prayers bring their collapse

A crown is dawned

Heads are bowed beneath its weight

And every knee is bent

In reverence and decay

The faith by which we're led

In every ragged, labored breath

Evangelism in diseases that we spread

The devils we reject

Deliver us from welcome death

Resuming cycles we would have brought to rest

A world is drowned

In these oceans of decay

Our every prayer falls silent

As we're washed away

A king is crowned

As a kingdom's laid to waste

Our every prayer is answered

With the ending of an age