King Jessup’s Nine Trials

[Verse 1]
Execution
Prosecution
Elevation over fire
Incarceration
Laceration to the face
And brow bearing a crown of wire

[Chorus 1]
His eyes are made of tears
And perspiration under Middle Eastern sun
Heaven waits for King Jessup
When His final hour comes
His final hour comes

[Verse 3]
Self-flagellation
The wasps are stinging themselves dry
Coarse gravel to knees
Jagged sand to the thigh

[Verse 4]
Uttering holy curses
Is it better to die for your parish
Than for old ordеrs from on high
With the whites of our eyеs
Maybe everything′s changed
And Satan's in the sky
And congregations burst through the
Church doors each Sunday
Safe from the flames licking the windows
And they′ll count their beads
'Til they get what they long for and need
Not knowing they're all already in Hell

[Verse 5]
With a surge of wet steel
The Earth′s curses are lifted
And Heaven revealed through the wound and through space
Before dying he catches God′s face
And in agony screams "Get me out of this place!"
But the bell has been rung
As His name loudly sung
Is bounced up and down through the cracked rafters
And into the bread and the cup
And the ending comes after
Ended with a tongue that could tell stories if it had eyes
To shock and recoil but to no one's surprise
As the dead are lifted from the hollows of earth
Too young to remember dying, but too old to forget
Could they see the cruel shovel and knife
As the pious said "Don′t worry young one
Everything will be alright"?

[Verse 6]
The breath of a mighty storm
Blows the black habits and robes back to Hell
And the violence aswell
'Til all that remains is a gold carcass
Spread across the world
That is dead
But is breathing for them without breath

[Chorus 2]
Three nails, a cross
And an ideal son
Heaven waits
For King Jessup
When His nine trials are done

[Verse 7]
Dead young lifted
From a long rest
Too young to remember dying
Too old to forget
Earth′s floor shifted
If I don't want to die for cowards then neither did He
Neither did He

[Outro]
Well then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
Then neither did He, then neither did He
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