[Intro — Scene: Inquisitor Accuses Eisenhorn] [Different voice — older, colder, furious. Radio/vox effect, distorted, echoing as if through a cathedral or tribunal hall. Latin, shouted.] [Inquisitor — vox/radio effect, furious:] Gregor Eisenhorn! Tu proditor! Tu haereticus! Legem Imperatoris conculcasti! Animam tuam daemonibus vendidisti! Confitere! Confitere nunc! [Eisenhorn — low whisper, calm, weary:] ...Non confitebor. Ego feci quod necesse erat. [Inquisitor — scream, echo, building:] Excommunicatus! Damnatus! Maledictus! Perde te ipsum — aut perdemus nos! [Choir of fallen souls — whisper, echo, moan:] Eisenhorn... Eisenhorn... Monstrum... Monstrum... [Crescendo — organ, toms, orchestra — everything crashes down, transitioning into main track] --- [Verse 1 — low baritone, radio/vox texture, weary] I burned my name to keep the stars alive, [echo: alive... alive...] The dust of friends still settles in my coat. [whisper: coat...] I hunt the things that prey on human hive, [demons: hive... hive...] And carve my sins in every line I wrote. [fallen souls: wrote... wrote...] --- [Chorus — forceful male double-choir, organ, brass, demons wailing in background] Sometimes the only way to kill the beast [demons: kill... kill...] Is to become the monster that you fear. [fallen souls: fear... fear...] Monstrum ut monstrum vincam — I'm the feast. [choir: MONSTRUM! MONSTRUM!] The cost is everything I once held dear. [demons: dear... dear... dear...] --- [Verse 2 — low baritone, radio effect, heavier] I wear the mask of those I had to break, [echo: break... break...] The names I lost are carved into my bone. [whisper: bone...] I gave my soul for humanity's sake, [demons: sake... sake...] And now I walk this path of ash alone. [fallen souls: alone... alone...] --- [Chorus — repeat, louder, more demons] Sometimes the only way to kill the beast [demons: BEAST... BEAST...] Is to become the monster that you fear. [fallen souls: FEAR... FEAR...] Monstrum ut monstrum vincam — I'm the feast. [choir: MONSTRUM! MONSTRUM!] The cost is everything I once held dear. [demons: DEAR... DEAR...] --- [Bridge — spoken word, radio/vox, slow, haunting] [Eisenhorn — low, weary, distorted] The Inquisition calls me heretic, [echo: heretic... heretic...] The demons call me kin. [demons: kin... kin... kin...] I am the wound, the scar, the lunatic, [fallen souls: lunatic... lunatic...] There is no way to win. [whisper: win... win...] --- [Final Chorus — everything: full choir, organ, brass, demons screaming, fallen souls wailing] Sometimes the only way to kill the beast [demons: KILL! KILL! KILL!] Is to become the monster that you fear. [fallen souls: FEAR! FEAR! FEAR!] Monstrum ut monstrum vincam — I'm the feast. [choir: MONSTRUM! MONSTRUM! MONSTRUM!] I am the monster. I am here. [all: HERE! HERE! HERE!] --- [Outro — slow fade, radio static, whispered processing] [Eisenhorn — barely audible, distorted] Ego sum monstrum... Ego sum... [fallen souls — fading] Eisenhorn... Eisenhorn... [demons — fading] Monstrum... [radio static — final click]
