Even If You’re Prayers Were Heard [Rasta-Swazta-Skazi’s Teaser Pleaser!) Jim

[Intro — cavernous reverb, distant cathedral bell, sub-bass drone | whispered liturgy] Even if your prayers were heard… They were forwarded… To me. I was told to hold on to you so you may…… (DIE FOREVER!!) [Verse I — slow, tectonic riff | low, controlled guttural] You knelt beneath a collapsing faith, Palms pressed to a silent sky. You whispered bargains it’s worth into only darkness, Hoping something would reply. It did. (Haha!!) No mercy. No grace. No light descending from above— But the weight of consequence Wearing the shape of love. (The only love you deserve is what suffering I gift you forever!!) You prayed for justice. (Here I am!) You prayed for the fire to be restrained. You never thought, (If you ever thought!) The fire would remember your name. (So here’s the reward, your only gain!) [Pre-Chorus — ritual cadence, each word spaced] You asked for reckoning. (I AM!) You begged for truth. (I Am!) You asked your god to intervene. (HERE I AM!) He did not send an angel. (Just kidding!) HE SENT ME!!) (CUNT!!) [Chorus — slow, crushing, layered vocals like a funeral procession] EVEN IF YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD— THEY’LL BE MOST APPROVED. EVEN IF YOUR GOD SPOKE BACK— HE HAS GIVEN YOU TO ME TO MOVE. FAITH IS NOT A SHIELD. HOPE IS NOT A WALL. YOU PRAYED FOR WHAT YOU DESERVED— NOW I DELIVER IT ALL. (FUCK!!) EVEN IF YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD— THE VERDICT REMAINS. [Verse II — drums like distant war drums | voice steadier, colder] You thought devotion meant protection. (WRONG!) Thought kneeling made you clean. (WRONG!) But every hymn you ever uttered Was logged. Observed. Seen. You asked for purification— For evil to be unmade. (HA!) You never clarified You did not mean yourself flayed. (TO BAD!!) You asked that wrong be corrected. (I AM YOUR CORRECTION!!) You asked that lies be exposed. (I EXPOSED YOU!) You never understood You were Also the same rot you so claim to oppose. (Ignorance is your blight!) (BLODDY C [Breakdown I — half-time, oppressive | low layered growls] PRAY HARDER. (Feel the ceiling crushing closer.) PRAY LOUDER. (Feel the air only grow so much colder.) PRAY AGAIN. (You’ll see nothing fucking change.) You were not ignored. You were rewarded. (You asked now you will receive!!) (BITCH!!) [Bridge — near spoken, ritualistic, like a sermon in ruins] If your god forbade me to continue— Why am I still standing? (Maybe I crushed your god or maybe your god and I are one and the same!! (FICK IT!!) If your faith could truly stop me— Why are your hands still trembling? If heaven objected— Why is it silent? You asked for righteousness. You are experiencing it. [Final Chorus — slowest, heaviest movement yet] EVEN IF YOUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD— THEY’LL BE GRANTED IN FULL. YOU ASKED FOR JUSTICE— I CAME AS THE JUDGEMENT!! NOT EVEN YOUR GOD CAN WITHDRAW WHAT YOU INVOKED IN HIS NAME. YOU CALLED FOR CONSEQUENCE— I AM THE FLAME. (GOD DAMN!!——WORTH IT!!) (For me!) (CUNT!!) EVEN IF YOUR GOD-DAMNED PRAYERS WERE HEARD— I AM ALL THAT YOU DESERVE!! YOU ASKED FOR THE SWORD. SO HERE I AM!! (poke.) (HAHA——HA!!) [Outro — instruments decay into low rumble | final line whispered] You were not forsaken. I am what was called to answer!! (BITCH!) (FUCK!!)