Rapturous Dissent

Static fills the heavens The earth begins to crack The dead press through the soil below And there is no turning back Ash falls like snow upon the faithful As the skyline bleeds black fire The last prayer dies upon trembling lips And feeds the funeral pyre Evil end and apathy descend On cathedrals in the flames Faithful grasping God at last relents Rapture claiming his remains Plague and famine They reach us again From below the soil is rising The bells ring out in hollow cadence A requiem for all we knew The monuments of ancient faith Collapse beneath a blood-red moon A seer proclaims as the smoke reaches Heaven The final lamentation of the angels is a cacophony Of children in flames I am rapture and I will consume Consume the flesh Consume the kingdoms built of stone I am the end (I am the wound) I am the voice that calls the doomed Whispers spread of wrathful gods and end of days Our leaders lie dead in the street As each congregation from their faiths descend There are some things that will not leave Plague and famine they reach us again From below the soil is rising The rivers carry ashes seaward The mountains bow beneath the weight Of every lie and every promise That brought humanity to this fate The heavens split with violent thunder The stars collapse into the sea No hand descends to grant salvation Only endless misery The earth opens The dead awaken The faithful scatter The sky is breaking Rapturous dissent Dissent No salvation No kingdom left to inherit No forgiveness No redemption Only the end made manifest I am Plague A seer proclaims as the smoke reaches Heaven The final lamentation of the angels is a cacophony Of children in flames I am rapture and I will consume I will consume the heavens I will consume the memory (Of creation and rebirth) Evil end and apathy descend On cathedrals in the flames Faithful grasping God at last relents Rapture claiming his remains Plague and famine They reach us again From below the soil is rising Evil end and apathy descend On cathedrals in the flames Faithful grasping God at last relents Rapture claiming his remains Plague and famine They reach us again From below the soil is rising A seer proclaims as the smoke reaches Heaven The final lamentation of the angels is a cacophony Of children in flames I am rapture and I will consume