Blackest Night - Set to Stun

The streets run red with blood tonight in the capital city of the confederation

As government officials and armed forces clash with the militant rebel phalanx

And subsidiaries of a man known only as «The Judicator»

Marching under a red flag of rebellion

These self-entitled «Protectors» promise to usher in a new era

Of peace and equality free from the tyranny and oppression of the government

And a crimelord syndicate that police our streets at night

Are these men the answers to our prayers?

Have they been sent to deliver us from the Bodysnatcher epidemic?

Or will their sacrifice be in vain?

How many more will die tonight?

Do I strike you as an individual

Who would cower at the presence

Of an entity as primitive and primordial as fear?

Whimper, like a dog

As he scurries from his master’s heel

The power of fear is a disparaging force to be reckoned with

But the power of belief is stronger still…

Do you think that this is what I wanted?

Do you think that this is what I had planned out for my life?

To be set on all sides by violence and suffering?

I never asked to be chosen, and I never wanted any of this!

And not a single second goes by that I don’t think about my daughter

Or my son

Or the life I left behind

Nor am I blind to the suffering that they would endure

At the hands of my enemies, for the sins or their father

But I can’t help but to think

Of the men, and the women and children

Bedding down in the slums tonight

Huddled, behind locked doors

Seeking nothing but refuge, from the venomous villainy

That would seek to devour the blood of their innocence

And whilst the powers that be, cower

Behind their legislation and the litigation

Whilst paying homage to a temple of currency

Founded on corruption and greed!

I can be that man!

I can carry that cross and I can lead these men

I can bang the drums of war

And bring the temple crashing down upon their heads

This is so much more than me

This is about more than what I want

Or any one man can want

This is bigger than my family

This is about the preservation of life

And there can be nothing more important

History will remember me as a revolutionary of madness

A titan, hellbent on the bloodshed of his people

But I know what I’m fighting for