The Serpent's Kiss - Theocracy

Born into the darkness

Thrown into the viper’s den

The serpent in the cradle

Takes the child into its nest of sin

Slowly suffocating

The souls of victims it has found

Into the vicious cycle

On the path that only leads us down

Rat-race-fueled machinery

The system of corruption

Have we become so cold and numb

We’re blind to its destruction?

We’re forging in the fires of greed

Our idols made of gold

Then bowing down before them

With corrupt, adulterous souls

Opened eyes

Realize…

What we have done

What we have seen

What has become of our lives

Corrupted our dreams

What we have lost

And what remains

Paralyzed by the venom that runs through our veins

There’s got to be much more to life than this

The world’s caress is just the serpents kiss

The demons veiled as angels

The darkness as the light

The poison seems so harmless as you drink of it tonight

We reap the harvest we have sown

Empowering our enemies

We dress the wolves as sheep

And then forget their true identities

Forgive me

Now I see…

(Repeat Chorus)

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Father, bring us back to You

We’re lost sheep, afraid, confused

Tangled in the snares that grow

Along this road of pain we choose

And though we’ve wandered far away

We’ve turned around and lost our way

Though we are the prodigal

With open arms for us You still await

All we are is laid to waste

All we’ve seen crumbles in haste

Everything under the sun is vanity put in its place

You have seen this all before

We are nothing, nothing more

We’re the ones who betray You

Yet we’re the ones whom you adore

I stand before You as a child

By this world I’ve been defiled

Stained and poisoned, burned and beaten

Bruised and wounded, sick and vile

With hands reaching out to You, I run

Realizing what I’ve done

You take me in your arms, a reunited Father and son…

And all illusion ceases to exist

The world’s caress is just the serpent’s kiss