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The Clerical Conspiracy Lyrics by Sabbat (UK)

Dreamweaver

1989

BRAND:
"I have wealth beyond measure-
And my treasures are words
Forged by time in a tale of
Such beauty they cry to be heard
Still a young fool was I as
My story begins
Yet like all fools considered
Myself to be wise -
A match for all things
But the lessons I've learned
I will never forget
When your teacher is life then
Success is survival and
Failure is death
From early years I saw the world
Through tunnel-vision eyes
My cloistered mind philosophized
And fossilized
Secure in my belief was I -
Assured throughout my life the
Only things that could sustain me
Were the words of Jesus Christ."
EAPPA:
"There is no way to fight a foe
Who strikes from the inside
And once within we can begin to
Smite this pagan pride
We shall take their graven images
And grind them in the dirt
For that men can live in paradise
Must be the Devils work."
BROTHERS OF THE HOLY ORDER:
"The clerical conspiracy begins
We shall wash away your sins-
We have come to purify
To purge you of your liberty-
Absolve you of all sanity
The 'truth' you want to hear
We shall provide."
"The clerical conspiracy begins
We shall wash away your sins-
We have come to purify
To purge you of your liberty-
Absolve you of all sanity
The 'truth' you want to hear
We shall provide."
EAPPA:
"How can we hope to save these
Heathen when we know not of
Their ways
One of us must journey southward-
Infiltrate and then assuage
Only when we have this knowledge
Can we finalise our plans
Greet them with a velvet glove-
Then crush them 'neath an iron hand."
Christian soldiers armed with virtue-
Hearts afire with blind obsession
Cannot see the difference 'twixt
Compassion and oppression
BRAND:
"These were the days I believed that
Salvation was mine
When I worshipped apostles
Believing their gospels to be divine
And my life drifted by in a warm summer haze-
And I thought I would bath in the light
Of our lord 'till the end of my days
But my destiny mocked me-
And my fate did bequest
That the strength of my faith in
The Lord God Almighty be put to the test."
EAPPA:
"My son your word is matchless as
A scribe you have been blessed
Your skill and faith in God doth
Qualify you for our quest
You will sail to Southern England
And recount their blasphemies
For the first step in their cure
Must be to learn of their disease."
BRAND:
"For one so young so great an honour
To be chosen for this task
Have I the strength-
Would I be worthy?
Questions that I dared not ask
Was I to be a missionary searching
For lost souls to save-
Or just another pawn in their
Monastic power games?"
BROTHERS OF THE HOLY ORDER:
"The clerical conspiracy begins
We shall wash away your sins-
We have come to purify
To purge you of your liberty-
Absolve you of all sanity
The 'truth' you want to hear
We shall provide."
"The clerical conspiracy begins
We shall wash away your sins-
We have come to purify
To purge you of your liberty-
Absolve you of all sanity
The 'truth' you want to hear
We shall provide."
EAPPA:
"How can we hope to save these
Heathen when we know not of their ways
You Wat Brand must journey southward-
Infiltrate and then assuage
Only when we have this knowledge
Can we finalise our plans
Greet them with a velvet glove-
Then crush them 'neath an iron hand."
Christian soldiers armed with virtue-
Hearts afire with blind obsession
Cannot see the difference 'twixt
Compassion and oppression
BRAND:
"And so with terror in my heart
I learned what had to be
That I must tour these foreign shores-
My cross for company
Those who had preceded me
Of pagan devils warned-
With fearful tales of christian souls
Since martyred on their horns"
[Guitar Solos]
BRAND:
"In my tale I will tell how we
All were decieved-
For in truth I was hunted not
Hunter as I had believed
And how could I have known that the
Guide they'd provide was to
Show me far more than I'd ever
Imagined I could have desired?
As so soon would I learn
What a fool I had been
There is more than one side to a coin-
Life is not what it seems ...
It's no more than a dream."
Credits
Sabbat (UK)

Sabbat (UK)

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