This Thing of Darkness

Lyrics for my death metal band inspired by Twilight Medication and Shakespeare.

Decayed tree grown from a rotted apple's bad seed
A towering colossus birthed from sinful deed
Sacrifice to it your own mortal flesh and blood
As the cancer yearns to drink from the crimson sea

 

Hear the cry of ravenous crows circling high
Signifying  almost certain death drawing near
Your treacherous hand made this thing of darkness
Such an undeserving fate brought by your madness

 

What has brought you upon this bleak ending?
Derived from your calloused audacity
Dare thou tempt fates who encouraged your sin?
Succumb to the fear festering within

 

Torn apart from the inside
Suffocating  false alibis
Behold the bone marrow calcify
Let blood to purify a
Plagued soul on the inside
Replicating your wrath
Thou shall not ever forget
This thing of darkness

 

An epidemic has laid waste to land and sea
As blades and fire have slain many man and beast
Nightmares consuming all the possibilities
Of hopeful endings for humanity's lost cause

 

When was this hell unleashed, scorching the skies?
Black rain poisoning the earth as it falls
Your treacherous hand made this thing of darkness
Such an undeserving fate brought by your madness

 

Where were you when
Why did you, oh (Return)
How could you have
Can it all just (Forgive)
Stop this madness
Kill the darkness (Submit)
Bring the light back
Why won't you just (Forget)

 

The sky cries blood, staining the skin
The remnants of death stagnate the air
The fire roars as it burns the earth
The wrathful gods are now silent

 

What is this thing of darkness?

 

"Mark but the badges of these men, my lords
Then say if they be true.  This misshapen knave�"
His mother was a witch…
The three have robb’d me, and this demi-devil�"
For he’s a b*****d one�"had plotted with them
To take my life.  Two of these fellows you
Must know and own; this thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine"

~ Final stanza from Shakespeare's The Tempest