The Crucible Of Man lyrics

I feel a heavy burden
A million souls upon me weigh
Though I've felt uncertain
The more revealed, I've found my way
Am I a gift, am I a curse?
I'm one and all of God and Earth

And as the order guides me
The trials beckon brutal days
The Art of the Travelers
The Ghost Dance and the Shifter's Way
Am I a gift, am I a curse?
I'm one and all of God and Earth

At times there's doubt within me

Rise up with fervid zeal
Salvation's at hand
Forged in flames as stars collide
Recite the sacred rites
Evoke the astral beast
Black magic, astrology

In sacred flames it congregates
The ancient rage and priest
Fusing the fetus and beast
The Setian redeemer
Man's blood must infect
The weapon, the grand architect

Behold the wicked, the child is born
Coalesced of the celestial beast

As I watch through the ages
And gaze upon this world
The troubled race of man
So impetuous and afraid
There's potential in this race
A man can spark hope
But in masse they do regress
A constant downward slope

How have they come so far
Yet have so far to go
It seems evolution stalled
On the nature of a man
From living in caves
To manned flights in space
And for all that is worth

Many lifetimes have come and gone
In elation for this day
By the Order's hand
The minions forged his way
At age thirteen
Dawn the Days of Revealing
The human forms will rue the day
We crown the Astral Beast

Crowned is the king of the fallen
Rejoice in his light, they live again
Crowned is the king of the fallen
Celebrate the subjugation of all man

His countenance, the venom burns

Look at you now
Exalted no more
Scourging's left your blood
Soaked into the floor
For having the sight
You will pay a heavy price
Martyr for mankind
Contrived sacrifice

Let all your children pray
You've washed their sins away
I'll bring the suffering
Let all your children pray
I don't come their way
I'll crucify their king

Look at you now
You pathetic little man
With spear I pierce your hide

Through the folds of time I forge the way
Messiah to my own and sent to slay
I am pure embodied rage
Made of a million souls that dearly paid

The icy pulse that's pumping' through my veins
Sanctifies the end of human ways
I am pure embodied rage
Born of a million souls unjustly slain

I am the weapon that strikes
In the hearts of man I thrive
Feeding their fear with lies

When I was young I was different
There was more inside of me
So alone yet a sense of purpose
The guiding light of the order nurtured me
Daunted by the truth revealed
What am I? What's my destiny?
A million souls, the priest incarnate
I am the one, I am the astral beast

I am the wicked, the dealer of fate
Harbinger of sorrow
I'm the assassin, the dealer of fate
Framing man's tomorrow

I am your inner fear
Your kind refuse to hear
I am the light
I am the way
But the fallacies of man
Are easy to embrace

And I, in purest form
I always weather every storm
And though you fail to see
The truth is the path
That leads to me

Mankind's dishonesty
Lays them to waste
(I will divide)
I am the truth,
And I walk alone

Human hypocrisy
Exacting their fate
(I will devour)
I am the truth,

Convocare, Caelestis
Bestia, Excidium
Hominum Mortalis
Dies Natalis, Nefarius, Detestari

Dies Natalis, Odisse, Mortalis
Dies Natalis, Odisse, Mortalis, Dies

Excidium, Hominum, Excidium
Convocare, Caelestis, Bestia

Excidium, Hominum, Excidium, Excidium
Hominum, Excidium, Hominum

Hominum Mortalis, Dies Natalis
Nefarius, Detestari
Convocare, Caelestis, Bestia, Excidium

When he was born
The Elder gathered in the night
They gave him shelter
Clothed him, fed him with insight
They taught him of the course
Of human and the Setian ways
Curriculum just shy the telling
Of the end of days

Minions gather 'round
Round this child
Watch over as he grows
Little does he know
This child is the one
Salvation
Fulfill the prophecy,
Bring about our destiny

As he grows

It does not take much to destroy a man
Give him rope and he will hang
Same can be said for the dynasty
So fat with itself, can no longer feed

Rome will burn when it's time has come
Ottoman tribes fate away
The social cults empower puppet men
Leaving me to pull the strings

Kingdoms fall to the ground
Crushed by their own greed
An unquenching need to destroy
Empires will fall by my design

I walk the earth
The wicked one
Baptized in fire
Vindication's only son
Through folds of space and time
I've sown my evil seeds
Till mankind is erased
My last prolific deed

He walks the earth
The wicked one
(I walk the earth)
Injecting our will
Till man's time is done
(Your time is done)
The watcher's eye
Has sealed your fate
(I've sealed your fate)
Upon your deaths
The Elder wait
(I am the one)

I face the gauntlet as my final test
Thrusting through the vault of time and space
Intergalactic, interstellar quest
From this day forth, I manipulate!

I am the wicked one
Crowned this day, we celebrate
I walk this Earth two thousand years
The demise of man, we consecrate

The Revealing comes
Now that he's thirteen
Told of his coming trials
What is meant to be

Taught the arts of the ancients
For the mother's sake
Time manipulation
And of shifting shape

He is held up high
Minions flock to him
Told of the birth in fires
This boy messiah

Taught the arts of the ancients
For the mother's sake
Time manipulation
And of shifting shape