Moonlapse Vertigo Lyrics - Still Life - Opeth

Kept warm by the light of the lantern 

Lost sight of everything tonight 

My presence blackens their pattern 

A pock in the healthy and calm 

Their scorn behind your back 

My promise would put them down 

No trace of reverence left 

Immemorial fire in their eyes 

I would perish at the given signal 

At the slightest touch from my soul 

Tainted prophet in flesh 

For all the plagued and lost 

Dripping sin 

Decision in stalemate 

Dare to feel death at hand 

Surprised me with its voice 

Through the forest came the morn 

Across the leafy pathway 

Their deeds smeared in blood 

For all to behold 

The council of the cross 

Must have sensed my coming 

The pest through the air 

With despise for squalor 

Lashing out at the poor 

I turned away my eyes 

In pallor escape from the end 

Fading time to leave from here 

And less to fulfill my task 

She would be safe and firm 

Nothing of this is in vain 

Taken away from stifling grace 

And saved from the past