The bane of man is crawling to burden him with decay Is this all that we're meant to be? We suffer just to breathe Now rain is descending from a black and comfortless sky I open my mouth but the rain cannot fill the emptiness inside Our life slips through our hands as we're marching towards the wasteland We have progress in our grip But it still ends in the crypt To conquer thy flesh To conquer thy blood Would be the single greatest gift That man may never own Our blood is like a poison that stains our greatest mistakes Piety is divine but life belongs to mankind Today I struck down Heaven by creating an image of man Today I am God Yet I feel damned My efforts to ascend have left me empty instead I still hear the voice in my head: "We belong dead..." To conquer thy flesh To conquer thy blood May be the single greatest gift That man can never own Our blood is like a poison that stains our greatest mistakes Piety is divine but failure belongs to mankind Soulless, Godless, Loveless Breaking in two One of us is a monster But is the monster you?