Red Sea Affair - This Skin I've Shed lyrics

All that you were back then Is all that you are right now And all that you're going to be Is already here with us. Out in the darkness you lived so peacefully, Then you three decided to share that with me. You breathed me to life But I came out of the womb a broken corpse Dead of a disease I'd already had. Instead of bread I fed on the souls of men, Pride and embarra**ment sustained me. The snake in my mouth Struck the hearts of the unworthy, My head was a cage securing my treasure. Princes came to battle my heart, But it was a stone buried deep in a fortress. The king of these warriors beckoned me to a feast. I sat across from him always on my guard. I saw him open his mouth and an arrow shot out, sinking deep into my chest. As he sat there and smiled Inside my heart was on fire and I could feel it melt away. He said join me son but I had already begun, Turning into a man. I fled to my fortress, and went to where I hid my stone. The king was standing there with the stone of a heart In the palm of his hand. Before I could move He crushed the stone in his fingertips, I stood in disbelief At the depths that this king would sink. Now I was fully a man, And I could see this was the king of all kings, He said come live with me, So now this is the song that I sing. All that you were back then Is all that you are right now And all that you're going to be Is already here with us.