Pride cometh before the fall And he fell hard Into the dark Into our waiting arms Our blades have hungered And lo, the Serafim bleeds Words of sin Carved deep into angel skin Thus the end begins Gaze upon his father's temples Now laid to waste No place of worship In this forsaken place His herds are hunted Behold, the lambs fall prey And so his cries were heard All around the world Blood soaked and torn Struggling for breath Upon his battered celestial form An aura of death Once bound to the highest of thrones Flagellate the holy flesh Six wings shorn away from its bones Feathers now fall in crimson rain Unto the night of nights an offering A divine sacrifice In his eyes a dying light Such a wondrous sight The sinews and flesh are shattered By the crushing blows And the tattered remains discarded To the hungering depths below