09 The Fall
Devil in disguise / We kiss your feet / Comfort us with lies / And bid us hark / To sing your praise / A song to mark / The end of days...
As I child I learned that Lucifer was the most beautiful of all heaven's angels before being cast into hell for trying to become God. In this image I feel the curious allure of the colors, angelic and electrified. I want to wear these colors, to stand out, like the figure faintly distinguishable in the multilayered blackness of this piece. Sadly, the colors and their promises of glory are illusions. The chromatic stripe is merely a distortion of the red cyborg visor that subverts our humanness, separates us from love.
What evils have you committed with pure intent? What does it mean to repent?
The Fall
Taste the fruit of sight
One single bite
I’d never tell
Fortune, fame, and might
We’re building heaven
Without the hell
Devil in disguise
We kiss your feet
Comfort us with lies
And bid us hark
To sing your praise
A song to mark
The end of days
What have we become
Beware the fall
Beware the fall
Lord what have we done
We’ve lost it all
All
There’s poison in the well
So let’s drink wine
The sacrament of self
Let’s raise our psalms
To mask the screams
Before the bombs
Bring endless peace
What have we become
Beware the fall
Beware the fall
Lord what have we done
We’ve lost it all
All
What have we become
Beware the fall
Beware the fall
Lord what have we done
We’ve lost it all
All
Written and performed by Ionne
Published by Brand Label Music (ASCAP)
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