My Epic

Lower Still
Look who's covered in dirtThe blood of his mother has mixed with the Earthand she's just a child who's throbbing in painfrom the terror of birth by the light of a cavenow they've laid that small babywhere creatures come eatlike a meal for the swine who have no clue that heis still holding together the world that they seethey don't know just how low he has to goLower stillLook now he's kneeling he's washin' their feetthough they're all filthy fishermen, traitors and theivesnow he's pouring his heart out and they're fallin' asleepbut he has to go lower stillthere is greater love to showhands to the plowfurther down nowblood must flowall these friends are personal all they say is (?)oh do you see, do you see just how low, he has comedo you see it now?Songtexteno one takes from himwhat he freely gives awayspit in his facetear the skin off his backLower still, lower stillstrip off his clothesmake him crawl through the streetsLower still, lower stillhang him like meaton a criminal's treeLower still, lower stillbury his corpse in the Earth like a seed, like a seed, like a seedLower still, lower stillLower still, lower still...The Earth explodesshe cannot hold him!And all therein is placed beneath Himand death itself no longer reignsit cannot keep the ones he gave himself to saveand as the universe shatters the darkness disolveshe alone will be honoredwe will bathe in his splendoras all heads bow lower stillall heads bow lower still Aus Songtexte Mania