As centuries pass there lives a horred breed

Who lurks within the subconscious of man

A fiend who plants its parasitic seed

Within the blood of every vein it can

It warps the mind with poison to the soul

And leaves a man to ruin and forlorn

Of everything he knew and could control

And only then is he to be reborn

With breaking bones contorting as they grow

And muscles twisting into foreign shapes

A creature spawns with yellow eyes that glow

In hunger through the fog of midnight drapes

And only then is he to be reborn

With breaking bones contorting as they grow

And muscles twisting into foreign shapes

A creature spawns with yellow eyes that glow

In hunger through the fog of midnight drapes

Equipped with instincts made to kill, the feast

Begins beneath the mournful, scarlet moon

The scent of salt and iron thrills the beast

As mothers of dismembered sons now plead and croon

The snapping jaws have splintered skulls and limbs

And leave the strongest men in scattered pieces

Within the pools of death the creature swims

Until the sun relieves the mortal leases

The tortured bones retract once more into

The human form they are supposed to be

As consciousness returns with thoughts askew

The eyes once yellow fade and start to see

The ruthless carnage of their heinous breed

The ravaged bodies home to ants and flies

The consequence of the unholy seed

Which plants itself when mercy comes and dies

Equipped with instincts made to kill, the feast

Begins beneath the mournful, scarlet moon

The scent of salt and iron thrills the beast

As mothers of dismembered sons now plead and croon

Equipped with instincts made to kill