Recite, recite [1]

The word eternal

The pre-eminent discourse

The dictum of the dead and the living

Deliver the sacred promise—

The birth pangs from God’s own tongue

Your soul is a sea without a shore [2]

Righteous slave

You’ve caught the eye of the Lord [3]

Pulled straight from the right side of the mountain [4]

They’ll remember your name [5]

You will speak

And I’ll silence [6]

The bastards, the reprobates [7]

The ones who shut their ears to this decree

The raging oceans [8]

The weeping orphan [9]

Will be calmed by its sound

Galvanize

Dear messenger

Those who fell asleep

Refine the corrupted decree

Level the mountains

Raise the valleys [10]

A barren garden

Births a miracle, a song of unmatched serenity

Sprouted as a eulogy

But reaped as a dirge

Watch it pierce your soul [11]

Your bride and daughter battle [12]

Black is the ink that’s written

But it dries red [13]

The final answer

To the question all have asked

And yet a question asking

The response, can you withstand?

You will speak

And be speechless

With awe and dread you’ll bear

The word of God that everyone will hear

The raging oceans

The weeping orphan

Will be calmed by its sound

But not before that deafening wind, overshadowed, has tortured them [14]

Majesty

And terror

Will be a palindrome

Unspeakable its glory

Unspoken its pain