[Intro]

I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds grow

I fear a heaven above for the hell below

[Verse 1]

I wept when guilt by association stared in irony

Avoiding its eyes, bowing three times

I watched as hopes expire under the weight of standards I create and betray

One day they sunk hungry fangs into the hand that feeds

(A hand that bleeds)

In trying to stifle their voices

I bowed their limbs, they bowed my knees

[Chorus]

Struck to silence by the gavel

Make them bleed for playing God

I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds grow

I fear a heaven above for the hell below

Hell below

[Verse 2]

Lost in the waves of a sea of fire

One million portraits to fan the flame

Burned in effigy

A fitting end to a cult of personality

[Chorus]

Struck to silence by the gavel

Make them bleed for playing God

I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds grow

I fear a heaven above for the hell below

Hell below

[Bridge]

Called to the judgement seat

Eye for an eye, watch a man playing God bleed

[Breakdown 1]

Eye for an eye, watch a man playing God bleed

Eye for an eye, watch a man playing God bleed

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

Struck to silence by the gavel

Make them bleed for playing God

I sowed the salt but the bitter weeds grow

I fear a heaven above more for the hell below

[Post-Chorus]

Turn to the last page to see just how this ends

[Breakdown 2]

I fear a heaven above for the hell below

I fear a heaven above for the hell below (The sea of fire)

I fear a heaven above for the hell