[Part I: A Recitation of Final Rites, Last Wishes, and Observations (0:00 - 1:59)]
[Verse 1]
Am I the master of my fate?
Or will this carrion of hate
Embalm my ever writhing psyche
In a box of blood red tape?
Poster child, torn snake oil goddess
Cardinal ashes, much too modest
Priestesses of a lesser knowledge
Strung high, by tempered sins
[Verse 2]
Relinquish every innocent
Understanding, reprimanding
On the docket, equal measure
Testify these simple pleasures
Such is life, scapе of strife
Uproot the sinister sacrеd rites
Disciple of a dying creed
Hungering this sickness
To be freed
To be freed
To be freed
To be freed
[Part II: The Rivers Run Red (1:59 - 3:38)]
[Refrain]
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
Rivers run red
[Part III: Sludge (3:38 - 5:50)]
[Verse]
Choke the stench of my flesh
Rot before you, my final breath
Honor death, abduct my virtue
Stuff each spout, snuff my light
Flay, and devour
Lash for every wasted hour
Point and laugh, make merry mass, oh
As I become the ground that you walk on
[Chorus]
The sludge in my veins
Will swallow up the rains
Gripping tight to the reins
Which I’ve wielded subjugation plain
Seep into the soils
As the skin that grows must boil
Nourished a toxin sky devised by
None other than the man next door
[Post-Chorus]
This tortured marrow rotting out
Serves to garnish every doubt
Once vanity, now ostracized
No mere demise could live without
Defiling mire of endless yield
Where absence wrought a baneful shield
The vain which promised the means to an end
Now warden of your acumen
[Part IV: As Wolf Sliced Her Body Open... (5:50 - 7:02)]
[Instrumental]
[Part V: ...Then Came a Supper Worse Than Death (Love and Tolerate This Mess) (7:02 - 9:19)]
[Verse 1]
Paper mâché wings
Fashioned cardboard and string
[Verse 2]
They pluck my feathers
Make it sting
[Verse 3]
Strip my body, gouge my chest
They rape me till there's nothing left
[Verse 4]
Love and tolerate this mess
Defile and crush my every breath
[Part VI: Sinner, Be Damned! (9:19 - 10:52)]
[Refrain]
Sinner, be damned!
[Drop]
*Wolf howls*
[Part VII: Entrance Into The Locus (10:52 - 11:23)]
[Instrumental]
[Part VIII: Lamb Cried Out: "Darling, Wolf..." (11:23 - 12:21)]
[Verse]
Oh, in the distance I could see a pale light
Ooh, was it love I felt
As I gave my body to the night?
A strange voice, a quiet voice, called my name
[Chorus]
Darling, Wolf
Won't you put purpose to this pain?
You shall be mine
Until the end of days
[Part IX: How to Kill a Monster (Reprise) (12:21 - 13:37)]
[Refrain]
And when it shows its head
Just indulge it, acquiesce
Before you know it
Somebody else will smash its head in
[Part X: The Fatal Flaw, or, How to Save a Monster (13:37 - 16:03)]
[Instrumental]
[Part XI: "Live again, in service, eternal", Lamb Whispered, as Wolf's Soul Was Granted a Body Once More... (16:03 - 17:07)]
[Instrumental]
[Part XII: ...And As Her Old Body Was Defiled, Tortured, and Annihilated (Revisited) (17:07 - 19:28)]
[Refrain]
And the last thing they heard was...
*Wolf howls*
*Wolf howls*
*Wolf howls*