Lyrics
Flames dance and frolic about like sprites
Reference to flames with a playful and lively quality resembling sprites.
Caressing my face in a gentle warm glow
Describing a gentle, warm glow caressing the face.
Leaning over to pick a rose
Engaging in the act of picking a rose.
Admiring all the beauty that grows
Admiring the overall beauty that grows in the garden.
Encapsulating life in its ebb and flows
Expressing the garden's role in encapsulating life's ebb and flows.
Here in my garden of crucified Nazarenes
Introducing the setting as a garden of crucified Nazarenes.
Nails in the forearms
Describing the crucifixion details and how blood and tears nourish roses alongside the river Styx.
Feet straddled to the sides
-Spears that pierce the ribs and make their home inside
-Spikes hammered in place
-Hooks skewering the face
-They weep
-Blood and tears mix
-Nourishing the roses
-That thrive alongside the river Styx
-A sacrilegious act
Portraying the act as sacrilegious, an affront to God, with blood and tears continuing to nourish the roses.
An affront to God
-Blood and tears mix
-Nourishing the roses
-Here in my garden of crucified Nazarenes
Reiterating the garden setting with crucified Nazarenes.
Patrons are drunk, and watch with merriment and cheer
Patrons in the garden are intoxicated, witnessing events with cheer.
The spectacles one could witness here
Highlighting the spectacles that can be observed in the garden.
The children of Christ whimper as collars are put around their necks
Describing the suffering of the children of Christ, collared and forced to bow.
They are held down to the earth
-Meant to bow with their backs convexed
-A frisson of fear
Depicting a scene of fear, with guests adorned in lavish garbs, worried by unleashed dogs.
Bathed in the excretions of swine
-Adorned in the most lavish garbs of beasts
-Our utmost honored guests
-Worried to death by dogs unleashed
-A child left alone to rip the wings of butterflies
Describing a child's cruel actions, symbolizing the power to harm and kill.
To snap the necks of angels
-Snuff out the light in someone's eyes
-The power in these hands to senselessly strangle
-Strolling along a pristine marble path
Strolling along a marble path, engaging with flora, observing a frail man on a cross, and an eagle in the night sky.
Leaning over picking at the flora
-A frail man begging from atop the cross
-The silhouette of an eagle soaring in the night sky
-Wailing
Expressing a moment of wailing, setting flame to someone's feet to cast light for witnesses.
I set flame to his feet
-To cast light on the rest to bear witness
-From Gabriel's horn not one note
Reflecting on past transgressions, using vivid imagery related to biblical themes.
For my past transgressions God has not smote
-Spit from the womb of the whore of Babylon
-Forsaken now in the jaws of the Fallen son
-Thy kingdom come
-Thy will be done
-On earth as it is in hell
Quoting the Lord's Prayer, implying a corrupted version of divine will on earth.
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