Ihsahn

Astera ton Proinon

Ihsahn


Were you not humble 
not submissive? 
Would you not bend your knee? 
Did you question 
or object 
to the word of the many? 
Had you a vision of your own? 

Saint of the damned 
Icon of the rejected 
Primeval insurgent 
Ascend O' Morning star 
Ascend 

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O' day-star, son of the morning 
How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations 
For thou has said in thine hear, I will ascend into heaven 
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God 
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north 
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High" 

Man has been reared by the four errors 
and never saw himself other than imperfectly 
Such is then the pleasure of the common herd 
to quench their envious thirst in misery