Sol Invictus

The World Shrugged

Sol Invictus


see a cross 
So rotting and sad 
I see a flag 
A bloody torn rag 

Oh, the games we play 
Oh, the lies we tell 
Oh, the hearts that are broken 
Between heaven and hell 

And the stones will fall 
Never to rise 
And the world will shrug 
And close her eyes 

In this black night 
In these jaws of steel 
All our battles lost 
Beneath an iron hill 

Oh, what damned mankind 
And all his woes 
And I'd murder Cupid 
With his bow 

Across this earth 
A poison seeps 
From house to house 
That plague does creep 

With smiles and whispers 
To blunt ourselves 
With fools' gold 
For our souls