Anno Lucis (2025) Red Sun Sermon 🇺🇸 USA

Dredging muddy waters till you found all its parts
Hypnotized by the thing you brought to life
Intoxicated by its twisting and knots
You waited and waited, just like it waited for you

It'll be alright-kneeling at the feet of all the things you said you'd never do
Entrenched in placing the blame
With tooth and claw-blinded by white-knuckled hope, a fools chimera suckles, chokes
You're wasting your time

Followed its path, till joy subsides
Consumed, burned, made sour the earth
But from one head, sprung forth many more
Married by fate, the beast's will won't be ignored

You can feel its breath, it's right on your heels
The sun sets, shadows concealed
The scales they shift, you've been compromised
You're running and running from something you recognize

The Screams and cries
Reverberate, ringing out
On rejecting ears

They speak in tongues
Pray for hope, be steadfast
A million voices shunned

Their Veins bled dry
Crimson waters rushing in
Crashing with the tide

With tooth and Claw
From the depths of the earth
Make your blood run cold

All hail the Hangman
He arrives, we applaud
All hail the Hangman
Execution imminent, we applaud

Fear, it drips from every pore
Descend into chaos, eye for an eye
Screams cry out, a pragmatic purge
Shame and dread, settling that score

An accident, a sick twist of fate
An angry shove-judge and juror, call for blood,
Just a push, he's been hung

Our demons come out, show their true skin
Righteous spoonfuls, a thirst to be quenched
Justice served atop throwing stones
Call them by name, our sickness within

An accident, a sick twist of fate
An angry shove-judge and juror, call for blood,
Just a push, he's been hung

All hail the Hangman
Screams erupt, we cry out
All hail the Hangman
He arrives, we applaud
All hail the Hangman
Just a taste, for the cause
All hail the Hangman
Execution imminent, we applaud

I'm with you in the dark
Your shadow in the light
Weigh Heavy round your neck
The fullness in your ears

Senses sharpened,
pupils dilate
Tendons snap
As you fall for the bait
Escape is all too late
The doubletake
The lapse in breath
Catching a glimpse
Of that side
Of you here
Of the death

We'll take it slow
I'll wear you down
Well make mistakes for
Goodness sake
Swallow you whole
Til you break
Break you down

One crack at a time
Pulled apart, rip the seams
Nothing inside but empty space
To crawl and hide

Psyop du jour
Psyop du jour

Planted seed, thoughts your own
Can you trust whats been sown

Betrayal of your own thoughts
Images you see
Can you trust your minds eye
Can you claim to be
In charge of your own volition
In control of your own conditions
Would you know the difference
Sowing malicious deeds

Time fades away
Left dullness behind, buried it deep
Etched by daylight
Grandiose towers, serenity forged

Delighted by his design
Pearly good intentions
Suffocate the sky
Multicolored shards of indulgence

Time has a way
Altruistic, pilfered by pride
Empires built and shattered, kissed by flames
No more a Son of Adam, rites of shame

Pointed fingers, whose to blame
The door you entered, your path you made
What once shone brightly, tarnished by age
Point the fingers, you're to blame

You were always saying, that should the world crumble
Fall at your feet, it would be by your own hand
Your own undoing, the willful gestures
Of a dying man, his castle walls fall
At once untethered, you were always saying
Itd be by your own hand, your own undoing
Adrift on currents, his castle has
Begun to crumble, stained glass falls
His own undoing, shards lay at his feet
By his own hand, colors at his feet

Instrumental