The Snake Handler - Crypt Sermon

Seraphic shadows dot the sky

Tattered wings on the horizon

And at bruised first light we’ll fly

Like the veins of hell opened up to the dawn

I have seen the night time sun

Turnin' the rainbow black

The histories can’t be undone

Come on, now there’s no turning back

The fire in our eyes is real (Now)

Can you see it burn

When they tell us how to feel

There are lessons they must learn

Savage kings have ruled too long

We’re only serfs and thralls

But there is power in our song

It can shake the castle walls

The world is cold

And I’ve lost my hold

Yet here we are screaming for magic

I can feel their eyes

They’re inside my mind

It’s all so real and it’s tragic

Wrap yourself

Around my arm

My roots are like road maps they twist and they vine

Sink your teeth

Into my veins

The same foolish blood that runs through yours and mine

We’ll take up snakes

Self-righteous

Holier than-thou

We’ll take up snakes

Until the fires come raining down

Now fire rain down

The crimson slash in the sky is ours now

Do you feel it burn

Calling on unholy powers

There are lessons they must learn

Standing at the mouth of hell

The trumpet sounding (ring out)

Now our kingdom is at hand

Come and take us if you can

The world is cold

And I’ve lost my hold

Yet here we are screaming for magic

I feel their eyes

They’re inside my mind

It’s all so real and it’s tragic

Wrap yourself

Around my arm

My roots are like roadmaps they twist and they vine

Sink your teeth

Into my veins

The same foolish blood that runs through yours and mine

We’ll take up snakes

Self righteous holier than thou

We’ll take up snakes

With poison in our veins we will drown

We’ll take up snakes

Until the fires come raining down