Pain -

How do you do?

The pleasure’s all mine

I’ve been expecting you for sometime

So long I’ve watched and waited for this

The day you’d fall to my blackened kiss

I’ve longed to touch and to caress your soul

To taste your flesh then devour you whole

I’ve courted kings and queens alike

Nurtured war, despair and strife

I am the sun that sears your skin

I am the guilt that tears within

I am the cries of famine

I am everything

My name is Pain — and I love you

My name is Pain — and I want you too

My name is Pain — and I need you

My name is Pain — and you need me too

You’ve lived a life free from harm

Now I welcome you into my arms

And as I take you into my embrace

My love’s design is to annihilate

You retreat and try to break free

But your struggle only strengthens me

Submit to me, my will, your course

Or be overcome by force

I am empowered where addictions reign

I know the junkies all by name

And I know you just the same

I am everything

I am the face of genocide

Common of all things alive

My legacy is your theology

History reads like my biography

My temple is persecution, rape, fear and domination

I am the sun that sears your skin

I am the guilt that tears within

Your cries like song that you sing