Better to Reign in Hell Lyrics

Better to reign in hell!
Better to reign in hell!

Heart in hand passed to the clasp of pain,
in dark lowland that set bad blood in veins.
Burning like penal fires roused to strain,
the jagged-toothed skyline braced with crosses.

The golden dawn lay lost to mist,
where emboldened thorns,
made their bed with toppled stones.

He closed his eyes, sunken to dream there,
of crow-black skies and a great white empty throne.
Horror stalked the bilious fogs that balked his visions.

He licked the spittle from the cheeks of the wry,
and drifted back to when his stung its target.
The sneer of Michael on a glorious high,
of angel dust and virtue by his side.

Better to reign in hell!

Drowning in the past,
that downfall seemed like yesterday.
Though blurred moons passed,
as enemies in high places laughed.

Moved to mirrors cracked with heavy lines.
He rose snowblind, through shifting sands of time.
Erased the trace and taste of bitter wines.
The grapes of wrath grew fat on the vine.

She came to him!
A little whip of tantrums,
thrashed on velvet skins,
that lines her wishbone henge.

Her name was Sin!
A warming spurt of mantras,
splashed on occult tongues,
that whispered sweet revenge.

For the shame of their crawl from grace,
cold and hollow as the grave.

And for a rape and ruinous scourge,
spared for souls that shared God's worship.
For now their throats coated notes with dirge,
that poured from parapets to the pits below.

Better to reign in hell!

Drowning in the past,
a wretched scream like yesterday.
Died at last,
with the rising of the revenant dark.

All sharpened claws and blunt discharge!

"I shall bow no more to the dogs of the Lord,
tearing at my carcass heart.
I shall fall to my knees only at the keyholes,
of Virtue slipping into bondage masks.

Better to reign in Hell!
Freewill made me better to reign in hell!"

And with new wings, unfurled and spoken,
he took to things that would desecrate the world.
The seduction of both, woman and man,
for a bastard masterplan.

Better to reign in hell!

Drowning out the past!
Fool Fates unwound cruel yesterdays,
beneath the stars that staggered from the blast!