Belial's Hymn from Woodland Hymns by Revelation

My sleep is agonizing
I’m plagued by nightmares
They feel so real, so vivid
It can’t just be my mind

I pray my rosary at night
In the hope he’ll be banished
That ancient evil
The one they call Belial

I can feel my sanity slipping
My mind is caving in
I corrode from the inside out
His rot is my new plague
At night I catch glimpses
Shadows among the darkness
Is it me or is it him?
Why me of all people?
Does he wish to drive me away
from the faith that I call home?
He shakes the rock it’s built upon
An earthquake or a fissure?

(I had sons among the Israelites of Moses
I gave apocryphal visions to false prophets
Paul wrote of me as a warning to his cult
And now I give you my undivided attention)

I need help desperately
From a priest or a psychiatrist
I’m afraid to close my eyes
And listen to his silence

He claws at my aching mind
He makes me a prisoner out of me
I am trapped in his game
He toys with my subconscious

I stay awake until I cannot
He marks himself on my face
With dark blots under my eyes
It’s 4:00am again

I feel my eyelids drag
They sink into the hereafter
And with them I plummet
Into the king of emptiness

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take

• Black Metal
• Metal
• blackened folk metal
• doom metal
• folk metal
• Charlottesville