The Clerical Conspiracy-Sabbat

[ti:The Clerical Conspiracy] [ar:Sabbat] [al:Dreamweaver] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Clerical Conspiracy - Sabbat [00:03.65]I have wealth beyond measure [00:05.21]My treasures are words [00:06.92] [00:08.18]Forged by time in a tale of [00:10.46]Such beauty they cry to be heard [00:12.16] [00:12.96]Still a young fool was I as [00:14.44] [00:15.14]My story begins [00:16.44]Yet like all fools considered [00:17.66]Myself to be wise [00:21.05]A match for all things [00:23.69]But the lessons I've learned [00:24.64]I will never forget [00:25.84] [00:27.04]When your teacher is life then [00:28.67]Success is survival and [00:29.62]Failure is death [00:31.21] [00:32.68]From early years I saw the world [00:34.22]Through tunnel-vision eyes [00:34.77]My cloistered mind philosophized [00:36.11]And fossilized [00:36.86]Secure in my belief was I [00:39.12]Assured throughout my life the [00:40.42]Only things that could sustain me [00:41.72]Were the words of Jesus Christ [00:42.98]There is no way to fight a foe [00:44.64]Who strikes from the inside [00:45.73]And once within we can begin to [00:47.24]Smite this pagan pride [00:48.16]We shall take their graven images [00:49.90]And grind them in the dirt [00:51.33]For that men can live in paradise [00:52.91]Must be the Devils work [00:54.32]The clerical conspiracy begins [00:55.25]We shall wash away your sins [00:57.31]We have come to purify [00:59.67]To purge you of your liberty [01:02.00]Absolve you of all sanity [01:04.29]The 'truth' you want to hear [01:06.37]We shall provide [01:07.30]How can we hope to save these [01:10.48]Heathen when we know not of [01:11.98]Their ways [01:12.51]One of us must journey southward [01:14.01]Infiltrate and then assuage [01:15.17]Only when we have this knowledge [01:17.04]Can we finalise our plans [01:19.84]Greet them with a velvet glove [01:21.46]Then crush them 'neath an iron hand [01:26.69] [01:50.97]Christian soldiers armed with virtue [01:52.11]Hearts afire with blind obsession [01:53.08]Cannot see the difference 'twixt [01:54.08]Compassion and oppression [01:54.70]These were the days I believed that [01:56.22]Salvation was mine [01:57.23]When I worshipped apostles [01:58.73]Believing their gospels to be divine [02:00.54]My life drifted by in a warm summer haze [02:02.99]And I thought I would bath in the light [02:05.76]Of our lord 'till the end of my days [02:09.31]But destiny mocked me [02:13.06]And fate did bequest [02:14.31]That the strength of my faith in [02:18.38]The Lord God Almighty be put to the test [02:20.43]My son your word is matchless as [02:21.77]A scribe you have been blessed [02:23.08]Your skill and faith in God doth [02:25.08]Qualify you for our quest [02:26.85]You will sail to Southern England [02:29.48]And recount their blasphemies [02:30.76]For the first step in their cure [02:33.12]Must be to learn of theit disease [02:34.57]For one so young so great an honour [02:36.23]To be chosen for this task [02:37.58]Have I the stength [02:38.48]Would I be worthy [02:39.54]Questions that I dared not ask [02:41.24]Was I to be a missionary searching [02:42.81]For lost souls to save [02:44.11]Or just another pawn in their [02:45.48]Monastic power games [02:46.25]The clerical conspiracy begins [02:47.33]We shall wash away your sins [02:48.81]We have come to purify [02:50.11]To purge you of your liberty [02:51.45]Absolve you of all sanity [02:52.52]The 'truth' you want to hear [02:53.77]We shall provide [02:55.15]How can we hope to save these [02:56.66]Heathen when we know not of [02:57.99]Their ways [02:58.39]You Wat Brand must journey southward [02:59.87]Infiltrate and then assuage [03:00.69]Only when we have this knowledge [03:02.05]Can we finalise our plans [03:03.18]Greet them with a velvet glove [03:05.04]Then crush them 'neath an iron hand [03:06.99]Christian soldiers armed with virtue [03:08.19]Hearts afire with blind obsession [03:09.40]Cannot see the difference 'twixt [03:10.65]Compassion and oppression [03:11.54]And so with terror in my heart [03:13.49]I learned what had to be [03:14.99]That I must tour these foriegn shores [03:16.66]My cross for company [03:17.58]Those who had preceded me [03:18.61]Of pagan devils warned [03:19.44]With fearful tales of christian souls [03:20.75]Since martyred on their horns [03:21.88] [04:06.25]In my tale I will tell how we [04:08.00]All were decieved [04:08.67]For in truth I was hunted not [04:10.25]Hunter as I had believed [04:11.54]How could I have known that the [04:13.15]Guide they'd provide was to [04:14.47]Show me far more than I'd ever [04:16.35]Imagined I could have desired [04:18.30] [05:03.82]So soon would I learn [05:04.82]What a fool I had been [05:06.03]There is more than one side to a coin [05:07.91]Life is not what it seems [05:09.08]It's no more than a dream