Earth and sea cower from my screams
As I climb into the skies
Atop sins towered heaven high for me
From whence I see no reason why
I should not smite with vengeance
And hurl thieves down from paradise
For storms before were as nothing more
Than a breeze next to this night

I am Methuselah of the Tribulation
The Moonchild come to harm
A riot of stars shaken from their station

The choking smoke of Jerusalem burning
Six vices become wrath

And though half-blind with ravening
Like Phineus now I see
The end declared from the beginning
Love won through my defeat
But now I fear I will never peer
On Her radiance again
I shall glimpse instead, the slurried red
Of faces pressed to bloodstained panes

Betrayed and played by God
Who alone but He
Scapegraced and goated me?
Now I wish to piss on His parade

Angels, clawed with burnished wings
Still loyal, kiss the seal
Bent on knees and harrowing
Promise overkill

Know that you shall die like whores
And the cries of your writhings shall rise
To please their Lord...
So before the sword
Side with me in slaughter

I am Methuselah of the Tribulation
The Moonchild come to harm
The spoken horns of desolation

Drink the pouring of my fury
Those darkened waters spur
The brink of war as my judge and jury
And rapist executioner
Our time is short, the horsemen ride
A foul-breathed chora howls, besides
Damnation and a day has passed
This divine right to genocide

Weld the gates to heaven shut
The abyss leers in hissing ruts
Unhilt the black grimoire of death
Inscribe all names that God has left

I lived the drams of nymphs and men
But now the nightmares come again

Now the nightmares come again...


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The Smoke Of Her Burning Lyrics as written by Dani Davey Paul James Allender

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    This song is about the early Christian beliefs of the Judgment and the Tribulation. The Judgment is when the Anti-Christ will walk around condemning people, while the Tribulation is when God and Jesus will take away all the good souls to Heaven. Methuselah was the leader of the Tribulation.

    060606on October 11, 2004   Link
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    Methuselah was noahs grandfather...i thought... in the bible he is...

    erudite strangeron July 27, 2005   Link
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    060606 is exactly right. this is about judgement day

    Corpse_Grindon January 04, 2006   Link
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    The storming of heaven by the troops of Feriluce/Hell. And of course, it falls ("Now the nightmares come again").

    slave2thewageon October 17, 2006   Link
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    judgement day, thats wer it all begins. where our sins are spread out to the entire world.

    despiseXmeon September 21, 2008   Link

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