The afterbirth has barely dried
When the king of ruling time
Comes with a sickle in his hand
To devour
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
The prisoners rotting in their cells
Children of this godless hell
Digesting in acidic blood
The devoured
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
He Who Spawned The Furies
Served the genitals of his father
Creating such beauty: The Goddess Of Love
But the blood that fell to the ground
Made the erinyes
Solo: Matt
He Who Spawned The Furies
Solo: Corey
Wreathed with serpents
Eyes dripping blood
Winged tormentors of criminals
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
When the king of ruling time
Comes with a sickle in his hand
To devour
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
The prisoners rotting in their cells
Children of this godless hell
Digesting in acidic blood
The devoured
Devour
Descendant of chaos
Devour
Castrated father
Devour
Fear his overthrow
Devour
Swallowed his children whole
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
He Who Spawned The Furies
Served the genitals of his father
Creating such beauty: The Goddess Of Love
But the blood that fell to the ground
Made the erinyes
Solo: Matt
He Who Spawned The Furies
Solo: Corey
Wreathed with serpents
Eyes dripping blood
Winged tormentors of criminals
Take your teeth out of me
I have just begun to breathe on my own
I don't know what this is
These eyes can hardly see what is eating me
Lyrics submitted by Sonic Raider
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The tales were adopted by Romans when they had conquered Greece, 2nd-1st century BC, and became infuenced by the Greek culture and literature.
Look it up
I could be wrong but It doesn't matter to me that much
As for this song, it is absolutely killer! "The Crusade" was my first Trivium album, but I was going to pass on "Shogun" when I heard it was more in the style of the first two albums. Then I heard this song and decided to get the album.
There's really nothing else it could be about. If you want to start splitting hairs, Uranus was one of two original deities that had just been in existence, without having been born or created, or to put it another way, emerged from Chaos. Descendant of Chaos? Everyone making the connection here?
The Erinyes are the Greek equivalent of the Furies (see rock_hawk's post)
The king of Ruling Time- Cronus/Chronos, Father Time, with the Scythe of Harvesting
Creating such beauty: The Goddess of Love-- while the blood drops that fell from Uranus'...piece created the Furies, The seafoam from the impact of said piece formed into Aphrodite/Venus, the goddess of love!
That's all I can tell, great job everyone!