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Lasse’s Birgitta Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Fire, fire in the sky on a stake
Higher, higher and the night goes the flame
Burn the witch, now burn, you've been damned
By the hands of the holy
Tried to awake a dead man on the cemetery
[Verse 2]
Rise up, rise up from the ashes for him
Hear the, hear the name, and rise from the grave
Circling the church for two days
The house of God will open
Tried to get a hold of the stole
Locked the door with a blow
[Chorus]
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Fire, fire in the sky on a stake
Higher, higher in the night goes the flame
Burn the witch, now burn, you've been damned
By the hands of the holy
Tried to awake a dead man on the cemetery
[Chorus]
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
[Bridge]
In the dark, she saw herself flee
Higher and higher
Master of the moon, I feel free
Lighter and lighter
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
Rise up, rise up from the ashes for him
Hear the, hear the name in rhymes from the grave
Circling the church for two days
The house of God will open
Tried to get a hold of the stole
Locked the door with a blow
[Chorus]
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
Fire, fire in the sky on a stake
Higher, higher and the night goes the flame
Burn the witch, now burn, you've been damned
By the hands of the holy
Tried to awake a dead man on the cemetery
Rise up, rise up from the ashes for him
Hear the, hear the name, and rise from the grave
Circling the church for two days
The house of God will open
Tried to get a hold of the stole
Locked the door with a blow
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
Fire, fire in the sky on a stake
Higher, higher in the night goes the flame
Burn the witch, now burn, you've been damned
By the hands of the holy
Tried to awake a dead man on the cemetery
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
In the dark, she saw herself flee
Higher and higher
Master of the moon, I feel free
Lighter and lighter
Rise up, rise up from the ashes for him
Hear the, hear the name in rhymes from the grave
Circling the church for two days
The house of God will open
Tried to get a hold of the stole
Locked the door with a blow
The master in light
The master in light
The master in light
The master is alive
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The song is about Lasse Birgitta, who was an alleged Swedish witch and was the first woman executed for sorcery in Sweden; She died in 1550 on the Swedish island of Öland. In April of 1550, Lasses Birgitta, which means "Birgitta, Wife of Lasse", confessed to the bailiff and the secretary at Kalmar Castle that she had tried to awaken a dead man in Kastlösa cemetery at midnight.
Reportedly, on one night, Birgitta and two men had entered the church yard with the intent of awakening one of the dead by magic. Birgitta blew through the keyhole of the church until it opened, trying to get hold of the stole, a liturgical vestment of various Christian denominations, which symbolizes priestly authority, but didn't find it and left, locking the door the same way she entered it. After another attempt on a different occasion, she had succeeded in getting the stole, passed the church three times against the sun, renounced God, and swore herself to the Devil. The court judged Birgitta guilty of sorcery and sentenced her to death by decapitation; The song itself changes this to a burning to fit with the knowledge of which burnings.