The 13th Caesar

Oh, how my rampant desire
Ripped from the presence of God
Now hungered like a beast
For the knowledge of evil

When Joan was burnt he knew malevolence at the heart of all
A cold and jagged abyss bled of sense
The throne he earned through God's benevolence started his own fall
Clothing ragged dogma in his own magnificence

Here the stench, the gold events
The bold inventions of the will
Luxuries and splendors past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled

A Daemon sat upon the top of the world
Like a Herod over Genesis
They sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Kissing terrors with paralysis

His brash canvas insulted the view
Moving heaven and earth to please the
Tumultitudes, whom his strange retinue drew
To assert the 13th Caesar

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)
The 13th Caesar (war was licked, for shame)
The 13th Caesar (sicker, but just as vain)
The 13th Caesar, Gilles De Rais

When Joan was burnt, he knew malevolence at the heart of all
He swore henceforth he would serve evil alone

Here the stench, the gold events
The insurrection of his will
Theatre and feasts past the ken of mortal men
Every wanton bent desire went fulfilled

A Daemon sat upon the top of the world
Like a Herod over Genesis
Devils sang hosannas as his banners unfurled
Striking terror into menaces

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)
The 13th Caesar (war was licked, for shame)
The 13th Caesar (sicker, but just as vain)
The 13th Caesar, Gilles De Rais

Suetonius and Ovid filled his moonstruck dreams
With the purple of Rome
His Venus of arena-blood was dead
And he was storming home

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)
The 13th Caesar (war was licked, for shame)
The 13th Caesar (sicker, but just as vain)
The 13th Caesar, Gilles De Rais

The 13th Caesar (ichor kicked inside his veins)
The 13th Caesar (war was licked, for shame)
The 13th Caesar (sicker, but just as vain)
The 13th Caesar, Gilles De Rais