Serpent came to Eve from Tiamat Immortality was known by man Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Spirit assassin dressed in black before your shrine A woman's coffin sending shivers up my spine Nailed are hands upon the cross so intertwined A saintly mother sacrificed before your hive They drink the life They eat of flesh Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray The brain washed ghost of thought endless lies have come to bind Four thousand years of mystery surrounding the signs The children scream aloud when pain and guilt align The failing mass of contradiction in their finds They drink the life They eat of flesh Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Shadows on the day of Philistia All will have to seek of Visigoth The serpent came to Eve with a message from Tiamat Death and immortality was known to man Three had become four and five Lilith had taken to conception And was cursed to unearth where demons And man did not dwell together Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray Oh, how dark we pray