Album: Shogun (2008)

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• I am the Promethean
  Tragic figure in this dream
  Dream known as life
  I bring spark into the lives
  Take the molded, show them fire
  Fire's the spark in their eyes
  
  My flesh is ripped at daily
  It's the cross I bear
  
  [Chorus]
  I feel it tear out my insides
  A pain so heavy I could collapse
  I feel it just may kill me
  I must brave through this storm
  
  I am made exemplary
  Lashed up by the public scene
  For bearing my heart, my soul's on fire
  I pull my ribs open now
  Bleed my heart upon the grounds
  Drink of the blood, take me in
  
  My flesh is ripped at daily
  It's the cross I bear
  
  [Chorus]
  
  Chain me down, nail me up
  It feels so cold on my skin
  Flesh cut deep from their claws
  Chew my organs out
  Salivating with hate
  Crown of thorns, deathly boards; won't
  Make me cease to be
  You've turned this scapegoat into
  The lion that will devour you whole
  
  [Repeat: x2]
  My flesh is ripped at daily
  It's the cross I bear
  
  [Chorus: x2] Writer/s: COREY BEAULIEU, MATTHEW HEAFY, PAOLO GREGOLETTO, TRAVIS SMITH
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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• Jesse from AshlandIn Judeo-Christian imagery and storytelling, the Crucifix is a Cross with Jesus of Nazareth nailed to it, just before his death. His father God, in heaven, set a plan for the son of God's life. He would be a holy sacrifice, an offering of repentence for man's Sin. At the age of 33, he was sentenced by the Roman court to a torturous execution. To humiliate Jesus, the soldiers attacked him with claws sewn into whips and forced him to carry his own Cross for the ritual. They also mocked him with a thornbrush fashioned into a painful crown atop his head. He took on all Sin for all Sinners as he was nailed to a "t" shaped wooden cross; it was raised high above for all to see. Jesus is the Lamb of God. His dying cross was flanked by two other condemned prisoners. He died upon the cross, visited eternal Hell, defeated Lucifer (Satan), and returned on the third day with hope and redemption for all of humanity. Whosoever believes in him shall not perish (in Sin) but have everlasting life. After Jesus' resurrection, he ascended to heaven and will return to Earth in Revelations as a conqueror, a slayer; on a white horse with a sword and a sharp tongue. The Lion of Judah.

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