[00:00:00] The Clerical Conspiracy - Sabbat [00:00:03] I have wealth beyond measure [00:00:05] My treasures are words [00:00:08] Forged by time in a tale of [00:00:10] Such beauty they cry to be heard [00:00:12] Still a young fool was I as [00:00:15] My story begins [00:00:16] Yet like all fools considered [00:00:17] Myself to be wise [00:00:21] A match for all things [00:00:23] But the lessons I've learned [00:00:24] I will never forget [00:00:27] When your teacher is life then [00:00:28] Success is survival and [00:00:29] Failure is death [00:00:32] From early years I saw the world [00:00:34] Through tunnel-vision eyes [00:00:34] My cloistered mind philosophized [00:00:36] And fossilized [00:00:36] Secure in my belief was I [00:00:39] Assured throughout my life the [00:00:40] Only things that could sustain me [00:00:41] Were the words of Jesus Christ [00:00:42] There is no way to fight a foe [00:00:44] Who strikes from the inside [00:00:45] And once within we can begin to [00:00:47] Smite this pagan pride [00:00:48] We shall take their graven images [00:00:49] And grind them in the dirt [00:00:51] For that men can live in paradise [00:00:52] Must be the Devils work [00:00:54] The clerical conspiracy begins [00:00:55] We shall wash away your sins [00:00:57] We have come to purify [00:00:59] To purge you of your liberty [00:01:02] Absolve you of all sanity [00:01:04] The 'truth' you want to hear [00:01:06] We shall provide [00:01:07] How can we hope to save these [00:01:10] Heathen when we know not of [00:01:11] Their ways [00:01:12] One of us must journey southward [00:01:14] Infiltrate and then assuage [00:01:15] Only when we have this knowledge [00:01:17] Can we finalise our plans [00:01:19] Greet them with a velvet glove [00:01:21] Then crush them 'neath an iron hand [00:01:50] Christian soldiers armed with virtue [00:01:52] Hearts afire with blind obsession [00:01:53] Cannot see the difference 'twixt [00:01:54] Compassion and oppression [00:01:54] These were the days I believed that [00:01:56] Salvation was mine [00:01:57] When I worshipped apostles [00:01:58] Believing their gospels to be divine [00:02:00] My life drifted by in a warm summer haze [00:02:02] And I thought I would bath in the light [00:02:05] Of our lord 'till the end of my days [00:02:09] But destiny mocked me [00:02:13] And fate did bequest [00:02:14] That the strength of my faith in [00:02:18] The Lord God Almighty be put to the test [00:02:20] My son your word is matchless as [00:02:21] A scribe you have been blessed [00:02:23] Your skill and faith in God doth [00:02:25] Qualify you for our quest [00:02:26] You will sail to Southern England [00:02:29] And recount their blasphemies [00:02:30] For the first step in their cure [00:02:33] Must be to learn of theit disease [00:02:34] For one so young so great an honour [00:02:36] To be chosen for this task [00:02:37] Have I the stength [00:02:38] Would I be worthy [00:02:39] Questions that I dared not ask [00:02:41] Was I to be a missionary searching [00:02:42] For lost souls to save [00:02:44] Or just another pawn in their [00:02:45] Monastic power games [00:02:46] The clerical conspiracy begins [00:02:47] We shall wash away your sins [00:02:48] We have come to purify [00:02:50] To purge you of your liberty [00:02:51] Absolve you of all sanity [00:02:52] The 'truth' you want to hear [00:02:53] We shall provide [00:02:55] How can we hope to save these [00:02:56] Heathen when we know not of [00:02:57] Their ways [00:02:58] You Wat Brand must journey southward [00:02:59] Infiltrate and then assuage [00:03:00] Only when we have this knowledge [00:03:02] Can we finalise our plans [00:03:03] Greet them with a velvet glove [00:03:05] Then crush them 'neath an iron hand [00:03:06] Christian soldiers armed with virtue [00:03:08] Hearts afire with blind obsession [00:03:09] Cannot see the difference 'twixt [00:03:10] Compassion and oppression [00:03:11] And so with terror in my heart [00:03:13] I learned what had to be [00:03:14] That I must tour these foriegn shores [00:03:16] My cross for company