"You stand before this court, accused of heresy and witch craft. How do you plead?"
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"Not guilty!"
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"Guilty!"
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Our tongues they could not silence with their malicious lies
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Their unforgotten violence, remember those who died
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And as my flesh is put to fire I hear their voices still
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Their unjust accusations demanding that I am killed
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"We shall show no mercy to heathen such as thee
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Who stand accused and have refused the Church's clemency
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Your wicked acts are endless through the crimes we cannot name
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Innocent or guilty proved, we'll burn you just the same"
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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This self-righteous inquisition is a plague upon our land
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as false as the confessions they force from shattered hands
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"We shall show no mercy to heathen such as thee
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Who stand accused and have refused the Church's clemency
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Your wicked acts are endless through the crimes we cannot name
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Innocent or guilty proved, we'll burn you just the same"
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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Abused my broken body is cleansed by righteous flame,
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Their God a 'God of Mercy' yet in whose name I slain.
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My innocence the victim of their superstitious fears
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Religious persecution for the past three hundred years
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Preaching peace and mercy 'neath the shadow of the knife
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A papal reign of terror, slaughter in the name of Christ
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And as my flesh is put to fire I hear their voices still
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their unjust accusations demanding that I am killed
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"We shall show no mercy to heathen such as thee
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Who stand accused and have refused the Church's clemency
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Your wicked acts are endless through the crimes we cannot name
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Innocent or guilty proved, we'll burn you just the same"
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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Burning, into the fire
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Burning, a funeral pyre
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For Those Who Have Died (Return To The Sabbat)
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| Cradle Of Filth |
