Southeast Engine The Forest Pt. I lyrics

so it begins the ceremony is over the bells have already rung but here I’m still an animal my stomach hungers for more I said I wouldn’t do no evil but evil’s just what I’ve done and her pale face in the darkness is scaring me to death my instinct flourishes as my goodwill recedes so I recite the prayer of my enemy

and so I fight my inhibitions as the wilderness conveys disregard for my intentions leading me astray now I’m bewildered in the twilight forest where the shadows rise and dive and her white dress soft in the distance moves back and forth in time


and so it is I follow these illusions I come upon a stream with the sun around my shadow and the moonlight through the trees it’s said these woods are haunted by four maidens made of light are they the work of the devil or the light of the divine? I see four maidens as I make across the stream and so I follow them to an open clearing