Hell Hath No Fury…

I’ve battled demons and dark entities

Ever since I was a child

Pursued by evil and malevolent forces

That wreak catastrophe upon me and smile

It’s as if my card was marked

Before I was even born

And that sadistic beings have sought to destroy me

Even before I knew who I was

The path I endeavour to follow

Beset with treacherously dangerous  traps

Foes masquerading as friends

Wreak havoc should I step on the cracks

They stalk me and surveil me

Relentlessly ever persistent 

I cannot shake them off

As they circle and swarm, insistent

Lurking in the shadows

Salivating and seething

Waiting for me to show weakness

So they can pounce and rip me to pieces 

They seek to devour and to decimate

By wrecking the foundations that I create

If murder was actually legal 

I’m pretty sure I’d be in my grave

But miraculously somehow I prevail

Albeit at times utterly broken on my knees

Crawling whilst bleeding in the gutter 

Filthy, dirty, diseased 

Oh, I’ve certainly wished for death

Demanded and entreated

But my cosmic life support system

Stops me flatlining each time I’m defeated

I’ve exceeded the nine lives of a feline

The dastardly actions of my assailants are foiled

Astonishingly I rise, time and time again

And God repurifies that which was soiled

Whatever the plan He has for me

Has never been disclosed 

But forced am I to endure

However punishingly tough this road

So I continue to persevere 

To unwaveringly keep the faith

And follow unquestioningly any divine guidance I get

Blindly trusting that God is great

For only through the grace of His love

Have I managed to repeatedly bounce back

And despite being maimed, humiliated

My dignity remains intact

If He still wants me or needs me on this planet

It is my duty to obey

So whatever missiles they wish to aim at me

Can detonate and I’ll be ok

For I don’t give an utter flying f*ck

About my perceived ‘reputation’

I do not give any kind of damn at all

About what others think of my situation

And in the face of absolutely ANYTHING

They possibly can throw at me

I determine to confront them fearlessly 

And refuse to surrender you see

For I do not bow down to tyrants

Thus NOTHING can stand in my way

You want me then f*cking well find me

And then let’s see who is afraid!

For what lies beneath this mask that I wear

Is more menacing than what Hell can invoke 

And as God is my witness and vehement protector 

My wrath unleashed is no joke

I am in fact not what I seem 

Or entirely of this earth

And believe me I am not alone in this world

So do not underestimate my worth

One day they will eventually realise

That what they persecute is a ticking bomb

Detonate me, banshees, at your peril –

Then watch as the unhallowed run.

Recital Of Hell Hath No Fury – Live