Interpret:

Behemoth

Album:

Demigod

before the beginning of years 
there came to the making of man 
time, with a gift of tears 
grief, with a glass that ran 


pleasure, with pain for leaven 
summer, with flowers that fell 
rememberance fallen from heaven 
and madness risen from hell 


strength without hands to smite 
love that endures for a breath 
night the shadow of light 
and life the shadow of death 


and the high gods took in hand 
fire and the falling of tears 
and a measure of sliding sand 
from under the feet of the years 


and froth and drift of the sea 
and dust of the laboring earth 
and bodies of things to be 
in the houses of death and of birth 


and wrought with weeping and laughter 
and fashioned with loathing and love 
with life before and after 
and death beneath and above