"After all, what girl would not prefer the child of a god to that of some acne-scarred artisan?" \\ November '91 \\ Scorpio \\ Any Pronouns \\ Homestuck Bionicle They Might Be Giants Fandom Triumvirate \\ Talk To Me About Music! \\ Pure Cringe, Escape While You Can \\
"Now, those children out there, they're jumping through the flames in the hope that the god of the fire will make them fruitful. Really, you can't blame them. After all, what girl would not prefer the child of a god to that of some acne-scarred artisan?"
"And you encourage them in this?"
"Actively! It's most important to teach new generation born of Summerisle be made aware that here the old gods aren't dead."
"And what of the true God? To whose glory churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now shall what of Him?"
"Oh, He's dead. He can't complain. He had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it."
In a tiny little cave
A dog is sleeping on his back
Iron chains around his leg
But he’s purring loud enough to snap
I see blood around his snout
A smile that’s bigger than his mouth
They come to hurt him every day
To stomp him back into a crouch
They will never quite cut through
Cause he’s got a little piece of you
The time gets longer every day
But he sits there smiling in his cave
As we were, so perfect, so happy.
They’ll remember, only our smiles ‘cause that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried, when we are found, are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were, so perfect, so happy.
The god of man is a failure
Our fortress is burning against the grain of the shattered sky
Charred birds escape from the ruins and return as cascading blood
Dying bloodbirds pooling, feeding the flood
The god of man is a failure
And all of our shadows are ashes against the grain
Here’s to life, the vice
The great herald of misery
In this cup, spiritus frumenti
For this is the nectar of the spirit
Quench the thirst, drown the sorrow
And forget about cold yesterdays…