Promethean Fire

"He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain
That cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart
And in our own despair, against our will
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
- Aeschylus

In great denial
When they shuffle off this mortal coil

In great denial

Through the dark and bloody ground
In great denial

Sworn to sing the corrupter's din
In great denial

And with hubris comes the fall
Drifting across the rippling wall
On the dark and bloody ground

Came to me:
This rock for which I'm bound, the wind I fear won't hear me
And alas, in a crippling sway
All life bent towards the light

In great denial
Cursеd the land of the ploughman's toil

In great dеnial
In flood and in famine

In great denial
He too sings the corrupter's din

In great denial

And with hubris comes the fall
Drifting across the rippling wall
On the dark and bloody ground, came to me on the rock I'm bound:
The wind I fear won't hear me
The ploughmen will bless his toil
And alas, in a crippling sway
All life bent towards the light

Болью, болью (With pain, with pain)
Дышит тело мое (My body still breathes,)
Обреченно (So fatefully,)
Пашем полотно черно. (We plough the canvas of black.)
Иссохли воды (Waters're dried up)
Под палящим зноем (Under the scorching sun,)
Плоть истерзанну (Our worn-out flesh is drunk)
Поим гноем рваных мозолей. (with the pus of our torn corns.)

Зри! (Behold!)
Мы ползем змеей (We crawl like a snake)
По усопшему телу (over the mortal remains)
Земли! (Of the earth!)
В мучениях вечных (Suffering over and over,)
Тащим камень тартара (We're dragging Tartarus' stone.)
Замри! (Hold still!)
Во мраке надежды (In the darkness of hope)
Вечно жаждущей света (Striving for ever - towards the light!)

Мы две змеи (We're two snakes)
На извечной тропе (On the eternal path)
Круговой колеи! (Of a circular track!)

Круговой колеи... (Of a circular track...)