Текст песни: Death by Fire + перевод

I decree that her death be by rumor the skull gleamed

And creaking sat back in its chair

In agreement the room full of white teeth all clicked

And they said we must do what is fair

While the priests prepared hammers and nails

And the carpenters and planed

The nuns nodded knowing to sentence a sinner

Is justice and law of the same

In the cobblestone streets of the village

The hawkers and mongers are wagging their tongues

With sly smiles of insinuation they watch her

And talk of the ensuing fun

Her beauty defilement

She will now pay for this crime of lust

The monks in the towers are pealing the bells

To remind the people that they must

And the carrion crows are arriving in droves

As the sun sets to pick the bones clean

And the clowns stand around and they stare at the ground

And they secretly weep at the scene

In the rectory, the priest laughs

And lets the wine drip down his vest

He calls and caresses his lover who laughs

As he wipes his mouth on his chest

The widows and virgins at watch in the window

As sinners are purged down bellow

No willows will weep for her silence of ashes

Will sleep in the new-fallen snow

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