Текст песни: Sign of Retaliation + перевод

I have fetched the tears up out of the little wells

Scooped them up with small, iron words

Dripping over the runnels

The harsh, cold wind of my words drove on, and still

I watched the tears on the guilty cheek of the men

Glitter and spill

Close your eyes and see what’s behind you

Let your pain not guide you to nothing

Make your sacrifice for the living

Step outside the fire that burns you

Cringing Pity, and Love, white-handed, came

Hovering about the Judgment which stood in my eyes

Whirling a flame

Like a flower that the frost has hugged and let go

My head is heavy, and my heart beats slowly

My strength is shed

The tears are dry, and the cheeks' young fruits are fresh

With laughter, and clear the exonerated eyes, since pain

Beat through the flesh

The Angel of Judgment has departed again to the Nearness

Desolate I am as a church whose lights are put out

And night enters in dreariness

Close your eyes and see what’s behind you

Let your pain not guide you to nothing

Make your sacrifice for the living

Step outside the fire that burns you

The fire rose up in the bush and blazed apace

The thorn-leaves crackled and twisted in anguish;

Then God left the place

Like a flower that the frost has hugged and let go

My head is heavy, and my heart beats slowly

My strength is shed

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