I hold in these tainted hands,

the blood that flows so free,

The power at my command,

but yet it does not belong to me,

Tainted, in the night,

darkness now it shows,

A maddened god's delight,

destruction is all he knows,

chained by what I hold inside,

I'm not human anymore,

Within the depths I hide,

In darkness my heart soars,

what can wash away this pain?

when will I yet be free?

When all that now remains,

is a shell that once was me?

When his power does awake,

A madness grips my heart,

Control does he then take,

and my soul does then depart,

Within this dark disgrace,

my soul cries out in pain,

the truth, I cannot face,

I wish not to wake again,

within this tainted sorrow,

from me, nothing can shield,

though the sun promises tomorrow,

my fate in darkness now is sealed,

be still, my sorrowed heart!

For release it now does cry,

I've known yet from the start,

within crimson bloodshed I must die,

the tainted sorrow of my fate,

my curse, the burden of my life,

carried with a vengeful hate,

bringing agony and strife,

a creature of the twisted night,

the darkness I defend,

I'll not yet see the light,

until my sorrowed, tainted end,

trailed crimson in my wake,

blood-red all is dyed,

my life, my greatest mistake,

my darkness sorrow, my goodbye.