With blood and sinew I fed my ambition Lives cut short to sate my curious mind For years in exile, now back on a mission Save these souls from demise A sickness borne of wonder Silent bane Conjuring the cure to ascend I'm lost in the fires of a need To perfect that which can bleed Death and life, a brand new creed This is our destiny While down in caverns my enemies wither My new home is within reach Living machines and a throne that is vacant A paradise bids welcome Bound to me Now perfection lies in my grasp I'm lost in the fires of a need To perfect that which can bleed Death and life, a brand new creed Corrupted, Constructed Now live, in this world where weakness wanes As your God runs through your veins Born again in boundless oil Forsake this mortal coil Ascending ever higher Now oil replaces blood A cure to death by twisting life Indomitable flood I'm lost in the fires of a need To perfect that which can bleed Neither living nor machine I'm lost in the fires of a need To perfect that which can bleed Death and life, a brand new creed Dissected, Perfected Now live, in this world where weakness wanes As your God runs through your veins Now the gate is open wide Beware the promised lie