Beast (Bonus Track)
Adam Hoey
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"The only moral imperative is to not kill a living thing," you say As you set out to hunt the oldest creature known to man You've practiced many months with your sword and bow and arrow Now you cross the border to the beast's holy land You've heard countless tales of tragedy from the people in your town of how The beast comes in the night and tears families apart It ravages with no remorse and carries off its prey westward And the ones it leaves behind seem to lose their hearts On occasion while you hunt, a wandering outlaw runs you down They pray to the evil beast as you carve them up It only serves to steel your heart that this quest is critical The longer the beast lives, the more fools it corrupts You track a set of enormous prints over water, sand, and somehow stone Until at last they lead you up to a hole in a cliff You turn your clever nose up towards the cave and inhale sharply And from the foulness, you know it's where the beast lives So then you pray to all your gods, praising them for your success And you ask for help while measuring your breath Then you unsheathe your sword and venture forth into the blackest bowels You cruel and noble messenger of death It's quiet and the tunnel travels straighter than you would have guessed No forks or turns to lead you to your doom The light recedes behind you so you light a torch to guide you It reveals no signs of life, and the silence resumes Then just when that unnatural hush converges on your sanity Your righteous ears identify a noise Those familiar fricatives and formants, peppered with distinctive plosives It's shocking but it's clearly a human voice It occurs to you with dawning horror that the beast prefers to eat meals fresh Now a strengthened purpose fills your heart and your head You quicken your pace and the voice grows clearer but there's something in it that fuels your fear Never has a laugh inspired such dread Your torch is the only light as you stand before this jester Your sword held out in case of lunacy Then you flinch when you see that his eyes are gouged and his arms end in stumps You nearly retch at this wanton cruelty But the man just grins and welcomes you to the city of the Seraph Needless to say this takes you by surprise The man speaks into this shocked silence, offers to lead you to his Highness As if he offers a prize The lunatic, this wretched soul, turns and walks away Though he has no way of knowing where he is But somehow he manages to stay upright and on the path And you follow him into the abyss At last the tunnel ends in a wide and lofty cavern Filled with disfigured humans just like your guide And in the center stands a creature faintly glowing in the darkness As vile a monstrosity as you'd surmised But when it speaks the voice is easy like your daughter's singing sounds so sweetly Somehow rolling off his ugly lips "Son of summer, soothe your seething, still your heart so quickly beating Fear no more," The beast says with leadership Your vocal cords unwind and you formulate your words "Good sir... no! foul beast, prepare to die," The creature breathes out heavily and gestures to the room "Would you condemn this entire guiltless tribe?" "Without their hands they cannot eat, without their sight they cannot leave What do you propose, that they go home with you? Or perhaps you mean to leave them here, without my vivid smell to steer them So tell me son of summer, what shall they do?" You answer with a firm reply more certain than you feel "Their lives are weighed against your future prey If I allow you to persist your reign of terror unrestricted, That blood is more than these souls you mutilate" The beast just shakes his putrid face and answers, "No that's not the case, I never kill a soul that doesn't want to die" The audacity begs a quick retort, "I wasn't gonna make this hurt, But now I'll torture you for that cruel lie" But as you raise your mighty sword a tender stump lays upon your shoulder And a gentle voice whispers in your ear "Stay your righteous anger, I beseech you noble killer The Seraph speaks truth and we're all volunteers" We're all volunteers We're all volunteers We're all volunteers We're all volunteers With a cry you realize you can't do anything but stand by And let the Beast continue this horrid game So in the night when I hear a cry from some poor newly orphaned child I'll know that you are partly to blame
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