Preordained

Preordained Lyrics [I. Prologue — Nativity in Black] From womb of winter, thunder-silk and sallow light, A babe of dusk exhaled the omen of the blight. Midnight midwifed the hour, iron cradles rung, When fate unsheathed its script and hellish hymns were sung. [Chorus — Preordained (Nativity in Black)] Preordained—born under a raven’s law, Nativity in black, cursed at birth, forever claw. Preordained—seal of shadow on the brow, Crowned in cryptic ash, to fate I bend my vow. [II. Veil of the Midwife] The midwife’s lips were sealed with sigils, bone and rust, She traced the runes of doom with trembling hands and dust. A hush fell like a coffin-lid across the infant cry, As prophecy unraveled in the seam of sky. [Chorus — Preordained (Nativity in Black)] Preordained—born under a raven’s law, Nativity in black, cursed at birth, forever claw. Preordained—seal of shadow on the brow, Crowned in cryptic ash, to fate I bend my vow. [III. March of the Oracles] See the augurs gather, their lanterns guttered, low; They read the bruised horizon where the blackened rivers flow. No mother’s lullaby could loosen destiny’s chain, The infant’s cradle rocked to the cadence of the bane. [Bridge — Black Benediction] Oh, hear the choir of cinders, the cathedral of the cold, A litany of downfall in the language of the old. Cursed at birth—etched into marrow, writ in bone, A legacy of winter, a throne of stone. [IV. Throne of Ashes] I grew within the shadow, tutored by eclipse, The crown upon my cradle burned the world’s eclipse. Seraphim in tatters wept, their halos turned to rust, While empires folded quietly into the dust. [Chorus — Preordained (Nativity in Black)] Preordained—born under a raven’s law, Nativity in black, cursed at birth, forever claw. Preordained—seal of shadow on the brow, Crowned in cryptic ash, to fate I bend my vow. [Coda — Destiny’s Eclipse] So call the rolling thunder, strike the final mark, Let night reclaim its promise, let day resign the spark. Preordained—this lineage of lament and mirth, I walk the path of midnight: nativity in black, cursed at birth.