Maleficium

"Behold, the Devil stands before us; but she answers to God
 this day.
Be not taken by her child-like innocence, it is evil 
coursing through her unholy veins.

It is for heresy and your sins on this commune that you 
burn today. (...and for eternity evermore!)
May the Lord have mercy on your soul. (...for we shall have
 none!)
It is for heresy on this commune that you burn today- speak
 up!
What does the witch have to say for herself?"

"If today I am to meet my end, then I hope a willing ear 
you'll lend.
Ask yourselves:
How could I single-handedly accomplish all this treachery?
There's one among us who's not what he claims to be;
He's judge and jury, and orchestrator of this entire 
conspiracy-"

"Lies, filthy lies! Lucifer's tongue indeed! The prince of 
deceit you couldn't possibly believe-"

"Yes, I was the one who wrapped children in crimson.
But, he was the one who brought pestilence upon us all.
When his swarms and locusts came, not a single seed was 
spared.
Even now, the skies now forsake us to dust.

See now, a leader once fearless,
Petrified in silence by his guilt.
The blade honed of all our deception has cut out his 
tongue,
And left it at the altar of the beast...

(I laugh in the face of damnation,
'Cause what you call Hell, I call home)"

"Behold, the Devil lives within us; in a virtuous mask he 
doth hide.
If my soul is to be cleansed in flame, I only ask to 
witness this tempter's demise."

And as the flames grew, so too did the magistrate's scream
The village was lost in a shroud of silence, with nothing 
left but a conscience to set free.
Some say, an ember scorched the ropes that released her 
upon the town.
But all we know is 300 souls were fed to the storm of their
 Pariah's Vow:

She said, "Your God gives blood to drink- Your God gives 
you blood to drink.
Upon these smoldering ruins, amidst their tortured howls, 
your God gives blood to drink- your God gives you blood to 
drink
For every face forgotten, trampled under certainty's need, 
your God gives blood to drink- your God gives you blood to 
drink
There is no hope in faith where man's destroyed to be 
faithful, your God gives blood to drink- your God gives you
 blood to drink..."