Welcome to the holy day   This is the day that it all comes true   It will burn like a furnace   Every day of your life, recognize yourself for what you are         When the mouth of hell opens up before me, come suffering:   Wash me of my impurities, teach me what it is to want more   Everywhere I turn, the despisers of the body, the despisers of the soul   Angels bleed from out their wounds, demons out from mine   Remind me what's at stake, drive me day and night   In this forsaken slaughterhouse, God forgot but I have not   I still know exactly what I want   On the edge of humanity, health and sickness to each side of me   For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one…   Time is running out for you, all the things you desire are hostile to you   Your submission and your "holy lies" I'll never stoop to understand   You sacrificed yourselves: you raised your temples to the skies,   Plucked your tongues, sewed shut your eyes   Raised disease upon a throne   Sacrificed the flesh, now nothing left for you but the bones   In the pit of mortality, health and sickness casting lots for me   For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one   Desperate, starved in every way, bloodstained bread they brought for me   I had nothing, and God help me, I took it while I could   CONTROL      Nailed to my sacraments, to the marrow of my bones   Making my way alone down this road paved with thorns   Struggling to carve a path through the pollution that surrounds   Unburied   Death-defying   Unbowed.