Satan 66 - The Buttress

This is it!

I’ve made it, Satan

I came all this way

To greet you on this day

Solemnly offer you an exchange

For my name, and my face

And whatever you may take —

I am asking you if here on God’s green Earth

I can please stay — forever!

They say the Earth is your dominion

That’s why they’ve turned their backs on this place, Satan!

The men, women, children

Shame on them!

Traitors, craven, filth!

They don’t even deserve to be called human

Where is their guilt?

One day they will say

Who let the Earth burn?

Who neglected the flowers?

Who tread blindly over worm?

Who abandoned our home in favor of the word of a coward who can’t even show His

face on His own green Earth?

Satan, I don’t care that you sit on a throne of lies

So does Christ!

Look how he treats His own creation!

As our demise hastens

Then I swear for the rest of my days, Satan

I will spit in the face of Christ

If you promise me I can stay here forever!

Satan, caretaker of the Earth

Watches over creation

All of nature, the water and the dirt

All the lilies of the valley, and the beasts, and the birds

Give thanks

Disowned by our own creator, but not you, Satan!

Steward of this place, hero of the people

Hated by many, fallen from grace

I will sign my name in the pages of your book

If in exchange you can promise me

I’ll never have to leave this place!

Call me old Robert Johnson

In the sticks at the crossroads

Witching hour, Route 666

Ready to ascend tower and receive gifts and give them

Like Koopsta — mystic, mystic styles of the ancient mutilations!

I’m on Satan’s playground

Voices screaming «what in tarnation?»

And all the blessings I receive in this place

Were given by one who’s fallen from grace named

Satan, deserving of praise

I bow to no man but where it’s due I will give him thanks

If it’s true what they say

That it’s you who maintains and is steward of this place

Then I guess I’ll take it

Cause I love this place, Satan

That’s why I came

To offer my name in your book

Broken and naked

I will offer anything you want, you can take it

If in exchange you promise me I can stay here and live forever!

Satan, caretaker of the Earth

Watches over creation

All of nature, the water and the dirt

All the lilies of the valley, and the beasts, and the birds

Give thanks

Disowned by our own creator, but not you, Satan!

Caretaker of this place, hero of the people

Hated by many, fallen from grace

I will sign my name in the pages of your book

If in exchange you can promise me

I’ll never have to leave this place!