Ancient - Part I: The Curse lyrics

Black clouds fill the day sky in the primitive Lands of Nod as the two sons of Adam offer up their gifts (of pride) to the one reigning high a dark fate born by sacrificial fire Caine: "Oh, Great Father of my father Whom Thou banished from Thine garden Look down upon Thy faithful servant And accept my beloved brother." With tears of love the Firstborn thrust his sharpest scythe deep into Abel's heart rendering him lifeless but eternally prized in the mind of God as his body withered in the scorching blaze. Caine: "Oh, my dear brother Forgive me for what I have done. But to the One Almighty a greater prize I have none." Adam: "Caine, thou hast broken my seal of absolute love The crime thou'st commited meets not the approval of Him above. Forever shall you wander in the lands beyond alone abd from this day forth I cannot call thee my own." Caine: "Oh, father my great father Why hast thou cursed me so? Have I not done what thou asked for? To the shadowed woods I cannot go." Adam: "I can no longer endure thine sinful words This greatly unmerciful deed hast done him wrong. I pray that thou find ways to repent and as I was cast out so you shall be gone!" Be gone! Exiled, the Firstborn rushes off to the obscure yet welcoming arms of Cimmerian darkness for there he shall find great wisdom and awaiting beneath the cresent moon lurks the mother of magick...