You staked your claim by the Judas tree
You took my beloved away from me
The moon was shamed in the sky that night
As it shone so full on your dark delight
All the angels cried in the sky above
When you laid her down, when you took my love

For so many years, we walked side by side
Two brothers glowing in their mother’s pride
But eyes of love turned hearts of hate
When you chose my love, when you cast her fate
And the devils laughed in the sky above
When you laid her down when you took my love
My blood ran cold as I heard the sound
When you took my love, when you laid her down
Laid her down, laid her down

Why would you impose such a curse on me?
How does family become enemies?
Now I am rage and I am sin
I bear the scars of my fallen kin
Now I am death, and this is life
When a brother takes another brother’s wife

I swore that day I would hunt you down
As I watched them put my love in the ground
With all my strength and with all my spite
I found you cowering in the milky light
And our mother cried to the Gods above
As I took you down, as I took her son

What have I done?  What does this achieve?
For my lover, my mother I have bereaved
And all that remains are lives undone
Our family falling one by one
And the demons jeered from the depths below
For the day’s not done, there was one to go
My mother cried as she stole my knife
And she cursed our name as she took her life

How could you impose such a curse on me?
How could our mother’s sons become enemies?
I live in rage, I live in sin
I am a demon in human skin