Текст песни Bethzaida - The Curtain Falls (the Tale Continues)
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Hear my tale of tragedy:Faustus:"Alas, philosophy I have exploredas well as medicine and lawadd to these regrettablymy studies in theologyYet here I sit, a foolish boreno wiser than I was beforeNo dog can live like thisknowledge gained is far from blissSo I resolved my soul to freethrough blackest magic and dark alchemy"(Goethe: Faust)And from my library oldI have this book which I am toldHolds the key to strangest landsPlaces never travelled by manIt will, no doubt, open my eyesthrough Hell I will finally find my ParadiseThe Fool:From browsing through this book I have learnedthat all that I have ever yearnedmay be accomplished easilywith words uttered feasiblyAs long as I in my circle remainnothing can harm me, the demons are chainedAnd with the next word I do burnThe devils back to Hell returnFaustus:As a fool summons a devil, so will Isummon the Fallen Angel of LightAnd with his widom in my sightI will remain (both day and night)as happy as a man can befor no knowledge will be strange to meOf stars in heaven I will knowAs life itself I will exploreRain and thunder I do endure, likewisefire and icethe elements are torturing mewith the only purpose that I shall seeand know the wisdom of the lordLucifer I summon thee!Mephistopheles:I have come to visit you this late(although your spells are out of date)To see who mocks the name of Godhe might be of interest to my lordFaustus:Then I will speak, and you hear this:In my search for eternal blissI will give my very soul to youIf what you claim is really trueThen you will serve me loyalyobey my orders accuratelyFor me accomplish any taskbring me the moon if I should askWhen time is up you claim your prize:My soul forever absent from heavenly paradiseAs I do sign this covenantin blood from a cut in my handMy soul is not for God to claimI will have twenty-four years with maidens and fameAnd now I do enquire of youThe secrets of life, of Oceans blueof stars upon the mighty skyof moon and planets far up highMephistopheles:That is not for man to knowas words can not tell what they are ofand man cannot grasp what words cannot commandfor words are far more glorious than ever was manFaustus:Your tracherous lies are powerlessYou do not convince me, for I stress:do I not grasp love and hate,pleasure and pain, lust and fate ?I cannot describe these, yet I knowthat in my heart with fire they flowHow I repent my loathsome deeds,these devils do not fullfill my needs...Mephistopheles:Faustus, I am not at all thrilledyou try to escape, yet you have no willbut to bath in all pleasures that flesh can giveeven though, as it appears, your virgin is a deviland now is the day of your fearsI will collect what is mine after twelve yearsas day and night I gave you plenty(twelve and twelve is four-and-twenty)thus, what was thineis now forever mine"