Visceral - Age Of Reason lyrics

I tried, I tried so hard
I will uphold my promise
I will always protect them for you
My eyes are your eyes
My heart is your heart
I will rip them loose from this rotten world
And set them to burn, all to save them

Oh, dear God
Hands are bleeding, raw
I scrub and scrub but the smell will not lift
How can I hold my children with these hands now?
How can I kiss them goodnight with lips that have issued such instruction?
I will cry all the way home
I will have none, I will have none at all

Nearly three thousand years ago
The passion for one woman
Ignited the greatest battle ever fought
For love

This dawning epoch
This age of reason
An empire grown fat
Ripe for the bleeding

This world of pain and despair

This age of reason

Destroy
I will destroy you

Destroy

I will have none at all

Destroy

Oh, dear God
I held your hand and watched the blood pool between your legs
You lived long enough to see Edwin, but not Enoch
I will take care of them my love, I promise you this

Hands are bleeding, raw
I scrub and scrub but the smell will not lift
Bandaged feet and eyes
Small bones in the orchard
I have carried this world on my back, with its legs about me
Damn this wretched soul
I am given birth to nothing but machinery

This world of pain and despair

This age of reason

I will destroy you

Oh, dear God
I tried, I tried so hard
I will uphold my promise
I will always protect them for you
My eyes are your eyes

Destroy

This age of reason