First Corinthians

(Verse)
In the candle-smoke of Corinth’s streets
Broken tongues and shattered crowns
Wisdom rots where pride takes root
Knowledge screams but love won’t bow
I speak in voices not my own
Angels weep, the crowd applauds
But hollow words decay to dust
If love is lost, I am a fraud

(Verse)
I give my body to the flame
Martyr’s bones in sacred dirt
Mountains move at my command
Still without love, I am cursed
Mirrors dim, reflections lie
We see in part, we know in pain
What was childish put to death
When truth arrives, we rise again

(Pre-Chorus)
Gifts of fire, gifts of sight
Prophecy in endless night
All shall fade, all shall fall
Love alone outlives it all

(Chorus)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.

(Verse)
O death, where is thy victory now
Graves unchained beneath the throne
What was sown in rot and ruin
Rises crowned in flesh and bone
Corruption sheds its funeral skin
The mortal puts immortal on
At the trumpet, shadows scatter
And the night admits the dawn

(Chorus)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.

(Bridge)
Through a glass, darkly…
Through blood and bone…
When the perfect comes
The partial is gone

(Breakdown)
Love suffers long—
And is kind
Love envies not—
No throne, no crown
Tongues will cease
Knowledge will die
But love—
Love will not lie

(Chorus)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.

(Chorus)
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
But the greatest of these is charity.

(Outro)
Ashes fall where idols stood
Crowns decay, the veil is torn
Faith still bleeds, hope still aches
But love outlives the end of form

Black metal, slow tempo, low gravelly voice, with a high tempo, explosive, melodic chorus