A Cautionary Tale Lyrics

A Cautionary Tale lyrics

Faustus begin thine incantations,
take good care to draw thy circle
true,
by God must you prevail -
for if you fail these
demons make a
meal of you.
Your soul shall be their meat -
a kingly feast for them to
eat,
beware your future at hand,
alas for thou art dammed.
GOOD
ANGEL:
"Faustus seek repentance,
]abjure this evil art,
cease this
wretched wickedness
and cleans thy foolish heart,
for the evil that once
served you
has made of you a slave,
and transformed your bed of
roses'
to a premature grave."
Then in a mighty flash of light
before
thee Mephistopheles appears.
FAUSTUS:
"I charge thee go and change thy
shape,
for you fill my soul with fear.
Now swift-as-hell back to the
fire
return an old Franciscan Friar."
MEPHISTOPHELES:
"Mortal command
me while you can,
For surely thou art dammed."
BAD ANGEL:
"Faustus be
thou resolute
in what thou wilst perform,
ignore these righteous idiots
-
their trinity to scorn,
for years of depravation you receive eternal
life,
but fame and wealth and maidens-fair
are by far the better
price."
FAUSTUS:
"Temptations all around me,
is there nowhere I can
turn?
Hellfire is all about me,
now I know that I shall burn,
I face
excommunication for the error
of my ways -
to burn in Hell for all my
days.
Bell, book and candle,
candle, book, bell,
forwards and
backwards
to damn me to Hell.
Jehova I beg thee have mercy on my
soul.
Be gone foul beast that stands before me,
my God! The midnight hour
chimes,
oh Lord have mercy he comes for me,
I haven't got much time.
I
am awake this is no dream,
I cry - but terror takes my scream,
and now my
future is at hand,
also for I am dammed."
GOOD ANGEL:
"Think for just
one moment
and I'm sure that you will see,
the moral of this story
-
that what shall be must be.
He who gives his soul to Hell,
must dare
to pay the price,
he versed in divinity must
live a noble life -
OR
ELSE HE IS DAMNED!