from ARIA 2003 "Christening By Fire"

  Music by Vladimir Holstinin
  Lyrics by Margarita Pushkina
  English translation by Little Prince

My sword is the power, my sword is law.
With time, blood and fear have stained my cloak.
I?m the hangman, I?m born immortal.
Honored I?m by kings and by the mobs.
Gallows are my throne, death is my queen.
I keep dirt and all the people?s sins.
Among you, one was innocent convict.
Only one was pure, of all who lived.

Again he comes into my dream.
Through dust of times I clearly see it.

Day went like a nail being hammered in.
Wicked laughter muffled the madman?s scream.
He referred to God as to his father.
Saving all the world was up to him.
Grace for all of us was in his heart.
For you and for me he wished to die.
In gift from above he fully trusted,
and the faith was his just only crime.

But in my hands all are the same.
The final breath, and he was scared.
 

Day will come, human race will fall.
For the first time stars will see my joy.
Into emptiness I will throw my sword.
And I?ll go forever into freezing void.

Who shall give me peace, who?ll bring me light?
No rest ? son of God was crucified.
I set off to walk to God?s abodes
against will of all celestial tides.
Up there, I?d resign, lay down my sword.
Can?t burn people in fires anymore.
Can?t swim in their blood, behead the prophets.
But creator was deaf to the words.

Inside his eyes the darkness reigned.
And in my heart I got so scared.

Day will come, human race will fall.
For the first time stars will see my joy.
Into emptiness I will throw my sword.
And I?ll go forever into freezing void.

It seemed the God was dead up in the sky.
I saw indifference in the old man?s eye.
And revelation struck me, it could be,
if that madman was a fake, your redeemer is me.

Day will come, human race will fall.
For the first time stars will see my joy.
Into emptiness I will throw my sword.
And I?ll go forever into freezing void.

I, I?m here, I?m so close.
My, my sword is my cross.
But I can?t be crucified.
I came down from the sky.