Antioch - Judicator

Stand alone among the throngs, I blaspheme silently

Nobody knows my private crime

Walk with me

Outside the city of Antioch

Crusaders patiently laying siege

Until the day came for Raynald Porchet

The knight was captured and paraded on the walls

«I will not plead or beg»

Upon the walls, there on his knees

He’s on his way back home

No ransom, don’t you pay for my life or lift the siege

You must persist

Please fight hard, I’ve seen that behind the walls they are weakened

Keep your resolve

On his knees before the general, who offered anything if he’d apostatize

The clever Raynald asked for some time to think about the proposition that he

faced

For days on end, so piously he prayed unto his God «I won’t apostatize»

He used the time to pray and ask for the strength to be prepared for what God

willed

It wasn’t long before an interpreter found him out and saw he wouldn’t

capitulate

Just like the Jews who could not sing their song of God on foreign soil These

blasphemies kept in my mind could turn into a cross to bear

On the walls, Raynald was paraded before us

Helplessly, I watched him kneel

One last time, a smile he offered to me before he died

The headless saint of Antioch

Guitar Solo: Tony