Brimstone Ballet - Skyclad

«Though I may seem callous» cried old Thomas Malthus

«Paupers are better off dead

That we have to feed them is something we need

Like amusket shot straight through the head»

Not much of a smiler, our man Wat Tyler

Died for the working man’s fight

Was daring such treason, a justified reason

For ending his days with his head on a spike?

In order to see pearly factory gates

We all learn our places, pre-destined fates

God-fearing people with minimal goals

Led to the slaughter, tools with souls

Save us from hellfire

Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet

When the church and its leaders sought new ways to bleed us

It didn’t take them long to find

Fear of perdition beats nuclear fission

At making the mill-wheels grind

Ban contraception, a shrewd move says I

Plenty of slaves born to suffer and die

Say «go forth and multiply» when you want more

When you’ve too many just send them to war

History’s wounds will not heal overnight

They pray for my soul as they set me alight

Remember the maxim «Arbeit Macht Frei»

Thought up by a christian with God on his side

It’s a hell made by christians with God on their side

The work goes on in Babylon

Enslaving us from birth

With promises of paradise

They’ve made a hell on earth

Save us from hellfire

Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet

Well I think that Satan was God’s best creation

He’s kept him in business for years

It’s not common sense making mankind repent

But eternal damnation it fears

They’re not slow to realise, they know every trick

Drive human donkeys with God on a stick

Tom Torquemada he sings like a dream

Lucretia Borgia plays lead tambourine

In order to see pearly factory gates

We all learn our places, pre-destined fates

God-fearing people with minimal goals

Led to the slaughter, tools with souls

Save us from hellfire

Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet