THE SIRE OF SORROW (JOB`S SAD SONG)

<br>Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness--<br>Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh<br>Do you have eyes?<br>Can you see like mankind sees?<br>Why have you soured and curdled me?<br>Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you?<br>That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?<br><br>Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain<br>Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame<br>Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company<br>But now the janitors of Shadowland flick their brooms at me<br>Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you?<br>that you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?<br><br>(Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow)<br>I`ve lost all taste for life<br>I`m all complaints<br>Tell me why do you starve the faithful?<br>Why do you crucify the saints?<br>And you let the wicked prosper<br>You let their children frisk like deer<br>And my loves are dead or dying, or they don`t come near<br>(Antagonists: We don`t despise your chastening<br>God is correcting you)<br><br>Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress<br>Oh, these pompous physicians<br>What carelessness!<br>(Antagonists: Oh all this ranting all this wind<br>Filling our ears with trash)<br>Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury!<br>They come blaming and shaming<br>(Antagonists: Evil doer)<br>And shattering me<br>(Antagonists: This vain man wishes to seem wise<br>A man born of asses)<br>Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you?<br>That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?<br><br>(Antagonists: We don`t despise your chastening)<br>Already on a bed of sighs and screams,<br>And still you torture me with visions<br>You give me terrifying dreams!<br>Better I was carried from the womb straight to the grave.<br>I see the diggers waiting, they`re leaning on their spades.<br><br>(Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow<br>Sure as the sparks ascend)<br>Where is hope while you`re wondering what went wrong?<br>Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn?<br>(Antagonists: Evil is sweet in your mouth<br>Hiding under your tongue)<br>Show your face!<br>(Antagonists: What a long fall from grace)<br>Help me understand!<br>What is the reason for your heavy hand?<br>(Antagonists: You`re stumbling in shadows<br>You have no name now)<br>Was it the sins of my youth?<br>What have I done to you?<br>That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true?<br>(Antagonists: Oh your guilt must weigh so greatly)<br>Everything I dread and everything I fear come true<br>(Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow)<br>Oh you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true