Split Skin Ritual

They come to the altar To offer blood spilt To satisfy the red gods hunger To repay such an ancient debt We will sacrifice our enemies We will sacrifice our friends Blood spilling down the stones Spurting red against the slab The sun demands an offering Or it will set for a thousand years And so we offer rivers of blood And the hearts of the dead Come and offer yourselves to the slaughter Come and die so that many can live Come and offer yourselves to the altar Split skin ritual to appease the gods Cutting your heart out And opening your veins The sacred bloodletting We give life for ours in return The priests have made a pact An agreement signed in blood To keep the gods in balance That we must keep forever For with the coming Of the setting of the fifth sun Darkness shall fall And everyone will die Come and offer yourselves to the slaughter Come and die so that many can live Come and offer yourselves to the altar Split skin ritual to appease the gods