Ritual
TOP 10
Opus Eponymous
2010
Duration: 4:28
Track number: 3
Times played live: 886
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
An inverted prayer that serves as Ghost's proclamation of dark faith. The song features a twisted parody of the Lord's Prayer, beginning with 'Our father who art in hell'—a direct subversion of Christian orthodoxy. By adopting the structure of sacred liturgy and inverting it toward damnation, Ghost critiques organized religion while celebrating the gathering of souls to create an 'unholy bastard' through dark ritual. It's both theological critique and apocalyptic invocation.
Lyrics
Tonight we´re summoned for a divine cause
Remembrance - No
But for their future loss
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar...
Beduins and nomads
Carried through the times
Through pestilences and famines
These ancient scrolls of rhymes
"Our fallen angel vexed
Was banished from the sky
Recite now from the text
Pray for ALL to die"
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invoking our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
"Our father
Who art in hell
Unhallowed be thy name
Cursed be the sons and daughters
Of thine Nemesis
Whom are to blame
Thy kingdom come
nemA"
Tonight we summoned for His unholy fiend
Now celebrate
The End
This chapel of ritual
Smells of dead human sacrifices
From the altar bed
On this night of ritual
Invoking our master
To procreate the unholy bastard
Musicians
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