Stand by Him
Opus Eponymous
2010
Duration: 3:56
Track number: 5
Times played live: 380
Writers
Lyrics by: Tobias Forge
Music by: Tobias Forge
Theme
A tale of historical persecution and supernatural vengeance rooted in the witch hunts. The song depicts a woman accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, only to be revived by a Satanic Black Sabbath to exact revenge on her tormentors. Ghost presents this as an ode to Lucifer, celebrating the fallen angel as a liberator of the persecuted. The lyrics reference the Malleus Maleficarum, the infamous treatise on witch persecution, transforming institutional cruelty into mythological retribution.
Lyrics
Devil's power is the greatest one
When his and hers holiest shuns the sun
A temptress smitten by the blackest force
A vicar bitten blind in intercourse
The witch hammer
Struck her down
On our sabbath
She is unbound
'Tis the night of the witch
'Tis the night of the witch tonight
And the vengeance is hers for as long as she stands by him
'Tis the night of the witch
'Tis the night of the witch tonight
And the vengeance is hers for as long as she stands by him
"All witchcraft comes from carnal lust which is in women insatiable"
A moon shone bright above her trial
As flames ate through her body defiled
The witch hammer
Struck her down
Through our sabbath
She is unbound
'Tis the night of the witch
'Tis the night of the witch tonight
And the vengeance is hers for as long as she stands
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