I Giveth, and the Lord Taketh Away

from MCCCL by CARTESIAN

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Booklet containing the lyrics and concept pre-meditations behind each song, essential in following the story behind 'MCCCL'.

Intercession by Alexander: "In preperation for writing this concept album I read 'Digerdöden, pestvågor och ödeläggelse: ett perspektiv på senmedeltidens Sverige' (Janken Myrdal, 2003). Most historical references to the belief and symbolism of the first wave of Stoor Dödhin (black death of Sweden) come from studying this single source. The lyrics and backstory segments often leak into and rely on one another to build the full storyline, sampling the way the main characters dreams leak into his experience of the mortifyingly dark place and time that is Stoor Dödhin. Although there are several layers of subject to the concept behind 'MCCCL', it is most of all a celebration of victory in battles with mental illness, although all can never be won. In the same respect this work goes out to anyone who refuses to stop fighting those battles for themselves and/or loved one's."

Booklet illustrations by Rutger van Aken of Rainy Day Illustrations
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lyrics

Like settlers to ruins
Stained glass walls prove our faith false
His safety, illusion
In dim lit halls, He hides it all

In leaps of faith
Our son fell away
Of promises made
I kept mine

The pain, the guilt
The blood that I've spilled
The choices I've made
Turn sorrow and hate

We are absent fathers
You and I
In leaps of faith
Our son fell away

Mind's of mazes
No way out
Of promises made
I kept mine

I gave everything
We have nothing

Now I pray His scythe reaps quick
He made us sick
A deity misanthropic
I am a godfearing man
Still a beast of his bane
And when I giveth
The Lord taketh away

Our prayers, fruitless
An echoed call from an eternal thrall
Like ruins to settlers
False cathedral was built to fall