DESCRIPTION:
This is the sixth song from Sons of Perdition's new album, Trinity, which is out now on GraveWax Records. Trinity tells the story of a fool's hellish journey through the blood-soaked deserts of the American Southwest in 16 chapters. CD copies of the album include a tarot card specially designed for the release by celebrated German illustrator Christoph Mueller.

The Serpent

After breaking my chains and the skull of a man, I made like a rabbit and ran. I washed up in the fang of Nevada where I went on the lam. The sky was a mirror, the sand was a blade. I found work in an orchard way down in a glade. A great ouroboros burns in the sky: an eye, lidless and bloodless and cold. And as above, so below. Life begets death begets life in an endless tableau. From the villages and farms and Rez came the men, dirty and poor and thin. I shed my past like a skin and left it out west. I washed off my sins. I reached for an apple and suffered a bite. My senses consumed by the roar and the light. The serpent vanished in the shadows for good. I fell where I stood. A Hualapai spoke of a man named Coyote; a trickster in the woods. The others tried to quiet him but seeing no choice, they drug me from camp singing in a low voice.