Divide the Man From the Devil

Yamato in the moonlight A mirror at my throat One cut for the weakness One cut for what I owed I was dying by the inches Battle after battle won Too much night inside the body Too little human left to run So I opened up the silence Let the blue edge choose the way One half kept the grief in poems One half turned grief into prey V in the shadow Urizen in the fire Both of them born From the same desire Divide the man from the devil Watch them wear my face One half kneels beside the ruin One half wants the heavens razed Divide the love from the terror Divide the wound from the will I thought the cut would make me stronger But I'm the thing it split to kill V still heard my mother's footsteps Still felt winter in the hall Urizen only heard the orchard And the promise not to fall When they met beneath the Qliphoth I could hear the child in both One begging me to face the sorrow One swallowing the world whole What do you call redemption When the knife returns your soul When the part that knew compassion Is the part you tried to cull Divide the man from the devil And both will bleed the same One will ask for absolution One will set the sky aflame Divide the love from the terror Divide the wound from the will No edge can sever what I am now I have to choose it still Put the sword away The answer lives in what remains