Hiss-tory

He spreads his wings and asks sympathy for his plight He laughs but can't get ’cha if you put up a fight But to get the whole picture Let us look to Scripture To find out about this guised angel of light Day star you have fallen from the skies You are the lord of the flies Once anointed cherub Prince of the power of the air thereof The father of lies Murderer, enemy and tempter Dragon, the old serpent and salvation’s preemptor Accuser of God’s people Upside-down cross on your steeple Uncle Screwtape was your mentor Oh Satan you kleine duivel When it comes to evil you have no rival He will assail this kirk As a sifting watchdog of the church He’ll do anything, anything heinous to maintain his survival Do not rail against him The one who pales in comparison As Jesus saw him fall Like lightning from a pall Luther said one little word shall fell him The hiss-tory of this snake Is evident in mistake after mistake But when we assail The gates of hell will not prevail Against the war we will make for God’s sake It is said that the Devil's greatest trick Is to convince the world he doesn't exist Well, ask Job what he thinks About the Devil's hijinks He'll tell you that the devil persists (The ninth circle, Virgil and Dante the passersby We find where Satan is tied We also find Cain and Judas Cassius and Brutus And where all treacherous souls reside) He’s one of the unholy trinities Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophecies From these three we flee And the world’s philosophy And all things that don’t engender peace And it is peace as the final endeavor Even Satan is not this clever God dying in our place, He kept the law in pace (WHAT GRACE!) Something the devil didn’t contemplate This Jesus has secured us forever