A Cautionary Tale (2007 Remaster)

Faustus begin thine incantations, Take good care to draw thy circle true, By god must you prevail - For if you fail these Demons make a meal of you. Your soul shall be their meat - A kingly feast for them to eat, Beware your future at hand, Alas for thou art dammed. [good angel:] "faustus seek repentance, Abjure this evil art, Cease this wretched wickedness And cleans thy foolish heart, For the evil that once served you Has made of you a slave, And transformed your bed of roses' To a premature grave." Then in a mighty flash of light Before thee mephistopheles appears. [faustus:] "i charge thee go and change thy shape, For you fill my soul with fear. Now swift-as-hell back to the fire Return an old franciscan friar." [mephistopheles:] "mortal command me while you can, For surely thou art dammed." [bad angel:] "faustus be thou resolute In what thou wilst perform, Ignore these righteous idiots - Their trinity to scorn, For years of depravation you receive eternal life, But fame and wealth and maidens-fair Are by far the better price." [faustus:] "temptations all around me, Is there nowhere i can turn? Hellfire is all about me, Now i know that i shall burn, I face excommunication for the error Of my ways - to burn in hell for all my days. Bell, book and candle, candle, book, bell, Forwards and backwards to damn me to hell. Jehova i beg thee have mercy on my soul. Be gone foul beast that stands before me, My god! the midnight hour chimes, Oh lord have mercy he comes for me, I haven't got much time. I am awake this is no dream, I cry - but terror takes my scream, And now my future is at hand, Also for i am dammed." [good angel:] "think for just one moment And i'm sure that you will see, The moral of this story - That what shall be must be. He who gives his soul to hell, Must dare to pay the price, He versed in divinity must Live a noble life - Or else he is damned!