song title / lyrics

'the angels who refused to take sides'

The first tormented souls
in the Vestibule of hell
the most loathsome sinners
they are nameless, unworthy of mention

when Lucifer revolted
they refused to draw the line
Heaven has damned them
but Hell will not accept them

(the idea here is to make a song out of dante's account of the gates of hell from 'the inferno'. it's a concept that has always stuck out in my mind: the idea that there were pacifists in the civil war in heaven- and that they have their own special eternal fate- lingering in between heaven and hell, for neither will accept them. such a powerful an unique contempt he has for them, as if the worst possible sin was refusal to take sides in the greatest battle ever... anyway, it could possibly be a bonus track on the inferno-derived concept album about the rivers of hell... inspired by the G&A song, 'coxcomb at hell creek'- from which the concept album would take its title.)