Present. If? (intro) - Manticora

Caught in the afterlife, or in limbo — who can tell\nSave me from the everlasting grief that they call Hell\nEight internal bleedings — stigmata — one eper sin\nI committed all of them — my cleansing can begin\n«Blood pressure weak… Broken and torn\nA sinner who was cursed from the day he was born»\nLooking a the whitened ceiling through a cloud of blood\nDrifting in and out of consciousness in memory-flood\nIn my search for the light, I travel back in time\nFor my deadly sins to be uncovered as a holy crime\n«Cellular death… the soul has left his eye\nNothing to do — nurse, please take him away to die»\nWhat if my mortal remains are all that proved I was here?\nWhat if I didn’t leave a mark in peoples' sphere?\nWhat if my deadly sins were my way to make you see?\n— To make all you non-believers believe in me…