Under the influence of Isaiah’s drugs, Ethel begins to hallucinate. She confronts the darkness.

The song name is inspired from Alighieri’s Divine Comedy [specifically Dante’s Inferno] Ptolemea, named after Ptolemy, is a circle of Hell in which the traitorous reside. Maybe this is a reference to Ethel abandoning her family and faith – only to be met with a wrath far worse.


[Intro]
I followed you in
And I was with you there
I invited you in
Twice, I did
You love blood too much
But not like I do
Not like I do
Heard you, saw you, felt you, gave you
Need you, love you, love you, love you
Heard you, saw you, felt you, gave you
Need you, love you, love you, love you
Love you, saw you, love you, gave you
Love you, love you, love you, love you
Love you, saw you, felt you, love you
Love you, love you, love you, love you
Love you, love you, love you, love you
Love you, love you, love you, love you

(You'd do wеll to say yes to me)

[Verse 1]
Suffer doеs the wolf, crawling to thee
Promising a big fire, any fire
Saying I'm the one, he's gonna take me
I'm on fire, I'm on fire, I'm on fire
Suffering is nigh, drawing to me
Calling me the one, I'm the white light
Beautiful, finite
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[Verse 2]
Even the iron still fears the rot
Hiding from something I cannot stop
Walking on shadows, I can't lead him back, uh
Buckled on the floor when night comes along
Daddy's left and Mama won't come home

[Interlude]
You poor thing
Sweet, mourning lamb
There's nothing you can do
It's already been done

[Verse 3]
What fear a man like you brings upon (Show me your face)
A woman like me
Please don't look at me
I can see it in your eyes
He keeps looking at me
Tell me, what have you done?
Stop, stop, stop, make it stop, stop
Make it stop
Make it stop, I've had enough
Stop, stop, stop, stop
Stop, stop, stop, stop
[Refrain]
I am the face of love's rage
I am the face of love's rage

[Outro]
Blessed be the Daughters of Cain, bound to suffering eternal through the sins of their fathers committed long before their conception
Blessed be their whore mothers, tired and angry waiting with bated breath in a ferry that will never move again
Blessed be the children, each and every one come to know their god through some senseless act of violence
Blessed be you, girl, promised to me by a man who can only feel hatred and contempt towards you
I am no good nor evil, simply I am, and I have come to take what is mine
I was there in the dark when you spilled your first blood
I am here now as you run from me still
Run then, child
You can't hide from me forever

Go ahead, eat your death
Lick your lips, see what fruit bears
It's your mouth, it's your throat, it's your belly
What's it to me, you seem happy
To blindly toss those apple seeds
Of vile discourse, the flit and the spit and the bile, all the while


It serves you right, it serves you right
Take your clothes off by the hearthside, then join me bedside
Where the houses are eating their owners
Yeah, it serves you right, it serves you right
‘Cause God forbid you ever let me inside, or there within
Heaven forbid you show your underbelly


So go ahead, hold your breath
Be my guest, see if I care
‘Cause it's your life, it's your body in the morning
What's it to you, my sweet bijou
‘Cause if you knew what was good for you
You'd stand there lowborn to drop every rampart and drawbridge
So save your breath for cooling your tea and your porridge


So help yourself, it's okay
‘Cause if it gets you through the night
Well then hey, hey, it's your night, and that's your right, it ain't my business
Red vein your nose with cheap cologne
And let's slither out of these filthy clothes
And dust you off, send you off, get you breathing


And I don't wear my safety belt
And I don't watch my ass when I'm by myself
I sleep like a baby with candles burning
And I skip down dark alley lots
And I don't look both ways before I cross the street
Or my heart or my fingers and my fingers say


It serves you right, it serves you right
‘Cause if it makes you feel a tiny bit warmer, reside by the torch light
With the outright crass indistinction
And it serves you right, it serves you right
‘Cause god forbid you ever let me inside or there within
Heaven forbid you give a good god good evening


So go ahead, hold your breath
Be my guest, see if I care
‘Cause it's your life, it's your face in the place of the mirror
And here's to you, merci beaucoup
But wait 'til I get my hands on you
That's all you will get – a bear hug from your armless brother
So save your teeth for the toothy grins to your mother

And no matter who you are, it's out there and it's gonna getcha


Yeah, go ahead, please yourself
Wring your hands, throttle best-laid plans
They're alive, they're a bishop, a loose leaf, a bottle
I come to hear my neighbors' thoughts
So I will saunter down this hallway dark
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, God willing, I'm alive


I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive

...That's scary, you don't know what the unseen is, what that little feeling is, something behind you is.​

Henry, Tell your wife everything
Henry, put the Bible under your hand/head
Henry, bite your lip if she says,
"Do you love me? Do you love me?"
Henry, what's the chaplain to say?
When your alley cat'n after the wake
And all the filthy Johns can say
"Oh let's be bad, Henry....Let's be bad, Henry"
Wife bedside, the good sons says his goodbyes
A voice from a pine box
Come to me, come to me, come to me
Wife bedside, the good son says his goodbyes
Come to me, come to me, come to me
Wife beside, the scarlet woman waits outside
Sweet heart's wicked spine is a dastardly tool that maps out my sidelines
Wife bedside, do you want to meet your god?
Did you crush her hand?
As she kicked and she jerked and she cursed at the pain?
The girls you got inside? Tell me every time you tried
Tell me everything
Come to me, come to me, come to me
Come to me