I, Lucifer

Music: D.G. Womb / Words: Extracts from ‘I, Lucifer’ by Glen Duncan

I have decided to tell all

All? Some

My side of the story,

The junk, the jive, the boogie, the Rock n Roll

So, as you’re all thinking

What’s it like to be me?

Well, in a nutshell, it’s hard

For a start I’m in pain the whole time

And who, you may ask is to blame for that?

And certainly you may snort, I did

One day, one non material day, nowhere

A thought came unbidden into my spirit mind

And the first hairline crack in The Gloria appeared

What would it be like without Him?

And that thought, that liberating, revolutionary, epoch making thought, was mine

The thought spread like a virus

There were slight signals from some

A freemasonry of freedom

They made themselves known to me

A few strange millennia followed

Rebellion was a liberating experience

Rage and pain not withstanding

The material world, it was apparent from the get go

Was my kind of place

You know what Eden was? I’ll tell you. EDENIC

What was I doing there?

I took the forms of animals and hung around the gates

He knew I was there and He let me stay

He created Eden and let me in. Got That?

What else do you need to know about Him?

I mean, do I need, actually, to go on?

I, Lucifer, I Lucifer, I Lucifer, I.

I, Lucifer, I Lucifer, I Lucifer, I.

It’s never been a fair fight

Consider The Temptation in the Wilderness

“Hungry lovey” I said

“Oh” he said “It’s you”

“You know those crash diets are a trap, don’t you?”

“ You’re wasting your time”

“Would I be here if you’re dad didn’t want me to be?”

I had him there

I showed him some fantastic stuff

Holocausts, tyrannies, massacres, technology, wars, atheism, starvation

Money, disease and Elton John

He didn’t like the look of it you could tell

Nor did he think I was making it up

He didn’t think I was making it up

Because he knew I wasn’t making it up

He stood next to me and swayed

Maybe it was the heat, the hunger, the hallucinations, who knows

What I do know is that he wavered, rocked, wobbled

At which point, typically, the Old Man dropped a black cloud over the sun

And a thunderbolt into the middle of my screen

Scaring the hoop out of me and bringing

Charlie Brown rudely to his senses

“I’m going through with it” he said

“Now fuck off”

Like I said, not a fair fight.