WOOL OVER OUR EYES | Cult of the Lamb Song!

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Deep beneath, shackled to the void in a web of ancient chains, a great and terrible power waits. He has been waiting for so long. He has been waiting for you.
In Massive Monster’s β€˜Cult of the Lamb,’ you play as the titular lamb, saved from sacrifice and brought under the employ of β€˜The One Who Waits.’ You must find followers, farm devotion and form the ultimate cult, in your mission to take on the Bishops of the Old Faith and free your new otherworldly patron from their eternal prison.

I absolutely fell in love with this game when I first played it. The aesthetic, the sounds, the characters. I don’t typically play this sort of game at all, but the world of it totally drew me in just from the trailers and I knew I had to try it. And I am so glad I did!

In classic Stupendium style, this project started out small and then utterly snowballed, so I want to give a gargantuan thank you not just to my Patrons, but to everyone else who helped get this project past the finish line. Dominic, SeΓ‘nie, Dan, Liz. Thank you all!

I’m super proud of this one. I think lyrically it’s one of my favourites I’ve written for a long time. It’s certainly the most intricate I have ever attempted with rhythm and structure. I hope it has paid off!

#cultofthelamb #devolverdigital

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Lyrics and Vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium
Original game animation produced by @halfgiant3061
New art and animation by The Stupendium
Background painting and animation clean-up by Dominick Van Der Hoff: dominickbackgrounds.tumblr.com
Animation clean-up and colour: SeΓ‘nie O’Reilly: https://www.drawboyseanie.com/
Additional animation colouring: Dan Hamman
Additional artwork by Lizzy CJ
Animation supervisor: Peter Falk
Beat produced by @DansonnBeats & @TantuBeats
Mixing and mastering by @OxygenBeats

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34 thoughts on “WOOL OVER OUR EYES | Cult of the Lamb Song!”

  1. LYRICS:

    VERSE 1:
    As I skip amongst the thickets

    Well, just look at what I’ve found

    An innocent wee critter

    Sitting, shivering on the ground

    Entrapped and gagged and bound

    Upon a sacrificial mound

    Such a miserable predicament

    So, how’d you like the sound

    Of a haven-cum-community

    A vibrant congregation

    Of waywards just like you

    The fates aligned for me to save from

    The depraved and heathen demons

    And their vile abominations

    Enslaving feeble minds

    Into a life of prostration

    Not like my operation

    Not the slightest correlation

    Why, we’ve dances, feasts and festivals

    It’s like we’re on vacation

    No time for contemplation

    Would you like to come and take some

    Salvation in exchange

    For just some light indoctrination?

    THE PACT IS SEALED

    Welcome in, brethren!

    Step down off the pentagram

    Blessed be and bend the knee

    And pledge to me forever and

    Forget the need to question and

    We’ll never need to reprimand

    Lethargy is heresy

    You’re very keen to lend a hand

    There’s effigies to render

    And a temple yet to build

    We’ve many seeds to tend to

    And there’s earth still left to till

    And every second spare

    You’d best remember to keep filled

    In reverent prayer and penance

    Lest dissenters will be KILL-

    -ecting up the mess

    Until they find their crimes regrettable

    All evidence says heaven’s light’s

    Not likely for the sceptical

    The bedding’s of the finest moss

    The lichen often edible

    Now, don’t you think your life outside

    Was tiresome and forgettable?

    CHORUS 1:
    Deep in the dark of the woods

    Where secrets sleep

    We serve he who waits beneath

    Till the soul, devotion reap

    For the lamb who herds the sheep

    In the dark of the woods

    We pledge our lives

    Sages say that faith is blind

    Arms raised high in sacrifice

    Pull down wool over our eyes

    VERSE 2:

    Time for your donations

    Fill the dish up, pass the gold plate

    Every penny pays to kill

    The Bishops of the Old Faith

    Our benefactor waits

    Betwixt the crippling links of old chains

    Tethered to the plains

    Until the heretics are all slain

    So, pay the tithes and pray you might

    Remain upon the list of all

    The cherished, chosen children

    For whom love is unconditional

    Your contribution’s absolution

    For the guilt within you all

    Our movement may be new

    But all your sins are still original

    You’ll find my sermons stirring

    Form the circle, get your heads down

    Heavy hangs the neck

    Of any vessel of the Red Crown

    Blessed to be the shepherd

    Of the desperate and oppressed now

    Destined for ascension

    Ne’er the wealthy ever left ground

    So, empty out your bank accounts

    And dance around the fire

    And focus your devotion

    Through the crackling of the pyre

    So potent and ambrosial

    It flows through blackened spires

    To satiate our patron

    And their rancorous desires

    CLAUNECK:

    The game is barely set

    Yet e’er within the deck you’ve dwelt

    We’ve never met and yet

    We meet again upon my pelts

    The cards we want are often drawn

    But seldom ever dealt

    But, chance the hand you’re given

    Mayhap lift you where you fell

    Tell me, little lamb

    Do you see destiny immutable?

    Does fate or dedication

    Keep you bended knee and dutiful?

    Feign predestination?

    Or is zealotry the truth of all

    The paths you never take and never leave

    Yet in the future walk?

    Saviour or enslaver?

    Oh, these labels are but shallow things

    You brave the twisting mists

    Betwixt the hallowed and the harrowing

    And pray that they may shift

    Amidst the rhapsody of Haro’s wings

    So, just embrace the chaos

    And the clarity the tarot brings

    CHORUS 2:

    Deep in the dark of the woods

    Where secrets sleep

    We serve he who waits beneath

    Till the soul, devotion reap

    For the lamb who herds the sheep

    In the dark of the woods

    We pledge our lives

    Sages say that faith is blind

    Arms raised high in sacrifice

    Pull down wool over our eyes

    VERSE 3:

    The time has come, enlightened ones

    The hour is at hand

    Or do you doubt the crown?

    The righteous power it commands?

    We swear to scriptures devilish

    Devout or ever-damned

    Till fetid grip of heretics

    Is scoured from the land

    Who today can truly say

    Their faith has never faltered?

    Whose neck, so trained to pray

    Would never strain against the halter?

    These reins that pave the way

    Towards our patron’s radiant reign

    And so, which waif ordained by grace

    Shall fate see slain upon the altar?

    For what have we to give

    Once coin and toil have been expended?

    For naught have we to live

    If plots of soil to be lamented

    Are the unascended end

    To whence our mortal coil has wended

    The rested dead are spoiled

    Not with the spoils we are intended

    But flesh, bequeathed freely,

    grants a life a higher purpose

    In death, a deeper meaning,

    everlasting pious service

    Sowing seeds precedes a reaping

    Start a line, now who’s the first?

    You all decided to convert

    So tell me, why’re you so nervous?

    For your fervour has been fated now

    To satiate the beast

    In chains he waits beneath

    And how he craves to be released

    We celebrate in blessed flame

    So, pray and take a seat

    And pledge unto their name

    Lest you be plated at the feast

    Let your faith remain unshaken

    In our monastery’s beliefs

    You’ve no claim to consecration

    When there’s coffers to be greased

    Stay praiseful to your deity

    Their prophecy and priest

    For the sheep may be the shepherd

    But the flock is being fleeced

    CHORUS 3:

    Deep in the dark of the woods

    Where secrets sleep

    We serve he who waits beneath

    Give the flesh, ascension seek

    From the lamb who herds the sheep

    In the dark of the woods

    We pledge our lives

    Sages say that faith is blind

    Arms raised high in sacrifice

    Pull down wool over our eyes

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  7. I just listened this again with headphones and wow. A detail I have never heard before. The lyrics are heard in two ways. One: Normally and second: whispered. I was like wow. Thats cool.

    Or it is something wrong with my headphones.

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  11. Am i extremely late to mention this? yes.
    my absolute favorite part of this video is just how much magnificent double speak it includes, and the little tricks of that the lamb uses to convince you to join. specifically, the lines:

    "So, pay the tithes and pray you might

    Remain upon the list of all

    The cherished, chosen children

    For whom love is unconditional"

    By its very DEFINITION, "Unconditional" love cannot have the condition of monitary donations. "Unconditional" would require it to be *without condition*. its a simple set of lines that dont FEEL wrong at first glance when mixed in amongst the praise and worship, but when you look back onto it, it becomes a bright crimson red flag.
    People who join cults are not idiots. they are not ignorant, and they are not blind to the dangers.

    They are vulnurable, and when offered a chance for unconditional love? i think even id be able to look past the slight condition it carries.

    Long story short, sweet writing Stupes', ya keep getting better.

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  12. AAAAAA DUDE
    I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG
    I'VE HAD IT IN MY HEAD FOR A FEW DAYS… πŸ’€πŸ’€
    It doesn't really make me want to be in a cult πŸ˜‚πŸ₯²
    I love the tone you give in this song
    And towards the end also with the lamb (I don't know the exact minute)
    "WHY ARE YOU SO NERVOUS "
    Thank you so much anyway ❀❀❀

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  25. You MUST of took inspiration from Nook, Line and Sinker. Like the people standing and singing in the chorus and them feeding money into the tip box like the ATM-Like thing from Nook, Line and Sinker (both song absolute bangers btw)

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  32. Awesome song!
    The build-up and religiousity makes me remember the frostpunk rap battle from a few years ago.
    Kinda wish we got an alternate ending like for that project!

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  34. I like how the lamb's voice was all nice and friendly at first but slowly turned evil and gaslighting near the end, it's such a small detail but I love it (◍‒ᴗ‒◍)❀

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