1. |
In Light and Shade
04:50
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Alone we wander
Together bound
Ride eternal
Forever unbroken
In the darkness
I heard no answers
While bathed in light
I saw no truth
Never meeting
Yet persevering
On parallel paths
Never yielding
In the darkness
I heard no answers
While bathed in light
I saw no truth
Parched with thirst
Of knowledge beyond me
Grasping blindly
For some semblance of hope
Barely alive
Yet I remain relentless
This unending path
Leads me to something unknown
In the darkness
I heard no answers
While bathed in light
I saw no truth
Unrelenting dissonance
Deafens my ears
Sulfur and sage
Burn my lungs
Sharp beams of light
Pierce the blackest of night
Unable to find my way
I shall never fall
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2. |
From the Fire
03:30
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Early in the morning
With eager tools of death
The only warning was the crow
They have bound and gagged her
And led her far from here
All for their callous vile show
From the fire
Burns her desire
From the fire
We rise higher
It is as I expected
The accusations came
They drag her out into the snow
Amongst the throngs of filth
The flames crack and burn
Into the fire she must go
From the fire
Burns her desire
From the fire
We rise higher
As she burns, I hear their laughter
As she burns, I hear her screaming
From the fire
Burns her desire
From the fire
We rise higher
I weep while embers cool
Drying my mournful tears
A curse upon them I bestow
Alone as night creeps in
I sense her presence still
In the moonlight’s eerie glow
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3. |
The Unburied
03:08
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This was foreseeable
And it was all preventable
But why would it end any other way
Than with man’s self-annihilation?
An ever escalating conflict
In service only to the destruction
We are chasing after meaningless ends
That will lead us all to our own
As the sky rains only ash
And all becomes lifeless
There are none left to mourn
For we are all left unburied
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Cower in your weak existence
Clinging to a faith long dead
As the world leaves you all behind
Screaming into emptiness
Stifling words from the pulpit
Chains meant to ensure their servitude
When beliefs are challenged
You claim to hear but do not listen
Break the chains!
What was once called so divine
Has always been profane
Those seeking power and control
Knowing what they spit were lies
Day by day more awaken
As time ticks your power fades
Flailing madly in the darkness
Bringing forth your own demise
Break the chains!
Break the chains!
Crush their lie.
Pluck their eyes.
They all die.
We shall rise.
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5. |
A Haunting
05:06
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So long ago
You stood beside me
Your place now empty
I dine alone
Nights grow longer
Far more restless
Chills are deeper
Misery endless
Your memory a curse, it haunts me, it taunts me
Gone to an early grave, how could you, how dare you
My sorrow an endless pit, it pulls me, it drowns me
Your prophecy self-fulfilled, I blame you, I damn you
Close my eyes
You in your casket
Ageless beauty
Your light is gone
Mourn forever
Wracked by love’s loss
Each night sleepless
Each dawn a wound
Your memory a curse, it haunts me, it taunts me
Gone to an early grave, how could you, how dare you
My sorrow an endless pit, it pulls me, it drowns me
Your prophecy self-fulfilled, I blame you, I damn you
Once again as I sit here at twilight
Another day wasted to hindsight
Should I have tried so much harder to save you?
Or was there nothing any of us could ever do?
In the cold of January’s grip
I hear the words pour from your dead lips
On the winds your voice calls out to me
Forever night, is this how it will always be?
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6. |
Malice
04:31
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Forever cursed to the dark
Unseen and long forgotten
Bidding time for thousands of years
Gathering strength and in force
All the numbers are at last come together
Our resolve will finally be tested
The moment has now arrived
From the unknown we uncoil
Strike cold
Strike cold
With Malice
From beyond all places known
Rising to meet our enemy
A rage for far too long unquenched
Might at last be satisfied this night
Fangs, claws, blood, and death
Rise to fill the cold winter air
Unprepared and completely unwilling
Countless thousands go to their grave
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7. |
To Worship Ancients
05:14
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Arise
Dagon
Arise
Dagon
Alone
Teeming
Unknown
Terror creeping
A shadow is rising
Up from the below
Horror is seizing
Into the deep you’ll go
A frantic descent
There is no escape
No return to sanity
A feverish dream made real
Dagon stands before you!
The end is near
It shall not find me
That hand!
The window! The window!
Arise
Dagon
Arise
Dagon
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8. |
Suffering in Delusion
03:15
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All reason abandoned to a self-proclaimed deity
Surrendered your self-control in a payment of flesh
An unwise move not repented, beyond your own self-interest
Believing the lie leading to a crushed fantasy
Sheep claiming to be wolves break at any resistance
Clinging to a foolish belief in a warped delusion
Superior only at abdication of their oaths
When Death comes for them they wail and moan
Honorless thieves
A sad state of affairs
Guided no longer
Stepping out blinded
Reborn into nothing
Chosen a path
Refusal of the truth
You lie the best to yourselves
Even at the end
Gasping for your life
Tears fill your eyes
My heart is cold
And as you and yours pass from this world
We gather to rejoice and laugh
Free from your tyrant and his deception
One struggle ends and now our work endures
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9. |
Winter's Harvest
02:58
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What was once a cradle is now a tomb
Following blindly, sealing our doom
Eyes barely open, not yet to crawl
Endless corruption, that damned us all
It's a winter's harvest
It's a winter's harvest
Wreckage reclaimed, existence erased
No clocks tick, all lies in waste
Burning fields and barren seas
The only traces left of man’s disease
It's a winter's harvest
It's a winter's harvest
We are all culled!
We are all culled!
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10. |
Swords Forever Raised
06:43
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A quarter century and we still burn bright
Those who hunted us have fallen far behind
The resplendent eerie glow of endless fires
Casts well the fallen and those who stand with us
Through the bleakest nights and the pouring rain
We are watched forever through the witch’s eyes
Songs will raise the banner to rally upon the hill
Those who bring great honor, they shall never die
Arrows litter starlight skies
This is where they shall all die
Striking flesh crushing bone
From the blackness falls great stone
Shoulder-to-shoulder with ranks maintained
Marching forth our rage unrestrained
To our enemies we lay waste
Our trust in steel has been well placed
We hold firm never giving ground
Their weak attempts shall never pull us down
They must be forced upon their knees
Beheaded by axe with great expertise
So many have stood together side by side
I carry them with me until I die
That day far from now when I breathe my last
To the oaths we swore forever hold fast
With our swords forever raised we will fight ‘til end of days
With our horns forever raised we shall drink and sing their praise
With our swords forever raised we will fight ‘til end of days
With our horns forever raised we shall drink, our hearts ablaze
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