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The Handmaiden's Ghost
04:10
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Whispers wallow wailing wretched waif
Servant screaming searing soulless soil
Handmaiden hiding his hateful heart
Protecting precious pageantry peace prevails
What wretched weak willful wanton whore
Steals self-serving sanctity?
Her hollow handfast hectic hellfire
Pleasure prevalent placating phantoms
Underneath a wreckage of frail flesh
Lies the strength to take revenge
Biding time for her straying soul
She marks the days by scarring flesh
As they dine on others’ works
Acting alone the snare is set
To herself she cracks a sly smile
Within the hour the burning begins
Flames flicker frightfully
Searing scorching supple skin
Flowing following fearful fiends
Dancing delightfully daring Death
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Frailty of Power
03:53
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A murder of ravenous crows
Call out the doom of man’s hope
The masses of wealth will do nothing
For now their banner burns
All things fade and all life grows dim
Even the last to stand shall fold
As the pages turn to the end of his reign
Our flags fly at the top of the world
All glory lost
Betrayed what gave us hope
In between the deceit of man
Lies the fate of our absolution
And in the final moments
When Death has finally called
We shall resist our fate once more
Haunted we roam beneath the stars
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Ever Onward
04:25
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Warned explicitly of the terror
Disregard the scrutinous cowards
This horror has plagued us eternal
In darkness we’ll end its ghastly reign
Out to the sea, therein lies terror
From bow to stern, all brave men
FEARLESS!
Out from the deep, the nightmare strikes out
A score overboard, lost to the storm’s grip
SCREAMING!
ROW!
Fearless we strike, cleave limb and smite
Wounded beast, arm the ballista
FIRE!
The bolt sprung forward and pierced the beast’s heart
Our ship damaged beyond any hope of repair
Although we full well may perish before dawn’s rescue
This inexplicable horror, it dies, it dies with us
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Enslaved to Deceit
05:34
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Refuse lies
Take a stand
Never give in to their suffering
Don’t let them drag you down with them
Fight back
Rebel ever
As long as they betray the promise
They will cower in fear of us
Even their gods must die
From the flames we ever shall rise
Strike back
Lash out
They have made violence the language
Teach them the meaning of suffering
We resist
Don’t play their game
Of deception leading to misery
Smash and burn them all
Even their gods must die
From the flames we ever shall rise
In the palaces where they feel most safe
Set ablaze they all will turn to ash
This is the product of their self delusion
Believing they were above all reproach
Even their gods must die
From the flames we ever shall rise
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6. |
Witch, Mother, and Queen
06:11
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The vault lies open!
Screams from the thick
Howls from the night sky
Overwhelmed the spirits flee
Perplexing lust of blood’s embrace
She has arisen!
Figure disguised in beauty
Disfigurement lies just within
We approach with silent intent
Failure of will to never intrude
Upon the call of our witch
Surrender never to light
Behold for she will rise
And spill the essence in spite
Kindred in our ranks
Tribute the dragon’s mark
Honored to serve her will
Eternal matriarch
Shed the weakness from the burning soil
Spin the sky
She arise
Burn the dawn
Writhe in glory
Sacrifice to her charms
Gleaming bright, Her deadly eyes
Underneath the bliss ablaze
Eternal life, eternal night
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Destruction laid bare the lies we told ourselves
Believed in a future we knew would come
Reality and dreams both shattered amongst ruin
Nothing left to cling to in the newly dead world
They rise
In the night
We’ll fight
All our lives
Upon a pyre burns all but faint hope
In the darkness we’ll guard them from despair
They rise
In the night
We’ll fight
All our lives
And as our children’s love for us dies
I will carry with me the hate that burns in their eyes
They rise
In the night
We’ll fight
All our lives
Drawn from the depths
Strength grows slow
In the end of our kind
What shall our future sow
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The Wretched Vow
04:03
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They spit lies from truth
Spiraling into your own madness
Deceive the most devout
The opposition sees through the myth
Revolting, distractions, famine brings Death
Sworn, oaths, under duress
Loyal, subjects, murmurs of revolt
Freedom, vanquished, facade of safety
Concocted misinformation
A false tale so blatantly obvious
The enlightened seek the truth
But never again from your tongue, you liar
Dissent, sown, bears our weight
Unheard, abandoned, hear the cry
Of children, forgotten, never to die
For them, for us, you shall be put down
Transfer of power swift
Your reign is at its end
Standing on the corpse of deception
We forge ahead leaving the bones to dust
Arisen, stronger, cut the strings
Courage, truth, honor restored
Fallen, wretched, ever broken
Passing, fleeting, power of the wretched
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9. |
Marched To Death
06:49
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Chaos reigns here
The home of eternal warfare
Forever into the grinder of ruin
With glory from battle to battle
At the behest of our commander
We are marched to Death
Forever in service to slaughter
We are marched to Death
Born to war born for hate
Never known a day of peace
Paid the price in blood and steel
Gone all memories of home
At the behest of our commander
We are marched to Death
Forever in service to slaughter
We are marched to Death
Trampled the rose of redemption
Buried the hope of salvation
Deep in the souls of the damned
Only the hate for the enemy remains
At the behest of our commander
We are marched to Death
Forever in service to slaughter
We are marched to Death
Reaping the lives of millions
We are marched to Death
Blood shall spill eternal
We are marched to Death
No hope no deliverance
We are marched to Death
There will be no survivors
We are marched to Death
Women, children, innocent all
We are marched to Death
Victory by any means
We are marched to Death
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