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Church Of Bones
05:21
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"As you see yourself, I saw myself too. As you see me, you will see yourself. Everything ends in this. Think about it and you won't fall into sin."
Children of the plague and war
Gathered here to laud the Lord
Friars in their vestments
Merely a vessels
Once it has passed on
There is no meaning to our bones
So come here and contemplate
We are brethren in this fate
As you are, we once were
As we are, you shall be one day!
We are all like stones
In the Church of Bones
You won't hear a moan
Out of silent lips
Now we all are free
In our ossuary
Dormant in our vault
In the Church of Bones
How fleeting life can be
We are here to remind you this
But even on battered wings
Time flies relentlessly
Like the moon traversing the sun
The light escapes our eyes
So come here and contemplate
You will join us in this fate
As you are, we once were
As we are, you shall be one day!
We are all like stones
In the Church of Bones
You won't hear a moan
Out of silent lips
Now we all are free
In our ossuary
Dormant in our vault
In the Church of Bones
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La Danse Macabre
05:38
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Oh mighty emperor, sword doesn't help you now
Sceptre and crown have no value here
Oh holy man of God crowned with your mitre
Your piousness has no meaning for me
The end is coming
The scythe of Reaper strikes!
The bells are tolling
The fourth horseman rides!
And the Hades follows with him...
Oh, Children of the wisdom of this world
All who still draw breath
Put two words in your hearts
That were heard from Christ
The one is 'come here', the other 'go away'
Right or left, heaven or hell
Whether rich or poor, all are equal in Death
He brings all into his Dance!
A poor beggar here in life
Your things will succeed now
Hobble over here with your crutches
Death will show you special mercy
The end is coming
The scythe of Reaper strikes!
The bells are tolling
The fourth horseman rides!
And the Hades follows with him...
"The winter wind blows and the night is dark
Moans are heard in the linden-trees
Through the gloom white skeletons pass
Running and leaping in their shrouds"
Oh, Children of the wisdom of this world
All who still draw breath
Put two words in your hearts
That were heard from Christ
The one is 'come here', the other 'go away'
Right or left, heaven or hell
Whether rich or poor, all are equal in Death
He brings all into his Dance!
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Liber Loagaeth
05:54
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I stare upon my mirror black
In the obsydian stone I see the silhouettes
I orate my prayers to the Highest one
And I await you to emerge
Let the angels speak my name
In celestial alphabet
Like the Enoch spoke with God
I am now to know the lore
Secret book of the patriarch
Who was taken from this life
Ancient magic, secret speech
Now reveal itself to me!
I scry in my crystal ball
I see beginning when all things were named
When Eden fell the words were lost
Now they are fortelling me the end
But the time is still unknown
Only He can know the score
If I could only break the key
For the wisdom I beseech
Secret book of the patriarch
Who was taken from this life
Ancient magic, secret speech
Now reveal itself to me!
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"And here the dreaded ferryman guards the flood,
grisly in his squalor - Charon...
his scraggly beard a tangled mat of white, his eyes
fixed in a fiery stare, and his grimy rags hang down
from his shoulders by a knot. But all on his own
he puts his craft with a pole and hoists sail
as he ferries the dead souls in his rust-red skiff.
He's on in years, but a god's old age is hale and green."
He was born in a time before remembering
From the union of the Gods of darkness and night
Primordial deities, children of Chaos
Erebus and Nyx - they fathered Charon
Deathless demon of the underworld
In shining silver I'll pay my toll
Your eyes are like a glowing coals
I won't fall into the deep below
Son of night and shadow, ferrier of the dead
Please convey our shades to the shores of Hell
The abode of the lost where we have to go
In the boat of sinners through the River of Woe!
He rows back and forth across the waters of Acheron
With his hand upon the oar he grimly takes course
Into the eternal hereafter in Hades
Where our departed souls will rove for ages (and ages)
Deathless demon of the underworld
In shining silver I'll pay my toll
Your eyes are like a glowing coals
I won't fall into the deep below
Son of night and shadow, ferrier of the dead
Please convey our shades to the shores of Hell
The abode of the lost where we have to go
In the boat of sinners through the River of Woe!
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Embrace The Void
04:56
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Smote by storm, beguiled by the wind of fallen hopes
Beset by graven images of gods
My gloriole pales, black nimbus rains with drops of blood
Penitent man without absolve
I embrace the void
I disown the world
I embrace the void
Repentance has gone
No lodestar on my sky but even blindmen find
A hollow trail without return
Where mortifying ends and all fall in somnolence
Where hollowness is calling you
I embrace the void
I disown the world
I embrace the void
Repentance has gone
Never was beholden for
Being cast into this world
Never cared about this boon
I immerse myself in doom
I embrace the void
I disown the world
I embrace the void
Repentance has gone
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6. |
The Order Of The Dragon
04:10
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"O Quam Misericors est Deus"
Noble sons with chivalrous hearts
Knights and kings united in league
The crescent moon has arisen
To obscure our world with pernicious deeds
We defend the cross
And the East will fall
Ethos of the saints
Let the Dragon reign!
We're the true and pure fraternity
Proud heritage of Slavs
Twenty four souls, sworn to the sword
We're the end of the Ottoman hordes
We defend the cross
And the East will fall
Ethos of the saints
Let the Dragon reign!
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Sleeping With The Dead
06:27
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"Here I am lying down to sleep
No nightmare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth
and counted all stars
that appear in the skies
Thus help me God Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen!"
[Old German prayer]
I close my eyes again
I let the spirits put their spell
Cold hands embracing me
I cannot move, I cannot breathe
Oh no!
Trapped in this semi-weakened state
As shadow figures fills the room
I feel the pressure on my chest
And ominous, foreboding sense
Of dread!
Tonight I'll sleep with the dead
I walk with them when I rest my head
Beyond the realm of dream, they always come to me
My body's numb but the eyes can see
When slumber overlaps my consciousness
The ghosts and living interfere
The sens of self disappears
And I see disfigured me
I want them vanish into the ether
A shapeless phantoms of the night
Am I possessed or just insane
All I want to be awake
Tonight I'll sleep with the dead
I walk with them when I rest my head
Beyond the realm of dream, they always come to me
My body's numb but the eyes can see
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The Last Templar
07:54
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"Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us"
King Philip:
I will make you admit
Your guilt of heresy
De Molay:
I have never denied the Christ
Never trampled the cross
King Philip:
The inquisitors have arrived
And pain will extract the truth
De Molay:
By schemes and deceit you rule!
The last templar falls
And the bells will toll
But you'll hear his voice
Cursing enemies of God
Let the fire burn
It will come your turn
May your bloodline end
Death will follow your descent
King Philip:
After seven years you avowed
But now you have retracted your sins
De Molay:
My only sin is lies
Against my fellow knights
I only wanted relief
But on the scaffold I will show no fear
King Philip:
So, let it be!
The last templar falls
And the bells will toll
But you'll hear his voice
Cursing enemies of God
Let the fire burn
It will come your turn
May your bloodline end
Death will follow your descent
De Molay:
So here I stand
Before the walls of Notre Dame
The stake awaits me
But I will bear my torment with composure
The life offered me on infamous terms
I abandon without regret
King Philip:
Light up the pile!
I will see him burn
De Molay:
My death will be slow
And you'll hear my curse
Within a year you will fall
Both king and pope!
The last templar falls
And the bells will toll
But you'll hear his voice
Cursing enemies of God
Let the fire burn
It will come your turn
May your bloodline end
Death will follow your descent
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