1. ECCLESIA NOVORUM INNOCENTIUM

Timeless fable of a generation lost
Countless thousands perished for the cross
Real or nay it is a crucial warning told
Of the youth and how their innocence is sold

On San Pietro lies a temple to the slain
Ruins, surely, since memories have wained
Of the body count a holy war will bring
And the power lust of he, who would be king

Ecclesia Novorum Innocentium


2. SEPULCHRE

As a shepherd
Or a slave
Thirst for power
Never slaked
Graven pilgrim
Phantom Christ
Shall he send thee
To the fight?

Youthful Moses
Rally cry
Bring the children
Feed the lie
Weary soldiers
May have failed
Youthful legions
Blindly trail

To carry out this destiny
As noble as it seems
The fabric of the kingdom
Will unravel with this scheme
This flock you cannot tend
Live not to pretend

Beware the path before you
With the search you have confessed
To crusade for the kingdom
It will be a tragic quest
Ignore the masses' screams
For your ill-fated dreams
Sepulchre


3. ORPHAN OF DOOM

In sacred city ransom captive
Eternal battles re-enacted
These gates have seen countless invasions
By holy warriors armed and brazen

Kings and princes were unable
To liberate this burning cradle
Throngs of youth divine inspired
Shall launch the next crusade required

When you encounter the sword
You'd better plead with the Lord
As it cuts deeper than faith
The numbers that follow are strong
And/But they won't be living for long
Jerusalem's worlds away

From pastures and wretched hovels
Thy doom-bound orphans gather
Obeying not this warning:
Beware the snake-oil prophet
Here


4. MILLENIALISM

Burst one and all from your shackles
Relinquish trivial obligations
I bear the tidings of the Saviour
The chosen piper of yon voyage
Our mission really is quite simple
Convert the Saracens that loath us
Bring not a weapon to the battle
Faith shall illuminate the darkness

And though our purpose is forbidden
It trumps the tortures of the harvest
Glory and honor of the chivalry
Immortal in the peasant's lexicon
Our mission really is quite simple
Conquer the Saracens that bind us
Christ tires of vain and puny efforts
Of knights and warriors so honored

Hereafter
Dreams of the meek
Shall solely reign

Millenalism
Minds of the youth
Have gone insane

A world reborn in innocence through massacre
A world reborn in innocence through slaughter


5. LEGIONS OF THE ORIFLAMME

Holy Standard flies
Blown by Eastern winds
Wielding shock and awe
For the Saracens
Gilded chariot
With the lad from Cloyes
Witless Christian saint
Ventures forth

'Long the Rhone they marched
Not a second thought
Serfs and clergymen
Cheering reckless hearts
Gilded chariot
With the lad from Cloyes
Young and lecherous
Deft in vice

Emblazoned in red
For blood to be shed
Legions of the Oriflamme

Hail Jerusalem
Hope we're not too late
At the crypt of Christ
Scimitars await
Blades of Saracens
Shall disintegrate


6. THE ELUSIVE MIRACLE

After torturous miles
En route to the sea
But a fraction remained
His command that would heed
At the port of Marseilles
They were welcomed with glee
Where once warriors departed
At Lionheart's lead

With a similar fate
Met by the parallel throng
Who, too had marched to the shore
Just to find they were wrong
At the port of Brindisi
They were promptly enslaved
In Roman enemies' footsteps
That Spartacus paved

They marched these shores at his word
Entreating the sea but not heard
The Elusive Miracle spurned

With only one choice that is sane
Retreat to your homes in shame
Let the folly of youth reclaim you

Now that we've found our quest defeated
Where shall we go from here?
Clearly the sea will not be parting
And passion gives way to fear
It's hundred of miles back to my kinfolk
And pastures I've known for years
Youth leaves me ripe for exploitation
By savages known and feared
Now that we've found our quest defeated
What is our purpose here?
They've put them to shame with pure devotion
But the folly of youth is clear


7. HEINOUS CORPUS

Fields fallow since the war
Morbid children stride toward
A husk of life that's shucked and burned
As this heinous corpus learned
At the brink of hell

Born a cog in the kingdom's wheel
Bred to fight and kill afield
Naively found this destiny
Now on foreign soil you bleed
At the brink of hell

The victorious flag unveils
As countless victims lie impaled
For whom they died of no concern
As this heinous corpus learned
At the brink of hell

Infernal war
How hard we fell
You're such a knave
They'll never tell

Eternal war
How hard we fell
A heinous fate
Youthful infidel


8. JUDAS SHIPS

With passage seemingly denied
Stray not from heeding thy purpose
Too many miles in vain do precede you
Fleeing now does your Lord a disservice
Hugh the Iron and William the Pig
Seven vessels await your disposal
We resume at dawn the sacred mission
At the helm are your servants of profit

I once walked among the devoted
Shedding blood at the siege of Acre
The taste of deth has jaded my honor
Speak not of the sins I've courted
He's Hugh the Iron, I'm William the Pig
Seven vessels shall bear the flesh cargo
Quite a price they'll fetch in Bujeiah
At the helm are the agents of profit

One grave mistake deserves another
On the decks of Judas Ships they hover
Shrunken bodies stacked and used for cover
Surrendered by traitors like the others

Should have known it would end like this
No return to the chrysalis
Should have known it would end like this
Floating damned on a sea of myth


9. SLAVES

As 18 years just slipped away
With no word from the valiant herd
They just slipped away
There appeared a priest
Who did know the tale
Of the certain doom
That the children knew
After they set sail

Five ships survived
From the Judas fleet
As the Iron and the Pig
Turned a profit sweet
To Saracen fiends
At a handsome price
Was it for this
That we did enlist
In the army of Christ?

And what became of the pack of young crusaders
And their prophet from the village
(fields) of Cloyes?
Two ships were splayed of the coast of Sardinia
Five remained in betrayal's hands
(armed with belief in lieu of steel)

And (but) remain as slaves
Slaves The master changed

But their fate's the same To remain As slaves