1. AUREOLE

Pale and ghost-like
The mist floats away
Away from the stream
That through night and day
When I dream

Pours forth to the desolate darkness its song
All night long
Now the path of the morning sun is etched in earth
The birth of daylight

Aureole
When viewed through the night-time haze
When cometh forth the rays
Aureole, Aureole
I’m in a trance
Searching through memories of your radiance
Your radiance

The peak of the snow-capped giant is purpled in light
And the grass with the night dew is diamonded white
The stream...

Pours forth to the desolate darkness its song
All night long
Now the path of the morning sun is etched in earth
The birth of daylight

Aureole
When viewed through the night-time haze
When cometh forth the rays
Aureole, Aureole
I’m in a trance
Searching through memories of your radiance
Your radiance

The birth of daylight


2. FROM DARKEST SKIES

Take your own sick with fever
And cry out loud to God
Your sorry own will be piled upon me
That I can’t see my God

I’ve cried for earth more than once
But rivers still run with reddest tears
Be lost in me and I’ll never need to ask
Who wants me? Who wants Me?

Be mine tonight
The sight of your light
I’ll breathe in you
I’m a fool, just for you

I’m in pain and I don’t know why
Under heavy rain from darkest skies
We’re in pain the two of us
And I no longer know which way to go

Open wide
Let me see
Your bleeding heart cries for me

Look straight up
Look at the sun
This song’s for her
Her requiem

Open wide
Let me see
A poisoned soul in agony

Self pity strangles me
I’m lashed by grief
And I’m killing me

Don’t fear
My fire is enough for both of us

Be mine tonight
The sight of your light
I’ll breathe in you
I’m a fool, just for you


3. A DYING WISH

I bear the seed of ruin
A golden age turned to stone
Elysium... to dust

For this, a tragic journey
A vision of a dying embrace
Scattered earth
Silence!...

Where Echonia wept
I sank into the silent desert

Fallen am I
In the solitude of a broken promise
I cried alone

My empyrean is a scar
From the memory of her beautiful life
Forever was her name

Fulfillment lost in a lifetime of regret
Ornate peace would cover me
As I would die now
For one last wish


4. JOYFUL TEARS OF SORROW

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5. ETERNAL

Why can’t we hear?
The time must come for us to leave here
Emotion has withered away
Our burnt out love has decayed

Obsessed to leave the earth
Tragedy has overrun since birth

Now our righteous father’s weep
As we greet eternal sleep
Are we born to pass away

Cry at all that remains
‘Chosen words’ fail to sustain
The wisdom of powers heard
In dismal thoughts seemingly absurd

Now as hope and glory dies
We'll scream at our demise
Are we lost forever more?

Now our righteous father’s weep
As we greet eternal sleep
Are we born to pass away


6. BE FOREWARNED

As I wake in the darkness
And I look around there is no sound
It’s so tranquil, it’s so calm like you
But now I hear a noise
Is there any way to out of this nightmare?

Baby I’m alone now and you’re laughing at me
But I take life in a way that you could never see
So if you’re leaving you better let me know
‘Cause I’ve already started my plan
And I’m never gonna let you go!

I’ve lived on the dark side of the moon
And I’ve been to the heart of the sun

I’ve had my time with many ladies
And I’ve killed many men
Before my sixteenth year was done

Be forewarned
I’m coming after you
About the time I catch up to you

I’ll never
No, I’ll never
I’ll never let you go
No!

Some people think I’m an advocate of Lucifer
And some say I’m a child of God
Yes, they do

Some people think I’ve got the nine lives of a cat
And others say I’m filthy as a dog

You be forewarned
I’m coming after you
About the time I catch up to you

I’ll never
No, I’ll never
I’ll never let you go
No!

Alright!

Be forewarned
I’m coming after you
About the time I catch up to you

I’ll never
No, I’ll never
I’ll never let you go
No!

Alright!


7. CRITICAL MADNESS

Mind snapped thoughts of death
Demented voices in his head
Chainsaw victim covered in blood
Severed body left for dead

Bloody killing spree
Brain fried eternally
Psychotic mission of death
Critical madness
Self inflicted pain
Slicing his face to shreds

Brutal blow to the face
Sentenced to death by a swing of a mace
Blown out brains with a grenade
Hallucinating brain decayed

Bloody killing spree
Brain fried eternally
Psychotic mission of death
Critical madness
Self inflicted pain
Slicing his face to shreds

OK!
I’ll do it!

Violent breakdown
Truth of dare
Cut your flesh to the bone
No hope for a normal life
Insane asylum is your home


8. COUNTESS BATHORY

Welcoming the virgins fair to live a noble life
In the castle known to all
The Count’s infernal wife
She invites the peasants with endless lavish foods
But, when evening spreads it wings
She rapes them of their blood

Countess Bathory
Countess Bathory

All day long the virgins sit and feast on endless meals
The Countless laughs and sips her wine
Her skin doth crack and peel
But when nighttime fills the air one must pay the price
The Countess takes her midnight bath
With blood that once gave life

Countess Bathory
Countess Bathory

Countess Bathory
Countess Bathory

Living in her self styled hell
The Countess dressed in black
Life’s so distant, death’s so near
No blood to fury time back
The castle walls are closing in
She’s crippled now with age
Welcomes death with open arms
The reaper turns the page

Countess Bathory
Countess Bathory


9. FOR ALL ETERNITY

As I walk the earth
With the sins of...mankind

These eyes of hate stare
From an unforgiving...man

By the voices of our children cry
Are we reminded?
As their souls are torn
A mere excuse for a sickened mind

The pain I can’t let go
Innocence is over

As they stand before us
With judging eyes

With judging eyes

This bitter man stands alone
As tears roll down their faces
Don’t turn your back on them

Understand there is no understanding
For their disease
They justify

By the voices of our children cry
Are we reminded?
As their souls are torn
A mere excuse for a sickened mind

The pain I can’t let go
Innocence is over

As they stand before me
With judging eyes

With judging eyes

This bitter man stands alone
As tears roll down their faces
Don't turn your back on them

As they reach for security
Cruelty strips their life away
For all eternity


10. THE SWARM

Catch fire
Just like a living disease
Unholy desire
A world on it’s knees

Our burning minds
They are ridden of hope
In a dreaming utopia
Dead on dope

A generation of obscenities
We have lost our faith in our own creativity
What is evil, but good
Tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst?

The living end
The dwarfed soul of man
The living end

The sweetest of lies
It’s embrace so warm
So void of life
One with the promised swarm

Our burning minds
They are ridden of hope
In a dreaming utopia
Dead on dope

A generation of obscenities
Our ignorance will be the end of humanity
A dead nation under one dead god

The living end
The dwarfed soul of man
The living end
Living end

Written in napalm over genetic wastelands
We move on, our fate is to die by our own hand
A dead nation under one dead god

What is evil, but good
Tortured by its own hunger and thirst?


11. CATHARSIS

Watching the hit
I feel calm
Crying and blood
Try smell harm
Back I go
This mode of mind
You see me nice
You see me kind

My eyes strain
A blatant stain
This bloody picture
Failing to scare
My eyes strain
A blatant stain
This bloody picture
Failing to scare

My eyes strain
A blatant stain

Can’t touch it
It goes through me
Can’t feel the hit
All I do is see
The two sides of me
This square of glass
Watch from a distance
And let it all pass

My eyes strain
A blatant stain
This bloody picture
Failing to scare
My eyes strain
A blatant stain
This bloody picture
Failing to scare

My eyes strain
A blatant stain

Strain
Stain