DISC 1



1. IF ETERNITY SHOULD FAIL



Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man

Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man

When the world was virgin,
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness,
The beginning of the end

From a world of magma
To a cold rock face
The ascent of madness
And a human race

We are strange believers, all of us
There are stranger truths
Immortal lust
We rise from slumber, he calls our name
Recalls our number, abide with pain

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

To God’s illusion which I recall
Was our delusion before the fall
The angels come and the angels go
But the lord of light shining below

Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master’s table, the table’s bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail

Good day, my name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew
I have long forgotten
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while




2. SPEED OF LIGHT


Another time, another place
A hollow universe in space
I took a trip to see the sights
I will be blacker than the night

One way ticket no return
My shooting star so fast it burns
On the edge that you can’t see

Let’s shoot the moon, you and me
I’m not particular you see
Just a lonesome galaxy

Shadows in the stars we will not return
Humanity won’t save us at the speed of light

Shadows in the stars we will not return
Humanity won’t save us we slip into the night

I’ll say a mass for you and wave
Shooting plasma from my grave
Event horizon lost in space
Running in a human race

I don’t know where I don’t know when
But somehow back there time again
I’m on the edge that you can’t see

I’m not particular at night
A single particle of me
You won’t be tracking me by sight

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
We slip into the night

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

We slip into the night




3. WRATHCHILD


I was born into a scene
Of angriness and greed
And dominance and persecution
My mother was a queen
My dad I’ve never seen
I was never meant to be

And now I spend my time
Looking all around
For a man
That’s nowhere to be found
Until I find him
I’m never gonna stop searching
I’m gonna find my man
Gonna travel around

‘Cause I’m a wrathchild
Well I’m a wrathchild
Yeah I’m a wrathchild
I’m coming to get you, oooh yeah!

Some say it shouldn’t matter
Ain’t nothin’ gonna alter
The course of my destination
I know I’ve got to find
Some serious peace of mind
Or I know I’ll just go crazy

And now I spend my time
Looking all around
For a man
That’s nowhere to be found
Until I find him
I’m never gonna stop searching
I’m gonna find my man
Gonna travel around

‘Cause I’m a wrathchild
Well I’m a wrathchild
Yeah I’m a wrathchild
I’m coming to get you, oooh yeak.




4. CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED

He’s walking like a small child
But watch his eyes burn you away
Black holes in his golden stare
God knows he wants to go home

Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned

He’s walking like a dead man
If he had lived he would have crucified us all
Now he’s standing on his last step
He thought oblivion well it beckons us all

Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned
Children of the damned

Now it’s burning his hands, he’s turning to laugh
Smiles as the flame sears his flesh
Melting his face, screaming in pain
Peeling the skin from his eyes
Watch him die according to plan
He’s dust on the ground
What did we learn?

You’re children of the damned
Your back’s against the wall
You turn into the light
You’re burning in the night
You’re children of the damned
Like candles watch them burn
Burning in the light
You’ll burn again tonight

Children of the damne




5. DEATH OR GLORY

I see the enemy, I know he can’t see me
Combat red in tooth and claw
Ready now for one more score

Took a bullet in my brain
Inside I’m the king of pain
Outside you will fear my name
I ride a blood red triplane

Turn like the devil
Shoot straight from the sun
Climb like a monkey
Out of hell where I belong

Death or glory, it’s all the same
Death or glory, the price of fame

Death or glory, I’m in the game of
Death or glory, a one way train

I watch you spiral down
Dead before you hit the ground
Bullet got you in the back
Deflection shooting beam attack

I shoot the gunner first
I kill to quench my thirst
I hunt the weakest prey
Live to fly another day

Turn like the devil
Shoot straight from the sun
Climb like a monkey
Out of hell where I belong

Death or glory, it’s all the same
Death or glory
The price of fame

Death or glory
I’m in the game of
Death or glory
A one way train

Turn like the devil
Shoot straight from the sun
Climb like a monkey
Out of hell where I belong

Death or glory
It’s all the same
Death or glory
The price of fame

Death or glory
I’m in the game of
Death or glory, a one way train

Death or glory, it’s all the same
Death or glory, the price of fame

Death or glory, I’m in the game of
Death or glory, a one way train



6. THE RED AND THE BLACK

The morals of life and the perils of death
Take the wrong way out running
out of breath
Meet my match in the afterlife
Suppress the demons that plague the night

A tortured mind is a safe place to go
But the truth lurks down in the dark below
Step inside my inquisitive mind
Are you scared at what you just might find

See myself in the hall of mirrors
A different shape every step I take
A different mind every step of the line
But in the end they are all mine

p>Laughing sorrow inside your head
Can’t get out just a feeling of dread
I know this burden’s a heavy load
A dark mistake never ending road

The black jack king and the red queen clash
The artful dodger he counts his stash
The joker’s wild like an impish child
While madame fortune she waits inside

The good luck charm is overkill
The tired old soldier says fire at will
Planes overhead go search destroy
The ones below human decoy

I need somebody to save me

Meanwhile we play the waiting game
The clock is struck the horse is lame
And when we think that this is done
Chance your luck a four leafed one

You hedge your bets the battle lost
To wait in vain and count the cost
The thin edged line
Between good and bad
And cast the luck be happy sad

I need somebody to save me

The red and the black
People don’t want the truth
Look in their eyes and you send them away

The red and the black
Fate and hypocrisy
Burden’s a heavy load there is no doubt

The red and the black
All out of luck again
How many chances can anyone have

The red and the black
Treachery out to win
There in the wrong place and at the wrong time
I need somebody to save me




7. THE TROOPER

You’ll take my life
But I’ll take yours too
You’ll fire your musket
But I’ll run you through
So when you’re waiting
For the next attack
You’d better stand
There’s no turning back

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death

Ooooooooh! Ooooooooh!

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race toward the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won’t live to fight another day

Ooooooooh! Ooooooooh!

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body’s numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan

Ooooooooh! Oooooooo




8. POWERSLAVE


Into the Abyss I’ll fall
The eye of Horus
Into the eyes of the night
Watching me go
Green is the cat’s eye that glows
In this temple
Enter the risen Osiris
Risen again

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don’t wanna die, I’m a God
Why can’t I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I’m a slave to the Power of Death

When I was living this lie
Fear was my game
People would worship and fall
Drop to their knees
So bring me the blood and red wine
For the one to succeed me
For he is a Man and a God
And He will die too

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don’t wanna die, I’m a God
Why can’t I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I’m a slave to the Power of Death

Now I am cold but a ghost
Lives in my veins
Silent the terror that reigned
Marbled in stone
A shell of a man God preserved
For a thousand ages
But open the gates of my Hell
I will strike from the grave

Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don’t wanna die, I’m a God
Why can’t I live on?
When the Life-Giver dies
All around is laid waste
And in my last hour
I’m a slave to the Power of Death

Slave to the Power of Death…
Slave to the Power of Death...




9. THE GREAT UNKNOWN


Winter softly falling to the ground
Calmly waiting don’t you hear a sound

When the world has fallen to the depths below
Where the future’s open and the fear has grown

And the path to follow to the great unknown
Where the dark has fallen and the seed is sown

In the selfish hearts of some
The nightmare’s coming
With the spilling blood of others
Now wringing through

Now the cup is spilling over
Wake to news of death
And the prophecy of sages
Destiny is met

To the depths of human mind
The cry is burning
With the mentor’s anger
Of the lesson ringing true

And for those who live by
And are dying by the sword
They will take their ideals with them
Justify their end

Where the fools are lying
And the meek are crying
Where the wolves are preying
On the weak alone

Where the sons are dying
Hear their mothers crying
And the distant sound of fire
Begins again

Never ending the desires of men
It’ll never be the same or calm again
In a time of changing hearts
And great unknown
It’ll be the damnation and end of us all

Where the fools are lying
And the meek are crying
Where the wolves are preying
On the weak alone

Where the sons are dying
Hear their mothers crying
And the distant sound of fire begins again

Never ending the desires of men
It’ll never be the same or calm again
In a time of changing hearts
And great unknown
It’ll be the damnation and end of us all

When the world has fallen
And we stand alone




DISC 2



1. THE BOOK OF SOULS


Sacrifices buried with kings
Accompany them on a journey with no end
To an afterlife that’s rich
With fruit of all the gods
And to face the demons
Of their underworld haunts

The sentient is sent to seek out all the truth
A flight to earth that is a given from his birth
To rise from ashes of the dead
Out of the fire is sent to fulfil
man’s desire

By power day and night and death he ruled them
The sky and earth and the fires too
Two headed reptile symbol of his reign
Universes of the underworld

A life that’s full of all the wealth and riches
Can never last for an eternity
After living in a golden paradise
The ultimate sacrifice

Prophecy of sky gods, the sun and moon
Passing of old ways will come true
soon
Falling of ages, forest of kings
The search for the truth, the book of souls

The rulers of planets and stars
The power of the kings of traders and the wars
Planetary cycles and the phases of the moon
Is in the document a kingdom they will learn

They were praying to the gods of nature
And were living in the cities of stone
Towers reaching upward to the heavens
Sacred wonders for the world unknown

Make their lives be a mystery no more
Records kept and the passing of laws
Sacred gods to the book of lies
When a civilization dies

Prophecy of sky gods
The sun and moon
Passing of old ways will come true
soon

Falling of ages
Forest of kings
The lost book of souls, destruction begins

Ascending the throne wearing feathers and
shells
He brought back their lives from the void
Alien invasion brings nothing but death
Mass exodus and plant life destroyed

Domain of the earth to the journey of truth
The underworld caves mayan slaves

Defeat of the dark lords
The ultimate proof
In the place where the ancestors rule

The book of souls




2. FEAR OF THE DARK


I am a man who walks alone
And when I’m walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it’s dark
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something’s always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone’s always there

Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you’re searching for the light?
Sometimes when you’re scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You’ve sensed that something’s watching you

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something’s always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone’s always there

Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no-one’s there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you’re sure there’s someone there

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something’s always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone’s always there

Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark

Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklore
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind

Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a constant fear
That something’s always near
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark
I have a phobia
That someone’s always there

When I’m walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone…




3. IRON MAIDEN


Won’t you come into my room
I wanna show you all my wares
I just want to see your blood
I just want to stand and stare
See the blood begin to flow
As it falls upon the floor
Iron Maiden can’t be fought
Iron Maiden can’t be sought

Oh well, wherever
Wherever you are
Iron Maiden’s gonna get you
No matter how far
See the blood flow
Watching it shed up above my head
Iron Maiden wants you for dead

Won’t you come into my room
I wanna show you all my wares
I just want to see your blood
I just want to stand and stare
See the blood begin to flow
As it falls upon the floor
Iron Maiden can’t be fought
Iron Maiden can’t be sought

Oh well, wherever
Wherever you are
Iron Maiden’s gonna get you
No matter how far
See the blood flow
Watching it shed up above my head
Iron Maiden wants you for dead




4. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST


Woe to you, oh Earth and Sea,
for the Devil sends the beast with wrath,
because he knows the time is short…
– Revelations 12:12

Let him who hath understanding reckon
the number of the beast
for it is a human number,
its number is Six hundred and sixty six.
– Revelations 13:18

I left alone, my mind was blank
I needed time to think
To get the memories from my mind
What did I see? Can I believe
That what I saw that night
Was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams
Were they reflections of my warped mind
Staring back at me
‘Cause in my dreams it’s always there
The evil face that twists my mind
And brings me to despair

Night was black, was no use holding back
‘Cause I just had to see
Was someone watching me
In the mist
Dark figures move and twist
Was this all for real
Or just some kind of hell?

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire
Was spawned to be released

Torches blazed
And sacred chants were praised
As they start to cry
Hands held to the sky
In the night
The fires burning bright
The ritual has begun
Satan’s work is done

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can’t go on
I must inform the law
Can this still be real
Or some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn
Toward the evil chanting hordes
Seem to mesmerize me
Can’t avoid their eyes

Six six six – the Number of the Beast
Six six six – the one for you and me

I’m coming back, I will return
And I’ll possess your body
And I’ll make you burn
I have the fire, I have the force
I have the power to make
My evil take its course




5. BLOOD BROTHERS

And if you’re taking a walk through the garden of life
What do you think you’d expect you would see?
Just like a mirror
Reflecting the moves of your life
And in the river reflections of me

Just for a second a glimpse of my father I see
And in a movement he beckons to me
And in a moment the memories are all that remain
And all the wounds are reopening again

We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers

And as you look all around at the world in dismay
What do you see, do you think we have learned
Not if you’re taking a look at the war-torn affray
Out in the streets where the babies are burned

We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers

There are times when I feel I’m afraid for the world
There are times I’m ashamed of us all
When you’re floating on all the emotion you feel
And reflecting the good and the bad

Will we ever know
What the answer to life really is?
Can you really tell me what life is?
Maybe all the things
That you know that are precious to you
Could be swept away by fate’s own hand

We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers

When you think that we’ve used
All our chances
And the chance to make everything right
Keep on making the same old mistakes
Makes untipping the balance so easy
When we’re living our lives on the edge
Say a prayer on the book of the dead

We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers
We’re blood brothers



6. WASTED YEARS


From the coast of gold, across the seven seas
I’m travelin’ on far and wide
But now it seems
I’m just a stranger to myself
And all the things I sometimes do
It isn’t me but someone else

I close my eyes and think of home
Another city goes by in the night
Ain’t it funny how it is
You never miss it ’til it’s gone away
And my heart is lying there
And will be ’til my dying day

So understand
Don’t waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living
In the golden years

Too much time on my hands
I got you on my mind
Can’t ease this pain so easily
When you can’t find the words to say
It’s hard to make it through another day
And it just makes me wanna cry
And throw my hands up to the sky

So understand
Don’t waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living
In the golden years

So understand
Don’t waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living
In the golden years

So understand
Don’t waste your time
Always searching for those wasted years
Face up… make your stand
And realise you’re living
In the golden years