1. HELL MADE VACANT (INTRO)

Hell is made vacant


2. CONQUERED GRAVE (REMASTERED)

A force more powerful than everyone and everything
Yet even Christians underestimate you

I was numb before I knew you
I was dead before I knew you
I was cold before I knew you
I never thought I would know you

Now I feel you in everything
Now I seek you in everything

I thank you even when I'm down
And when my sins make me drown

I know that your kingdom is eternal
Could never fall or be invaded
I know that if the whole world hated you
I would stand against it all

In sacrifice you conquered the grave
Through you I am no demon's slave
You gave me everything
When you died upon the cross

I am undeserving
Of everything that you gave
You have conquered everything
And I know you're truly God

I thank you
For everything
Even when it seems I'm ungrateful


3. A BURDEN GREATER THAN MARTYRDOM

Holy Patriarch Tikhon pray to God for us
You who protected your flock in troubling times
As the God-hating bolsheviks attempted to destroy
The Church which is undestroyable

Holy Tikhon you suffered as your flock was persecuted
By the atheistic uprising that hated us
Decades of persecutions
Til your last breath you fought against heresy

You suffered
Your heart full of love for your flock
You suffered
Despised by the heretics of the "living church"

You were hated by many for your righteous acts
Many clergy martyred by those who opposed you
Mercilessly killed around you
While you were merciful and forgiving
Firm and unbending in the Orthodox faith
You foresaw the coming tragedies
"Lamentations, mourning, and woe"

Political pressures
Tempting you to side
In petty worldly quarrels
As tensions rise

You focused on spiritual warfare
Rather than the hateful feuds of flesh
Defending the Church from poisonous reform
Your love left bolshevik hearts in scorn
You blessed the martyrdom of those who received crowns
You refused to throw away what's sacred
Most pleasing to Christ, you suffered greatly
Martyrdom would have been more easy


4. CONQUERED WORLD (REMASTERED)

Conflict, struggles, strife, tribulation

Another phase of sorrow gripping hold of my life
The devil and his demons laugh as I endure great strife

But there's one thing that I know
Through this cruel world he'll guide me
Though it batters me on the daily
He has risen far above it all

For he has said to be of good cheer
Through my tribulations
This world brings me suffering
But I shall not fear for he has conquered the world

For when there is darkness in my life
I can rest assured he'll shed his light
All my problems will come to pass
I will soon be at peace at last

Laugh in the face of this evil-ran domain
Through every struggle, through all the pain
Praise to the savior who conquered this all
This world may be doomed but I won't fall
Came forth from the Father
Conquered the world
Returned to the Father
But we'll lament no more

The prince of this world now stands condemned
Time to face divine judgment
To stand with Christ is not to fall
For he has conquered it all


5. EXPONENTIAL SECTARIANSIM

I reject your self-interpretations
Your violated editions
Defiled by reformist con-men
To affirm your false churches

Down with your political gospel
Your sad sectarian pride
Your fake idea of the faith
Riddled with poisonous lies

Discomforted, away from the Truth you embark
Offering a tattered raft to those who refuse the Ark

Exponential sectarianism
Endless denominations, endless lies


6. IT APPEARS ALMOST NORMAL (REMASTERED)

It once was me and still is me, I see it everywhere
The greatest enemy to us yet very few beware

I see it in the actions of the everyday man
Trying to get by joyously
Reckless greed for ungrated things
Punished accordingly

It appears almost normal
And dwells everywhere
Whispering into our ears

It's our primal desires
Our greatest dreams
Our misery and our fears

Flittering spirits
In the shadows
Fallen angels beckon us
To take and give rarely
To indulge without care
Take what is not given to us

Degrading, using, ruining
Beautiful lives for our gain
It seems almost normal for us
To inflict such levels of pain

Enticing us to satisfy ourselves
Determined to drag us to hell


7. TRAMPLED DEATH

Was, is, always will be
Before Abraham was He
Christ was always in power
Always was the Trinity

When the myrrh-bearing women arrived at the tomb
They found it desolate
"Why do you seek the living among the dead?"

Rejoice for Christ is risen
Who shattered the chains of death
The kingdom of hell reduced to rubble
And the gates of paradise are open again

Death, the weapon of Satan
Lies broken and useless
The kingdom of Hades
Suffered a rapid death

As Adam and Eve are pulled from their tombs
The righteous perished are relived of death
They awaited for centuries and millennia
On the arrival of the Messiah

Broken open, desolated, decimated
The dark prison of Hades liberated
The God of life extinguishes death
The God of light permeates the dark

The gates of Hell are broken
Hades is now a wasteland
This lightning fast invasion
Laid hell to waste
The sting of death erased
The empire of hell in ruins
The righteous now set free
As hell crumbles beneath pierced feet

I turn my eyes to worldly riches while you entered this world in a manger
I run from my certain death while you embraced yours

In death You opened up the gates of paradise for me
And I continue to sin against thee

Jesus Christ conquers all evil
His empire spanning all existence
His kingdom otherworldly
Grant me humility and repentance

Jesus Christ conquers all evil


8. SECULAR YOUTH (REMASTERED)

Raised by the world
It's parenting you
Misguided secular youth
The good kids are married but you're wasting away
Sex, drugs, and parties
Everyday
Opiates your "savior"
Petty thrills are your peace
Addicted to depression, the attention it gives
Love is fornication
Bliss is prescription
This is the way the youth chooses to live

Secular and dwindling
Reject your peace
Secular and dwindling
Embrace suffering

Secular and dwindling
Reject the light
Secular and dwindling
Spoil in the shadows

When you're 50 and married you'll be looking to cheat
Choosing developed addictions over family
Undermine the abuse of your misguided past
Your life has wasted away so fast
Your vices murder you when you think you're God
To true morality you've become at odds
Invisible friends pressure you into sin
You're wondering why there is sorrow within

Your future just won't matter because you choose to live in the now
Chains dreams and fantasies glamorized by your gross fake idols

Misguided youth and they'll do it again
Secular youth, they'll live in sin again
Misguided by fortune and thrills
The blood of many souls will spill
With greed for thrills to be had in the now
An eventual eternity is rejected
Misguided youth and they'll do it again
Secular youth, they'll live in sin again