Savage Messiah : The Fateful Dark

Thrash Metal / United-Kingdom
(2014 - Earache Records)
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Lyrics


1. ICONOCAUST

Hold on to nothing, there's nothing holding you
No chains of self-restriction, cutting right through you
Until you're backed in a corner, caught in apathy's grip
Not willing to motivate, unwilling to let it slip

Born into judgement, outside of grace
Open hostility, found in every place

Faith unto loathing, of loathing twisting you
Four walls of isolation, bearing down on you
And now the cost of attrition, propaganda the the script
Continue to circulate, unseeing damned like fate

Born into judgement, outside of grace
Open hostility, found in every place

Iconocaust - destroyed by fear
Iconocaust - defaced martyr of the insincere
Iconocaust - destroyed by fear
Iconocaust - sacrificed to the new frontier
One by one you'll fall

Rise
Forged from our broken pride
Rise
Denounce the hypocrites and fight

Burning sedition, defeatist hold on you
All pawn to sacrificial, penance haunting you
And all that's left is derision, locked internal belief
Senseless to paradox, beholden unto grief

Born into judgement, outside of grace
Open hostility, found in every place

Iconocaust - destroyed by fear
Iconocaust - defaced martyr of the insincere
Iconocaust - destroyed by fear
Iconocaust - sacrificed to the new frontier
One by one you'll fall


2. MINORITY OF ONE

Resistant to anger, the cutting blade of truth
The sound of seperate lives entwined
The race is for order, the sacrament is damned
Get on your knees and play the part

Find a liberating cause, in the vacuum of remorse
As the puppets sway like lost forgotten dreams

This vengeance is weakness, the many fall like rain
A shower of bullets keeps them down
There is no constitution that will save you now
Raise your hands and count as one

Find a liberating cause, in the vacuum of remorse
As the puppets sway like lost forgotten dreams

Minority of one
Cuts you down in fear
Minority of one
Ideas drown
Sold beyond the sun

Minority of one
Cuts you down in fear
Minority of one
Ideas drown
Sold beyond the sun


3. CROSS OF BABYLON

Caught in the crossfire, sentenced to faith
Coercive deliverance, a despotic fate
Shouldering burdens from one to the next
No hour of penance can lay you to rest
Forgo saturated establishment lies
The proliferation of truth they disguise
From out of the darkness of hope it is lost

In belief you are trapped like the open deceiver
To be heard you must plead like the weakened disciple's run
On your knees you are taught to beseech you deliverer
Only time that is lost as the darkness encroaches

Cross of babylon - burning skies of blackened wisdom
Cross of babylon - secrecy and mass derision
Cross of babylon - harbinger imagination
Cross of babylon - soldier of annihilation

Forced euphemistic perversion of truth
Engendered malignance no hope of rebuke
Trapped confrontation, insidiously
Killing for peace in the land of the free
Judgement abundance, provoking consent
The failures of greed not the failures of man
In wounds of sorrow, or pitiless death
Beyond sight of mercy,and bold existence

In deceit you are sworn like the brutal dictator
To be seen you must plead to the prejudice seeker's gun
On your feet you are taught to destroy your ideals
Only life that is lost as the darkness approaches

Cross of babylon - burning skies of blackened wisdom
Cross of babylon - secrecy and mass derision
Cross of babylon - harbinger imagination
Cross of babylon - soldier of annihilation


4. HELLBLAZER

Awoken into suicide
To rid the demons from your mind
Condemning into certitude
Of death's inferno awaiting you

Heading out on a road to loss
Cynical, you must bear the cross
Keep the balance at eternal cost
Until deeds redeem your soul

Hellblazer
Hellblazer
Hellblazer
Hellblazer

Rejected pleas are crucified
Unto this servant now abide
There is no breaking down these walls
Accept your fate without recourse

Heading out on a road to loss
Cynical, you must bear the cross
Keep the balance at eternal cost
Until deeds redeem your soul

Hellblazer
Hellblazer
Hellblazer
Hellblazer


5. LIVE AS ONE ALREADY DEAD

Through the darkness and the din
Hope's the fading light that flickers in the distance

When all minds align
Conspire in time
Faced with the fallen divide

So live as one, already dead
Face your fears
Betray the dread
Live as one, one already dead

I see a world that's losing hope
Empty prayers of lives evoke
The setting down, to watch it fade away

So live as one, already dead
Face your fears
Betray the dread
Live as one, one already dead

Already dead

Into the face of falling
Lost by the false cries calling

So live as one, already dead
Face your fears
Betray the dread
Live as one, one already dead

Already dead


6. THE FATEFUL DARK

Forced from reason and carved into stone
A shrine to sorrow that stand alone

Our leaders from future to past
From the wreckage, Forced to last

It's of the mark, the fateful dark
The cries of all
It's of the mark, the fateful dark
Behold the fall

The fateful dark

Seeking refuge the hurt lingers on
Repel to suffer, and shatter the void

Our leaders of future and past
From the holy, bereft of class

It's of the mark, the fateful dark
The cries of all
It's of the mark, the fateful dark
Behold the fall

Soul shatters, to mirror the void
The cracks that splinter, awaken the evermore

It's of the mark, the fateful dark
The cries of all
It's of the mark, the fateful dark
Behold the fall

The fateful dark


7. ZERO HOUR

The day has come, the lies are gone
The weakness cries, the sky undone
And all abound, to which lay waste
As reasons lost and in their place

Memories are tainted
The lines that crack the sky
The march to depravation
Assuring no one with their

Words of solace
Cast to the fire
All is lost
With words untrue
They wait in line for the

Zero hour
Zero hour - they wait in line for the
Zero hour
Zero hour - they wait in line for the
Zero hour

And in sleep the thoughts remain
A prisoner of this domain
Setting down what once was lost
Without a thought to count the cost

Privacy forsaken
The iron grip of fear
The crushing weight of power
Manipulating with their

Words of solace
Cast to the fire
All is lost
With words untrue
They wait in line for the

Zero hour
Zero hour - they wait in line for the
Zero hour
Zero hour - they wait in line for the
Zero hour

You're never free, not only me, you're never where I want to be
All in life is lost in death, as they mourn to set you free

Zero hour


8. HAMMERED DOWN

Mastery, perfect the art of tyranny
Misery, propagate indignity

For all
Justice evades
Control
Guilty of

Perjury, test the edge of sanity
Villainy, cast into uncertainty

To fall
Between the cracks
Corrode
Resolve remains intact

Hammered - down
You're smashed into the ground
Hammered - down
Don't breathe, don't make a sound
Hammered - down
From hidden watchmen found
Hammered - down
They'll crush your spirit, then they'll bring
The hammer down

Hammered - down - hammered
Hammered - down - hammered

Destiny, breaking down of rivalry
Supremacy, smashed beyond diplomacy

To fall
Between the cracks
Corrode
Resolve remains intact

Hammered - down
You're smashed into the ground
Hammered - down
Don't breathe, don't make a sound
Hammered - down
From hidden watchmen found
Hammered - down
They'll crush your spirit, then they'll bring


9. SCAVENGERS OF MERCY

Sanctified unholy dreams
Death premature
Vindicated memories
Caught evermore

Time will tell
Guilt repel
Primitive
Born in hell

Vilified, ungodly force
Defiling grace
Blackened misery dictates
Enforced arms race

Time will tell
Guilt repel
Primitive
Born in hell

Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy

All for one - slave to pain

Agony, self-loathing hordes
Bestowing fate
Parasitic suffering
Baring on hate

Time will tell
Guilt repel
Primitive
Born in hell

Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy
Scavengers - of mercy


10. THE CURSED EARTH

The enemy lines, distorted by time
Division of life breeding crime
Wicked distrust and power they lust
Oppression of will stamped to dust
The outstretched hand, beckoning forth
Calling the weak ones that fall
Into their graves, open as wounds
Shield the spectres to mourn

Shadows of loss
Remain to count the cost
Welcome to

The cursed earth

Social divides, enacted by lies
Built on enforced suicide
Separate lives, now intertwined
Imprison the captives like swine
Protection the veil, the only way out
The fight to exist doomed to fail
Collectivist hell, expression denies
The weakening failure is fought

Shadows of loss
Remain to count the cost
Welcome to

The cursed earth

The nemesis hides, corrupted by time
Desolate wastelands decay
As poverty claims, the stricken assault
The crushing defeat brings to halt
Dystopian march, consuming the earth
Surveillance of life brought unheard
Soldiers are brought, humanity stripped
Broken and scarred they submit

Shadows of loss
Remain to count the cost
Welcome to

The cursed earth


11. BE QUICK OR BE DEAD (IRON MAIDEN COVER)

Covered in sinners and dripping
With gilt
Making you money from slime
And from filth
Parading your bellies in ivory towers
Investing our lives in your schemes
And your powers

You got to watch them
Be quick
Or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven
The thief
In your head
You've got to watch them
Be quick
Or be dead
Snake eyes in heaven
The thief
In your head
Be quick!
Or be dead!
Be quick!
Or be dead

See, what's ruling all our lives
See, who's pulling the strings,
I bet you won't fall on your face,
Your belly will hold you in place

The serpent is crawling inside of
Your ear
He says you must vote for what you
Want to hear
Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're
Alright
So pull yourself stupid and rob
Yourself blind


12. LIGHTNING TO THE NATIONS (DIAMOND HEAD COVER)

Yes I'm coming
Angel from the sky, put his hand in mine
I can spread you gifts, for golden present time

I'm going to set you down
I'm going to make it right
I'm going to bring it home
I'll bring you lightning to the nations
To the nations
To the nations
To the nations

From the shores of home, we send a gift of love
To sweet and hopeful hearts, a gift from high above

I'm going to set you down
I'm going to make it right
I'm going to bring it home
I'll bring you lightning to the nations
To the nations
To the nations
To the nations

Here it comes now
London
New york
To the nations
To the nations
Lightning to the Nations


13. KILLERS (MOTÖRHEAD COVER)

The order is for murder,
And we've been there before,
The men in black are coming back,
To serve the killing floor,

No pity, no surrender,

We take no prisoners,
We spare no brave defender,

No mercy, no quarter here,

The killers,
Will show you flame and sword,
We are the killers,
Enough to make your backbone shake,
The killers,
Enough to make your stupid faces quiver,
And the killers long to take your life,

The sun beats down like thunder,
We ride to meet the foe,
The clash of the steal and leather,
The only song we know,

No pardon, no quarter,

We own to no compassion,
We glory in the slaughter,

No mercy, we fetch your death,

The killers,
We are the ones foretold,
We are the killers,
We do not yearn for gold,
We are the killers,
We know the wrath of battle,
We are killers,
And the killers will destroy your life,

The devil rides to glory,
We hasten by his side,
A legendary story,
Told by fireside,

No mercy, let all hope fade,

We glory the slaughter,
Our badge the ace of spades,

No mercy, we bring the sword,

The Killers,
We murder you in battle,
We are killers,
We ride you down like cattle,
We are killers,
We fight our way to legend,
We are killers,
And the killers love to see you die,

Killers,
We kill you til you die,
We are the killers,
We hold our banners high,
We are the killers,
We hang you out to die,
We are the killers,
And all we bring death to life


14. OF WOLF AND MAN (METALLICA COVER)

Off through the new day's mist I run
Out from the new day's mist I have come
I hunt
Therefore I am
Harvest the land
Taking of the fallen lamb

Off through the new day's mist I run
Out from the new day's mist I have come
We shift
Pulsing with the earth
Company we keep
Roaming the land while you sleep

Shape shift, nose to the wind
Shape shift, feeling I've been
Move swift, all senses clean
Earth's gift, back to the meaning
Back to the meaning of life

Bright is the moon, high in starlight
Chill in the air cold as steel tonight
We shift
Call of the wild
Fear in your eyes
It's later than you realized

Shape shift, nose to the wind
Shape shift, feeling I've been
Move swift, all senses clean
Earth's gift, back to the meaning
Back to the meaning of life

I feel a change
Back to a better day
Shape shift, hair stands on the back of my neck
Shape shift, in wildness is the preservation of the world
So seek the wolf in thyself

Shape shift, nose to the wind
Shape shift, feeling I have been
Move swift, all senses clean
Earth's gift, back to the meaning
Back to the meaning of wolf and man

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