Shadow Of Intent : Elegy

Symphonic Death / USA
(2022 - Self-Released)
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1. FAREWELL

Farewell, the time has come
The world shall bleed, and into inferno we'll go
Farewell, the time has come
The world shall bleed, and into inferno we’ll go
I must fight, die if I must
(Into inferno we go)
It won't rest 'till the grounds have no room left
(Into inferno we go)
All goddamned legions are condemned to their God
(Into inferno we go)
I beg for your forgiveness
(Into inferno we go)

For we’ve found ourselves wandering hell
Yet my love for you burns forevermore
I will climb from this widening chasm
To my feet

I shall bring defeat beneath my feet
I trampled all in my path, I bow not to the Saurian King

But if I do not return
The fight may take a perilous turn
The day may never come where I shall come home
For I'll gladly give my own life
If it means that you will survive
What choice do I have?
To fight or die, no way out alive
The cowards are left shot in both sides
I must [?] survive
But without you

I shall remain in you
You'll live in my heart forever (Forever)

For you, I die
You'll find me in the afterlife
Live out your days with grief out of sight
I am sorry that you'll never find
My body to say your goodbyes


2. SAURIAN KING

Oh, this is where it began
Before the coming of war
With long knives they carve the night

Waiting in anticipation
To long persist the coming abyss
Savage conflict is unfurling
Condemning of faith, condemning with hate and death
Violent expulsions
Claiming the lands as their own
A cataclysmic and misanthropic catalyst shall further enrage

Demands for our deaths
Several long nights of terror
The cleansing begins
This is the new beginning
Of our living hell

The coming was foretold, warnings went unheeded
We all sat by and stared as the stampede proceeded
Conquer all, drudges invading the denizens
Laughing and dancing while bidding the devil's work

Martyrs lie in the streets on this night
So you may live, they give their selfless death
But the madness does not end yet

Scales project from beneath his ophidian skin
Misanthropic, you were never supposed to be king

The coming was foretold, warnings went unheeded
We all sat by and stared as the stampede proceeded
Conquer all, drudges invading the denizens
Laughing and dancing while bidding the devil's work

Martyrs lie in the streets on this night
So you may live, they give their selfless death
But the madness does not end yet, my friend
This is not the end

Pissing right on our graves
Razing, dragging our names through the dirt
The worst has yet to come
The blame for their failures falls on us
We pay for this
The conflagration of one thousand shrines, yeah!

I obey you not
You deceive your own
Others blinded by your lies
I see through them all
I obey you not
You deceive your own
Others blinded by your lies
I see through them all


3. THE COMING FIRE

The coming fire, ignited in an instant
A purging flame, the swarm engulfs
With a lust for war increasing in their appetite
Crossing the insects' blood
At the pace of lightning propaganda
Fuels the massacre, granting who oppose abysmal death
They gather at dawn

Hail (x16)

They march through the vast verdant steppes
Leaving naught but ruin behind
Their forefathers' words keep them present
Absorbed with mephitic pride

Burn for your leaders
Mourn for your futures
Burn for your leaders
Yearn for a savior
Burn for your leaders
Mourn, everlasting mourning for

The boundless sacrifice
We honor those who died
We do not know the price
Paid by those who were left behind

This tragedy consumes
So many wasted lives
Those to the left and right
Know all too well

In a series of failed counteroffensives along the front
Encircled in a labyrinth of enemies to die abysmal death

Burn for your leaders
Yearn for a savior
Burn for your leaders
Mourn, everlasting mourning for

The boundless sacrifice
We honor those who died
We do not know the price
Paid by those who were left behind


4. OF FURY

Starving beasts of misanthropy
Tear their souls from reality
They terrorize, sodomize
Then torch all that's left of their miserable lives

Reprise
They are swiftly swept aside
Reflections of blood
On fresh front lines

Millions of men forged in the fiery depths of hell
Begin to purge the lands
Ad nauseam, they seize their prize
Demanding that hundreds of thousands more must die

The jaws of hell have opened wide
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky
The jaws of hell have opened wide
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky

Panoramic fire lights up the sky
Sounds of horrors recoil from hillsides
Petrified, spat out on the lines
A mass grave sentence, you're begging to die

Starving beasts of misanthropy
Tear their souls from reality
They terrorize, sodomize
Then torch all that's left of their miserable lives

The horrors seen here cannot be erased from the minds of men

They seek to rid them of their existence and reform
For defenders, to fail would mean they disappear
A choice leaves the weight of this force to be dismembered
The combat seems to be everlasting
They all met death

Barbarous obliteration of them all
Perfidious bandits execute survivors
These men are but slaves
Slaves to the devil himself

The jaws of hell have opened wide
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky
The jaws of hell have opened wide
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky

Suffer the wrath and the consequences


5. INTENSIFIED GENOCIDE

The schism has succumbed to militant decadence
Boundaries perverted, the populous ravenous
Their rights have been compromised
Forced into battle to keep what they own
Plotting the new reign, the parliament ponders
Seizing the motherland after disbandment
Caught in between these brutal objectives
Resorting to violence they're eaten alive
Death

This civil division has far surpassed humility
Defiling the dissident, their lack is evident
They have completely descended to murder
Children play day and night with severed heads
Inhuman execution
Slashing of throats
Mass despoliations
Death in vain
Frenzied grabbing for the closest weapon
Kill or be killed becomes the new way
Keep plunging down the rabbit hole
Resolution through cruelty
Internal strife
Newborns have been torn away from wailing mothers
The future of a nation mutilated, smothered
Displayed as a warning
Bodies left uncovered
And to this day, it can be seen
Unreconciled divide

This dark path was placed by politician hands
Residents now fear the once coveted moonlight
Luscious sculpture, who's glory once had gushed
Supplanted by such beauty and disgust

Species of savages
Persistent penitence
Evident lack of a shred of humanity
Macabre obsession
Removal of men keeps on fueling the passion
Stalking the rooftops they gaze down with penance
They'll be the ones who take care of the menace
Harder and harder, these two sides collide
Intensified genocide
Eaten alive
Civil division has far surpassed humility
Their lack is evident as they defile the dissident
They have completely descended to murder
Children play day and night with severed heads
Inhuman executions
Slashing of throats
Mass despoliations
Death in vain
Frenzied grabbing for the closest weapon
Kill or be killed becomes the new way
Keep plunging down the rabbit hole

They've beaten this dead horse to mush
They cannot stop these ferocious urges
They plunge the knife deeper into the throat of democracy
Slowly carving the head from the neck

This dark path was placed by politician hands
Residents now fear the once coveted moonlight
Luscious sculpture, whose glory once had gushed
Supplanted by such beauty and disgust
Shrouded foulness, the soul inside observed
Shrieks of anguish
Cremation will be served

Bathe in the blood

The blade unjust lost control
Into the furnace, Into the hole

They bathe in the blood
The blade unjust lost control
Into the furnace, Into the hole


6. LIFE OF EXILE

Again, they've come to tear down our ideals
With prestigious grins, staring down at us
Dispelled from the region only to return thirty cycles past
These wounds recur; is this the day I die?

Forced away, driven into these holes
We leave behind our memories of home

I've lost all that I know
Everything I own was taken away from me

Amidst the silence, distant foreboding cries
The ambience of warfare chills my bones
It should have been me; why did you have to take them away?
Now I ask myself, is this the day I die?

Forced away, driven into these holes
We leave behind our memories of home

I've lost all that I know
Everything I own was taken away from me

Lying low from the sterilization of the earth
The roars overhead have chased all wildlife off
Each way out has been cordoned off
Accumulation of displacement
These cellars won't protect us all
We will soon meet the same perilous end

As the times change, they continue to resist
A perverse aggression of no limit
As the cities crumble, a rise of fists
Now they hunt them down, back to where they live
Taught to kill
From the day they were born
We never asked for conflict
But the world views us as the enemy

I've lost all that I know
Everything I own was taken away from me
I've lost all that I know
Everything I own was taken away from me


7. WHERE MILLIONS HAVE COME TO DIE

To a metropolis undignified
They have come to die
Blind rats in the maze affright vie for each block and structure
Garrisoning city heights
Onward to the riverside
They have tantalized
Everything on which they've laid their eyes
As the days go by, the death toll sustains its rise

The majority will not come home
Profound panic fiercely fervent
De-evolution of warfare runs markedly
From the sewers to the littered web of ashen lanes
A presence in the next room lurking, yet to be seen
In severance, things are never what they seem to be

True terror ten thousand fold
Adhering only to the serpent
A testament to all things taken naturally
An ejaculation of another madman’s dreams
The mother of all battles rages vigorously
The death knell tolls ceaselessly for thee

Malodorous emanations stinging at their eyes
Months go by, the death toll continues to rise
Hounds pry at the calcified
Excrement waist high in the feces of the raiders left alive
The trampled turn the tides
They begin to twist the knife
With drive retribution unwinds
A Merciless drama
Where millions have come to die
They all paid the ultimate price
Where millions have come to die

Surrender is denied to the core
By the despot held above them
Their losses are mounting at a staggering rate
To flee or become yet another casualty
To be shot between the eyes or take a chance to be free
In severance, things are never what they seem to be

True terror, ten thousand fold
Adhering only to the serpent
A testament to all things taken naturally
An ejaculation of another madman's dreams
The mother of all battles ends on a blood red mound
The death knell tolls forever loud

Where millions have come to die (x4)
They paid the price all with their lives

The kessel closes, constricting the throats
Of those spared from starvation
Frostbite death and suicide
The morsels standing march to the beyond

With black clouds high above
They march to the unknown (x4)


8. FROM RUIN...WE RISE

Newcomers dance and sing
Relieved by the passing of spring
They feel the grace of the sun
Their misfortune has not yet begun
Where the men used to come for their drinks
Where the children would play endlessly
They have taken our everything
They know not what tomorrow shall bring
On the opposite side of the field
A vengeance that shall never yield
Fathers weep for their sons
Their suffering cannot be undone

Why cry?
From squalor and ruin we rise
They reap what they've sown
Arise, arise
Past the horizon lay paradise
But here the rivers run red
Dregs of the world seen through their eyes
Less than the dung below the flies
Fields of the dead bake in the light
Children, women and men, their bodies lie
Piled in the streets stacked six feet high
Tell me why, oh why

Limbs contorted
Anatomical morbid distortions
At a biblical limit the purging
In our hearts is a rage ever burning
Come the next morning
We attack with a thousand scornings
Look upon us like death is emerging
Beginning the righteous charge, disparaging

Now it's our turn for the scourging
With a hatred relentlessly swarming
Skies wail as rockets are hurling
Falling down to earth screaming and bursting
Miles, miles and miles of corpses
They bear witness to vindictive forces
As far as the eyes can see
If you saw it you wouldn't believe it
When will these fucking wars end?

Why cry?
From squalor and ruin we rise
They reap what they've sown
From squalor and ruin we rise
Arise, arise
Past the horizon lay paradise
But here the rivers run red


9. BLOOD IN THE SANDS OF TIME

Blood in the sands of time
The ageless clock is counting down
The purveyors and crusaders bygone live on renowned
Some dare aspire to join the ranks of the gods
The certainty of your safety now drains with every hour

Only the dead have seen the end of war
All sons of the many gods
The race of men, begotten end

Empires fall, years have progressed and are forsaken
The meek are cast down, the strongest garnering the gains
Sounds of war echo on in solemn spirit
The blind, the sick, the old, the young, even the demons hear it
And as time passes on, these situations
Remain a constant in the name of indemnification
The oozing black heart below the surface is calling outward
And those who dare listen shall be relentlessly pulled under
Worldwide crisis, divinity rehashed
The world you see that surrounds you was built from murder
The cycle of death continues and we push it further

Always mobilized
Eager to pulverize
Corrupt, destabilize
Autonomy strung up high
The whole are dead to rights
Nothing shall ever suffice
The age is prophesized
The suicide of our kind

Rejecting signs as the grand clock unwinds
Oil pipelines pour spilled blood in the sands of time
We walk the earth and still the ground, it trembles
Transcending elements, from death we cannot hide

Suicide of humankind
Suicide of humankind
Kiss of death claiming lives
To persevere is no option, reset, rewind

Suicide of humankind
Eden is falling apart
Sounds of war echo on
The sounds of war echo on

The sheer will of mankind can only hold on for so long
Acting as though the last grain has faltered


10. RECONQUEST

(Instrumental)


11. ELEGY I: ADAPT

Go beyond
Dig your graves
Bury the bones
Wait for God

What fate awaits
Those who kill?
Murderous tyrants
Only seek supremacy


12. ELEGY II: DEVISE

Desolate, a sea of rubble and debris
They've come to avenge their burning lands
Desecrate, the city crumbles under their feet
The pestilent forage of all who remain
Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy
Persists throughout our history
From ancient ages to modern times
These untold atrocities have amassed

Permeating the ground
The soil soaks up their blood
Divest this reaping hand
Two alphas cannot share the fruits of existence

Treacherous tales unfold as the undying hour
Of bloodshed reaps and sows the weary and the weak
Powers of new blood now play god with maniacal ease
They shall enslave all
They shall enslave all

So, we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak
The cities burn, the bridges bend
Now, we lay our heads to rest
So, we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak
The cities burn, the bridges bend
Now, we lay our heads to rest

The winds of change oust the inept
Powers come and go, a fool's
Existence subject to their terms
Loss roams on neglected
Some eyes have not seen a day
Spared of loss, litany
Anguishing pain, sterile of reasoning

Hopeless, it's hopeless
Trying to outwit the colossal construct of life itself
No matter where you are in this world
You'll always have what they want

Defaced human creations
Memoirs of fallen cultures blanket the blood-red ground

Defaced human creations
Memoirs of fallen cultures


13. ELEGY III: OVERCOME

Now, they crumble the kingdom
Tied their hands to their feet
Burned, bereft of forgiveness
City, a smoldering heap

From ancient ages to modern times
These untold atrocities have amassed
Permeating the ground, the soil soaks their blood
Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy
Persists throughout our violent history

So, we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak
The cities burn, the bridges bend
Now we lay our heads to rest
So, we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak
The cities burn, the bridges bend
Now we lay our heads to rest

Now, they crumble the kingdom
Tied their hands to their feet
Burned, bereft of forgiveness
City, a smoldering heap

Powers of new blood
Now play god with maniacal ease
They shall enslave all
Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy
Persists throughout our violent history

Powers unite, joining to extinguish the fight
Pacifying, undermining
Some survive; others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire
Immolate, a creed now disintegrates
Never to be seen again
Caged, confined, opposition brutalized
By an unfamiliar dogma
Petrified as the wrong now becomes the right
Persecution of a people

Some survive, others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire (x3)

Isolated, wallowing in the shame
No resurgence
Preparations for the next war begin
This cannot be escaped
The world holds its breath, awaiting death

Victorious, now, the victor sings
And rewrites the cold facts of history
To present their greatness to their offspring
This process cycles continuously

So, we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak
The cities burn, the bridges bend
Now we lay our heads to rest

Victorious, now, the victor sings
And rewrites the cold facts of history
To present their greatness to their offspring
This process cycles continuously

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