- On the Blackest of Nights |
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Hammer
of Eden
(Svensson, Gustavsson,
Hedlund, Wallberg)
In a heartbeat, we all understood
At the brink of the final
hour
The age of innocence gone
forever
Lost in the madness of
misused power
Our blissful ignorance gave
us shelter
But now our downfall is
evident
The lunacy we accepted
as truth caused
An irreversible detriment
We are the Hammer of Eden
We are the bringers of
doom
Striking the Hammer of
Eden
Sealing the earth as our
tomb
Stupidity far beyond belief
Only matched by our arrogance
We dug our grave in the
name of progress
And killed the last of
our innocence
We are the Hammer of Eden
Bringing our doom
Crushing the last voice
of reason
Sealing our tomb
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On the Blackest
of Nights
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Wallberg, Hedlund)
On the Blackest of Nights
The unseen stars align
Guided by darkness
The Messenger shall arrive
Called by the ancient stone
The Wisdom of the Stars
Perpetual shadows feed
The Haunter of the Dark
On the Blackest of Nights
The unseen stars align
Guided by darkness
The Messenger shall arrive
Upon the shunned church hill
The blackened walls hold sway
To keep the crystal safe
From sunlight's thwarting rays
Summoned to the talisman – a pathway from beyond
A call of shadows sent through space to form
the astral bond sent
Bringing arcane knowledge to the game war-mongers
play
His will be done when fools in power blow Earth's
dust away
On the Blackest of Nights
The unseen stars align
Guided by darkness
The Messenger has arrived!
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The Word
and the Abyss
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Hedlund)
Cast into the dark
Leave you hanging there
Do you know the Word?
Do you know the Abyss?
Scrutinize your heart
Do you feel or care?
Have you known the Word?
Have you felt the Abyss?
Break the shell of your mortal form
Cast your life into the void
Clarity leads through the storm
Your soul transcends while your flesh is destroyed
Branded with the mark
That will lead you there
Can you speak the Word?
Can you cross the Abyss?
Break the shell of your mortal form
Cast your life into the void
Clarity leads through the storm
Your soul transcends while your flesh is destroyed
Across the gap
Face the demon
Summoned by your fear
A faithful step
Abandon reason
Reality is near
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Cyclops
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Hedlund, Wallberg)
Why am I cursed with this vision?
To see what no one else can see
An uncanny premonition
Of the things that have to be
A bargain with the beast - a pact of arcane powers
One eye given for the gift of second sight
Yet all that we received - for the foolishness
of our greed
Was the unwanted vision of the day that we must
die
Why am I blessed with this vision?
The gift to know what lies ahead
But still my plans of right decisions
End in constructions of the dead
All I know - All I see
The end that lies ahead of me
Hear our woe - Hear our plea
Save us from a fate brought by our greed
The prophecy I’ve seen, I’ll live to see it fulfilled
How can I mourn the inevitable?
All that I know, all that I see
The end ahead of me
All that I show, all that I feel
The prophecy’s now real.
No one else could perceive
No one else would believe
With what I know I can no longer pretend
Another chapter ends here
My vision’s made it so clear
For now I know that this too must end
I see it now, I see it now, I see it now
Now we’re no more
Let it be known - truth lies in death
What has been shown - will forever be
I’ve seen beyond - nothing will change
All sins atoned - as we embrace eternity…
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Among the Dying
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Hedlund, Wallberg)
The silence is deafening
The roar of life has died
Facing the emptiness
The bitter cold inside
The void is calling me...
Gripped by disgust I wake up
To this unrelenting reality
I've tasted her lips, felt her embrace
The price was my mortality
I find myself, caught in the grey
Among the dying, the dying to be dead
Breathing death, spirits decay
Among the dying
The air of youth has left me now
I feel my core is crumbling
Downed by the force of age
A mockery quite humbling
Give my condolences to
The naive lover of living
His dream is shattered, torn to shreds
The prize for the years he has given
I find myself, caught in the grey
Among the dying, the dying to be dead
Breathing death, fading away
Among the dying
Among the dying
Among the dying
Among the dying
Among the dying
This is it
There will be no more
From now on I will just await my death
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Through the
Gateway
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Hedlund)
“Enter the darkness
Let it take you in
Mystified, by the night
Free from guilt and sin”
So spoke the shadow of the huntress to me
As she guided me through the fields
Ancient fires and carnal desires
How could I anything but yield?
Under the full moon
By the light of stars
Live this night, live your life
As who you really are
Deny the lies of monotheistic religion
Embrace the majesty of creation
Suffer no guilt for the patriarchal burden
Grant your flesh the true Holy sensation
Passing through the gateway
Leaving all my morals behind
The demons embrace me
And greet me as one of their kind
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The Mourning
Son
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Wallberg, Hedlund)
Darkness falls, as Light dies
I face the storm with open eyes
Another day is over, another night's begun
And finding me cold sober: The Desolation
Ravaged by the spirits, demons of the low
The sorrows and the secrets, only I can know
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
I've touched the mountain highs, and unspeakable
depths below
I've listened close inside, to hear the river
flow
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
Still I rise again, and I know
The reason to go on is the will to not let go
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Madman
(Svensson, Gustavsson, Wallberg, Hedlund)
They call me mad, but it's not wise to do so
To seek to turn a madman into a foe
And I don't care, just what others may bid
'Cause I'm the only one I have to live with
Through these shattered eyes I see
Someone's looking back at me
Climb aboard and join me in my world of misery
Your voice flows through me and it beckons me
to burn
To leave safe ground and never to return
Against all gods on the wings of will we rise
Shattering the chains of celestial lies
We wayward spirits driven onward
Fire by fire lights the soul
Our reason here remains yet unknown
As does our journey’s path and goal
Our faces shine for we know not fear or shame
We kill our demons just by speaking their names
Face the Paine, in this age, reason is a must
When your sense is the only thing that you can
trust
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