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Votus - Crusader Pt. I
05:55
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CRUSADER - PART I - VOTUS
Council of Clermont
Urban’s mighty words
Avenge the desecration
Avenge the Holy Sepulchre
Retake the Holy Land
From infidel defilers
Swiftly
Before approaching apocalypse
Deus vult
The crowd cries
Deus vult
And I cry
Deus vult
Forgive my sins
Deus vult
And thousands more to come
Milites Christi
Votus
Fideles Sancti Petri
Iter
I shall wear the Cross
On this righteous campaign
For redemption
These symbols
Reflect my belief
My uncertainty
My need
My penance
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Iter - Crusader Pt. II
07:18
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CRUSADER - PART II - ITER
Hilt digs deep
Beneath amber moon
Destruction rides with us
Faith and honor
Brutality and blood
The blood of infidels
Endless miles
Scorching heat
Snow drifts
Starvation
Disease
Men and horses fall
Cannibals among us
Driven and desperate knights
Miracles will sustain us
God will not fail us
The part of me that is gone
Somehow drives me on
My dreams
My nightmares
My memories
Amid the sparks and embers
The troubadour plays
His lyric of chivalry
The love of the lady won
Four armies
Massive force
Knights and infantry
Without discipline
Strangers in a strange land
Antioch
Four hundred towers
Eight month siege
My body and soul ache
The Holy Lance discovered
Sign of impending victory
An army of saints come to our aid
Conquest tempered by plague
Again we embark
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CRUSADER - PART III - SEDICARE
Peregrinus Animus Votum
Carus Demum
Obsideo Sedicare
Talio
Force encamped before Jerusalem
Divine vision
Fasting army marches
As Joshua at Jericho
The pagans scoff
Bellum Catervatim
Vehementer
Justicia non Clementia
Tui Fatum
No return without victory
Our ships dismantled
Siege towers assembled
We summon our courage
And assault the walls
Punitor Vindico
Percutio
Procella Depraedor
Cruentus
The body of mine enemy is a tide
Rushing forth against my blade
Unworthy one
Fear deep in your eyes
Terror on your heart
Vocifero Cum Trucido
Laudatio Deus Cum Interfecto
One after another I strike them silent
My thoughts travel as I kill
I destroy and ease the ache
My boots crimson
My demons unleashed in the Holy City
Frenzied angel of vengeance
To hell, unworthy ones
Chaos, I do His bidding
Madness, I bring His wrath
None left alive
Neither women nor children
All slaughtered
Blood to bridles
Indescribable stench
City of corpses
The dead piled beyond the gates
Burning heaps, like houses
None know their number
Except God alone
Sun rises
With few to rejoice
Bury our fallen
In shallow graves
Time of triumph
But still so empty
Turning homeward
Left with nothing
My vow fulfilled
Scarred without and within
So few with me
I begin my long journey home
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Nameless
08:49
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NAMELESS
My thoughts drift in conversation with the night
Unseen, I watch that which I cannot bear
Yet that from which I cannot turn away
Her name is sin
Her locks a curtain of blood
She haunts my sleeping and my waking
Though I purpose not to dream nor think of her
The one exists, but I cannot love her
Found, now she is gone
Wanting merged with having
But without keeping
All too brief caress
Driving the stake deep into melancholy heart
She is an undulating serpent enchanting
Smoky coils entrancing
Wrapped about my fingers, my mind, my heart
She haunts the black churches of my mind
Eternal, I endure in agony
Alone, to grieve the loss
So I love her, does it mean so much to me?
As the flame flickers, disappearing
Dreaming conceives insanity
I looked into the eyes of ecstasy
Screaming, biting, breathing hard
Smelling of garlic
And cigarettes
Folded in black silk
She is a stunning scorpion seducing
Sweet venom consuming
Devouring my will, my spirit, my soul
Nameless
I wished her the gift eternal
Nameless
I would that she would want
Nameless
Alas, I wished in vain
Nameless
And now I cannot say her name aloud
Copyright 1994 and 2008 EK Music Partners
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Black Wings
06:06
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BLACK WINGS
Master of the skies, I fly
Dragon-kin, serpent-born
Onyx hide reflects the sun
And casts its miles-long shadow
Unholy terror
Cunning
Soulless
Insatiable
Beasts and men
Reduced to fear
Flee in terror
At the mighty sound of black wings
My tail whips and impales
My breath is decimation
Searing flame
Armageddon
Challenger rises
Dragon-whelp
Enraged, I bellow flame
Descend to duel
Razor talons grasp the usurper
Black wings thunder
Among the clouds
Flesh is carved
Entrails rendered
Upstart plummets
To earth far below
I scream in triumph
And dive to the feast
Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
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Kindred
01:12
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Kindred
In the triumph of battle
And conquest of foe
Simply this
Kindred
In the valley of sorrow
And fear of the morrow
Simply this
Kindred
When the ashes have settled
And fate comes to be
Simply this
Kindred
Copyright 2007 EK Music Partners
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