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Fearless
08:21
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FEARLESS
From our castle we ride
Across beautiful water
Past ruined chapel through bloodiest valley
Approaching our certain death
Feud of generations
I ride with my clansmen
Against overwhelming foe
Horns sound our coming
My heart races
My rage swells
My wrath
Consuming
The horde ahead is in shadow
They are beyond counting
Our shouts echo through the mist
Bitter cold burns my face
I fear not death
I will pass through
Imperterritus magnus ultimus
Impavitus exitiabilis omnio
Fearless
Audacter
The moment is nigh
Frozen rain now falls
I drain the scotch from its skin
The brave own their fear
I ride toward eternity
With wind in my face
I press my mount forth
We gallop through black night
Our hooves are thunderous
My heart races
My rage swells
My wrath
Consuming
Death finds all men
The hour of my choosing
I think on those I love
Remember me in ballad
I fear not death
I will pass through
Imperterritus magnus ultimus
Impavitus exitiabilis omnio
Fearless
Audacter
The moment is nigh
I face oblivion
I storm
And fall forever
And as I go
My spirit visits those I love
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Fate
08:53
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FATE
In the year of the storms
I walk through shadows
My face painted with ashes
Marks carved deep on my heart
Through darkness walk the unfortunate
I ask the stars their secrets
And again this night
They are silent
The die is cast
From beyond
From the eternal
Hence these tears
What is truth?
Stone
Wind
Sand
Fate
I come to this place alone
To visit an old pain
To contemplate
My respite, my solitude
Through darkness walk the unfortunate
In the moonlight
The mist curls about my being
And beckons the darkness
He whom the gods love dies young
Death is certain
Its hour uncertain
Remember that you will die
Thus you shall go to the stars
Stone
Wind
Sand
Fate
Philosophy and prophecy
Angels weep and demons laugh
Runes and ruins --this pagan opera
Ripples in the water
I came upon memories
From the day beauty died
Flame and embers
In a careless rain
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SHADES OF DISGRACE
I always fell in love in the autumn
And it inevitably ended in cold winter days
Then she appeared from the mist
Goddess gazing down with adoring eyes
Joyous weekends entangled
Time of wine
Time of tenderness
Time of healing
My love
My fear
My hollow point
I destroyed perfection
That it would not be taken from me
That the rose would not wither
Captured by my destruction
She will satisfy for eternity
In death she fails not
In memory she doth not disappoint
I cannot forgive myself
I worship romance
And would drink deep
But love must falter
Passion by its nature must end
For mortal hearts cannot sustain
And one will die
In that moment when
Light is swallowed by darkness
My love
My fear
My hollow point
I destroyed perfection
That it would not be taken from me
That the rose would not wither
Captured by my destruction
She will satisfy for eternity
In death she fails not
In memory she doth not disappoint
I cannot forgive myself
I find her in my bottle
I crave her touch
Her breath
Her sex
Tragedy I could not hold her
Forever
All you in black on this empty day
So pitiful
You do not know grief
You know not grief
You cannot mourn as I
I despise you
From the depths of my sorrow
The sleet and wind
Are not so cold as my soul
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Witchburning
06:10
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WITCHBURNING
As black wind changes
With torches and curses
The mob pursues her
Brings her to ground
The innocent
So helpless
So helpless
Deep within, they know
Their own wickedness
Yet they refuse - they ignore
Empowered by numbers
Hypocrisy enraged -- frenzied
Purpose drawn from that evil they fear
With the heavens as witness
She’s a witch, they shout - burn her
The devil’s own, they roar - burn her
Satan’s harlot, they cry - burn her, burn her
She’s a witch, they shout - burn her
The devil’s own, they roar - burn her
Satan’s harlot, they cry - burn her, burn her
Consequences be damned
Rough hands bind her
Fastened to the post
Pyre bellows acrid smoke
She flails
Trembling and confused
The sacrifice burning
The sacrifice burning
Deep within, they know
Their own wickedness
Purposed naiveté
For which they will answer
Terrified, she sobs
Lace and flesh burns
She screams
And wonders why
She’s a witch, they shout - burn her
The devil’s own, they roar - burn her
Satan’s harlot, they cry - burn her, burn her
She’s a witch, they shout - burn her
The devil’s own, they roar - burn her
Satan’s harlot, they cry - burn her, burn her
By consequences they are damned
The truth forsaken by the self-righteous
Dictating that which they know not
At the cost her life
At the cost of their souls
Intensifying their own
Burning beyond
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Damned
05:24
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DAMNED
Upon going to death
I returned to find her waiting
My ring draped about her neck
Awakened to emptiness
I will love her forever
Though the forever I would chose is denied me
All too soon she will be dead and gone
And I will remain
Damned
I will remain
Perhaps she will light the next world
Because of her
I live in emotional death
There is no comfort for my soul
Demented, I wander
I will love her forever
Though the forever I would chose is denied me
All too soon she will be dead and gone
And I will remain
Damned
I will remain
I am music in the darkness
I am a gallows obsession
I am the dead buried above ground
I am the foul
I am the parasite
I am the beautiful
I remain
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Maleficar Validus
08:25
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MALEFICAR VALIDUS
In blackest night, in highest tower
Incense and candles burn
Mage in desperate meditation
Firelight falls on furrowed brow
Head in hands, gray mane draped across ancient tomes
Clouds race past the moon
Shadows of impending doom
In the shadows on the highest point of the hill
Solitary figure clad in crimson
The enemy swells as a tide
The horde relentless
Across the field
The horned bastard
Evil manifest
Minutes become hours become days - he casts on
In the shadows on the highest point of the hill
Solitary figure clad in crimson
Symphonic, the attack
Battle unceasing
Weary arms dispatching one and the next
In trance
Minutes become hours become days -he casts on
The sky becomes crimson
Sulfur winds and ash
Battalions in flame
Bones without flesh
Hands rise again
Indiscernible phrases
Hands rise again
Braided intricate spells
Hands rise again
Arcane incantations
Hands rise again
Lightening rends the heavens
Magenta firmament
Fog and frozen gusts
Shards of ice rain down
Into their carcasses
Hands rise again
Indiscernible phrases
Hands rise again
Braided intricate spells
Hands rise again
Arcane incantations
Hands rise again
Lightening rends the heavens
Body and mana exhausted
Sleep refused
Overtaken, delusional
Hallucinating, faltering
Vulnerable
Wickedness finds its mark
The mage falls
His blood pools
As hope abandoned
The sky explodes
Sapphire radiance blinds
Resurrection
Maleficar
Power beyond understanding
Fortified by rage
Fire rains and flesh flames
Acrid, pungent fury
Death from afar
Maleficar Validus
Restored
Empowered
Relentless
Merciless
Victorious
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Beloved
07:28
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BELOVED
In the beyond
I wake
In deep snow drift
Bloodied
Without wound
Fortis obstinatus destinatus
I rise determined to find my way to you
I rise determined
I will find you
Cor unum ab aeterno ad infinitum
There are bonds that tie two souls
There is music that binds two hearts
Ad alta aut viam inveniam aut faciam
I summon
Deep from within
Agony
Up the mountain
Fortis obstinatus destinatus
I rise determined to find my way to you
I rise determined
I will find you
Cor unum ab aeterno ad infinitum
There are bonds that tie two souls
There is music that binds two hearts
Ad alta aut viam inveniam aut faciam
I will find you
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8. |
Darkest Corner
06:18
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DARKEST CORNER
Obiit
Numb
I am numb
My soul is empty
The one taken from me
All is changed by such loss
All is changed by loss
Nunc est bibendum
Ubi sunt
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt
Where are they?
Where are they, those who have gone before us?
Blood on my face
Mud on my boots
And here I sit and drink
In the darkest corner of this tavern
Death and life and pain
Bitter
I am bitter
My heart is shattered
The one I love is gone
Life is no longer worth living
Life is no longer living
Nunc est bibendum
Ubi sunt
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt
Where are they?
Where are they, those who have gone before us?
Blood on my face
Mud on my boots
And here I sit and drink
In the darkest corner of this tavern
Death and life and pain
Suffocating
I spit angry curses and stumble through verses
Memories rage through me
Copyright 2009 EK Music Partners
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