I live in the weak and the wounded
I wait for what the wolves leave in their wake
And when mankind draws its final breath
Through its gaping mouth its soul I'll take
The death cult rising, join me in annihilation
All will fall before the dark
Eliminate the sufferers and those causing the suffering
This is plague worship
This is plague worship
Now, kneel before the onset
Of human abolition
Human life is scorned
This is nihilism given form
The only beings that are capable of evil
Fulfill your moral duty and destroy your people
Pestilence
Decay and rot
A plague deity
To wash away the sins of man
Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion
Breathe in deep this gift of deadly exhalation
Decay is the way of all things, careless of a peasant or king
Only death prevails
Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion
Prove your fealty to the plague
And when mankind draws its final breath
Only death prevails
Let the wolf - Herald of fire, voice of ruin
run rampant, through the heavens
His fangs carve a bloody swathe; red stains the maiden's gown
Blood and the snow
Her bonds tighten, her cancer stands to attention
Blood and the snow
Cough black tar into the dust
The devouring son is risen
Pray the earth is swallowed by the sun
An infinite night
This cold is all consuming, I dread these shadows looming
The sun is setting with the lights burning low
Horned crowns and cloven hooves; the unthinking callow youth;
these demons walk with a sickness in two
I feel it growing
I feel it growing
Walking the earth; creatures of deception, loathsome since birth
Blood. Snow. Herald of fire. Voice of ruin
This cold is all consuming, I dread these shadows looming
The sun is setting with the lights burning low
Horned crowns and cloven hooves; the unthinking callow youth;
these demons walk with a sickness in two
Horned crowns and cloven hooves
The unthinking callow youth
A fell darkness sweeps the land - Black Death
Speak to the hearts of men
I wist our words,
control our breath
A darkness that consumes,
a darkness that imbues,
we're nothing but a vessel for a necessary evil
A city turns to ash - black death
The flames grow tall,
charred husks,
blistered flesh
This sickness forced our hand
We had to take a stand against those who reprimand this necessary evil
Everyone casts a shadow where even light can't reach
It hides our deepest, darkest desires of which we dare not speak
Curse the earth. Take it back
The night is always darkest before the dawn,
but there's still always black
This is the way
We are humanity - a walking scourge - the twilight phase of living disease
We are humanity - a walking scourge that curses the earth
Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?
Silence is deep as eternity,
speech is shallow as time
Onwards, always onwards,
our unending misery in silence and doom: this eternal gloom
Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?
Ruin upon ruin, boundless night
Long is the path away from doubt, void of light
Will it never cease?
The pain of absence
Will you never subside?
By the time it had happened
I'd lived it a thousand times
Behind closed eyes
Its keen edge blunted
But the ache still resides
The cold eased its grip on my bones
This sun was the first I'd known
The mad chorus calmed at the touch of your hand
The voices disarmed
The wind calls my name
I dare not answer
I dare not speak
But had I known the collared throats
The hand on winter's wrist
Heard the command of your lying lips
I would have bitten off your tongue
During our first kiss
There was no misery
Nor sadness, nor pain
Oh how I long to be one with the void again
There was no misery
Nor sadness, nor pain
Oh how I long to be one with the void again
Oh how I long to be one with the void again
The pain of absence
I'd lived it a thousand times
Oh how I long to be one with the void
And the hand on winter's wrist
Heard the sound of your lying lips
(The frost could never be as cold as you)
I stand at the mountain before the abyss
(The wind calls my name)
Though the biting wind is cruel
(The wind calls my name)
Put the winter back in my veins
(The wind calls my name)
Because the frost could never be as cold as you
Human
Writhe in the gutter where you belong
Human
Smile while you pick up the bones of your
Carcass kingdom
Vermin
Swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
Dance through the streets
Of this urbanised sewer
Spread your disease through each other
Consuming and spewing
Vermin you are
Stealing abusing
Vermin you are
Fighting and fucking
Vermin you are
Step on anybody weaker
To get where you are
Extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
Extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation
Extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
Extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation
I weep, as I walk through the streets
At mire of rats gnawing at my feet
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
The human swarm in motion
The vultures circle high
Bubonic infestation
Can you see through the cloud of flies?
Your fellow man is a monster
Behold the vermintine
I weep as I walk through the streets
At mire of rats gnawing at my feet
Behold the vermintine
Only when this planet dies
Will the human filth subside
Nothing, but self-destruction, will satisfy the vermintine
I wade through scum
Fall to my knees and sink into the sludge
And as my lungs, fill with muck
A bitter grin forms, that our time has come
Our time has come
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
Deny not your place
Gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
Congregation of a viral race
No pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
Human (human)
Writhe in the gutter where you belong
Human (human)
Smile while you pick up the bones of your
Carcass kingdom
Vermin
Swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
Vermin
Dance through the sewers of civilization
Consuming and spewing
Vermin you are
Stealing abusing
Vermin you are
Fighting and fucking
Vermin you are
Step on anybody weaker
To get where you are
The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet
For the love of god, stay away from me
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me
This world breaks us all
All life is suffering and life is long
Nothing eases the pain, nothing halts the rain
Nothing eases the pain; the sun will never shine on me again
The winds whisper to me
I await their call to feel death brush by my fingertips
While the flames around me grow tall
A world consumed by fire and ice
With a beast on the throne
Condemning all life from a tower of morals and bone
Nothing eases the pain
The sun will never shine on me again
The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet
For the love of god, stay away from me
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me
Pulled under (I'm falling apart)
Crumble to ash
I can't articulate anything to anyone
Is this living?
Who knew life could be so unforgiving?
I never asked for this, nor do I want to exist
I don't want to exist
As you get older your gaze is fixed over your shoulder
Because if life has taught you one thing
You won't see the knife that is coming
Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling
It is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying
It's in our nature to lie
Constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded
Leading only to pain and our minds always clouded
It's in our nature to lie
When it happens, I hope you cannot breathe
And I hope that the walls close in
And if by chance there is a heart in you
Well I hope it bleeds
Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands
And rising up to your knees
You can't stop it
I hope you panic
And you know that it will never cease
(Drown in a sea of misery)
Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye
There is none righteous
It's in our nature to lie
Depravity: It's a mother chalking lines while her child is in the womb
And the father making use of the son that hasn't bloomed
An entire race crippled by subconscious masquerade
And the voice that's in your head screaming to get away
Get away
Show me where it hurts; I fucking hope it's everywhere
Tell me how you feel, because I feel nothing
Neither love nor lying, neither form nor void
The regret before dying?
No, nothing
Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands
And rising up to your knees
You can't stop it
I hope you panic
And you know that it will never cease
(Drown in a sea of misery)
Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye
There is none righteous
It's in our nature to lie
Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling
It is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying
It's in our nature to lie
Constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded
Leading only to pain and our minds always clouded
It's in our nature to lie
This world is in a tragic state
Everywhere I look all I see is murder
Everywhere I look all I see are mass graves
All the people pushing to the front of the line of the
death march walk side by side into oblivion (death march)
Take my hand and walk with me into extinction (death march)
There is a darkness in man, darker than a pit pole to pole;
a demon with an endless hunger and it calls the heart of man its home
And the people are pushing, ever pushing, to get to the
front of the lineDid they see it coming?
Did they feel the stares and the hands at
their backs when it was their time? (death march)
Was it the pains of life, or the way that we are
designed that leads us with our own hands to drive home the knife?
There is a darkness in man, darker than a
pit pole to pole; a demon with an endless
hunger and it calls the heart of man its home
Watch as the darkness devours and is never
sated until it feeds upon itself
The darkness will devour
We are gathered here today to give rise to abomination
He will cast the chains of subjugation
Spread his oppression across all nations; unending ire; the tables shifted
Under his cleansing fire the filth is lifted
The sea will burn crimson under his reign
She was always at her best dressed in flames
Witness eternal disdain
The tree is withered
The roots are rotten and weak
They grow through the skulls and the ribs
of the children murdered at its feet
The lie you've been chasing; the happiness you seek;
you could have found what you sought
blooming in man, but the rot was to deep
An axe to the tree
Prepare the sacrifice
Drag her screaming to the altar
Bring me the sacred knife
Lay her on the table
Carve on her chest the shape of the elder sign
The hour draws near
Raise your glass and share her blood as holy wine
The hour draws near
The tree is withered
The roots are rotten and weak
They grow through the skulls and the ribs
of the children murdered at its feet
I vocare te diaboli - Ustulo omnia - Nova nobis - Satana
(Hark, the calling of crows)
The sea will burn crimson under my reign
I will see this world wreathed in flames
Witness pain
Eternity hangs heavy
A pendulum swings
The deep bell rings low
Through the void's mournful throat
The deep bell rings low
Head hung heavier still
Though, the inner scale, it denies a full tilt
My body screams through the static
The mind buckles, frantic
And the burning tears cascade, thunder below
Forged in the blackest reaches of irony
In front of me dangles the key
My body screams through the static
In front of me dangles the key
But through the dust a blossom breeze caresses my cheek
A hand of winter dream and purest ivory
Tears and dust run as the Styx beneath my feet
And I feel the crystal ice voice whisper and repeat
"The Gate has opened
A passage for the weary
And a bed for the weak"
And I weep
It hangs so heavy, eternity
I lack the strength to rise from my knees
An echo rings in the silence
A narrow of the eye
Eternity hangs heavy
And so do I
I weep
With the Styx beneath my feet
The cold breeze
It whispers and repeats
"The Gate is open
Rest your weary feet"
I weep
While the Styx, it runs beneath
There is only death
This is the beginning and the end of all things
The gate and the key
All are judged in the shade of the Cathedral
Their names written in flames on that terrible, endless list
True pain engraved on their face
The wailing spilling through the rifts agape
Whisper "be still" to the violent heart and its thundering beat
The earth yawns deep and the cloak sweeps silent
Casting the shadow of unceasing sleep
The ground untended
Relinquishing spaces, an ocean of faces
Smothered by the black of a burial gown
Follow me down
Your call so fervent
Hot thorns through the neck pierce the servant
Of the night unending
The light here is bending
The gnarled spires bare
And from its towers a mockery of black trumpets blare
Lamentations fill the air
With the braying of dogs, oil slick through their fur
Follow me down
Hush now, no tears please
The horn sounds for me
Hush, writhe, cry
Hush, writhe, cry
It will never stop
Until every soul is charred beyond burned
Fling wide the gates of Hell
Your prodigal son has returned
Twixt jagged teeth of petitioners led by bound wrists
Past men gasping for air in lakes of boiling piss
Unable to drown
Follow me down
Your call so fervent
Hot thorns through the neck pierce the servant
Of the night unending
The light here is bending
Follow me down
When I stand upon my altar
Resplendent in profane glory
I shall care not for the maggots squirming beneath me
Now squirm, you will squirm maggot, you will squirm
Your pathetic shells will crack
Under the weight of agony
In the shadow of the blackest spire
In the deepest circle, the bend
A knee, a back, desperate supplication
They could never imagine such pain as this
Squirm beneath me, I care not
Your pathetic shells will crack
Their screams echo in the void
And they echo with mine
The false ring of sacrament
They howl and I howl with them
"My lord, hear us
Free us from this scalding cell
My lord, hear us
Save us from this unending hell"
Oh lord, hear me
I suffer in this pit as well
My lord, hear me
I ring truer than deaths keen kneel
Your pathetic shells will crack
Under the weight of agony
In the shadow of the blackest spire
In the deepest circle, they bend
They bend
They bend
Squirm beneath me, I care not
Beckoning a darkness you all have ushered
The only reality is pain
I want you all to suffer as I have suffered
I want you all to suffer
Suffer
Suffer
Suffer
Suffer
It is a strange thing, timelessness
The nothing stretching away forever
Meets the nothing within and collapses
The endless without
The was
The is not
An everlasting echo repeats
"The tunnel has existed always"
Infinite
And the echo
Always
But I hear a voice
It is a strange thing, timelessness
Because I have existed in the corridor always
I- I- I-
There is a light
Watching
Always watching
The snare
Our curse
Remember the cold
Remember that it follows forever
Remember the cold
Remember that it follows forever
The cold that came before
And the cold that comes after
Chill wind howls
All hearts dread
I see you watching
Your eyes sear craters in my flesh
I feel you always
I am writhing
I can see you watching
The hollow eyes sear craters in my flesh
I can feel you always
I am writhing
Watching
Always watching
The snare
Our curse
Flee with the sun
Your hand rests over mine
You're in every word that I’ve written
In every single line
You are in the wind when I listen
I feel your presence behind
In every step that I've taken
On every single path
I am writhing
Your hand rests over mine
You're in every word that I’ve written
In every single line
You are in the wind when I listen
I feel your presence behind
In every step that I've taken
On every single path
And I'm writhing
And I writhe
And I writhe
he star's luminosity failing
All grey ash and ruin
Bathed in the light of their guttering waning
As if a world spilled from his heart's painting
No, please no
What have I wrought upon me?
Overflowing, I wander here still
Blackened feet drag through dust
Bound by shackles hung
With a stone of Sisyphean weight
No, I beg
This cannot be
Darkness claims me
A burden of proportions Biblical
In these dizzying plains of desolation
So in death, as you were in life
May the punishment fit the crime
The soundless scream still echoes with acrid winds
This tomb is of my own making
Their faces hang above me, a warning
They were dragged here, mourning
Toward my horizon, cold
No, please no
What have I wrought upon me?
No, I beg
This cannot be
Darkness claims me
They were dragged here, helpless
Toward my horizon, cold
I was never a person
I am a black hole
They hang in their thousands
Suspended in paroxysm
In grotesque shapes and unnatural angles
Crying and laughing and they thrash as if drowning
Until agony rears through their bones and they crack
Strung out across this canopy
Ecstasy rolls eyes back
This black sanguine puppetry
Do my eyes deceive?
Mouths held wide by the chains
Drawn orgiastic and aghast
Become windows to self annihilation
The infinite veins of this howling tapestry
Its terrible shrieking choir
Rattles and coughs
Rasps and shakes
A thousand husks keening
Behold our congregation
Pray before the Altar of Needles
Worship in the Temple of Smoke
You will choke
All paths lead to the Garden
It is mapped in the fractures in the mirror
Pray before the Altar of Needles
Worship in the Temple of Smoke
Whine at the feet of Surrender
Smile all the while as you choke
Because we are in love with the pain
That we keep coming back to
Again and again and again
I watch you from across the lake
Where the waters remain forever still
I watch you from across the lake
Where the waters remain forever still
And I collapse to the bank still green
And scream hoarse with the whisper of the leaves
And you were bountiful then and I asked you why
Small, frail, dependent, I
Should have to watch you walk from the shoreline, grey
You smiled something about life and something about time
Something about the winding length of mine
How I'd be ready when it came to that day
But I am not
And every nerve recoils at the thought
That the vessels still remain but are filled with nought
A light switched off
A stopped clock
A loss
A light switched off
A stopped clock and a loss
Death, take me home
Death, take me home
The cloak flaps blackly
My fingers map the lines
Across the writing on your monuments
Of life and death and time
The cloak flaps blackly
My fingers map the lines
Across the writing on your monuments
I ponder the winding
Of life and death and time
And I hope to God the next passage on the waiting raft is mine
Please don't leave me here between life and death and time
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me here
Death, take me home
Death, take me home
Death, take me to the lake where the waters remain forever still
All is cold and frozen
Frozen the sea
Frozen the sky
Frozen is death
But I cannot die
Cannot die
As the snow falls
To cover this all
And all is cold
And cold, cold is all
All is cold, cold is all
Cold
Frozen
Frozen is Heaven and frozen is Hell
And I am dying in this living human shell
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God
Frozen my heart
Frozen my soul
Frozen my love
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I am a dying God, coming into human flesh
I lay, torn and aghast, at the gates of the dwelling place of God
My body is broken
Every bone shattered against its rails
Every vein spilled across its towers
My blood flows in rivers with the grain
If I could cry still, I would
But all tears are spent
My mouth shudders the words I screamed
As I pounded on those unmoving doors
My silent lament
There is no greater Hell than isolation
And so as you were in life
You shall be in death
Alone within, alone without
In the eons, that echo twists and throbs
And coalesces beside the palest form of quivering
Outside the dwelling place of God
A crystal hand caresses his face
Closing the eyes of his unseeing frown
I felt that final kiss with lightning's crack
The echo reaches through time and space in the black
From that old room with the rope
As my vertebrae snaps