And The Flames Wept - Immolation

On a cold winter morning In the time before the light In flames of death's eternal reign We ride towards the fight When the darkness has fallen down And the times are tough alright The sound of evil laughter falls Around the world tonight Fighting hard, fighting on for the steel Through the wastelands evermore The scattered souls will feel the hell Bodies wasted on the shore On the blackest plains in Hell's domain We watch them as they go Through the fire and pain and once again we know! So now we're flying we're free We're free before the thunderstorm On towards the wilderness Our quest carries on Far beyond the sundown Far beyond the moonlight Deep inside our hearts and all our souls! So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on! As the red day is dawning And the lightning cracks the sky They'll raise their hands to the heavens above With resentment in their eyes Running back through the midmorning light There's a burning in my heart We're banished from a time in a fallen land To a life beyond the stars In your darkest dreams see to believe Our destiny is time And endlessly we'll all be free tonight! And on the wings of a dream So far beyond reality All alone in desperation Now the time has gone Lost inside you'll never find Lost within my own mind Day after day this misery must go on! So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on! Now here we stand with their blood on our hands We fought so hard, now can we understand I'll break the seal of this curse if I possibly can For freedom of every man! So far away we wait for the day For the lives all so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and the flames we carry on!

March mourning in Marietta A magnanimous maiden rides away Her soul's moved on To some place better And with her broken shell So goes her pain And it feels a little strange As I sit here crying I hadn't seen her face In like a thousand years And the last time we spoke Would be the last time we spoke But I am grateful for it We got to speak our peace And we made it right I guess first flames Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride And the last time we spoke Would be the last time we spoke But I am grateful for it We got to speak our peace And we made it right I guess first flames Yes, I guess first flames Oh well I guess first flames Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Never really die Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride Ride girl ride

Black rays spew down from the heavens Burning rampant through the flaws of man Holy servants sworn to guide us towards salvation Now fallen angels leading us to sin, leading us to sin This fractured sect pierces through our conscience Deliverance promised to stop our dark descent This crowning vision, wrapped so tight around us Chokes us all, as the thorns dig in, as the thorns dig in Symbolic burden of pain We wash our hands of your stain This crown will fall and choke us all A noose of thorns, a noose of scorn When judgement calls Will you be absolved? Will you find your way? Or be strangled by your faith forever Constrict and tighten around our necks Bleeding wounds, drown from within Poisoned souls forever damned A noose of thorns to keep us pure

Chaos breaks the silent air A deadly threat upon us Let fly your pernicious barbs Initiate the bloodshed This insane crusade Tragedy of doomed faith To violence we are slaves Usurpers of this sacred realm Shake the earth beneath us Archangels stab with spears of hate Our fragile world held hostage Our foundation is frayed Populace in disgrace So blind to its disease The dark you cast spreads slow and deep Like God empowered kings at your feet A furious maelstrom of fire and destruction will reign Take us back to the age of no light once again The death you bring runs far and wide A God possessed, a world destroyed

Pious, traitor, seducer of angels Acts of sin committed under God Unseen vile intrusion While you bear your righteous cross An acolyte's nightmare, perverted Holy See Raping his angels beneath pontifical wings Deceptive dark perversion While you kiss the holy ring Playing the holy While feeding your demons Pupil of God Formed of a devil's soul Acts of cruelty, acts of shame Acts of torture, an act of God Treachery within the house of God Where the wicked hide amongst the saints Stalking those of purest spirit A predator's scheme of dark intent Deceitful wolf adorned in cloths of faith Ordain yourself in stolen souls Pray for those you've preyed upon While hidden away in secrecy Acts of cruelty, acts of shame Acts of torture, an act of God

I've known true anguish I've once felt light A broken spirit, I stand alone My fortress of one The past has brought me back to this place I'm drifting lifeless once again Lost beneath a shroud of night The sun's warm rays never in my sight This taste of black on my tongue Can't erase the things I've done My fortress of guilt I hate what I am No pain is greater than the truth This pounding, pounding in my head I cannot let them in My inner demons taunting me I must not lead them here Lead me out of the light Bring me into the... Darkness creeping close to me I feel its numbing grasp I know its cold emphatic call I cannot break its spell Lead me into the dark Bring me closer to Malignant spirits have entered my soul Let the darkness come inside again Departing life My tormented soul Submit and die Let the darkness in

Propaganda set ablaze Shifting doubt and fear to rage Antagonize our enemies into conflict Another poison apple drops We hate the taste yet eat it up Death clears way for new acquisitions Choking down disease and filth Assassinations without guilt Devolve into the devil's wretched pawns Discordant villains seed the earth With famine, plague and war Spiral downward, ever falling Endless battles, hostility from which we cannot hide Endless death, eradication brought down on us Seething carnal masses awaiting night Advancing closer, in sombеr hues of light Poised and rabid, their armiеs thirst for life Their venomous tongues numb us With caustic hymns of glory Our peaceful souls will slowly die In their molten swells of fury Conquer and divide The weak and dispossessed The ravaged flesh of apocalyptic quest The wicked shall overcome us

Phantoms of disorder Move silent through our world Unseen and veiled by chaos Planting seeds of dissent Assassins of peace Enforcers of power The smell of fear and weakness Draws them to their prey The kingdoms they tear down Become the carrion on which they feed Predators in wait Devils in flesh Turning dreams to black Bring nightmares to us all Greed is their God And your Gods they will devour Poisoning morals... Reigning in nations Plotting fate... Abolishing faith Stop at nothing... Ransom the sun The darkness takes hold When the Jackals come Their war is already won Your world will end When the jackals come