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My soul has not been spared It's been ripped out and crushed into the ground I thought for months that death was over But now I find that it's coming back to haunt me When I see through the hazy trees I gaze upon my tombstone erected tall A cemented place for my being A monument to all sins, both yours and mine I tried to fight what I couldn't see But now that my vision is clear I watch my own defeat Felled to the floor in a blinding vitriol The result of only seconds of confrontation I am corpse Living walking death I am corpse A breathing husk of my former self I am corpse How could I see the light? I am corpse When an eclipse continues to shade me My skull aches with thoughts of lies Thoughts of betrayal, the knife seeping through my back No matter what I do to stave it I find I'm always crucified in the end So leave my body be I'll project from this world into another And my cadaver shall walk the earth To remind them all of what I fucking suffered I am corpse Living walking death I am corpse A breathing husk of my former self I am corpse How could I see the light? I am corpse When an eclipse continues to shade me I am corpse All that remains of me I am corpse A statue of my thoughts I am corpse You'll see me walking I am corpse Shrouded in the mists of time Purgatory Purgatory Purgatory Purgatory This is solitary confinement Imagine the body striding through the fog Aimless in its destination Only walking as a dead reminder Is it myself or is it not? A double-sided mirror for my interior I know not the answer So tell me, how would you destroy me?

Exhale your own death from your lungs Once a vital source for creating life Now a sentence to the eternal grave In this world where we are but mice Obelisks tunnelling through the sky Holes torn in the sphere of our minds Fires burn within our eyes As we fall and leave broken bodies behind] The empty lives of ones we called gods Bent on nothing but a profit margin Is this the price we pay for another price? A profit for a prophet with a doomsday device I give no forgiveness to you who grind the thought That we obey you while our black blood is drying up I will not stand here and let you preach your creed Before this madness ends it's us who'll make you bleed You make us choke and gasp for air Just to get one last breath so that we might live You've wrought nothing but despair Now death is all that I've got left to give Revolution Revolution Revolution Revolution It is worth dying for if I could strike you down Burn all you stand for, watch your idea drown For if this occurs then bet that I'll be back A life for a life drenched in the earthen black You are the only ones who should not be kept alive You block our kind and all for which we strive We would be so much better off if you did not exist But no matter what we do you continue to persist I swear to the universe that for as long as I'm not dead You all will wish that you were instead And then even after I have perished I'll haunt your palaces and raze all that your cherish I'll follow you into the farthest reaches of the Earth Incorporeal and destined for rebirth Climb to the mountain top that I might push you off I'll haunt you day and night as the ghost of my cough

Nothing prepares us for life beyond the grave When our souls are sealed into a blackened box Descend into the soil Amidst a sea of black and veils of sorrow Praying for an ascension into the realm of clouds An escape from an eternity of cremation But what really happens when we cease to be? Are we judged by the grand designer? Or do we merely return to our earthly past? I can't be forgiven I'm a damned soul Sister, do not pray for me I'm past the point of saving Brother, do not anoint me I know well the things I've done

There's an evil beneath our feet Ancient and always breathing Commanding our every move From the dawn of time to the modern world A force from before An idea at the root of our core Before the origin of the multiverse Before sentience began to disperse I will kill the Beast His soul cannot retreat The Devil will be mine His throne my only shrine I'm the last of my kind The bane of Lucifer Cause of the demiurge You're mine Beelzebub I'll stab your succubus And kill Asmodeus My power lies with Hell A future you can tell The purest evil known For no sins I atone Upon this blackened stone I slew the Antichrist As part of my device And I shall take you too I could never lose Not to the likes of you What is the Devil but an idea? 'Tis why he persists as a cultural ideal They say an idea can never be killed The foundation upon which society's built But I say to those who would claim To be the proponents of a religious game I'll show you all where the true evil lies it lies within me, now watch Satan die! I took down Baphomet Sculpted the throne ov Seth Usurped the realm below A wretched deathly blow To a realm which I stole Your soul's beyond reprieve Lucy sold his to me Now you all understand That through my wicked hand I own the race of man A bloody battle raged The demons were so brave But it was not to pass I destroyed them so fast Out of Hell they were cast A daedra wishes he Were as evil as me But nobody compares Nobody dares All bodies care Kill the Devil Kill the Devil Kill the Devil Kill the Devil

A trio of war, of battle, of strife Giver of death and taker of life Three women and three crows The maiden, the mother and the crone The bloodstained angel watches us all To deliver us to glory after we fall Return to the halls of the dead Her arm in mine, shieldmaiden's stead A trio of war, of battle, of strife Giver of death and taker of life Three women and three crows The maiden, the mother and the crone The bloodstained angel watches us all To deliver us to glory after we fall Return to the halls of the dead Her arm in mine, shieldmaiden's stead The phantom queen flies sovereign above A spirit of black feathers watching below She waits for the fallen to take their leave So that she might be foretold to come A squadron of valkyries in her wake Singing laments and nocturnes for the lost When cold finality is at stake We who are crucified on the cross Freya weeps upon her golden throne For dead men slain in her name A circlet of raven's down on her brow Rusts from her tears, fallen like rain ironically fortunate am I To gaze upon a goddess so stunning Pale skin of white and hair kissed by fire O to a glorious heaven I'm coming A trio of war, of battle, of strife Giver of death and taker of life Three women and three crows The maiden, the mother and the crone The bloodstained angel watches us all To deliver us to glory after we fall Return to the halls of the dead Her arm in mine, shieldmaiden's stead A trio of war, of battle, of strife Giver of death and taker of life Three women and three crows The maiden, the mother and the crone The bloodstained angel watches us all To deliver us to glory after we fall Return to the halls of the dead Her arm in mine, shieldmaiden's stead Sable wings of celestial angels Draped in white robes flowing freely Guarded by serpentine armor Before her I present myself kneeling If this is the afterlife that awaits me Then I would go with her to it Warrior woman, goddess of ice I trust that she could carry me through it To a blissful eternity Spent with her forever and ever Until Ragnarok and the ends of the Earth She is the guardian in the great endeavour Would it be wrong to claim that I love her? A mortal betrothed to a god of the frost? I am hers and she is mine Together in apocalyptic holocaust

Before the winter comes Make peace with your gods For no hope lasts with men When the summer sets I feel the gusts of September's wind It calls to me, to a fixture in my past Of the day that a season found me And left its mark upon my visions My kingdom cold is fast approaching I still remember my first view of vastness White fire swept clean the earth Leaving desolate the plains of this world A glacial reckoning of what's to come Tree bark splits and crystals form beginning of a new chapter Turn the page to see what happens Archaic in an aftermath Before the start of autumnal collapse Batten down the hatches Prepare for a pale darkness O, winter is coming Mother Nature and Mother Earth conspire To end the infernal months And begin illustrious duration Glisten for me precious seasons You give freedom to my words On hands and knees I beg Release me from perpetual scorn Gazing upon grey skies Watchful for signs of life That clouds of dark split wide A rift for snowfall deep inside When the warmth begins to fade I feel pleasure in my knowledge That once the forest bleeds Old Man Winter shall rear his head The one eyed wanderer Two crows circling the sky Might spear Gungnir in hand Trudging through depths on land Gift from the heavens So majestic in your movement I call to thee Beseeched to an early arrival I was born as a son of the frost Destined as a prophet of cold A soothing shade of winter In a forest murdered by ice This is my path through life To impeach the genesis of spring Endure the harshness of heat And pray for my beloved's return The drudkh of forests charred Burned by a cold sliver fire Still in woodlands, stillborn wood Born of ash in an ancient world Return to the cradle of life Zenith of a grandiose design Watch the stars as I become skyclad The progeny of pagan gods As much a son as I am a daughter Borne of the tempered water The temple of temperance A dedication to absence of progress Soaring 'cross the ageless sky Black ravens of a smouldering high Feathering falling of symbolic might A prophecy of what lies in sight A blanket of death precedes you The forest floor, a graveyard Before duality encompasses all Smothering all that was left behind Abandon all that you've ever known The compass points towards what north is shown A journey to my point of dawning Where the goddess birthed me, at the edge of a world Universal inheritance Weightless and drifting When the polar winds are blowing Where the solar winds are growing I watch lifeblood drain away Bathed in frost from a thawed domain Realm drenched in white, life withers away A legend of reborn immortality Stare into the reflecting pools But don't step through A muted glistening, listening Close to the nocturne

I bask in the glory Of the midnight moon Celestial body A heavenly sight Bring out my senses Bathed in moonbeams Awaken my blood To the calling of Your splendour I wander the forest Alone in solace Solitary analysis My naked form Adorned with ice Pale in the night sky Beneath starlit timber And Carpathian hills A fallen memory Rising once more To fulfil a reverie

The second snowfall Winter will rise again Serenity so frigid Return to my reality The ground quivers A stone cold thaw An ode to a beating heart Serenade for galaxies The whole of creation A wonderful viability What's worth living for Is observation only Wait to begin again At the end of all things Resurrected euphoria My truest elation