For centuries we've been searching for the secret signs
Wretched life, you are the disease of human race
Damnation of souls, inquisitors ripping out confessions
Raping and lying, your truth is falling into pieces

Sacred blood
The eternal pain of my burning soul

Your rotten smile, reflection of your blackened heart
Punishment divine, I'm bleeding while you're filling your cup
Today the damned ones will pray for salvation of their souls
My sword will make you burn

Down on my knees in communion with my Lord
Now revealed his secrets I get ready to go
All the truth I know, all I hide within me
I won't trust you anymore, I release myself from the church

I'm riding fast on a sweating horse
I'm running away from the christian hordes
My head is worth its price and the prison cells are cold
The wooden cross is far too heavy for a templar's soul

In my last hours I still believe in the code
That honours a humble man whose ideas the church misused
Pursued, captured, tortured and abused
An existence wiped away but a soul free for the truth

Under the sun the lashes tear the flesh
Once a man of God, your servant passes away
Vultures fly, circling low they smell my death
I gasp for air, I hate you all
I damn you all

Fleeing through the dark
Cold sweat is running down your spine
Your pounding heart is about to explode
Your lungs can't take no more

In the silence under the earth
Where darkness lurks you
And all your senses are alert
You feel you'll hold no more
But when your forces begin to weaken
A sudden thought comes to your mind
The only thing that keeps you alive
A flaming rage burns in your eyes

Burning your eyes
A life of humiliation
Has been too much to endure
But those who stole your dreams
Will live no more
No more

There's no remorse, there's no looking back
No tears to shed, not one last cry
The heart feels heavy to face what lies beyond
Determination entails a newborn hope

A kingdom in the depth of the earth
Creatures of the obscure
Corrupted dynasties since times of old
Millennia of futile lives
Despising the humble, trampling on all pride
Wrecking hopes and wasting lives
All these will not be borne any longer
How sweet tastes the blood of vengeance

Feel the end before your eyes
Smell the scent of freedom
Breathe the air of victory

Thousand deaths, all survived
And I still behold the march of time
From the past, aeons have passed
And all my once broken bones still imprison my ancient soul

My soul...
Holds the answers to all my thoughts
My gift...
Who granted such gift?
Who will put an end to it?

Power and solitude for the one once admired
Infinity for no one to share with, for no one to live with

From the mist of the past
An existence beyond existence
Defied the invincible march of time, of time...
The path it lies divided, beyond the mist of time

The glory of those ancient, past days
Turned into madness, into rejection
Where have all those days gone?
Where is that glory now? Where?

I remember a time of war, of fights
I remember the battle that severed my life
I arose from the dead, from among my friends
To fight and die again
Three times I died that day, three times I awoke
And all who surrounded me, fearful, run amok

Too many deaths I have survived
But when I will behold the ever opening gates?
From the mist of the past, through the haze of time
I'll travel my path and wait...

I remember a time of war, of fights
I remember the battle that severed my life
I'll arise from the dead, again and again
Beyond the mist of time

Wasted life condemned to exile
In a world devoid of mercy
A lost soul between heaven and hell
Wandering around the world, passing by without a trace
In the search for someone to redeem my sins

The skies are falling down, rejected by gods my vengeance is near
I have been waiting for so long, bringing death as my flag
The ravens are flying in circles
My bloodthirsty sword forces me to sin once more
The voice within the blade whispers silently

Spreading my wings upon the earth
Rising from ashes my name will be written in stone
Born of fire and revenge
Constellations behold this triumphant day

I have chosen to be a wolf among sheep
I am the cure, I am death behind you
To bear this suffering, to change the prophecy
Wake up the world facing the truth
Shedding my blood to a majestic sword

In a red stained world where innocence is far away
Your eyes are blinded but now you can feel the scent of death

I'm looking for reason to justify my humanity
Facing a god who long time ago forgot us all

I have never got an answer from the crucifix
I am the last before the storm

The skies are falling down, rejected by gods my vengeance is near
I have been waiting for so long, bringing death as my flag
The ravens are flying in circles
My bloodthirsty sword forces me to sin once more

Spreading my wings upon the earth
Rising from ashes my name will be written in stone
Born of fire and revenge
Constellations behold this triumphant day

The most defiant of all creatures
Admitting the defeat
No one to acknowledge his declaration
His deep melancholy

Aeons of deception, communion with god denied
Suffering from his failure, millions of souls cry
Taking revenge on those who rejected god's grace
Worthless humanity deserve no free will in hell

Frustration drowning him, now he has changed
For he has failed to convince, god won't understand
He wishes to be taken back where he belongs
He hates the souls he reigns, the weight he's borne

He placed high value on the power of the intellect
To create a luxury of wonder upon the earth
He thought he could outshine god but all he created went wrong
Had no substance, no future, as history has shown

Only a human soul can restore what is wrong
The cure for the world's pain has to be brought

(Prince Lucifer speaks)
Then god might listen and thus might be convinced
Of my true repentance, of my good will
I only wish to return back into the certainty
Into the tranquillity I once knew

The most defiant of all creatures
Admitting his defeat
Willing to show his creator
His deep melancholy
Now found the chosen one
He must make amends
And relay all his fears and hopes
Upon the soul of a man

...So they burn him, believing him dead
They prayed for his god forbidden soul
Believed him in hell

The day was grey, so were their faces
As graveyard stones, cold and lifeless

One in a million, a privileged one
He granted him life beyond life

To be forever bound to an unholy mission
Till his master's will is fulfilled beyond time and reason

He sought to show he could create
A better world than god's
But for his failure he's bound to find
The cure for this world

(Lucifer)
Help me restore myself to heaven
And I shalt help you come to life again

(The chosen one)
Then I shalt serve though now being my master
Thus I will meet my longing love on earth

Come down to hell, I'll make you see
What is awaiting you if you fail to fulfill my will

The physical manifestation of god's mercy on earth
The holy grail is the cure of the world's pain

The desperation in his tortured eyes
Showed the chosen one the truth
His yet damned soul for the holy grail
Was the bargain they struck

(Lucifer)
Hidden from me, out of infernal regions
In supernatural realms upon the earth
In places forbidden to ordinary mortals
I grant you the power to walk freely in them

The grail was brought to him
The deal was fulfilled
The chosen one's soul was freed
He was no longer his master

Heaven was denied to the prince
But god put the world in his charge
Commissioned to redeem it to the fullness of time

God will no longer rule here, we'll achieve our free will
Our destiny is ours, our lives will be our own

(Lucifer)
I am charged to bring reason and humanity to the world
We shall then be redeemed and thus discover the cure

Man must learn to rule himself, to understand himself
To take care for himself
To live without aid and without hindrance
It will be our fellows, our children who'll find
The cure for the world's pain

Heaven was still denied to the prince
But god put the world in his charge
Commissioned to redeem it to the fullness of time

God will no longer rule here, we'll achieve our free will
Our destiny is ours, our lives will be our own

(Lucifer)
I will teach to reach reason and humanity to you all
I shall be all I was before I was cast down

God will no longer rule here, we'll achieve our free will
Our destiny is ours, our lives will be our own at last...

Through Anfauglith to Angband
Ten thousand elven swords gleaming beneath the dust
But the black enemy is far too strong
And the treason of men will send them to their graves

Utúlie'n aurê! Aiya eldalië ar atanatár!
Utúlie'n aurë! Auta i lomê!
(The day has come! Behold, elven folks and fathers of men!
The day has come! The night has already passed!)

Now beauty is dead, their voices silent
Their eyes closed forever
Unnumbered tears were shed
No chant will express that pain

Gothmog, lord of balrogs!
Bring thy darkness and pludge us into night!
The black axe of fire
The bringer of death
Cover with blackness
The soul of the king
A cloak of night
Upon the battlefield
Filled with fear
Their lowered hearts
Balrogs, wolves and dragons
Slew all living beings
Stepped upon their corpses
And covered them in filth

Nirnaeth Arnoediad

I'll arrive from the great beyond
And I'll kneel at the edge of the sea
I shall wash all the scars in me
And my body is reborn
I shall be reborn

Then I'll walk across the earth
In search of revenge
Beneath the stars I wander
As the moon beams enlighten

When the shades of your house
Whisper softly my name
Then you'll know I'm back again
To complete what was meant to be

I'll arrive from the great beyond
And I'll kneel at the edge of the sea
I shall wash all the scars in me
And my body is reborn
Reborn
Revenge

One by one, you all shall fall
One by one, I'll take with me your souls

My friend, don't stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I've come to thee in your darkest hour
Their end is at hand, the moment is ours

Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there, I did not die

My friend, don't stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I have washed all the scars in me
So don't stand at my grave and weep

Behold the evil itself
Falls summoned from the broken sky
How the wrath of awakened fiends
Arises everywhere

Reach the sky and see
Inhuman encounters crumble on desecrated grounds

I desire to escape
But this dungeon freezes my will
I desire to wake up
But this horrific nightmare is far to conclude

The red horizon brings
The horrible and heinous strains of war

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Fate of cruelty shows the blackest of the paths
Where a stained blade, waiting for your insignificant soul
Will end your suffering up

Feelings of revenge have been unleashed
Purity will decay and armies will be defeated
No shelter will protect the light from the hate of the flame
They're about to change, defend ourselves

The bleeding of this ruined world
Regrets me like a deadly disease within

Beasts and criminals now rule the world
Where hope and joy disappeared long ago
The time of the last pray arrives
The existence begins to fade away
Away

The sun of freedom will not rise again
The days of delight and glory come to an end

Every man for himself