I am your very soul
The one you do not know
I am the truth that's playing hide and seek
And I will not be free
I cannot choose to be
Till my creator takes the chains off me

All has come to nothing
All will burn in hell
Now the bridge has broken
All is overcome

I crossed the shining seas
Eyes of creatures follow me
Moonlight guides us on a steady course
Afterglow of Ragnarok
Becomes the shadow of the dawn
From the night the sun will rise again, again

From me there’s no escape
No opening of the gate
Incarnate freedom just a hopeless dream
I read your silent mind
I feel your hate refine
And the burning will begin in the circle of lust

All has come to nothing
Saved but you can't run
Now the bridge has broken
All is overcome

I crossed the shining seas
Eyes of creatures follow me
Moonlight guides us on a steady course
Afterglow of Ragnarok
Becomes the shadow of the dawn
From the night the sun will rise again, again

All has come to nothing
The world is only dust
Now the bridge is broken
There's a fire in the ice

All has come to nothing
All has burned in hell
Now the bridge has broken

I crossed the shining seas
Eyes of creatures follow me
Moonlight guides us on a steady course
Afterglow of Ragnarok
Becomes the shadow of the dawn
From the night the sun will rise again, again

Afterglow of Ragnarok
Afterglow
Afterglow of Ragnarok

All things of love and beauty
Lost in clouds of fiery dust
Beneath the blood red sky
The shifting sands will cover us

We drink the cup of secrets
Dreaming of the afterlife
The sun begins its journey
Taking us from day to night

So where was god
When I needed him the most?
What salvation is a holy ghost?
For what I've done you can't blame me
I lived across the centuries

When the sun goes down
I wear my thorny crown
I know them oh so well
The many opening doors to hell

I drink the cup of starlight
Dreaming of the day to come
My fingers turn the pages
Of the book of life that's yet to come

My blood is thin, my body aches
To lie in earth is still my fate
Eclipse will come to set me free
And for that moment I can't wait

I'm telling you now I will come again
With the knowledge from my secret realm
Share my treasure with humankind
Drink of me lose your mind

When the sun goes down
I wear my thorny crown
I know them oh so well
The many opening doors to hell

Prometheus unbound
Tears of desolation found
Believe the tales I tell
The many opening doors to hell

Our life will leave us
With wounds so grievous
Human deceivers
I'm your soul retriever

When the sun goes down
I wear my thorny crown
I know them oh so well
The many opening doors to hell

Prometheus unbound
Tears of desolation found
Believe the tales I tell
The many opening doors to hell
The many opening doors to hell
The many opening doors to hell

In a country churchyard
I came across a man
He smiled and slowly beckoned me
With a trembling hand
Did you come to gamble
Or did you come to pray
What’s the meaning of your business here
On a stormy day
The raindrops spattered on the tomb
From grey and leaden Skies
Deny me once, deny me twice
But don’t look in my eyes...

There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
It’s just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the graves
But you came to be saved
There is rain on the graves
Let it wash your soul of dying

Faithless, he denied the truth
That he had come to steal
To kneel before the poet
Not the altar or the priest
He’s washed himself in misery
Before he came to pray
He’d hoped in his false penitence
Some sympathy he’d sway

There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
It’s just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the graves
But you came to be saved
There is rain on the graves
It’s just rain, rain, rain

I am the God of sinners
You are what I have made
You’re talking to your likeness
And my shadow is your shade
Stand up and face the mirror
It’s the image that you crave
But i’ll be here when you’re long gone
I’ll see you in that grave
Ha, ha, ha

There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves
It’s just rain, rain, rain
There is rain on the graves
Rain on the graves
There is rain on the graves

In the ascension come
We're poles apart
I am the wizard of your heart
Clear cell and a slice of blue
On a different earth to be with you
We are starseed, our respirator
Breathing cosmic incubator
Innocent, translucent white
We are the children of the night

We're resurrection men
At the point of death
We take you to the end
Resurrection men
Eternity has failed you
Once again
Resurrection men
You've done the deal
And so the story ends
Resurrection men

I rise from slumber
You call my name
Recall my number
My day of shame
Is death my future
My only life
Some deadly marriage
A barren wife

So rise you demons, I live in hell
I am connected to you as well
Some say we rob graves
In truth - we dig
My name is Lazarus
I raise the dead

So rise, you spirits rise
Show yourselves in the glass
Legion, tighten my grip on your soul
Summon your demons outside...

We're resurrection men
At the point of death
We take you to the end
Resurrection men
Eternity has failed you
Once again
Resurrection men
You've done the deal
And so the story ends
Resurrection men, Resurrection men
Resurrection men

It just takes a hero
You stand in his shadow
You walk in his shoes
With feet made of clay
So who is the sinner
And who is the prophet
The rules of the game
That you're gonna play

So put your fingers in the wounds
And pray that he's god
A roll of the dice
For a piece of his cloth
It just takes a hero
For a nickel or a dime
Take a pearl from an oyster
And feed it to swine

We all want to be you
For a glimmer of hope
There's not enough gold
At the end of your rope
And no one can hear you
Your life is a zero
You only can be
What the people, they see

So put your fingers in the wounds
And pray that he's god
A roll of the dice
For a piece of his cloth
It just takes a hero
For a nickel or a dime
Take a pearl from an oyster
And feed it to swine

Over and over, over and over

So put your fingers in the wounds
And pray that he's god
A roll of the dice
For a piece of his cloth
It just takes a hero
For a nickel or a dime
Take a pearl from an oyster
And feed it to swine

So put your fingers in the wounds
And pray that he's god
A roll of the dice
For a piece of his cloth
It just takes a hero
For a nickel or a dime
Take a pearl from an oyster
And feed it to swine

Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothen in white
Stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man

Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins
Is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man

When the world was virgin
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness
The beginning of the end
From a world of magma
To a cold rockface
The ascent of madness
And a human race

There are strange believers in all of us
There are stranger truths
Immortal lust
The dark redeemer...he takes your hand
You sign the contract
And lose your mind...
Lose your mind

Keep in the sail
At the edge of the world
'Cos eternity has failed
You were waiting in line
For the ending of time
But eternity has failed
We are building a bridge
So you people can live
'Cos eternity has failed
Just a matter of time
For my partner in crime
And eternity has failed

Keep in your sails
At the edge of the world
'Cos eternity has failed
You were waiting in line
For the ending of time
But eternity has failed
We are building a bridge
So you people can live
'Cos eternity has failed

Just a matter of time
For my partner in crime
And eternity has failed
Keep in your sails
At the edge of the world
'Cos eternity has failed
We were waiting in line
For the ending of time
But eternity has failed

Eternity has failed
Eternity has failed

Good day, my name is necropolis
I am formed of the dead

Give me my freedom, release me from pain
Mistress of mercy, come thrill me again
Time to return to the womb whence I came
No more tomorrows
No judgement or blame

I can be what I never was
Skeletons of fury 'cos my mind was lost

Far...from the old ways
Sleepers all awake
Lost in the harmony
The majesty, the ecstasy

Hunting the souls
Of the blackened and damned
Bound for the future
Who knows where I land
Have to believe

There's a god in this world
For I can become one
My science has learned

I can be what I never was
Now that I am ready
'Cos my mind is lost

Far from the old ways
Sleepers all awake
Lost in the harmony
The majesty, the ecstasy

I can be what I never was
Now that I am ready
'Cos my mind lost

Far from the old ways
Sleepers all awake
Lost in the harmony
The majesty, the ecstasy
Another world, another life
An afterlife...again
Lost in the ecstasy
The harmony, the majesty

I can read between the lines
When people singalong
I can see the inner signs
The spirits in their heart
I drink to ease the pain
to dull this maddening roar
Oblivion again
In a house that has no door

Face in the mirror
It's a waiting game
Look at your face in the mirror
Does it look the same
Look at your face in the mirror
It's a crying shame
Look at your face in the mirror
A waiting game

There are people all around
They're standing in a crowd
They are all looking down...
At the fool on the ground
So welcome to my world
To the bottom of a glass
When I hold it I see through you
To the future and the past

Face in the mirror
It's a waiting game
Look at your face in the mirror
Does it look the same
Look at your face in the mirror
It's a crying shame
Look at your face...
Look at your face...
Look at your face...

I can see paradise
Even though I live in hell
So don't look in my mirror
you might see yourself as well

It's a face in the mirror
It's a waiting game
Look at your face in the mirror
Does it look the same
When you stare into your eyes
It's a crying shame
Take a look at your face
Look at your face
Look at your face

Face in the mirror
It's a waiting game
Look at your face in the mirror
Does it look the same
Take a look at that face in the mirror
It's a crying shame
Look at your face...
Look at your face...
Look at your face...

And so we lay under the moon
The stars have crossed our paths tonight
So journey on our wandering souls
Let our tears fall on our own
Against the sun
There are shapes in the fire
Around the stars
Are blue and grey
Halos...
Forever into the light

A pathway silvered and untold
A frozen river, a river souls
Let your tears fall on the ice
In the shadow of the gods
Somewhere there is hope
In this heartless world together
To come again
On this new earth once more
Forever, evermore

Journey on beyond the stars
Our weary souls,t he road is long
We live in shadows of the gods
The sunlit homeland is not far

In absolute night, in absolute zero
The universe stops, a foetus in vitro
And I have a river souls underfoot
One drop creates the light
One drop will fill the night

I need a necromancer
That science has no use
I need your skill to raise the veil
Sanctify release
A sacrifice at midnight
Do what must be done
I need your help to save them all
Save my only son

This is my world, world of the dead
This is my life, world of the dead

Before a body had grown cold
You were there to steal its soul
The son is dead, he told me so
I gave him peace, he is let go
So now a double threat unfolds
And purgatory awaits
The treble headed hellhound barks
And opens up the gates

This is my world, world of the dead
This is my life, world of the dead

You have no life, world of the dead
World of the dead

We open up the temple gates
Light the crucible again
We watch the phoenix rise in fire
Burning by the ritual flame
So lay me down
In the shadow of the gods

Here in this dark forest
Where nothing will live
I see the frozen eyes
Maybe something...can be heard...
Frozen raindrops hanging on the trees

Here int he dark forest
Where angels live and angels sleep
Herein my heart is raging again...again

Save me now, save me now, save me now
Save me now, save me from this pain...
Save me now, save me now...
Let me live again...

I walk into the halls of ice and thorns
Decaying frozen walls
I blame myself I was not here...
For this king could have lost his crown...
But still is your heartbeat
Your breath hands frozen in the air
Some poisoned enchantment...
Your beauty...it will not last...

You say save me now...save me now...
Save me now...save me now
Save me from this pain...
Save me now...bring me back...
Save me now and help me live again

The king returned and all was silent...
The body of this frozen queen...tragic
The acolytes around here...
Expressions of horror

Make me whole again...

Bring back my queen...

Make me whole again

And free the ice queen now

Come back to me...come back to me...

Save me now, save me now, save me now
Save me now, save me from my grave...

Save me now...save me now
Help me...help me live again

He kissed her on the lips, and his tears
They melted stiff unyielding flesh...
As his lips touched
Her last frozen breath...
A strange light...illumined her eyes...

And the shadow of the valley of death...

He kissed her on the lips, and his tears
They melted the stiff unyielding flesh...
As his lips touched
Her last frozen breath...
A strange light...illumined her eyes...

And the shadow of
The valley of death approached...

And the king cried...

For I am damned what have I done

And the ice queen shrieked
As the angel of death appeared
Who pays the price he laughed

For love has brought you here
And love will tear you apart

For love has brought you here
And love will tear you apart

For love has brought you here
And love will tear you apart

For love has brought you here
And love will tear you apart

I'll take you back
Let me take you back
I will take you back