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Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose lyrics



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01. Glimmers In The Underworld

Turning, burning wheels of eyes
Flaming in the sky
Turning, burning, yearning in the light

Ophanim, revolve and shine
And crash beyond the veil
Blood has spilled from this unholy grail

Fetid Eucharist
I can see inside my mind
I was so blind
Fetid Eucharist
From inside I pierce the veil
There’s only Hell

Riding rising chariots
Mighty thrones aflame
Proclamation of unholy names

We’re chained and bound
Tied to the ground
Prisoners in our own citadel
I’ll die with my
eyes open wide
Just to get a good look at hell

Glimmers in the underworld
Thorns upon the Stygian Rose

Just look, now look behind
The veil and you will find
Once you’ve seen
You can’t look back
‘Cus all the demons
They will remind you
That they will find you
They’re right behind you
Through the black

02. Thunder (Perfect Mind)

She came to me in a dream
Cloaked in green flame
Her voice a silent scream
She called my name

I have unearthed hidden ruins
An egress to the world beyond
And to traverse may be foolish
But through this ingress I'll be respawned

In this vision of fires
The cosmic maw
Of my weakest desires
That lead to my fall

Blessed be the green lion
The green lion that eats the sun
To see through Orion
Where two hearts will beat as one

As above so below
There's so much more to know
Beyond this flesh
I prayed and I cried, I choked down my pride
Despondent flesh
And as the devils whip their slaves upon my spears
I return in kind
Seven devils have something new to fear
Thunder, Perfect Mind

She is peace, She is war
She is nothing, She is more
She is shameless, She is ashamed
She is everything that cannot be named

03. Down In The Hollow

I'll not apologize I'll not be held in wrong
I am defleshed in liberation
Just look into these eyes and listen to my song
Through darkened fog an incantation

O down in the hollow
She is waiting for me
And I will now follow
The fading light
O there is no shelter
When the rain falls on my head
I should have held her
Instead of losing sight

Cimmerian shadows
Gossamer writhes below

Is this all there really is?
Just what any fool can see
Is this all there really is?
When will the end be?
And how can I break free?

Dark Skies
Cold Earth
All our lives
Just food for the worms
Leaves fall
From the witch elm
Twilight
In the Dream Realm

O down in the hollow
I know she's lying there in wait
And I simply suffer
The hand of fate
Cimmerian shadows
Gossamer writhes below
Under the sun of Thebes
Fallen angels and furies are calling out

They know my name
She calls my name

04. Heavy Is The Crown Of Bone

Once through the mirror
The candles hushed their light
A winged stag appears with tail aflame

Three binding corners
This ghastly shadowed sight
An angel bound and begging “take these chains”

“Just take these chains,
“O take these chains”
This is no king I see before me
So I open the vein

It speaks in whispers of truth and of divine
It speaks of carnal wisdom with no shame

Bring me the chains
I can handle the pain
In the dark I could swear I saw a sly smile
I can hear the angel say,

“I am not the heir apparent
Just a pretender to the throne
Wretched disciples on my counsel
We’ve lived in hell so long it’s home
Heavy is the crown of bone”

05. Scrying Orb

Cloaked in the shadows on a moonless night
Silent figures beckon through the brume
The earth here is sated with the bones of the fallen
Underfoot is hallowed ground

And something is pulling me closer
And I'm starting to reach out my hand

My heart beats against the blade
I enter the darkened room
I know I should be more afraid
But I will come back for you

Spectres are watching, I can feel the unholy gaze
Thirteen black candles in the dark
Echoing angels in the four watchtowers
Can you hear the beating of my heart?

The portal is starting to open
The key is the nineteenth call

The shadows begin to sway
A strange light is filling the room
I know I should be more afraid
But I have come back

I have heard the cries calling
from the other side through the scrying orb

Fire cleaves the sky and
I'm feeling so alive with the scrying orb

There is thunder in our hearts,
there are answers in the eye of the scrying orb

We are demons in the dark,
we are angels in the light of the scrying orb

06. The Stygian Rose

I'm rattling the chains at the gates of heaven
I'm crying out but she can't hear my call, no
For these long days I've followed some disembodied song
In the black candle flame I swear there's echoes

A pandemonium, a world of shadows
Like a sizzling fire, you can feel it, just right now

The Stygian Rose in Saturn's Storm
The black bloom will be reborn

I've been shattered in so many ways
My vow is the last thing I would betray
Down in the hollow a vow just decays
So the shackles and blindfolds fall away

This story untold
Of such bitter longing and loss
When the cube unfolds
I will take up that cross

I have been shattered in so many ways
My vow is the last thing I would betray
Yet down in the hollow a vow has no sway
So these shackles and blindfolds, they fall away

Through the light (I can find the black)
In the night (There's no turning back)
I now see (What hides behind the fold)
Set me free (The Stygian Rose)