Satan - Songs In Crimson lyrics
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Tracks 01. Frantic Zero
02. Era (The Day Will Come) 03. Whore Of Babylon 04. Sacramental Rites 05. Martyrdom 06. Turn The Tide 07. Captives 08. Curse In Disguise 09. Truth Bullet 10. Deadly Crimson 01. Frantic Zero
In the afternoon we’ve learned to adapt
To a strange and implausible reality Warning bells had been tolling so long But no one would listen to reason Oh the arrogance and the greed They only saw what they wanted to see Such belligerence, such bloody fools A race to the bottom It’s a journey to Hell Self annihilation A world gone frantic with zero to tell Tomorrow’s generation In the aftermath a few of us remember The comforts of everyday reality Now we’ve back to the horse & the wheel The future a thing of the past Your descendants will have to make do They’ll never miss what they never knew Electricity and computers too The world just carried on No provision in place As every well ran dry They continued to race In the here-aftermath every breath Will remind you of by gone insanity We needed heroes but choose to be zeros Hold on for the rest of your life Back to the start, beginning again Like being born in seven hundred & ten Here it comes now, just around the bend A race to the bottom Going over the edge Self annihilation A world gone frantic with zero to pledge To any generation 02. Era (The Day Will Come)
Playing out the time
Latter day existence Perpetual reminiscence Whatever seemed to worry us so We could never have known There were greater things So much more to lose This is the end of an era The death of an age You’ll never see the like again To see the end of an era Can cut to the heart To be living through the change The day will come You’d better say goodbye Ten years from now You’ll be looking back on this day Wishing you were here again Take a look around At the endangered faces The people and places That shape your life Don’t you let them go Without a fight No matter where or how Make the most of now Everything will disappear Revolutions call Institutions fall The fruit of the greatest minds One and all Withers into the dust As it must This is the end of an era The death of an age You’ll never see the like again To see the end of an era Can cut to the heart To be living through the pain You’ll never see the like again To be living through the pain This is the end on an era This is the end on an era The day will come This is the end on an age 03. Whore Of Babylon
Feeding on the entrails
Of the Dove of peace It seems the Hawks were justified Wonders never cease Sacrificing your own Clinging onto power A once great nation is going down Whore of Babylon Leader of the Lepers Whore of Babylon A demon in demise Pariah to the civil world Allies are no more No banquets in your golden hall Barricaded behind your door Your country is broken You name is a joke Your money’s no good In the western world Your army depleted Your people were cheated A self made Babylon Nero played the violin While the city burned down What will you be holding When your time comes around A vial of Cyanide perhaps Or a loaded forty five And by your own hand dispatched Good Bye Whore of Babylon Whore of Babylon Whore of Babylon Good Bye When your time comes around May the end not be so quick 04. Sacramental Rites
The morning of the ceremony
In dark December light Innocence came to a sudden end Blind within your apathy A man with gifted sight Captured you under his spell Summoned into danger You could not say no Tempted by a stranger A world you could not know Before you take the Holy Sacrament Swallow the bread and wine Let your heart become your testament Cast aside the malign In the days that followed You tried to rationalize To silence the horror and the shame But now the voice is beckoning You can see his eyes Could you be tempted again? It seemed against all nature But still you had to know Beholden to this stranger He’s calling you to go Before you take the Holy Sacrament Swallow the bread and wine Let your soul decree your testament Before you take the Holy Sacrament Get on your knees Take the Holy Sacrament now Make your peace 05. Martyrdom
Never wanted to start a war
Never stood up for a cause Never felt like breaking down a door To get where I want There are those that preach to me The kind that won’t let me be Trying to light a fire in me But their words go over my head We can be martyrs If we kill ourselves today Here is a cause for which we’ll die We’re not afraid We will be martyrs If we don’t get our way today I never wanted to take command Never been a firebrand I never felt the need to make a stand For my own views Never wanted to move or shake Don’t need to take take take I live for my own sake The world could pass me by And I’ll smile & wave good bye We can be martyrs If we kill ourselves today This is a cause for which we’ll die We’re not afraid We will be martyrs If we don’t get our say Get out of our way We are martyrs This is martyrdom We are martyrs This is martyrdom 06. Turn The Tide
I am Sovereign, you will obey.
Now listen to my voice My dominion is here to stay On that there is no choice Savage invaders teem at our shores To seize the crown Gather the forces, summon them all And turn it around Turn back the tide I now command you turn the tide Hold back the tide Hear my demand and repel the tide Turn the tide (turn the tide) Turn back the tide (turn the tide) Repel the tide The Lord has blessed me I am the chosen protector of the realm Yours is only to serve and obey And send the Hun to hell Nothing can take my Kingdom away I am divine Foreign battalions will never prevail In this land of mine Turn back the tide With staunch resistance Turn the tide Hold back the tide At my insistence, repel the tide Turn the tide (turn the tide) Turn back the tide (turn the tide) Repel! Crashing invaders teem at our shores To seize the crown Gather the forces beckon the call Just turn them around Turn back the tide Safeguard the nation, Turn the tide Hold back the tide Kill this invasion, repel the tide Turn the tide (turn the tide) Turn back the tide (turn the tide) Repel the tide 07. Captives
Cast aways the shackle and chains
That had bound you for so long In deep isolation Gathering steam Coiled like vipers and wound Like a spring holding strong Over years of containment Unleash the energy Breathe the free air all around you Instinctively You want to run wild run hard run Run like captives without chains Run like captives without chains Denied the space that was needed To grow into something Beyond mere existence Now’s the time For your people to rise up Fulfill their own predestination Endless sky all around you Impulsively, You want to fly so high and run Like captives without chains Run like captives without chains Breathe the free air all around you Instinctively You want to fly so high and hard run Like captives without chains Run like captives without chains 08. Curse In Disguise
Beware of that you wish for
No matter how unlikely The Devil might be listening He may not take it lightly Beware of what you covet It may not serve you well If you can’t rid yourself of it Before you know it It could be a living Hell I think I’m under a curse in disguise It’s like I’m under attack My granted wish is a curse in disguise I want to take it back I want to take it back Take it back You had it all but you wanted more You made a wish and opened a door You let a spirit into your mind A spirit of the hurting kind Beware of that you wish for It’s never easy to tell A gift or an open trapdoor Before you know it It could be a living Hell 09. Truth Bullet
Once upon a time
Man would signal intention With the flick of an eye With the birth of language Came the invention of the lie But there was something inside us That knew it was wrong A sacrifice of faith And instead of embracing Truth is ourselves We put on a second face Stand proud above the crowd Let the truth be rendered Testify, shoot down the lie We are the truth defenders Delivers us from deceit Once upon a time There was no way To fool your fellow man When rivals appeared You’d better kill them Or fight them as best you can It was savage but simple You knew where you stood Nobody thought to pretend The only ambition Was hunting to eat And a woman to keep to the end Truth is Bulletproof A lie is not Know your enemy Take your shot But some of us Never abandoned the truth Unable to play such games In allegiance only to our word Protectors of the flame Deliver us from deceit 10. Deadly Crimson
Ghostly monoliths
Rise from the ruins Of yesterday’s Kingdom Built-in failure, destined to fall As required by the system Vile contestants in a numeric war Who answer to no one Beyond any law Write their own statutes in blood Deadly Crimson Etched in the lifeblood of the poor Songs in crimson Sung by the wealthy evermore Iconic spires reach to the moon Safe as houses of cards Cracks in the edifice Appear all too soon Hear the collapse from afar Reckless architects Gamble with lives Nowhere to be seen When the fallout subsides Bide their time and rebuild again In the court of the crimson con The emperor wears not a stich The sycophants fawn and bow Their song is right on pitch A song in crimson And the demon dance The song is right on pitch Songs will be sung To waken the dead Sung in crimson, deadly crimson Tales of empire And money tainted red Sung in crimson, deadly crimson Tales of conquest For the overfed Sung in crimson, deadly crimson |