Opera IX - Sacro Culto lyrics
Tracks 01. The Oak
02. Fronds Of The Ancient Walnut 03. The Naked And The Dance 04. Cimmeries 05. My Devotion 06. Under The Sign Of The Red Dragon 01. The Oak Music & lyrics by Opera IX
In the whirls of time
Turning their eyes Toward the shadowy monumental Symbols of the past Following the lines up to the places Where power and mystery reign Some people raised many stones to the sun In their imposing silence A warm wind is blowing in my face Melting the ice of death Burnt alive victims around the cromlech In honor of my immortality Crucified on The Oak My blood is trickling down it No light in this church made of trees Some men in white are chanting their song To the altar of Cernunnos Crucified on The Oak Oh you, God of Moon Sanctify this magis ritual In my heart there's the power of glory In my eyes the shine of the sword Oh you, God of Death, rescue me from this fear I will be your messenger Rescue me from this light Oh Mother Darkness, receive the son of cruelty and wisdom Crucified on The Oak, in honor of Esus. The earth is imbued with the blood of my God's enemies And from flames a battle-cry is madly risen. Far away the death-song is going on with the crossing of the swords The fog is hiding our temples made of stones And the Gods are silently waiting for the event The bloody encounter between our Pagan Devotion and the only god Ruins around The Oak Corpses in oblivion Sealed up by the light of reason Oh, cursed mortals, which is the right way? 02. Fronds Of The Ancient Walnut Music & lyrics by Opera IX
Feel the breeze on my face
The icy breath of the Goddess I raise my hand and touch the illusion My mind is powerful and my Ego is high As the mountain in front of me Clouds run fast and silence comes From the Fronds of the Ancient Walnut No scents, no odors, no sounds, no laments The cold vanishes I get all the colors all around me And I see the enchanting dance of the branches It is the Walnut calling the witches It is our dream voyaging through the aethyr What was not becomes reality I am the deer running to the Sabbath I am the crow which observes the silence I am the craftsman of myself Therefore I praise the Horned and the Great Mother And where the wind blows, at the mercy of the oneiric It is the touch of the world's spirits Which enhances my magic Mind's spreading, faint voices chant at the moon The silvering light of Levanah penetrates the unconscious And revives the Ancient Knowledge I take flight, the dance is over Now we are the deer returning from the Sabbath Now we are the crow which contemplated the silence Now we are the craftsmen of ourselves Therefore we praise the Horned and the Great Mother 03. The Naked And The Dance Music & lyrics by Opera IX
The fresh humidity of the green moss wets my skin
my body laying down, as it suits to who adores a god Over the sacred stones of the Cromlech Our bodies clinging each other What is of the One becomes of the Many The incense smoke dances with the candles flames Attracting the celebrants astral energies The choral worshiping of the Black Goddess raises from our minds What is of the Many becomes of the One The sacred wine shall fill the cup which turned was in the goatish horn The fertile lips shall kiss the rod which life and shape took from the walnut An the Nine shall come at the beginning of the dance The naked feet shall caress Sheela Na Gog The naked bodies moistened by wood's breath The naked minds dancing in the air And the shrewd spirits, by sacred fire inebriated, shall turn to whirl And once more the Great Spiral shall be Tregenda One and seven to celebrate the thirteen fullness of Levanah Who of ancient memory made arcane magic mortal Simple melodies by "Her Who guides" vibrated Enchantments of witches for millenniums hand down Bodies like veils fluttering to paint the Great Dance Offered to the sky as a tribute of the soul drag into oblivion May I rejoin the stars, free my astral Embrace Knowledge and in the All regenerate myself now beast now man Till to reborn from the effluviums of my ethereal spirit God I Myself God among Gods Deserving of my devotion and of my passion! Sacrificial victim for those who welcome me Heir and part of the All 04. Cimmeries Music & lyrics by Opera IX
Gorgot Assai Belem
May the Great Portal open to me My voice thunder in thy name And for the power of the Lords of the Great Frost The whirling air of the North guide my spirit In the quest for glorious past And it was in the mist of time That the death fires floodlighted darkness The wind brought the smell of blood The air of extermination and the exterminators outcry The blades of sacrifice deepened in the flesh And the nerves and the black seers raised Hearts still pulsating to unnameable Gods For their obscure prophecies Prepare now your soul for the embrace of the sacred death May water suffocate your breath and flame consume your flesh All this so that Teutates, Esus and Taranis protect my people Heavy and slow were the treads of the black warriors In the Aeron's march, dust rising like whirls While the horrible Crow turned His eyes to the battle remains Morighon was reigning among the stones of the timeless Where the stars engraved their symbols And under the brightness of the moon The initiates were unlighted on the Great Secrets I want to reopen my eyes to look beyond the horizon of fear My God is in me In the strength of my arm In the light of my sword Crom I raise my arms to Andraste So that only massacre be in my eyes Crom To the threshold of the abyss I kneel So that the Three Furies invade my soul Crom With wine I honor the Gods So that inebriation draws me near them Crom My face I paint of moon Like all the sons of the dying sun lands I belong to Her Crom is in me Remote are now those archaic deeds in the mist of time And the Cimmeries testimonials sleep In the obscure silence of the tumulus Like ancient relics, mighty sigils to fragile ashes But the choirs will thunder again Gorgot Necrod Belem May the Great Portal close to you 05. My Devotion Music & lyrics by Opera IX
Under the moonlight
Bitter falls a tear Over the face of memories Oh, shining blade Cut my flesh So that be the Sacred Fire Nourished by my vital fluid And you! Spirits of the Air Leave smoke as a sign of my rite Stone after stone I create my Lucus And so I divide The world of human dimension From the one of Gods How wonderful falling into this darkness Blow up the last torches And shut up your eternal chant Lucifer! Helel Ben Shahar Shining Master of light Prince of dawn Wipe the shadows out of my spirit Banish weakness from my body Give me the strength of Power Let my throat Be ripped up by crying My Devotion In my devotion the sign of Voor In my devotion the sword of Hathoor May the four elements Become my allies, May the faith of darkness Be my weapon And the spirit my temple Son of time's forces Deter my mind From the wicked ignorance Of the Lambs of god In my devotion the sign of Voor In my devotion the sacred Tor The circle of power Be a sacred place Shield and protection From the followers of the Nazarene Light in the light and light in the darkness I seize my nature The five edged star adorns my breast And my hands clutch the club We are wolves in the sacred wood of life In my devotion the sign of Voor In my devotion Bathym Belem Gomor Take me, oh ferryman Through the vision of my death The heat of the Great Black Veil My hearse brought in slow procession By the No Named My reunion with Mother Earth The keeper of the dreams Last turning his clepsydra The breaking up of the black mirror And The Guardians of the threshold Will open the last Portal Let the candles burn out Darkness consumes light Time devours life My Eternal Devotion to Darkness 06. Under The Sign Of The Red Dragon Music & lyrics by Opera IX
I raise my eyes at dead of night
I hear the silence molding my body I hear the damp and living ground throbbing I belong to it I'm the guardian of this land I'm Dracula, Prince of Wallachia My name is synonymous with fear and terror Which I sowed and grew and which I fed on I led an army of dead soldiers That I myself had raised from their graves I spread death and destruction Stifling smell of blood and excrement Desperate cries, sobs Thousands of corpses rotted in the sun Thousands of poles rose as I passed My head beheaded and laid down The law: my law I was Vlad, the Impaler Nobody could obstruct my path And the powerful Turks come in crowds And the new forest came up Forest of fright and blood And the sultan of gold and silk Came with his numerous army Thousand of persons were horribly impaled And crowds came, crowds of enemies And at the end I was surrounded Chill, blood, horror of an irrepressible slaughter By then I was a prince without land And from the ground a whisper The whisper of the dead rose Dracula, please, come back! |