Journey of a thousand years
Passage lies behind a mystic portal
Travel through the seven gates
Unattained by a man mere mortal
Tribulation rages in my head
As I search for sanctuary
Past the point of no return
Mother Mary have mercy on me

Angels dare not rescue me
As I plead for purgatory
In the distance hear the screams
The evil lord has summoned for me
There are no trespassers here
Granted entrance for a reason
Answers are no mystery
A price to pay for the treason

Oh my soul is burning
A wheel that's never turning
A prisoner here forever
Now hope has turned to never
Bound by chains eternal
In depths of the eternal
Torment is endless for me
All i know is pain and misery

Burnin' in flames of a 1000 year reign
Burnin' in flames of a 1000 year reign
A 1000 - year reign
A 1000 - year reign

Spoken: for centuries mankind has propered
Growing strong from rays of light
And pausing, only briefly for
The shadows of the night
Humans take for granted and
On their glowing sky depend
But could we just imagine
If all came to an END!

The sun is falling from the sky
My skin begins to molt and fry
Blinded, strain for another breath
This day will surely end in death

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Eternal Black Dawn
Everything we know is gone
The hand of doom has spawned
Man's Eternal Black Dawn

The Earth is hurling of through space
Every human gone without a trace
The planet is burning flames of hell
Oblivion is just as well
Destiny has stopped the sands of time
Mortal man vanished without a sign

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Oh God, tell me why
Why do we all deserve to die
Is this the price that we have to pay
For all the destruction man has displayed

The sun has fallen from the sky
Without a warning or reason why
The earth is burning like a sun
So be the wheels of creation
Cosmos has thrust the will to end
So forth and to begin again

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In the year of our lord, 1844
They came with their picks, and their clubs,
And their axes, and swords
Pointing their fingers and casting their stones
Wanting sins of the wicked atoned
In league with the devil accused of their crimes
Persecution in the Burning Times

The darkest days in all of history
Tried before council and forced
To renounce their beliefs
Claims of malice and blamed of heresy
Then tortured, then maimed, some burned, and
Some hung from a tree
The rise of the inquisitors' self-righteousness
To make all the witches confess
The Malleus Maleficarum recited
In the age known as the Burning Times

Seek them out... Hunt them down...
Burn them all, to the ground
Kill the witch... Kill' em all...
This genocide to watch them fall
This is the signs of the Burning times
The flames they rise in these Burning Times

In the year of our lord, 1844
They came with their picks, and their clubs,
And their axes, and swords
The hammer of witches... the shipwreck of souls
Their ashes to ashes... Their flesh in the coals...
The death bell tolls
The darkest days in all of history
Tried before council and forced
To renounce their beliefs
The rise of inquisitors' self righteousness
To make all the witches confess
In league with the devil accused of the crimes
In the age known as the Burning Times

The Burning Times...

Down through the ages peace
Prevails the countryside
Magistrate makes order and every
Clan maintains their tribe
Law is to the letter and kinsmen
Cling to their pride
Until the son of the baron raped
And stole my daughters life

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It's a Blood Feud
Vengeance is pursued
Winds of war intrude
With a Blood Feud

The baron set to appease me
Just an attempt to stall
His only son's salvation but
No man is above the law
The warriors stood in waiting
all along the fortress wall
The blood began flowing as
One by one they fall

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Hate is awakened, truce is forsaken,
An eye for an eye
Every man, woman, child alive,
Everyone is gonna die

The clouds of smoke are clearing
To show the final dread
The village lays in plunder and
The land is bathed in red
Revenging life and honor by
The blood that has been shed
The baron's son in shackles and
I'm gonna take his head

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It's a Blood Feud

Madame LaLaurie
Socialite and aristocracy
Secret debauchery
In the attic under lock and key...
Under lock and key

Oh, Dr.LaLaurie
What did you teach her to be?
Surgical butchery
Insane her crimes on humanity... her butchery

Chained to the cooking stove
Imprisoned there years in a row
Deliberately set the house aflame
Desperate her freedom to gain
They came dousing the fire
And rescue all traped there in dire
Better down the doors that hide
The honor to be found inside
The decay of those who died
Lay before their eyes

Who could do such ghastly deeds?
What reason could trigger the need?
To maim and cut and cleans from sin
Upstairs the doors locked from within
Victims of scullduggery
Experimental surgery
None there could beieve their eyes
The horror of such tragic size

One with dislocated limbs
Rest to heal improperly
Then stuffed inside a box to heal
The agony that slave did feel
Another one hung upside down
Til buckets of his blood drained out
Still one strapped to a tabletop
And left to rot
There at he spot
Death overcomes
Pain felt is merciful numb

The gathering crowd
Evidence found
Known to none
Heinous the crime
Evil is done (...x4)

Spoken:
...And legend tells of their scurried flight
Down French Quarter streets of New Orleans
Through dark of the night
Their horses did speed
Past the mob of persuants standing readily
To lynch perpetrators of this grizzly deed
Lest they vanish from ne're again to be seen

A devil-handed tale
Of the House on Rue Royale
And the spirits there still dwell
In the House on Rue Royale

Oh, oh, oh save our souls

Thrashing the waves toss about
Another ship on the ocean
Yon, the beast on the icy waters
Deep and of this domain
Sleep dormant through sands
Of time from a nocturnal potion
The mythical curse he once ruled he will now
Regain... it's his claim

Unknowing victims sail on
Thru the night unconcerning
The serpent-awakened ascends to attack at will
Death awaits for the ships crew,
Waters start churning
Through fathoms of the depths
Leviathan rises to kill... and he will

As the demon pummels the ship is in strife
The survivors all swim for their lives
The ocean is raging as blood starts to rise
The beast shows no mercy in his eyes

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S.O.S every seaman did plea
Oh, lord of the waters, oh, King of the 7 Seas
S.O.S from this travesty
Oh, God of the ocean, oh, Kinf of the 7 Seas

S.O.S., S.O.S., S.O.S., ... Save our souls
oh, oh, oh revenge our souls

The vessel is wrecked and what's left
Of the crew are defeated
Poseidon bears witness to
Leviathans bloodthirsty binge
Beseeched to destroy the beast
That has timely retreated
Render the deed of the slaughtered
Their lives to avenge

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Dead is the beast from the deep
Slain by the king of the 7 Seas

Lost inside the corridors in
The center of my mind
The voices they keep calling me
To let them all reside
Is it morning, is it evening, is it dark or light?
The demons come to speak
To me in the middle of the night

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Their decree can't you see insanity has come
Deliver me won't you please Chains of Delirium

Doses full of mind sedation calm the rage inside
The voice they keep calling me
To let them all reside
The man I used to be is gone
For he has all but died
Confusion is the only hope
That wills me to survive

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All this screaming, never ceasing,
Turmoil in my head
All this taunting, endless haunting,
pushing me past ... the edge
Thoughts full of delusion,
Constant in confusion,
Horror and illusion, where is the conclusion

Trapped inside the corridors in
The center of my mind
The voices they all live
With me in padded walls of white
Who i used to be is gone
For he has all but dies
Confusion is the only hope
That wills me to survive

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Deliver me ...won't you please...
...Insanity ... has surcome...
Chains of Delirium

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There's Chaos in the Cathedral
They tread on holy ground
On blackest wings of pure evil
To burn the synagogue down
There's Chaos in the Cathredal
The demons rise to the feast
To slay the saintly and feeble
And spill the blood of the priest

A liar's moon is on the rise
And fearless are the serpent's eyes
Madness rules the prophets wise
The deceivers mask a thin disguise..
.. In shrouded lies.. Sinister rise
It is eternal prize

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Sorceries surge on weak and scarred
Spoken thru the wind from the tarot cards
Endless shadows fall on all sanctity
Another holy war could end eternity..
... Apocrypha... Bloody crimson sea
It is affinity

As the mortal world turns good and evil churn
Inhabitance oblivious the flames of war burn
The plight of every soul is in the hands of fate
Is there salvation for mankind or is it too late?
Until there remains only one
The battle rages on

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Repeat 1st verse