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Illnath - 4 Shades Of Me lyrics



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01. Blood Warrior

Your face buried in dirt not yours but theirs
Just like this war it's not yours but theirs
You will be waiting in your ditch when they come
Hoping to survive though they told you they win some they lose some

Death marches on, death betrays all
Death marches on, blood warrior

They shot your friends took your mind now you're gone
Slowly feeling the blood taking over no need to stay strong
Careless painless stainless you will be forever and whenever you need
Not knowing wrong from right they win some they lose some

Death marches on, death betrays all
Death marches on, blood warrior

When they come you need to pull the trigger
When they come you will be the one to pull the trigger

02. Gallow Hill

When they see you coming they all know what's coming
You are the murderer of them all
When they make mistakes you will be there to judge them
You are the murderer above them all

You carry the weight of the world
And now they carry it over and over again

The crowd goes wild oh how they love your shows
To most of them this is a joke
Not knowing that the steps of the condemned
Will be heard in these hills for ever more

You carry the weight of the world
And now they carry it over and over

You decide hang'em high executioner
Executioner hang'em high at your will
Their lives will end here gallow hill!
Angels fly hang em high executioner
Executioner hang 'em high at your will
Their lives will end here gallow hill

You will hang high here at gallow hill you die tonight at my side
Die with me tonight on gallow hill - DIE!

You decide hang 'em high executioner
Executioner hang 'em high at your will
Their lives will end here gallow hill!
Angels fly hang 'em high executioner
Executioner hang 'em high at your will
Their lives will end here gallow hill

03. King Of Your Mind

Apocalyptic demons dancing in my head
Spinning a symphony of silky treacherous webs
If you dare to step into my imaginary home
You will become one to call my own

Watch your mouth you're in my world now
Feel your flesh fall from your bones while I take a bow
Watch your mouth boy!
You're in my world now
Feel your flesh fall from your bones while I

I am breath when you sigh
I am tears when you cry
I am king of your mind
I am the stone under which you lie

Frantic measures got you nowhere else
Than opening your mind to this madness
I now tell you what you can and cannot do
I am the product of your mind but we're not through

Watch your mouth you're in my world now
Feel your flesh fall from your bones while I take a bow
Watch your mouth boy!
You're in my world now
Feel your flesh fall from your bones while

It will crush your bones never leave you alone
Watch you suffer till the end
I will make you bend
I don't care if it kills me too oh god how I despise you
Your thoughts are my playground

I will tear everything down to the ground
I see my prey tries to leave
I can't help but smile you thief
You are the one with the key
I am your stress relief

Watch your mind you're in no ones world now
Feel your thoughts fall from your mind while no one takes a bow
Watch your mind boy!
You're in no ones world now
Feel your thoughts fall from your mind while I

I am breath when you sigh
I am tears when you cry
I am king of your mind
I am the stone under which you lie

04. Pieces

Will you be the one to walk straight into the sun?
Or will you be the one to watch the rest of the world passing you by?

I can never be the one to stand at home and watch
The world go by, I would rather be here

You can never see the world for what it is and when you die in the night
No one will be there to pick up the pieces of what was never even there
So when you call for me think twice, when I arrive I am your knife?

Will you be the one to fly all the way to the moon?
Or will you be the one to never feel wind underneath your crooked wings?

I can never be the one to stand at home and watch
The world go by, I would rather be here

After you have seen my face there will be nothing left of but a shade
After you have seen my face there will be nothing left of but a shade of me

You can never see the world for what it is and when you die in the night
No one will be there to pick up the pieces of what was never even there
So when you call for me think twice, when I arrive I am your knife?

05. No Salvation

Salvation - Convicted for something we all know you did
I can't help but wonder, could you kill a kid?
And if you could oh how would it feel?
Have you ever asked yourself
How do they feel

How would you feel?
Pain, pleasure, anger, hate... destructiveness and pain

Thinking about those things you did
A smile appears on your face your soul's been lit
The way they fear you oh it turns you on
The fact that they can tell you no all they want

What you are justifies the penalty of death
I would love to be the one to take away your last breath

How would you feel?
Pain, pleasure, anger, hatedestructiveness and pain
How would you feel?
Pain, pleasure, anger, hate destructiveness and pain

To see those little bodies in such pain
To hear their voices crying out in vain
To feel them fear you oh it turns you on
There will be nothing left of them at all

And when they cry for your help
They realize there's no salvation

How would you feel?
Pain, pleasure, anger, hate destructiveness and pain

06. Captain Of The Seven Seas

Once there was a man with a wooden leg
He had a knack for rum he kept it in a keg
His ship had pirates not many but a few
With nothing but the seven seas in their view

After work they would have a fight
Just like they would on any other night
If there were no one else there to beat
They would use each other as meat

Rum greed, mutiny
That's all a pirate needs
Rum, greed, mutiny
Captain of the seven seas

The journey for the man with the wooden leg
Took him past people that would scream and beg
For their lives though they never stand a chance
Against this man with a parrot that can dance

He has seen all wonders of the world
He has slain all the monsters in the world
He has seen the entire world with one eye
He is the man that doesn't know how to smile

If you desire to be like the captain of this tale
Fight all you can
And drink rum every day

Rum, greed, mutiny
That's all a pirate needs
Rum, greed, mutiny
Captain of the seven sea

Fight all you can
And drink rum every day

07. Unleashed

Plug in and join the scene
Forget what controls me
Just be here in this wave of electricity

This is it - It sets me free there is no pain
The smile on my face has set me free again
So kick back grab a beer and feel the wall of noise
And let yourself fall into a moment of joy

Have you ever felt the wave of sound move right through you?
Have you ever felt like the sound of your soul was unleashed upon the world?
This is it!

The air is thick
The string roaring towards the end of the world
The beat sending my head into a cosmic twirl
Join the wave and drink to this
The air is thick the rhythm of the world sounds like this

Plug in and join the scene
Forget what controls me
Just be here in this wave ща this machine-gun beat

Take a breath
Let it in surrender all you have left
Of your sanity, leave everything and reflect
On this moment you're in
The sound can be so fulfilling
This is so fulfilling

Have you ever felt the wave of sound move right through you?
Have you ever felt like the sound of your soul was unleashed upon the world?
This is it!

08. Shade Of Me

This is the tale of death
Waiting to steal your last very precious breath
Have you ever seen the shade of you?
When you look at you do you see me too?

Have you ever seen the shade of me?
What did you see?

A thousand shades of me
Four shades entwined to be
You can never escape the need
To speak my name

Each and every one wear different shades
Take yours off and feel the sting of my blade
Be true to all beauty or beast
We all feast at the table, it has the shape of me

My shade is made of moonbeams and silence
Of life and of a million breaths
Of sunlight and four shades of death
Of life and a million breaths

Have you ever seen the shade of me?
What did you see?

A Thousand shades of me
Four shades entwined to be
You can never escape the need
To speak my name

I am the beast you must see
Your fears will end up feeding me
You can never escape the need
To speak my name

Quattuor umbras me

09. Not My God

If there is a god we are its creation
This god is so much more evil than you thought
It created man to be amused to celebrate deception
This god is so much more evil than you thought
My satisfaction comes from your cries of agony
They say I'm insane but I love my tragedy

Your god is ambivalent and cruel
He created all this misery you fool
Take a step back and consider the gravity
Of our little grasp on everything that could be

You are not my god - I despise all you are
You are not my god - Your god is a fraud

We might be nothing but a trace element of life
Time consumes us in the blink of an eye
The endless void we call the universe
Is closer to god than your treacherous words
My satisfaction comes from your cries of agony
They say I'm insane but I love my tragedy

You are not my god - I despise all you are
You are not my god - Your god is a fraud

This is my religion
Dedicationem et fortitudo

Anima et voluntas

Step into my world - This is the sound of my religion
Step into my church - These are the words of my creed
Dedication and strength - Soul and will

My satisfaction comes from your cries of agony
They say I'm insane but I'm loving my tragedy

I love this tragedy
I love my tragedy

10. It's On Me

See the devil walking in the sun coming straight towards you
How does he make the decisions he makes?
He too has someone to turn to
Did you see me on his shoulder?
When you arrive I will be right there
To help him decide, I am what makes him decide to make you burn

So when you burn
You are welcome to blame it on me

You will feel this pain - it's on me!

So feel the burn - it's on me you don't have to pay me back after all
By now I think I owe you one for the years of shit you put me through
I hate you with all my guts and I ate yours for lunch they were bitter as me
And still the taste of them were sweet as sweet as anything can ever fucking bum

So when you burn
You are welcome to blame it on me

Your hate is what makes you bleed
And what makes me breathe
So here's a challenge
For your shitty mind
How it makes me smile
The freak in me
Has been unleashed

See the devil walking in the sun coming straight towards you
How does he make the decisions he makes?
He too has someone to turn to
Did you see me on his shoulder?
When you arrive I will be right there
To make him decide, I am what makes him decide to make you burn

So when you burn
You are welcome to blame it on me

You will feel this pain - it's on me!

11. Angelic Voices Calling

So as he feels the knife she holds against his throat
His sweat breaks out, he's cold
The voice is a whisper from beyond
Angelic voices calling out to her in promise

She cuts his face
Demanding prayers
Sinful forever
Now wrath is here

From the time
When she loveth
Comes a burning pain
Deep inside

But now as the knife it searches deeper
He cries out from the pain
The men of her life forever sinful
And now she cleans the world of one more evil sinner

Live in pain
No more for her
Weeding out the weak
Is her ugly task

The voice is a whisper from beyond
Angelic voices calling out to her in promise

And now the time
For his departure
Has court with him
And death must come

Slit his throat

The knife is cleaned of his blood
She leaves the body dead
Going out to find another male
Deserving of her callous hate for being wrongful