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Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum Of Human Darkness lyrics



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01. Corridor: Human Altar

Black is the light
I walk towards
Black is this corridor
Revealing itself
Revealing itself
From their hearts
Black is their light
I walk towards

In the dark I feel the warmth
Against my skin
Warm first - then freezing under the cloth
Blackness streams from within

Home is where I am yet again

I hereby welcome them and myself

02. Plane Of Awake: Dreams Over Angel-Serpent Tower

I call him
The first of the Witchblood
I call him
At the hour of the blackening dim

I invoke Him
The most vehement
Scorpion Soul
I invoke Him
To poison me from within

Come to me
From darkness beneath this plane of awake
Come to me

I do invoke thee!
Call Him, Invoke Him, Awake Him - Enter

Herein this blood-hour my infernal domain enter!
Glance in the black mirror, awake, enter!
In my Luciferian light the Angel-Serpent awake!
My body of shadow reform and take!
Next Moon it is I of great violence and terror
I of blinding blackness and horror

The Lucifer-stone cast into my waters from which all shores flee
And from this tower with Satan magick I raise my rivers to a storming sea!

With twelve wings of chaos and the Black Flame
Above the throne of men I ascend
My body of light descends to the grave, waking the shadow-self to transcend

I call Him, I invoke Him, come to me, I do invoke thee!

03. Pillars Of Salvation: The Drowned Prince

Madman to some to himself a god
Facing an intelligent force
With a human mask
Obeying his own blood

Re-writing his world
Shaping it from nothingness
Act of creation
Prince of the world

Once the magician gave an oath
To a screaming star falling
Upon this soil he'll serve
The Faceless under its cloth

Facing an intelligent force
With a human mask
Obeying his own blood
Crafting the pillars of salvation
Construction from beyond oblivion
Act of divine
Prince of salvation

Burning his flesh, drowning his mind
Farewell to the earthly shadow
Act of glory
Prince of his own kind

04. Lair Of Wolf & 1000 Lions: Nine Forgotten Names

The moon is rising next to the wolf's side
Gracefully the silent companion greets me
Under its blazing silver light
I walk alone yet again

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

With the shadowy nights of the Earth I ride
Below, above, between - never to be seen
I sing my song to the night
The song of the black rain

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

The oblivious man say the path I walk
Has a mark of death's battalions
They say you could hear the roar of thousand lions
And see how the beasts become prey
(And how men fall to their graves)

The path I walk is of fire and water, thus hark!
Within my heart rage the Devil's legions
It is He, the Prince of Serpents, through all the aeons
Who once again tides the world with His tongues of grey
Our Father of nine forgotten names

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

See how the beasts become prey
And how men fall to their graves
Tide the world with Thy tongues of grey
Our Father of nine forgotten names

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

06. The Chalice Of Flesh And Bone: The Eminence Of Chaos

The moon is rising next to the wolf's side
Gracefully the silent companion greets me
Under its blazing silver light
I walk alone yet again

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

With the shadowy nights of the Earth I ride
Below, above, between - never to be seen
I sing my song to the night
The song of the black rain

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

The oblivious man say the path I walk
Has a mark of death's battalions
They say you could hear the roar of thousand lions
And see how the beasts become prey
(And how men fall to their graves)

The path I walk is of fire and water, thus hark!
Within my heart rage the Devil's legions
It is He, the Prince of Serpents, through all the aeons
Who once again tides the world with His tongues of grey
Our Father of nine forgotten names

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

See how the beasts become prey
And how men fall to their graves
Tide the world with Thy tongues of grey
Our Father of nine forgotten names

Under its blazing silver light
I sing my song to the night

07. Demon Heart: The Desolate One

If you are afraid facing your demon eye to an eye
If you refuse to acknowledge its very existence

Then it is certain you hide behind an eye of a lie
And you will be destroyed into soulless fragments

Search for the fires in darkness
Fall deeper into a dream of a night
Blessed be thou with madness
In the search of thy occult light

Now if you choose to make a pact with your demon
To sincerely welcome it to be part of your heart and mind

You'll get to strengthen your soul and find a reason
And before your grave you'll know you're born with its sign

Make a pact with your demon
To be part of your heart and mind
Strengthen your soul and find a reason
You're born with its sign

Old man's wisdom and a young boy's heart
You don't need your eyes to see in the dark

Search for the fires in darkness
Fall deeper into a dream of a night

Blessed be thou with madness
In the search of thy occult light

Set ablaze your heart!
With the fires of the Desolate One
Sanctify your heart!
With the waters of the Desolate One
Below the mountains bury your heart!
With the earth of the Desolate One
To Hell heighten your heart!
With the air of the Desolate One

08. Funeral Chamber: Sacred Ceremonial Light

Night born out of funeral pyre
Flames within growing higher
Twilight in fire - Twilight of desire
Night born out of funeral pyre

To see the dying of one's soul light
To enter the sacred ceremonial night

Night born out of funeral pyre
Flames within smothering the liar
Paradise in fire - paradise of wormy mire
Night born out of funeral pyre

To witness the birth of our endless night
To enter the sacred ceremonial light

Ye lord of fire
Burn the altars in heavens
Ye lord of air
Unleash storms and ravens
Ye lord of earth
Trample down the divine seven
Ye lord of water
Flood upon the holy havens