In Twilight's Embrace - Slaves To Martyrdom lyrics
Tracks 01. The Atrocity Born of Failure
02. Today's Gold 03. All Hail The Vortex 04. As the Earth Crumbled... 05. In Line They Stand 06. Wintersun 07. The Parting Hour 08. The Source 09. ... From Ruins We Emerged 10. The Pilgrim's Walk 11. Slaves To Martyrdom 01. The Atrocity Born of Failure
Stop throwing stones at the product
Of your own neglect For it is you who created that monster And now when the innocence is devoured Your cries are worthless Throw one stone more to coat your guilt Short sighted few pointing at the guilty Revenge is fed, but has no allies Make whores of few more words And yourself the judge Fault will pass nobody by We do construct this cross Through the failure of misdeeds Justice to be bathed in blood We to face the first stones No way to escape it, no way to wash our hands clean A solution never to be found Set all accusations aside And see what you have and haven't done 02. Today's Gold
You would see death in his eyes only
Behind stone cold faces and hectic smiles While life was on his lips Hearts ache the same I've seen the death only Suppurating in his eyes And he hid himself in shadows Or he was a one himself He became a one-minute hero Not enough for himself Not enough for her Trapped in pursuit of the highest stake Vanished chasing today's gold You would never see the smallest spark Even if her eyes burn the blood-red flame Behind her glittered lips Vacuumed emptiness dwells These words shall never hold anything Except the lipstick smell 03. All Hail The Vortex
Lost in its world of make-believe
Cleansing with deceit A cancer so pathetic Spreading venom amongst its fellow men Sown are the seeds of disarray Under the banner of a noble cause The ones to restore order Bred hatred instead With their tongues of spite And words of wisdom so saintly spoke All hail the vortex Flowing from the abyss of black hearts So poisonous Their altars of delusion full of worthless shrines A puritan zeal dying by its own blade The unrest devouring its sons Who perish in the purging bloody tide 04. As the Earth Crumbled...
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05. In Line They Stand
The march of sinners
Ropes round the throats Get tighter every day In gold they trust, In power they believe To rule what's not theirs What's not to be possessed Defenceless innocence In line they stand Eaten 'way by swine's bile Revolting laughter was all to be said Self-made idols upon the gutter throne Serving their own pleasure Praising the damage done This is their false pride that ruined our lives But should these lies be a reason to boast on? Should their tabloid crime dominate the public life? How could we submit our trust to be swallowed by swine's bile? 06. Wintersun
What it feels like to leave the land
Yet to make no move at all To eradicate what was the nature, Make harmony never to be found To batter yesterday into the ground So in the summerfrost it congeals Thus simplicity lies mosscovered Despite the storming wind As sun revolved and winters went by In ashes the memory slept Our blood was to fertilize the land But it froze in the wintersun It stands still never to be warmed up As to winners history belongs Our arms were chopped off The wounds burned to fumigate Though left to remember The lifelong winter burns within With its birds of soil and trees of clay With its crosses, the bread and wine Its foundries and individual divine Baptism of blood and baptism of sweat What once was sacred so perished in flames Now with birthmarks of regret We dry in the wintersun Gasping for breeze We choke on fumes instead 07. The Parting Hour
It's the parting hour.
In wooden cross's shade Soil-bound we are The dust and the ash It's backfire after backfire When reaching up for life Swallowed regret Like thorn in our side We breathe our last In cathedral's aisle The fear and trembling That scorched our eyes dry The divine and the temporal As the spirit's lullaby 08. The Source
The starry sky above me
The Truth in me I've been watching it for eons In search for the source Gazing up at the gathering clouds Almost burnt my eyes dry To pass the times granted no resolve The powers lie within me One with the worlds, the gods and the wind Survived your false theocracies And walked this land of barren testimonies Empires of sanctified misconception collapsed Then rose to fall again For I am the source and sole creator As I believe in the power of one To determine the cursed and divine And instigate the firestorm to come Believe in the power of one The universe is mine To drift this endless ocean Alone. 09. ... From Ruins We Emerged
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10. The Pilgrim's Walk
Another step of the endless pilgrimage
A crusade despite the obstacles they build Even if my life is at stake, I will proceed I am the unspoken voice of those Whose tongues have been mutilated And who will never be able to speak In their own name I cast the light on their shaded misery To make you realize everything you were denied The truth will be the healing to the blinded Eyes of the world These words shall bring ignition Of thousands minds and hearts Even if I pay for them with my own blood, The highest price Again I rise from my knees It might be the very last time Again I raise my bare and fragile hands, I versus the tragedy's reign The sun enlightens my end Oblivious dark of night won't let the world forget You cannot touch, cannot embrace things I let you comprehend The path leads to lonely unmarked graves 11. Slaves To Martyrdom
Sharing the history we have all desecrated,
We're letting our wounds reopen again Singing our anthems on the graves of the dead, Bringing to life false pride and defeat. Stories are told of victories undone The glorious past wiped all the tragedies away, Slaves to martyrdom, in a crossfire of words, Keep fighting for what we cannot defend. |