Primordial

Ceremonial beauty beneath a bitter moon Perditious souls danse their danse Winter withered silence were once my tomb In eternal frost, a dark romance Listen, such angels of the end do weep As knowledge comes for those who watch ever Wrapped beneath the b...

We are falling over the ends of the earth So gather your sons and daughters before you And tell them that these are the final days of all Preach to the paupers And sing to the slaves I see you've chosen to loose your faith To burn your bridges and lose your w...

And so it seems I am unbound in my misery Drunk in my sobriety ...and twisted animosiety The private moments of man Are rarely ever seen Yet, autumn gathers me up And sheds me in her leaves Falling takes forever From the grace of man I fell so far No one ever...

Lilith my bride... a love of sin so deep Wounds of lust won't ever heal Stigmata... I yearn for thy crimson taste Rape my senses... upon your cross I'll weep But shall this longing I ever satiate I writhe, I twist... convulse in ecstacy Bring me to ritual, br...

In terrible silence you stood at the world's end And crawled into the sun Blinded by the signal fires That seared your heart And the seething tongues of the lies we became I sat in Babel's tower And judged the world Said I spoke the language Of saints...

A moment of clarity It spoke to me in tongues It spoke to me of ruin Of destitution, and of pain Where night, it never ever Seems to come To ease the misery of the day Degenerate whores Expose their stinking wares to a foul race of man... whores for all..., i...

I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times No regrets and no remorse No 4 a.m. whiskey soaked wisdom or bloody knuckled politics Do I regret and not a single moment will I ever repent Will I ever repent You may say I have lost to a better man This may...

Maybe you tried to gather the world in your arms Pushed my words aside and sought fiery revelation Martyrs seem in good company, but they are alone As the day we made them, so hold your tongues And steal pride's pleasure My lack of faith, was not wanted...

(Nothing seems to make sense, I'm tired of it all, I've stopped searching For meanings... there are none. Time heals nothing, all it does is make you More bitter, more twisted yet sucks the life out of you... leaving you too Apathetic to seek revenge. Reven...

Seems we are to live our final days Far from the dwellings of men As flowing tides and shifting sands Far from the bitter gaze of soul less man In sorrow we fly from our loved ones To die in the waters of the wild My brethren can seek no shelter beneath these...

I lost my self, in those streets A passenger of foreign tongue The sun sets, in the same language And rises just the same There was no grand design To get to this point No absolutes, no given truths We were not carved in stone She sent the sun to hea...

Men of straw burn the fields As far as the eye can see A wretched warning is delivered To the men of words and deeds The Jericho trumpet sounds In the deepest valleys and hills Pounding the walls to dust You scrawled your names in death upon One thou...

I am the wind that breathes on the sea I am the wave, wave on the ocean I am the ray, the eye of the sun I am a tomb, cold in darkness I am star, the tear of the sun I am a wonder, a wonder in flower I am the spear as it cries out for blood The word of great p...

We stood on the shoulders of giants Like atlas with the burden of faith We clasped our hands in praise of a conqueror's right to tyranny This is a language that has not passed Our lips in one thousand years So heretics I call to you Partisans stand as...

A cold wind is blowing Through the graves it is blowing And it bares a poisoned tongue And the foul breath of deceit I am my fathers son And his deeds Cannot be undone... be undone You trade in his blood Writing your history In the sacrifices of the dead Wh...

Is this all I've been left Broken oaths and betrayals The empty words and dead rhetoric Of my sold and broken culture And I said once before That time heals nothing I feel like a wounded animal In the dying throes I am near to death Yet with teeth b...

The old enemies are dead and gone, long gone my friend You are like the boy who cried wolf A voice buried in another decade's fears and the songs you sang, to what end? We are the ghosts among the ruins Without history without nations We are the ghosts...

Days drift and I rise to the cold sun I was born an old child With no place for faith in my heart Aged in my sleep or bitter times ahead You may say I've given up the ghost Once and for all admitted defeat And laid out my hand for all to see And made peace wi...

Brother, what tidings doth thou bring? Can't you hear Dread Words from Traitors Tongues Sister, Few Honours are left standing Proud In this world They have made the soil ever barren Our Legends but Shadows, Idle and Fallen to Ruin My Heart, Knows Falseh...

Mairfidh ar bhfuil go deo I gciorcal timpeall na cruinne A dheite arsa... Ta ar Aine fºs ar lasadh Tog muidne do mhuintir... Go siorai An rud a eirionn ºn gcre Fillfidh se aris Ta na coillte suilta agam Mhothainn na spirid... Mhothainn an phian Ag t...

Sister, do not pray for me There is no forgiveness here Just the longest and the darkest night And my peoples end Brother, many a crooked day we spent Telling tales and making myths Sharpening our tongues Yet doing little but growing old I was never...

Our knees were cracked and broken Genuflect in dirt and broken glass Grinds the teeth as black as the demons Of the cloth that come at night To rape our wretched flesh at the alter The ghosts of the charnel house Were born to deathless guilt The ghosts...

For those who may Rise As a Phoenix from the Ashes For those who may Devour The Fruits of Knowledge For those who coil Serpent like, with cyclical Grace ...For those as Wolves among Sheep who Sharpen their Teeth for the last Supper For those who are the Rock...

Hangman to all mankind Make your peace For mother earth lays on her deathbed Death's rattle echoes What pale beast Lurks in the shadow Great lover revelling in pox That feeds on filth God's old snake We ask for a sign A revelation A vision of hell...

I have one Desire let it be a Pestilence upon your lands a Plague upon all your houses it is my wish to Enslave all your people The soil enriched with their Blood To Burn your places of Worship Our Gods shall become your Gods All that lives on the vine is rot...

Her scent comes to me As the night breathes Her countenance grave A waxed pallor, that lays every tomb open to the sky So she sees and ever watches The stars revolve and dance for her A velvet dream of crimson revolt The rites of all... deliver her kiss to me...

This is my church It stands so tall and proud It has done for all time It has no walls Yet its vast halls Reach from shore to shore To whatever shore You know as your own We stand as one, we stand alone We are born From the same womb Hewn from th...

What am I but a thorn in your side? Frost in summer, to chill your heart A drifting memory of autumn decay A shadowed soul in a fetter of light An abyssic voice in purile mind... a fallen one Wandering by the shores, of eternal sin... The sun no longer shine...

Shone the sunset red and solemn Where we stood and observed Down the corners of the column Letter strokes of Ogham carved 'tis belike a burial pillar Said he and those shallow lines Hold some warriors name of valour And will rightly show the signs No...

Her skin, so pale... shrouded in black I drew down the veil, I wanted her back I am at one with what never lived I'll draw down the veil, and offer up what I have to give... Shall you try and poison my words At a summers funeral, I woke to the light Shall you...

Shafts of morning dew, fade to dusk Fires in the distance, make shadows dance Under this Blood Red Sky, a million martyrs died And beneath the pale moon's face They shall Again Arise... Some things are best left in dreams Reality, can be a cruel mistress Are...

I have lain with the lamb Sang his tender praise on long dark nights Searched my drawn face long and hard For a sign of his light Shoulders to the wheel for the grist of faith Is manna for the blind Like a child of Cain without the providence of truth Joy did...

Awake in another city at 5 am The breath of day upon my neck Covating the hours before I wake Another me from his sleep To gve back the things I take How hard we tried to tear this world down Mu duty was to futility The unwilling hand of beauty Which...

Dawn's cold passion filters through the trees In darkness I showed you ecstacy In darkness I took you from this world Light shall never fall upon your face again From spring I've waited for this winter's reap I've watched you pass autumn's twilight yearning...

Drifting in dreams of memory past To pray to never wake Or return to spiritless cages That held me once before So mant seasons I've seen A heart as winter's cold... To melt in a summer's passion To forge a new things that have grown so old My Gods need me now...

If you are the son of Adam - born at me first man The I will be Cain to thei Abel To cast the Tome of sin in your palms To drink a poison chalice to the table Oh Luther, did you know you were able To pierce the tongues of liars ? A gospel of ruin from...

All of the God's children they all have to die Pauper to King sworn enemies to kin From men without sin to those with the beast within The grave is absolute, the grave is all O, Death where are your teeth That gnaw on the bones of fabled men O, Death where ar...

The sea will be as a desert When my bones are long to dust Beneath shifting dunes And the searing Unconquerable son Pile the bodies on the pyre Warm the old heart of the earth This is no place for faith, nor for hope Just a journey through the darkest of nigh...

And so the rain kept on falling Still a solitary mourner stands Beneath the sorrowed eaves Among the rotting autumn leaves And watches over you All the flowers laid Have long since bowed their heads And all the wailing women No longer cast their cries And all...

Shone the sunset red and solemn Where we stood and observed Down the corners of the column Letter strokes of Ogham carved 'tis belike a burial pillar Said he and those shallow lines Hold some warriors name of valour And will rightly show the signs No...

Beneath the Bronze sky a Horizon in Flame The Oceans Boil The Earth heaves ...and seethes there is a new Sun rising that has not Risen for Thousands of years Prophets have Written Songs have been Sung We have Awoken A New Age has begun Spirit The Earth Aflame...

How many lies would We have to live Before we escape the hands The hands of time That stole our best years Where the decades might Breathe a little less A little less of the Night Step bravely out into The city lights tonight Sweet blood is coursin...

What breath it takes the tide Is it from your sunken hollow lungs That the bones may gather at the depths An organ for the ghastly of songs A vessel for the damned adrift on a sunless sea Whisper on white tongues of foam To me of days I've lost to the n...

We are in deep water now Our rotten bond is a sickness of soul How we loathe and envy All murderers in equal measure What pale god is this Whose robes you wear What iconoclasm upon the Wings of pestilence Has swept the halls of the pious And dulled y...

Here there is no god he is ground to dust In the death machine of industry The iron hearse sent on bitter tracks to the Gulag Suffering forged between the hammer and sickle The sorrow of men's hearts is a broken people Nations at the gallows pray for merc...

Bring the women and children before me Let us make rivers of their blood Bleed for me...I wish it so and streams shall meet such rivers and seaward they shall flow See the shoreline scattered with their precious skulls See the tide come in as blood to meet th...

Brothers and sisters Descendants of gods Forge a new destiny In accordance with your will Fan the flames of change Sweep away stagnation Purge what went before And claim What is rightfully yours... 

Young hearts born with grief Shall pay the penalty of truth A season of stolen youth Shall teach old hearts to break It feels like I've been here before Here to where the animals lay down to die So we stood alone on a distant store Our broken spirits in rags...

You... gave me strenght to carry on You... pass all wordly troubles unto me You... gave my time meaning You... left your sorrow for my soul I love you I need you I want you I live you I am you I... layed a thousand souls to rest I... could be a martyr in the...

Funeral winds... caress the flame The naked fire that soothes my flesh In darkness I can ask for little more Then a Samhain fire to lead the dead Nocturnal everslumber procession A gathering of such ancient souls To see our brother to his journey's end Into t...

You say you know me I'm the Poison in your veins You say you know me I'm the Poison in your veins My Faith is not welcome here I Break the young and the cold There is a Darkness here You cannot imagine you cannot fathom It speaks to me in tongues...

One day I stood with my back to the wind And the rain fell down Raised my fist to the cobalt sky And called to the Gods ...Where are you? I stood in the stream with cold clear water Rushing around me Cold stone underfoot And called again to the Gods...

Soiled hands of work, to pit a Nations Fall Skeletal hands upon the coffers of the Old World Ghosts of Men, re-writing history Red ink, from the well of Martyrdom Words to drip from the Traitors Tongues Waging a War between the Crimson lines The Old Hea...

I am cut from the cloth of Judas And have seen his face in mine The weathered hands that turn the pages Are scattered in the sun My ship has the blackest sails Yet no wind to drive like slaves You cannot see from shore That it casts no shadow upon the...

There is plague at the door It begs to be among us In the ashen dreams of crippled children There is sickness in the soil Nothing grows this side of Eden Nor in the yearning abyss That is all men's hearts Nor in the skeletal tug Of motherhood that cur...

These are the traitors you called out One by one against the wall You wanted the President's dead And the wrists of the state bound In the books of the dead The myths of martyrs You created in the revolution Ring deep and hollow Now what will you do?...

From the north to the south From the east to the west All that waits for me is the grave I have been where my brothers lay fallen And my kind are as slaves Bloodied yet unbowed I sing a song of the tomb Of the cold and heathen earth Of the Gods that a...

"I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than...

Moonlight bathes my heart The birds sing my serenade The trees are whispering my Name... my name Dark romanticism, of a Kind seen no more... Lament my name when I am Gone... remember me These years of indifference Have poured solitude on my soul Ice cold my...

I see it you in you glance That you want him How can I make peace With this truth ? The truth is this man He brings out all the lust And guilt deep within I'll stand in Hell and say No same witness in this Town needed proof Send me to Hell Or to th...

I am the eye of the storm Axis Mundi, I fall to my knees I've realised my dark dreams, father I have become... I spread my seed Have I not brought you to these Ends of the earth that I defy No effigy shall fail me now And no voice from the sky, shall deny me...

The crippled oracle breathes his lungs like grit His blackened hands, like maps of ungodly lands Skin as leather, burnt by the sun This world is not for him, this world is not for You nor I When the Gods were young the burden was less It was not grief a...

Borders swell like the oceans Nations swept away In the steel rain Wounds carved in the earth The silent hands of genocide Map the years Forgotten legacies of dust People remembered in nothing But fragments of language Verses of song And shards of military rus...

Make no mistake The arrow I've drawn is for you I've been slaspening it's point My whole life and my aim is true They say the war is lost But this battle you will lose Your foolish heart It poisons the well We knew the war was lost And sang every emp...

For those who buried their sons Under bone white crosses For those who saw their daughters Virtues were taken by invading forces They promised the century to you And all you did was count the dead And pray for merciful release In the longest and the da...

What desolate walls are these That rise up from the ruins Hymns to a forgotten age In centuries of strong sleep What seiges, storms and fire Have they resisted in the deep Where lie the tomb of Gods Tongues of the occident Their magic is hidden in sha...

Who would pray to anything but the mountain And wish for anything but lightening to split the night Who would praise anything but the sun above That brings each dawn and our radiant day What man places faith in his heart Above the animal that rages deep...