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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Dark thoughts rise up
Deep in your mind The killing of hope The end has begun The locked psycho-door breaks down The beast breathes freedom and fire Blows bloody thoughts into your mind Demons whisper: "COMMIT SUICIDE!" Weak is your body, Helpless your soul, The beast destroyed your will Left nothing but an empty shell Self-destruction leads its way Your weapons turn against yourself Cutting through, killing you A downward spiral, the shadowbeast has won The shadowbeast calls A vulture of life Your worst enemy dwells From within |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Dark shadows from above
Ravens fly, obliterate the sun "It's a sign of the devil. He will come for his servant tonight" These are dark times Suspicious minds breed like rats Guardians of corrupt morality Spread their filthy lies Am I to burn I have not sinned! Burnt at the stake. Innocent blood that can never be wished clean The flames of ignorance Grow higher and higher Licking my flesh - burning my soul The raven laughing in the moon These are dark times Suspicious minds breed like rats. Guardians of corrupt morality Spread their filthy lies again... |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
You can't kill me. I am living inside you.
I am a part of your existence Twisted thoughts in a twisted mind Provoking you Black is my heart - dark is my soul My hatred I can not control Evil seed growing stronger Your freewill... Dying! Inside you - heart of darkness A part of you - heart of darkness To deny me, is to deny yourself. The illusion is dissolved You are no longer in control The facade crumbles - the transition is complete ...The transition is complete I come to you in the night I am your dark subconscience I keep you awake, knowing I am the heart of darkness |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
I am hunting for your soul
It dwells within your heart I lacerate the pounding flesh Your spirits shall be mine So rise my spirit rise! Revel in this dead mans' body Grip his soul, sip the blood Life is death A holy carnage Ravenous I will be your god Carnivorous Jesus I need your flesh Ritual slaughter Fill up the chalice With the essence of your life Liquid strengths Trapped in your veins I crave your blood You must die! |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Meet your maker
Rising from the ashes Like a phoenix to the sky So intense, so glorious... Uncontrollable desire For our souls The great lawgiver So high and mighty The immaculate deception A taker of life With unbridled aggression Striking down on the disbelievers Savage - Messiah Take us higher Savage - Messiah Take us now! Blessed in blood We are reborn in hate Thousands of spirits cry So intense, so glorious... Uncontrollable desire For our souls The great Messiah So high and mighty |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
I leave the anguish behind
Scars are healing - I am set free The chains of guilt are in the past They no longer have a hold on me Dead bury their dead I walk through Elysian Fields The light is shining on me Time marches on... |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Weaving a web - of lies and deceit
It's a dangerous game - we play All this time - the pain eating us away All this time - the memories refuse to fade A rotting shell of dying trust We share this hell at any cost Phases and stages Circles and cycles And empty charade This pointless masquerade A dangerous game A dangerous game - we play Web of lies I can see it in your eyes Web of lies You can see it in my eyes It will never be the same We have gone too far this time Our temple of false dreams Comes crashing down... A rotting shell of dying trust We shared this hell at any cost |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Step inside the circle of fire
Flames of desire enlighten the night Follow your instinct Burn and writhe in ecstasy Love will turn to hate Heat will turn to ice There is nothing in between The first deadly sin Ancient taboo takes control The demon eve possesses your soul Riding high above the flames You will step into hell Dwell in passionate evil Forbidden fruits of lust Embrace and kiss the face of death It's your first deadly sin |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
Sands of time
Running through my fingers My life slipping away And I feel nothing Swallow the tears Eat the pain - It's worth the degradation - Eat the pain Behind the smile / I feel nothing I reach out to touch, but I'm not really there This reflection in the mirror Can't reality be me I see no connection With who I wanted to be Drink another glass Swallow these pills At the end of the rainbow You take the bitter The bitter with the sweet When love dies The angels cry Here I am Alone... Alone in a crowd |
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from Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin (2001)
At the mercy of our conscience
Confined within our fate Never really questioned why We are refugees in a dying world To become a part of the end Are we the ones, the ones to blame? We are mortals of shadows and dust The sun sets on our sinking ship of fools On our journey into oblivion We ask ourselves again and again Now will we be remembered Shadows... And dust... |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
This liquid vision of euphoria
Living a life on borrowed time Paying the price of immortality Desperately avoiding our fate Lead me through the halls of tortured souls Alone, forlorn... human dignity dethroned Forevermore - A life never ending Time stands still as the immortals keep on breeding The future is locked within us All we need is the key Crying at the fountain of youth Eternal life is killing me Triumphant in chariots they ride On this arena of the undead Anoher lap of honour for the... Vacant galleries Lead me through the halls of tortured souls Alone, forlorn... human dignity dethroned Forevermore - A life never ending Time stands still as the immortals keep on breeding |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Weak and sick I crawl
In the dust of past mistakes Leaving for the darkness Of tears and cold heartaches Suffer in this grief Of forever burning hate The ashes of my life By the torment you create On my knees... remembering The wasted years of dark insanity The rage increases fast As the memories eat me alive God, I wish this to end But I'm not prepared to die No more a human being Just a fool of anxiety Unable to escape The darkest insanity |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Spiritual Isolation - The ultimate frustration
Scratch the surface, tuurn another page The ugly truth or another pretty lie You deceived me, I believed you Why did everything go... So wrong... For so long... So the truth comes out at last I'm dead inside (I'm burning up) A hollow shell (My private hell) In my own misery You leave me to dwell Then we were young and strong Now everything is wrong Did you want me, did you need me Could you not say you believed me? Everything we had is gone... Like an old forgotten song The deceiver and believer Now everything is... So wrong... for so long. |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Divine queen of evil
Sowing her seeds of hate Mistress of pain Diva satanica - Master of temptation Medusa... abuser... both beast and beauty Seducer... she'll use you... bring you to your knees Blinded by her infinite beauty you are lured into the temple The smell of incense burning this carnal pleasure yearning Bride of satan Transgress the rules of this world Too late you realize this love is ripping you apart Medusa... abuser... both beast and beauty Seducer... she'll use you... as fodder for her dreams Drinking the blood Eating the flesh She's getting high on you Watching you die gives her a thrill ...There is always more blood to spill... |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
From the womb, to the tomb
An eternal struggle for the holy truth We are not the first, nor shall we be the last We shall be followed by thousands more Study the scriptures - Intensify the faith The works of men much greater than you or I From the cradle to the grave Thousands of immortal souls just waiting to be saved! Pilgrim man - What are you searching for? Believe the tales when everything else fails Pilgrim man - Deep in your heart you know Your faith is already bought and sold All my life I served the cross Always believing my God was a just one I maimed for you - I killed for you But looking back at my life I just don't know anymore... |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Fly with me on a starlit sky I'll set you free, yes it can be A dream unchased is a life at waste Never let them conquer your pride Our love is warm here Like the image of a distant sun This star will always shine And never, ever fade away Fly on silverwing Fly with me stay free silverwing Seeking truths in spirit skies Which one of you will guide me tonight? The milky way tastes sour Has heaven lost its power? So let us set sail on this sea of dreams The moon gets lost in the morning sun Just let the spinning wheel spin And let your life begin |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Beware the beast of man
For he's the devils pawn Alone among god's primates He kills for sport, lust or greed The sacred scrolls... The truth unfolds... Shun him - or become like him Shun him - the beast of man Let him not breed in great numbers For he will make a dessert of his home and yours Shun him - drive him back into his jungle lair For he is the harbinger of death |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Tears Of The Dead
Hideous crimes, atrocities The slaughter of millions - beyond belief Those were dark times, so different from now The law of evil ruled our fatherland I was but a pawn in their game Why should I feel any guilt? Still when I close, close my eyes The words unfold, it all comes back I can't defy it, can't deny it I know it ot be true In my sleep - they come to haunt me They know it to be true Tears of the dead We are all on the turning wheel of fate A young man, standing proud in uniform I never stopped to hesitate Until it was far to late My hands are soiled, covered in blood Stains that never wash away Their hollow eyes... Confronting me - Judging me Now an old man, at the end of my days Contemplating - My life of sin Living is never simple - the rosad is hard I had no say - just a puppet in a sick play |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Standing at the bridge of destiny
So long since I tasted fear Lurking in the darkest holes Awaiting my minds weakest moment Old words from an old world Against the laws of nature They say the truth is overrated Wall of anger corrupts my thought Standing at the bridge of destiny Show me a sign On the verge of losing my sanity Free my soul My inner demons torture me Flapping their wings in my face Damn you! You twisted illusion I am no longer afraid See through their liquid souls Evil eyes that will hypnotize You can no longer hurt me I am my own worst enemy Unleash the trapped souls of the dead Spirits since long forgotten Guardians fo the lost faith Destined for glory? Watch them all turn into sand And the wind blow them away Wisdom pours into my soul ...endlessly... |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Trapped in a downward spiral of pain
Horrific memories, your life flashing by There is no life left for you to live You've had your share and more Act of transfusion - blood child! Transmigrate into the future or the past Eternal damnation awaits you my love In the kingdom of the sick and the rotting dead You will suffer excruciating pain You shall now reap the twisted fruit Of what you once sowed Transparent - revealing the lies Transmutation - What you have become Act of transfusion - blood child! Transmigrate into the future or the past Transmigration macabre |
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from Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999 [live] (2001)
Angelclaw - A queen of the night
She reigns from her throne of stone Bringer of evil, a destroyer of souls Do what thou wilt, lust is her excuse She'll use you up, suck you dry This beautiful creature makes you high Try to break the spell that is cast Bu she knows you all to well Angelclaw... Effigy of a God long forgotten A sickening ritual She raises the chalice of blood The hunt starts again... |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Call me by my astral name
Breeding fear through wordless tounge Heavenly thirst - unspeakable pain Emptied from all human motion Confront the faceless wrath Beckoning silent from a sphere behind space Through twisted ruins of uncompleted dreams Sights of towers reaching for the moon Clawing at the skies - they gonna pull it down Intensity - I feel the lava rushing through my veins Stars are reforming - to enter the fourth dimension Beyond all galaxies through timeless eaons of frost Unearthly hunger - angels descent We are entering dimensions behind space ... Beyond all galaxies through timeless eaons of frost |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
For there is a purpose and reason
Beyond all human apprehension The shrieking silence in the blackness of space For there is a knowledge more complex Than life on this planet A knowledge in tune with the progress of stars Lunar strain All across the milky way Life suffers defeat Life that once was treasured What once was nothing Has blossomed into form Once it was I that was nothing But now they say I will die All across the galaxy Life suffers defeat Lunar strain From nothingless to reality As we see it From nothingless to life My dismal tears of anguish Bleed into one with the songs of my heaven Loneliness is pain Emptiness is power, loneliness is pain Serenity is might Yet we shall be honoured In the starforsaken night Astral strain All around my silent moon Life suffers defeat Astral strain For there is a purpose and reason Beyond all human apprehension The shrieking silence in the blackness of space |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Wipped in the eye by the sand
Malicious have light of day obscured The sun has burned my skin Open wounds are licked by sand To be punished by this vortex of scorn Wrists and ankles are chained upon this land Drawn through the desert to be their sacrifice So this is my golgatha, so this is my grave The theives, the liars, the hypocrit scum I'd slay them if I only could The endless sand, the blackest land A cyclone of spinecrushing anger Meant for me The overlords of the desert Not one was meant to be All human force now flee Rules of anatomy lost Rage into the extreme |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Lights are dim
My tearful windows Through wich no emotions pass Starvation of senses claws my soul Answer me Are these walls my only shelter From the bleeding atmosphere Take me from this land "I deliver thee from this agony A storm to cleanse thee" Mine is the right to be Maelstrom of the everlost This is the curse of ... All is dark All but one aspect of life To be shaceled In a shell, so misleading "These are the shells bestowed upon me" Pass into the darkened of the midnight Sounds, faceless lights Hands tear apart Disolve possess You alone can take my soul Take flight |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Through seven songs of rejoice
His name relives his solar voice Falling into the unknown Yet he shall feel no harm Lights shine upon his face Night exists no longer In unknown colours they confront him In soundless tounge they speak is name Moonred - reaching for life through eternity Starblack - the brooding silence is frightening me One elderly custom in timeless guise In ceremonies of old one, dove now flies Fly through time |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Behold the heart of mine in flames
A top the highest mountain Below the darkest depths In the valley of hate I wander My frost bitten heart is set ablaze, set ablaze Ravage my soul Plunder my mind Branded by thunder, fire and ice Trampled in fury by hordes of the light I am crushed by the hand of my sky My sky has forsaken me Rivers of crimson lead me now Trail of fire In a place of fire ethernal Left in flames Scattered in a world of thorns Torn from my earthly self Aggreived in tears and bitterness I fall beyond stars, beyond stars Ravage my soul Plunder my mind Branded by thunder, fire and ice Trampled in fury by hordes of the light My firey heart is stronger than ever It's stronger than ever before My heart in flames |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
"I see then nightshade grow" he spoke
And southern hounds awoke at dawn Sought for the ever-liquid of our craving Caught by the all embracing nightly sun Admass - I laugh at your feeble lies - trash Hatred in my eyes and in my blood A scream across the fields - the rivers weep A vanquished lord upon an oaken throne Grief inside my flame - grasp at my existence The seal of dawn is broken - fury Wildfire A windswept thought Out in the perimeter where laughts are No longer heard, screams no longer seen And life is always lost Gaze into the skies for they are blind Blinded by the nightshade of our lust Grinded to dust The wolves are here The beast of the savage lands They drink my blood They feast upon my remains The tears in their eyes betry Wildfire |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Reach for your razor
Cut through the dawn See through your inner wrath Keys shan't open the doors Behold my heart has stopped My lungs are laid the final rest And still I see and do I feel Yes, but to earthly eyes I am gone To the land where legends never die Take me to the twilight land tonight Again and again and again in every night The darkness climbs through my walls Ever screaming silent to the corrupted ears Never to any man I will spear My speach it has no value Eyes that have seen the sights Bleed through the ages eternal I ask no more A life has just begun Never will I see the sun And do I miss it No, my eyes are black Emotions fled through eyelids closed Throne of thorns Clad in shadows |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
The time is now
Please tell me how Set ablaze... Crying, Remembering how it used to be Scarred for eternity Was it meant to be? A life in harmony... Bleeding, regretting... Solitary life Committing suicide Seeking sanctuary From this world, contrary Stand Ablaze Screaming As the flames caress my face Stand Ablaze... |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Die
Tragedy, cursing me Bloodlust, crying, never dying Bloodlust, crying, never dying From the cold, shadowed waste Evil grasped my soul and took my hand Left alone and filled with desire A spawn of evil and eternal fire Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate Timeless, immortal, everlasting hate Hate... Drinking the wine An act out of love Consumer of lives You'll join us tonight... Behold immortality A dark eternity Eternity, eternity... Drinking the wine An act out of love Consumer of lives You'll join us tonight |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
My tears fall like rain
From the longlasting pain When I look at your eyes My heart just dies Beauty divine I hope you'll be mine Open your arms For all time All dressed in white Bringer of light Spend time with me All through the night Beauty divine Your tears taste like wine Come to me For all time My spine shivers with the touch of your lips... My pale skin turns red when we kiss... Piercing your nails deep into my back... As I slowly kiss your ivory neck... I started to cry after hours of joyful sin... My tears turned to roses as they embraced your skin... I gathered them to a bouquet of the most beautiful flowers... A bouquet of the most secret and ancient powers... My amber heart started to glow as I died really slow... |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Slowly the winter wind tears my skin
Blood freezes in my veins I wish you were here beside me To release me from my pain Last night you promised me You were still in love with me Please come set me free From my misery I love you Truth be told I'm completely numb It got this way I don't know how I just can't figure it out Please talk to me What do you want me to be? Last night you promised me You were still in love with me Please come set me free From my misery I love you Truth be told I'm completely numb It got this way I don't know how I just can't figure it out Please talk to me What do you want me to be? Slowly twists my pride Freezing as I die Coldly I fade away My life cannot be saved Slowly the winter wind tears my skin Blood freezes in my veins I wish you were here beside me To release me from my pain Please try to remember me Lord please send help for me Trying, can't you see? Why must this be? Please talk to me What do you want me to be? |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
I bid you welcome to my world
They call me existence You have just entered through the gate to your journey towards eternity This part I control In the beginning you'll fear nothing As I climb beside you Time will be your master in this laborious part of human subsistence This part I control Black clouds embraces your soul Slowly passing through repeating lacunas of anguish When time takes your life I wil transfer you into the bare grip of thinking tranquillity Voices frilling the emptiness of the dead floating Seamless across the surface into chilling stillness Nothing can help you now You'll never be along again You'll never die again You'll never be born again You'll forever be, stuck here in eternity |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Close your eyes and pray the wind will take me far away
Life is like a stone behind my back of a second degree Start Life is a feather of fall between the monument tear Like a powder fragile the one that blows behind the Faithful dead All the doors of eternal gray This weakness take beyond the dream With a silent void you're left while you can hardly breathe Vastly they destroy the tears of my lies Fears are fading away, robbed to face the bitterness In search for my dear Castle burries the bite of a queen Wherever the sorrow rises from distance like a rainbow I'll be there again, to weep behind with my tears Wake me The second lifeless to be |
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from In Flames, In Flames 1집 - Lunar Strain + Subterranean [box] (1994)
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence Your silence for your confidence Do you hear what I hear? Doors are slamming shut Limit your imagination, keep you where they must Do you feel what I feel? Bittering distress Who decides what you express? Do you take what I take? Endurance is the word Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd Doesn't matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it's done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice is made for you my friend Freedom of speech is words that they will bend Freedom with their exception Do you fear what I fear? Living properly Truths to you are lies to me Do you choose what I choose? More alternatives Energy derives from both the plus and negative Do you need what I need? Boundaries overthrown Look inside, to each his own Do you trust what I trust? Me, myself, and I Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie Doesn't matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it's done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice is made for you my friend Freedom of speech is words that they will bend Freedom with their exception Do you know what I know? Your money and your wealth Your silent just to hear yourself Do you want what I want? Desire not a thing I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring Doesn't matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it's done just how I say Independence limited Freedom of choice is made for you my friend Freedom of speech is words that they will bend Freedom no longer frees you Doesn't matter what you see Or into it what you read You can do it your own way If it's done just how I say |
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