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EMPEROR LYRICS
"Emperial Live Ceremony" (2000 Live album)
1. Curse You All Men
2. Thus Spake The Nightspirit
3. I Am the Black Wizards
4. An Elegy Of Icaros
5. With Strength I Burn
6. Sworn
7. Night Of The Graveless Souls
8. Inno A Satana
9. Ye Entrancemperium
1. Curse You All Men
Curse you all men
Who's coil is strong
I recognise the sparrows heart
Beneath the theatre of misery
Disbelivers shalt by dawn
Be forced
To forever mourn
Curse you all men
That resent my empire
Cause I have risen again
At war this time
The truth I speak
Is your decease
My word is your defeat
And thou shalt not
Be able to hide anymore
The prophecy will
Conquer at last
Your sense of reality
With mission to kill
The theatre of misery
He has risen again
Armed with the source of sin
And as humans shalt fade
He shalt inherit their strength
Men of the damned;
Your will reluctantly
Secure His eternal victory
Yes, you are indeed the few;
I am the one.
2. Thus Spake The Nightspirit
Close your eyes
And gaze into this realm
That I reveal
See where eternities are born
Close your eyes
Behold the powers of the broken seal
See the liars bound in thorns
Fear
And you shall fall
Weakness suffocates your will
Dare
Yet never fail
Wisdom guides the one
The strong who can defy
Death
So I speak
Though, am I heard...?
Wasting visions on a world of blinded fools
Still I scorn
The vacant contradiction of life
If only to bewider
The final truth shall speak my name
Thus spake the nightspirit
Nightspirit
Spirit
Embrace my soul
3. I Am the Black Wizards
Mightiest am I, but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine. For the black hills
consist of black souls, souls that already died one thousand deaths. Behind
the stone walls of centuries they breed their black art. Boiling their spells
in cauldrons of black gold. Far up in the mountains, where the rain fall not
far, yet the sun cannot reach. The wizards, my servants, summon the souls of
macrocosm. No age will escape my wrath. I travel though time and I return to
the future. I gather wisdom now lost. I visit again the eternally ancient
caves, before a mighty Emperor thereupon came. Watching the mortals
"discovering" my chronicles, guarded by the old demons, even unknown to me.
Once destroyed to feast upon the screaming souls that was destroyed in my
future. How many wizards that serve me with evil. I know not. My empires has
no limits. From the never ending mountains black, to the bottom lakes. I am
the ruler and has been for eternity's long. My wizards are many, but their
essence is mine. Forever there are in the hills in their stone homes of grief.
Because I am the spirit of their existence. I am them
4. An Elegy Of Icaros
Icaros, I dare you
For I possess the wings of faith
Though, heavy on my shoulders
(No measurement can prove their weight)
Still, a burden are they not to me
I am the challenger of gravity
The fear is not the fate I seek
My destiny will build upon
The mighty turbulence beyond
If I fall I will rise again
Some of envy
Some of fear
Asmonish by the graves of those who fell
Praise the fool that pure of heart
Leaps off your finger
Into grace
Icaros, your voice once melted
Into the choir of the fallen ones
I hav eheard, I have seen
The purity of their song
Icaros
Your fate embrace
A manifold of angels
I summon thee
From shattered graves
And call upon the wind
Recieve my bow of reverence
Then spread your wings
And fly into oblivion
5. With Strength I Burn
Deep Green Dark Chaos
Blinded I run down these paths
By heart I know them
They lead to the searing cliffs
Stout they stand above the water's edge
Lifeless
And this is my foundation
Cold stone
Formed only by winds and time
How invulnerable
Lifeless
Ahh...
I have longed to be at one with this
Yet, the waters call my name
For once I wish to see
The entity behind the voice
The face of this seduction
The beauty of my pain
Am I blessed or am I cursed by thy presence...
What is my crime...
What is my deed...
Is this life my redemption
Shall I repent or proceed
I hate my flesh
It's dimension poisoned my soul with doubt
It made me question the essence of...
The "I"
Slaves are those of this world
Given freedom to lay chains upon The Master
The wolf is no longer free
Release the chains and come for me
[The Elder:]
"Suddenly, his mournful cries were stunned. Out of the cold mist
came three enthralling ships. Sails torn by many a storm, and the
bows adorned by the most fierce gargoyles he'd ever laid eyes upon.
Yet, the crew they bore... Three times twelve in numbers. They stood
motionless, wrapped in grey, worn gowns. And from behind their
shadowed faces the seductive chanting. Bidding him on board.
Without besitation, he accepted. And away they sailed..."
Upon these seas
Wherein I drowned so many times
I scatter the ashes of dignity
Still my flames are in hunger
With fire in my heart
Shall I greet the shores ahead
Though, I know not what will burn
Desire...
Ahh...
In the distance
I hear the waves wash over solid ground
And in this moment I am struck blind
Grant me sight so I can see
That which lies ahead of me
Cursed be my mortal eyes
For dying in the realm of death
Hear my call...
I return to the soaring cliffs
They truly shine of strength
Even though, I nothing learned
With strength I burn...
6. Sworn
Four eyes as two in one
The forward circular view
That never ends
An orbital voyage
Throughout the endless sphere of all
Where time is lost and everything transcends
A graceful presence
At stolen time
As ghosts to the world
Ghosts to the world
For ice, outside, are we apart
As cold and eerie mist to the hand
Ever floating on its course
Towards the heights of shadowland
Thus appear the truly sworn
To be seen
To be feared
Yet, not to be reached
Four eyes as two in one
Thus appear the truly sworn
As ghosts to the world
Thus appear the truly sworn
For ice outside, are we apart
Thus appear the truly sworn
Cold and eerie mist. Burning
Thus appear the truly sworn
A graceful presence
At stolen time
Thus appear the truly sworn
7. Night Of The Graveless Souls
When the depths(?) are creeping in
Dark is the fe../affraid tonight
Winds of storms are gathering
Seem to ignite the flame
A dream in the shadow of the sight
Ghastly winds blows tonight/in your/their eyes
They have started to ??? inside
If the deep grows pain/black(??)
Dark is awaiting/gaining(??).. control
Souls of the air appear
In the center is/in ..they appear to rape your ways
In the earth lies the evil burning
Curse this heart again ??
When the souls from the grave ??
Feed on my/their flesh
When the depths(?) are creeping in
Dark is the fe../affraid tonight
Winds of storms have passed
(The) black have been returned
8. Inno A Satana
O' mighty Lord of the Night. Master of beasts. Bringer of awe and
derision. Thou whose spirit lieth upon every act of oppression, hatred
and strife. Thou whose presence dweleth in every shadow. Thou who
strengthen the power of every quietus. Thou who sway every plague and
storm. Harkee. Thou art the Emperor of Darkness. Thou art the king of
howling wolves. Thou hath the power to force any light in wane. Sans
mercy. Sans compassion nor will to answer whosoever asketh the
why. Thy path is capricious but yet so wide. With no such thing as an
impediment to strong. Every time thou consecrate me to another secret
of Thine. I take another step towards Thy Pantheon. Forever wilt I
bleed for Thee. Forever wilt I praise Thy dreaded name. Forever wilt I
serve Thee. Thou shalt shalt forever prevail.
9. Ye Entrancemperium
Drawn towards these lands again
Seeking death and sacred soil
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
Growing stronger once I enter my empire beyond
Emperium
Behold my coming
The fullmoon rise above me
Enlightening my realm in a silvery glow
Yet the shadows crawl beneath my storming sky
Guarding treasures from forbidden light
I still remember, though ages ago it seems
The first time I entered the gates
The revelation of ritual death
By which I became divine
Sacrifice of the life I had among the flesh of the light
And now I enter again
Even stronger, yet amazed by what I see
In ecstasy I mock the world
Suddenly I memorize
Asking what I left behind
Nothing
Can I ever comprehend?
Will my longing ever end?
Never
Drawn towards these lands again
Seeking death and sacred soil
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
Eternally
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