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FAUSTCOVEN LYRICS
"The Halo Of Burning Wings" (2003)
1. Under the Pagan Hammer
2. Annointed in Flames
3. Red Moon, Black Magic
4. Black Riders
5. Baptized in Goat Blood
6. Tomb of the Black Witch
7. Oldschool War
8. Castle of the Tyrant
9. Return to the Castle
10. The Halo of Burning Wings
1. Under the Pagan Hammer
2. Annointed in Flames
3. Red Moon, Black Magic
Bloodstained clouds divide
Giving birth to a sickening child
Red moon on the rise
An eye from beyond this world
Is it a sign of doom
Or a tool for some force
- of evil
What did they see
Those beckoned from sleep
Staring into the abyss
Wandering out in the night
Where these poor men damned from start
Or a victim of chance
Did they pay for sins long gone
Or was heaven just blind
Red moon - Black magic
The eye is watching
The world has bent
To the vilest of wills
Mist sweeps through the streets
From the woods come feeble screams
Tonight every sleeping child
Writhers with terrible dreams
Morning has come
Now the spell is broken
But the world holds no signs
Of those who left that night
Now cries are heard
For lovers lost
For brothers gone
And souls devoured
A blind man sits under an oak
Wearing the strangest smile
4. Black Riders
Far in the horizon, there gathers a storm
And if you look closely, you’ll see the approaching lords
Chrome shining in the desert sun
Black Riders from the pits of hell
Run while you can feeble man
Tonight we’ll visit your womens beds
Lay waste the house of your god
Impale the priest upon our horns
We’re riders of the apocalypse
Drink the beer and spill the blood
Riders of the apocalypse
Born to raise hell and that’s a fact
Tonight we’re only passing by your lovely town
Destroying to serve our lord
Its safe to say they look mean
Goathorns will do that to a demon
As if that was not enough:
Look at the swords they’ve brought
Skulls hang from their wings
That’s always a bad sign
Riders of the apocalypse
Born to raise hell and that’s a fact
Riders of the apocalypse
Born and raised in hell
Are you looking at me?
Wipe that grin of your face!
I’ve met men like you before
So many from where I come
You know where you’re going
Eternal pain and suffering
Can’t you feel the beckoning abyss
I will take you there
I’ve heard the souls of hell, as they plead
A second of alleviance from aeons misery
With one hand I crush his skull
Another soul to the pits of hell
With each day that passes by
We grow strong and many
Now that the land lays waste
The riders move on
If you watch the horizon tonight
You might see them come
SOLO FOR SATAN!
5. Baptized in Goat Blood
6. Tomb of the Black Witch
7. Oldschool War
8. Castle of the Tyrant
Castle of the Tyrant
Forever the reign of terror shall last
Its halls filled with silent men
Faces grim, robes bloodstained
Ruled by a man, the crulest of them all
True lord of pain, not of woman born
Castle of the Tyrant
Forgotten by time and god
Windows stare like empty eyes
Mist sorrounds these hills
His rule was short as his last words
"Someday I will return!"
Once the center of all the horror of this world
Now forgotten by the men that feared it so
But the sins of the fathers passed on to the sons
Screams will soon fill its dungeon
The legacy of the dead lord will prevail,
The tyrant will be born again
Born again!
Now the castle lies alone,
A monolith of stone
Its halls are as cold as the grave
Awaiting the rebirth,
Of the tyrant!
9. Return to the Castle
Again it haunts my dreams
This desolate foreboding place
Something dwells there,
hidden from the eyes of men
And only I hear its call
Black towering spires
Spiked massive gates rusted shut
In the dephts of this hellish tomb
Something stirs from unholy slumber
And I, The last of my kin
Must return to the castle...
...of the ancient tyrant
Thus my journey of madness begins
I have seen in dreams,
the path I must follow
For through my veins it floats,
thick and nobel
The blood of this land,
of secrets and shadows
I stand before the gates,
reading the inscription:
"Enter not, lest madness devour thee"
Smiling I enter the great hall,
breaking ages of silence
I approach the throne of bones,
ancient monument of pain
As I mount the throne,
I feel a rush of hideous air
I remember now who I once was
From the dephts of my mind he ascends
Now the tyrant sits on his throne again
Reborn
10. The Halo of Burning Wings
I have fallen into damnation
Slowly darkness devours the world
While the light of my life burns
ever brighter and more violent
I fear it burns too fast now
and that it shall consume both me and all the earth
For every hour that passes my radiance conquers
and dominates this solemn landscape piece by piece
The shadows I cast are terrible to behold
Yet in the vaining light man must look elsewhere for guidance
Soon the first and brave will start to flock towards me
Then one by one they will turn their eyes from the failing sun and let their path be lit...
By the Halo of Burning Wings
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