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IMMOLATION LYRICS
"Bringing Down the World" (2004 DVD)
1. (Live in Amsterdam:) Of Martyrs and Men
2. Father You're Not a Father
3. Unholy Cult
4. A Kingdom Divided
5. Those Left Behind
6. Reluctant Messiah
7. Unpardonable Sin
8. Christ's Cage
9. Bring Them Down
10. (Live in Tilburg:) Sinful Nature
11. Into Everlasting Fire
12. (Live in Paris:) Of Martyrs and Men
13. Father You're Not a Father
14. Unholy Cult
15. Into Everlasting Fire
16. Wolf Among the Flock
17. Bring Them Down
18. (Live in LA:) Of Martyrs and Men
19. Sinful Nature
20. Father You're Not a Father
21. Unholy Cult
22. Furthest From the Truth
23. Dawn of Possession
24. Video Clip: Of Martyrs and Men
1. (Live in Amsterdam:) Of Martyrs and Men
Burdened by the world, too weak to deal with life
Bow to show your love, bow to show devotion
Drowning in the sickness that vomits forth deceit
Fear not what is said, but fear what you believe
Ravaged by their words and into their open arms
Like thieves they'll steal your mind and use it to control
An endless sea of faces, an endless sea of loss
Take your place in line and serve them until the end
Do you think you follow greatness
Do you think you follow the divine
Do you think you are the chose
Do you think you are the few
A genocide of faith
The faithful wait their turn
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...souls in hand
You take their lives
You take our hearts
You have no shame
You shake the world
Dramatic stage
For your own gain
You say you're men
We know you're cowards
You pitiful fools
The true strong remain
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...now you're damned
2. Father You're Not a Father
Bless me father
For you've sinned against me
It's been one week
since you've raped me
Holy Father, your spirit inside me
Holy Father, robbed my virtue
Holy Mary, mother of Christ
The fruit of thy womb has poisoned me
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
Our father who aren't in heaven
Inside of me, my soul is lost
My manhood, so miniscule, was stolen
The Rosary has gripped tight around my neck
I hailed Mary...Over and over again
You've failed Mary
You've raped Mary...Over and over again
You've walked beside me, but I was alone
You've walked on top of me, crushing me
My innocence and my emotions
Were wiped away and you didn't care
You just hid behind your collar
The hardest time, I was helpless
And it was too late, much too late
Touch me I'm warm, but not alive
Feel my hot breath, but I'm not living
Dead inside, Alone forever
Father why...Father why
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
3. Unholy Cult
It feels like we're blind...It feels like we're dead
We'll never find our way...we'll never feel the light of day
Don't try to think...Don't try to live your own life
We have you for keeps...Our ways are sewn deep in your hearts and minds
The colours have faded...everything's black
Darkness around me...Darkness inside me
Your blood line stops here...We are your family now Prepare for the end...a new life awaits us beyond
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
Are you willing to die for us
Are you willing to die with us
Strip us down to nothing and use us as you wish
Like little pawns you move around at your fingertips
We beg to serve and serve you well, you keep us in the dark
Hold us close and suffocate the souls you've led astray
The cycle's complete...the pieces for ruin are in place Our subjects are ready...to seal our date with infamy
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
4. A Kingdom Divided
The kingdom falls and with it goes the darkness of the world
It's malignant soul had burned so bright in the glory of it's day
Wars were fought in it's name and life was cast aside
So many lives were sacrificed to keep the kingdom strong
The kingdom falls and with it goes the shadow that it cast It's king alone, to stand in shame, a symbol of the past
The pulse that beat for centuries had died out long ago
And now divided the people see the truth behind the show
Watch them scramble for cover
Watch them try to hold it together
Frantic to stop it's collapse
But change has finally come
Divided it will fall
It's fabric rips and tears
The beating of it's heart
Will never again be heard
Foundation built on the flesh of the past
Twisting it's purpose through years of neglect
Conflict of power, true soldiers are scarce
A kingdom divided will not stand
The kingdom falls and with it goes the arrogance it reeked The darkness that was hidden deep now on the surface flows
Humbled now before the world it shows its ugly face
Tear this cancer from the world and purge it from our lives
5. Those Left Behind
I lift my soul joyfully
If not, my life will end painfully
Extol he who rides above the clouds, Majestic and glorious
Reigning victorious
Exalted in his name
Far above the earth,But below is where I'll see, Unmoved by your praise, Seated in splendor,
High above the heavens
Resounding out his name
Far below are my beliefs
Your majestic light shines down upon me
I turn my face...and shut my eyes
For your light casts darkness upon my world, A world I've not chosen...to dwell within, For those who judge me by your standards
So I'm unworthy...of your grace
Enthroned upon their praise, Dethroned with my disgust, Unworthy of your glory, You turn your back on me
You are Jesus
You are Lord
Imperfect God
You are nothing to me
For this you say
I'll burn for all eternity...
Jesus Christ
You are Lord
You are God
But have you won over sin and death
Victory's crown shall be ours
For we are those
..Those you've left behind
6. Reluctant Messiah
Reluctant messiah, show us the way
Don't let us down, we have no one left
Your unwillingness to prove, what we believe
The signs you won't leave, we still seem to find
Such distance between us, but we know you are here
We feel your presence, it guides us along
But why won't you answer or send us some hope
We'll just keep searching for what we know is there
Why has our day not yet come
We've sacrificed our fathers and sons
We spill blood but shed not a tear
Our anger grows, but so does our fear
Speak to us...
What have we done wrong
We just want to believe In something larger than life itself
Speak to us...
Let us know your voice
We just want you to see
Our faith is true
We just want you to see
Our faith is true
What more can we do...
He must feel our devotion
Will he know the righteous from the fallen...
Will he know we're the first in line
Save us from our fate...
Save us from our faith
7. Unpardonable Sin
Take your heaven
And your hell
And leave them for the children
I refuse to believe these lies
Show me you're real
Prove your greatness
Can you show me that you really loved us
That you really died to save us from damnation
I don't think you can, I don't think you will
Divine illumination sees no path to forgiveness
When the one who defies the lord is cast out forever
Banishment from the house of
God is not what I fear
For his kingdom is divided
and his people shall stray
I commend myself for this unpardonable sin
For now more than ever I see clearer than before
One above, how mighty are your wonders
Your kingdom is everlasting, yet so empty
Your saints have chosen sin over glory
Your strength has diminished...My fallen one
The misery that surrounds me,
I'm repulsed by your name
Your images has brought despair
to the ones you've forsaken
Your death I'll rejoice as you sickness disappears
Lament in your own failure,
For in death there is rebirth
I commend myself for this unpardonable sin
For now more than ever I see clearer than before
8. Christ's Cage
Captives of faith,
His image never fading from their eyes
Imprisoned by their own creation
It grows stronger, distorts and confines
Behind the gates, the worshipped oppressor
To which weak minds fall
To a God in a godless world
Obeying him...serving him
The golden gates, only surrounding him
Crushed by the weight of devotion through the hails of a dying trinity
Within these bars they'll wait an eternity
For the coming of a dead messiah
In passion they adore, embodied with lies
Tempted by the world, carry out their lives
As they press against the bars, steel upon their flesh
Possessed by the one they call lord.
They'll live and die within his cage
His followers locked in steel
Christ's Cage Christ
Where they leave their sin
Where they worship him
They see more than what he is
In his cage they are his slaves
Empty and silent...barren his kingdom
He will perish...alone in heaven
Gates of gold, now his cage
Christ's Cage Christ
9. Bring Them Down
Looking down from on top of it all
Looking down on everyone else
So high above, it all looks the same
Bring you down to see how it is
The greatness you feel, so smug on your throne
Your view of it all is clouded and warped
Clearly you'll see how it unfolds
Brought down from above to see how it is
Don't you feel passion
Don't you know love
The bitterness that drives you
Will hurt us all
Down with the righteous, down with the liars
Down with the leaders who rape their own men
Down with your idols, down with your ideals
Down with the thieves who rob us of life
King to king, so hungry for power
Fortress to fortress with no ground to gain
On missions of hatred that lead us to ruin
A course that would change if we bring them down
Down to the sorrow, down to the crying
Brought down to the suffering, now how does it feel
Down to the horror, down to the screaming
Brought down to the silence they'll hear in the end
10. (Live in Tilburg:) Sinful Nature
Our course is our own, I know we're to blame
We're born into shame, to live in despair
I feel such pity for what we've become
Our needs and desires...our weakness, our pain
Our need to fulfil, the urges we feel
It weakens our will, it brings us great pain
A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it...let it run free
I can't run away...I can't hide from myself
It is what I am...it is what we are
Do you think you are the chose
Do you think you are the few
Look around and see...pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending
How can we live with ourselves
Our jealousy, our tyranny
The lives we make, the lives we take
The fools we serve, the fools we are
Brazen in our final days
Our time on top is near on end
It's clear to me we'll never change
It's clear that I will never change
The tragedy of life we live
The tragedy of life we'll see
We call it human nature
The seducer of mankind
Our course is our own, I know we're to blame
We're born into shame, to live in despair
A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it...let it run free
I can't run away...I can't hide from myself
It is what I am...it is what we are
Look around and see...pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending
How can we live with ourselves
Our jealousy, our tyranny
The lives we make, the lives we take
The fools we serve, the fools we are
11. Into Everlasting Fire
Will the love of God shed its grace Upon the evil side of man
Symbolic throne, begins to tarnish Poisoned with impurity
Clouds of darkness start to thicken
Dominate the tranquil skies
Frigid earth, devoid of light. begins to rot and die
Angels fall, their wings decayed, Their hymns of praise sung from heir graves, Unspoken prayers cease to comfort, The objects of his rage...
Into Everlasting Fire
Judgment passed, new conclusive, The appalling truth reveals itself, Our tragic end was procured, By our own deceitful ways, Once created in his image, Now destroyed in his fury, A disregard for our lives, His people now condemned
Denouncement of all who've sinned, Their blackened hearts ripped from thief chests
Forgiving God, exalted high
"Pease forgive our sins!"...
Into Everlasting Fire
Blessed in life, flourish in death
Children of God...destitute
Embrace of love...loses hold
Bond of trust...misconceived
Tears erupt...fall to hell
Caressed by fear...We die as one
Mourners of a dying world
To late to reconcile
Into Everlasting Fire
Can't you see it's Satan's world
12. (Live in Paris:) Of Martyrs and Men
Burdened by the world, too weak to deal with life
Bow to show your love, bow to show devotion
Drowning in the sickness that vomits forth deceit
Fear not what is said, but fear what you believe
Ravaged by their words and into their open arms
Like thieves they'll steal your mind and use it to control
An endless sea of faces, an endless sea of loss
Take your place in line and serve them until the end
Do you think you follow greatness
Do you think you follow the divine
Do you think you are the chose
Do you think you are the few
A genocide of faith
The faithful wait their turn
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...souls in hand
You take their lives
You take our hearts
You have no shame
You shake the world
Dramatic stage
For your own gain
You say you're men
We know you're cowards
You pitiful fools
The true strong remain
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...now you're damned
13. Father You're Not a Father
Bless me father
For you've sinned against me
It's been one week
since you've raped me
Holy Father, your spirit inside me
Holy Father, robbed my virtue
Holy Mary, mother of Christ
The fruit of thy womb has poisoned me
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
Our father who aren't in heaven
Inside of me, my soul is lost
My manhood, so miniscule, was stolen
The Rosary has gripped tight around my neck
I hailed Mary...Over and over again
You've failed Mary
You've raped Mary...Over and over again
You've walked beside me, but I was alone
You've walked on top of me, crushing me
My innocence and my emotions
Were wiped away and you didn't care
You just hid behind your collar
The hardest time, I was helpless
And it was too late, much too late
Touch me I'm warm, but not alive
Feel my hot breath, but I'm not living
Dead inside, Alone forever
Father why...Father why
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
14. Unholy Cult
It feels like we're blind...It feels like we're dead
We'll never find our way...we'll never feel the light of day
Don't try to think...Don't try to live your own life
We have you for keeps...Our ways are sewn deep in your hearts and minds
The colours have faded...everything's black
Darkness around me...Darkness inside me
Your blood line stops here...We are your family now Prepare for the end...a new life awaits us beyond
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
Are you willing to die for us
Are you willing to die with us
Strip us down to nothing and use us as you wish
Like little pawns you move around at your fingertips
We beg to serve and serve you well, you keep us in the dark
Hold us close and suffocate the souls you've led astray
The cycle's complete...the pieces for ruin are in place Our subjects are ready...to seal our date with infamy
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
15. Into Everlasting Fire
Will the love of God shed its grace Upon the evil side of man
Symbolic throne, begins to tarnish Poisoned with impurity
Clouds of darkness start to thicken
Dominate the tranquil skies
Frigid earth, devoid of light. begins to rot and die
Angels fall, their wings decayed, Their hymns of praise sung from heir graves, Unspoken prayers cease to comfort, The objects of his rage...
Into Everlasting Fire
Judgment passed, new conclusive, The appalling truth reveals itself, Our tragic end was procured, By our own deceitful ways, Once created in his image, Now destroyed in his fury, A disregard for our lives, His people now condemned
Denouncement of all who've sinned, Their blackened hearts ripped from thief chests
Forgiving God, exalted high
"Pease forgive our sins!"...
Into Everlasting Fire
Blessed in life, flourish in death
Children of God...destitute
Embrace of love...loses hold
Bond of trust...misconceived
Tears erupt...fall to hell
Caressed by fear...We die as one
Mourners of a dying world
To late to reconcile
Into Everlasting Fire
Can't you see it's Satan's world
16. Wolf Among the Flock
I am the one...leader of promise
Stalking lost souls
Rabid for the taste of faith
Pull you close to me...I will make you see
Spit my fears into your hearts
Feed your minds with my disease
I'll make them doubt themselves
I'll make you loathe yourself
I am the one...creature of moves
Sending my pack out into the world
Those loyal to me grow like a plague
They'll bow in praise of me...they will be slaves to me
I will bring them to their knees
Devoured soul by soul
I'll make them light for me
I'll make them die for me
You'll feed me your young and I take them with pride
I'll offer you some guilt and a lifetime of lies
Let me tease you with wonders and surround you with me
For I shall be your life, and your life shall be for me
I'm your world, I'm your light, I am all the answers you seek
You'll walk throughout your empty lives, but never challenge me
For I am god, I am every God, I'm whatever you wish of me
I'm the beast you've created, and I'm the beast you'll serve
17. Bring Them Down
Looking down from on top of it all
Looking down on everyone else
So high above, it all looks the same
Bring you down to see how it is
The greatness you feel, so smug on your throne
Your view of it all is clouded and warped
Clearly you'll see how it unfolds
Brought down from above to see how it is
Don't you feel passion
Don't you know love
The bitterness that drives you
Will hurt us all
Down with the righteous, down with the liars
Down with the leaders who rape their own men
Down with your idols, down with your ideals
Down with the thieves who rob us of life
King to king, so hungry for power
Fortress to fortress with no ground to gain
On missions of hatred that lead us to ruin
A course that would change if we bring them down
Down to the sorrow, down to the crying
Brought down to the suffering, now how does it feel
Down to the horror, down to the screaming
Brought down to the silence they'll hear in the end
18. (Live in LA:) Of Martyrs and Men
Burdened by the world, too weak to deal with life
Bow to show your love, bow to show devotion
Drowning in the sickness that vomits forth deceit
Fear not what is said, but fear what you believe
Ravaged by their words and into their open arms
Like thieves they'll steal your mind and use it to control
An endless sea of faces, an endless sea of loss
Take your place in line and serve them until the end
Do you think you follow greatness
Do you think you follow the divine
Do you think you are the chose
Do you think you are the few
A genocide of faith
The faithful wait their turn
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...souls in hand
You take their lives
You take our hearts
You have no shame
You shake the world
Dramatic stage
For your own gain
You say you're men
We know you're cowards
You pitiful fools
The true strong remain
Just like slaves...hand in hand
Just like ghosts...now you're damned
19. Sinful Nature
Our course is our own, I know we're to blame
We're born into shame, to live in despair
I feel such pity for what we've become
Our needs and desires...our weakness, our pain
Our need to fulfil, the urges we feel
It weakens our will, it brings us great pain
A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it...let it run free
I can't run away...I can't hide from myself
It is what I am...it is what we are
Do you think you are the chose
Do you think you are the few
Look around and see...pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending
How can we live with ourselves
Our jealousy, our tyranny
The lives we make, the lives we take
The fools we serve, the fools we are
Brazen in our final days
Our time on top is near on end
It's clear to me we'll never change
It's clear that I will never change
The tragedy of life we live
The tragedy of life we'll see
We call it human nature
The seducer of mankind
Our course is our own, I know we're to blame
We're born into shame, to live in despair
A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it...let it run free
I can't run away...I can't hide from myself
It is what I am...it is what we are
Look around and see...pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending
How can we live with ourselves
Our jealousy, our tyranny
The lives we make, the lives we take
The fools we serve, the fools we are
20. Father You're Not a Father
Bless me father
For you've sinned against me
It's been one week
since you've raped me
Holy Father, your spirit inside me
Holy Father, robbed my virtue
Holy Mary, mother of Christ
The fruit of thy womb has poisoned me
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
Our father who aren't in heaven
Inside of me, my soul is lost
My manhood, so miniscule, was stolen
The Rosary has gripped tight around my neck
I hailed Mary...Over and over again
You've failed Mary
You've raped Mary...Over and over again
You've walked beside me, but I was alone
You've walked on top of me, crushing me
My innocence and my emotions
Were wiped away and you didn't care
You just hid behind your collar
The hardest time, I was helpless
And it was too late, much too late
Touch me I'm warm, but not alive
Feel my hot breath, but I'm not living
Dead inside, Alone forever
Father why...Father why
Father, you're not a father
Rapist, selfish taker of youth
The fires you cast out
I promise you for eternity
21. Unholy Cult
It feels like we're blind...It feels like we're dead
We'll never find our way...we'll never feel the light of day
Don't try to think...Don't try to live your own life
We have you for keeps...Our ways are sewn deep in your hearts and minds
The colours have faded...everything's black
Darkness around me...Darkness inside me
Your blood line stops here...We are your family now Prepare for the end...a new life awaits us beyond
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
Are you willing to die for us
Are you willing to die with us
Strip us down to nothing and use us as you wish
Like little pawns you move around at your fingertips
We beg to serve and serve you well, you keep us in the dark
Hold us close and suffocate the souls you've led astray
The cycle's complete...the pieces for ruin are in place Our subjects are ready...to seal our date with infamy
Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free
22. Furthest From the Truth
Son of highest
You are falling
You are falling
Not floating from out of the sky
You deceive us
You betray us
You will not lift our hearts to eternity
But leave a hole with despair
We waited and waited
Our crosses born
And still you did not come
And how does it feel
As life passes by
We will not know until we pass
that you are a lie
Will we receive the mark
Of those who did not believe
The temptations that are burning us alive
But you tell us that there's sin in what we think
For forgiveness we'll believe your every word
but will you show us what our souls cry out to see
No...No...No...
Son of man, are you the son of God
No...No...No...
did you die to cleanse this world of sin
No...No...No...
Will you return from the dead to
save the world again
No...No...No...
Has the blood you shed turned the darkness into light...No
Son of highest You are falling
You are falling
not floating from out of the sky
We waited and waited
Our crosses born
And still you did not come
23. Dawn of Possession
Awaiting messiah
To save us from sin
A second hope, His reign begins
Born of virgin, To conquer mankind
Deity from Hell, Satan Divine...
Christ possessed, I am born...
Twist of scripture
Christ possessed
Come forth with wrath
Evil obsessed
Hatred and war
Sadistic spell
Swallows the earth
Thanks be to Hell
Christ possessed, The dawn has come...
Praise the day the Christ child is born
Born of woman, to evil he's sworn
To rule mankind like no other before
Unholy throne, Christ above
Arise in flames...I am born
I ride with fury...I rule with scorn
Evil will conquer...And forever will be
Bleed in pain...Kneel to mesinned, Their blackened hearts ripped from thief chests
Forgiving God, exalted high
"Pease forgive our sins!"...
Into Everlasting Fire
Blessed in life, flourish in death
Children of God... destitute
Embrace of love... loses hold
Bond of trust...misconceived
Tears erupt...fall to hell
Caressed by fear...We die as one
Mourners of a dying world
To late to reconcile
Into Everlasting Fire
Can't you see it's Satan's world
24. Video Clip: Of Martyrs and Men
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