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PRAETORIAN LYRICS
"Threnody" (2002)
1. Soul Collector
2. Wide-Eyed Death
3. All Alone
4. Ravenous
5. Harlequin Dreams
6. Incisions
7. Sarcophagus
8. Thylacine
9. Night
1. Soul Collector
I plague tormented minds
Fighting for the dark
Crushing confused passages
To nightmare realms embark
Soul collector
In peace of death I deal
Blood flecks in my hair
Sharp screams fade away
One day here, tomorrow there
Submit your will to me
For you I will reveal
The gift of anonymity
No more pain to feel
Wearing down your heels
Scabby beards of grey
Crusted cloaks of agony
Taking those who stray
Soul collector
Running through the night
Scourge of the land
More for me and death for you
I am the master's hand
2. Wide-Eyed Death
The rage in my eyes is just your reflection
I'm lacking emotion in wide eyed death
The blade in my chest won't escape it is stuck
Holding on to your last gift to me
your face like mine is alarmed and contorted
You cannot hide what you have done
Decision to run is a revelation
Fearing the odour of my rotting breath
I no longer feel fear
You're running scared
I no longer shed tears
You're eyes run like water
My pain and your glory
Were all to brief
Now I am gone
Only you can feel grief
My last gift to you
3. All Alone
In your dreams
Dreamt that I came after you
You went down
Down the hole I dug for you
You awoke
Awoke to find me standing there
Then you screamed
screamed before I disappeared
Never seen before
Terror rising to the fore
I"m hunting down your back
You"re all alone
Can you feel
Feel my presence watching you
It is cold
The cold is paralyzing you
You will see
See the monster that I am
You will be
All alone when I return
You fear me
Fear what I will do to you
Wonder why
Why I have come after you
Could it be
I am something you have built
Yes my dear
I am you, I am your guilt
4. Ravenous
We mt by pure chance
And shared a night of desperate romance
She infected me with her poisoned hands of pain
She left me feeling bloodied and strained
Ravenous kisses tear my tongue
Feverish fingers claw my back
Placid eyelashes drain the love
Still I think of her and hope that one day She'll return
Now in memory of the sacred witch I burn
She took a bite of me, leaving me to bleed
Just once more to feel her buning touch I plead
Blessed are the weak
Confined to restless sleep
5. Harlequin Dreams
Finally returned from
In hand glacier splitting
The perils of creeping ice overcome
For the biting winds cease
The child is gone, the king returns
Reinforced with strength and fire
Breed through trial in pain and sickness
Red ice lies shattered under wisdoms sword
I am the one, the one you seek
I haunt your dreams I am the
Ruler of your sleep!
Angry cries will no longer be silenced
Companions rejoice at the arrival
None in existence can capture free spirits
Shadow's claw shrinks from all sight
None shall halt the wrath of wisdom's way
Destiny will not lie in waiting
Rocks wont crumble into raging seas
Defiant hearts will vanquish the enemy
Dreaming of existence
Dreaming of fulfillment
Dreaming of existence
Dreaming of fulfillment
Wings of freedom leave the smoke behind
Over the horizon the sun sets low
Night adorns me in black silken cloak
Transcending the warp the black library calls
Once again the shadows crawl
Screaming doom wails from my hands
None shall halt my journey there
The path of the Harlequin awaits me
6. Incisions
Incisions penetrate the skin
The faceless ones peer down
Mind alive I'm paralyzed
What do they want from me
Clinical emotionless
They know of my consciousness
The blade, the pain excruciates
My soul is stripped and bare
Stainless steel horror realm
I don't know where I am
Silent scream is trapped inside
Like the secrets my body hides
7. Sarcophagus
Feels like the wall crumbling on me
Lights out I don't want to see
Death's Head gripping my shoulder
Leave me in my Black Embrace
Locked within this
Wormwood sarcophagus
I am my own gaoler
The will to be free
Died within me
Wallow in self inflicted
Misery!
Enter into the wasteland
Cursed souls screaming of past shame
Tears fall onto the cracked earth
Flesh peels, oh where the Horns reign
8. Thylacine
9. Night
The light flickers, shadow grows
The sleeping dragon dies
A serpent, slithers
Into the open night
Evil eyes, illuminate
Black times
Rotting finger
Pierces flesh and bone
Alone without fire
Blood without life
Soul without desire
Worms devour last remains
As a crumpled letter
Flutters helplessly
In the wind
Poisoned needle infects
Rusty razors break the skin
The watchman sleeps
Gate is open
Trees sigh
As the birds cease to fly
The sword shatters
The armour rusts
Crimson tide ebbs from a
Horrific wound
And the cup is drained
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