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SOMNUS LYRICS
"Awakening The Crown" (1999)
1. Unfulfilled Prophecy
2. A Calling Of Arms
3. The Alchemist
4. Forever The Serpent
5. Beyond The Shores
6. Envy Of The Seraph
7. Lair (Of The Wendol)
8. Within
9. Fulfilling The Throne
10. The New Beginning
1. Unfulfilled Prophecy
Before you now I gaze upon the gods
To see what lies ahead for you, my lord
The sights I see bring pleasures to my eyes
Your rule will leave its mark upon mankind
The night does fall and with darkness it does bring
A curse of death to claim our noble king
Who has been before our king in his last hours?
Bring them into the courtyard
Into the courtyard to be tried
For their crimes against our state
The guiding hands of death shall await
For he who spilled the blood
We have all been summoned here today
To stand before the accused
To judge upon him his fate
As set forth by the gods
And sentenced him by the laws
Created to blind us through our journeys
The truth’s before us and the final judgement
Now awaits
Led down the path
Towards the platform made of stone
What thoughts pass through the mind of the guilty
As he is taken to his final destination
We shall rejoice as this betrayer is given
His just and due punishment
And as the sun dies down, so shall my soul
And as it follows, follows the moon
Into its evening throne
The knife now finds its home
As the soul escapes the flesh
The act is avenged
He who took this life is no more!
Judgement handed down by the gods
Showing no favor
My life’s next in line
As the sights before my eyes
Have not been fair and true
The prophecy remains unfulfilled!
2. A Calling Of Arms
3. The Alchemist
Cold north winds blow
As they bring on the seasons of change
As the falling rain turns to snow
Covering hills and landscapes
Of forests now dead
As we plan by the fireside
When we shall strike!
Take to your horses!
We ride tonight!
Under cover of the storm
So that by morning we shall arrive
As we approach the walls
We smell the fires of the night before
And without warning we take to our swords
Slaughtering them by the hundreds
We hold their heads up high
To show the others we have come
To take back our pride
Victory is ours in blood-soaked stains
Of those we trample in cold-hearted vain
The cries of the weak as they fall to their knees!
With so many of our men lost
And the death of our best night
We send out a rider, to seek
The one who could help us..now ride!
And the prophets once told
The stories of a man
An alchemist with the powers
To raise up the dead!
No greater man has ever stood before
Me with the lift of his arm
He could summon up the dead!
Their shiny crimson covered armor
How it glistened in the wolfmoon’s
Light..in the night
Through the power of his wisdom
He turned back time...through alchemy!
4. Forever The Serpent
As morning dew falls round dead roses
Shadows cast and distort their poses
Obscuring the scene before my eyes
As the serpent’s egg in the sunlight lies
In the dusts of time a breath has passed
As tears fall down the cheeks of a
Countess whose lovesick spell is cast
Life rising from the fertile ashes
Once frozen like sands in hourglasses
The time has come
For the rapture to begin!
Daylight breaks and brings its warmth
Unfreezing what had once stood still
Through times unchanged by loves lost
With the help of the now broken egg
She begins to avenge her losses
And enslave those who oppose her
Brought to her unwittingly they fall
Prey to the serpent’s charm
And slowly kneel down before her throne
Where they once and for all
Shall now meet their fates
And die for the wrongs they have done
Glowing the egg is healing..
Powers brought by the bloodshed
Rebirth of hatred unknown..
Brought forth by forces unseen
Awakened by ancient rulers
To serve in selfish visions
Beautiful but deadly
Before my eyes she stands
With the egg in hand
To once again control
Serpent who walks among us
With the eyes of black
Who once again has cast
His spell of lust
He who uses the serpent’s egg
For his own selfish pleasure
Shall rot eternally in sinful lust..
5. Beyond The Shores
6. Envy Of The Seraph
7. Lair (Of The Wendol)
8. Within
9. Fulfilling The Throne
10. The New Beginning
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