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TIAMAT LYRICS
"The Astral Sleep" (1991)
1. Neo Aeon (intro)
2. Lady Temptress
3. Mountain of Doom
4. Dead Boys' Choir
5. Sumerian Cry, Part III
6. On Golden Wings
7. Ancient Entity
8. The Southernmost Voyage
9. Angels Far Beyond
10. I Am the King (Of Dreams)
11. A Winter Shadow
12. The Seal (outro)
1. Neo Aeon (intro)
2. Lady Temptress
Lady Temptress
Lucifer's daughter
Born in my flesh
Arise and be revealed
Unknown for the corrupted minds
She dwells in malignancy
In the distant crypts of your inner self
Where Man of God doesn't seek
Please don't leave me Lady Temptress
Revel in my body Lady Temptress
Lady Temptress
Meet me in my dreams
Trace my dark sides
In the depth of my subconscious
Open the door
To the slumbering sinner
Rule my evil thoughts
And let them all out
Please don't leave me Lady Temptress
Revel in my body Lady Temptress
Lady Temptress
You are the blood of Man
The remedy to hypocrisy
Please stay alive
You keep my desires unlocked
And my desires breed in you
The Lady of temptation
Hails the human nature
Please don't leave me Lady Temptress
Revel in my body Lady Temptress
I beg on my knees
Make love to me one more time
3. Mountain of Doom
Evil imaginations of a time to come
Dreamly dead - Almost gone
Nocturnal visits from the beyond
I will travel down the Mountain of Doom
At the highest point visible
I behold the sun for the very last time
I see an awful sight with awful beings
As the sun goes down behind the Mountain of Doom
The Mountain of Doom
Has taken my life
Almost there
Trying to seize my mind
Still aware
Of their seek and find
I have lost hold of myself
Taken to the extent of my life
Eternal sleep in a dreamworld's coffin
Entombed beneath the Mountain of Doom
The Mountain of Doom
Has taken my life
Almost there
Trying to seize my mind
Still aware
Of their seek and find
Now I'm there
Enjoying my peace of mind
In this lair
Death is what you'll find
4. Dead Boys' Choir
Hallowed dances upon glorified graves
Twisted minds, blasphemous slaves
Witches and demons are supporting the dead
In worship of who they are lead
Views of midnightly risen stones
Sounds of clattering skulls and bones
Like shadows they cling tight onto trees
Proud of their evilness, they are God's enemies
They are gathered here in the fivepointed star
To close up ritual of a time so far
End what was not ended before
To meet the lord Satan they highly adore
The Dead Boy's Choir whispers through the eternal fire
5. Sumerian Cry, Part III
Nailed to a pleasant sleep
Under the fullmoon light
Calculated ancient knowledge
Of Arab's wise words
I dreamed about a temple
I saw it in my dreams
A temple made of silver
With emeralds above
It is in the wood
Spoken by animal lips
My seal and my epitaph
It is the Sumerian Cry
I visited the temple
In my imaginations it welcomed my
I tried to understand the language
And the sumerian cuneiform
I read about their gods
And in my dreams they spoke to me
They showed me the tablets of fate
Which since a battle belong to them
It is in the wood
Spoken by animal lips
My seal and my epitaph
It is the Sumerian Cry
Then I saw the Ancient Ones
Slumbering in their cave
My dreams and my nightmares
The liers in wait bred my fear
I woke up from my dreams
The night had become day
Highly strung, rigid and struck
I peered through the morning fog
It is in the wood
Spoken by animal lips
My seal and my epitaph
It is the Sumerian Cry
6. On Golden Wings
People! This is my world
You are just parts of it
If I would have been a big tree
The you would have been the fruits of by boughs
But join me
We're all kings
Don't fear for your insanity
Fly on its wings
Take my wings and rely on them in battle and fight
Fly on my dreams in the darkest of nights
Put those wings of gold to the fear of your dreams
And notice that what scares you is not always what it seems
In the end fruit always fall to the ground
And new flowers soon blossom
When watching you rise and fall
My limbs proudly extend you above
So join me
We're all kings
Don't fear for your insanity
Fly on its wings
Take my wings and rely on them in battle and fight
Fly on my dreams in the darkest of nights
Put those wings of gold to the fear of your dreams
And notice that what scares you is not always what it seems
In the end fruit always fall to the ground
And new flowers soon blossom
When watching your rise and fall
My limbs proudly extend you above
So join me
We're all kings
Don't fear for your insanity
Fly on its wings
Take my wings and rely on them in battle and fight
Fly on my dreams in the darkest of nights
Put those wings of gold to the fear of your dreams
And notice that what scares you is not always what it seems
Okay, beneath my magnificent crown of tree
I am being stained by dead bark and wounded twigs
Yes, it makes black holes..., but it opens doors
And that's what is giving me places for only a king to rule
Join me
We're all kings
Don't fear for your insanity
Fly on its wings
Take my wings and rely on them in battle and fight
Fly on my dreams in the darkest of nights
Put those wings of gold to the fear of your dreams
And notice that what scares you is not always what it seems
7. Ancient Entity
Beneath the fullmoon
Covered in gloomy clouds
Obscure funeral spirits
Evil shadows on haunted ground
Every night they rise again
To meet the lords of death again
They live on as souls in eternity
Forced by an Ancient Entity
Through the mist I see
A circle around the gathered souls
In the mist I do belive
In sacred power of ancient kind
Knights of Satan, dead boys choir
Ten ore more around a fire
Invoking dragons and demons this event
They are not the ones that God has sent
I heard them whisper...
"As you reach the border to the unknown land,
Or when you are visited by the great lords of darkness...
Take your time, have in mind and remember...
This is not supposed to be a comfortable land..."
Every night they rise again
To meet the lords of death again
They live on as souls in eternity
Forced by an Ancient Entity
8. The Southernmost Voyage
A sharpened shaft shines through morning dew
Drawn out shadows walk on you
Alone I stand to face the day
Tortured by a deathly silent view
Take my hand, please follow me
I was your love and your destiny
Let us over mistcovered mountains go
To a place where our lost souls can be
Not destined to a heaven built of lies and fantasy
We will sail to the empire of ecstasy
Travel through the back of out minds
And soon forever dwell in necromancy
The hall of Gods
Where you belong
If you have my blood
And faith that strong
May my words be engraved in the heart of every Man
Try to understand them as good as you can
"Drink to Lucifer or drink the blood of Christ
All things [are] depending on your own dreamland"
The hall of Gods
Where you belong
If you have my blood
And faith that strong
9. Angels Far Beyond
Into the domain of wonderful throes
Ended in swelled domes
Like walking a tapered path
Displaying every phase in life
Angels are whispering from far beyond
I step on hallowed ground
Whereon rose clustered bouquets are thrown
I look back at my past
A lonely tear is running from my eye
Angels are whispering from far beyond
Golden flames burned out
Like mighty men who left in delight
Bizarre but still romantic
Remains scattered in the air
Angels are whispering from far beyond
Dreaded in a beautiful way...
10. I Am the King (Of Dreams)
In the heat of the night
I went to forever walk
in the obscure eternity.
Through woods and thickets,
over mountains and through valleys.
I left my body this evening
and forever I will now live.
Curious I travelled through an unknown land,
like an angel that had recently learned to fly.
I left my fear with my body
and with the ravens I flew
on a road, of bleeding clouds, that never seemed to end.
As the road suddenly divided
I heard the ravens whisper:
"Please come, fly with us! Please come, fly with us!"
Confused and insecure I stopped for a while
and beheld the ravens disappear.
Then I heard a voice from the other road:
"This is the path to the golden land!
Come my friend, take my hand!"
But an uncontrolled voice deep in my soul
screamed out: "I'll go my own way!"
and straight ahead I flew, to continue my voyage
and my search of the land of eternity.
On the road I chose to go
I saw no other men..., 'cause it was my own imagined road
and I was alone to face its destination.
What I saw around me were things I love.
Things that I built with my heart, deep in myself.
The temples I passed were my temples
and the queen that welcomed me was my queen.
My voyage was ended, and surrounded by the most
beautiful flowers I stood beholding my kingdom
I would rule in all the future to come.
As the dawn of the morning swept through my dreamland
to adorn the leafs of the golden trees with dew
and to bring me eternal light, I thought:
"A life is only worth living for a king..."
11. A Winter Shadow
Black, cold and dismal
Sweeping through the nocturnal haze
Led by the midnight breeze
On its journey to its resting place
A shadow out of time
Hidden between different spheres
Forsaken by memory
To forever fly alone
A Winter Shadow
Under the haunted starlight
Under the light of the moon
Among stars so bright
Delivered from Gods
And cursed to an everlasting search
Passed certain heavenly places
Cried out at the gates of light
No open door was seen
Why it decided to assault
At the throne of the Almighty
It asked for hospitality
But the hands of God
Threw this stranger out
A Winter Shadow
Under the haunted starlight
Under the light of the moon
Among stars so bright
Delivered from Gods
And cursed to an everlasting search
Time for a final step
It searched through darkened space
Ended the hellish gates stood proud
But a shadow out of time
Yet caught between spheres
Is supposed to enter the night
And forever fly alone...
To forever fly alone...
12. The Seal (outro)
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