BLACK TONGUE LYRICS

1. Plague Worship

I live in the weak and the wounded.
I wait for what the wolves leave in their wake.
And when mankind draws its final breath, through its gaping mouth its soul I'll take.

The death cult is rising; join me in annihilation.
All will fall before the dark.
Eliminate the sufferers and those causing the suffering.
This is plague worship.
Now, kneel before the onset of human abolition.

Human life is scorned.
This is nihilism given form.
The only beings that are capable of evil - fulfill your moral duty and destroy your people.

Pestilence, decay and rot: a plague deity to wash away the sins of man.

Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion.
Breathe in deep this gift of deadly exhalation.
Decay is the way of all things, careless of a peasant or king.
Only death prevails.

Prostrate yourself before the altar of contagion.
Prove your fealty to The Plague.
And when mankind draws its final breath, only death prevails.

2. In The Wake Ov The Wolf

Let the wolf - Herald of fire, voice of ruin - run rampant, through the heavens.

His fangs carve a bloody swathe; red stains the maiden's gown.
Blood and the snow.
Her bonds tighten, her cancer stands to attention.
Blood and the snow.
Cough black tar into the dust.

The devouring son is risen.
Pray the earth is swallowed by the sun.
An infinite night.

[Chorus:]
This cold is all consuming, I dread these shadows looming.
The sun is setting with the lights burning low.
Horned crowns and cloven hooves; the unthinking callow youth; these demons walk with a sickness in two.

I feel it growing [2x]

Walking the earth; creatures of deception, loathsome since birth.
Blood. Snow. Herald of fire. Voice of ruin.

[Chorus]

Horned crowns and cloven hooves
The unthinking callow youth

3. Young Gloom

A fell darkness sweeps the land - Black Death.
Speak to the hearts of men.
I wist our words, control our breath.
A darkness that consumes, a darkness that imbues, we're nothing but a vessel for a necessary evil.

A city turns to ash - black death.
The flames grow tall, charred husks, blistered flesh.
This sickness forced our hand.
We had to take a stand against those who reprimand this necessary evil.

Everyone casts a shadow where even light can't reach.
It hides our deepest, darkest desires of which we dare not speak.

Curse the earth. Take it back.
The night is always darkest before the dawn, but there's still always black.

This is the way.
We are humanity - a walking scourge - the twilight phase of living disease.
We are humanity - a walking scourge that curses the earth.

Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight.
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?

Silence is deep as eternity, speech is shallow as time.
Onwards, always onwards, our unending misery in silence and doom: this eternal gloom.

Shall we rejoice that we live in dusk and not the night?
Is it enough to merely suffer?
After all, our sons will be the ones left alone against this final blight.
Shall we rejoice?
Shall we rejoice at the dying of the light?

Ruin upon ruin, boundless night.
Long is the path away from doubt, void of light.

4. L'appel Du Vide (The Call Of The Void)

Will it never cease?
The pain of absence
Will you never subside?
By the time it had happened
I'd lived it a thousand times
Behind closed eyes
Its keen edge blunted
But the ache still resides

The cold eased its grip on my bones
This sun was the first I'd known
The mad chorus calmed at the touch of your hand
The voices disarmed

The wind calls my name
I dare not answer
I dare not speak

But had I known the collared throats
The hand on winter's wrist
Heard the command of your lying lips
I would have bitten off your tongue
During our first kiss

There was no misery
Nor sadness, nor pain
Oh how I long to be one with the void again
[2x]

Oh how I long to be one with the void again
The pain of absence
I'd lived it a thousand times
Oh how I long to be one with the void

& the hand on winter's wrist
Heard the sound of your lying lips
(The frost could never be as cold as you)

I stand at the mountain before the abyss
(The wind calls my name)
Though the biting wind is cruel
(The wind calls my name)
Put the winter back in my veins
(The wind calls my name)
Because the frost could never be as cold as you

5. Vermintide

[feat. Eddie of Suicide Silence]

human
writhe in the gutter where you belong
human
smile while you pick up the bones of your
carcass kingdom
vermin
swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
dance through the streets
of this urbanised sewer
spread your disease through each other

consuming and spewing
vermin you are
stealing abusing
vermin you are
fighting and fucking
vermin you are
step on anybody weaker
to get where you are

extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation
extermination erased nature’s terrible malformation
extermination: a conflagration to curb any degradation

I weep, as I walk through the streets
at mire of rats gnawing at my feet
deny not your place
gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
congregation of a viral race
no pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

deny not your place
gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
congregation of a viral race
no pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

the human swarm in motion
the vultures circle high (behold the vermintide)
bubonic infestation
can you see through the cloud of flies?
your fellow man is a monster
behold the vermintide
I weep as I walk through the streets
at mire of rats gnawing at my feet

behold the vermintide
only when this planet dies
will the human filth subside
nothing but destruction will satisfy the vermintide
I wade through scum
fall to my knees and sink into the sludge
and as my lungs fill with muck
a bitter grin forms that our time has come

our time has come

deny not your place
gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
congregation of a viral race
no pity for beasts that deserve to be erased
deny not your place
gather round the pit and hang your head in disgrace
congregation of a viral race
no pity for beasts that deserve to be erased

human (human)
writhe in the gutter where you belong
human (human)
smile while you pick up the bones of your
carcass kingdom

vermin
swarm round the corpses as they dance unknowing
vermin
dance through the sewers of civilization

consuming and spewing
vermin you are
stealing abusing
vermin you are
fighting and fucking
vermin you are
step on anybody weaker
to get where you are

6. Prince Of Ash

The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet.
For the love of god, stay away from me.
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me.

This world breaks us all.
All life is suffering and life is long
Nothing eases the pain, nothing halts the rain.
Nothing eases the pain; the sun will never shine on me again.

The winds whisper to me.
I await their call to feel death brush by my fingertips while the flames around me grow tall: a world consumed by fire and ice, with a beast on the throne condemning all life from a tower of morals and bone.

Nothing eases the pain.
The sun will never shine on me again.

The cross I bear cracks the earth at my feet.
For the love of god, stay away from me.
Everything I touch turns to rust, I'll only drag you down with me.

Pulled under (I'm falling apart).
Crumble to ash.
I can't articulate anything to anyone.

Is this living?
Who knew life could be so unforgiving?
I never asked for this, nor do I want to exist.
I don't want to exist.

7. The Masquerade

As you get older your gaze is fixed over your shoulder, because if life has taught you one thing: you won't see the knife that is coming.
Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling; it is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying.
It's in our nature to lie - constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded, leading only to pain and our minds always clouded.
It's in our nature to lie.

When it happens, I hope you cannot breathe and I hope that the walls close in.
And if by chance there is a heart in you... Well I hope it bleeds.
Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands and rising up to your knees.
You can't stop it. I hope you panic.
And you know that it will never cease.
(Drown in a sea of misery)

Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye.
There is none righteous.
It's in our nature to lie.

Depravity: it's a mother chalking lines while her child is in the womb and the father making use of the son that hasn't bloomed.
An entire race crippled by subconscious masquerade and the voice that's in your head screaming to get away.
Get away.

Show me where it hurts; I fucking hope it's everywhere.
Tell me how you feel, because I feel nothing.
Neither love nor lying, neither form nor void.
The regret before dying?
No. Nothing.

Blood flows as you grieve, spilling over your hands and rising up to your knees.
You can't stop it. I hope you panic.
And you know that it will never cease.
Drown in a sea of misery.

Nothing is sacred, an eye for an eye.
There is none righteous.
It's in our nature to lie.

Everyone wears a mask and the mouth is always smiling; it is impossible to tell if they're laughing or crying.
It's in our nature to lie - constantly raising walls, now our hearts forever shrouded, leading only to pain and our minds always clouded.
It's in our nature to lie.

8. A Pale Procession II: Death March

This world is in a tragic state.

Everywhere I look all I see is murder.
Everywhere I look all I see are mass graves.
All the people pushing to the front of the line of the Death March walk side by side into oblivion (Death March).
Take my hand and walk with me into extinction (Death March).

There is a darkness in man, darker than a pit pole to pole; a demon with an endless hunger and it calls the heart of man its home.

And the people are pushing, ever pushing, to get to the front of the line.
Did they see it coming?
Did they feel the stares and the hands at their backs when it was their time?

(Death March)

Was it the pains of life, or the way that we are designed, that leads us with our own hands to drive home the knife?

There is a darkness in man, darker than a pit pole to pole; a demon with an endless hunger and it calls the heart of man its home.

Watch as the darkness devours and is never sated until it feeds upon itself.
The darkness will devour.

9. I'm So Tired Of Sighing. Please Lord, Let It Be Night

We are gathered here today to give rise to abomination.
He will cast the chains of subjugation.
Spread his oppression across all nations; unending ire; the tables shifted.
Under his cleansing fire the filth is lifted.

The sea will burn crimson under his reign.
She was always at her best dressed in flames.
Witness eternal disdain:

The tree is withered.
The roots are rotten and weak.
They grow through the skulls and the ribs of the children murdered at its feet.
The lie you've been chasing; the happiness you seek; you could have found what you sought blooming in man, but the rot was too deep.
An axe to the tree.

Prepare the sacrifice.
Drag her screaming to the altar.
Bring me the sacred knife.
Lay her on the table.
Carve on her chest the shape of the elder sign.
The hour draws near.
Raise your glass and share her blood as holy wine.
The hour draws near...

The tree is withered.
The roots are rotten and weak.
They grow through the skulls and the ribs of the children murdered at its feet.

I vocare te diaboli - Ustulo omnia - Nova nobis - Satana
(Hark, the calling of crows)

"The sea will burn crimson under my reign. I will see this world wreathed in flames. Witness pain"







BLACK TONGUE LYRICS