CATHEDRAL LYRICS

1. Phoenix Rising

Alter of the sun god,
We melt before your flames.
Children of darkness
Bound in human chains
Hellfire kindles the hatred in our hearts
All love has frozen from you, we are torn apart

To the sun we are blind
As we watch our world die
From the ashes of demise
Our burning phoenix shall arise

Soldiers of fortune fighting unto death
Condemned in armour sold for their last breath
Upright citizents to decadence enslaved
Peak of pleasure waiting in your graves

To the sun we are blind
As we watch our world die
From the ashes of demise
Our burning phoenix shall arise

As pur dreams turn into burning ash
We crystalise in flames,then fly

To the sun we are blind
As we watch our world die
From the ashes of demise
Our burning phoenix shall arise

Corporate fascists feast upon corpse of man
Psycho assassins from the holy land
Fiery destruction ? our salvation found.

2. Resisting The Ghost

Living dead vampiress
Trying to taunt me back to the grave
My black and macabre past
Summoning me forever a slave
Black sun arising
Howling moon it screams
As spider's web she's weaving again
Hallucinations sucking me in

Resisting the ghost
My former life host
Resisting the ghost
Echoed celebrations

Haunt loves hollow room
Motivation mortally trapped
In regrets obsessive tomb
A stake she's thrusting
Into my dying heart
Power igniting the past
Awakes me from this coffin at last

Resisting the ghost
Resisting the ghost
She was the one i love most
I've rejected the ghost

3. Skullflower

She plants a seed in my head
Opium narcosis hypnotic dread
I feel her death growing in me
Like a cancer,yet i crave the disease
Mesmeried by her strange power
Beauty and death in union
She blossoms in the 13th hour
Skullflower

Hollow skull emotionless grin
Arcane tunnels sucking me in
Black vortex in her eyes
Reminds me of a love that died
Lady death evolves from a flower
Growing upon my own tomb
Into her groung i'm sinking lower
Skullflower

4. Aphrodite's Winter

Frozen land mesmerised by her arcane mystery
Goddess of the underworld cold queen of lost beauty
Gazed upon earth's battleground
At mankind's misery
With her saddness came love's death
As violence slowly siezed

Her wheeping tears of darkness crytallised the earth
As warmth turned colder, her grief chilled away all mirth
Frosted armies paused in war now wearing beards of snow
Perishing forevermore, her bite numbs to the bone

Housed in icy caves, men of peace rest in these times of woe
Shaking in glass coffins, waiting for the sun to glow
She cast her spell on earth and all emotion died
Her languid heart dulled the skies with love's demise
She crystallised the earth with water from her eyes
A frozen sun now hangs above this land's demise.

5. Empty Mirror

Chasing my own death through life
A future trapped in yesterday
When everything was fresh and bright
Then innocence found its grave

Empty mirror, soul replacer
Empty mirror, youth taker

Summer came in rays of light
Overwhelming joy it gave
Blinding all life's pain from sight
Golden days could not be saved

Empty mirror, soul replacer
Empty mirror, youth taker

In dark caves
Wisdom reigns
Awareness dulls ambition's flame
Like a corpse
In soil laid
Trust and faith long since decayed
Togetherness, broken mess
Devotion sought and found in vain

Blind fatigue debased intrigue
Love was traded in for pain
A path i followed with blind eyes
Running all this way to find
The terminal of painfull truth
Where purity and innocence died

Empty mirror, soul replacer
Empty mirror, youth taker

Dying face of beauty fades
Before my eyes as you ascend
Sail away with the sun
To never feel my touch again

Free once more to raom in hell
This lonely world represents hell
Solitude shares the pain
A secret lover til the end
I have lost the will to live
Will it come to pass?
Need the strength to carry on
Must forget the past...

The empty mirror tells no lies
Reflecting a transparent face
Just nothingless is recognised
I'm stranded in a long-lost place

Empty mirror, soul replacer
Empty mirror, i'm a stranger

Here i stand ? all alone
Before a cross my concience pleads yesterday
A thorn embraced as the future slowly bleads
Awaken now, bury the past,
Put to rest, no longer grieve
Chase the light, pass the gates
Leave this graveyard of lost dream.

6. Nocturnal Fist

Riding this blackened life, this odyssey
Searching for the keys that set you free
From emptiness, futility, mountain of strength ? you can be
Stop hiding in the void, come ride with me
In the darkest hour, wear your crown of stars
Pain and funeral power strengthens your black heart
Reading through the lines that square you in
Believing in yourself, your only sin

A routine life of sheep in line, stand out child,
You will shine
In darkness you alone can be divine
In your darkest hour you are made of stars
Pain and funeral power strengthens your balck heart
Black odyssey, a search to be free
Look for the keys, come ride with me
See through the lies with funreal insight
Then you will shine in darkness divine
Raising a fist to nocturnal skies
Slaying through the mist that clouds your eyes
Senses alive, see through their lies
Death routine nine to five
Screaming awake to life as the world dies.

7. Iconoclast

Guardians of darkness set my spirit free
From this land of madness,give me something to believe
Your system and religion control me like a disease
Strenght and determination
Almost let you bleed
They'll let you bleed

No god's,no masters,no authority
Only yourself
Divine disciples controll your destiny,
Believe in yourself

Baptism of fire into society
Crucified and brainwashed,told just what to believe
Drowned in holy water to cleanse in purity
Guilty for existing,your mind will never be free
You'll never be free

No god's,no masters,no authority
Only yourself
Divine disciples controll your destiny,
Believe in yourself

You're strong without god,everyone is a star
There is no authority,but yourself
No god's,no masters,there is no god but man
Man made gods and idols,you think can save man?
If you become suicidal,you're made to believe they can!
Sins for which i'm guilty,i am by my own hand
Forgiveness i'm not seeking,i'll live by my own command
Your own command

No god's,no masters,no authority
Only yourself
Divine disciples controll your destiny,
Believe in yourself

8. Black Robed Avenger

Black robed avenger
Rides upon a white horse through my mind
In search of love he finds
A spectral planet lost in space and time
He dreams of paradise
Suspended animation greets his eyes
Across barren deserts,a universal wilderness he seeks
Palaces crumbled
Sceletons remain of fallen kings
Bleak storms and hurricanes
He braved ti discover loves atomic grave
He found salvation
Within a void of loneliness and pride
The land of selfish man
A frozen world in winter's hands
A weary traveller
Stares into the heart of human kind
Souls of planet earth
Entombed inside a giant ball of ice

9. Congregation Of Sorcerers

Born in the casket of society's decay
On your knees to be rewarded with strife
Grim opsesion in search of afterlife

Unification of the magical ones
Congregation in far off skies

Conformist slaves,trapped in earth's cage
Grave acceptance of plastic lies
In the church of your brains demise

Unification of the magical ones
Congregation in far off skies

Bone-made chariot,carry this lost soul
Past the stars beyond lampblack skies
To where the sorcerrers of life we'll find

Unification of the magical ones
Congregation in far off skies

10. Halo Of Fire

Land of suffering beneath a rotting sky
Witches are burning,black flags fly
Smouldering pyre of evil empire
Infernal darkness,ghost of mankind
Enemies of god-skulls stacked high
Sinners,non-believers,liars must die
Crucifiction of satan's children
On the holy one's day of retribution
Yeah,oh yeah,the end of the world draws near
Yeah,oh yeah,good and bad controlled by fear
They're clensing the world of sin
Ridding the world of evil
By sinister and evil means-black god of destruction is king
Halo of fire-burning funeral pyre
Behold the fiery earth appears broken
Locusts swarm out from the pit now open
Abadon awakens to eternal nothingness
Halo of fire crowning his darkness.







CATHEDRAL LYRICS