COLDWORKER LYRICS

1. A New Era

[Music and lyrics: Anders Bertilsson]

I arrive from a place unbeknownst
To followers of God and Satan
Domain of truth, a land forlorn
Called the bearer of the demon's horn

Hate is strong with the firm believers
Coming at me with chains and stones
Deny the writings and burn the scriptures
Fortifiers of the fraudulence

Fortifiers of the fraudulence

Commanded to hold fast
Forced to stand their ground
Darkness and light alike
To hatred all are bound

An old man, clad in rags
Spouting empty words
Mock his sermons, awake his thirst
Set fire to the tie that binds

Mind emptied, clean slate
Regaining faith in what one sees
Lifting the veil of the past
Redeeming one's own self

An old man, clad in rags
Spouting empty words
Mock his sermons, awake his thirst
Set fire to the tie that binds

A new era begins
A removal of all gods
A cleansing scours the earth
Neutralization of the soil
Kill the written words
Kill demons, kill angels
Liberate, release
Covenants dissolved
Enter into a day and age
Rid of coercive beliefs

Put an end to the fraudulence

[Lead: Anders Bertilsson]

Determined to hold fast
Set to stand our ground.
Lifting the veil of the past
Newborn freedom found

2. The Reprobate

[Music: Oskar Pålsson]
[Lyrics: Jason Netherton]

Take it in, this spiteful brew
Sharp with rancor's spit
Formed, flawed, enticing wit
And words, sharp with avarice
Stoked, awed, his minions march
Drinking hard his bitter wares
Drunk they vomit up and chant
Dogma-soaked intransigence

The effigies afire

The saviour approaches the stage
Hungry masses gather round
They shift at every word
The wolf surveys, and sheep surround

Godlike presence calms
Oratory skills unmatched
Suppressed forked tongue
With bated breath, the world is in his grasp

Fuming crowds, stampede forth
Usher in a primal age
Architects of apathy,
Feed and fuel their disciples unswayed

Reprobated anthems
Reprobated laws
Spew the sadist doctrine
Smiling as his plan unfolds

Spinning untruths
Salting open wounds
Recall the last time
We let this disease run amok?

Invoking artifice
Diatribes unwind
With fire in his eyes
His clenched fist hammers home each lie

The casualty is truth in this design
To tap into the weaknesses of men
Veracity dissolving through his hands
Replaced by toxic theories unrefined

[Lead: Daniel Schröder]

Fuming crowds, stampede forth
Usher in a primal age
Architects of apathy
Feed and fuel their disciples unswayed

Reprobated anthems
Reprobated laws
Spew the sadist doctrine
Smiling as his plan unfolds

Spinning untruths
Salting open wounds
Recall the last time
We let this disease run amok?

3. The Glass Envelope

[Music and lyrics: Anders Jakobson]

Inside the glass world
All crystal clear
Behind these invisible walls
There's only fear
Enveloped and exposed
For all to see
Impossible to conceal
Terminated privacy

Panic's rising
Orchestrated
Conform to mass control
A realm of chaos
With open doors
They will see through it all

Vaporous, transparent
Unveiling every secret
Defenseless behind the glass

Brave new glass world
This place is death
Slow suffocation
The last breath

Conform to mass control
They will see through it all

Lost in the glass world
Trapped in a maze
Invisible dead-ends
Self-destructing
Numb in a haze
Infinite dead-ends

Inside the glass world
All crystal clear
Behind these invisible walls
There's only fear
Enveloped and exposed
For all to see
Impossible to conceal
Terminated privacy

Vaporous, transparent
Unveiling every secret
Defenseless behind the glass

Vaporous, transparent
Our lives manipulated
Entombed in a crystal grave

4. Flesh World

[Music: Daniel Schröder]
[Lyrics: Jakobson]

Cast aside, I found you
So frail and weak
I released you from your pain
I was your savior
Host to a broken soul
I saw right through you
Devoured you
And took you in

Grinning with delight
My need to dominate
Another human life
Is finally satisfied
You will serve me well
A treat for my special taste
My hunger is at ease
I love the sight of flesh

Your nightmare now begins
So brace yourself
I’ll provide unlimited pain
Yet there’s more to come
Loyal you stand by me
Kept in a carnal leash
I own you
And rule you too

On rotten soil, where angels die
That is where you join my world of flesh
I see the beauty in open sores
Walk with me on the path to death

Among the living, you’re walking dead
To gather more guests to my world of flesh
I pull the strings, you will obey
Brick by brick we build a house of death

Shed your flesh
Pound by pound
Obey your master
My word is your fucking law
Do it right this time
No games, but mine
Look into my eyes
Now shed your fucking flesh

[Lead: Daniel Schröder]

But everything will end
And here’s yours
I’ll release you from my leash
You’re worthless now
Just skeletal remains
I gnawed you clean
I drained you
Of all that’s good

Groaning with a thirst
My need to dominate
Another human life
Is never satisfied
You have served me well
But now you’re just dead waste
My hunger never ends
A craving for more flesh

5. Murderous

[Music and lyrics: Anders Bertilsson]

Murderous
I never stop
Jacked up a fix, a shot,
a dose - of slaying hell
Blurred eyesight
Won't stop this kill now
Shot down, got up
and did it all over again

Buried
A burial above ground
Scream levels soaring
To me the sweetest sound
Heads are rolling
Skulls crushed in one pound
Fucked up procedure of death
I kill, I murder

[Lead: Anders Bertilsson]

Punished, broken down, battered
We introduce present life to afterlife
Never-ending death, it keeps going
Body count rising, piss and puke flowing
It is the ultimate way to live

Way to live...
So on it goes
My way of ending life
Instant murder by gun or by knife

Next fix in deep
No stopping, no exiting
Ignoring fatigue
Move fast, not silent
Pure killing spree
I am no longer a man
Bodies flash by
Seeing red, seeing dead
You can't see me without your head
At last I am a god

A burial above ground
Scream levels soaring
To me the sweetest sound
Heads are rolling
Skulls crushed in one pound
Fucked up procedure of death
I kill, I murder

Murderers
We'll never stop
There's no pressing escape
Murderers
We'll never stop
Kill, crush, maim, slay
Just fucking die

6. Pessimist

[Music: Oskar Pålsson,]
[Lyrics: Joel Fornbrant, Oskar Pålsson, Daniel Schröder]

Passion lost
Empty life
Wasting my time
Battered sense of direction
Scars run deeper by the day
Brace myself
Carry on
Know deep inside
Every effort is useless
I will drag you down with me

Behold the pessimist
Master of scepticism
Pitch black perception of reality
Cynic philosopher
Turns hope into despair
Always expect the worst
Patience about to burst

Painted up
The same routine
Dysphoria burns
As I go through the motions
My face won't betray my thoughts
Soon fed up
Sick and tired
This is my lot
It will never get better
Every day another grind

Always cogitating
Dissecting every circumstance
Worst-case scenarist
The troops of misery advance
Negative fixation
Constantly assailed by strife
Perfectly content with losing
Failure is a way of life

[Lead: Anders Bertilsson]

Behold the pessimist
Master of scepticism
Pitch black perception of reality
Cynic philosopher
Turns hope into despair
Always expect the worst
Patience about to burst

Manic
You say I'm hopeless
So anti-social
Cannot perceive the real me

No gratification
Mock me cause I lack ambition
There is no way of changing
Eaten up by indecision

Waning inspiration
Hopelessness invades my soul
Weary from the chore
Life as a loser takes its toll

7. Monochrome Existence

[Music and lyrics: Joel Fornbrant]

Rotten minds of nuclear hate
Lust for the suffocated state
Iron fist all cries ignore
The prize of power they adore

Dominion through streaming blood
Death's aristocracy
Now nothing can hold back the flood
Just swallow this decree

Pushing on through fields afire
Corpses crushed beneath the mire
Impaled is the dissenter´s head
Lined up and machine-gunned dead

Into the void of ages
Masses break under the strain
Not living, just surviving
Waiting for the nuclear rain
Drink deep the martyr's blood
His sacrifice fuels the war
The word is law
Eradicate what was before

Undying screams of mankind
Crippled and masticated
All perish under ashen skies
Industrialized lifeless

Corroded evolution
Acid saviour arise
Emerging from the rubble
Craving death denying life
Bring on the mental murder
The end of reason soon engaged
Idiots hail regression
Celebrate this new dark age

Monochrome existence

Decaying generations
Rolling into their graves
The mighty sword of Leviathan
Hovering above your head

And tyranny shall prevail
Mind control enslaves
Entities in trepidation
Execution awaits
Lifeblood coagulates
Total annihilation

Dispersed and feeble unbelievers
The chaos engine consumes
Face the slaughtering machinery
Its gears tear at your flesh

And tyranny shall prevail
Mind control enslaves
Entities in trepidation
Execution awaits
Lifeblood coagulates
Total annihilation

Into the void of ages
Masses break under the strain
Not living just surviving
Waiting for the nuclear rain
Bring on the mental murder
The end of reason soon engaged
Idiots hail regression
Celebrate this new dark age

Monochrome existence

8. Vacuum Fields

[Music and lyrics: Anders Bertilsson]

Sit down to contemplate life
Review your past
Opening the doors
That are long since sealed shut
Psychotic dreams
And visions of undying worlds
Your memories
Your theories
Your reasoning
All blank
In this empty space all is deleted
Try to dig in the back of your head
To bring back what was not ever yours

Seeking all-knowing beings
Seeking the chosen one
Looking for the one who has seen
What the rest of the world has not

No all-knowing being
No chosen one
Nothing else than a hollow shell

Welcome to eternal vacuum
Here light, darkness, time,
life and death does not exist
Traveling through aeons of nothing
There is no I, there is no you, there is no we
There is nothing

Rid yourself of imagination
Rid yourself of memories
Prepare and await devastation
Mind destroyed with ease
Rid yourself of imagination
Rid yourself of memories
Prepare and await devastation
In the vacuum fields

Step aboard, the course is set
You will be taken into nothingness
Soulless voyage, final frontier
Hear nothing when you leave the exosphere
Senses fail, breathing fails
In the storm's eternal hail
No memories
No theories
No reasoning
All blank
In this empty space all is deleted
There is nothing left, there never was
There is nothing left, there never was

Seeking allknowing beings
Seeking the chosen one
No light, no life
No reappearing sun
Psychotic dreams and visions
They are your memories
Realize you never were
You're entering the vacuum fields

9. Living Is Suffering

[Music: Daniel Schröder]
[Lyrics: Joel Fornbrant]

Life is full of pain
Being is despairing
Throes of degradation
Swallow you at last
Dead disharmony
Worsening disorder
Everything that's left
Is anger and hate

You suffer every waking moment

This pain survives
Twisted retribution
Grows on the inside
A life of prostitution
Afflicted years
Perseverance grudging
Narcotic tears
Addicted to the suffering

Time disintegrates
Behind the veil of solitude
Pariah you become
This tribulation is suffered alone

Lacerate your flesh
And let the pain flow
Bleed for the world
That cuts you to the bone

Nothing they can say gives you
Any consolation
Each hand upon your skin
Cold as the fucking grave

[Lead: Daniel Schröder]

Schizophrenic state
Weaker every hour
The empathy of others
Used and cast aside
Tearing fits of rage
Shunned by all around you
Going off the edge
Finally this shit is done

You suffer every waking moment

This pain survives
Twisted retribution
Grows on the inside
A life of prostitution
Afflicted years
Perseverance grudging
Narcotic tears
Addicted to the suffering

10. The Walls Of Eryx

[Music: Anders Jakobson]
[Lyrics: Joel Fornbrant]

Dislocated
Clawing at the walls of the void
I will find my way
All I need is your blood
Deterioration spreads
Soon to face insanity
Release from a maniacal reality

Embrace the false
Abide by consoling lies
Within Eryxian walls
Wary I shun the medusa's eyes

Vile deception
Deficit, lack of meaning
No respite
Life of subjugation
Existence at the end of a rope
The world defied

Given to all
To ignore the eternal pain
Deaf to the doomsayer's call
All senses slip away

Obfuscated
Life outside these squalid halls
I pursue my bliss
As the serpents crawl

Vile deception
Deficit, lack of meaning
No respite
Life of subjugation
Existence at the end of a rope
The world defied

Dreaming demise
Vacuos mind
Slipping into atrophy
Petrified
Believe the lie
And peace will rise

Dreaming demise
Sever all ties
In narcoleptic apathy
I testify
Cut out my eyes
All pain denied

11. Violent Society

[Music: Anders Bertilsson]
[Lyrics: Joel Fornbrant]

Caught in between
Hatred and avarice
Violence unseen
Decadence infects corrupt minds
Overpopulation
Collapse is imminent
We wage the war
To weed out the sickness

Guns in our hands
Means to a complete end
A world in upheaval
Spiraling out of control
Homicide, suffering
As chaos spills to the streets
We gaze into the rift
The abyss stares back into us

The streets run red with blood
It's for the public good
The innocent succumb
Exterminate the scum
Pure madness conquers all
Human rights will fall

Sick and medicated, waiting to blow
Suffer in silence from the fucking load
Paranoid compulsive, reality subsides
Dismal thoughts of suicide
Get them out or die

Force of law
Giving in
Feeding the flames
Violent society
Law by force
The only way
Incinerates
Violent society

Paint the city with your blood
And cure the cancer within society
Turn loose the killer in yourself
Lock empathy away
Banish humanity

[Lead: Anders Bertilsson]

The streets run red with blood
It's for the public good
The innocent succumb
Exterminate the scum
Pure madness conquers all
Human rights will fall

12. Becoming The Stench

[Music and lyrics: Anders Jakobson]

That atrocious smell
Like a shadow in the dark
Always lurking behind me
Ever so rancid and stark
Dark thoughts cloud my mind
I can't escape my fate
Something new is awaiting
Something new is taking shape

That atrocious smell
Piercing through my skin
Poisoning my flesh and blood
Taking over from within
So this is what became of me
Just a pile of stinking meat
Overwhelmed by the notion
Overwhelmed by the noxious reek

Converging through a transformation
To be one with that atrocious smell

My flesh - Liquefying
I’m falling apart - I'm becoming the stench
My blood - Vaporizing
Life's vicious art - I'm becoming the stench

That atrocious smell
Evidence of mental death
All hope evaporates
With every stinking breath

Prisoner of the carrion kind
The sanity is decomposed
Emotionally dying
Emotionally transposed

My flesh - Liquefying
I‘m falling apart - I'm becoming the stench
My blood - Vaporizing
Life's vicious art - I'm becoming the stench

Mental putrefaction
Horrid chain reaction
Enters every fraction
… transposed

Host to something vile
Terrifying and hostile
My soul has been defiled
I decompose

13. The Phantom Carriage

[Music: Oskar Pålsson]
[Lyrics: Anders Jakobson]

Through the mist a shape appears
A shrieking noise that causes fear
The fate that awaits us all, I must face

A presence uninvited
Shrouded by the veils of the dark
The infernal apparition
With the burning eyes
A visit from the dark side
Watching, waiting for the time to act
I fear this ghastly being
Is Death disguised

The one who waits in the end
Is the watcher in the dark

A blackened hearse waits by his side
All that’s left is one long ride
A destiny I must abide
My end is here
He points toward the journey’s end
Beyond a path that will descend
The destination I apprehend
My day of reckoning

Faith failed me
Now I face the end
All hope’s gone
As I’ve been forsaken

A promise unfulfilled
Shattered by the call from beyond
Judged by the eerie gaze
From his burning eyes
I shiver in the darkness
Panting, breathing, gasping for air
A sudden revelation:
It’s my demise

The one who waits in the end
Is the watcher in the dark

A blackened hearse waits by his side
All that’s left is one long ride
A destiny I must abide
My end is here
He points toward the journey’s end
Beyond a path that will descend
The destination I apprehend
My day of reckoning

I accept that my time here is over
My home is inside the darkness
Into the night the hearse will take me
I cope with fate, let’s take a ride

The Phantom Carriage
Toward the journey’s end
The Phantom Carriage
Will carry me home





COLDWORKER LYRICS