DARK COVENANT LYRICS

1. The End-Time Congregation (Intro)

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2. Forever Amongst The Ruins

Dark shadows fall
As the wind blows upon
Towering monuments
Of broken memories

And I am left alone
To wander in what once was
Splendour in my mortal eyes
This life I used to call divine

Where are they now
The truths I took for granted
The light of a thousand suns
Now only dust remains

Will you now reach for me?
Dark endless eternity
Take me away from this life
Into a new beginning

I call upon the lords of time
To break the bonds of false eternity
This place of black illusion I must escape
I am not a child of this reality

Dark shadows fall
As the wind blows upon
Towering monuments
Of broken memories

Will you now reach for me?
Dark endless eternity
Take me away from this life
Into a new beginning

I call upon the lords of time
To break the bonds of false eternity
This place of black illusion I must escape
I am not a child of this reality

3. Visions Of Salvation

Oh faithless shadow, pale reflection of life
How you lurk about seeking for yourself
Breathing yet weeping, seemingly existing
A soulless form of all its warmth bereft

I gazed in the greyish mirror, and beheld nothingness
While growing inside, I felt its cold embrace

Come to me, woe undreamed of
Guide my soul to your shores

Visions of salvation

I can’t recall I ever was, no matter, so futile
Now that I passed away in the fading light
My eyes open wide I wept, yet could not see beyond
What was I to find in the darkness before me?

Oh faithless shadow, pale reflection of life
How you lurk about seeking for yourself

Come to me, woe undreamed of
Guide my soul to your shores

4. Ascension Denied

In the sunless fields of twilight dreams
The wings of unreality unfold
And though my eyes stare into what seems to be
There’s nothing there but the shadow of hope

And again I fall into the darkness
The only truth I’ve ever known
Forever denied to me the blessing of light
I curse the remnants of this life

Shadows of light rip through my mind
Tearing within my soul to fly
Won’t I open my eyes and die?
Oh please, let me die, Oh please let me die

Here after I hear the wind calling
Like echoes of a vision forlorn
My name sung over and over again
Broken into laughter as I reach out

Why was I left to un-rest in this dark place?
When all I ever wished for was to end it all
The icy embrace of the blade upon my flesh
My last communion with this god forsaken world

And again I fall into the darkness
The only truth I’ve ever known
Forever denied to me the blessing of light
I curse the remnants of this life

Bring upon this fallen world the wrath of centuries gone
A plague upon all humankind for none deserve the light of dawn
Here my lament from beyond, my silent song, my spell of hate
The angels have forsaken me; my only heaven is my grave

I curse this god and all its kind, those sheep on their knees for all time
As a wolf I have lived and died and for this I am damned to lie
Endlessly slumbering in the dark, forgotten by both life and death
Is this the price I am to pay for refusing to kneel and obey?

5. Black Raven

Fall down from the sky
Feathers black like the rain, no hope

The sun fell behind the curtain of a greyish dusk
As autumn leaves dance in the wind
The last chime of our world echoes in nothingness
Who but the ravens are left to care for us?

Fall down from the sky feathers black like the rain
No hope is there for us to gain
I see a black raven fly away
Carrying our hopes and our dreams

Fly into the storm of mankind’s doom

6. Perennial Solitude

As veils of bereavement unfold before my eyes open wide
I’m looking back into my past searching for the reason why
When the dawn’s first light graced my eyes tears of sorrow fell down from the sky
I rose to wash my hands in streams of ever flowing purity

With sadness I reached for the heavens knowing that I will never die
I yearn to bleed like all men do and lay down to never ending sleep
Who am I if not a shadow, a soulless wraith in flesh disguised?
Neither sun nor moon to mourn me only perennial solitude

Sing for me winds of memory
Sing for me winds of memory

Why was I cursed thus?
To exist only in the twilight of dreams
What sins brought me here where despair whisper my name
In the lifeless realm of endless pain

As veils of bereavement unfold before my eyes open wide
I’m looking back into my past searching for the reason why
Who am I if not a shadow, a soulless wraith in flesh disguised?
Neither sun nor moon to mourn me only perennial solitude

7. Black Sun Rising

I walk alone, a path unknown
Far from the ravage of humanity
I see the sign, in the shadow of ravens black
The flaming sword of our destiny

What will become, when all is done
Of all those who have not yet began to see
The moon is gone, devoured as the sun
The great wolf of chaos is now roaming free

I see a black sun rising
As the sky turns red as blood
In a storm of flame burns our fate
I see a black sun rising
And all will be laid to waste
For a new dawn will bring new hope

Look at you now, how you crawl about
Searching for the solace of your society
I loathe the likes of you; you will find no tears from me
When the great pillar of the world fall I will be free

I see a black sun rising
As the sky turns red as blood
In a storm of flame burns our fate
I see a black sun rising
And all will be laid to waste
For a new dawn will bring new hope

8. A Broken Sword Reforged

With the tide they came, men with cross and steel
And gospel of a faith unknown

Sailed across the seas to bring us the light
For our heathen souls are surely damned

Gather ‘round all folk of the land to hear
The words of the one true god in the sky
Let there be no doubts, He’s the only One
And none other than his name shall be praised

Bow to your knees, embrace your lord
He that will judge your immortal soul
Bow to your knees, renounce your ways
Choose now your fate, death or salvation

They burned our wood temples and sacred hearths
In the name of the love of their true god

Speaking of brotherhood our warriors have been put to the sword
The souls of our children they’ve enslaved

High in the northern sky the ravens fly
Witness to the tragedy before their eyes
Treacherous, deceitful is their heart black with hate
The men with cross and steel for death they came

The cold wind will know how proud we once were
When our hearts burned with heathen pride
Our gods and our blood through time will be remembered
And the broken sword shall be re-forged

Bow to your knees, embrace your lord
He that will judge your immortal soul
Bow to your knees, renounce your ways
Choose now your fate, death or salvation

9. Dirgevows (Outro)

[Instrumental]






DARK COVENANT LYRICS