ELVENKING LYRICS

1. Rapture

Maleficium, bleak visions, I have cast upon your souls
For a glimpse of your tomorrows all your final bells will toll
Auspicium, divinations, by fire your fate I have foretold
By blood and dissection your misfortunes will unfold

The deeds of yesterday
Fire and death to you all
I sentence you for eternity
To rot as my enemies

In rapture you are falling, you're downfalling
(In rapture you're fading)
Fade away in the mist you're wading - you are fading
In rapture you are dying, desecrated on these lands
The fading lands - oh you're all dying by my hand

Sortilegium, equilibrium, in the balance between life and death
I am governing the acts of Gods until their final breath

The sins of yesterday
Lunacies crafted in blood
I stood strong, firm to my loyalty
No flows in the plan conceived

In rapture you are falling, you're downfalling
(In rapture you're fading)
Fade away in the mist you're wading - you are fading
In rapture you are dying, desecrated on these lands
These snow-white lands - kneel down to my command

In the lair of wolves you took the trail
Where the gloom is dark and the moon is pale
The choices taken, the fate foretold
You blindly followed the runes of old
You forged the hollow trunk of oak
The lair of tragic fates foretold
The runes have spoken and condemned
A red mist thickens on these lands

2. The Hanging Tree

Hanging I see their corpses clinging
Half hooded in disguise
Their shapes I recognize
They hang on the grey oak they swing
Ponder so many miles I wandered
I roamed without an aim
I fought men without name
To reach this hanging tree

HANG!
By the throat they are tied to old wood
Aftermath of perverted kinghood
DIE!
By moonlight two shadows that shine
Arms and legs hugged by vines
DOOM!
Its branches are knotted round the sun
Setting pale on the foggy courtyard
SLAY!

Silhouetted against crossing spears
(They were) hanged by the Cavalier
Hanging they stand against my sight
Oh the eyes can now see clear and bright
As my chest opens wide

As I revealed their pale glass eyes
Too late I realized
As I unveiled the hood
There they stood
My love (and) my daughter

Hanging they stand against my sight
Oh the eyes can now see clear and bright
And I just want to die

They hang from the hanging tree on morrow
Their necks have cracked and my heart turned black

3. Bride of Night

Flames ablaze in the cold winter haze
The sky's alight
Anguish felt all through the night

Behold now - behold the moon of silver
The pain encircles and obscures the sight
Of this wondrous orb of white

Cleanse with fire the filth
The wickedness, the grime

Bleed forevermore
Alike a wolf out of a fable
To die tonight is not too soon
The bride of night, a silver moon
Sing forevermore
Alike a night bird in its swansong
To leave this world her only boon
The bride of night, a silver moon

A grand design I never felt apart
My faith's my shrine, on every prayer I put my heart

"Wake up now from your sleep dominion
Open your eyes you should have followed me into the Monastery"
"Light the stake and purge!"
Her ashes drift away

Like a wolf in its boon through the night
Night of nights, look to the moon, silver moon

Cleanse the filth with fire
Her ashes drift away

4. Herdchant

A chant is resounding afar
Is calling your name aloud
A call from the mountains
A song sung by the folks through the centuries
A ballad echoes through ages bringing your name out immortally
War hymns and poetries preserve your token of love for eternity

Still don't step in the abyss below - the judgement above
It comes crushing nigh, on this day you will die
Decide, she's on your side

You won't be there to embrace the glory
And golden words glimmering
The world came to an end in the forest of portent whisperings

He dyed her eyes in his fictional sky since he was a child
"I don't want to die without thee on my side"
A spell, in the chasm he fell

Far away, forefathers who await me ashore
Flag of dishonour held high
Torn away in the potent mercy of true apathy
Far away, mother ward off all my bane
As the memory of Eleanor dies
Torn away, shine and guide me
Through this blazing storm

That night the voice of the knife sang sudden his mortal melody
The end of Eleanor carved your name in wood of finest ebony

Down, you go in the abyss below
A self-sentence invoked
The quill wrote the last testament of your life
Unloved, yet undying

Far away, the wind will carry away
The memories of those who died
Far away, a herdchant for the coming centuries

5. The Cursed Cavalier

From the Northern lands
From the districts of famine and snow
Hearsays have come
Uprisings will soon begin to dethrone the king

Cutthroat and cruel he came without mercy to rule
His past remains untold

On the brink of upheaval
A red mist arose from below
Bringer of throe
Compassion will not be seen where the swords will gleam

His awful ascension to power is now at rope's end
(now at rope's end)
His death bequeathed forevermore

One day the devil seeped into the room
Said: "Let's make a deal"
His name the parchment signed, a silverseal
Betrayed, the Cursed Cavalier

Bright, seize the light
Bound delight
The stars aligned
We have desire inside
Dark immortal nights

One day the devil seeped into the room
Said: "Let's make a deal"
His name the parchment signed, a silverseal
You're cursed!

This day will come, it cannot be undone
The tyrant's cry, our victory is shining
The day has come, the slayer-king has fallen
He's named the Cursed Cavalier

6. To the North

I stand unconscious like an effigy in snow
Heading to the north, swiftly blazing forth through this dire storm
Pledge allegiance to the northern winds
Carrying deep within spirals of despair

To the north I am tracing my winter wake
Enough with the torturing
To the north I leave with a hasty adieux
Far off from the beast within

Behold this blizzard, sons of firmament beware
Blowing from the north, slowly passing through bleak spires of ice
Swear allegiance to the fallen ones
A massacre is done, bloodbath and fire

Blood! Fire! Death! Blood!
On the Moon-rite spill their
Blood! Fire! Death! Blood!
Towards the northern throne

Dull are the calls of glimpses of sanity
I am like blind in the midst of foggy piers
Luminous sky, star-studded vault I cannot see

Oh earth and sea, what's come of me?
Repentantly I shall declare:
"O' Sun O' Moon please absolve me from what I've done
Under the mark of the unlighted, the wicked one
The runes cast death upon me, all whom I loved now's gone"

Dull are the calls, they're drifting away
Dull are the fires

Freezed are the winds that howl curses at my ears
Oh carry me in the middle of the tempest
Oh eldest gods guide and dominate my hate

...and the Earth will not care...

7. Covenant

Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit
The Order of the Sphinx
Ah the Giant's cult
Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit
Empire of the Sun
Oh AEterna Lux

Chase the torches dance, down the cellar path
Murmured choirs arise
Peeping through the walls
A candles pentacle
Encircle hooded monks

Grand adept of Astaroth
Great duke of the infernal hell
Reveal to me the secrecy
The Magick Grimoire of the spells

Oh Fortuna servant of the weak and oppressed
Offer us the force to bless
Accept magister the sacrifice
The four stars aligned - Covenant

The secret self, the silence unveiled
Heru-pa-kraath
O, do what thou wilt
The royal snake of wisdom
Master of life and death
O, splendrous serpent!

From the depths of hell, Amon
I conjure thee, O Great Marquis
Unveil to me all that you see
And telleth all things past and to come

Oh Fortuna servant of the weak and oppressed
Offer us the force to bless
Accept magister the sacrifice
The four stars aligned

Wear the hexagram made with skin of calf
Join me in the cleansing bath
Be the vessel
Conduit of Aiwass
Join the cult or die
Covenant

Chase the torches dance, down the cellar path
Murmured choirs arise
Luna Argeteam
Katabibazon
Nos Sumus Lux

Oh Fortuna servant of the weak and oppressed
Offer us the force to bless
Accept magister the sacrifice
The four stars aligned

Wear the hexagram made with skin of calf
Join me in the cleansing bath
Be the vessel
Conduit of Aiwass
Join the cult or die
Covenant

8. Red Mist

Why can't the whitest snow
Hide, cover, conceal bleak memories?
Why can't the winds of north blow away this chilling pain?
I pray upon the brightest stars
To give me force to run afar
From the source of this secret restless wrath

The dawn will soon arise
The morning rays of light will bring advice
Choose my fate, please guide my own hate

Blood for all the tears I shed since her demise
Blood for all the fears that wake me in the dead of night
Blood for all the tears, the weeping that I hide
Written in the red mist, fore you I shall bide

With hair as white as snow
A hermit walking on the path of throe
A reader of the runes, a master in the arts of night
Beyond the way lies a thriving star
A silhouette I see so far, a host that walks inside this fog swinging untouched

The dawn will now arise
And all the ones at fault will soon apprise
Seal their fate, anguish will abate

Why can't the whitest snow
Hide, cover, conceal bleak memories?
Why can't the winds of north blow away this chilling pain?

Blood for all the tears I shed since her demise
Blood for all the fears that wake me in the dead of night
Blood for all the tears, the weeping that I hide
Written in the red mist, hear my clear advice

As above and so below
A hermit on the path of throe
A reader of the runes, a master of the black arts
Blood for all the tears I shed since her demise
Written in the red mist, feel my last advice

9. Incantations

At the stroke of witching hour
Just a frame before the dawn
They'll be gathered in covens unknown
In the circle of the Runes
On the cusp of Algiz stone
Eight figures aligned on the lawn

A strange shrill melody comes from the highest peaks
Canticle for the damned
A brew of magic herbs boils in the copper pot
They have all been condemned

Divinations - I am the dark eclipse
Premonitions - Horns of the apocalypse
Incantations - I am the anger seed
And damnation for thee and all of thy breed

On this daybreak of December
When the red mist lingers on
Retribution will be staged at dawn
The alignment of the stones
Where Ansuz, Naudhiz, Eihwaz cross
You will all bear unspeakable loss

A doomed eerie maledict is hailing from the pinnacles
Anthem of the sentenced
A concoction made of hemlock and a leaf of white hellebore
They'll be slaughtered as lambs

The night my world all crumbled
Beyond the spheres of time and space
I fantasized a different tale
Turned into solitary fate
Incantations - Please clear this dreadful dream and fear
Good and evil make them go and disappear

When all shine was shattered
Constellations soared away
The night they took her far from me
My soul has cracked with no relieve
Incantations - please clear this dreadful dream and fear
Good and evil make them go and disappear

10. An Autumn Reverie

Mystic night, a line of purple lanterns
Tracing her steps to a new glance
With no shame, hollow and no dreams left
She fancies her romance

For what her life has gifted
For what she has received back

Come along, come along cry your funeral song
And testify your wilt as you depart
Come along and when your ashes will disperse
They'll bring a never-ending curse

When you tried and searched for an answer
And left with dust on your chest
When it does not matter anyone
This is the end of all - the end of everything!

As the silvery steel reflects the moonlight
"Eleanor maid of stars"
As the blood tinges the white robe
"My bane engraved your wretched heart"

Your phantasmal appear, they're all bound to revere
Was destined to be severed by the seer
Come along, disenchanted work of art
As the blade pierces through your heart

On the brink of frost bite - a dream in red
A reverie in autumn - when all of the leaves have fled

11. The Repentant

Soil and worms is all I see above from deep down under
Smell of damp and rotten wood I am still breathing

To live or not to live
To breathe or not to breathe
Should the bell ring for my unearthing?
Repent in ash and dust
Unleash all my distrust
In the grasp of the last air gust I breathe

I have a chest full of well-rehearsed speeches I never gave
I have a handful of dialogues I never had with all of you
I have a spoonful of promises, oaths I never made, thus never broken
A book of poems that will never see the light of day

Crawling slowly deep under the snow
Death is now watching
As I try to break the riddle
To settle my choice

Dictated penalty, this tragic destiny
I am scratching the wood, do I want to die?
The frenzy into those eyes reminds a past demise
The day I promised to excise

I have a chest full of well-rehearsed speeches I never gave
I have a handful of dialogues I never had with all of you
I have a spoonful of promises, oaths I never made, thus never broken
A book of poems that will never see the light of day

"All considered, I will now depart
In the arms of this lightless dusk,
I bid you farewell
I repent our days of old though,
As they have doomed the rest of my life"

I have a chest full of well-rehearsed speeches I never gave
I have a handful of dialogues I never had with all of you
I have a spoonful of promises, oaths I never made, thus never broken
A book of poems that will never see the light of day

Never see the light of day
Ah!







ELVENKING LYRICS