GRAVE LYRICS

1. Venial Sin

I fornicate and revel in lust
Still forever in the grace of god
Repenting my petty crimes
I pay by praise and start again

Confide in me, my child
I'll wipe your conscience clean
It's just another venial sin

Sin by sin, I cannot fail
My holy church defends me
Repeating my petty crimes
My reason and my trust divine

Confide in me, my child
I'll wipe your tears away
It's just another venial sin

Confide in me, my friend
I will wipe your conscience clean
Your robe is as red as the blood on your hands
Yet clean as the virgin white

The children seem so pretty
Through the eyes of our lord
Sin, my son, sin!
I will make you pure once again

I fornicate and revel in lust
Forever in the grace of god
Repenting my petty crimes
I pay by praise and start again

Sin by sin, I cannot fail
My holy church defends me
Repeating my petty crimes
My reason and my trust divine

2. Morbid Ascent

Crawling through the fields of human flesh and decay
This forgotten tomb has been my home
Reaching for the skies above to grasp my release
To rise again and to find my peace

Silent souls in the dusk, entombed and confined
On the darkened mountain side they lie
A stray of lights upon the skull guides my path
From the underworld I shall rise

Morbid since birth
Beneath your scorched earth
Awaiting my arrival, to the fallen world
To triumph and reign

Crooked horns crown my head
Disciple with a cause, unearthed for so long
Demonic grin I bear and my fathers eyes
Face of death upon my skin

Morbid since birth
Beneath your scorched earth
Awaiting my arrival, to the fallen world
To triumph and reign through pain

Silent souls in the dusk, entombed and confined
On the darkened mountain side they lie
Reaching for the skies above to grasp my release
From the underworld I shall rise

Remnants of death carried through life
Finally ascending through fire
Announcing my arrival with a blackened sun
In your fallen world I triumph and reign
In the shadows

3. Possessed

[originally by Satyricon]

Mourning the decay
Bitter ungodly enemy
cast into heavy woe
Left in the corner of the world (we are possessed)

Out of the maze, with clear sight - at the brink of one's abyss
Out of the maze, with clear sight - cold eyes at the world
Out of the maze, with clear sight - disbelief and scorn
Out of the maze, with clear sight - not poisoned by your fraud (we are possessed)

The realisation of the position
No longer vulnerable
Having played the music no one could understand
Serenade to the devil's den - He, the final frontier!

Defaming judgement
upon the starving souls
mourning self-made pestilence
Cannon fodder for the
apocalypse

A haunt for every unclean spirit
Lord of the flies or kingdom of death
Circle the prey, show them your eyes,
they bear witness of centuries of might

Predecessor who blessed us with grace
in sempiternal fight
Excessive aggression -
Fire is the definite sign of rebirth!

The elders' electrons channelled through you
carried by thy night Supremacy
Born to win this battle, defeat is the tongue
of the whore

4. Epos (From Endless Procession Of Souls; Risen From The Tomb Edit Version)

Fallen heroes in my journey of death
These shattered souls of loss
Guiding the trail of forgotten past
As their moaning chants arise

Cold yet alive - left to arise

I proceed down the river of blood
My dead heart races on
And I feel more alive than ever
Can this be my path to home?

Cold yet alive - left to arise

Age of stone lost in a realm of doom
Souls of black roam these lonely halls
I return to the throne of dust and it seems to be alive
Ashes and bones forever my future holds

Draped in sin, hollow eyes
Endless procession of souls
Guiding the spirits away from the light

Fallen heroes in my journey of death
These shattered souls of loss
Guiding the trail of forgotten past
As their moaning chants arise
I proceed down the river of blood
My dead heart races on
And I feel more alive than ever
Can this be my path to home?

Cold yet alive - left to arise

Age of stone lost in a realm of doom
Souls of black roam these lonely halls
I return to the throne of dust and it seems to be alive
Ashes and bones forever my future holds

5. Reality Of Life

GRAVE LYRICS