LUCERNA MUNDI LYRICS

1. Ad Lucem

What is in a flame to cast its orange dance on walls, on pages with words from ancient humans, that they may bestow upon us their wisdom from the grave.
What is in a flame but a gift, it warms us in the dead of night, when the unblessed souls have been forsaken to the cold.
A flame has the power to sing songs of great chaos and destruction.
Only from the ashes of destruction can a new purpose arise.

Et Lux in Tenebris Lucet

2. Ghost of My Inner Shadow

The dark behind a failing sun
To baptize the world in shadow
Marble gods crumble to earth
Hollow of souls, eternal night

A raven moon bitters the course to a cathedral's domain
Contagious misery rising on waves of silver tears

Souls feed on marred reward, rendering a shadow thickest

Resisting the pain, resisting the dark
They wear chains of fear and sorrow to decay the soul as flesh

Dreamscapes, broken stars
Blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt
Anchored to this realm they built

Resisting the pain, resisting the dark,
They wear chains of fear and sorrow. Dead and burned eternal ash

Dreamscapes, broken stars
Blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt
Anchored to this realm they built

In death, the fortress breaks. What is left but a lost chance?

Dreamscapes, broken stars
Blood-red roses escape from scars
Ghosts without wings bound by guilt
Anchored to this realm they built

Mortals cry for a cure
Extinguishing their own lamps
Life spoken into dusk
Useless chants inertia

In death, the fortress shatters. What is left but a lost breath?

Ill-divine are the weeping statues if they could even see
How godly are human intentions? Their angels singing; praises of light

Escape the weight of darkness, and perish
Escape the weight of darkness, and be exiled
Escape the weight of the dark and fall

3. Catharsis

When the storm rages above, down thy skin, thick as blood
Hope will fade for there is nothing but cruel despair

Flesh from bone in the moments of time, beauty turns dark divine
Left to rot in the moments of time when thy soul can grieve no more

No shelter from the raging seas
Bury thee below the surface; no reflection to see

Destroyed! Shattered!
Unfading suffocation
Destroyed! Shattered!
Falling into abyss

The river widens drowning thy soul to live
Only where the dead dwell, entombed from within

So much to behold
A story unforgiving; words lie inscribed

The hurt can never be destroyed
For it burns like a grave through my veins, devoid
Diverge light to shine unto thine own heart
Ever brighter, deeper than pain
Through the darkest storms the night rains wane

4. The Nightmare

Cold as Death, embrace the night
Ungodly shade, her velvet cloak reigns

In a blackened sky the moon glows faint
A prison of torment, a prison no mortal brings
Hour of Lilith, curses blessed, dreams possessed
Banished from the Garden of Eden

To sleep is to be seen by wicked things
By the ruling queen of eternal damnation

Vows of death, blood upon her breath
She's breached a rift in the underworld of dreams

Evenfall, spellbound in nightfall
Tortured screams, dark hauntings tearing at seams

Awoken from a bleak night, I am fallen

Shadows dancing, to harrow and enslave

Unbending as the knife
Unmoving as the grave
Unholy souls delight, she craves!

It is stark even in daylight
Shredded my crippled eyes

What burns away the spirit and flesh but a purifying fire?
To kill the beasts inside, scarlet flames of cyanide
She's breached a rift in the underworld of dreams

5. In Absentia Lucis

[Instrumental]

6. End of All Flesh

Nor sun nor moon will pierce the black clouds
Floods prevail in the name of heaven

Death hails down from a dark sky
Creation stood as it was made
Wickedness begets only the same

Mountains swallowed by wrath
Built by eons; ark of the king
Ancient eyes weeping blood
Broken cries grieving love
I am the raven
I withheld the olive branch

Beneath my blackened wing, a fetid hand commands the dove
A thirst for extinction that cannot be quelled

This circle of hate
Wash away the decay

Let it all burn
Let it all drown
Let it all die

7. War in Heaven

Oh hallowed realm
Where God defies man
Nothing left, still here I am

With wisdom abound
Stirring the stagnant lake of an ill-begotten fate

I am the guardian
I am the morning star
Born of fiery stones
A parade before kings

I am the storm, I am reborn
To the dead conformed, forlorn
Prophets wither in downfall
Coffins shrouded by the pall

They escape into chains
Burning their righteous sight
On the angel's white light
In this benighted world

I am the son of Dawn
I am liberty for all
I deny the Ancients of Days
My descendants will inherit the heavens

And war broke out in heaven
In unyielding rage I fall
Buried where hell blooms I rise

Ave Domine Inferne

8. Awake Thou That Sleepest

Hail oh death
Witness my frailty
Bring an end to this timeless abyss

From this nihil void let it take me, and may this be my last fall

We are the unblessed
End this life and recreate

We are the unblessed
A barren road to forsake

From fire and ashes
Herald of resurrection
Wings of ascension
Exsurge a mortuis

9. O Fortuna

Fortune plango vulnera, stillantibus ocellis, quod sua michi munera, subtrabit rebellis. In Fortune solio sederam elatus, prosperitatis vario flore coronatus, quicquid enim florui felix et beatus, nunc a summon corrui Gloria privatus.

O Fortuna
Velut luna
Statu variabilis

Semper crescis
Aut decrescis;
Vita detestabilis

Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem

Egestatem
Potestatem
Dissolvit ut glaciem

Sors immanis
Et inanis
Rota tu volubilis

Status malus
Vana salus
Semper dissolubilis

Obumbrata
Et velata
Michi quoque niteris;

Nunc per ludum
Dorsum nudum
Fero tui sceleris

Sors salutis
Et virtutis
Michi nunc contraria

Est affectus
Et defectus
Semper in angaria

Hac in hora
Sine mora
Corde pulsum tangite;

Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem
Mecum omnes plangite!

O fortuna
In Fortune solio sederam elatus







LUCERNA MUNDI LYRICS