MORTIFICATION LYRICS

1. Grind Planetarium

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Post Momentary Affliction]

Grind planetarium
Pride, lacerated from my mind
Grind planetarium
New, destroying all that is blind deceit

Mortification
Bringing forth flesh denial
Stardom farces
Capture those of false arise

Manipulation of other to
Bring about succes
Abomination
Those of flesh will see you're false

Christian warfare
Kill the stars exalt the cause
Mass exposure
Is what we want but for our Lord

[1 John 2:16; Proverbs 16:18, 29:23; Mark 7:21-23; 1 Timothy 6:9]

2. Distarnish Priest

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Post Momentary Affliction]

Distarnish Priest
Distarnish Priest
I'm clean, washed in blood
Sanctified inside out
Oh I'm dead to Satan's grasp
Justified by the cross

Vertical convulsion, striven force
Grasp desired service
Hideous onslaught attacks the mind
Vicious intent prevails

Serve your God
Your time will come

Beware the trap of stardom faith
Seek guidance for your life
Do not adorn the priestly robes
Covering filthy manifestation

Guard your heart, bow before God
Sack cloth and ashes repentance
Radical conversion, zeal of love
Put faith in actions

I'm lost, inside your ways
I've found, a new escape
This life, no fantasy
New ways, reality
Always growing, never fading
Hope increasing, peace astounding
Always knowing, never falling
My salvation, making me

Wretched man, that I am
Chronicle thought diseases
My priestly robes must be clean
Pentinence of ministers

Bow at the altar of sacrifice
Living flesh submission
Eucharist served to others passed
Priest of life's maturity

[1 Timothy 3:1-7; Jonah 3 (whole chapter); Psalm 51 (whole psalm) Romans 7:13-25]

3. Brutal Warfare

[Words by Steve Rowe, Music by Jayson Sherlock, Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Mortification]

Demon Forces
They must bow
Saints of God arise
And kill deprivation
Evil bondage
Will not claim the church of Christ

Brutal warfare
Brutal warfare

Pain and torment
Cast from below
Stand strong with God's armour on
Inflicted with hate
Spiritual war
Christ's the victor know this well

Put on the full armour of God
Stand against the devil
We are not fighting men
But evil forces of a dark age

Rotting minds
Avenge yourselves
Submit to God outwitting Hell
Intense offense
Awesome victory
Bludgeon to death bondages

Belt of truth around waist
Righteousness your breastplate
Gospel of peace on your feet
The shield of faith and sword of God

[Ephesians 6:10-18; Mark 16:17; Romans 8:13]

4. Destroyer Beholds

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Mortification]

Disease in your life rots your soul
Wretched hindrance to your growth in God
Recycle countless sin, bondage brings
Wretched hindrance to your growth in God

Look at the young man
Look at his face
What is the reason for this change
Revival in his heart
Causes havoc for the devil

The destroyer beholds

The destroyer beholds

Your faith infested by the flesh
Backslidden in your heart you have no time for God
You don't read the word, what's your case
Backslidden in your heart you have no time for God

Your God calls your name, you've been saved
You won't be tempted beyond your strength
Reach out to His grace, make a change
You won't be tempted beyond your strength

[Romans 3:23, 8:10; Psalm 51:10; Revelation 3:15-16; 1 Cor. 10:13 2 Cor. 12:9]

5. Inflamed

[Words and Music by Michael Carlisle]
[Originally recorded for Scrolls Of The Megilloth]

Inside the crypts of eternal death
Hear the screams of a billion souls
Burning in the catacombs
The place of eternal repayment

Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire

Prince of the air
What does your evil dare
This very torment was ignited all for you

The burning sensation, feel the torment rumbling
The flames disposal, the end result of sin
Flames burn high, smoke burns the eyes
Join in and cry, scream for you life

Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire

Who cry for help once in there's no escape
Eternal reward for the life you embraced

The dream of darkness awakes
Enter eternal flames
Tales of old proven before you
Opposing all disbelief

Those who died without Christ's blood
Who followed the damned, eternal liar
Will burn forever without escape
From the inextinguishable fire

What is eternity that you should lose your soul
Eternal life with Christ or face the second death

[Revelation 20:15; Matt 25:31, 41, 46,; Luke 16:23-24, 28-29]
[Mark 8:34-38, 9:1]

6. Scrolls Of The Megilloth

[Words and Music by STEVE ROWE]
[Originally recorded for Scrolls Of The Megilloth]

Guidance of our intimacy
Holy love is what I see
Direction from the book of life
Song of songs in the Megilloth

Existence of admiration
Man's part of God's creation
Scrolls of the Megilloth
Scrolls of the Megilloth

David's genealogy
A female friend is she
Ruth is a book of love
To overcome difficulties
Boaz, symbolic of Christ
Redeeming His holy Church

Esther, victory of morals
Over conniving racist king
Sovereignty and great courage
Protection of God's people

Taken to captivity
A sense of tragedy
Jeremiah's Lamentation
Grieving for his nation
Destruction is a logical result
Of defying God

A book of philosophy
Frustration absurdity
Everything has a season
Purposed under Heaven
Ecclesiastes, Solomon's searching
Just like your life

[2 Tim. 3:16, Prov. 5:15-20, 2:16-20, Ruth 1:16-17 (a picture of a Christian's dedication to Christ), Esther 4:11, 6, Esther 5:2 (a picture of John 15:13), Prov. 3:5-6, Is. 30:15-17, Deut. 21:18-21 (destruction is a logical result of defying God) in contrast to Ps. 34:7, Ps. 27:2-3, Romans 8:20-25]

7. Symbiosis

[Words and Music by Michael Carlisle]

Bipartisan joining
Synergy essential
For the purpose of symbiosis

When opposites merge
Mutual benefits emerge
If symbiosis is threatened
Either my loose control
The grafting of the branches
Through the vows of marriage
Interdependence relies
On the covenant of trust

Synapse a wondrous
Gift of God's creation
Synchronous biogenesis
The seed of expression

Synapse a wondrous
Gift of procreation
Synchronous biogenesis
The seed of expression
Under a symposium
Syllogistic settlements
Banish the teraway
Systole rising

8. Time Crusaders

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]

Time Crusaders

Time Crusaders, minstrels of ancient worship
Time Crusaders, tunes from the heart of God

The musicians lead the armies to war
Sounding the battle cry
Leading on to victory
Ancient times of scripture

Playing the strings of healing
Soothing the king's torment
The harp was David's sword
Piercing the pain of Saul

The red shield raised in the streets
Playing the music from the bars
Meeting men's desperate needs
Playing music to which they relate

Many have gone before us
Heeding the call to play
Totally relevant music
Meeting the need of the hour

The progress of eons has passed
We see that music lives on
God created all styles
Satan has only perverted

We are the bearers of news
Grinding the truth to your ears
Seeking new ways to destroy
The lies that live in your mind

William Booth's speech:
Many people like to sit
Within the sound of the church bell
But I'd rather run a rescue shop
Within a yard of Hell

Time Crusaders

[Mark 16:15; 2 Chron. 20:21-22; 1 Sam. 16:14-23; Psalm 150]

9. Black Snake

[Words and Music by Michael Bloodgood]
[Originally recorded by Bloodgood]

Down, down, down below the grave
Heaven has turned away
Dust, dust, dust will be his feed
A lethal blow to end his days
Lies, lies, lies are all he speaks
Contamination of your mind
Dark, dark, darkness fills your eyes
Delusion tries to make you blind

He's like a beast that lies in hiding
A mercenary of deceit
I hear the tolling of the death bell
I see his ultimate defeat

He is the black snake of rebellion
He is the slayer of the young
He is the Hell-borne of the angels
His destiny will be the flames

Death, death, death is all around
But you can surely break away
Blood, blood, blood has paid the price
The Prince of Peace will show the way

He who is in me is greater
Than he who is in the world
He who is in me is greater
Than he who is in the world

10. From The Valley Of Shadows

[Words and Music by Michael Carlisle]
[Originally recorded for Post Momentary Affliction]

"What is truth?", I ask myself
All religions boast absolute truth
But temptation is all that I find
As flesh craves overshadows the emptiness
On through the valley of blindness I roam
As voices whisper in the wind around
Calling me into the darkness beyond
Like the sound of sirens in the distance

From the valley of the shadows
Into the darkness beyond
Feel the calling of pleasures
Overshadow man's emptiness

My guiltiness bleeds internally
Inside tunnels of blocked emotions
The silent screams within my inner being
Bursting forth in desperation

Disillusionment fades
As I change my course
Rejection of pride through repentance
The answer revealed - messeanic deity
The judge paid the sinners debt

From the valley of the shadows
Into the light of Crist
I follow the calling if righteousness
As shadows cringe from the brightness

Peace engulfs me
As I surrender my life
The entwinning of guilt is lifted away
Shadows are scattered by
The Lamb of God
Delivered from the
Abuse of substances

[John 3:16, 18:37,38; Romans 8:23; John 3:20-21]

11. Human Condition

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Post Momentary Affliction]

Wars and famines, A.I.D.S. and broken lives
Drug offenses, damage to bring demise
Bury the dead in their coffins
Mankind is rotting away
Global misconceptions
Lies to steal your life

Lies, wars, hatred, Antichrist

Human condition
It is no superstition
Human condition
In desperate need of God

Privatisation, selling the world away
Abolishing independance
New World Order shall arise
Bury the dead in their coffins
Mankind is rotting away
Cashless world is coming
The beast is on arise

One will rise with false hope
Seeming to solve the crisis
The man of sin, the Antichrist
Bringing the lies of death
Bury the dead in their coffins
Mankind is rotting away
Look in the Bible for answers
Don't accept the false demise

[Luke 21:8,9; 1 Thes. 2:3-11; Revelation 13 (whole chapter)]

12. The Majestic Infiltration Of Order

[Words and Music by Steve Rowe]
[Originally recorded for Mortification]

God rulz
God rulz

[Psalm 2; Revelations 19:11-17]

13. This Momentary Affliction

[Words and Music by Michael Carlisle]
[Originally recorded for Past Momentary Affliction]

Crush this momentary pain







MORTIFICATION LYRICS