SACRED OATH LYRICS

1. Death Kills

Can't stop, can't go
Can't stay in control
Paralyze me
Now I can't see
Death on my shoulder
Bone chill, colder
Silence approaching
What will it bring?

Death kills
Blood spills
Escape
Before it's too late
Live well
Under my spell
Believe
And get a reprieve

Can't keep me down
Six feet underground
Rise from ashes
59 lashes
Zero hour
Fight the power
So elusive
Divide and devour

All that you want is a promise from me
That I'll save your soul from some hell
Look how you're living, the fires are burning
Your heart is an empty shell

2. Taken

I'm clinging to your memory
A dark river in my soul
A rushing wall of water
Spilling into deeper pools

You saturate me
I feel you hate me
Work your way down my throat
And I can't breathe

We understood each other once
Like brothers called to arms
Broken upon the riverbank
By wind and howling storms

Now I'm just staring
Through this broken lens
Clouds just out of reach
And I can't breathe

Taken my breath away
And I turn blue
Taken my breath away
I choke on you

I struggle for an image
To help me settle in
A story to explain
This bitter cold

To give my dread a purpose
To give this sound a voice
To put things in perspective
Make sense out of white noise

Taken my breath away
And I turn blue
Taken my breath away
I choke on you

3. Necrodancer

The way she moves
I want to hold her breath
And touch her silently
Like this, like death

Makes my heart race
The way she claws at my face
I want to know
The way she tastes

My necrodancer
Comes every night
A necromancer
The dead will rise
Some say she's evil
And has no heart
I say she's everything
A man could want

Eye of the devil
Lips like the gates of heaven
I start to tremble
Turn me up to eleven

I'm seeing double
Now I'm in trouble
Mirror mirror
I'm on the wall

My necrodancer
Comes every night
A necromancer
The dead will rise
Some say she's evil
And has no heart
I say she's everything
A man could want

I promised anything
She took me for everything
I thought I was in love
When she left me
And now I'm all alone
Like a dog without a bone
Hear me howling at the moon

My necrodancer
Came every night
A necromancer
The dead would rise
Said she was evil
And had no heart
That woman gave me everything
A man could want

4. Ravensong

Blood and bone
Fire and stone
Sung in the dead of night
Follow me home

Dead black eyes
Starless sky
Hung in the dead of night
Swinging alone

I remember the melody
Of the ravensong
Twisted cacophony
Wounded symphony
A mournful tune
Drape me in the black rhapsody
Of that ravensong
And I'll find some comfort
In the knowing
That I'm not alone.

5. So Cold

Enormous power of will
Swallowing every last thrill
Purified blood with a chill
In your veins, running cold as ice

Somehow it controls what you say
And now it controls what you do
I'm trapped and I can't get free
Of the crushing, choking grip

You're as cold as ice
By your own devise
I'm your sacrifice
A life without love
Now I'm as cold as ice
And I've paid the price
What we've sacrificed
Can never be regained
I'm cold as ice.

Some call it focus,
Ambition, or greed,
When a dream consumes you
For its own needs
I call it loneliness
You call it hell
You never understood
But I guess that's just as well

So cold
You’ve got ice in your veins
And you bring me such pain
You’re so cold

6. Live And Burn

Came of age in 85
16 and so alive
And the stars drew a destiny on my night

Had my share of good times
And a whole lotta bad times
I learned how to make war out of love

Played it out on a stage
Sang a song of majestic rage
Every night was a struggle to the death

Still I always found resurrection
In the quest for sweet perfection
Sometimes I'd get it right, more often times I'd not

Like a Phoenix rising
I must live and burn
When death pursues me
I must live and learn

My wings catch fire
Still I live and learn
When Satan claims me
Still I live and burn
When the worms have got me
Still I live and burn
Like a Phoenix rising
I must live and burn

Live and burn

7. Culture Of Sin

You're gonna go far
Just look where you are
You've got the world on a string

It's only uptown
No bringing you down
You're like a bird on the wing

Oh yeah, NOW baby

Culture of liars
Culture of sin
Culture of posting
The mood that you're in
Spiders are drawing
Your blood with your PIN
You played in
Culture of sin

You're in the action
You're getting traction
10,000 “likes” in a day

But you're a loner
A chronic stoner
They've got your number at the end of the day

Oh yeah, NOW baby

Culture of liars
Culture of sin
Culture of posting
The mood that you're in
Spiders are drawing
Your blood with your PIN
You played in
Culture of sin

8. Heaven-Sent, Hell-Bent

You give me all the right reasons
To do the wrong things
Your moods the seasons
The tiger in the ring

Can't tame the master
My heart is beating faster
Waiting in my cage
What will you bring?

Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
At the edge of madness
Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
In the shadows of despair

I've mastered self-control
Can't get me to react
I don't get emotional
Even when yours are out of whack

You can't destroy me
You might as well enjoy me
Pound me with your rage
I'll never crack

Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
At the edge of madness
Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
In the shadows of despair

If I had known that dark meant gray
I'd paint this canvas differently
If I had seen light in the black
If I had known there was no turning back
I'd hand the wick into the flame
And burn a candle in your name
I'd pray
Drop to my knees and pray

You give me just enough
To keep me on a chain
Got spunk, I'm so damned tough
I won't acknowledge pain

Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
At the edge of madness
Heaven-sent, forgiven
Hell-bent for living
In the shadows of despair

9. When All Is Said And Done

Dusk bleeds out of a shady grove
And settles in around my heart
When the stars cascade cold light down on my shoulders
I'm reminded that we're apart

When all is said and done
And time moves on
Will you be gone forever?

Western wind like your soft breath
Your hand in mine, I've not forgotten
You've been the sunrise, the stormy clouds in my eyes
The desert heat, the winter chill

When all is said and done
And time moves on
Will you be gone forever?

Now the tide, conspiring with the moon
Has taken you away from me
And my heart sinks like a stone
To the bottom of the sea

When all is said and done
And time moves on
Will you be gone forever?

10. Brighter Than The Sun

Dying to live
Can't wait to rise
Trapped in the dark
Held down

All that I give
My sacrifice
Burning inside
Burning down

Don't lay me down to rest
My flesh will bear the test
No earth can hold me down
No tombstone on this crown

This soul burns brighter than the sun
I'll fight this battle ‘til I've won
I’m burning brighter than the sun
I’m in this battle ‘til I’ve won

Slamming the door
Locking me up
Flipping the switch
In my brain

How many more
Am I to take
Into this ditch?
It's insane

Don't lay me down to rest
My flesh will bear the test
No earth can hold me down
No tombstone on this crown

This soul burns brighter than the sun
I'll fight this battle ‘til I've won
I’m burning brighter than the sun
I’m in this battle ‘til I’ve won

Sold on a dream
I gave it my all
A deal that was made
With the devil

Painted the scenes
On my funeral pall
The canvas I gave
Now I'm horizontal

Don't lay me down to rest
My flesh will bear the test
No earth can hold me down
No tombstone on this crown

This soul burns brighter than the sun
I'll fight this battle ‘til I've won
I’m burning brighter than the sun
I’m in this battle ‘til I’ve won





SACRED OATH LYRICS