SHADOW FLAG LYRICS

1. The White Grave

Secret lives
Belong to the inhuman,
Restless beds under sleepless rains.
Deeds that they unveil and devour
Whilst they order the others to rest
In peace.
As the shadows lurk amongst the deadened tombs,
A midnight flutter of cloth,
The confluence of the unearthly.
Yet, as they circle and shun (with hooded eyes),
The luminescence of a perfect circle,
A desperate boy nurses himself
And beckons,
Only to find that he is the devil who dwells
In the white grave.

2. Bonefire

The Bonefires burn tonight

Northern fires shall burn tonight
Rise, the voyage wings expire
Evil eyes can only spy
The Bonefire

As the poison drains away
Shall the shadows be their prey
Breeding lies inside their eyes
Frozen minds, the night disguised
The Bonefire

Broken fears expelled with haste
Reaching flames, demonic taste
Deadly night can only fear
The Bonefire

As the poison drains away
Shall the shadows be their prey
Breeding lies inside their eyes
Frozen minds, the night disguised
The Bonefire
The Wanderer walks
As the worker waits.
The indecisive watch growing grey and shrunken.
The Bonefire burns alone in the night.
Shield to the watchers and sword to the shades.
The comforter crawls in fading light.
A betraying voice calling,
Frail and poisoned.
This lone fire dies a little more each night,
Faith of the watchers and ghost to the shades.
Bones and tissue, slick with grease,
Wrenched and twisted, a body’s peace.
Sick, the stench, this reek. Defile.
Blackened, stinking
This corpse god-pile.
The vapours roll as the watcher waits
The revenant stand beyond, grey and waiting.

The Bonefires burn tonight……

3. Eye Of The Swarm

Pits
For the bones
Signs
On the stones

Take one sip from this glass
Let the years come flooding past

[Chorus:]
In the swarm we dwell
Above your world
As the winds expel
Visions of hell
In the swarm we dwell
Above your world
The last night fell
Visions of hell

Night
Of neon skies
Pray
For sunrise

Hear the myths I shall proclaim
And watch the words drive me insane

[Chorus]

Teeth
Like broken thorns
Blinded
My world is torn

You drive the thought into my brain
And leave my flesh to writhe in pain

[Chorus]

4. Stormcrow

See the Stormcrow child.
A ragged, feathered silhouette
Against the dusty sky.

She steps and shakes, twitch and stare,
Beneath a broken streetlight glare.
She is wrath, she is fear,
She is shaking, sobbing fury.
The night’s firstborn
The howling worm within.

See the Stormcrow child.
She walks the dust-scabbed shadowlands
A home beneath the claw-scratched trees,
A walk that started nowhere, breathing in the light,
Facing crunching lonely blacktop miles.

See the Stormcrow child.
She spits the blood and feathers
Coughing up dirt-filled miles, amnesia
Neither here
Nor there
Born of oil and human hair.

See the Stormcrow child.
Twice more.
Once.
A bone-hung reminder
Of the moments you left behind.

5. Villmark

This starving cold
That burns my eyes
This childlike soul
That claws my mind

Become the infiltration of all mankind
The revelation of another broken life
The Snake has taken that left behind
Illumination of another world untied

These warlike eyes
That took your life
Your spirit tied
He shall decide

Become the infiltration of all mankind
The revelation of another broken life
The Snake has taken that left behind
Illumination of another world untied

Hear your cries
Drink your lies

The river, Snake’s disguise
The river’s flowing lies
The river drinks your soul
The river flows in you….

Hear your cries
Drink your lies

The river, Snake’s disguise
The river’s flowing lies
The river drinks your soul
The river takes you home….

6. The Scar That Never Sleeps

Nothing scars yet nothing remains,
Nothing screams and nothing pains,
No one comes yet no one leaves,
No one turns when guile deceives,
Nothing tortures indigo mind,
No one stops you from going blind,
Nothing treads so carefully
Nothing bleeds or cares to be
Nothing lives inside this place
Except you
And me
And the human race.

7. Sebastopol Screams

A child sits alone, in the remnants of the angels and the bones,
The wardens of the wild, in the mists of time, just breathe you broken child,
Winds coloured red, as the sunset howls, a promise on a thread,
The jawbone city skies, swaying in the heat, lost paradise.
Tranquilize tranquility
Anaesthetise necessity
Leave entropy

[Chorus:]
My screeching terrors
My laughing nightmares
My tattered joy
My deadened voice,
These wretched things
Deserve to die,
For all have left
My world a lie.

A child holds a gun, in his wounded eyes, a war has now begun
Two shots to come, but the outcome that remains is only one
A scream shall defy, as he raises dripping fist to bloodied sky

[Chorus]

Sink…..into the sand
Sow……defiant hand

A child lays his head, as the incandescent rains become his bed
A stain on the sand, and the future of the earth within a hand.

8. Last Song Of Stormcrow

Cast you chains around these city skies
The imposition of all the broken lies
The vertebrate is torn, the body cries,
Nature taken, bloodless you will writhe.
Incandescent into this salvation
Prophecies have built unwanted nations,
Yet as they sleep, the lights shine undesired
And as they weep, their tears will feed the fires,
The hundred indistinguishable desires
That the unfulfilled infidel requires.
Stormcrow stands, impoverished and bold,
A fitful end as the truth unfolds.
Kill the lights, the broken arms of war,
Kill your brother as the Snake settles the score.
Worlds you weave, lives you wish you’d led
Guided by this greatest evil bled.
Personification, infiltration and remorse
Degradation, arbitration and loss,

Once you found a star upon a mind
Once you wept until it sent you blind.
Half a life imprisoned in a tomb,
Half a life condemned to blooded womb.

Stormcrow, open eyes, intoxicated signs,
This tribal brethren occupied by lies,
As the East wind blows, they take upon the wing,
The chants that flutter, the peace before the sting.
Stormcrow waits upon a lonely shore
As the Snake’s eyes promise shall implore,
Connected to this existential farce
Forever implicated in these times that last.
Dawn was eaten, done, dissatisfied,
Broken twice, three eagles cross the sky.

Could we be impossible remains?
Could we be the last of the unnamed?
Could these words we utter silently
Be the finest effigies to death?
When they come, will you and I entwine?
Togetherness a symptom of the time?

Stormcrow waits upon a lonely shore
The songs of Stormcrow heard no more…..

9. I Am The Blood

Desires for lives in flames
Lives that have no names
Eyes that play the darkest games
Twisted souls – a memory of remains
Rite to be heard
The sparks that fly
Chemical bliss
In the arms of a concrete night

They come to you

The night, unfolds, they follow
The crow, this cold, this hollow
The night, untied, will swallow
Your mind, unkind, tomorrow

The storms they breathe unfold
Banished from the outer world
Silence, without the cause
Dedicated to your loss
Insanity, depravity imposed
Those you hate, you fight to know

They come for you

The night, unfolds, they follow
The crow, this cold, this hollow
The night, untied, will swallow
Your mind, unkind, tomorrow

I am the blood cell
That courses through the veins of the city
I am the blood
That flows and trickles
And sticks to the walls.
I am the blood
That is smeared on the faces of the lost.
I am the blood that binds
Yet I will leave no trace.
I am the blood cell
And you are my face.
I am the blood cell
And you are my face.
I am the blood cell
And I leave no trace.

10. And Hell Walked Laughing

My father told me of this place
He told me to come here.
The tales he weaved through smoke-filled black,
Intricately laced with jokes and strangulation.
His final words, written on the barrel of a gun
Unread and, as yet, unused.
They spoke of an ancient being
That would descend and instill
Amongst us, after he was gone.
Now it dwells within and, on each day that has passed,
It has become more real,
More real than the steady heartbeat of his ever present ghost.

Is this hell my life forever
Snake, you beckon the dark
Into hell confined forever
Night, you become our mask

The days of liquid thunder, the nights of unprecedented dangers,
Every sip tastes a little more like the end of time,
The closing of the act,
My final bow to humanity.
The knots begin to fray and my silence beckons,
I must speak up now
As the stage rots beneath me,
I must describe the worlds we have weaved
For their loss will be our salvation.
Is this hell a world we have made for ourselves?
Or is this hell our dwelling place for eternity?

Is this hell my life forever
Snake, you beckon the dark
Into hell confined forever
Night, you become our mask

Is this hell a world we have made for ourselves?
Or is this hell our dwelling place for eternity?
Only the Snake can intervene

Is this hell my life forever
Snake, you beckon the dark
Into hell confined forever
Night, you become our mask

11. Death And The Mind

Skies, burn across a nation
Lies, demon occupation
Sun dies, as night becomes eternal
Myths rise, hope becomes internal
Reality must die……
Forever red inside, a fever of the soul
Never sworn to die, skins shall reap the cold

[Chorus:]
Deny your creation
The wolves are alive
Their teeth, the temptation
To the other side
Defy a revelation
The wolves are insane
As onward you hasten
Through the dark divide

Caged, demarked and defined
Chains, the spaces that you find
Spirits, slip amongst the shadows
Memories, burning through your eyes
Reality has died…..
Forever red inside, a fever of the soul
Never sworn to die, skins shall reap the cold

[Chorus]

Black metal disco section – maybe some whispered words indistinct yet present

Mortality, flow the darkest river
Wolf dies, taken by the light
Seven eyes, wait upon the sufferer
Petrified, he stares upon the end
Reality has died….
Forever red inside, a fever of the soul
Never sworn to die, skins shall reap the cold

[Chorus]

12. The God

You dwell by my hand
I am the God

The city skies illuminate your severed mind
I walk the night, I drain the light, I send you blind
This dead embrace, I am the blood red dawn
Your tortured face, you are the line I leave undrawn
I flood your soul with pain, the sweetness of decay
Temptation is my blood, and you shall feast this day
I find the fallen, these bones in bloodied hands
Your fear fulfilled, your chemical demands

[Chorus:]
Night of the serpent
Still of the sin
Scars of the mind exposed flowing on your skin
I am the Father
I am the Son
I am the Snake on high, the time worn chosen one

Serpens sum
Et nihil humanum
A me alienum puto
I am the God

Dreams like fires cauterise the city skies
The cries that claw your mind, be slave, be dead, arise
Become the hellion, become yourself no more
Scratch out your brittle eyes and cast yourself ashore
A myth to venerate, behold the fork-ed tongue
Into the wilderness, we shall unite as one
And walk into the flames, the open mouth of hell
I am the god, the snake, and in you I shall dwell.

[Chorus]
Night of the serpent
Still of the sin
Scars of the mind exposed flowing on your skin
I am the Father
I am the Son
I am the Snake on high, the time worn chosen one







SHADOW FLAG LYRICS