SHADOW OF INTENT LYRICS

1. Farewell

Farewell,
The time has come, the world shall bleed, and into Inferno we'll go,
Farewell,
The time has come, the world shall bleed, and into Inferno we'll go

I must fight, die if I must (into Inferno we go),
It won't rest 'til the grounds have no room left (into Inferno we go),
All goddamned legions are condemned to their God (into Inferno we go),
I beg for your forgiveness (into Inferno we…)

For we've found ourselves wandering Hell, my love for you burns forevermore,
I will climb from this widening chasm
To my feet

I shall bring defeat
Beneath my feet,
I trampled all in my path, I bow not to the Saurian King

But if I do not return,
The fight may take a perilous turn, the day may never come where I shall come home,
For I'll gladly give my own life
If it means that you will survive

What choice do I have?
To fight or die, no way out alive, the cowards are left shot in both sides,
I must return so that you shall survive,
For without you

I shall remain in dirt

You'll live
In my heart forever, forever

For you I die,
You'll find me in the afterlife, live out your days with grief out of sight,
I am sorry that you'll never find
My body to say your goodbyes

2. Saurian King

Oh, this is where it began,
Before the coming of war

With long knives they carve the night

Waiting in anticipation,
To long persist the coming abyss, savage conflict is unfurling,
Condemning of faith, condemning with hate and death, violent expulsions,
Claiming the lands as their own,
A cataclysmic and misanthropic catalyst shall further enrage

Demands for our deaths,
Several long nights of terror,
The cleansing begins,
This is the new beginning
Of our living Hell

The coming was foretold, warnings went unheeded,
We all sat by and stared as the stampede proceeded,
Conquer all, drudges invading the denizens,
Laughing and dancing while bidding the Devil's work

Martyrs lie in the streets on this night so you may live, they give their selfless death,
But the madness does not end yet

Scales project
From beneath his ophidian skin,
Misanthropic,
You were never supposed to be king

The coming was foretold, warnings went unheeded,
We all sat by and stared as the stampede proceeded,
Conquer all, drudges invading the denizens,
Laughing and dancing while bidding the Devil's work

Martyrs lie in the streets on this night so you may live, they give their selfless death,
But the madness does not end yet, my friend, this is not the end

Pissing right on our graves,
Razing, dragging our names through the dirt

The worst has yet to come, the blame for their failures falls on us, we pay for this

The conflagration of one thousand shrines, yeah

I obey you not,
You deceive your own,
Others blinded by your lies,
I see through them all

I obey you not,
You deceive your own,
Others blinded by your lies,
I see through them all

3. The Coming Fire

The coming fire,
Ignited in an instant,
A purging flame, the swarm engulfs,
With a lust for war increasing in their appetite,
Crossing the insects' blood,
At the pace of lightning propaganda fuels the massacre, granting who oppose abysmal death,
They gather at dawn

Hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail,
Hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail, hail

They march through the vast verdant steppes,
Leaving naught but ruin behind,
Their forefathers' words keep them present,
Absorbed with mephitic pride

Burn
For your leaders,
Mourn
For your futures

Burn
For your leaders,
Yearn
For a savior,
Burn
For your leaders,
Mourn,
Everlasting mourning for

The boundless sacrifice,
We honor those who died,
We do not know the price
Paid by those who were left behind

This tragedy consumes
So many wasted lives,
Those to the left and right
Know all too well

In a series of failed counteroffensives along the front,
Encircled in a labyrinth of enemies to die abysmal death

Burn
For your leaders,
Yearn
For a savior,
Burn
For your leaders,
Mourn,
Everlasting mourning for

The boundless sacrifice,
We honor those who died,
We do not know the price
Paid by those who were left behind

4. Of Fury

Starving beasts of misanthropy
Tear their souls from reality,
They terrorize, sodomize, then torch all that's left of their miserable lives

Reprise,
They are swiftly swept aside,
Reflections of blood
On fresh front lines

Millions of men forged in the fiery depths of Hell, begin to purge the lands,
Ad nauseam, they seize their prize, demanding that hundreds of thousands more must die

The jaws of Hell have opened wide,
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky,
The jaws of Hell have opened wide,
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky

Panoramic fire lights up the sky,
Sounds of horrors recoil from hillsides,
Petrified, spat out on the lines,
A mass grave sentence, you're begging to die

Starving beasts of misanthropy
Tear their souls from reality,
They terrorize, sodomize, then torch all that's left of their miserable lives

The horrors seen here cannot be erased from minds of men

They seek to rid them of their existence and reform, for defenders, to fail would mean they disappear, a choice
Leaves the weight of this force to be dismembered,
The combat seems to be everlasting,
They all met death

Barbarous obliteration of them all,
Perfidious bandits execute survivors,
These men
Are but slaves,
Slaves to the Devil himself

The jaws of Hell have opened wide,
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky,
The jaws of Hell have opened wide,
Bombs, bone fragments fall from the sky

Suffer the wrath and the consequences

5. Intensified Genocide

The schism has succumbed to militant decadence,
Boundaries perverted, the populous ravenous,
Their rights have been compromised,
Forced into battle to keep what they own

Plotting the new reign, the parliament ponders,
Seizing the motherland after disbandment,
Caught in between these brutal objectives,
Resorting to violence, they're eaten alive,
Death

This civil division has far surpassed humility,
Defiling the dissident, their lack is evident

They have completely descended to murder, children play day and night with severed heads,
Inhuman execution, slashing of throats, mass despoliations, death in vain,
Frenzied grabbing for the closest weapon, kill or be killed becomes the new way,
Keep plunging down the rabbit hole, resolution through cruelty, internal strife

Newborns have been torn away from wailing mothers,
The future of a nation mutilated, smothered,
Displayed as a warning, bodies left uncovered,
And to this day, it can be seen, unreconciled divide

This dark path was placed by politician hands,
Residents now fear the once coveted moonlight

Luscious sculpture whose glory once had gushed,
Supplanted by such beauty and disgust

Species of savages, persistent penitence, evident lack of a shred of humanity,
Macabre obsession, removal of men keeps on fueling the passion,
Stalking the rooftops, they gaze down with penance, they'll be the ones who take care of the menace,
Harder and harder, these two sides collide, intensified genocide, eaten alive

Civil division has far surpassed humility,
Their lack is evident as they defile the dissident

They have completely descended to murder, children play day and night with severed heads,
Inhuman execution, slashing of throats, mass despoliations, death in vain,
Frenzied grabbing for the closest weapon, kill or be killed becomes the new way,
Keep plunging down the rabbit hole, they've beaten this dead horse to mush, they
Cannot
Stop

These ferocious urges,
They plunge the knife deeper
Into the throat of democracy,
Slowly
Carving the head from the neck

This dark path was placed by politician hands,
Residents now fear the once coveted moonlight

Luscious sculpture whose glory once had gushed,
Supplanted by such beauty and disgust,
Shrouded foulness, the soul inside observed,
Shrieks of anguish, cremation will be served

Bathe in the blood

The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole,
The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole,
The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole,
The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole

They, they bathe in the blood,
They,
They bathe in the blood

The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole,
The blade unjust lost control,
Into the furnace, into the hole

6. Life of Exile

Again, they've come to tear down our ideals,
With prestigious grins, staring down at us,
Dispelled from the region only to return thirty cycles past,
These wounds recur, is this the day I die?

Forced away,
Driven into these holes,
We leave behind
Our memories of home

I've lost all that I know,
Everything I own
Was taken away from me

Amidst the silence, distant foreboding cries,
The ambiance of warfare chills my bones,
It should have been me, why did you have to take them away?
Now I ask myself, is this the day I die?

Forced away,
Driven into these holes,
We leave behind
Our memories of home

I've lost all that I know,
Everything I own
Was taken away from me

Lying low
From the sterilization of the earth,
The roars overhead have chased all wildlife off

Each way out has been cordoned off,
Accumulation of displacement,
These cellars won't protect us all,
We will soon meet the same perilous end

As the times change, they continue to resist,
A perverse aggression of no limit,
As the cities crumble, a rise of fists,
Now they hunt them down, back to where they live

Taught to kill
From the day they were born,
We never asked for conflict,
But the world views us as the enemy

I've lost all that I know,
Everything I own
Was taken away from me

I've lost all that I know,
Everything I own
Was taken away from me

7. Where Millions Have Come to Die

To a metropolis undignified
They have come to die,
Blind rats in the maze affright vie for each block and structure, garrisoning city heights onward to the riverside,
They have tantalized
Everything on which they've laid their eyes,
As the days go by, the death toll sustains its rise

The majority will not come home,
Profound panic fiercely fervent

De-evolution of warfare runs markedly,
From the sewers to the littered web of ashen lanes,
A presence in the next room lurking yet to be seen,
In severance, things are never what they seem to be

True terror, ten thousand-fold,
Adhering only to the serpent

A testament to all things taken naturally,
An ejaculation of another madman's dreams,
The mother of all battles rages vigorously,
The death knell tolls ceaselessly for thee

Malodorous emanations stinging at their eyes,
Months go by, the death toll continues to rise,
Hounds pry at the calcified,
Waist high, in the feces of the raiders left alive

The trampled turn the tides,
They begin to twist the knife,
With drive retribution unwinds, a merciless drama
Where millions have come to die

Where millions have come to die,
They all paid the ultimate price,
Where millions have come to die

Surrender is denied to the core
By the despot held above them

Their losses are mounting at a staggering rate,
To flee or become yet another casualty,
To be shot between the eyes or take a chance to be free,
In severance, things are never what they seem to be

True terror, ten thousand-fold,
Adhering only to the serpent

A testament to all things taken naturally,
An ejaculation of another madman's dreams,
The mother of all battles ends on a blood red mound,
The death knell tolls forever loud

Where millions have come to die,
Where millions have come to die,
Where millions have come to die,
Where millions have come to die, they paid the price all with their lives

The kessel closes, constricting the throats
Of those spared from starvation

Frostbite death and suicide, the morsels standing march to the beyond

With black clouds high above
They march to the unknown,
With black clouds high above
They march to the unknown

With black clouds high above
They march to the unknown,
With black clouds high above
They march to the unknown

8. From Ruin... We Rise

Newcomers dance and sing,
Relieved by the passing of spring,
They feel the grace of the sun,
Their misfortune has not yet begun

Where the men used to come for their drinks,
Where the children would play endlessly,
They have taken our everything,
They know not what tomorrow shall bring

On the opposite side of the field,
A vengeance that shall never yield,
Fathers weep for their sons,
Their suffering cannot be undone

Why (why)
Cry (cry)?
From squalor and ruin we rise,
They reap what they've sown,
From squalor and ruin we rise

Arise, arise,
Past the horizon lay paradise,
But here
The rivers run red

Dregs of the world seen through their eyes,
Less than the dung below the flies,
Fields of the dead bake in the light

Children, women and men, their bodies lie
Piled in the streets, stacked six feet high,
Tell me why, oh why

Limbs contorted,
Anatomical morbid distortions,
At a biblical limit the purging
In our hearts is a rage ever burning

Come the next morning,
We attack with a thousand scornings,
Look upon us like death is emerging,
Beginning the righteous charge, disparaging

Now it's our turn for the scourging,
With a hatred relentlessly swarming,
Skies wail as rockets are hurling,
Falling down to earth screaming and bursting,
Miles, miles and miles of corpses,
They bear witness to vindictive forces,
As far as the eyes can see,
If you saw it you wouldn't believe it,
When will these fucking wars end?

Why (why)
Cry (cry)?
From squalor and ruin we rise,
They reap what they've sown,
From squalor and ruin we rise

Arise, arise,
Past the horizon lay paradise,
But here
The rivers run red

9. Blood in the Sands of Time

Blood in the sands of time

The ageless clock is counting down,
The purveyors and crusaders bygone live on renowned

Some dare aspire to join the ranks of the gods,
The certainty of your safety now drains with every hour

Only the dead have seen the end of war

All sons of the many gods,
The race of men, begotten end

Empires fall, years have progressed and are forsaken,
The meek are cast down, the strongest garnering the gains,
Sounds of war echo on in solemn spirit,
The blind, the sick, the old, the young, even the demons hear it

As time passes on, these situations remain a constant in the name of indemnification,
The oozing black heart below the surface is calling outward and those who dare listen shall be relentlessly pulled under

Worldwide crisis, divinity rehashed,
The world you see that surrounds you was built from murder, the cycle of death continues and we push it further

Always mobilized,
Eager to pulverize,
Corrupt, destabilize,
Autonomy strung up high

The whole are dead to rights,
Nothing shall ever suffice,
The age is prophesized,
The suicide of our kind

Rejecting signs
As the grand clock unwinds (unwinds),
Oil pipelines pour,
Spilled blood in the sands of time (time),
We walk the earth and still the ground, it trembles (it trembles),
Transcending elements, from death we cannot hide (hide)

Suicide
Of humankind

Suicide
Of humankind

Kiss of death
Claiming lives,
To persevere is
No option, reset, rewind

Suicide of humankind,
Eden is falling apart,
Sounds of war echo on

The sounds of war echo on

The sheer will of mankind can only hold on for so long,
Acting as though the last grain has faltered

10. Reconquest

[Instrumental]

11. Elegy I: Adapt

Go beyond,
Dig your graves,
Bury the bones,
Wait for God

What fate awaits
Those who kill?
Murderous tyrants
Only seek supremacy

12. Elegy II: Devise

Desolate, a sea of rubble and debris,
They've come to avenge their burning lands,
Desecrate, the city crumbles under their feet,
The pestilent forage of all who remain

Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy persists throughout our history,
From ancient ages to modern times,
These untold atrocities have amassed

Permeating the ground,
The soil soaks up their blood,
Divest this reaping hand,
Two alphas cannot share the fruits of existence

Treacherous tales unfold as the undying hour
Of bloodshed reaps and sows the weary and the weak,
Powers of new blood now play God with maniacal ease,
They shall enslave all

They shall enslave all

So we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak,
The cities burn, the bridges bend,
Now we lay our heads to rest

So we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak,
The cities burn, the bridges bend,
Now we lay our heads to rest

The winds of change oust the inept,
Powers come and go, a fool's
Existence subject to their terms,
Loss roams on neglected,
Some eyes have not seen a day,
Spared of loss, litany,
Anguishing pain, sterile of reasoning

Hopeless,
It's hopeless

Trying to outwit the colossal construct of life itself,
No matter where you are in this world, you'll always have what they want

Defaced human creations

Memoirs of fallen cultures blanket the blood-red ground

Defaced human creations,
Memoirs of fallen cultures

13. Elegy III: Overcome

Now, they crumble the kingdom,
Tied their hands to their feet,
Burned, bereft of forgiveness,
City, a smoldering heap

From ancient ages to modern times
These untold atrocities have amassed,
Termeating the ground, the soil soaks their blood

Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy
Persists throughout our violent history

So we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak,
The cities burn, the bridges bend,
Now we lay our heads to rest

So we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak,
The cities burn, the bridges bend,
Now we lay our heads to rest

Now, they crumble the kingdom,
Tied their hands to their feet,
Burned, bereft of forgiveness,
City, a smoldering heap

Powers of new blood,
Now play God with maniacal ease,
They shall enslave all

Nevertheless, this headlong struggle for supremacy
Persists throughout our violent history

Powers unite,
Joining to extinguish the fight,
Pacifying, undermining,
Some survive,
Others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire

Immolate,
A creed now disintegrates,
Never to be seen again,
Caged, confined,
Opposition brutalized
By an unfamiliar dogma,
Petrified
As the wrong now becomes the right,
Persecution of a people,
Some survive,
Others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire

Some survive, others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire,
Some survive, others shall be cast alight
Into a burning pit of fire

Isolated, wallowing in the shame,
No resurgence,
Preparations for the next war begin,
This cannot be escaped

The world holds its breath, awaiting
Death

Victorious, now the victor sings and rewrites the cold facts of history
To present their greatness to their offspring, this process cycles continuously

So we sing ourselves to sleep
When the strong overtake the weak,
The cities burn, the bridges bend,
Now we lay our heads to rest

Victorious, now the victor sings and rewrites the cold facts of history
To present their greatness to their offspring, this process cycles continuously







SHADOW OF INTENT LYRICS