THE BLACK LEAGUE LYRICS

1. Doomwatcher

2. One Colour: Black

Witnesseth:
To All Men Be Known:

Of all the colours in the world I had to choose the one with none
Friends and Foes, hear these words:
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated!"
In flesh and blood and soul and spirit I will live for evermore! (and I will!)
Tried to open up my mind (and my heart),
lock it away and seal it off for good
Yet before calling it an eve...
There shall... there shall be done one deed or two, yeah!

One colour: black, one calling
One calling: black!
One colour: black, one calling
One calling: black (and shades of grey!)

Of all the colours in the world,
you know I had to choose the one with none
Now we live the Age of Treason,
When there’s daggers in men’s smiles
(goddamn backstabbers in disguise)
Serpent Eyes... And Viper’s Tongue,
It is time for revaluation (of all values)

One colour: black, one calling
One calling: black!
One colour: black, one calling
One calling: black (and shades of grey!)

3. Deep Waters

I see you... in a velvet robe,
I feel you... from across the wave
I hear you... calling me

Deep waters... Calling men. Calling women.
And calling children
Deep waters... Calling men. Calling women.
Calling. Calling!

My people! Now hear the News:
No more room when the Ark is full
And it seems like every path leads down to nowhere (Well, what can I say?)
From now on no easy way,
And for some of us there ain’t no way at all
‘tis like a Midsummer Night's Dream

Deep waters... Calling men. Calling women.
And calling children
Deep waters... Calling men. Calling women.
Calling. Calling!

Drifting... Now you’ve set yourself a-drifting...
Towards the sea...
Drifting... With the stream of consciousness now drifting...
Towards the sea...
Drifting... drifting... like a long and silent river you are...
You are... you are a-drifting.
Drifting! Drifting!
For life's too long and life's too short and you are a-drifting...
You’re drifting away - You've set yourself astray...

4. Goin' To Hell

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair,
Like all things that lurk within me
Condemn themselves for ever being there -
Wanna see, Wanna see me bleed?
And then. You come.
With your All-Revealing News!

I... feel... I'm going, I'm going
Oh, I feel... I'm going, I'm going to Hell!

Now, in blood I am stepp'd in so far -
Wanna see, wanna see me burn?
And when my battle here is lost and/or won,
light the way to dusty death...
But no. You come to me.
With your Ever-Healing Truths!

I... feel... I'm going, I'm going
Oh, I feel... I'm going and going...

When all the principles have been broken,
And all the goals you've set yourself have been forgotten
You search for greater men - Find but the Apes of Their Ideals
And you remain: All lost and blind and hollow...
Who's got to go... Now he has to go
Who's got to go, he has to go and I feel I am going - but not alone
Will all great Neptune's Ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

I... feel... I'm going, I'm going
Oh, I feel... I'm going, I'll go - but not alone!

[GOIN' TO HELL INSPIRED BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH]

5. Avalon

Chaos. Hysteria. Madness Millennial,
Men like flies in every corner.
Hell-on-Earth and End-of-Time
These times and these places must be all wrong
It's too damn hot or too damn cold, we must get out -
So down we go:

Avalon! Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!
Avalon! Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!
Would you tell me which way the wind... blows?

A second chance. A Second Coming.
A second earth, a second birth, none of us will live to see.
Now choose your side... Now choose your arms...
Now if you are with me, I can show the way -
Let us seize the day!

Avalon! Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!
Avalon! Avalon! Avalon! Avalon!
Would you tell me which way the wind...

Beggars moan in every corner
Avalon! Preachers preach: "The End is Nigh!"
Avalon! Infected blood, infested land,
Avalon! No World Without an End!
Avalon! Now, I don't want to heal the world!
Avalon! And I don't want to drop the bomb!
Avalon! For it seems so close, yet so far away
Avalon! There somewhere, Avalon!
Would you tell me which way the wind... blows?

6. We Die Alone

Hush! (...the horror... the horror... the horror...)
If you feel Emptiness. If you feel Hollow.
If you are lost and you don't want to find yourself.
Deserted streets within that Ghost Town of your Nightmares
You're in the Limbo - Hollow Ground; Shadowland
Nothing more, nothing less. Nothing new under the sun...

All alone... Shadowland, Shadowland, now...
All alone... Shadowland, Shadowland, now, now!
We die alone! Shadowland, Shadowland, now, now!
All alone... Shadowland... and Hollow Ground!

If you're a shadow of what you used to be.
If you don't know yourself. If you don't care.
If Nihil, Naught and Nil are all that you can feel!
You're in the Limbo - Hollow Ground; Shadowland
Nothing more, nothing less. Nothing new under the sun...

All alone... Shadowland, Shadowland, now...
All alone... Shadowland, Shadowland, now, now!
We die alone! Shadowland, Shadowland, now, now!
All alone... Shadowland... and Hollow Ground!

Nothing new and nothing true and nothing pure
and nothing good on Hollow Ground!

7. The Everlasting - Part II

I have found it... The Everlasting.
And I have found it... I found it in You.

8. Ozymandias

[Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

9. Blood Of The Gods

So divine... And so godlike...
The substance that runs in your, runs in your, runs in your veins!
(That runs in your veins!)
Ethereal... Ichor...
The same substance that rinses and rinses and rinses the planes!
(Then washes away!)

And then you know that the end is nigh...
It's coming down now! Becoming ours!
And then you know that the end is nigh!

All of the power...
And the glory that you held is now fading and fading and fading away!
(Now fading away!)
Is your skyline... still darker?
Is your star shining brighter and brighter and brighter than mine?
(Well, I don't think so)
All ye pretty ones: You've had your Seasons in the Sun
It's time to fall into oblivion!
All ye pretty ones: You've had your 15 minutes now
It's time to fall, it's time to fall...

Down! It's coming down now!
And then you know that the end is nigh...
It's coming down now! Becoming ours!
And then you know that the end is nigh!

I remember the older times
When the gods were still young...
So full of power, and full of rage, full of pride
Now those days are gone... (And never to return!)

All your power... And your glory
Is now running and running and running and running now in MY veins!
(‘til someone better comes along!)
All ye pretty ones: You've had your Seasons in the Sun
It's time to fall into oblivion!
All ye pretty ones: You've had your 15 minutes now
It's time to fall, it's time to fall...

Down! It's coming down now!
And then you know that the end is nigh...
It's coming down now! Becoming ours!
And then you know that the end is nigh!

10. Bunker King

You know the feeling when you're locked in a dark and lonely place,
barely alive from another Night of the Iguanas
And instead of trying to find a door...
All you can do... is bang your skull 'gainst the wall!
(Yeah, I know that you know. And you know that I do too.)
Betrayed my country, my family,
Betrayed my friends, betrayed my love - They cursed me.
I could have died... so long ago,
But this fucken world won't let me go,
Ol' Harry cares for his own!
I cannot see... I cannot breathe... I cannot be...
When I feel... Like a fish out of the water...
Like a beast, like a beast without its claw...

In/Out - I am the Bunker King
In/Out - And I can't do anything alright
In/Out - coming in, coming out, coming in
In/Out - And the walls keep coming in...
In/Out - Me, the Bunker King
In/Out - And I can't and I can't do one fucken thing right!
In/Out - coming in, coming out, coming in!

(Ya kno' what I mean...),
Like a beast, like a beast without its claw...

11. Winter Winds Sing

For so very long it has been so very, very cold
Right here where I am, For so far is the time...
When you came and brought peace to this chaos inside
You know I have felt you deep in my blood and in my veins
Yes, you. The most beautiful thing,
that this ugly, dirty world had ever seen.
Well, I've seen. And I sing to thee:

And all the land, all the seas, All the landscape will freeze
Say goodbye to the angels in your heart!
And all the woods and the beasts, all the life forms seace being
When you cry winter winds sing straight to my heart...

You, my light in the dusk, in the twilight fading time
You have been shining so dim
Through the season all the howling and gashing of teeth
(just like it says in the bible, or so I believe)
You, my light in the dead of the night
I pray to all gods just to be by your side
(and as it says in a great many songs)
Can't you see you are the air I breathe,
You are the blood I bleed...
Well, I bleed. And I sing to thee:

And all the land, all the seas, all the landscape will freeze
Say goodbye to the angels in your heart
And all the woods and the beasts, all the life forms seace being
When you cry winter winds sing straight to my heart...

And all the stars and the moo,
And the great ol' one up high in the sky will die too
When you cry winter winds sing straight to my heart...
No-no-no-no!... No-no-no-no!... No-no-no-no!... No-no-no-no!...

12. Ecce Homo!

Right!

Blest' are those who cannot see reality in all its ruthless misery
For what doesn't kill you ought to make you stronger
Yet the more you endure,
the pain lasts longer and longer and longer and longer...
All the losses that lie ahead,
And all the sufferings which yet raise their head
For those whom the gods love, oh, they will die young
And as if the best... so is the very worst yet to come...

No! Nothing hereafter -
Behold! Nothing there for you
Another day! Nothing hereafter
Another morn! Nothing there for you

This is it! This is the real thing!
And all that you will ever know is right here, right now, in front of your eyes!
So if you don't like it... Well now, the choice is free:
Just get out of my sight! Or try to enjoy your stay
In the meantime, you can be sure there will be always
someone or something trying to break you
‘Cause reality, it is the worst and best you'll ever know!

No! Nothing hereafter
Behold! Nothing there for you
Another day! Nothing hereafter
Another morn! Nothing there...

So hollow be.

13. Night On Earth

...night on earth... night on earth... night on earth... night on earth...
It's night on earth... It's night on earth now... It's night on earth...
It's been a long day. So bloody cold.
Here in the White Town of the North
Walking... Past the gravestones, across the frozen fields
Through the hordes and congregations - Right against the stream!

Thy Kingdom Come - Thy Kingdom Gone
In the White Town of the North
Thy Kingdom Come and another good man gone
And when it's night it is night upon this earth

Thy Kingdom Come - Thy Kingdom Gone
In the White Town of the North
Thy Kingdom Come and another good man gone
And when it's night it is night.

Every somber pace in the night takes you farther from the light of day
Takes you deeper... Steals your shape
Then engulfs you... Fell of the Night

Is this the New Age?
Or are these the Dark Ages?
In the White Town of the North
Meeting... stranger faces and long-abandoned places
Past the ruins and through the wreckage
Where our souls and spirits lie

Thy Kingdom Come - Thy Kingdom Gone
In the White Town of the North
Thy Kingdom Come and another good man gone
And when it's night it is night upon this earth...

Thank You, Good Night.





THE BLACK LEAGUE LYRICS