THE CROWN LYRICS

1. Doomsday King

111
Thou art 1

No trust in man
No trust in might
No trust in gold

No trust in man
No trust in might
No trust in gold

The devil moves me still
Hell in every breath I take

Fire without flame
Burn without light
Not without pain

Through a final state of blasphemy
To a place where
I can set my spirit free

There is no god but god
Only the lord is lord
To give myself to god
Is to give god to the world

No trust in man
No trust in might
No trust in gold

No trust in man
No trust in might
No trust in gold

No earthly power can hold my soul
Thralls and titans fall before the storm

There is no god but god
Only the lord is lord
Awaken to life out of death
Once and again
By the doomsday king

In service of the one

I am he beyond myself
I walk on holy ground again

My eyes are glowing in the absolute flow
Wash my heart with snow

There is no god but god
Only the lord is lord
To give myself to god
Is to give god to the world
There is no god but god
Only the lord is lord
Awaken to life out of death
Once and again
By the doomsday king

111
I am thou

2. Angel Of Death 1839

Ye children Adam's of earth forgotten
Who unto earth shall again return
You are my own, be it not forgotten
I am the penalty sin did earn

O man, time's guest
With my grasp I reach thee
From east to west
And by voices teach thee
With scripture's word in the master's name
From air and water earth and flame
You build and dwell
Like the sparrows building
In sunny summer
Their fragile nest
Securely feeling
In shady shielding
They sing so joyful in happy rest

But sudden gust
Of the tempest shatters
The tiny crust
Of their nest in tatters
The merry song
Heard so short before
With grief is silenced forevermore

Like pigeons
Coming in anxious calling
You sigh for morn
With today not through
When unbethought
Like a trap door falling
The earth unlocked itself for you
You disappear
Where no light is nearing
Soon memory dear
Is no more endearing
And new lit moon
From it's silvered sky
Again sees others arrive and fly

In circling dances so lightly swinging
You follow wildly amusement's thread
With myrtle blooming and music ringing
But solemn I on the threshold tread

The dance is shocked
And the clang is wailing
The wreath is wrecked
And the bride is paling
The end of splendor
And joy and might
Is only sorrow
Tears and blight

I am the mighty
Who has the power
Till yet a mightier shall appear
In deepest pit
On the highest tower
My chilling spirit is ever near

Those plagues of night
And of desolation
Whose breath of blight
May annul a nation
They slay the victims
Which I select
Whom shield and armor
Cannot protect

I wrap the wing round
The polar tempest
And calm the waves
Ere they reach the strand
I crush the schemes
On dynastic conquest
And wrench the club
From the tyrant's hand
I erase chase
Like the hour just passing
And race on race
With their works amassing
Like heaving waves
In my footsteps flow
Till last no ripples
Their murmur show

'Gainst me in vain
Are you wit and letters
'Gainst me nor weapons
Nor arts prevail
I freedom give to the slave in letters
His ruler's will I in irons nail

I lead the battle
And armies tumble
Like slaughtered cattle
While cannons rumble
And never rise from their sudden fall
Until alarmed by the judgment call

I wave my hand and
With whirlwinds sweeping
All life on earth to that place doth fly
Where not a sound to the ear is creeping
Where not a tongue moves to make reply
My foot meanders
And kings and heroes
And princes lofty in might and lust
Are all transformed to a handful dust

Then search with rigor
Your mind's desire
Then probe in terror
Your soul's intent
With hands and hearts
Clean and pure aspire
To him who knows what
Within you meant

Yet thither mortals
Your way is wending
Where on the portals
Till time be ending
There stands this sentence
Without reprieve
Here all shall enter
And none shall leave

Then wiped away
Are all tears forever
All wounds removed
By the healing hand
And midst corpses and heirs I never
With torch inverted
And quenched shall stand
In darkness rife
But the torch upturning
By flames of life
I restore its burning
And the Seraphic
With you unite
In songs of praise
At the throne of light

Die

3. Age Of Iron

Crowning jewel of our land
Detonates in awe
Perfecting on this massacre
Trying to play god
Death and dissolution reigning
The blind leading the blind
And in darkness we are bound now
A sign of the times

I am become as death
Shatterer of worlds
Awaiting that hour
That ripens to their doom

Kali-Yuga
Age of iron

Liars lie in waiting
Killing without shame
Abominable powers be
Seeking one to blame
Aggressive dissidents we hunt
Ghosts of war torn pasts
As their thoughts are torn apart
Knowing they won't last

I am become as death
Shatterer of worlds
Awaiting that hour
That ripens to their doom

Crowning jewel of our land
Detonates in awe
Perfecting on this massacre
Trying to play god
Death and dissolution reigning
The blind leading the blind
And in darkness we are bound now
A sign of the times

I am become as death
Shatterer of worlds
Awaiting that hour
That ripens to their doom
I am become a sword
Shatterer of lies
Awaiting that hour
That ripens to our doom

Kali-Yuga
Age of iron

4. The Tempter And The Bible Black

A book that bleeds its bleeding lines
Towers beckon the infidels
Disintegrate all your mind allows
Admit your sins as a sinner sells

Dark secrets hidden within
Spoke aloud will set mind free
Behold the earth in waste and void
In heavens high you will blessed be

Meanings turn to lies
Dreams turn to signs
Water turns to blood
As he paints the bible black

This mortal coil
It leads the blind
Fallen angel amends
As darkness descends
This mortal coil
It leads the blind
Fallen angel amends
As darkness descends

Alone his ghost stands
With hollowed face and mindless grin
Tempting mankind
To paint the bible black

Shine on the golden calf
The tempter and the bible black
Shine on the golden calf
The tempter and the bible black

A book that bleeds its bleeding lines
Towers beckon the infidels
Behold the earth in waste and void
In heavens high you will blessed be

Meanings turn to lies
Dreams turn to signs
The water turns to blood
The water turns to blood
As he paints the bible black

5. Soul Slasher

Lay to rest my burning mind
With saccharine and trust to ease the pain
As the worms turn
With my soul laid out, burn to burn
The dark backward holes of time
Turning tides inside out
Feeding the fire in my heart
Answers the question to which I doubt

As above
So below
Here I stand
Eye to hand
Heart to head
Deep in red
As above
So below
Here I stand
Eye to hand
Heart to head
Deep in red

Reap my soul
Burn my mind
Take my life
Leave my faith

Conceptions of celestial space
In the fragments of a shattered world
The blood of my thoughts I start to taste
Thrown away like human waste
Slash open our cocoons
And free our souls accursed
Reveal this gentle giant
The wings of our defiance

As above
So below
Here I stand
Eye to hand
Heart to head
Deep in red
As above
So below
Here I stand
Eye to hand
Heart to head
Deep in red

Reap my soul
Burn my mind
Take my life
Leave my faith

The light of imagination
Is quenched by the darkness
Of the damned
Feeding fires
To burn the sun in our souls
With desire as my shepherd
I will rest my mind on the tide
At peace with the wings
That are wrapped around us

Reap my soul
Burn my mind
Take my life
Leave my faith

Save my soul
Save my mind
Save my life
Burn my faith

6. Blood O.d.

Never gonna taste this world
Before I'm lying dead
Sacrifice the gods
So the humans can get fed
Never gonna taste this world
Before I'm lying dead
Sacrifice the gods
So the humans can get fed

Forced into the fields
Where the turbines rip the soil
Settle as slaves
And in times sand serpents uncoil

Accelerate
Through their urban worlds
And their wars
It beats and rapes
Explodes like never before

Will you hold on to those laws
That you uncreated
You are the whore
Yet the star which is unportraited

Chaos
Breeding
Hunter on the rise
Blood, blood, blood
O.D.

Obliterate
The attempts to suffocate hatred
Paint the skies
With the juice from their heads

Will you hold on to those laws
That you uncreated
You are the whore
Yet the star which is unportraited
Will you hold on to those laws
That you uncreated
You are the whore
Yet the star which is unportraited

I will carry your bones
I will carry you alone
I will carry your bones
I will carry you alone
I will carry your bones
I will carry you alone
I will carry your bones
I will carry you alone

Never gonna stop
Till the asphalt's pure red
Sacrifice the humans
So the insects can get fed
Never gonna stop
Till the asphalt's pure red
Sacrifice the humans
So the insects can get fed

Born to taste the red
Which flows like spiraling sewers
The reaper's revolution
Feeds the hunger of a thousand dead

Chaos
Breeding
Hunter on the rise
Blood, blood, blood
O.D.
Chaos
Breeding
Hunter on the rise
Blood, blood, blood
O.D.

Chaos
Breeding
Hunter on the rise
Blood, blood, blood
Overdose

7. Through Eyes Of Oblivion

Onward goes our black winged seer
Shadows pound on the walls of souls
Fists bleed from holy wounds
Lost in reason, plunder our fears

We plunder our fears

Through eyes of oblivion
Visions of greater ones
Through eyes of oblivion
The truth told only once

Blood worn, hate torn
Master of the black
Tongue tied, minds lie
Arcane twisted snake
Blood worn, hate torn
Master of the black
Tongue tied, minds eye

The secret lies in the heavens
Destroys the black and its guise
Gaze into eyes of oblivion
Where darkness is the light

With voice loud as thunder
I speak of horrors
Greater than this
The caverns of my mind
Hold the visions
Of blackened bliss
Fearless
I hereby challenge
This arcane snake
Expose all weakness
About to break

Blood worn, hate torn
Master of the black
Tongue tied, minds lie
Arcane twisted snake
Blood worn, hate torn
Master of the black
Tongue tied, minds eye

The secret lies in the heavens
Destroys the black and its guise
Gaze into eyes of oblivion
Where darkness is the light

In the land of the blind
The one-eyed man is king
This behemoth conquered
Caged souls released

Through eyes of oblivion
Visions of greater ones
The truth told only once

8. Desolation Domain

Follow the path of the righteous
Leading the way to paradise
Aim and release the load
The only way to sacrifice

Spawned the same way
To meet the same end
Like lambs to the slaughter
Through the infernal

Devoured by this doom
With haunting screams calling out
The sight of it unfolds
Diminished from the plains
To the rim of fire

Blood of your enemies spilled
Enter the path of the unforgiving
Morphing into nothingness
War is always meaningless
Awakening of a death machine
Cursing the grounds which it treads
Heroes, killers who is who?
As we stand among the severed heads

Spawned the same way
To meet the same end
Like lambs to the slaughter
Through the infernal

The sun donates its rays
To boil the blood of the damned
Forsaken prayers not heard
Seeking solace in war
Profane ethereal void
Consumes the darkest of hearts
Cometh down to curse the cattle

The fury of its wings
Makes deceitful marks
On blasphemous souls
Who betray for gold

Trespass and you shall burn
Carry out your mission
The pain of all you slaughter
Price for your treason is

Damned blood
Damned blood
Damned blood
Damned blood

Unseen and insane
A tower of darkness unable to climb
Exiled and neutralized
Centuries throb within the blood
Within the blood

Follow the path of the righteous
Leading the way to paradise
Aim and release the pain
The only way desolation domain

Spawned the same way
To meet the same end
Like lambs to the slaughter
Through the infernal
Spawned the same way
To meet the same end
Like lambs to the slaughter
Through the infernal

Death
Death
Death

9. From The Ashes I Shall Return

Ad astra
To the stars
The soul is striving
Called by an unstilled longing
To become what the deep symbol shows

I am a song that dies in the night
Yet I carry the star within me
The star is a ray of light above light
I am just a mirror
Forget myself and let it shine
The pure mind reflects the force
Like the moon shines
With the light of the sun
The one and only is all that I am

My soul longs to return
The call from light to light
The soul is made of a thousand questions
It dwells within my heart

Flowing forth and coming back again
Nothing can withstand the absolute

The path to the highest is a bridge
I wander clad in my earthly form
Over the river of this world
I hear its roar though
It swallows me not

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Spirit to spirit
I shall return
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Spirit to spirit
I shall return

Outside by the gate
I love to be alone
And listen to the birds
In the late sun's light
I have lost myself
No longer know who I am
For the great one alone
I bear now in mind

Beyond I and thou
I saw that I am the mirror
Toward the most high
Toward the inmost heart

In the moment of prayer
Is eternity
It stands in the sky
Like a morning star
In the now of the heart
Lies my whole life

The spirit written in stars
Painted in space
Mixed with matter
And knowledge of itself
Was shadowed
Destiny created
By the most high

Be set free by the call of the free
Be set free by the call of the heart
Be set free by the call of the light
Be set free by the call of the one

Eye that opens and then closes
Such is the life
That seem endless to thee
It shines with happiness
And its tears do flow
No eye exist that never wept
Eye looks deep into the world
Perceive the true
And understand

The opposition
Between nothingness and light
May mine eye direct
Its gaze to the source
May the light of wisdom unite
The light of grace shine into my heart
Purify the soul
And raise me to heaven

The very first cry in this life a prayer
And the last breath a word of hope
It is the word that grants us salvation
Lord hear me

Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Spirit to spirit
I shall return
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust
Spirit to spirit
I shall return

10. He Who Rises In Might From Darkness To Light

Driven aggressive high speed achiever
Hate compressed amazing race
Mindless scorn for the wide-eyed believers
Broken and bent before their god
Eternal return on the wings of Satan

Victory shall turn

Dreams of satanic impulsions
Parasite shadows of sacred forms
Sensation of obsession and vertigo
Attraction of an abyss
Riding on the wings of passions
To open the soul for infernal whispers
Different from natural drives
Marked with a prideful bitter sorrow

Disgusting midday darkness
Bloated drunk on ignorance
While I thought to be flying
I was crawling in the lowest mud
Corruptio optimi pessima
He who rises in might
Shall forever fall
Far from, far from grace

And against your will
The more you blaspheme
Ad majorem dei gloriam

Deep behind that hardened face
An animal staring out in fear
And deep behind those animal eyes
The slithering black shape of Leviathan
Crawl forth the dragon of the deep

The naked will to power
And material ways
That shall be pierced
By the sword and the spear

In the ultimate battle
Fire and sacrifice
In the inexhaustible rain
On fields of creation

In day of doom
One deathless stand
Whom death has tasted
And dies no more
Under banners of eternal names
When the word is lord
To take command

Creative to the principle of destruction
Loyal to the principle of betrayal
Sworn to the principle of revolt
Love to the principle of hate

But when the angels of death
Come to claim your soul
The devil shall turn his back

And your loyal
Sworn love shall be repaid
With betrayal, revolt and hate
Satan is the work of god
The creation of evil
For destruction of evil

So now you taste it
Suffer
And die
Before you die

Satan hates
Lucifer betrays
Evil fades
In evil ways
Poor satanic suicidal
Cowardly side of my soul
Leave now and never return
For you do not ever know
What you are doing
On the inverted and impossible way
Here burn the souls
Of modern generations
Join the club
Rest in festering slime

When malice shall be turned upon itself
And the serpent shall devour its tail
Lost soul scream out in panic in vain
Hell is burning, tradition is true

The treasure of the devil
Is pain and disgrace
And eternal loss
The damned and what they desire
Shall forever be separated
Until ye mercy shall surpass ye wrath
Angels shall enter the flames
To find even the smallest grain of good
Among my smoldering remains
To be like unto god
Was the broken promise
And my sole desire
As the blessed in the heavens
And in paradise

And the light shineth in the darkness
But the dark comprehended it not
So darkness is losing when winning
And light wins even at loss

Light is truth
Darkness, error
The truth alone shall triumph
And set us free
Forever
He who rises in might
From darkness to light

11. In Bitterness And Sorrow

See my light it has gone away
My fire is dead but here I stay
Time is passing by though nothing
Heals its breath does tear my life
Endless pain through my loveless heart
I feel my soul grow deadly cold
Still I breathe and still I stay
Still I live day after day

Sorrow surrounds me day and night
So tired of life but scared to die
Visions passing through my head
Words you once in silence said
Beyond the point of no return
I can't go back the bridge is burned
Still I breathe and still I stay
Still I live day after day

The shadows are breathing
Can't you hear?
The darkness feeding off your fear
Endless pain through my loveless heart
But still I breathe
The shadows are bleeding
Can't you see?
My darkness feeding off these years
Still I breathe and still I stay
Still I die day after day

Lights of darkness lead the way
Towards the breathing, awaiting end
Always there to erase it all
Always there to take us home
We are all just born to die
But never living we just survive
All will die no eternal life
But still you try
To hide the truth in comfort lies
The christian dream has made you blind
My eyes can see
I don't believe
But still you pray day after day

My youth has passed away
Time is passing by though nothing heals
Its breath does tear my life

Will it ever pass away?
Life is passing by
And there's nothing left for me
But eternal death

Why do I still go on?
Living this lie
I die because I do not die

Broken beyond repair
Alone across the years

The shadows are breathing
Can't you hear?
The darkness feeding off your fear
Endless pain through my loveless heart
But still I breathe
The shadows are bleeding
Can't you see?
My darkness feeding off these years
Still I breathe and still I stay
Still I die day after day

Will it ever pass away?
Life is passing by
And there's nothing left for me
But eternal death

12. Kill 2010

Kill

Oh, it's metal in the air
It flows through our hearts
And gives us strength
It's time to show Christianity
That death is reality

That everything must die

Oh, kill the priest
Kill the priest, yeah

Metal strikes, all mercy dies
Kill the priest and burn the church
The total destruction of your god
Crucify and rip him down

Rip him from the cross

Oh, kill the priest
Kill the priest, yeah







THE CROWN LYRICS