THE GATES OF SLUMBER LYRICS

1. The Awakening

I arise once again. Cannot die my friend.
It's been years since I was laid to res.
Don't know what I've done. Only what I've become.
For me... No rest.
NO
I walk again with a hunger that never ends.
I starve forever. It's you I'll drain.
You'll never be the same. I'll make you like me.
Oh.
OH NO
Awake once more. From lost tales of yore.
The demon you thought. Was a lie.

I'm here with you. Nothing you can do.
And when I'm done you'll never die.

2. The Judge

Blackend hear rotten bones. He sits upon condemnations throne.
And oversees the torturers hand. Crushes hopes of those long damned.

Lord of Chains. Prince of despair.
Is your heart even there.
You sit above the acts you call.
The world cares not when you fall.

He's a priest of vengeance. Society's beast.
Devils grow fat at his feast.

3. The Cloaked Figure

4. War Is Our Destiny

[Saint Vitus cover]

Heavy metal wings
Shining in the night
Every inch is prepared
For kamikaze flight
The machines are faster
And the bombs are worse
As we're all sucked into
This unholy curse

War is our destiny

There's a thousand armies
Dressed up with nowhere to go
All ready to dance
In the final show
These men aren't bad men
They're like you or me
The only thing that's different
Is their destiny

We both sign treaties
And they always die
Neither side can give us
A good reason why
They're always talking louder
And now we are too
Guess we both bit off
More than we could chew

5. The Jury

The damning eyes glaring down. Judgement rendered guilt is found.
The jury's voice sings out clear. Execution. Your time is near.

You were guilty as the oaths were sworn. A felon to die upon the morn.
Limbs spread far and wide. Traitorous bastard. You've nowhere to hide.

You're awake at the birth of the Sun. A cock cries your end's begun.
Dragged and beaten from your cell. Your head for the law. Your soul for Hell.

6. Broken On The Wheel

An angel of scorn, the lord of the lash. To be ripped and torn, to gore and to gash.
Vengeance is born and must sever and slash. All traitors shall mourn in anger and ash.

They break your bones, you suffer and moan. Into hell fire you're hurled.
Daggers of pain rip at your brain. Soon to be leaving this world.
Gasping and crying tortured and dying...

The leather caress you give out your last breath. Broken on the wheel.
The blood lays in pools beneath the torturer's tools.
And flies feast as flames lick the sky.
Die

Break him

7. FATGH

8. To Walk The Night

[Hidden Track]

[Samhain cover]

9. Iron Hammer

10. Dweller In The Deep

Five fathoms down
Beneath the waves
There lives a beast
And blood it craves
It was borne from beyond the stars
An unseen threat to this world of ours

Malformed cult
The daemon calls
And in it's grip
Sanity falls
Shattered minds
In Dagon's halls
Hybrid men
The shoggoths call

11. Feast Of The Dead

Walls closing around me
Nowhere to hide
The hordes of hell are set free
The dead refuse to die
Where did this evil come from
A comet's tail
O God again I must run
The dead cannot prevail

Corpses walking in a never ending line
I smell the grave behind me
It can't be my time

Time has no meaning
In a land of the dead
Every moments fleeting
When by fear you're lead
It had been such a long time
Since I'd cause to speak
And then my cry of horror
At the undead reek

On they come to eat my flesh my last thought
I'm a feast for the dead

12. The War Starter (Live)

[Saint Vitus cover]

I have seen a thousaint wars
And I will see a thousaint more
I have heard the children's cry
And I have seen their bodies fry
You know me, you've seen my face
All around this wretched place
You can call me warrior
But I'm actually the war starter

Long ago in days of old
I gave you clubs then broadswords
Now you use machinery
New toys of war, new toys for me
You've elected one of my
Right-hand men to lead your kind
After war saves your economy
He'll soothe you with artificial peace

Mushroom clouds, atomic fright
Burning winds, your towns ignite
I have taught you very well
How to create your own Hell
Blind mice follow their leaders
No one wins, it's the end of class
Push your button and you've passed

13. Angel Of Death

The world on fire, scarred by war...
Millions falling to Hell's floor...
The human race, bled to death...
Poison gas chokes the breath...

Booted feet crush the ground...
In slaves chains you're beaten down...
Tortured hand claw the sky...
And burned survivors beg to die...

The fire touch of the brand...
Mace and Chain in a bloody hand...
Legions die at his command...
His iron will shall rule the land...

Angel of Death
Rides the skies
Angel of Death
Choose who dies

14. Riders Of Doom

Iron hooves pound the ground
Iron riders from the north
Ice hearts full of hate
Cold touch the whim of fate

Swift come the dogs of war
Swift from the mouth of hell
Steel glints in their hands
Hard the will that drives it home

Oh the riders of doom
Vengeance and fire upon you soon
Oh the riders of doom
Bringers of death
Riders of doom

Wheel and charge in the smoke and flame
Hammer smashed face to spatter the brain
Running men die with an axe in the back
Dying men howl as they press the attack

15. The Riddle Master

[Hidden Track]

[Manilla Road cover]

What lies in the dungeons
Of Holy men's fears
For what would kings cower
And men drown in tears
What brings death and pleasure
Growth and decay
What makes life worth living
Who's the master today

That's how note read
Slipped under my door
The reason I know not
I have to know more
A poem to ponder
A challenge this night
The Riddle Master
Wants to master my mind
Oh no no no, oh no no no

Strange I was chosen, the fool divine
To battle the master
Of riddle and rhyme
Another mountain
For me to climb
I must find the answer
Before I run out of time

I have no solution
My mind blank with fear
The riddle has slain me
The master is near
Another demon
Walking the Earth
An Angel of darkness
Lucifer
Oh no no no, oh no no no

I can't believe it's true
I feel so damned coonfused
All I know is I must carry on and on and on

With blazing steel I'll fight
The evil in the night
Daughter of hell I shall not lose, not to you

Then it came to me
Just like a waking dream
The answer had to be Reality

The master does not laugh
Defeated by a man
Leviathan be damned, yea, yea, yea

16. One Mind (Live)

[Saint Vitus cover]

Release your head from the world
keep yourself underground
no one understands your mind
grown tired of screaming
and talking to the walls
no one understands your mind

Humans programmed like robots
making sure you don't belong
no one understands your mind
live with the constant knocking
from the fools at your door
no one understands your mind

Searching hell for the exit
never to be found
no one understands your mind
if you could stop the world
you would take your leave
no one understands your mind







THE GATES OF SLUMBER LYRICS