VHÖL LYRICS

1. The Wall

A vengeful ghost
An empty shell of former glory
The empty shell
When the world knew itself
When the world knew itself

The wall crumbles in the madness of freedom
This grieving pace of molten dread
Fires burn high reaching cloud and feather
Billions release the purge of ages
Exhale acrid black from the lungs of gods

The wall crumbles in the madness of freedom

2. Insane With Faith

Worshipping ghosts blood flowing red
Haunting the living
Haunting the dead
Teach all the children the things they should dread
Spirits broken by guilt
They're force-fed
Broken by hope
Poisoned with fear
Sing your god's graces to all who come near
Yet this grace cannot be found on the holy battle ground

Search for mercy in the blackened skies

Religious dogma
Absolute truth
Corpus delicti
Killing our youth
Kill for belief
Bellum sacrum
Rhythm of millions in step with the war drums

Insane with faith

3. Plastic Shaman

The wage of sin is death.... but what is this death
Is it where death was born as taught by pious souls?
Who wage a war on peace to thieve from what is free to deny our very breath in the guise of spirit

Will the dust return to dust
Shall the spirit be damned to burn
Will the dust return to dust
Shall the spirit be damned

Get thee back plastic shaman
Plastic shaman you fear your own truth is false

Fearing the wrath of God
It's men who hammer the nails fearing the death of our souls while man cuts flesh from bone

Get thee back

4. Grace

The stage is set
Thieves hedge their bets
Blood campaigns ravenous cold
Teeth hungry grinding greed sharpened by twisted need
Grim plans unfold as white as snow

Smirking at those who struggle
False feints at empathy
Completely drained of all humanity
Calculate to divert attention from malicious grave intention
Laughing from tables tall as we fight for the scraps

How did we fall so far so far from grace
Can't we see our dignity
How did we fall so far from grace
Can't we see our dignity
How did we fall so far down

Smirking at those who struggle
False feints at empathy
Completely drained of all humanity
Calculate to divert attention from malicious grave intention
Laughing from tables tall as we fight for the scraps

How did we fall so far from grace that we cannot see our original face

Broken again empty promises from calloused hearts
Broken again

5. Illuminate

Into endless skies of slumber
Draped dark curtains shut and drawn tight
Adorned in a blanket of sullen weave
Dense as the deepest sea

In darkness bind
The ending of time
Illuminate
This initiate
Illuminate this candle blown out

Ragged red fires dance and play
Blazing molten heat rising from the deception
Of turning water into wine
Of turning lead into gold
Of turning one against other
In decadence this world's heart grows cold

Shaking from my nature shaking off the dust from this ageless trial
Illusions cast aside illusions laid to rest upon the shore
Biting wind hard as stone striking heavy sleep from our eyes
Revealed by grace torches ablaze the disguise revealed and burnt away

No measure of blood, no measure of hate
No measure of rage will clean off the slate

6. Arising

Locked in a cage surrounded by fools
Who hold all the keys who make all the rules
Let's make a stand for once and for all
This broken machine is destined to fall

Arising from bended knees
Triumphant
Arising

Storming the gates taking command
Breaking the chains that shackle this land
Raging with power scream for release
Awake from the sleep of centuries

Arising from bended knees
Triumphant
Arising

7. Songs Set To Await Forever

Spinning in circles
Laughing in angles
Dreaming in disguise
From this throne of slumber
As this vision unfolds
Turning listless within
Barely held in memory
When this gnawing began

On a bolt of lightning comes the shock every nerve ablaze
The watchful eye of the moon dances like life and death
Reflecting in the eyes of water of forests of earth
Reeling from the concussive blast the blast

Countless seismic waves shake souls to their foundations
From the burn of the searing sun comes the pain
That orbits wisdom, orbits sun and stars
Reflecting in the eyes of heaven in the seraphim's hell

Soaring high on ashen skies singing blood red glory
These songs set to await forever







VHÖL LYRICS