VIRGIN STEELE LYRICS

1. By The Hammer Of Zeus (And The Wrecking Ball Of Thor)

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Edward Pursino - Guitars / Frank Gilchriest - Drums / Josh Block - Guitar Solo]

I know you I taste your essence
With the Blackness of my mind
Pain is me and I'm relentless
The wedding bells of death now chime
In the darkness of your mourning
All your treasures become mine

A living flame
Will be your star to follow
Stolen Splendor I am there...
BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS AND THE WRECKING BALL OF THOR!!!

Black is my heart in spite of the dawn
Black is my soul with fear, force and malice
I bring the sun out of the dark
Rabid and sharp you'll fell the madness
From my black dead world

Evil winds blow on the water
Fill your mouth with poison wine
All behold the arts of murder
The seven winds of Anu cry
Thunder, spear and sacred iron
Set a course for Man divine

The mountain flame will be your star to follow
Golden splendor... I am there...
BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS AND THE WRECKING BALL OF THOR!!!

Black is my heart in spite of the dawn
Black is my soul with fear, force and malice
I bring the sun from out of the dark
Rabid and sharp you'll fell the madness
From my black dead world

Savage I start to tear out your eyes
The Gods swarm like flies in the starlight...
True flesh is born to rape Ancient forms
A grave for your world where the God light
Tears your soul

I am the son of the sun, I am the wreaker of pain
I am the son of the sun born to no one
I am the wreaker of pain
Nothing remains of your world...

Savage I start to tear out your eyes
The Gods swarm like flies here on my sacrifice
Kingship has come to Heaven's new son
A grave for your world as starlight bleeds you gold

I know you I claim your essence
In the Blackness of my mind
Pain is me and I'm relentless
The wedding bells of death now chime

The Golden Hawk will be your star to follow
Throne of fire I am there...

BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS AND THE WRECKING BALL OF THOR!!!
BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS AND THE WRECKING BALL OF THOR!!!
BY THE HAMMER OF ZEUS AND THE WRECKING BALL OF THOR!!!

Black is my heart in spite of the dawn
Black is my soul with fear, force and malice
I bring the sun form out of the dark
Rabid and sharp you'll fell the madness
From my black dead world

2. Pagan Heart

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Edward Pursino - Guitars / Frank Gilchriest - Drums / Josh Block - Guitar Solo]

Burning are the Angels of the black moonrise
Sons of darkness flayed alive
Like a funeral star I will assail
Death awaits what the Gods unveil

Goddess, Enchantress
Nocturnal youth bride
Return in Chaos Divine...

MY PAGAN HEART - lives for the hour
MY PAGAN HEART - burns to devour
When God will be ripped from the sky
I'll be free

Blinded by the arrows of a black new flame
It burns alive but it will not tame
Not dead but dreaming alive... In your eyes
A cross is torn from the wood we prize
True sons of darkness
We heal by your side 3 days of visions arise
Underworld imprisoned living communion
Waiting for Hel to appear

MY PAGAN HEART - lives for the moment
MY PAGAN HEART – is healed from its torment
When God will be ripped from the sky
I'll be free

Let there be dark!!!
Summoning the presence in the storm of wind
A throne of blood for the snake within
Who is she who is she hot... ghost divine
Cobra Queen of the Ancient Line

Triplicate Goddess the Crossroads of night
Earth Mother, Father and Child...
Bleeding from a thousand wounds in the torchlight
Chaos is what we appear

MY PAGAN HEART - lives for the hour
MY PAGAN HEART - burns to devour
For I am the bull who is torn
And I am the lion who's tearing
Guarding the time of your death in my hands

MY PAGAN HEART - lives for the hour
MY PAGAN HEART - brings forth in power
When God will be ripped from the sky!

MY PAGAN HEART - lives for the answer
MY PAGAN HEART – screams like a panther
To be Free!!!

3. The Bread Of Wickedness

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Frank Gilchriest - Drums / Josh Block - 7 String Guitars]

[SAMAEL:]
You'll never know how much I hate thee
Child born of wind, Goddess born to sin
I gave you life...
You'll never know how much I hate thee
Blast your Seven Heads, blast your Seven Hills
And Twelve Horned Crown

They're getting too wise
They've learned to devise
Send them the floor of the flame...
They eat THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS
It's in their eyes, it's in their eyes God
Eat THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS
It's in their eyes, it's in their eyes God

Take them God
Your daughters rape them
Ravish them with grief
How can there be peace
With such as these...
Harlots both disobey You!
Multiply their pains!
Make sex and death the same
In every Eye...

They've stolen Your Fire
They've vanquished the dawn
They've taught those
To worship the moonrise
Cast them in chains, release now your flame
But first one more taste 'fore they drown

They eat THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS
It's in their eyes, it's in their eyes God
Eat THE BREAD OF WICKEDNESS
It's in their eyes, it's in their eyes God

4. In A Dream Of Fire

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Edward Pursino - 6 String Guitars & Guitar Solos / Frank Gilchriest - Drums / Josh Block - 7 String Guitars]

[LILITH:] Oh my love...here we die...

In this Land of Brilliant Sorrow
Clouds and Rain and Darkness follows
A Graveside Kiss an empty Moral
The Sunlight tracks The Death we swallow
Will you run with me through Wild Plains
Will you hunt with me with Wolves
Through the Forest where the Spirits mate
And the Savage Gods are born...

Calling, Howling, Lightning to the One

Oh we are moving far away from the Sun
Or any memory of that there was ever Sun
In our Black fucking Sky

[ADAM:] Is there Thunder in our Heaven
Is Osiris by your side
Who is Jesus and our father?
[LILITH:] He's a Tyrant in disguise
With a rushing and a roaring
Came the Terrible Sons of Mourning
Feel the Beauty of my Weapons
But don't let me kill your Self...

Calling, Howling, Lightning to the One

Oh we are moving far away from the Sun
Or any memory of that there was ever Sun
In our Black empty Sky... Oh lookout, lookout...
Oh under Black Raven Skies???
Calling, Howling, Lightning we follow
Burning down Heaven...Immortal Love,
Immortal Hate, to the One

Oh here we are moving far away from the Sun
Or any memory of that there was ever Sun
While you are drowning in the bowels of the Earth
I will be rising scarred by each of my Births...
Oh we are moving Blackened far from the Sun
Or any memory of that there was ever Sun

[GOD:]
I see our Future it Burns with Moonfire Eyes
Desperate Estrangement War and everyone Dies
Under Black empty Skies...Yeow!Oh!

[LILITH:]
Under Black Raven Skies
The Sun burns Black in Gardens Hollow...

[ADAM:] (This Garden is dead)...

[LILITH:]
Seas of Chaos,
Shadow Darken...

[ADAM:] (Shadow lengthen)

[LILITH:] Sundered from ourselves...waith... we are forsaken...

5. Nepenthe (I Live Tomorrow)

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Edward Pursino - 6 String Guitars & Solo #2 / Frank Gilchriest - Drums / Josh Block - 7 String Guitars & Solo #1]

[LILITH:] Yea, Ah...ohhh...Blacken the Sunrise

Daylight it Tortures me Daylight Unknown
God's Vow fades with the Sun's Pyre
Cold Fires where the Flames have all gone dim
Drown all your rage; I'll never come back again...
...never...

A Brave Fight...Enter the Night
The same Desire falls...Enter the Night
I'm Haunted by your Lies...Mad Dreams
The same Desire falls...Enter the Night
oh...oh...
I LIVE TOMORROW I can't live today
Seek me in Starlight seek me in Rain
that falls down over thee...oh...
Strange Lights..Enter the Nights
Twin Souls are Torn...Enter the Nights
Wreathed in Blood where do you sleep?
Lost vows... I cannot heal...

I LIVE TOMORROW I won't live today
Seek me in Sorrow
seek me in Rain that falls down over thee
I LIVE TOMORROW,
I can't live today...NO!!!
Seek me in Silence
seek me in Pain...
...seek me in Pain...

6. The Orpheus Taboo

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitars & Guitar Solo / Frank Gilchriest - Drums]

I have dreams of fallen Gods
When darkness screams and light dissolves
A Word, a Law a doomed command
But not for me, my Will demands...

Ghost colored rainbows appear to deceive
In an act of defiance I vow to conceive

Open your eyes, open alive
Burned in the wind your death will be birth
Open your eyes open a lie
Savior within there is nothing to keep me here...

I believe in what I am
One part God alone and the Flesh of Immortal Man
Spirit healing Nature's cries
Torn from Star Winged Worlds
and the breath of a Titan's soul...
I am falling to the Sun,
bleeding hours born of none

Far beyond knowledge all thought, sight and speech
Blessed with rage and defiance in every heartbeat...

Open your eyes open alive
Burned in the wind (but) your death will be birth
Open your eyes open a lie
Save your within there is nothing to keep me here...
keep me here... keep me here... keep me here...

One Forbidden Thing
The One Forbidden Ring
One Vow to break...
When Lightning laughs and Death is chaste
to kiss the Green World awake...

Man equals God... The Age Of The Hero Is Mine...

God is not apart...
Divinity within and without

One Forbidden Door
The One Forbidden Shore
One Path to take...
To lift the Veil and taste the Fruit
To touch the Bark while Awake

I put forth my hand... I take from the Tree
Fuck you I will not look back...
The Age Of The Hero is mine... self create...

I have dreams of fallen Gods
When Laughter screams... light dissolves...

Open your eyes open alive
Burned in the wind your death will be birth
Open your eyes open a lie
Save your great sin
there is nothing to keep me here...

The Age Of The Hero is mine...

7. To Crown Them With Halos Parts 1 & 2

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitars & Guitar Solo / Frank Gilchriest - Drums]

Come to me like Water
Come to me from the depths of the Moonlight
Come to me my Daughter
Lay with me like the White Rose of Summer
Come child, love child
Night drowns in your arms...

Fire, Communion the Serpent Divine
These are the bonds of Glory...
The Eye of the Mystic
Her Flesh is the Wine these are the bonds we share

Under the Sea, under the Sky
Hell in the boundless Air
Magick denied, Love crucified
Heaven is seared where Faith resides

TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done
TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done in the Night

Black Superstition a Cauldron of Crime
These are the Scars of Glory
Savage desires are bound into the Savior's Shroud

Cast from the wall ravished by all
Death wears a coward's face
Torn from your Throne, raped to the bone
Heaven is Fear disguised as Life

TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done
TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done in the Night???

Walk through the fire yearning for all your life
Pain never ending, Heaven is breathing Fire
Proud Rebel Angel at War with a future Saint
Blaze like a Beacon for all of us here in Hell...
oh, my Lyzebel...

Angel of Fire
They're burning your tears alive
Where is thy God?
Thorns for your marriage bed...

Counterfeit Myths, Blood from a Kiss
Heaven is Fear disguised as Life

They Thunder the Music of Hatred
they worship the Song of the Nails
They delight in the sound of disaster,
the blood, the lies and the wails...
Their passage has no true fixed center
all their horizons default to a line
Their God is incensed, his anger unquenched
His cruelty is truly Divine...

Come to me like Water
Come to me with the death of the Moonlight
Come to me my Daughter
Lay with me in the ashes of summer
Run child, blood child, with shrouds for your charms...

TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done
TO CROWN THEM WITH HALOS - they come and they come
TO CROWN THEM WITH FIRE - their Black work is done in the Night

8. The Black Light Bacchanalia (The Age That Is To Come)

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitar & Guitar Solo / Frank Gilchriest - Drums]

Green fires glow in a Sepulchral Sky
Summoning Hell with the blink of an eye
Cast into bondage a Devil will drive
The Spirit of Evil Eternally thrives

13 incisions with plague burning Black
A casket of wet chilled air
Slashing the Skies and plundering Dark
An Ocean of Blood filled Prayer

Unending Fire and unending might
Melting the Life from the Dawn
Raising a Hell where your Heaven had been
A stain in the Heart of the Rose
For The Age That Is To Come...

Vampire mist here the Moon driven cry
Chained to the rack - Heaven moans & dies
Heretic gospels the maimed reply
Dead voices whisper the word defy

Night Ravens call Century's wound
A Crescent of Star Crossed Fear
Brimstone revisions of house the quick
Blood & a Cross to bear

Unending Fire and unending might
Melting the Life from the Dawn
Raising a Hell where your Heaven had been
A stain in the Heart of the Rose
For The Age That Is To Come...
For The Age That Is To Come...
For The Age That Is To Come...

Green fires glow in a Sepulchral Sky
Thundering Visions of Hell arrive
Cold liquid bells summon lies
A City of the Damned cries

A frenzy of feeding, the judgment of sharks
The Spire, the Gallows, the Wheel
Ravage their bodies to savor their souls
An Orphan of Death's Despair

Unending Fire and unending might
Melting the Life from the Dawn
Raising a Hell where your Heaven had been
A stain in the Heart of the Rose
For The Age That Is To Come...
For The Age That Is To Come...
For The Age That Is To Come...

9. The Tortures Of The Damned

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitar]

[ADAM:] I walk...I ride...
Through Streets of Genocide
My Words drip Blood
Like Savage Mist is Love
No choice...no home
Black Thoughts like Rivers run

What Death what grief
Whose voice can slay belief...
What Hope what care
In a world beyond repair...

To Praise what Truth
Who's Flag to now Salute...
What God is this...
Whose people are so dismissed...

No sigh, no tear...
Black Sunset Kiss of Fear...
The Walls remain
The Flesh defies the Brain...

Speak not of Peace
Devour the Well of Grief...
And run like Stone
Embrace your Death alone tonight...
...oh this Night...

What Ancient lie can let my People Die...
I will tear...
...your Fucking Kingdom from the Sky!

10. Necropolis (He Answers Them With Death)

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitar & Guitar Solo]

Seek them on each mountain range
On every hill...under each tree
Tear down their pillars and shrines
Burn every thing leave none alive...

Run thru the city and kill everyone inside - (I hear your voice)
Put to the sword all the young and the old alike - (I hear your voice)
Shatter their temples their idols of gold
Light up the Darkness with Crosses of Souls

When she says, ...Father am I not your own...?
And he says, ...Father what's it like upon your throne...?
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Black Winter on their eyes
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Great Liar of the Skies
He Answers them...

Murder and torture 'til even the sunlight cries
Burn them to ashes and don't let their Spirits rise
Uncrown their Kings make their virgins your slaves
Rape their Moon Goddess let no one be saved

When she says, ...Father open up your soul...
And he says, ...Father what's it like to be so cold......?

HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Black Winter on their eyes
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Great Liar of the Skies...
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Stacked victims brutalized
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Great Tyrant of the skies...

Oh no, I'll not forsake my name
To live in the bonds of unreason and suffer each day...
Only to die stillborn...

Out Father who's surely not in Heaven
Unhallowed be all thy Names (No...)
Thy Kingdom will not come (I'll offer fires high)
Thy Will...will not be done
Not on this Earth, not in any Heaven...
Forever and Ever...Ahhh...Womb men...

Eat the dust all the days of your life...
...crawl on your belly...
Enmity between your seeds bruising the head and heel
Man return to the Dust from which you are made
The Dust is the Earth, is the Mother...
...so they return to Her...not the Father...

Our Father what truth's have you been told,
What truth's do you uphold,
What fear have you been sold?

Ahhh...the Dust is the Earth, the Earth is the Mother...
So we return to Her...not the Father...
I'm never gonna leave... the Silence so loud...

Are we not your Children are we not Divine?
Are all forms not One in your infertile mind?

When she says, ...Father can I come back home...?
And he says, ...Father...what's beyond your great unknown...?

DEATH!!! - Black Winter on their eyes...
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Great Liar of the Skies...
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Stacked victims brutalized
HE ANSWERS THEM WITH DEATH - Great Liar of the skies...

Cold rays stream from the Heaverns
Bold screams her Name from our green tomb
Gold Queen grant us salvation
Old Themes reborn forever...

Victims of deep Mountain rage
I will not fail I will Defeat...!

11. Eternal Regret

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Orchestration & Guitar Solo]
[Edward Pursino - 6 String Guitar / Josh Block - 7 String Guitar / Frank Gilchriest - Drums]

[GOD:] Count the red lights on the highway
Thunder in your ear
Is there something moving in my way
Beyond the Gates Of Fear...
Entombed to praise the Dark
Exhumed to blackened stares
Is there anyone to answer?
Is it still remembered here...?
Bonedust and leaves blow in the wind
You laugh but never smile in my mind
On this Dark fated day I can feel you far away
Oh give me back the Night that I have wronged...

Soon this Dust will cease to sing!

How does the Day still Dawn
When my empty Nighttimes roar
Hours of endless weeping
But I know you can't be freed
Through the Dust of Hell I call you
But you'll never answer me

If the Ending is not of Brass
I feel you in the Cold
Your Eyes of Moonlit Fire
Burn Haunted Winter Groves
I remember your Last Days here
Despair is in my Soul with every Star I'm breaking!!!

What have I done... my Children
What have I done?
Where have you gone... my Wild Lover
Where have you gone?
Scattered into space...

Desire blames desire
And Hatred Storms with Love
Shattered by the flesh I aspire to...
...it crumbles into dust...

Bonedust and tears assault my eyes
You laugh but never smile within my mind
No Wine can drown all these hated memories
Oh give me back the Goddess I have wronged...
I'm watching from the Sky
With Eyes the truth burned blind
Are you happy now I'm wrong?
I can feel it when you lie
Is there any answer oh...
...for all the pain that's gone before?

Is there still a red Rose in your Heaven
Is it still remembered in your World
Did the Heavens open wide
On the Day that you died...

Where have you gone...oh...where have you gone...
When will you know...
Where have you gone...
Never to return...

Never...everything's faded...return...
You're lost now...screams in a kiss...

Who speaks of you and I... in a World of Pain & Mist
...when the Soul screams in a kiss...
I still...I still see you...I die...
There's still a Face like a Flame
in my Heart...Haunt your Headstone...
Haunted, haunted we die...in shame...
7 Devils Haunt...shattered by Life...
Black Roses Haunt your Headstone
7 Devils Haunt your Headstone...
...for your Grave...

12. When I'm Silent (The Wind Of Voices)

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion & Orchestration]
[Edward Pursino - 6 String Guitar & Guitar Solo / Josh Block - 7 String Guitar]

[Bonus track]

Oh...beyond all words...
And when you rape me don't ask me what's wrong
And when you Burn my World I won't make a sound
Breathe in the Silence and find yourself alone
To take the Lie and make it Gold
To feed the Fire as it Burns your Soul
You can't recover the Life you've had before

Take my Hand we'll be as One
We'll come together in our shared pain
For There will be nothing but an empty face
When we're Silent... Silent Cold and Dead...

The Wind of Voices Haunts our Tomb
This Hate is Your Child alone in this Room
The Claws of Green Fate anoint your bitter tears
To take the knife and stab your dreams
To cauterize remorseless screams
You'll remember thins you might have done

Take my Hand we'll be as One
Run forever from the Sunrise
There will be nothing but an empty face
When we're Silent, Lord I'm Violent, Soul Divided...
run the other way, run the other way...

Every living thing recalls your name
Every living thing reflects your shame
Say the Word...say the Words...

And bleed yourself now, you bleed for yourself
After the Rain ascends now...
I call your name, call your Name, I call your Name, call your Name...over and over...

Take my Hand we'll be as One
Run forever in the Darkness
They'll be nothing but an empty face
In the Silence, Lord I'm Violent, Soul Divided...
run the other way...

Take my Hand we'll be as One
Run forever through the Darkness
They'll be nothing but an empty face
When we're Silent, Silent Cold and Dead... Oh Dead... Cold & Dead...
Beyond all Hope, beyond all Fear...
Every little bitter breath, every little bitter vreath...
The Face inside the Star...

13. Silent Sorrow

[Music & Lyrics by David DeFeis]
[David DeFeis - All Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion & Orchestration]
[Josh Block - 7 String Guitars]

[Bonus track]

She walks in the Garden...
Sunlight, Golden Face...
Treading the Air so Lovely...

What do I think, what do I see
Angels weaving Golden Webs
Entwined in Shrouded Mist
Across the Cold Moors at Dawn...
Spreading here and there and there...and there...

(She says) - Oh I am Beautiful
Ancient Elegance yet such a Child
Oh I'm fanciful
I only hear the Music... ohhh... in my head...

What do I feel, what do I think
The Skies are Cold
And there is no hope for the future...no
Look into my eyes the melting of our gaze turns up empty...
And lips that part to speak make sounds too hard to reach...

I want the words to reach you still
You want to touch the Light upon the hill
You want to feel the things I feel
But the Hour's late and the time isn't now
So we'll part in Silence in the Cold
And hope the time will come when the story will unfold...

We'll part in silence in the cold
And tears will flow as foretold
We'll part in silence in the cold
A fleeting kiss that dies before it's old
From lips that speak to ears that can't comprehend the love the heart can send...
The love the heart can send...

14. From A Whisper To A Scream (The Spoken Biography)

[Bonus track]

[Includes Excerpts from:
"The Black Light Bacchanalia (The Age That Is To Come)",
"To Crown Them With Halos",
"Necropolis (He Answers Them With Death)",
"Through The Ring Of Fire",
"Invictus",
"Kingdom Of The Fearless (The Destruction Of Troy)",
"The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell (Revisited)",
"Visions Of Eden",
"Crown Of Glory (Unscarred)" and "A Symphony Of Steele".]







VIRGIN STEELE LYRICS