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Intro (2017 Remaster)
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Behind the lavish mirror
Where a clean commonage abides
The throne of accord has fallen
Sprung ablaze in the blackened sky
Divergence casts a dismal shadow
The luminous inscribed
The night's horde has crossed
Their pathetic line
Behold the lush infernal night
Remnants of woe in its wake
The spirited few who perceive the sight
Revel in the loss of the sane
A storm exists in swimming minds
Like a wolf apace in the dark
The voice of conquer echoes aloud
The spryest sparks are barred
Prune the bleeding flower
Its nectar pierce thy soul
Its burn-a torch most deadly
The paling light grows cold
Pry the seal of all life
Mere ill-flavored debris
An execrable earth
A wretched eternity
Brave the wind...leaves of time...lies
Strike down the common void
Hate...the stench of writhe...swine
Shy away from the light
A foul taste...the bitter sting...lash out
The lustrous slave must die
A whore's child...stillborn...life's vein
Bask in its blood
The betray
Torn affinity
Lash out
Extrude
Grasp the mournful gloom
Remove
Pure dissension and pride
Replace
Commence our time anew
Abhor
Discard
Refuse
Allegiance to their fault
Instill
Contrive
Redeem
The pride that they have thieved
Abet
Uproot
Ravage
The kingdom they have formed
Crush
Route
Our flame
Will melt their golden crown
The way of the flesh is set
A presculptured dirt is dead
Unleash our wrathful rite
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Enamoured with the benighted czar
Her beauty defiled through diaphanous garb
Ephemeral love for the prevalent ruse
A primordial gloom for those who seek her doom
Invoking fear in most who lust for repent
Their sin--a lost art--It was the birth of repress
Pretense worship is the genuine err
To obey the divine is to live consciously blind
A squalid emblem
Subjugate the mortal lie
A fallacy--the true unholy measure
Jus sanguinis is her way of life
An unharnessed raven
His wing will conquer all
Those amongst who are unenlightened
Will receive the fiercest blow
The prophecy that she bestows
Among the weak is filth
Her most prodigious mold
The only fate we have foretold
Is ourselves, our will
We rend those souls opposed
And down upon the midnight sky
We will renounce the wrath
Heighten her tide of demise
If this night succeeds, the black
Will stain the earth and all is
Lost--Who will shear the path?
The severed whore bears a foolish rant
Beneath her glare is clear thought-an infallible stab
Ousted in an astral dimension
Is her "truth"-the life-the death-we won't succumb
Amass the earth as one synthetic majesty--
The siren song--A necromancer of sorts
Evil akins to the foul cursed law
Our storm will devour--spew forth a hideous squall
The sheer disgust of "faith"
Absorbs our mind--imbibed
The writ must be erased
Her fiery eyes that heed
The land should be gouged
Alive--She will fall by our hand
The pallid heart that she can
Impose--is as black as the night--
Will she war with her foes?
Volition is the ground where we stand
We'll defend ourselves
Our steel eager to brand
The dust of centuries
A veil of myth and lore
In the end, it will reap the futile
Their soul shall fall upon the sword
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As the winter lays dying
I whisper the words
The sand's hourglass
Will be overturned
And life as we know it will
Pass like the day and all
That was bright will
Now turn to gray
I can show you fear in
A handful of dust
The cinders of time
Stoke the fires of lust
The allure of fire
My only desire
Its glow engulfs my soul
The ashes rich in the
Undoing of passion
Nursing the unearthly seed
The line that was sewn
Between the young and the old
Falls prey to the god that feeds
Torment suffering
A prowl in the darkest gray
Mesmerized by the vile witchcraft
Its night tricks the eye
With the illusion of day
Suppress and mourning
Beware the supple dawn
Engrossed in the rape of delight
Its the dungeon that snares
Our thought
A glimpse of Hades
Ethereal blood has dried
Avouch the meaning of pleasure
The spattered feast defied
Ponder the hell as to dream
It hangs in the balance of life
Poised to cut through ambiguity
Pull the wool over death's eyes
Fateful is the deceiving wind
A fury of dust and desire for bath
Cleanse the despair over sin
Muffle the cries and the dark howling laugh
Conjure a scent with sweet caress
Instead of a burning fear incensed
Ravenous hatred swallows surmise
Devoid of mirth-no kingdom shall rise
The water clock has
Strangled the morn
It bores from within
Its beating pulse will adorn
The love of this god
Weeps-an essence long-lived
It breeds a raging heat
Pent up in the skin
The glass orb casts
A glance upon their graves
A dire end to those
Who wish to be saved
An incubus spread
Where maidens do lie
Foul cruelty
A faint mortal cry
The depth of my sanity
Walks in step
With my evil state-
A cloaked serpent?
A need for steep primacy
Lies in the hands
Of the sun and the moon
And the earth's fatal grab
Sadistic by nature
Terror in tongue
A (rabid) display of ancient evils
Out of blue tides are wrung
Bow to the sands
The valley of life
Meter derived
From the blade of the blackest knight
Founded in conquer
Bound to the scythe
The soil's weak race
Are seated before the emerald sky
Lone Ghost pit to roam
Loosely unrefined
Apparition in fate
I behold-the hooded one in his prime...
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Your life is a myth
Brought forth by insanity's creator
But you can't resist
The lies you have been told
The world is nothing
Random accidents-mixed up with disorder
Your "soul" fulfills the ancient ignorance
Of life eternal-a cliched prophecy
Close your eyes to the light
Endure the bitter cold
Enslaved by your God
Conform to their hold
Shed blood of the ages
Hypocrisy unbound
The innocent left to rot
Beneath your holy ground
Desolate, mindless thoughts
Kill the sound
Emptiness in your breath
Whispering
Lonely hearts, life has no mercy
Bury me
You're just a spec, one in a million
Filling space
Life
Has
No
Place...
Symbolic of nothing more...
Create your myth...
Sculpt the lies
Evolve and be left behind...
Your thoughts are supposed to be advanced
But you resort back to your old ways
Absorb the abstract thoughts
Of inane drivel
You narrow-minded hypocrite
See the err of your claims
Force upon me your corrupt methods
Of campfire folklore
Rot in the soil
Bathe in the dirt
Unconsciousness
Immersed in the black!
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Bitterness awakens
From its sleep in the heart of man
Cold shivers incest the young ones...
In our greatness we fall damned
Hatred imbeded
Deep within our putrid souls
Bloody hands still remain clad
With the torture of humanity
We live in a world of
Individual lust
No one can save us
From ourselves
Human nature...
Or maybe animal instinct
Hereupon,
The screams turned cries remain
It makes a slave of me
Slowing down my personal thoughts
Escape the fallacy
Of cleanliness unbound
Slit my wrists...
Free me from the pain of life
Let blood flow
Down my arm and from my soul
Seal my fate...
To torture for a thousand years
Kill yourselves...
No one cares about your tears...
Happily married am I
To the soft home whence I came
But the torment of your find
Interrupts my eternal dream of life...
Neverending agony
Fulfills your precious cause
My eyes are bloodshot red
From pondering killed innocence
We will never free ourselves, we're
Bound to pathetic lies
To continue-to exist like this
Is living suicide
Now is the time to admit our fault
The dark embrace is yet to squeeze
The purity of this ugly clan
You are a horrid sight to see
The perfect likeness
Of oppression and guilt
Morality Does Not Exist
Except Within Your Minds
Reality Is An Opiate Plane
Created By All Mankind
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Beneath the floor of geneology
Holds truth in this hollow blood
Vanishing from comprehension
Is the proof of the settled way
Burn in your mythical land
Let the fires consume your "souls"
The foul stench of rotting thought
Floats amidst in the wintering cold
I can remember when
You meant existence to me
The whithering travesties
Brand flesh with her sickening sign
Love me for molded skin
Until the flames are permitted to burn
Melting unbridled lust
Forever cursed by your bleeding eyes
Reject me...Hate me
No pain too weak
No force too strong
Degrade me...Rape my mind
No thought too harsh
Release the lions
Experience the casualties and
Feel the pain
Sovereign leader - Demagogue
Of fallacy
Sole survivors of common sense
Are ridiculed
Greatness seen in naked eyes
Until their close demise
Illegitimate prophecy
Cacophonous sounds
Of Philomel
Dead, feeble species
Claimed as just
But walking blind
So few words need to be said...
Your primitive lives explain all
Eradicating brain cells
With each justifiable proof
How dead the concept is...
Shudder to think upon it
But, yet, one can't avoid
The muttering of mindless nonsense
Kill the local idiot
In this decaying Earth
Poisoning our cups
Each and every day
Like some immunity
That few have failed to see
Symbolic lamb-the leader
Of conformity
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Erasmus Iowa
Erasmus was a metal band formed in 1995 by Chris Lundon and Todd Bridgeman. Their first demo CD, "Forged For Proof Eterne" was released for free distribution at Metalfest in Milwaukee. A follow up was recorded in 2002. Containing only drums and guitars, those recordings remained untouched until the winter of 2008, when they were completed and released as "Nth Fen." ... more
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