Maladie
For We Are the Plague
1. Antimundane
I've set out on a thousand journeys at once
Free and in peace where no one can follow me
Oh, how jealous you would be
Even more than in the here and now
I'd rather caw like a raven
Than sing a lying song for thee
I'd rather spit poisoned black words
Than waste a melody on thou
Amidst the inner darkness I dwell
And I wait, wait for eternity
In me the brightest light rests and waits
Oh, it could enlighten all black holes
And then the moment passed
It was too short and fast
The time window is closed
You choose false like the most
The pentagram burns in the blood red sky
Fields of white ashes are my only path
The pentagram burns in the blood red sky
Fields of white ashes are my only path
I summon thee - Grand catharsis
I redeem myself - Come necrosis
Sweet emptiness - I embrace you
Seeking darkness - Loosen the glue
Yggdrasil fades - The black flame burns
The devil's gift - Higher than ever before
The great cleansing - Oh I praise thee
Demons adrift - Thy renewal to the core
Wraith of disease - The grand bleeding
Lifeless pleasure - Into rebirth
The conjuring - Shores of disease
2. And I Die Alone
I am the bringer of the end of all days
The awakener of timeless solitude
I lost my voice and I lost my destination
The final question and the final answer
Dwell in nothingness, I will be alone
Rise in my brightness, I will die alone
The saving shores are burning high
The bones inside me feel so cold
Scorn takes over after all this time
My mind of a thousand of years old
The search for the keys comes to the end
Realization that they never exist
So the days of judgment are finally near
Receive the embrace of enlightenment
How could names be remembered when there is no one left to remember?
Tell me how could anything ever have existed if there's no one left to see it?
Deep within the grave of my head
Where I am the king of all kings
Gliding on the black of my thoughts
Forward to everlasting peace
The path to salvation is rocky
And yet I still follow this road
The black braid is thinning finally
Light shines through the thicket void
The reaper awaits me with open arms
And his will be done
The flame of life is burning low
And I become the sun
But my final scream echoes in eternity
3. The Growing
This world feels so small... takes my breath away
Tighter and tighter, suffocates my screams
The older I get, the blacker the universe
The wiser I get, the further the stars
I grow and I grow, my thoughts waters me
I sow and I sow acts of awakening
And I'm gonna go and fly
And I'm gonna fall and die
In times when it's colder in the light than in the shade
The bare walls come closer and closer
When there are no more roofs to stop the rain
And my demons free themselves from the cage of mind
Beyond the inner strength, behind the wall of souls
The world filled too bursting, and yet so desolate
Into which universe should I escape?
If even infinity is too cramped?
What do I have to cut off from myself?
When everything sinks into mud and rains?
Being is illusion, just dreams of insane gods
Seeing is conclusion like streams of foul black bloods
Deceptive vast fields, just smoke and mirrors
The mirage of life within the masses
Nothing is all and all is nothing and the throne is unattainable
Is an end also a beginning? or is the beginning the end?
Where is the master of all answers? Did he ever exist?
Or is he dead like all your gods? Hidden in oblivion?
So bring him before me to receive his conviction
Representing all the growing, too much mass for too small worlds
You took me too much for granted my child
You have been rejected by all the gods
Because the gods are not with you
I am an ancient wraith full of cold questions
I'm not here to praise! Dead gods dissension
4. With One Voice
The dance around the thorns, life and death in embrace
The swaying of the damned to my discordant songs
The rhythm of the lost, bright septic melodies
And harmonies of pain for rhymes of endless doom
Hear my words in dissonant chants, choirs full of desolation
Feel my storms of immoral rants, ancient tones of a new nation
Belial rejoices, for my demons awake
Astaroth is reborn for I am my black chords
This is the devil's music
Love songs for the unholy
We are God's final sickness
Lightbringer's divine army
We don't follow, we lead, we are a fucking centipede
We've got the horned one with us, so we will never concede
We speak in tongues, scream in blood, all talking with one voice
And through it all, we take the toll so that Satan will rejoice
Upright like Beelzebub's pillars
We sing his verses with one voice
The drums are forcing an atomic blast
And all the strings are caressing the sweetest noise
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, rejoice
We don't follow, we lead, we are a fucking centipede
We've got the horned one with us, so we will never concede
We speak in tongues, scream in blood, all talking with one voice
And through it all, we take the toll so that Satan will rejoice
Upright like Beelzebub's pillars
We sing his verses with one voice
The drums are forcing an atomic blast
And all the strings are caressing the sweetest noise
This is Lucifer's music, the source of ultimate sins
This is organized chaos, Leviathan's healing wings
This is the devil's music, love songs for the unholy
We are God's final sickness, Lightbringer's divine army
The dance around the thorns, life and death in embrace
The swaying of the damned to my discordant songs
The rhythm of the lost, bright septic melodies
And harmonies of pain for rhymes of endless doom
5. Death Is Recognition
I wish you could see what I see. I wish you could feel what I feel
I wish you could fear what I fear and I wish you could understand
Listen to the wailing dead : they sing the song of sorrow
Recognize their words of wisdom 'cause you forgot the tomorrow
Stars collapse into blackest mind, firmament forever dark
Weep the times of the lost kind and see the lie of your God's mark
The plague hails without disguise, we have waited a long time
The hourglass of demise, no escape and no more sign
Drown in your own tears. All your dreams are dead
The truth in your fears and there's no way back
Aeons are just a second, time is an illusion
Eternity is a lie : that's your God's effusion
The skeleton army is marching to the end
Death is recognition and life is suicide
Sometimes there are no answers
Sometimes there are only goodbyes
The deafening silence hurts while the heart's inflamed and lost
Aeons in vain, a billion lifetimes for nothing
Existence, pain... there will be no second coming
Existence, pain... there will be no second coming
Aeons in vain, a billion lifetimes for nothing
Existence, pain... there will be no second coming
Mancher findet sein Herz nicht eher
Als bis er seinen Kopf verliert
6. Ghost of the Spaceless Void
Ghost of the spaceless void, where our coldest futures collide
Prison of thoughts revealed, when your existence is suicide
I found the key to time, I became the divine tides
I found the truest bride, I embrace death with pride
The exit of false existence. I am as old as the farthest stars
The end of all infinity and so will I be all born
The grandest oblivion within cleanest remembrance
I sail on the sea of souls into the storm of wisdom
And the roots intertwine where once was pure regress
The pillars of the spirit, I stand with my head held high
The purity of the eldest newborn surrounds me like a faithful harbinger
My blackened blood runs from your stigmata and pours the spoiled earth of your decadence
I am the temple of katharsis, the truth of all truths
I am the ghost of the spaceless void, the greatest cleansing
I call thee my fleeing anchor, hold me in the realm I create
I summon you my lord of light, enlightenment for dying hate
May the descendants outgrow ancestors
And overcome all their failures and learn
May they have all the crying wisdom
May they internalize all the knowing
And murder themselves when they become gods
7. For We Are the Plague
Into the world of the golden shimmering mist
Where there are no points of compass, no here and there
And nothing is tangible and yet so opaque
The black book lies open and reveals the future
Unknown letters form strange words but they fall from your dead lips
Blessing consuming curses in blackest tongues of reapers
Skeleton horses once so proud, forever bound to their burden
Dissonant choirs chant strange names, steps of invisible horror
For we are the plague, for we are the one
For we are insane, for we are the one
For we are the plague, for we are the one
For we are insane, for we are the one
All I see is burning fields and deceased forests
Dust is raining on the ruins of too many dying castles
On unforgivable mountains of bleached bones, it rests
Under the endless blood red sky, from forbidden fables
Pitch-black tentacles engulf all remaining souls
Severe chains that are binding their mortality
Bleak pale specters conquer brightest minds
Until nothing remains of humaneness, and of humanity
And the forgotten is the truth (all knowledge is emptiness)
Memory is the last torment (as you fall in unableness)
All wide open eyes blind (blackened by ignorance)
Muted tongues cry out deaf (chopped up by all the lies)
The deepest trenches empty in the midst of nothingness
Comes the last recognition, the purity of wisdom
For we are the plague, falling in eternity
For we are the fate, failing in divinity
And the earth will breathe, storm of redemption
Freed from ancient plague, times of renewal
And so begins infinity
8. Ruins in Triumph
I've been drawn to all that would seem too dark for you
And with time, the learnings of all things impure
You've been drowned and baptized with a feeble mind
And it's time you rise from the ground to the Light
Die Sünde liegt im Maul der Schlange. Tief verborgen und doch so nah
Das Sakrileg der Befreiung. Erlösung und Wiedergeburt
The ancient grotesque bathed in fire and shadow
The sick conception reborn in ice and embers
Death and birth, combined fall and rise divine
Redemption in sight, in my blood and wine
The beast awakens, the blackness above
Between dying stars, within healing vast
Ich habe dir nichts genommen, doch ich gebe dir nun so viel
Meiner Gnade ausgeliefert, schenke ich dir mein Innerstes
The youth in old age, wealth in poverty
And old age in youth, ruin Victory
I give you my flesh and bones, I dedicate my skin to thee
I give you screams and moans and I bled my black sap to see
The pulse slows down while I'm fading
The heart strengthens as the flesh burns
I free your spirits from their shells
The floodgates of the blood opened
I end your constant suffering
Broke through the gates to your father
9. I Am the Tomb
Deep so deep within
Blackness to stop time
Eternal abyss – Where no light can shine
The key to immortality, the dawn of the sick
Abysmal throats mourn silently, Devil's grandest trick
Buried in me, wrath and supremacy
Open the crypt and you'll finally see
Don't trust the silence, safe haven denied
Impact so immense, follow the blind-eyed
I am enthroned on 1000 skulls and no regret stirs inside me
I bed myself on 1000 corpses, no looking back at darkest times
Behold the storm out of my grave as cold as a hundred winters
Paradise deprived
Snake's fruit rejected
You've chosen the weak
Now rot from the core
Behold the storm out of my grave as cold as a hundred winters
The grand extinction has begun, I am the last womb and your tomb
Paradise deprived
Snake's fruit rejected
You've chosen the weak
Now rot from the core
No more blood for your cryptic words, letters of lies and flattery
No more oil and fire to burn books, your Reich falls into oblivion
Divine ears forever deaf, can't hear your final prayers
As you drown in pettiness, blind for the truth before eyes
Lord, you did forsake us
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