Haggard Awaking the Centuries PESTILENCIA Aides moi... - Oh, il est tombe! Mais, qu'est-ce qu'il a ? Saint vierge! Au secours! Venez! Venez! Venez! - C'est la peste! C'est la peste! Sauve qui peut! Sauve qui peut! - Dominus vobiscum - Et cum spiritu tuo. Quid est, quod vis? - Iter! Claudite fenestras et portas! Nunc manus Dei punientis pestilentiam etiam Agentem apportavit! - Domine, serva animos nostros... HEAVENLY DAMNATION Suffering dementia Unchains the secret's bearer Unholy visions "God forgive me!" Are coming nearer - coming nearer, Amen! - Lux perpetua, domine - Dementia slowly unlightens the mind And satan steals the morninglight - Domine - Viju svet v notschi tumanoi Ne prognat mne prisrak strany Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi - So God has found him weeping And wrath flickered deep withing His eyes So thy shalt suffer As long ago the one's been crucified The keeper of the Lord's mark Is rising up with this ability Heavenly damnation So thou shalt trust the seer... - Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi THE FINAL VICTORY We are writing the year 1543 A.D., the time the black plaque struck Agen, here Michael Nostradamus lived with his wife and two children. He confidently began to treat his felow citizens, but - unfortunately - was not able to save his family from his old enemy... - The final victory Has crushed the autumn silence The vinal victory Has crushed the autumn silence - Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat Mortius, domine, lux perpetua luceat Mortius, domine - Mortius, domine - Viju svet v notschi tumanoi Ne prognat mne prisrak strany Svet Negasnusei svetschi Gorit, Gorit v notschi - So God has found him weeping And wrath flickered deep withing His eyes So thy shalt suffer As long ago the one's been crucified The keeper of the Lord's mark Is rising up with this ability Heavenly damnation So thou shalt trust the seer... AWAKING THE CENTURIES Awaking the Centuries - In the books of what will be Written by the demon lord? Never lift your head up to the east 'cause darkness wakes the best! - Der Kerzen Schein Er leuchtet fahl Als das Sonnenlicht er stahl Und nur das große Himmelszelt Bezeugt das Ende dieser Welt - So feed the spark Welcome to the land of dark Death in all the centuries is what I left behind Take my hand Forgotten in the promised land Death in all the centuries is what I left behind - The knowledge, brought to the world Is growing with a bitter taste In a dream I saw things that will be Centuries away - Des Mondes Schein Er leuchtet fahl Das Herz der Finsternis er stahl Nun gleißend Lichte ihn umgibt Und doch des Menschen Hoffnung siegt...? - So feed the spark Welcome to the land of dark Death in all the centuries is what I left behind Take my hand Forgotten in the promised land Death in all the centuries is what I left behind - The night when evil steps out of the dark And the cross is rising again And fires are keeping the light Burn, my friend... - And the sign of humanity is burning tonight I can't escape from this ritual silence Humanity's burning tonight - When I open my eyes I see soldiers in the fields Dead bodies on the ground There are children inbetween Explosions shock the land And the evil shows its face The one called Hister rises This is the fall of grace... - Beast ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers The greater part of the region will be against the Hister The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage When the German child will obcserve nothing - In the books of what will be Written by the demon lord? Never lift your head up to the east 'cause darkness wakes the best! - Der Kerzen Schein Er leuchtet fahl Als das Sonnenlicht er stahl Und nur das große Himmelszelt Bezeugt das Ende dieser Welt - So feed the spark Welcome to the land of dark Death in all the centuries is what I left behind Take my hand Forgotten in the promised land Death in all the centuries is what I left behind - The knowledge, brought to the world Is growing with a bitter taste In a dream I saw things that will be Centuries away - So feed the spark Welcome to the land of dark Death in all the centuries is what I left behind Take my hand Forgotten in the promised land Death in all the centuries is what I left behind - And the sign of humanity is burning tonight I can't escape from this ritual silence Humanity's burning tonight IN A FULLMOON PROCESSION As the evining breaks The night awakes And the land is mournfully wrapped in silence Sorrow last And remains the past cause this will be my ending day - Then the moonlight dies And torches rise See the crowd longing for the ritual burning Holy rimes, as the churchbells chime cause this will be my ending day - Silent thief Take me away Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales And as the fire enlightens the dark I see the face bewildered with guilt An nobody's speaking a word - And the dark night enters - See the soul that's coming out of darkness into light Pictures, I can't fight Appearing in front of my eyes Like silhouettes in the night - Like they give bread to the beggars They get ready for the feast Cruelty absorbed by their eyes Within this midwinters breeze - Silent thief Take me away Let my soul rest in the realm of fairytales And as the fire enlightens the dark I see the face bewildered with guilt An nobody's speaking a word - And the dark night enters And the dark night enters PROPHECY FULFILLED Out beneath the nightly sky Squat down on the ground His breath warms up the wintry air The truth hurts, that he found - He might be the chosen one The one, allowed to see God's eye for the human race That ends in misery - Nobody knows... That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real! - It's so powerful to foresee With diving astronomy The light inside the crystal soul Protecs me from the wintry coldness But a dark might is on the lead And thy scares start to bleed... again... - Nobody knows... That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real! AND THE DARK NIGHT ENTERED And Michael Nostradamus began to wander through Europe for the next sixyears, where he first became aware the awakening of his prophetic powers - So god has found him weeping And weath flickered deep withis his eyes For thy shalt suffer As long ago... - Sadness comes from deep inside There are so many shades of winter His breath warms up the wintry air Punishment to all the sinners - Demenia slowly unlightnes the mind... - So god has found him weeping And wrath flickered deep withis his eyes For thy shalt suffer As long ago... - Your wish shalt be denied... So do you hear the echoes of the ones that'll slowly die? Prophecy fulfilled And torture comes at midnight A dark sign's burning brighter than the light - So do you hear the echoes...? - Out beneath the nightly sky Squat down on the ground His breath warms up the wintry air The truth hurts, that he found - He might be the chisen one The one, allowed to see God's eye for the human race That ends in misery - Nobody knows... That it is real, nobody knows... that it is real!