Morbid Angel - "Gateways to Annihilation" - 2000 Trey Azagthoth : Guitars/Guitar Synth/Vocals Steve Tucker : Bass/Vocals Erik Rutan : Guitars/Keyboards Pete Sandoval : Drums -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Summoning Redemption" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth) I stand before thee, gods of all prestine Come forth to see, all things to be seen Now know the presence, and choose thy wrath For flock of tyrants, who know not thy path Come now in sweeping vengeance Come now in needed time I demand as I stand before you Cleanse this worlds decay I demand to know the light of a promised land I demand to see this corrosion wiped away And the slithering begins as the shell of men crawl weeping and as the light of dawn is growing the realization sets in And with the winds that are blowing the final truth has come That the ways of the shallow empty have brought it down The winds that are blowing shall bring it down And while your clinging to the ways of your worthless life Your words is falling you are left with nothing and with the winds that are blowing the final truth has come your ways so shallow and empty have brought it down your ignorant haze has brought it down Return these days to the righteous heal these wounds of time I have waited so long for the winds of change to come through eyes still clear through eyes not dulled by fear through eyes behind the soul I see what must be... I demand to know the light of a promised land I demand to see this corruption wiped away -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ageless, Still I Am" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth) Breathless I stand free blind to fates which fall to men embracing the chilling winds, still I am the mist freeze falls from my breath steel gray skies encompass my sight caring not for other worlds (and there are other worlds than these) Your Fathers tried to slay me Your Brothers fell before me Clashing, as hates collide Through echoed cried I wade Upon frozen ground, my victims lay Pounding the frozen earth, The hooves of horses carrying men Swords raised high, The rush of war flowing through their veins The warm blood soon to meet the earth from which it came Your fathers tried to slay me Your brothers fell before me Ageless, Still I Am Heathens, they bring their crusades to me Failing, they've come to die in vain Nameless, their meaningfulness is none I summon the strength of the gods and we are one Hear this, see this, know this for this is the ways that it must be For solace I eat the heart to steal the power, this magic holds and to taste the bitter vengeance that within me has dwelled Men of kings have come to end me only to die in vain legends, have cursed my name spells are spoken, believed to ward me away Your fathers tried to slay me Your brothers fell before me Ageless, Still I Am -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He Who Sleeps" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Tucker) Awaken my brothers, of vengeance we rise to devulge this enemy, to enlighten the ones who sleep Worlds have passed and so too has time my slumber now disturbed, this place of hate, thy worlds shall burn Humans, I shall feast upon your ignorance. you will destroy yourselves Mortals, your slithering existence sickens the gods, my brothers it awoke me, from timeless sleep my dreams destroyed, my visions lost and so I watch you pray, and spite your worlds Forgive me father? I am not your god you crawl to me, and beg to me my sheep, you have fallen, curse your empty lives blind, like wolves you turn on yourselves -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "To The Victor The Spoils" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth/Tucker) Decide, between the ways of the weak, the sheep, to live a lie or to come to life, in victory we stand, above the meek to raise the chalice and toast the conquering to feast upon the spoils that we claim We are wakening We are the one you seek We are the merciless We are the all is truth We await, the coming of days The awakening of the eyes that sleep The dawn of light for those of us who see to stand above the shattered flock and their lies for now it is our time We are the conquering We are the one you seek We are the merciless We are the all that is truth Victors...now hear me Victors...come now know your name Brothers...as it must be In victory we stand Our wake, our secret is broken Our legions now are one The time of the silence now ended In victory we stand we are the conquering The clearing out, the storm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At One with Nothing" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth/Tucker) Omniscient are the eyes that see beyond what we choose to see transcending of beliefs, that limit man's being the dogma that feeds the listless has thrived uncounted years impeding on ones perception of what is to be Awaken to see A god of a desertion A god of lies enlightened by a way, deceiving only truth to the blind the salvation that you seek is empty no god of light the venom that has fed your faith you except with ease but the sights that lay before you destroy your beliefs Awaken to be At One with Nothing Now all will be seen the seeds of the weak destroy the lies told of forgiving, exposed the ignorant, thrown to the wake your calling names of gods, they are only shrines the waves of the truth, enslave slaying the blind Awaken to a light of knowing all your truth was lies and the faith which you embraced has left you blind deceived like the fools that surround you it came with ease unfulfilled were the days of your being but now you will see -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Opening of the Gates" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth) These chains that have choked existence, have fallen away this veil that has blinded eyes has been lifted and now it is gone and like the ways of the sheep the flock has been to only receive led to the gates of their enemy led to the slaughter of their beliefs and now their gazing eyes have turned turned to see us laughing these fools who have thought us to be as they are, have never truly seen guided by limiting the ways that they think, they thought us blind and obscene but now the sheep are wailing cries to a god they never see and as the gates are closing down upon the all they have believed and now their pleading eyes have turned turned to see the eyes of the laughing the ties have bound these fools to the ways of the blind, is ignorant bliss lies that were fed to the slumbering mass they've grazed upon it and all that awaits men failing to see, is the sight they've despised the gates have opened, your religion has died -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Secured Limitations" (Lyrics - Azagthoth, Music - Azagthoth) Secured limitations you created this thing you call sin A guide for the undisciplined sheep through the pain and denial the pleasure reaped a freedom contained within a shell and all that's without you call hell You scorn our existence Unclean despising our ways Shall the unclean come and infect you For our ways, disheveling your hold and the random perplexing the fled Behind the walls of concrete, they hide Secured limitations >From uncertainties the god-mind knows and from the nothingness, all the wines flow The affluence, the-mother's gift but you can't, through the concrete You scorn our existence Unclean despising our ways Shall the unclean come and inflect you For the heathens have chosen a different light and the vision of the all through the inner sight For the freedoms and prisons are in the mind Secured limitations >From the uncertainties the god-mind knows and from the nothingness all the wines flow The affluence, the god-mother's gift but you can't see, through the concrete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Azagthoth/Tucker) I am the void of light, silence, I am the dawn of time I am the all you see, emptiness I am the non I am the air you breathe, treachery, I am your wine I am the soil and seed, mundane, I am the in between taste of my knowledge come bleed me weak of my force feed drink of my power breathe of the mist dine upon divinity from the earth and wind our return is now forever and now again our voice is one voice of the ancient ghosts now your chains are stripped away I am the void of light, silence, I am the dawn of time I am the soil and seed, mundane, I am the in between taste of my knowledge come bleed me weak dine upon divinity from the earth and wind our return is now now the chains are stripped away -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "God of the Forsaken" (Lyrics - Tucker, Music - Rutan) I've seen visions awakening drawing timeless life to an end I've felt forces pulling me and I have rejoiced in them I've heard voices calling names I have reveled in their beckoning for the voices that summon me have grown immense my senses keen with desire and pain senses heightened by my need to see to feed the hunger that I feel inside awake my soul to ecstasy my father the forsaken the king of blasphemy they cower at your name they live in ignorance they hide behind a doctrine that has taught them only lies now let them see thy world, immaculate I've seen visions awakening drawing timeless life to an end I've felt forces pulling me and I have rejoiced in them I've heard voices calling my name I have waited for their beckoning for the voices that summon me bring the gift of bliss