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Walking in the subway
Alone late at night
New York City gangs
Everywhere in sight
Your fell their anger upon you
You feel their hateful eyes
Walk a little faster now
You're fighting for your life
As they walk on closer
Their eyes burn down your back
You feel a thousand cries
Not prepared for their attack
A mission bell sent sign
A sign that you board soon
You've come this far, no turning back
We hope you make it too
Don't expect, sympathy
We don't know, the word
Your walked my turf, insanity
But in this place you die
Your life is wasted
Your blood is tasted
As it drips down the blade
You didn't make it
You couldn't take it
You walked the subway you paid
Your money's gone
Your clothes they're torn
You're lying in a pool of blood
You know you're leaving
We watch you grieving
But in this place you die
Don't expect sympathy
We don't know the word
You walked my turf, insanity
But in this place you die
Angels Holocaust (4:52)
M: Schaffer / L: Schaffer
As I walk through the blackened forest
Thoughts of hate and anger fill my soul
The charred remains of the holy rollers
Scream repentance though it's far too late
I fight back the laughter at what I see
The suffering healers false destined prophecy
He didn't think yesterday of the end of his life
The brainwashed fools born again of a thousand lies
Hate filled screams break the silence
Terrifying dreams filling up your head
Blasphemy thrusting out, in the masses it reigns
The mask of hypocrisy is slowly unveiled
Fear the angels holocaust, they're screaming
Dreams of pain forever entering your head
Death and hatred loathing, on mankind it feeds
Earth is dead and gone now, we've brought it to an end
For the last time I've been betrayed
Never again will I subject myself to this hypocrisy
Something is drawing me to the other side
Only time will tell my true destiny
Stormrider (4:47)
M: Schaffer, Shawver / L: Schaffer
As I travel through the astral plains
I see the break ahead
As though the sky has burst in flames
Before the storm I dread
Lightning breaks across the sky
Blackish blue at night
Riders ride on dismal clouds
I scream at heavens light
Storming demons travel through the night
The time is almost here
I lay in a jacket of steel my scream no one hears
I can feel the storm approaching
The pain is its' reality
The death I breathe is in the air
I feel no more, no longer care
The trumpets sound as I break free
This vision I see just can't be me
What is this that I have done why am I the chosen one
Fight on
Grab on
Stormrider
Stormrider
Now the rider rides through the night, the time is almost here
As I lay wrapped in steel my scream no one hears
Help me, through this hell inside
My life's my own, it's my pride
Carry on my solid dream
Save me from this horrid scream
Fight on
Grab on
Stormrider
Stormrider
Before the Vision (1:35)
M: Abell, Shawver / L: Schaffer
Spoken:
Oh, God, am I going crazy
What is happening to me, I need some answers
I've been chosen by the darkest force in nature
But why, why me?
Call of the spirits:
Go now, into the plains
Seek out, the answers you'll find
Visions will be shown to you
At night by the lit desert moon
Be strong, ride forth in pride
Our destiny, lies in your hands
Visions will be shown to you
You're truly his chosen one
Pure Evil (6:33)
M: Schaffer, Shawver / L: Schaffer
Cannons pound into the night
Angels soar into the sky
The battle rages on
Deliverance unholy one
The seeds of hate fly tonight
Good and evil light the sky
Another vision from inside
I know it's wrong I can't deny
For seven years I have reigned
In this damned and desolate hell
Now I've lived the masters vengeance
It saved me from myself
We paint the sky with blood tonight
Setting free the damned to fight
The whore of Babylon is here
The end of the storm is near
Chorus:
Pure evil
Feel the pain from the jackals wrath
Pure evil
Dance in flames for the final quest
Hear the ghost of violence
Fear the God of detriment
The land on earth is soaked with blood
Hear the screams of the helpless ones
Axes yield and daggers fly
Ripping through all flesh in sight
We paint the sky with blood tonight
Setting free the damned to fight
The whore of Babylon is here
The end of the storm is near
Repeat chorus
When the Night Falls (9:01)
M: Schaffer / L: Schaffer
Look, out in the distant sky
Open, up your weakened minds
Feel, what's in store for you
The jackals howling at the moon
See, the curtain of the night
Falling, down into your life
Doom, is headed straight for you
The night comes shining through
Join us in our never ending journey
Into the burning lake of fire
Let us fill your helpless soul
Fill it with sweet desire
When the night falls
When the moon's full
Recall, the look in their eyes
The sign of hat, it burns
They've come for us, but we'll fight
Till death
Hypnotizing, paralyzing
Brings me to my knees
Tantalizing suicide
Drives me to the edge
When the night falls, when death crawls
Frozen in my sleep
Rippers slashing, terror laughing
Numbers burning deep
Join us in our never ending journey
Into the burning lake of fire
Let us fill your helpless soul
Fill it with sweet desire
When the night falls
When the moon's full
Burnt Offerings (7:22)
Music : Schaffer, Shawver / Lyrics : Schaffer
In one last breath You'll feel this damned old soulYou'll see the things
I seeFor all these years
Of pain and sacrificeYou'll know the pain I knowOf all these things
I offer unto youInfernal wisdom waitsNow unleashedLike the flames of
hate
My sacrifice is madeEvery noteAnd every word you hearComes from deep
within
An angry soulThat twists and turns insidePondering this lifeCrimson
eyes
Staring through your liesAwakes the inner rageTake my knifeMake my
sacrifice
You re my burnt offeringSpill your bloodOffer me good omen
Make the sacrifice, the hours close at handBurn your soulOffer me good
omen
Take your very life, this I commandDark shadows fall on this sacred
ground
Where true evil lies, summon them to riseTake the traitors, thieves
and liars
Feed them to the fireBut first, spread their blood around
The message will be foundWalk carefully my friends stab my back again
A warning from the skyThese are not idle threats my friends
We're slaughtering the lambsTrue vengeance is on the rise
The traitors shall be damnedCast their bodies to the flamesSpill your
blood
Offer me good omenMake the sacrifice, the hours close at handBurn your
soul
Offer me good omenTake your very life, this I command
Desert Rain (6:56)
M: Schaffer, Abell / L: Schaffer
The sympathy in my mind is growing cold
Life is like the burning sand so I'm told
The time is coming near when solitude appears
Take the chains of oppression away
Through the sands of time I'm marching on
The blistering rays of hate strengthen me
The violent mass has shown my destiny
Does all of this justify the rage inside
Chorus:
The desert rain is changing me
It's called on me to rise
A world of hate and malice
Yes, that's the way it seems
The hour glass is running out
The serpent rides with me
We shall rise and conquer
Crushing all that's weak
All that's light is burning out
The serpent rides with me
Repeat chorus
Brainwashed (5:22)
Music : Schaffer, Shawver / Lyrics : Schaffer
And so we begin with another sun The earth's enslaved with hypocritesThey
lay their heads to rest at night
Say a little prayer and all is rightChrist it's nothing personal
You've got to seeThey twist and turn your wordsFor their own needs
They're brainwashed puppetsThe almighty crutchCowards of reality
And their dying loveLiving life in total liesJudging others
Believe that I say or burn in hellBow down your headYou won't feel
so bad
Do as I say or burn in hellClose your eyes, look deep inside
Master of the ignorantMaster of the liesJudgment day is close at hand
Generate that blasphemyMaster of the damnedLiesNow behind your reflection
Lies the one who knows the truthYour conscience will condemn you
On judgment day you'll loseIt seems very odd to meHow you sin and feel
so free
And all you have to do is sayForgive me ... I believeLies, foolish
lies
Behind your brainwashed eyesLies, foolish liesBehind your brainwashed
eyes
Judge me not my shallow friendLest ye be judged yourself
You abuse the words you preachYou mold them for yourselfBrainwashed
hypocrisy
Justifies the life you leadForgive me father I have sinned
Lay my head to rest againLiving life in total liesJudging others
Believe what I say or burn in hellTrust in me, say yes I believe
Do it now or burn in hell
Life and Death (6:07)
M: Schaffer, Shawver / L: Schaffer
I came into this world
A screaming infant
Forced entry into this life
As I grow the pain sustains
Deep inside my soul
Visions come and visions go
But hate will never leave me
As I grow the pain sustains
Deep inside my soul
Visions come and visions go
But hate will never leave me
Life and death never again
I shall not return
Soul sucking pious man
I shall not return
The reflection, an aging soul
My body's old and cracked
Death soon will be with me
Coldness, inactive pain
Soul sucked at the speed of light
Trapped in someone else
No please not again
Evil reincarnated
The cycle's spun once more
Soul sucked at the speed of light
Creator Failure (6:02)
Music : Schaffer, Shawver, Abell / Lyrics
: Schaffer
A lonely maiden stands Bound to the obeliskAs she tugs and pullsAnd
tries to twist
Shackles slice her virgin wristsBlood now covers her tiny hands
How does thou receive this fate?She asks of her own mind
Purity, innocence, encourage deathLife... gone is mineI also ask of
you my lord
Thy god in heavenFor I understand the error of mans ways
But of creation and the seven daysWhen was created the murky haze
From which the beast has risenFail me not my masterFor this is your
creation
Your son the bastardLeviathanBlackness, dripping stenchUnrelenting
vice
Vile embellishmentTranscending pure evilStanding now before her eyes
Wings expanding...she's going to dieBelching blue green fire
Flesh feeds the desireThe serpent gods apocalyptic smile
Come to me my demon brotherOf us both and our fathers
A failure of creation ... abomination
Reaching the End (1:11)
M: Schaffer / L: Schaffer
Now I feel that I've reached the end
And the end of my quest is close at hand
What have I done
I've reached the end
And as my life slowly fades away
There's not one single thing that I'd change
What have I done
I've reached the end
Travel In Stygian (9:31)
M: Schaffer / L: Schaffer
Through the flames I watch
As you plead on your knees
The reaper awaits
The ride that you take
Through the lake, lake of flames
Will decide your fate
Was all of it worth eternal pain
The path you chose to live in vain
The river Styx is calling your number
The hot winds of Hell breathe your name
Bridge
On the night that it came to me
It was like nothing I'd ever seen
A vision darker than death itself
A violent cloud straight from the depths of hell
And that's when I saw my destiny
As it approached I was frozen still
I couldn't move, couldn't scream for help
Out of the darkness it reached for me
And that's when it planted the evil seed
And that's when I saw my destiny
Chorus
Travel in Stygian
The damned scream my name
Travel in Stygian
I can't repent it's too late
Travel in Stygian
Hot winds blow upon me
Travel in Stygian
No remorse it's too late
Bridge
The henchman awaits you
Yes that's right, step aboard
We have a very long journey
You owe us
You got what you wanted
In your mortal life
Now your soul is in our grasp
It's time
Riding on the hot winds of hell
Traveling down in the ship of pain
I chose this fate no turning back
The river Styx has called for me.
Dante's Inferno (16:29)
Music : Schaffer / Lyrics : Schaffer
Through the fiery caverns we sail Virgil at my side my guide and masterQuesting
through the nine plains of hell
Infernal wisdom shall fill my soulSlowly now the days departing
The darkened air releases meFrightening visions of my journey
Entrance me to limbo I'm notFreeAbandon all hope who enter here
Enter the gates, Charon awaitsAbandon all hope who enter here
For this is where all things are left behind
Every doubt and every cowardice must die
Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair
The souls that wail on this plain pray for death
Denial is the reason for their suffering
Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath
The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need
Descention, thrusting to the second plainMinos judges as his tail twines
Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls
A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas
Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames
Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain
Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time
The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time
The vicious beast Cerebus, three heads, blooded eyes
Tears his talons through the air, all the skinners cry
Down, be still thy cursed wolfThe master scorns its nameDive to the
next plain
The sullen and the vainSuffer for greedThe prodigal they bleedFor all
eternity
Plutus holds the keyDamned, the wrathful and the vainSuffer the fifth
plain
Cross the river StyxHeed your crucifixThe mudded corpses cryHowling
to the sky
Reach the other sideOpen wide the gate
Enter the sixth circle of barren land and flames
Passing through the gate of dis the furies scream her name
Belching forth in agony invoking her to rise
The spirit's rage consuming us the evil in their cries
Queen of vipers, queen of serpentsCast their souls to stone
Spread to wealth of Gorgon's powerMedusa s inner soul
We re drawing ever closer to the seventh hell
They violate their neighbors, their god and themselves
We're sailing slowly through the boiling river of blood
Immersed in the depths below souls scream in agony
The twisted beast he laughs, he draws his arrow back
His sights on anyone exposing of their fleshHe impales their hearts
with ease
And shrugs their piercing screamsPity is they'll never die
They'll suffer here eternallyImagine a place where every horror comes
to life
Where every torture is real and time stands still
Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end
In a cold and timeless grave buried head first in shit
Praying all the while for a quick & painless death
Scratching furiously at scabbed and oozing woundsLucifer ... angel
of light
Cast below god of iceRuling hell unholy trinity
The traitors freeze for all eternityLucifer ... betrayer of god
Tormentor ruthless and coldJudas' screaming here in agony
The traitors freeze for all eternity
Iced Earth (5:22)
M: Schaffer / L: Schaffer
What do I see
On the icy plains
The desolate one
It's my terrain
The wind it blows cold
Howling my name
I am the king
The king of this waste
Can't you see this barren land
Lain to waste
Ravaged, scorched, yet frozen
From your neglect
I am the formless one
I came to save
You are the chosen ones
You'll be my slaves
I stand on the glacier
Above it all
Watching them crumble
Watching them crawl
Iced Earth has risen
Nature will fall
Can you feel the madness here
Drawing you all too near
Earth, fire, water and air
Save yourselves from despair
We are together now
Crush the cowards, do it now
End the light, end the one
We have come to save
the young ones
So on an on
The story goes
Destroying yourselves
The pain it shows