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Empires Fall

by Tash

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1.
Serve the God you fear And serve the men in power A principle emphasized In your holy book Take and take is their only game So arrogant they’ve grown But the knife in the darkness Is still waiting its turn Betrayal Malice Rage Revenge Run them down Slaughter them like cattle Kill your leaders Make them pay Make them suffer Kill your leaders There is no sympathy And there is no remorse With a swift hand They all shall die Foolish to think themselves immune To the frailty of life Foolish to think that those they torture Won’t come and take their lives
2.
Empires Fall 04:43
Blackened soot stains the stones The sky knows no rest The withered wraiths cling to shadows Hollow eyes forever asking Cold wind come down from the north Bitter and cutting like knives A gray sun caste its pale light down Down on the bodies in agony Empty cities a testament to their makers Broken glass and burned out hulks are all that remains Under the fall of dark the terror is real Hands grabbing from the darkness, dragging kicking and screaming Empires Fall Empires Fall Empires Fall Empires Fall Concrete doors and stairwells Where the lurkers dwell Behind the doors of empty places Waiting just out of sight And the fell things howling To the moon at night Mutant cannibal horrors Waiting for those unwary
3.
On bended knee is the closest you ever get to fully standing up And they like you down on all fours ready to get fucked And you know that they’re thieves and liars but still you submit Forcing down whatever they shit on you, cowering little weakling Just a bunch of children playing house Ready to serve the tyrants until you die Ideals built from force fed advertising The brainwashing starts at birth I fucking dare you to take a good fucking look around Seems our fathers and mothers sold us into slavery The generation that worshiped peace and love Will readily take up all to our graves And as poisoned rivers flow under poisoned sky Incompetence the average as everything falls And you could never take responsibility for this It would be too much to admit that it could stop
4.
Unholy father, who art in hell Unhallowed be thy name Thy kingdom rise, the world burn Forever silencing the false You shall know my wickedness With the evil of my deeds And you shall see atrocity From the eyes of damned Split skin and jagged wounds Punctuate the screaming There are no limits To the horrors visited this night And as you slowly lose your sanity Shock and suffering distorting time Blood stains the unhallowed ground Under the sign of the inverted cross The ascended evil come forth anew And under madness shall burn the world Bloodstained sacraments Medieval unholy rights The incantations spoken And the impossible unleashed You shall know my wickedness With the evil of my deeds And you shall see atrocity From the eyes of damned Split skin and jagged wounds Punctuate the screaming There are no limits To the horrors visited this night Has it been only a few moments Or has it been eternity Blood stains the unhallowed ground Under the sign of the inverted cross The ascended evil come forth anew And under madness shall burn the world
5.
One dark night, out in the wilds of the mountains Under a clear sky, the stars seemed so bright Led from the safety of warmth into the cold night To seek the knowledge craved by my obsession And when my eyes fell upon her form My pulse pounding in my ears above the wind The eyes of ice blue, the skin too white A demon of the ice come calling She led me through ruins never seen by human eyes Down ancient corridors, in halls made of ice And all the time following, cast under her spell Further into the depths we go, deeper underground There is no language for the being that I found myself before The beautiful woman just a specter used to lure me in Into my mind it invaded, but it showed me such things Visions of far off worlds and beasts so terrible to behold
6.
Wearing thin from the outside In my invisible shackles And in the still moments, the sorrow lays me bare But there is no ending, torment unyielding And in the echoes of the unborn future In the wreckage of nothing, in shattered expectation Dementia wrought from isolation, madness left unchecked Held in suspended degradation, the shadows are screaming It just keeps gnawing deep inside my mind Plaguing me with thoughts of violence, thoughts of death And they shall never know the depth of my depravity No one will ever know before it’s too late Dementia wrought from isolation, madness left unchecked Held in suspended degradation, the shadows are screaming
7.
Burnt eyes see no future, only echoes of the past Beat upon the dusty ground, scream into the wind A billion men march off to war The drums shake the ground Hollow, sunken faces Distorted and disfigured Echoing in the darkness Is the call of something greater Driving the hordes forward Driving the masters insane Burning out in the darkness The dying fires of war The blood soaked quest for an abstract With all the seekers dead And in the twilight of death Hoping for a quicker end Everything becomes pointless As you plunge into oblivion
8.
Come to me now in your perfection, Goddess, the queen destroyer Guide my hands dark huntress in my acts of aggression Curse my enemies from my sight, bodies turned back to dust Their names burned from the histories, scattered into the wind In the dead of night, all alone out in the darkness I can feel her presence resonating within I can see the beast through the trees, hungering for my flesh And he is brutally fast, but I am faster I bathed in the blood of the kill I took his hide and flesh I returned to the elders I returned a hero She comes to me at night, the queen of my mortal world Drunk on lust and wine, beautifully deceiving In my good fortune, I not see the vipers The daggers hidden under perfumed silk And the oncoming darkness, soon approaching Scoffed at in arrogance, pride my undoing It had been decades since the night out in the forest My kingdom stood mighty and strong But the darkness came, destroying our defenses And the knife came to find me in my back As the steel found its mark, the final gates fell Mistress of destruction, come to collect
9.
Vampiir 02:57
Kissed by evil itself And so I was transformed Weak at first But as I fed, I grew strong By moonlight I hunt The very people I once belonged to Through darkness they flee And I pursue Their blood gives me unholy life And I grow stronger every night I feed off those I desire No one can stop me Born again into the night I am eternal By moonlight I hunt The very people I once belonged to Through darkness they flee And I pursue
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Heroes Die 05:54
Pride in the mighty, and pride in the strong On the thrones of gods, never usurped by men And we never foresee an end to their reign Though others have fallen before, ours remain true The war is forever Wearing down their armor And time creeps in Changing perception Not even demigods, merely just men With weak minds and equally weak flesh Not a question if they shall fall, it is only when And the heroes turn back to dust from where they began

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released August 17, 2016

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Tash Sanford, North Carolina

Tash is a one man melodic black metal project based out of North Carolina. Utilizing extended range guitars and bass, Tash combines traditional Norwegian black metal, Swedish black metal, and dissonant death metal such as Nile and Morbid Angel. Lyrics focus on anti-Christianity, insanity, death, demonology and misanthropy. ... more

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