Tarot

The earth shook and the mighty angels wept
the brooms of fire sadly swept
In a flash of light all we knew was lost
no one was left to bear the cost

Parasites were fed, weak hearts had bled,
mediocres were lost between
In the end they all screamed and burned
the faulty ones laughed and died unseen

The darkness rules the molten graves alone,
where millions of fools lived in sin
All those who bowed to the unholy throne,
were to see the skull beneath the grin

Torches from hell let out their deadly scream
The demons cracked the blue sky with flames
Riding trough flesh and steel on a laser beam
ridding the unborn of their names

Iron stars in their mindless courses
corpses blown by the void
Thunder rolled with heavenly horses
as they crashed and were destroyed

The earth shook and the mighty angels wept
the brooms of fire sadly swept

Iron stars...

Voices of those who had to die in vain
can be heard echoing through the night
A useless replay of their endless pain
never finding their way to the light

Iron stars...

In the shuffling madess
of the locomotive breath,
runs the all-time loser,
headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping --
steam breaking on his brow --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He sees his children jumping off
at the stations -- one by one.
His woman and his best friend --
in bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
on his hands and knees --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.
He hears the silence howling --
catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible --
open at page one --
old Charlie stole the handle and
the train won't stop going --
no way to slow down.

Screams falling out of the sky
Blackness encloses me
Strange visions flickering to die
Twisted shape of eternity
Freezing wind bites my flesh
Rips it off over the bone
Stranded in the night forever
Pain makes me scream and groan

I can no longer break the shields of my loneliness
I'm only waiting in the everlasting fortress of midwinter nights

Soul lost in anger and frustration
Darkness enters me
Ruins, decay and desolation
Are left from my world to be seen
Out in the snow with my ghosts
Howling in the woods with beasts
Blackhearted grief swells in me
Gone too far for anyone to reach

I can no longer break the shields of my loneliness
My name is forgotten, I'm only growing less

Won't you please let me in, I'll do no harm
Oh can't you see I'm in great pain
Won't you please let me in, there'll be no harm
My heart just can't bear this chain
Of midwinter nights

Screams falling out of the sky
Blackness encloses me
Strange visions flickering to die
Twisted shade of eternity

Black spots floating before my eye
Solar wind shouting from the sky
Free of chains, free from pains
Old poisons run in my veins

Airborne I'm speeding in flames
Dark wings growing from my heels
I make the rules for my games
Back in the fire with burning wheels

Born from the fires of the core
My home is in the red hot gore
I'm this blade and I'm the truth
I'm alive, the everlasting youth

Walls of my prison have gone
I hear the shadows whisper and warm
White heat against your black
Battles to come and I am back

The skies are open, smell of a danger in the air
We ride in the northwind over the mountains without a care
Adventures calling beyond the faraway stars

The battles has been won, falling enemies ships on fire
Diving through the void, the wings are spread to take us higher
No place to call home in underworld or sky
Living on the edge, looking danger into the eye

Flying towards the stars so bright
Straight into the heart of the night
Wings of darkness carrying the spirits of us

The skies are open for atomic Vikings to roam
And when the quest is ended, Vallhalla will then be our home
No place is safe from us in underworld of sky
Living on the edge, looking danger into the eye

We know the war that rages in the minds of youth
We're gonna bring it out for all to see
These years of our life have not been soft or smooth
That's the way we always wanted it to be

We're the rising order, we're the way
The descendants of power

Mass media tells us of the new age of darkness
Ignorance and fear spreading from the hands that rule
You may think you're getting something but you're always getting less
So join our forces stop being a fool

We're the word of truth, we're the way
The descendants of power

We make a prophecy a sound will come that'll break the earth
A shout that'll rise from the pits of hell
This is the time for us to undergo rebirth
Time to fight and cut the hands that weave the spell

We're the word of truth, we're the way
The descendants of power

God knows I love you
Meaning I love you as much as I can
How could you trust me
I should've said
I'm not the right kind of man

Don't wanna tell more lies
Don't wanna blind your eyes
We can't go on, our time has gone
Oh can't you see, oh can't you see
There is no return
Oh baby, no return

God knows it hurts me
To see how this betrayal of mine hurts you
I thought that this time
I wouldn't let you down but now I do

Don't wanna tell more lies
Don't wanna blind your eyes
Now it must be clear
You weren't even near
To my heart, lies from the start
There's no return
Oh baby, no return

You must bury your love deep
Don't let the painful cracks
Of broken heart show
But never turn cold
Tomorrow stays there always
So you'll never know

I won't tell more lies
I won't blind your eyes
But someone may and that's the way
Of no return
Oh baby, no return

Tell me I'm a fool with my feet off the ground
The way I see it, its the other way around
Say that I'm a dreamer who's walking on air
Might as well be water, why should I care

There are things that must be sought
And I found the before you
My soul just can't be bought

Why, do you wanna live forever
Trying to makes things last
If you wanna live forever
Break out of your cast

Things that I'm feeling could be out of this Earth
Got to face the new ages having their birth

You fall for the popular call,
got no guts to take the lead
Have a drink and forget it all

Why, do you wanna live forever
Trying to makes things last
If you wanna live forever
Break out of your cast
Why, do you wanna live forever
The truth might hit you blind
If you wanna live forever
better widen your mind

Why, do you wanna live forever
The spirits were made to last
If you wanna live forever
Take a risk and move fast

There's a sign, there's a star,
it rises over the sea
There's a voice that calls in whisper
and it might set you free
The pain has a lesson to teach
and we always get taught
Every joy is a forbidden fruit
and we always get caught

Live hard, you can make it
Die hard, set yourself free
Live hard, you can make it

Your soul is a miracle
It glows brightly to my eyes
but you won't raise your stare
to the light beyond the skies
Don't you wanna learn, don't you wanna burn
don't you wanna find out
we still have time enough
to know what it's all about

Live hard, you can make it
Die hard, set yourself free
Live hard, you can make it

The days go by melting to a gray line
in the dead of the night there's a short relief
You gotta wake up, I've given you the sign
I've shown you the way, just take my hand

Live hard, you can make it
Die hard, set yourself free
Live hard, you can make it

On the legs of lightning,
the storm rears in defeat.
Rising in vain once more with the sea.
Grey hand's reaching, cold under the swell.
Withered in the forge of our unbelief.

All gods breed, all gods die, all gods will pay.

We'll exorcise all of these fathers of lies.
Burned holes for eyes behold the pyre of gods.

Uncrusaders, heretics to all faith.
No slavery beyond death!
Every idol will feel our scourge.
They can't hold us in this life.

All gods breed, all gods die, all gods will pay.



We'll exorcise all of these fathers of lies.
Burned holes for eyes behold the pyre of gods.

The ransom of your soul must be paid for your dead.
The way out for us all: We'll take the jailer's head.

All gods want, all gods need. Their sacrifices must bleed.
All gods breed, all gods die, all gods will pay.

We'll exorcise all of these fathers of lies.
Burned holes for eyes behold the pyre of gods.

Full moon stares at me
from the ceiling
Shadows are sucking
at my breath

Mind mumbles
in its hibernated halfworld
Love and life grow cold
foretold of their death

Loneliness is full of echoes
distant calls
You know you're lost
when they're coming
out of the walls

Angels of pain
you'll fight in vain
They'll get inside you
they'll drive you insane

Angels of pain
you'll fight in vain
They'll make you reach
your final breaking strain

Wingbeat, heartbeat
the rhythms are alike
Loe one, flutter, stop
and down you go

The jar that holds
this God created spirit
breaks if you bring
its host too low

Loneliness is full of echoes
distant calls
You know you're lost
when they're coming
out of the walls

The sunken stare in their eyes
hollow and blind
Faces with no expression
always leering once behind

Angels of pain...

It's not the years
that wear you down
You grow old by
what they contain

If you choose to bleed
the last laugh is on you
Mocking you
to the oblivion
The angels of pain

Sometimes
I get compelled by the mirrors
To see the image
of what might have been

Hours turn to eons
I dare not to blink my eye
Haunted face of myself
is all that I've seen

The message brought home
is not gentle "father to son"
They throw the revelations
like bullts from a gun

Angels of pain...

They'll make you reach
your final breaking strain
They will drive you insane
They'll never leave
the angels of pain

(I feel for you...)

Blood is thicker than water but nothing beats oil
Take the torch to the oil and let the blood boil
Take a look at the sorry state of this place, what is it coming to?
But don't dare look down on me, I've got it in for you

Crawlspace, we've gotta stand up
Crawlspace, the only thing we've got is just
Crawlspace, we could use some help
Crawlspace, help doesn't come cheap these days

Walk face down through the future warzone
The Russian mob is bringing lead to the bone
There's a racist vigilante, he's on his kicking crusade
The Chinese will eat the world unless he gets a switchblade

Crawlspace, we've gotta stand up
Crawlspace, the only thing we've got is just
Crawlspace, we could use some help
Crawlspace, help doesn't come cheap these days

Space, time and rocketjuice
Suck at the bittersweet taste
Light, sound, they mutate
Paradoxic waste

Face, grime, the ingrained humour
The black laughter drowns it all
Flight, bound for even horizon
Head on to the fall

Got a crush on you
you'll do some time here
I will pull you through
and hold you near
Love binds all, it's true
I'm a dark star burning
I'm a dark star burning
I'm burning and turning
I'm a dark star burning

Blue sky, endless spiral
Get dizzy, it's all right
These ways of your flesh
are too small and tight

You are the final joining
Never need another one
Crashrace into the heart
of the eclipsed sun

Dark star freezing for you
Freezing for you
Freezing for you (Dark star)

I see the hill
scattered to horizons
They've haunted my dreams
for a long time

The bones of ancestors
lay unrestful
They're calling me
to their shrine

And I struggle
With the season before the snow
The ground is hard with ice
the road beckons, I'll follow

Home must be left
to know the longing
The toes will grow numb
from the frost

I used to know
where I was heading for
Somewhere, somehow
it just got lost

I'd give anything
for the signs in the sky
Wheels of fire wild at play
spinning, ascending

To learn that there's more than
just to live and die
Some love would be sweet
before the final ending

I will dream myself alive
awaiting light
The pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

Where the starved souls will revive
awaiting light
This pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

I'd give anything
for the signs in the sky
To know there's more
than just to live and die

I will dream myself alive
awaiting light
This pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

Where the starved souls will revive
awaiting light
This pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

I will dream myself alive
awaiting light
This pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

Where the starved souls will revive
awaiting light
This pilgrim will arrive
to the state of grace

To the state of grace
To the state of grace

Revolution in their minds - the children start to march
Against the world in which they have to live
And all the hate that's in their hearts
They're tired of being pushed around
And told just what to do
They'll fight the world until they've won
And love comes flowing through

Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today
Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way?
Must the world live in the shadow of atomic fear?
Can they win the fight for peace or will they disappear?

So you children of the world,
Listen to what I say
If you want a better place to live in
Spread the words today
Show the world that love is still alive
You must be brave
Or you children of today are
Children of the grave, yeah!

Danger, danger, the Queen's about to kill
There's a stranger, stranger, and life about to spill
Oh no, move away from harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Strike him down

Power, power, it happens every day
Power, devour all along the way
Oh no, move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the King

Treason, treason, the spectre looms again
Treason, reason, the realm is safe and then
Oh no, move away from harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the rainbow
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on

Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Got to take his crown
Kill the King
He'll rule no more
Strike him dead
The people roar
Kill the King
Take his head
Down, down, down, down
Oh, kill
Oh, kill
Oh oh

Inhale from the barrel of my gun
Swallow these words and be blown away
The spirits are here to fill me with nothing
There's no one here to keep them at bay
And I say...

No more cover-ups, no more scheming
I hear it coming, kicking and screaming
The punishment, long due
The souls convulse together, I'll never be through with you

The promises under the hammer of time
They're in pieces but you never heard them break
Now the dreams are voided, the threats are real
Come to an understanding with the mutual hate we feel
And I say...

No more cover-ups, no more scheming
I hear it coming, kicking and screaming
The punishment, long due
The souls convulse together, I'll never be through with you

I drink from the life of your soul
And laugh at the wraith punched with holes
You had the same idea, I'm sorry but I'm still here
So gimme the kiss of life and death my dear
And I say...

No more cover-ups, no more scheming
I hear it coming, kicking and screaming
The punishment, long due
The souls convulse together, I'll never be through with you