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Viewing Lyrics for How Have The Mighty Fallen:
| | | Artist: | Sabbat |
| | Album: | Dreamweaver | | Track: | How Have The Mighty Fallen | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 95 | | | | Lyrics: | Denizens of sylvan places
hidden from the eyes of man,
courtesans with sylph-like
graces
dancing to the pipes of Pan -
that echoed through the ether
notes that soured
the wings of halcyon,
songs to give our life the meaning
that we lack now they have
gone.
Watch the pattern ever changing
in the tapestry of fate,
weft and weave
and interlacing
silken strands that fabricate -
a cloak to fit both king and
beggar,
those who rule and those that toil
are equalled in the fact that
all pay
homage to this mortal coil.
Icy fingers grasping madly
get a grip upon my throat
-
and slowly squeeze the life out of me
on my dying words I choke,
afrantic prayer in
desperation
cannot hope to make me whole,
a moments lapse of concentration
and the
spirits flee my soul.
Drugs and potions surge within me -
slowly paralize and kill
me,
terrified I stumble blindly
Into the unknown.
Outside looking in -
observing
feelings that I find unnerving
dying with my eyes wide open
helpless and
alone.
The endless void that lies beyond -
with gaping jaws it beckons me,
I
cast my worldly flesh aside and
plunge into eternity.
Once light hearted I departed
-
on my quest hope courted me,
now a new love is my true love
and her name is
misery.
Eyes as dark as midnight-ravens
gems that filled my mind with awe,
enthral my
heart -
distract me from her milk-white hands
stained red with gore.
The
fetters that bound me are broken,
by words that were best left unspoken,
for now I am
shackled to sadness
by chains that are tempered with madness.
I plummet like a
shooting-star
that shines so bright yet falls so far,
shafts of moonlight guide me
to
the world that waits below.
I seem in need of nothing else
but rope enough to hang
myself-
Laughing through the gates of Hell I go.
MY SOULS LAMENT
Contained
within a living shroud
my life-force fades and dies,
this weary heart grows heavy
as
the coins upon my eyes.
The latch has now been lifted
on an ever open door,
and
peering through I see things
as I never have before.
The hammer and the anvil meet
-
in synchronicity they chime,
#a sound so simple and complete
it needs no melody or
rhyme.
Reforging all that I once was -
they make me into something new,
no longer
trapped within this world
but, transient and passing through -
the 'valley of the
shadow'
far beyond the 'summerland',
like the wild-boar is my valour
now my life is
in these hands -
that keep the seething couldron steaming,
stoke the fires of
destiny,
gently take me and re-shape me
all-wise smith of sorcery
The fetters
that bound me are broken,
by words that were best left unspoken,
for now I am shackled to
sadness
by chains that are tempered with madness.
>From the 'cup of
happiness'
the wine of hoped I've sipped,
betrayed I taste the bitterness
of pain
upon my lips.
Though I try to drown my sorrows
they will surely drown me first,
for
swallowing my pride
won't quench this thirst.
MY SOULS LAMENT:
In this
darkness light has faded -
hope becomes despair,
loneliness for a companion -
with me
everywhere.
I wander in confusion
while the tears that I have cried,
gleam like
broken trinkets
you have worn then cast aside.
WODEN:
"Now hand-in-hand with
ignorance
The power mad run blindly,
but retibution hunts you down
and rest assured
he'll find thee.
No curtain could conceal you
for the ghosts of all you
slander-
await you at your journeys end
and, to them you must answer.
The poisons
born upon your tongue
will never serve to slight me,
for I have delt with many fools
and
suffer your kind lightly.
Just as you sow so shall you reap -
and I my friend
have plenty,
so sit ye down and eat your words
now that your plate is
empty."
The endless void that lies beyond
with gaping jaws it beckons me,
I
cast my worldly flesh aside and
plunge into eternity.
Once light hearted I departed
-
on my quest hope courted me,
now a new love is my true love
and her name is
misery.
Eyes as dark as midnight-ravens
gems that filled my mind with awe,
enthral my
heart -
distract me from her milk-white hands
stained red with gore.
The
fetters that bound me are broken,
by words that were best left unspoken,
for now I am
shackled to sadness
by chains that are tempered with madness.
The endless void that
lies beyond -
with gaping jaws it beckons me,
I cast my worldly flesh aside
and
plunge into eternity.
Once light hearted I departed -
on my quest hope
courted me,
now a new love is my true love
and her name is misery.
Eyes as dark as
midnight-ravens
gems that filled my mind with awe,
enthral my heart -
distract me
from her milk-white hands
stained red with gore.
The fetters that bound me are
broken,
by words that were best left unspoken,
for now I am shackled to sadness
by
chains that are tempered with madness.
I plummet like a shooting-star
that shines so
bright yet falls so far,
shafts of moonlight guide me
to the world that waits
below.
I seem in need of nothing else
but rope enough to hang myself-
Laughing
through the gates of Hell I go.
MY SOULS LAMENT
Contained within a living
shroud
my life-force fades and dies,
this weary heart grows heavy
as the coins upon
my eyes.
The latch has now been lifted
on an ever open door,
and peering through I
see things
as I never have before.
WODEM:
"Why do the mighty view the
world
through syncophantic eyes -
Then claim to us they know what's best
from
pedastals of pride?
Don't take the views of others
and dismiss them out of hand
-
for when your pillars crumble
tell me who will take command | | | |
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