Mors Principium Est ...And Death Said Live 1. The Awakening [Instrumental] 2. Departure You paid the price for my desires To satisfy my burning lust I felt temptation taking over me I lost control of what was real I am aware of other times It's like a dream of another game I thought that this would never end Pull me out from this dark country of the dead I will never forgive you For all the things you made me do I will never forget you For all the things you put me through I can never forget you I can sense your body next to mine I will never lose you You will always be here with me I can live, but you can't die Closed like the love that bound me You can't touch, you can't feel The wounds i closed will never heal You can't hear, you can't speak But still i hear you calling me I can smell, i can taste And twine your arms around me I didn't mean to kill you I only tried to hurt you But once i saw all your bloody tears I laid you down and let you die 3. I Will Return Three thousand years of sleep, but now i'm Awake The moments were divided by invertible pain They seemed like years of torture and Solitude, Despair and scorched in eternal fire Far more glorious than you could dream I ruled them from my iron throne Oh mighty lord, oh mighty don't let them Forget The fact, that they betray Now that i'm back in the throne I will never be all alone I will make you pay the price For locking me up inside You thought i would never return But one thing you should learn A true king never forgets You betray me Three thousand years of sleep, but now have Returned A fleeting eternity, my strength regained Black wintery dead, absent of color Insect or beast, unmeasured by all life The sufferings of man's mortality I should weigh the sands, the sands of reality Where all these things could pass us by But i will not be deaf and blind All but my pride they gave me back And the agony they do not show This suffocating sense of silence They should use their voice until it's echoless 4. Birth Of The Starchild Her beauty moved the new world with a glare, With a smile To a land of heroes and glorious kings They will one day be born, it has been written In songs they will always remember her You will have a little piece of time yourself We will live like this forever Many will be dead below your feet, o' vision of cruelty For your sake heroes shall be born again For there is vengeance in your eyes, it will mean torturing And death unto the sons of the kings' In your face, o' beautiful child Are the signs of warning And the entrails of your past 5. Bringer Of Light He lost the heavens war He never found the way Over the misty sea Just like the sun he shined Looking beneath the waves That one returned no more Just so you know The loss was planned indeed He may rule his world From his throne of lies But you're the only one Who knows the truth of him Show me the other worlds These signs of grief And all that lives Will move up from the earth He lost the heavens war He never found the way Just so you know The loss was planned indeed Afraid the nations will fall Do more to win their love But you're the only one Who knows the truth of him They may call you the prince of lies Against the odds you once fell From high above like a star The bringer of light And now the end is near Apocalypse is here And you shall rise once again From your shallow grave Now pass through the unknown But still i know When they tore all his wings I heard a mournful cry And all the angels wept Their tears burnt the sky It echoed through the heavens As one of their own just died Afraid the nations will fall Do more to win their love He may rule his world From his throne of lies 6. Ascension A certain kind of delusion That even. you can't penetrate A strangling cloud of deception Envelops a jealous, empty being A preacher, preying an the fragile Blinded by self importance Sowing infected seeds Delivering an empty curse Armed with a vile tongue Spewing forth sweet blasphemy Sacrificing loyalists To feed a bitter soul With wicked vows delivered, We stood steadfast and true Embraced by fellow kindred, Slaughtered where we slept Through our own ascension, Whilst clawing at our chests A lasting peace restored, As we shed our rotting flesh 7. ...And Death Said Live [Instrumental] 8. Destroyer Of All It's time for a fight It's time for another round I'll take you down with the fire Never again, never again I will fight I will fight for the last time I'll show you the meaning of hell One more time, one more time Now hear the lies of the unborn child Nothing but truth will be told when you kill the Spawn Now bring their souls against the wall and forget Them all Just paint the sky fully red with their blood See this blade This blade is gonna slice you up I will skin you down from Head to toe, head to toe The fire burns within my soul It won't fade away Maybe i'll survive To see another day For a century i will hold the key To open the gates to this forgotten world When it's time to leave all across the seas I will close the gates and find another place For a century i will hold the key To open the gates to this forgotten world When it's time to leave all across the seas I will close the gates and crush the human race 9. What The Future Holds? And when the time was right for us to march to war We took our weapons and went before the storm This is another time and this is another place This is what i was born to face This burning planet that we do call our home Forsaking others we are drifting all alone Each passing day it's turning into a worthless hole Living in denial means you're not living at all Be free, for thee, i call for the open colors In another existence of time and life For me, this means an utter extinction An end to an existence of time and life To be killed, or be the one who kills I had to make that choice before i lose my thrill So when the time was right for us to march to war We left our weapons and went into the storm Is this the way we were designed to be? Another man killing for another man's land I don't want this to be like this No food for the starving, no water for the thirsty Is this the way we want the future to be? We are the ones who can change all of this We keep on fighting the eternal war And this will be our final fall I don't want this to end like this The women are crying and the children are dying Is this the way we want the future to end? We are the ones who should change all of this Maybe we just keep on fighting the eternal war And this will be our last big fight 10. The Meadows Of Asphodel And then from the mountains To the river of Acheron Maybe one day they will meet again Like friends once departed At first light they will leap, leaving light behind And where they will end, they will need no sun as a guide At moon-time they will flow to the worlds below To the meadows of asphodel Farewell my only friend, this night will be our last Tonight we drink from Lethe and lose our past Farewell my only friend, this night will be our last Tonight we drink from Lethe and lose our past These body erasing waters, minds and souls are splitting When human beings have finished, they're just beginning But if we live in Elysium, i pray we do Then we all shall prosper, hand in hand To be among the chosen, only few When we get the call from the gods, then we must go 11. Dead Winds Of Hope Who are you warlike men Wearing grey armour that is stained by rust? Breaking the ocean surge Warden of deserted shores Stands on his abandoned coast Leading troops over the sea None of them have landed yet One last sleep 'till the end Mother ocean, spread your arms around me Mother ocean, let your children come towards me Under my lonely sky He is no common man And when the raven died I stared into his cold eyes I saw it all unfold And saw what this life was about Beneath my wings my brothers lie When the fierce winds hurtle by On either side and 'neath my breast Our sons have known no other rest [William Sharp] O' mighty father, lead us far With hope and songs of love and war Over the black sea and white foam From here their children will find home Remember days from long ago Slowly we wander to and fro But now dead winds that blur the light Pierce deep our feathers thin and light Mikko Sipola ‒ Drums Andhe Chandler ‒ Guitars Andy Gillion ‒ Guitars Teemu Heinola ‒ Bass Ville Viljanen ‒ Vocals