Orphaned Land Ararat 1. The Calm Before The Flood (Ararat Remix Incl.) Dream, The more often you crawl The hate you inspired arousing desire A call to awake for the ones who won't listen Dream, Dim the light on your soul Beneath every surface you encourage the farces What use in the prophecy they had given? (Grieve them, Leave them, and redeem them) [Chorus:] Words of wisdom twisted and burnt (by cowards) Pillaging the very essence we've earned (devoured) Facing no consequences, learning no morals Igniting new pestilences transferred so oral Celebrating the dawn of an eon By the sins we disdain just days ago If treachery been written then treachery won In the enlightening we though that we saw [C-part:] Treacherous, infamous, Try to raise the worst of us Empty words, empty souls Filling faith within them all Whisper his name when you wake From the dreams the sinners bled The martyrs of art bled life in a storm Crawling toward the path ahead Holiness is now automat Melting down the ornaments Drink the joy, the wine of god Does the storm still rage inside? All false love now overcome Beating me, leave me numb Seasons turn so violent You deserve none but true forgiveness Bleed, As I bled eons ago The claws of the jealous reaping the velvets Their fate is so hard to (be) ignored Bleed, After you chew on our soul Salvation sees through all even though Ararat collapsing by the choirs of war 2. Building The Ark (Demo Version) Comque vidisset Deus terran esse corruptam omnis Quippe caro corruperat viam suam super terram Fac tibi arcam de lignis levigatis mansiunculas In arca facies et bitumine linies intrinsecus et extrinsecus ...Corrupta est autem terra coram Deo... Et ex cunctis animantibus universe carnis bina indu- Ces in arcam ut vivant tecum... "Thy servants are we. Our lord who sits up high, Thy rod and thy staff, Shall comfort and guide our hands" [Translation:] And God looks upon the earth, and, behold, it was Corruptly for all flesh Had corrupted his way upon the earth. "Make Thee an ark of gopher wood; Rooms shalt thou make in the ark, And shalt pitch it within and without with Pitch" ...The earth was corrupt before God. "Of every living thing of all flesh, Two of evert sort shalt thou bring Into the ark To keep them alive With thee" 3. The Kiss Of Babylon (Demo Version) Twisted ways blackened nights Sin upon Sin, gone is the light Doom shall befall them all A Downward spiral they shall fall The Three, all this they see As they try to pass god's decree Worshiping the gods That demand lives and sacrifice None but the blood of infants will suffice Fallen sparrows fall as one into a grave They are the souls of living men That could not be saved. "Walking the land we see The sins of flesh and spirit flow Bodies entwined a serpent's Leathel kiss of venom is bestowed Our lord watches them fall - He stands above you all" "Son slaying father A Cain's mark upon us all Babylon's rising, cast from heaven We see the angels fall When will the heavens be alight The seasons will re-unite" "Ahavat hadasa al levavi nikshera Ve'ani betoch gola paamay tzolelim; Lu yesh reshut li a'ale ethabera Toch she'arey zion asher hem nehelalim;" [Translation:] "My heart is bound with love to the Holy Land, But my feet are sinking in the depths of exile When will he give me leave to go up and make my home Within the extolled gates of Jerusalem?" 4. Mercy [Paradise Lost cover] Denying our restlessness Frustrations tension eludes The past was clean Where thoughts were mild The present day horrors alive Slowly passing timeless horrors Lives within all fear The mourning in my tears Drown all the past We lived beneath these years Awaiting for the call For all life to expire It's mercy you're asking for cheating life By taking more it's mercy you're asking for Take my life or give me more... The light is dim before us Shadows appear and fall A barrage of savage ways Only the darkness can filter through Lives within all fear The mourning in my tears Drown all the past We lived beneath these years Awaiting for the call For all life to expire It's mercy you're asking for cheating life By taking more it's mercy you're asking for Take my life or give me more...