Faithful Darkness Archgod 1. Lies Tells The Truth Worthless enemy Depicting my strengths My wrath defeated you, The proud faceless shadow Stand up, you weakling Prepare to beat me down I want our dance to end I need you to judge me Make me fall slowly Project your dislike towards my actions Let me hit the concrete Allow it to eco as lies tells the truth Spineless blame Please, raise your voice Claim your moral rights And punish the sin How can I apologize When I can’t feel sorry Denying me my only chance of repentance Rise, bow and bleed Deprive my regret Make me fall slowly Project your dislike towards my actions Let me hit the concrete Allow it to eco as lies tells the truth Forget it all, the shame and sorrow There’s nothing to repair My affections, they were never real And neither was my grief 2. Snake & Muse Oh darling, won’t you please come closer Have a second look at me Gaze upon your masterpiece Here I stand, weakened and demoralized Ready to carve a scar into you I know it was intentionally, you see Repentance just isn’t you But my question remains Did you ever even care? Indeed, some admiration beneath my mutation I don’t have your talents, coping with that balance Both snake and muse, a seductive animosity You! A catatonic monstrosity I have become surrounded A captive entwined By your indifference A slave deprived of his chains Our mutual understanding gone in statistics Your disguised betrayal reeks self-satisfaction Well, it’s time baby, time for retaliation Some harmless flame-infused flirtation Serenading watching you burn Torn and ablaze I have become surrounded A captive entwined By your indifference A slave deprived of his chains Surrounded And entwined By indifference Deprived of my chains Of my chains 3. The Witness In a world where everything Is controlled by numbers There we’ll strike the hardest We’ll question your irrelevant authority You think that suit will save you That bills are equal bulletproof Sentenced to pull your own switch First a scream, then one last twitch We are the witness We stood by and watched As your need consumed us all Watch your precious empire fall Pulverized Into oblivion A new world decorated In dust and flames The survival game just stared I’ll feast upon you soon Your statement will be heard Every pathetic, lying last word That suit didn’t save you Neither could bills buy you safety We drank to the revolution Ridding ourselves of your constitution We are the witness We stood by and watched As your need consumed us all Watch your precious empire fall We are the witness We stood by and watched Retribution is finally at hand Brothers, carry out the last command 4. An Ocean Of Time So you placed me here Without thinking twice about Adding more hate to the world Can’t you see, I’m a hater And wouldn’t hesitate To choke you with a halo When I start to feel That a storm Is coming That righteousness is at hand The world is a hangout for sinners A nest for nocturnal beginners Do not despair, there’s an ocean of time As physical beings, we are disposable Isn’t it pathetic? That I might just be Your only true friend The one with all the answers There’s no glorious revolution Nor that last tango No pretty lights for you No déjà vu When I start to feel That a new dawn Is clearing the sky That righteousness had its way We baptized the world in gasoline And blessed it with a burning match Perceptual values is all we were given To match the emptiness, I was driven To give all I had, assuming the worst Nothing remains, ash quenched my thirst Expecting to fail, shut up and inhale Like the rest of mankind you will bail I’m just trying teaching you to sees the present So fill up your glass, consent and prevent Do not despair, there’s an ocean of time As physical beings, we are disposable The breaths of life are numbered Our days were meant to end The cycle’s calling for us Calling our return CALLING OUR RETURN 5. Paradise Decimate Pretentious words Ritualized Paradise Would you be so kind? You see, our actions, they are entwined in delicate dance So please, take a seat beside me And watch your precious Eden vanish in flames Ritualized transparent paradise justifying the Relinquishments of fate There’s nobody else to blame We watched as the world was set ablaze And when it’s passed, the final storm From ruins we’ll be reborn Equal progression towards extinction No more formulated, fabricated distinction We are the spawn, descendants of the dark Marching – an army without a mark Genetically composed failing machines And this is beauty, because we are one No gods will sever us or blame our virtues A soulless mass capable of brilliance There’s nobody else to blame We watched as the world was set ablaze And when it’s passed, the final storm From ruins we’ll be reborn A ritualized Transparent paradise Justifying the Relinquishments of fate There’s nobody else to blame We watched as the world was set ablaze And when it’s passed, the final storm From ruins we’ll be reborn 6. Where Stars Burn… I might have blamed you unfairly Compelling thoughts of resentment The stars we collected did never shine Nothing more than partial contentment Well, it might be time to face the music To admit my faults and reject my pride This separation was never your creation Neither was it you who poisoned my view Let my senses fade out Beyond fear and doubt A place where stars burn, to go and die With closed eyes I try - Beneath a black sky A fallen king, who’s lost his crown In his doings I see sorrow A self-inflicted starvation campaign To cleans and return back to zero I witness An empty desperate man Let my senses fade out Beyond fear and doubt A place where stars burn, to go and die With closed eyes I try - Beneath a black sky I might have blamed you unfairly Let my senses fade out Beyond fear and doubt A place where stars burn, to go and die With closed eyes I try - Beneath a black sky 7. Banished You can’t be very proud Regarding that your actions failed The holy race is extinct You were the first to be nailed The earth is swarmed with sins Neglected and left alone We won’t pay your price through skins Watch us from your heavenly throne There’s strength within our race Our bloody banners are held high This world is ours to reclaim And your paradise for us to rename I sealed your fate with hate Exiled from the heart of man Banished in shame A broken piece in the human plan You preached using tainted words We wouldn’t listen, wouldn’t be fooled This planet is a battlefield We’ve armed ourselves, we won’t be ruled I sealed your fate with hate Exiled from the heart of man Banished in shame A broken piece in the human plan 8. The End Of It All When the black snow falls It dresses the world In a new burial gown The winds of man are vanished Our civilized codes are banished Where were you in all this? Enjoying your tranquilizing bliss? We all stood accused But judgement day never came Nor were our iniquities convicted We didn’t walk hand-in-hand Neither stood we proud or united When the horizon flatlined the world We didn’t stand proud or united We saw the horizon flatline our world And then there was silence… No songs of sorrow were sang… And then there was silence… No songs of sorrow were sang… And then there was silence… No bravery to echo across the centuries We all stood accused Charged with moral obligations Designed for the purpose to control Keep us from revolting, strike and evolve We’re all equals, just flesh and bones Bi-products, experience the final tones A symphony of stillness, coloured with dust The soundtrack to the deeds of our lust And then there was silence… No songs of sorrow were sang… And then there was silence… No bravery to echo across the centuries And then there was silence… Only a whisper, the last breath of mankind And then there was silence… We were all born to die 9. Corrupted How can a piece of paper Dictate my existence Why is necessary assistance A quantitative decision Is it impossible to see Beyond the norms of man and society. Denied by the Corrupted Collective I reached out, I raised my voice Enabling my escape From the darkest inch inside As I drown the voice astride Considered lucrative dream-machines Worthless shells, shaped by artificial means Incompetent mind-shifting drones Labeled and archived, express-packaged clones Is it impossible to see Beyond the norms of man and society. Denied by the (Corrupted Collective) I can’t change my part to play In the symphony of life A demanding extra A pretty case with nothing inside Is it impossible to see Beyond the norms of man and society. Denied by the (Corrupted Collective) 10. Shaping A Horizon Don’t try to excuse your behaviour By falling in line, obeying command When did we sacrifice To become a part of the machinery Be one before Many is more Rule as your own Superior to any clone Let’s take a stand Against the elite Becoming the one To set our own guidelines Don’t set the limits When you’re shaping a horizon Live like you’re free Perspectives beyond to be Be one before Many is more Rule as your own Superior to any clone Don’t set the limits When you’re shaping a horizon Live like you’re free Perspectives beyond to be 11. Archgod This ain’t gonna be a false display of complaints This is my fury Overwhelming the sane, raging, violent, vehement WE ARE NO SAINTS A final psychotic chapter, sanctified by me So brothers, salute the free Marked by the guilt Condemned by the weak There’s time been spilt Rise, shine and bespeak Here we stand With the world in our hand Ready to command The only life we’ll ever have Archgods How often don’t we neglect the certainty of joy We pride ourselves with absence An endless thirst, a hunt for the sinner’s wine Breathe the lust of millions Aren’t we kings of our existence Rulers bred to be slaves Here we stand With the world in our hand Ready to command The only life we’ll ever have Here we stand With the world in our hand Ready to command As archgods, We are archgods! Weak, broken Succumb to filth Beaten, pathetic Spoiled by guilt Here we stand With the world in our hand Ready to command The only life we’ll ever have Here we stand With the world in our hand Ready to command As archgods, We are archgods! 12. One And The World What if I told you? That tomorrow will mark The dawn of a new era What if I told you? That we’ll be a part of it As long as we intend to live Rise, brothers of mine Feast upon a realm Rise, rebuild A nation made from empathy Cause we’re one And one shall rule So let’s decide on a set of principles Every man shall be judged And by judgement shall he live So let’s forge this code in stone Rise, brothers of mine Feast upon a realm Rise, rebuild A nation made from empathy Cause we’re one And one shall rule Rise, brothers of mine Feast upon a realm Rise, realize The end of our empires We should be one And one shall rule 13. A Final Storm Joakim Strandberg-Nilsson — Drums Johan Aldgård — Guitars Jonathan Thorpenberg — Guitars, Vocals (clean) Erik Nilsson — Vocals (harsh) Kåre Timmermann — Bass