Netherbird The Ghost Collector 1. Dead Grid Incantation Dead Grid Incantation Lyrics Nephente Screaming souls across the dead grid Blured faces and voices crystallized Beneath the ground howling choirs weep You shut down; to you it’s no longer real Who are you, why did you come here child? This is the realm of the dead grid, step inside To the other place, where no one should ever go Welcome in to learn the things you shouldn’t Know. 2. The Blackest Breed The Blackest Breed Lyrics Nephente A brilliant dark and spiteful creed Blessed by the kiss of Lilith At the place where night and hell will meet She gave birth to us the blackest breed The darkness is our salvation now We have all become malice in wonderland The ghastly ones clad in deepest grief Blacker than the black in silence we speak The quiet defiant The blackest breed The silent defiant The blackest breed The arrogant creed The blackest breed Oh the blackest breed Oh the blackest breed With the passing of time we became the strangest of all birds in the sky With awakening minds we cast the chains and we are the unbound crime The vilest storms rage within the stillest minds The strongest hearts beat in the quiet kind Beware of us who always do observe We’ll never bow before you and we were not meant to serve The quiet defiant The blackest breed The silent defiant The Blackest breed The arrogant creed The blackest breed Oh the blackest breed Oh the blackest breed With the passing of life we became the epitome of sin and of rebellion We are the blood, we are the sweat, the lustful zest, the beast tuned flesh They say we are cursed. If so by whom? If so be it. Then so be it. Are we cursed for walking away from this useless world grey? Are we cursed for walking away from this stage and its twisted play? Are we cursed for shunning the absurd, then so be it, then we’re the cursed Are we cursed for despising the misled and their lies, then we ‘re proudly cursed Proudly cursed Blacker than the blackest black Dark as a night without an end Long shadows this void As Nightmares and horrors blend A brilliantly dark and spiteful creed Blessed by the kiss of Lilith At the place where night and hell will meet She gave birth to us the blackest breed The blackest breed 3. Carcass Symphony Carcass Symphony Lyrics Nephente At dusk they will awake A ghost dance ball room As the sun is slaked At dusk they spring to life And their damp grey concrete hive Bathing in fluorescent light Temples with worms Praying they’ll be butterflies To be able to move like the wind If only for a while In the glistering halls dead bodies swing to the melody Crystal mirror walls, reflecting the carcass symphony In the lost souls ball room where dead tissue breathe Dead they all seem, dead they all are, dead to me I see broken dolls, their venomous smiles cover grief In the glistering halls dead you are invisible They never see anyone, they stare right through Among the crystal pillars the insects play make-believe I see broken dolls, their venomous smiles cover grief Crystal mirrors reflecting unseeing eyes Crimson lipped mouths spitting their lies They are all lost, they are all hollow They are empty inside Stay away from them Ignore their siren songs These genderless whores Pass by their temples, forever walk on In the glistering halls clod flesh swing, A ghost dance for the false Cystal mirror walls, entangled in lies On and on the waltz on We the sulphur kissed The ones to walk the path twilit Among the living and torn Among the alive and battle worn The sweet promise of grandeur In defiance of and end that must come In the ghost dance ball room Where the soothing lies are sung I am rather the sulphur kissed The one to walk the path twilit Among the living and torn Among the alive and the battle worn We are the proudly flawed The last children of the fall We are the sulphur kissed We walk the path twilit We are the proudly flawed The last children of the fall We are the sulphur kissed We walk the path of twilight 4. Adrift on the Sea of Misery 5. Lighthouse Eternal (Laterna Magika) Lighthouse Eternal (Laterna Magika) Lyrics Nephente This night is dark, black as hell itself This is the wolf hour, a sea ready to devouver Standing at the Shore, looking out Standing by the sea, forever looking for thee I have been standing by the sea, built to stand for forever As walls of water crash, I am stone, I will last Radiant my fiery eye, cutting through the night A solemn last promise, a barren unyielding light I might be the last light you see The first not to abandon thee Lighthouse Eternal, Laterna Magika No matter where you hoped to go No matter where you have been No matter what you hoped to find No matter what you have seen No matter what you hoped to achieve No matter what you have become No matter what you hoped to do No matter what you have done I will always find you not let a single soul go astray I will bring you home again Not one single soul will be left behind These winds once carried me too Back when I was so like you I left port in search for other shores I dared these waves when all else had failed Now I stand blacker than the night At a shore where no one should go My light will never falter, never fade When all else is lost, I remain Lighthouse Eternal, Laterna Magika No matter where you hoped to go No matter where you have been No matter what you hoped to find No matter what you have seen No matter what you hoped to achieve No matter what you have become No matter what you hoped to do No matter what you have done At the edge of this world of darkness This is the last port before it all ends For the stray ships cast the furtherst south of Eden No matter your flaws you are welcome here, No matter your sins or past my dear You are welcome home sweet fallen one I will bring you home again Lighthouse Eternal, lanterna magika 6. Hidden Beneath Flesh Pest Ridden Hidden beneath Flesh pest ridden Lyrics Nephente The truth lies hidden, beneath the skin The truth is bitter, the truth is hidden //// The truth lies hidden, beneath the skin The truth lies hidden beneath flesh pest ridden 7. The Beauty of Bones The Beauty of Bones Lyrics Nephente We are the ostracised The fucking apostatised Scorning the dogmatised Black puke globalised We are the demonised The lost cursed and stigmatised The black fucking tantalised This healthy world’s parasites As the havoc ceases And our bodies drained Past the last heart beat Then we are akin again The beauty of bones As the chains of flesh let go When naked bones remain Only then will we be the same again We never wished for this to be Never asked to differ, we just do But in truth we are quite like thee We have bones as do you Behold the malprogrammed drones Your failed and now useless clones Rejoice now cause beneath it all we are all but bones When the flesh has failed And mere bones remain Then we will be so alike Then we are the same The beauty of bones As the chains of flesh let go When naked bones remain Only then will we be the same again We are the ostracised The fucking apostatised Scorning the dogmatised Black puke globalised We are the demonised The lost cursed and stigmatised The black fucking tantalised This healthy world’s parasites 8. Forever Mournful Forever Mournful Lyrics Nephente Forever darkness forever rain Forever mournful I will remain Forever darkness Forever falling rain Forever mournful I stand alone and so I will remain The world is changing Nothing stays the same Forever eroding Only I seem to remain I stand still, dead and cold A stone statute, so black, and alone Time cuts wound that never heal Forgot how it was like to feel What it was like to believe How life used to be I turned dark I grew cold I turned to stone I seen so many souls come And I have seen them all go I have seen many gods rise And I will see them all fall All hope promised A sadfated lost chance All seem dead to me All i see, Ghost dance The world is changing Nothing stays the same Forever eroding Only I seem to remain I stand still, dead and cold A stone statute, so black, and alone I stand still and I stand cold I stand everdark and I am stone This soul is frozen, these limbs are worn This heart is to tired, this soul is so torn I am mournful in this void of laughter I am stone in this realm of flesh All I see around me is a Ghost dance Frozen in a world that slowly changes Destroying all I ever needed to believe Forever mournful as time passes Let the Nordic thunder Roar Time cuts wound that never heal forgot how it was like to feel What it was like to believe How life used to be I turned dark I grew cold I turned to stone /// 9. Adrift Towards Eternity 10. Blood Orchid Blood Orchid Lyrics Nephente Black cityscape Towering... Stone fangs tearing at the sky Putrid tears fall Black horrorscape Ghosts line these avenues These streets are trenches Ugly are these scars ...and filled with rats they are Filled with rats they are! There are choirs, a ghost vesper for hope Like whispers beyond the roaring machinery So few the flowers in these gardens of rust Nested they rest ‘neath the carpet of dust I stand to watch the leaving birds spread their wings They will leave high above the chaos, high above everything While I hide deep within my flesh fortress under siege Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life A search for the blood orchid in the rusted gardens of mankind Autumn clutched in the earthen arms of summer’s growth Beneath the canopy of warmth Where stars beacons the weary and small Yet every garden bear the witness of coming fall Few are the flowers in the gardens of man In these sparkling gutters of neon Babylon Ghost dance amongst the fortunate whores Scared and maimed the pale stumble on… Blood Orchid There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined Blood Orchid There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined Blood Orchid I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life Blood Orchid A search for you in these rusted gardens of mankind I stand to watch the leaving birds spread their wings They will leave high above the chaos, high above everything While I hide deep within my flesh fortress under siege Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach There must be beauty beyond this rugged city where we’re confined There must be another meaning, greater than all their lies combined I’ve chosen another path, walking away from the strains of life A search for the Blood Orchid in the rusted gardens of mankind Blood Orchid // 11. Ashen Nectar Ashen Nectar Lyrics Nephente All aboard, this ship bound for wreckage Sail ho, fuckers! Who could foresee that this state of mind was forever? That we would never wake up from our nightmares? That the black poison dripped onto our skin would burn us That the clean streams of time wouldn’t be able to wash it away... Once these robes were worn as masquerade costumes The smooth velvet reviled hooks and razor claws That would not come of, cutting into the skin The harder we pulled the deeper its barbs dug in... Until death do us part my fair ones We’re the kings and queens of the depraved undone In the filthy streets, our splendid court, this neon Babylon We are the stars that refuse to shine No ships will navigate by our signs We are the tones that distort the chord In a world of perfection we are the flawed We are the birds with broken wings The useless ones, we don’t believe in anything We believe in no gods left high above And there will be no angels where we go We are the Ashen Nectar, we are the tainted well We are the Ashen Nectar, side by side we watch the world go by We are the Ashen Nectar, the last poets of a dying breed We are Ashen Nectar, our skins our canvases, our paint the blood we bleed All words were first spoken then stolen Onto paper splattered By the weakened hand in the dark room Visions and a life lay scattered We are suns bent for darkness The stars that refuse to shine Artists of a different kind The ones that leave nothing behind There is no clean white bed, for this dying bride Farewell... We left our last pieces to be lost In forgotten dusty attics Where our blood has dried We were the ashen nectar fanatics There will nothing left when we leave Our shadowy art will remain unseen As we step through the haze Silhouettes exiting this dream We are the stars that refuse to shine No ships will navigate by our signs We are the tones that distort the chord In a world of perfection we are the flawed We are the birds with broken wings The useless ones, we don’t believe in anything We believe in no gods left high above And there will be no angels where we go We are the Ashen Nectar We are the tainted well We are the Ashen Nectar Side by side, we watch the world go by We are the Ashen Nectar The last poets of a dying breed We are Ashen Nectar Our skins our canvases, our paint the blood we bleed 12. Boulevard Black Boulevard Black Lyrics Nephente Death like, pale graceful ballet In silence drawing near For a second mere Forlorn silhouettes For an instant there Only to disappear, forever changing all and the few that see, and still believe Sweet, painful, fragile Dreams... A haven of chaos So scarred and so alone Walking dead Lost in streets unknown We were once the invisible ones Those that spoke and no one heard Ghosts dancing in silver lit nights And never to return to this world Ivory and dye, Delicate porcelain calm these façades Lost in rain relentless The brilliant and shining few Who once drowned amongst the grey Spite the pain and whipping rain Chose to walk these lesser travelled ways Away! Walking down this road Many its winding turns A barren scar of stone Though all that stings and hurts Walk on to new rivers The ones of old ran dry Their barren depths unveiled Crystal streams fell prey to the hands of time Days and nights go by, one by one Like water slipping through tired fingers Precious gems stolen from idle hands Small pieces of the sun, now lost Adrift in eternal darkness Breathing in the gloom Walking darkened gardens Where only shadows bloom Oh this world looks so different now a little more dies with every passing day Every minute steals a colour flawing beauty in all ways Memories start to dither, One by one Dreams fall to splinters, One by one Seems like I am dying No air for these lungs It feels like I am dying So far from home Beneath the celestial canopy Angel wings and demon seeds Beneath the celestial canopy The legions march with me We walk the boulevard black Across these fields of grey Like ghost adrift in gloom In search for other ways A place where we belong We walk down boulevard black An endless row of souls And we are marching home We walk down Boulevard so black An endless stream of time, this finite march called life We walk down Boulevard so black this everflow into the unknown back to where we came from Praised be those of silence The blood tainted ivory innocence Praised be those that differ Blessed be the children of the fall Those that walk the boulevard black The legions of the left hand avenue An ode to the fallen An ode to for the lost An ode to the stranded To those that still burn All of the chains are splintered Those that woke are walking, fairlight All of my dreams are dead now All golden lies are lead now All of my angels have fallen We walk this earth like ghosts All of my angels are fallen All of my angels are beautiful Sing to me oh you sweet bleeding planet Sing to us that walk your ruins Sing to us for our words are dead Sing to us for their world is dead to us // An ode for the thinning breed of angels For their crimson lips and tangled feathers Majestic wings are spread climbing the sun One for the reason in reasoning no more Walking down this road Many its winding turns A barren scar of stone Though all that stings and hurts And we are like fire flies, Boldly daring the night And we dance for a radiant while Born to drift out of time... But for a second mere we glared For an instant we were there Before the last grain of sand fell No tears as I bid thee fare well... We walk down Boulevard so black an endless stream of time, this fi nite march called life We walk down Boulevard so black this everflow into the unknown, back to where we came from We walk down boulevard black Across these fields of grey Like ghost adrift in gloom In search for other ways A place where we belong We walk the boulevard black An endless row of souls And we are marching home We are like fire flies Boldly daring the night And we dance for a radiant while Born to drift out of time... But for a second mere we glared For a shining instant we were there Before the last grain of sand fell No tears as I bid thee fare well... At the end of a black boulevard. 13. Boulevard Black (reprise)