Thorns / Emperor
      Thorns vs. Emperor

1. Exordium
2. Aerie Descent
3. I Am
4. Aerie Descent
5. Thus March The Nightspirit
6. Melas Khole
7. The Discipline Of Earth
8. Cosmic Keys


  Exordium
  
[Music & arrangements: Ihsahn & Emperor]

I am The Emperor


  Aerie Descent
  
[Music by S.W. Krupp and SA Titan, lyrics by S.W. Krupp]

You sought cures that never were
That cripples the bile in your veins

The moon shone with a fuller red
And the skin stretched pale on your bones
Offering all it's untender care
The form took home in your souls


  I Am
  
[Music & Arrangements: Ihsahn & Emperor]
[with themes from "Fall" by Thorns]

Death
I am
The Emperor
I am
The Emperor
I am
The Emperor
I am
The Emperor


  Aerie Descent
  
[Music & lyrics: Snorre Ruch]

By the moons, heist, and all of the light
Above the earth he rode
He seeks that which never was
And never to become

The moon rose it was crimson in color
It lighted some coming form
That once crushed so many of them
It ever comes again

And again, and again
And again, and again
And again, and again

The moon shone with a fuller red
Was it cursed to be drawn to the earth?
What once has been shall be no more
Dead in graves is heist
It is
In graves

[Spoken:]
Oh lord I kneel before the secret council
I form these reckonable words of iniquity
For my enemies be against me
And they have led ways for my soul to be consumed
together
Defend me from he that rises up against me
Save me from he that raids our homes and follows my
path below the frozen moon
For he lay in wait for my soul
And desires to take it down a firey pit

Heist descends to the world
Fed alone by our souls
See your perished form
So by the stone it crushed their faith
Their kingdom lost

The moon rose it was crimson in color
To remain
What once crushed so many, alone
It ever comes again

And again, and again
And again, and again
And again, and again


  Thus March The Nightspirit
  
[Original music & arrangements: Ihsahn]
[Classical arrangement & performance: Ihsahn]

[instrumental]


  Melas Khole
  
[Music and lyrics by S.W. Krupp)]

You must ? a purpose for your pain

And are you the one that hope repeatedly betrays?

Have you lost your way?

? company
? moral left behind

I Am ?
Melas Khole

Hope is a serum that never heals


  The Discipline Of Earth
  
[Music by S.W. Krupp and SA Titan, lyrics by S.W. Krupp]

The dead sink to hell
Upheld by strings of gold hang the sacred stars in the sky
The dead sink to hell

Deep down in the black slime of this earth restless limbs are at work
Deep down beneath the dark tar of this land decrepit lungs crave air

A thousand empty eyes endlessly seeking the invisible stars


  Cosmic Keys
  
[The original "Cosmic Keys To My Creations & Times" by Samoth & Ihsahn. Re-written by S.W. Krupp]

I have seen the secrets
Of creation and time
The key is to be found
In a deterministic principle.
I used the key
Of fourth dimension
And I found that
Time is movement.
One can turn direction
Of the omnicalculation
Then all mathematics
Are possible to reverse.
I have seen the secrets
To the nature of life
Life is pattern, repetition.