Watain
The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
1. Ecstasies in Night Infinite
On chariots of fire they approach
A violent force
That spurs the storm and spurs the lightning
Shine forth across the void
Prismatic revelations of eternal death
Vibrant in splendour
You'll see them coming from afar
Across the heavens from the deeps of the underworld
They've come to claim what has been theirs for long
Their freedom, their ecstasy
To illuminate the outer limits
And mock the dawn
Like ecstasies in night infinite
Liberated from the fetters of fate
Instant yet constant, to become
The everglaring nuclear bliss
The architects of a new abyss
For we have come to claim what has been ours for long
Our freedom, our ecstasy
To illuminate the path within
To live and die
Like ecstasies in the night
Shine forth from worlds unborn
Blessed be those
That bask within thy radiation
Glorious victorious
Dart forth from storm rent chasm
As the future turns into hours
On chariots of fire they approach
A violent force, a sudden curse
That spurs the storm and kills the light
Through space and time now thrust
The next thousand years are but hours
Minutes and seconds then dust
2. The Howling
Beneath the surface of the great primordial sea
Beyond life and death
Behind the veil of all our dreams so frail
Below the remnants and the dust of all past
The wailing of the mysteries
That caress the hearts of those who have laid them bare
Where the winds of twilight ever blow
Beneath, beyond, behind, below
In the lingering light of the primal fires
Through the din of all centuries past
A call to see, to learn, to know
So that fearless we may go
Beneath, beyond, behind, below
The howling...
Can you hear it still?
The faint echo of the great war
The spectral tremor of the giant collapse
Of the primal scream and a severed dream
The first, the last, the howling of the mother
Still wrestling, scales agleam
With the silence of the void
Howling throughout eternity
In the lingering light of the saints of fires
In their fusing of word and deed
A call to see, to learn, to know
So that eager we may go
Beneath, beyond, behind, below
Proclaimed by prophets for centuries now
The amplified rage of aeons
For eternities, in the rising seas and in their deeps
Reminding us
Where every devilchild must go
Beneath! Beyond! Behind! Below!
Like the wolf unto its kin it wails
Oh, what music it makes...
3. Serimosa
Great and terrible
Such were the rumours of the storm approaching
From beyond, the regions of serimosa, serimosa
A scent from far
Yes I can feel you are drawing near
Approaching my senses, serimosa
From worlds forgotten conjured forth
To maim and possess me
They say it will arrive before the end
And that our hearts shall yearn
That it will come with night
That ancient neverlight
To wash the world
Serimosa, serimosa
Violet and deep
Bringer of evernight
As you dance the world trembles
They say it made its way through the nothingness
Into this valley of despair
Fearless through the aeons it has come to brand
The seal of expiration
Upon the flesh of man
Bringer of both serum and disease, go forth
Imprisoned by illusion we shall be no more
And thus again the fields were sown
And scattered seeds replanted
And so the devil is reborn
Again and again and again
To fuck the world
Serimosa, serimosa
Feverous one
Till flames reaches heaven high
To shine on the worlds ending
To dance at the worlds ending
To shine upon the world's end
4. Black Cunt
Abominations stir within the all-mind
An intrusion in the womb of grace
But fear not the dark, my child
So the serpent says
Ageless, with corruption's grin
The tempter's come to bless its kin
The very source of all your sins
Slithering hither, withershins
For you have seen it in your dreams
And sensed its presence
Your sons and daughters, on their knees
The black goat upon its hind legs, standing tall
Then you shall know it in your heart
That burning yearning
The will to kindle hellfire
To pace the winding path
By way of the primordial sеa
Through the wilderness of darknеss
From the well of blasphemy
We drink with lust and greed
Let the light of the night set the tone
A sound like rolling rock on stone
A spirit cloaked, flesh and bone
Making its way into the world
On its own
Ooh, but not alone
Irrevocable, that which awakes
Here, where the barrier breaks
A reversion of power that gives and takes
Riches to the witches, and priests
To the stakes
Crawl forth
From the black cunt of the one
A soul reborn in the realms beyond
Have you seen the lusting souls that dance forever there?
At the gates of equinox
To the pipe of the necromancer
Where the spheres of hell and Earth align
And the flames of the altar rise
Wake now from quiescence
Thou, who lies dead but dreaming
When the stars are ripe
Nightmares shall flesh and ascend
On the shores when the time draws nigh
In the blood of the host that deals death
Into the eyes of the stalkers of night
From the deeps, at will, we shall rise
By way of the primordial sea
Through the labias of darkness
From the cunt of blasphemy
We drink with lust and greed
Rise, ye of the tempter's breed
Who yearn for the forbidden
In the fires of Satan's victory
The spirit of defiance shall prevail
And be set free
5. Leper's Grace
Come close, touch the wounds that grace me
You pious manchild, so keen to grasp
Why your path is not my path
Or why you fear the things I adore
But know it is the certainty of death and its stench
That I crave, and that makes me want more
Not your sanctimonious affirmation
Nor your cage of gold
No
Never saw the dignity in the act to submit or conform
And even less so in the willful enforcement
Of guilt and of norm
Never been able to understand
Your voluntary slavery
The true rebels I have known
They broke their chains, they lived and died free
Constantly in the vicinity
Of death and demise
Eternally in mutiny
Against Christ (Christ, Christ)
In your world so white and right
I'll be the wrong, I'll be the night
Your shame, my pride
Beyond illusion, beyond sex and race
I bow before the leper's grace
Beware, ye tender hearts
The satanic force of darkness
A tumor that festers in the godhead
Wild and free, our work must be
A cultivation of evil
To sting, to twist and stir
Blessed by the rabid curse
Outcast, exiled and banished
Deep in night forlorn
Where demons chant
At the leper's throne
Rising from the slums of Sodom
The rank stench of love gone vile
Up into the halls of heaven
Beware, ye clean, of the unclean
In your world of peace and light
We are the filth, we are the fight
On these fields we are the scythe
Now kiss the blisters upon the face
Of rotting death, the leper's grace
6. Not Sun Nor Man Nor God
7. Before the Cataclysm
Ready or not
Will come to be known by us all
Where leads the winding path
Over tar fields aflame, since Eden's fall
Cross hidden cracks and furrows
Where fiery currents surge
Restlessly, like mercury
Spilling forth through the ruins of a barren world
Thus, you shall stand
A naked child before the cataclysm
For ready or not, come it will
Dark is the deep that you fall into
Endless, the void that expands from under you
Now the gods claim their sacrifice
And the devil his due
Strange glows the night, but fear not its shadows
They've come to awaken the flame that's asleep within you
A cross has been carved in the place where we go to die
There they await, to draw every secret from you
And the blood of thy heart
And the blood of thy heart
Then you shall see it clear at last
As the mist unveils the moor
Here ends the charted lands
The path beyond is made visible
The time has come to dare the dunes
Of endless oceans vast
No guiding stars to lead you now
Through the labyrinth of our pasts
An edgeless map, a nameless space
Such is the province of our demise
Yet on it goes, this eternal voyage
Above a sunken paradise
Yet many more kingdoms must fall before
You may find your rest there, on the other shore
Well I fare for the furthest beacon
Fare for the glow
Bright, like the light that you go into
Life is a dream that is fading away from you
Fare now to what's real, fare now to what's true
Yours is the night, yours is the shadow
Yours is the star that forever shall burn in the dark
A cross has been carved in the place where we go to die
And for all those that go there with fire in heart, we shall kneel
And bless their journey
Sail on, sail on
Into the night
Sail on, sail on
Into the light
Sail to the souls that shine there
Tonight, I stood out by the sea
And saw the seventh lighthouse glare
The yonder beckons, the twilight calls
And one day, I'll meet you there
Where unchained spirits, rampant, soar
In starless heavens, like before
The cataclysm, in timeless time
When God was not forevermore
8. We Remain
How red and full of truth are not
the stories by the fires told?
Absorbed and passed on by every dreamer
Madly drunk from embers glow
Always with the whirling dust
of winding roads to mask our trail
And cloak the paths 'pon which we rode
So that legends dim might tell our tale
On waves of wildest oceans borne
In roaring chant a song unheard
Thus was brought the lore, to havens far
The echo of the primal word
For what is truth but what we make it?
A tale deformed by wind and rain
By temple stone and eager flame
Concealed, in spirit
We remain
Like a marooned enchantress stranded in the tropic of deceit
The truth abides within us all
Patiently awaiting the rise of her star
And its vengeful light to shine on our betrayal
For in the breaking of the final dawn and the silencing of all
Her muted voice shall rise in grace anew
At the unweaving of the webs and the dismantling of the world
We will remember her
Hark unto its hissing tongue
That dark wind of which dreams are made
On it blows, that fateful song
On and on and on
What if life is but an intermission?
The flickering of dying flame
And in the endless night in which it burns
Concealed, forever
We remain
9. Funeral Winter
Reaper
Eager blows thy wind
From beyond the great vast forest
Reverend leveler
Thy season is now at hand
After all, we never stood a chance
Thus falls the snow
On crosses built in haste
For a past never again to return
A pallid host tread forth across the skies
Yet, fearless like wolves we shall stand
For we have seen it in the distance, now, for long
So stern
Limned in the likenеss of a god
The winter of the agеs
In the yonder ever restlessly astir
Astir
The crossroads lie far behind us now
Oh, to enter there anew
Knowing what we know now
Though deep, into the wild we've gone
Deeper yet, we're sure to go
That much I know, that much I know
We go where all must go at last
To a nameless grave beneath nameless ruin
An ageless curse from an unknown past
The winter of the great undoing
Funeral winter
Firm be thy choke hold at summer's neck
As hearts turn to splinters
And the worms rejoice
For theirs is the kingdom and theirs is the feast
Beneath thy pale splendour entombed
Come funeral winter
Come funeral doom
10. Septentrion
So have they come to shine upon the North again
And to illuminate the temple of our heart?
The seas we sail
The maze we walk
The night in which we've come to know their splendor
Deep is their mystery
Stern is their light
Guardians of our innermost secrets
Septentrion, septentrion
Watcher and wane of the night
And there were things that came to pass
That evеr shall remain within their shrine of silеnce
Even when we lay pale
And our voices have become but whispers
From beyond the thinning veil
Emerging from out of the shadows
I saw
And I beheld, in awe and fright
A blood-drenched animal trembling in the dark
Its seven eyes agleam with Lucifer's light
What if we lived our life to the fullest extent?
Free unto ourselves
Unbound by law
What if we were to walk
Like pilgrims on a sacred path?
What if we truly believed
That life is our sacrifice
Death, the reward
A humble yet dignified offering
At the cloven hoof of our lord
Until the night wind blows free through our skulls
Ride free
Fare far
Drink deep
Die hard
As long as this fire burns wild in my heart
I shall fight for our freedom, my friend
And strive to arrive with my fist held high
At the starlit gates of the end
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