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DARK MARTYR LYRICS
"Our Lady Of Swords" (1999)
1. Prelude (instrumental)
2. A Midwinter's Betrayal
3. Mysterium In Crystalline
4. Dance For The Dead
5. Benighted And Blessed Solitude
6. Pirouette
7. The Wrath
8. Our Lady Of Swords
9. Solstice Eve
10. Aether
1. Prelude (instrumental)
2. A Midwinter's Betrayal
A Midwinter's Betrayal
The ebon pools that were her eyes
Selenea forces their shine
Angelic features that I prized
Made the image of a goddess no longer mine
And there she lies
Cruciform upon the chamber floor
Here deathmask mocks my cries
Gone forever to a Stygian Shore
Human savage in the waste of despair
Wailing for his love now lost
Lamentations split the chill air
The world dying under Janus' frost
Wind howling like the beast at his flesh
Perched alone upon the parapet
Heart aching for her gentle caress
But the only balm for his sorrows lies dead
Damned in this world 'til death
The frost on the glass like the frost of her breath
The shade of my fate draws in
The snow on the sill like her unliving skin
Heart transfixed upon the cross of misery
By what Pilate, Judas or pharisee
The irons in, I scream in agony
And lo, the fiend appears, in Mephistophelean majesty
What would you give to see her again
Would you render your soul to me
To enjoy her company in life
And suffer in flames for eternity
Would you sail to the Tartaran Shore?
For her I would give my evermore
Lo the girl from the stone doth rise
Bloodless corpse to the stone floor fall
Fool, you sacrificed all
To save yourself from Paradise lost
And fell like the flower
To the midwinter's frost…
3. Mysterium In Crystalline
Mysterium In Crystalline
Dreams once wept as empty song . . .
Aghast in deepest slumber,
eyes descried their burden
lost in the sin
of the flesh's infernal puzzle
Mysterium in crystalline
a curse unbound insane.
Chaotic forces evolve
transcend the course of mortal pain.
In time before the sun was known.
Elders ruled the vast beyond,
their tormented songs endure
and call their passion's fate.
Mysterium in Crystalline
a curse unbound insane.
Chaotic forces evolve
Transcend the course of mortal pain.
Magic in madness like liquid aflow
a lifesbane created
in corruption to grow.
Imprisoned,
enchanted by pre-solar grandeur.
Collapse of the maddening vision,
Of an interminable, timeless creation
4. Dance For The Dead
5. Benighted And Blessed Solitude
Benighted and Blessed Solitude
An Oasis run dry
A void in my space once hers
To where did you leave me now
Gone to find yourself
Fled to search your soul
Gone 'til you return to me….
Chorus
Where do I go from here
I long for your touch, so I dream you by my side
When will I feel you next to me
-Finally find yourself
-Finally search your soul
-Find your return to me
When we whispered side by side
Awake despite the dying moon
The kiss I thought would never cease
That set my tortured soul at peace
Remembring your warmth next to me
Alone and cold I am incomplete
…Chorus…
Empty bed where I sleep
Your memories lie to my feet
Shadowed portraits of you and I
Haunt the corners of my mind
How the memories take their toll
Of the overlooked shadow of my soul
6. Pirouette
7. The Wrath
The Wrath
Windswept eyes gouged by burning sand
That left no tears to weep
The open wounds stared dessicate
At the throng about his feet
To complement the jeering crowd
The figure aloft felt breath
On his neck and heard
Whispered covenants and vows
And lurid invocations to sin
Corruption's caress
A tempting demoness
Of Cassandran prophecy
Brought the tainted joy of lust
Whispered promises of dust
So alluringly unclean
Temptation on the brink of death
And the crowd jeered endlessly
But had they known what was to come
They'd have saved their breath to scream
For He, unlike their Christ, to death
The martyr raised his crown
And eyes like flame itself ablaze
The crowd was stricken down
The morning sky from blue to black
From the ashen cries of Loss
For fire was to be their fate
As fantasy turned to holocaust
A flood of breathy lures poured forth
And the martyr closed his eyes
His ire charred her skin away
And burned away her lies
The morning sky from blue to black
From the ashen cries of Loss
For fire was to be her fate
As predation changed its course
8. Our Lady Of Swords
Our Lady of Swords
The milk of human kindness
Has soured to pus and
The steel shock of living
Has degraded to rust
Reduced to zero
Emotive expression
A flatline of desire
A precursor to cessation
Voice a prayer to Our Lady of Swords
For the life you take may be your own
For the passion of life cannot compare
To the passion intrinsic with dying alone
Time is a fire
An all-consuming
Conflagration
Uniting the world
For the only thing
We have in common is death
And its solace is
The only thing remaining
Uncorrupted
Voice a prayer to Our Lady of Swords
For the life you take may be your own
For the passion of life cannot compare
To the passion intrinsic with dying alone
The velvet embrace of
The red-bespattered
Harbinger of mercy
Brings ascension of demise
For the coming of death is the only truth
Bringing its light to the darkness of life
Voice a prayer to Our Lady of Swords
For the life you take may be your own
For the passion of life cannot compare
To the passion intrinsic with dying alone
9. Solstice Eve
Solstice Eve
Their tears fell to Earth
And baptized its parched soil
Tainted from endurance
of countless æons past
Bathed in the shades
of an autumn's bittersweet rebirth
This passing unto life redeemed
Incorporea
never forgotten -
only snared in winter's grasp
A tempest in red
Wishing, too, for other dimensions
Its jealous rains
Each drop a dagger's smile
Below, the faces veiled
by the season that surrounded
Brighter still my Solstice Eve -
tributes to an unborn star
They refused their earthly bodies
And vowed to purge the astral self
In the blood of the empty sky
Seasons past and still to come
The time had come again
They felt the touch of ages
like gossamer winds
far gone in years and
Further still a world away
Callisto…
the clock has stopped
Your children cry your name
we come again,
Your memory entwined with us always
Celestial spheres once revered
Never forgotten
Only snared in winter's grasp
in the frost of time
and from within…on this my Solstice Eve
10. Aether
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