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PAGAN REIGN LYRICS
"Gates of Hell" (2002)
1. Control
2. Force of Will
3. ...Worth Hating For
4. The Missing Link
5. Iconoclast
6. Nemesis
7. The Shroud
8. Dust to Dust
1. Control
I've tried to do my best
To make you proud
You tell me what you want me to know
So you can mould me into a fucking robot
Liar, you don't control my life
Liar, now feel as I twist the knife
Cause you don't own me
You want me to fill your life
Cause you feel empty inside
But I know the pain you caused me
So I will rise up, stand tall
Fuck you, you don't control my life
Fuck you, now feel as I twist the knife
Cause you don't own me
2. Force of Will
Beaten down to conform
Made a slave to the norm
Give the world what they expect
Live your life just like a pet
They won't break me
I will be strong
They won't break me
I don't belong
Till the end killing time
Trapped inside your fragile mind
I won't bow before their greed
Won't live my life upon my knee
They won't break me
I will be strong
They won't break me
I don't belong
3. ...Worth Hating For
Weep, weep for all the tears
you've caused me shed
Weep, weep for all the times
you've fucked with the
Battered carcass of our love
that was slowly stripped away
Leaving shattered, torn and bleeding
a rancid shrine to hate
Cry, cry for your lost love
Cry, cry for what we have become
Cause you're a symphony of sickness
and you're spreading your disease
Like an animated cancer
you corrupt and then deceive
Ask me for forgiveness,
absolution from your sins
Smell the stench of rotting roses,
tell me what have we got left
Cause I can see it in your eyes
that you don't want to be alone
Watch me turn and leave you
so you can suffer,
You can suffer on your own...
After all the pain you've caused me
I'll never be the same
Because the agonies of life have left me
numb to all your games
Now you're bleeding on your knees,
waiting for me to feed the beast
So you won't be consumed by guilt
but I won't give an inch of help
Cause I don't care for you, I don't care,
I just don't care...
4. The Missing Link
One body, a shared soul
Savage rage takes control
Anger burns in eyes turned red
The missing link
between the living and the dead
A power from beyond the grave
Reaching out to grasp and enslave
Feel the screams as your mind goes
The bonds of sanity are blown
Evil intentions
Cloaked in innocence
Human Flesh
The instrument of violence
A mind possessed
Twisted hatred
Manifesting murder incarnate
Red mist,
miasma of death
Fills the air,
chokes your breath
Surrender to its blinding fury
As your soul drowns in darkness
Immortality through the ages
Eternally exacting vengeance
It is a crime to be created:
To live is to earn its hatred
5. Iconoclast
What is the cost
to kill a man?
The only reason:
because I can.
Make you a fetish
of the hatred within me
Protracted rage:
you are my enemy
What makes you think
that I give a fuck?
That all you have
cannot be taken away?
All I have now
is what I've earned:
To live my life
on my own terms.
Don't think you can
tell me what to do
Cause I will stand
alone with all that
I've been through;
A mind unfree
can never know peace
What's the cure for
this society disease?
Each man must take
That which he'd hold
The fate that he makes
As each story's told
What makes you think
that I give a fuck?
That all you have
cannot be taken away?
All I have now
is what is mine:
To live my life
in my own time
6. Nemesis
Come, gaze,
stand in awe
The majesty of Man
made Stone
Look up
as vaults arise
To reach heaven's gate
then try but
The grinding wrath of time
Will take its deadly toll
And when dust you are
Yet the stone will stand
See life fading
Before your very eyes
Sooner or later
Everybody dies
Life is transient at best
It's just a hollow shade
When life is gone then
what is left
But temples of stone made?
But now you stand
before the stone,
A single soul
before the throne
To live a life and to survive
Take heart: for life He wants alive
7. The Shroud
In our minds universal
Endless vistas of time and space
There is no need to fear the darkness
Sink into its sweet embrace
I defy the will of God
I never shall kneel
In time my will is stronger
Perpetually increasing in power
In my veins the blood divine
The face of God is mine
Wretched mortals open your eyes
To sunless seas and blackened skies
Let them see who have eyes to see
Limitless realms of entropy
I will not suffer
My enemies to live
Fashioned in darkness, shunning the light
Never revealed to the weak and the blind
A graven image: it is the key
Awaken Man's divinity
I create from nothing
I become Almighty
In time my will is stronger
Perpetually increasing in power
In my veins the blood divine
The face of God is mine
8. Dust to Dust
Feel it slipping
The hourglass of time
See it blowing
By the winds of strife
Don't waste it
Where were you
When chance came round
Each day going
Where lethargy abounds
Don't waste it
You only get one shot at life
With fortune waning rare
So keep this thought inside your heart
Don't fuck this up
Don't waste it
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