Dark Empire - The Cleansing Fires lyrics

[I - Reconciliation] Night betrayed the day I collapsed into my shell As the scars reshaped my face Mercy reared its head And forgiveness lost its charm As the cries at once fell dead And if in the shards that surround me One fragment of hope remains If these paranoid wishes have come unchained Better to wish them away Better to save this last embrace And give this nightmare closure Ghosts of madness fled And the master lost his breath As the fear inside fell dead... [II - Mother Of Agony] Now forever laid in this pristine grave, They whisper their tirades Children of tragedy cry blasphemies, invisible and unclean. So still in the presence of majesty You will offer yourself to me, give in to me. In a prison designed by me, frozen in fright at the sight of me Now you will listen to me Angel of the darkness created by me Now you shall see Better to quietly embrace the dancing fires And learn to bathe yourself in pools of my desires Mother of agony, now atrophies Our union transcending days Naked, in a state of emergency Sweat feeding my urgency, give it to me Submit to this tragedy unholy nymph - you bleed for me Streaming like tears down your thighs Now ever so gracefully washing me clean Whisper to me Better to readily embrace these raging fires And learn to drown yourself in seas of my desires [III - Endless Surrender] By the bed the stench is best Under tattered sheets we are blessed The decay of dignity augments your unrest Cloaked in silence, you cling to me Soon you come to know loyalty Serving me eternally in our den of beauty Ever deceived by fate, suspended behind this gate Anguish becoming me, endless surrender shapes me [IV - Distorted Forms] Twisted silhouettes and shadows grace the room The sunlight has abandoned me The hours are blurred, consciousness burns This is my family The lifeblood drains from me Forging this grim reality, we fall into place, Now we're... Licking the skin (Aging within) Soiling the who*e (Tainting my fears) Twisting the skin (Descent within) Boiling the core (Tasting my tears) Peeling the skin (Dying within) Begging for more (Raping my soul) Burning the skin (Decay within) (Changing my soul) Forever closing the door on perverse impurities Father - Fracture - Failure [V - Descent Within] Pulsating thoughts impact like thunder Mind going under Despair rips me asunder The ever fading voice of reason Devoid and bleeding Piercing numbness blinds my eyes Our fantasies are weak and crumbling Hope stays for one thing: I know the end is coming Daughter - Damage Danger Better to cleanse this tainted world of its disease And sacrifice sanity I have been stripped of all but nothing's stopping me Destiny's wrath ignites my soul [VI - Ghosts Of Madness] Night betrays the day, I am timeless (save me) Mercy hides its face, turns away (raped me) Ghosts of madness come, and their words (soothe me) Master breathes his fear (fear) and the choking starts Regret subdues my demons, purges my desires Bright flames of lust subsiding, woven curse unravels flawed designs I can see your face turn to grey (it pains me) I can see your fear slowly fading (it scathes me) Undone, the monster cowers loosening its grip Overcome by searing weakness, turning to a sharp and blinding light [VII - Children Of Failed Gods' Dismay] Cut these chains of fractured days Suffer the children yet he stays I can see the ending tearing away from myself Breaking shackles, fighting fate Prisoners in this perfect grave Sanctify this union, children of failed gods' dismay Moments lapse, burning sweat fills my anguished eyes These pains revive me Rage inside me guides my hand so swift and unrestrained Better to recklessly abandon final hope As the cleansing fires engulf your soul