Invasion of the Purple Elephants

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1.	The Black Well 05:28	lyrics	buy track
A deep black well in the dismal darkness A wormhole to hell - Dominium Daemonicus A hidden stream of the Underworld Crawls through these twisted catacombs A nameless cult in amorphous array Encircle the pit for their unspeakable ritual The iridescent boiling blood casts shapeless shadows As the iron grip of Evil closes them in Strange howling horrifies the feeble countryside A sound like no earthly creature ever made The frantic wailing reaches a fever pitch Invoking the ghoulish dead from their forgotten tombs Inhuman, unearthly, horrid mockeries of animals Insane, absurd, loathsome zombified devourers Silently creeping schizophrenic terror Deathless, eternal Reges Serpentis Raping the mind infested with worms Sanity flees the dank empty skull In the night sky the moon is laughing As the lonely stars babble in godless confusion The Black Serpents return to their eldritch sanctum Their blasphemous swaying has ceased for now Back to the Sea of Abomination Coiled in dreamless submerged sleep The cult gazes longingly at the still black water Profane euphoria fertilizes their grey minds Not desiring the light of the sun Captured forever in ultimate fear
2.	Carcharadon Megaladon 04:16	lyrics	buy track
In the dark sunless waters of the abyss The wretched monster swims relentlessly in maddening cycles Forgotten by time, abandoned by death Driven by the bloodlust of hellish eons in mute solitude The giant squid have seen its terror as it snaps off their body Polluting the water with a murk of ink and blood The sick stump that remains is feast for ravenous sharks Dismembered octopi serve as testimony of its demoniac cruelty As once mighty tentacles now lie in tangled heaps in undersea trenches And their corroded heads drift like gory mucus An enemy of whales for their music brings harmony to the aquatic empire It rages against them - indomitable - inexorable In the agony of evil it scorns all creation It hunted the icthyosaur into extinction The great sea snakes of Naguil found lairs elsewhere Carcharadon megaladon - the warrior supreme Alone in the ocean, the tyrant Ageless abomination in odious ecstasy
3.	As Darkness Hits 06:20	lyrics	buy track
Sleep comes, night falls, the death of another day No strength to stay awake, the world fades away And only my dreams can comfort now Must find the meaning of all this somehow Into bed I slowly sink, the promise of its warmth A journey yet to undertake in my weary state And only my dreams can comfort now Must find the meaning of all this somehow On these cold black winter nights, when children play by the graveyard lights Gypsies ask me what is life and paranoid I quest to find Far into my dreams I ride beyond the rooms where I used to hide Six silver gates unto heaven rise, the moon is the only familiar sight Magnetic fields of auroral light, blue phantasms in nocturnal flight Aging here is not a threat, above the storm I conquer death Ascending mountains to the stars, walking the windblown plains of Mars Barren planets will be revived in the silent universe within the mind O how I enjoy the visions my mind manifests Imagination freely opens when the body rests Tomorrow when the sun has set and the stars are lit Another dream I shall await as darkness hits
4.	The Faust Complex 06:38	lyrics	buy track
I now demand ultimate knowledge For I've learned all I can under the sun In my chamber chronicling the codex of history My appetite whetted, I must know more I cast off the triple deity of Jove Not fooled by the stained glass illusion An immaculate monument frustrating aspirations Holy, defiled, it is no place for me A storming descent through the heavenly body Galactic garden of orbital alignment Chaos to consequence in unnatural order The sinister alchemist at the edge of abyss Yet I am the observer and the observed And my immortal soul is all I sacrifice To understand the universe infinite The deified symmetry of omnipotence Lucifer, son of light, show me the patterns of life For he who understands the game commands all space and time Lucifer, my champion, illuminate for me Kings' and tyrants' power and the cycle of destiny Aries, Aries, god of war, send me to my death Zeus, god above all gods, revive me with your breath Lucifer, my shining star, your light is waning cold My eyes are faint, my body aflame, inside I'm grey and old The beast, the man, the goat, the horns, the mask has been removed The morning star, the adversary leaves me at my doom I, the arrogant amateur, have taken all of creation upon myself And now, devoid of soul, my understanding is darkened again At last all I desire is peace and a chance to make amends For love is beyond knowledge - an emotion based on simple faith Margaret, my love, please hearken to my cry My quest it has been all in vain and now I finally die As my story ends, I understand your heart For all that I have learned, I can't explain your love
5.	Transfiguration 05:48	lyrics	buy track
Come Foundation, Come Sons of Thunder To witness a vision that will make you tremble God revealed to you that I am the Christ Now prepare your eyes to harmonize with your faith He spoke of Jerusalem, of suffering and death He spoke of Resurrection, that he would rise again Above and away from the surrounding world The Messiah's glory was revealed His face shone as the sun, his raiment white as light Enveloped in the sanctuary of God's presence Peter, James and John fell to their faces in fear It's good for us to be here, but we are so afraid The Light of the World set on the mountaintop Moses and Elias appeared and spoke with him Bewilderment and wonder then a voice out of the cloud This is my beloved Son, hear you Him Fear not at what you have seen Understand that I am the Son of God Feet on the Rock, eyes to the sky Our minds transformed as we follow the light
6.	The Blessing Of The Bat'leth 06:42	lyrics	buy track
From a lock of my hair I create my sword Supremacy and strength are contained in the cord From the lava of Kri'stak and the waters of Lursor In the pits of Cronos my weapon is born Thy name is Bat'leth, O sacred blade To usurp the hammer that the Tyrant made By shattering the cranium and spilling the blood My spirit enriched in the crimson flood B'aski't Kor! B'askr'ip Kor! Kohman-a-ti! B'aski't Kor! Excited by the steaming stench of slaughter The thrill of battle empowers my soul Frenzied by warlust's rapturous throes I trample the bodies of the overthrown Legends are born of epic struggles Immolation of empires and worlds destroyed Bestial splendor in the slaying of enemies A roar of triumph, the gods tremble My deeds today shall never be forgotten Extolling the camaraderie of ritual combat Forever our race shall be victorious Conquering all who dare to invade I prefer a glorious death over dishonor In Stovakor I'll stand and fight again Now I celebrate and indulge in Bloodwine You have fought with honor; now die!
7.	Dark Blood Apple 04:34		buy track
8.	Shrouded Sleep 07:58	lyrics	buy track
In shrouded sleep I lie As my astral body is cast through time Flying through infinity on scaly wings Transcending nightmares and the waking world The necromancer buried alive struggles to break free From the black-masked dementors of inferno A cyclonic cone of fear roars beneath the ground Its very presence paralyzes the living He'll overcome the sting of death, his tormentors will see Armies of a thousand seraphim, invulnerable to be No more shall mankind hide from evil's wrath and hateful lies Our immortality prevails by the failing nephil cries I enter other realms of magic Witches incant behind clouds of colored smoke The passion - a rapture of wicked convulsion Spellbound to the dream forevermore Haunting entreaties to sail through the heavens Where galaxies glow like enlightened palaces Fables and mythos alive in the twilight Channeling the legends of a nameless past I sit within a cube of glass, a thrall enchants my eyes Warlocks surround the crystal tearing away the skies Invoking primal chaos, former ages pass Stalks of flame engulf the earth in burning gas Monuments rise proud as mountains Symbols of conquest achieving eternity To dust and ash reduced as a floating musty sea A mausoleum of ancient memories Great kings have come and gone by the sun and moon For all their power their bodies now drift like desert sands A wish - a soul trapped in an endless forest A timeless maze adrift in emptiness Some dreams die and some live on though none can ever tell Of how their fates were scattered in the cosmic wishing well Another time into the night on silver spheres we glide Another life will come to be and join the churning tide
9.	Invasion Of The Purple Elephants 04:11	lyrics	buy track
Purple elephants The purple elephants coming to town