1. Nail Their Tongues
If you are the son of Adam
– born at me first man
The I will be Cain to their Abel
To cast the Tome of sin in your palms
To drink a poison chalice to the table
Oh Luther, did you know you were able
to pierce the tongues of liar?
A gospel of ruin from the heretic age
Straight from the mouth of fire
A lone martyr on the will of perdition
Broken flesh that many traitors confess
A document in the blood of sedition
Blasphemy led from the printers press
Oh Luther, did you know you were able
to pierce the tongues of liars?
A gospel of ruin from the heretic age
Straight from the mouth of fire
This papacy of bones stinking high to heaven
O' death, where is they sting?
O' grief, where is the victory?
O' life, you are a shining path
O' Lucifer, did you know did you see?
Pile the dadies high to heaven
To come tumbling to earth again
O' Luther, your wands in deep
2. To Hell Or The Hangman
I see it in your glance that you want him
How can I make peace with this truth?
The truth is This man he brings out all the lust
and guilt deep within
I'll stand in hell and say no sane witness in this town
needed proof
Send me to hell
or to the gallows
She belongs to the devil
what could I do?
Do you know what it is to lose?
to be the other man
who stood no chance
To wake in the morning to black defeat
waiting in the wings
Send me to hell
Or to the gallows
I will have his life for this
and I know that I will pay
with the blood of my young life
but Gabriel why can't you see?
what am I to do?
Cuir go hlfreann me
no cuir chun crochta me
is leis an diabhal i
cad a fheadfainn a dheanamh
I was never one for salvation
nor did I seek your redemption
So I'll do what i have to do
to see out the day
Blood in streams mixed with rain
Damn your love and damn your lies
and now I'll hang by my father's hand
in the square where your first glance
left my heart in despair...
3. Where Lie The Gods
What desolate walls are these that rise up from the ruins
Hymns to a forgotten age, in centuries of stony sleep
What sieges storms and fire have they resisted in the deep?
Where lies the tomb of Gods, tongues of the occident
Their magic is hidden in ruin and shame
Resting entombed within these ancient halls
Thou, too, sail on, o' ship of fate
Sail on o union so strong and great
Humanity with all its fears
With all the hopes of future years
is hanging breathless on they fate
Where lies the Gods of old, men and women who fell from grace
the battle has carved another season on a haggard and defeated face
4. Exile Amongst The Ruins
The old enemies are dead and gone,
long gone my friend
You are like the boy who cried wolf
A voice buried in another decades fears
and the songs you sang, to what end?
We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without history without nations
We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without faces without names
How you silenced with joy
the words of noble men
Tear down the statues you cried
and burn the books
Strike their deeds from history
and turn the clocks to nought
Let year zero begin on my watch
We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without history without nations
We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without a future
5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed
Make no mistake the arrow I've drawn is for you
I've been sharpening its point my whole life and my aim is true
They say the war is lost but this battle you will lose
Your foolish heart
It poisons the well
We knew the war was lost
and sang every empire fell
Theres thunder in our hearts
but too much hate for the ones we love
All against all, from such wounds
we seed mighty oaks
No ocean to vast or conquest small
to whet the blade of tyranny
Your foolish heart
It poisons the well
We celebrate the final days
and see you all in hell
Make no mistake the site he draws is on you
a finger on the trigger his aim maybe true
and history bends once more again to you
they say the war is lost but this battle you will lose
6. Stolen Years
How many lives would we have to live
Before we escape the hands of time, that stole our best years
Where the decades might breathe a little less of the night
Let's step bravely out into the city lights tonight
Sweet blood is coursing through our veins
Darkness it pulls so tight around us
Antidotes to all our years of pain
7. Sunken Lungs
What breath it takes the tide
is it from your sunken hollow lungs
that the bones may gather at the depths
An organ for the ghastly of songs
A vessel for the damned adrift on a sunless sea
Whisper on white tongues of foam
to me of days I've lost to the night
and the heart of darkness that draws us so tight
Haggard and bent old crow
keens to the crone
What do the drowned say?
Who man our ships as ghosts
and bend our knees to pray
for a silent and watery grave
8. Last Call
Awake in another city at 5am
The breath of day upon my neck
Counting the hours until I wake
another me from his sleep
To give back the things I take
How hard we tried to tear this world down
My duty was to futility
The unwilling hand of beauty
Which left us seeking negativity
We were seeking ruin
Out on the outskirts of another dead end town
Trying to find some truth in the maze
The lines on our faces sink deeper
So step up to the gallows and hang me out to dry one last time
What do we do to save us from ourselves
Who can reach out to save us?
We made our bed and let it lie
and to think all we did was waiting around to die
The powder hurts us but we still try
to lie to ourselves finding reasons why
We try to find reasons why