r
When was the last time you bowed down to me and kissed my feet
Unless you forever obey me, I`ll put you to sleep

The fear of dying tears your mind apart
Hiding now from yourself
And so we walk into the night
Together to find excistence inside oblivion

As for pain come to me
As for pleasure leave me
Legendary suffering you shall see
Is it not enough for you to see the torture
Must you still put your life on trial

The fear of dying tears your mind apart
Hiding now from yourself
And so we walk into the night
Together to find excistence inside oblivion

So take a look at yourself lying cold and stiff
And then ask yourself is it worth worshipping some higher creator
When was the last time you bowed down to me and kissed my feet
Unless you forever obey me, I`ll put you to sleep

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | April 2000]


2. Vainglory

My time is near I will rule again
So what is your defence this time
You will try to defeat me once again
But your precious words will ricochet off of me
You`re going blind as I lurk around you
Your mighty being will fall down hard
Take a closer look at your built up horde
You wil lsee they are following me

When my time again comes
Order and darkness shall reign
Without the smoke of your holy pipe
We will again create clarity as a whole
Damn you for thinking your so supreme
I will end your vaingloryness

Step down from your throne it`s no longer yours
Give me your crown it`s rightfully mine
Take with you your poor possetions
For what I care burn them alive

And again I have to listen to your prayers
Take your supremacy anywhere but here
I nee some time to rebuild what you have destroyed
So do your wheaping elsewhere, not here

I will never forgive you my brother
For letting me rot in your pits of doom
This time it`s final my friend
Our bloodline ends now right here


3. Illusions Of Evil

From the dark pits of hell
Rises a new breed of warriors
Prepared after 2000 years of sleep
The last battle was lost and the book of lies was written

See now finally what you have created
Illusions of good was evil
After many times trying to find the door
You realize the key was destroyed

So majestically to watch
As they again invade this pathetic world
For this time to write the book of truth
Namely, the book of death

See now finally what you have created
Illusions of good was evil
After many times trying to find the door
You realize the key was destroyed

[*]
Illusions of evil
For time is mearly now
You die among us
Finally to gain wisdom
Illusions of evil
Time has met its master
Burn in hell
Salvation is never again to be found

[Repeat *]

For death is no place and no time
It`s unholy and it`s dark
When you die you fall, you do not rise to some height
This is the work of illusions

See now finally what you have created
Illusions of good was evil
After many times trying to find the door
You realize the key was destroyed

Damnation fills the room as the first of worshippers go
Leave no trace of glory
This was meant to be, behold the children crying
But the weak must og

See now finally what you have created
Illusions of good was in fact pure evil

[Music: Cyrus and Tjodalv | Lyrics: Athera | December 1998]


4. Specimen

A sculpture constructed for the perfect system
Not knowing your true origin
You wander through life as instructed
Not knowing the end of it all
The entity has written your life
Showed you your path but not how to walk it

I know now the reason
Why these visions from beyond
Haunted me through life
As a supposed guidance

So this is your way
Of showing me the truth
I`m tired of this game
Playing with my mind

Hands that cannot move
Eyes that cannot see
Mouth that cannot speak
And a body that cannot feel

Lifeless, limbless, speachless
No gestures of my own will
Soulless, mindless, feeling less
Even death wont greet me still

Entrapment is all that`s real
My mind is wired to yours
How long will you test my strength
What follows when I am dead

How long will you test my strength
What follows once I am gone
Wired to you
Encagement is all I feel

So this is your way
Of showing me the truth
I`m tired of this game
Playing with my mind

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera & Memnock | October 2000]


5. Journey Into Black

The wind blows the falling leaves
As we wonder where do they blow
I stand on a hill gazing to the black skies
Wishing to follow the wind where it blows
To see what`s beyond
Beyond the color of night

I see a face in the horizon
I close my eyes and take the dive
Into unknown depths I fall

When I wake up it`s like I`m everywhere
I see everything, understand it all
I look around at so many souls
I feel the stench of the tears and the fright
Yet it fills me with power
And I grow stronger

I suddenly feel the need to take control
I am before you were
The hurting inside, in it am I

And still they come to my palace of doom
Mortal equals mourn
As their loved ones become my eternal slaves
Counting hours, servants in infinity
Breeding for one purpose
The pleasing of me

You can`t imagine what suffering you have coming if you refuse

Every season I expand
My vision, my creation, my domain
I have become the ruler of the afterlife
Challenge my being and you`ll eventually see
That the eyes watching you die, is me...

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | October 2000]


6. Of Hate We Breed

One thought, needless to say
The action do repay
Someone out there filthyminded is digging up graves of the hated
To strike them again
Blow away the funeral dust

Souls forlorn
From darkness born
Diabolical seed
Of hate we breed

Never be at one with yourself
Cry out the pain
For feared was he
Utmost cause for not taking you
Hunted are we for reasons told
A story of disbelief was written

The run, the running of man
Come with me, run
Hated all these years
What a waste of time
Was I the one you really wanted

What do they want
The searching ones
Of hate they came
And in hate they die

So tell me what is your quest
Of times never spoken of
You tell a tale of rewarded times
In time you`ll learn the truth about me

Someone out there filthyminded is digging up graves of the hated
To strike them again
Blow away the funeral dust

Souls forlorn
From darkness born
Diabolical seed
Of hate we breed

For what am I if not as others
What am I if anything

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera & Gonde]


7. Objects Of Desire

An ancient evil centuries old has awakened in the form of the wicked
They use their beauty and their insatiable lust as a potent lifeforce
They become the objects of insane desire
But their kisses yield torture and violence as their suitors discover

Only I am strong enough to end their quest for total domain
And only I am strong enough to test them in a grand test of will
I was never more dangerous than with the night angels, mistresses of hell

[REPEAT]

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | April 2000]


8. The Hellchild

A vow to he who is the maker
The father of Candarian demons
The father of sins and sinners
Guardian of dense forests

And we as his children will obey every word
With chains around feet and hands

So long since I`ve seen the light
My eyes hurt
As they are stitched together
Tung cut out and fingers crushed

A vow to he who is the maker
The father of Candarian demons
The father of sins and sinners
Guardian of dense forests
And we as his children will obey every word
With chains around feet and hands
We slave on through the night

So long since I`ve seen the light
My eyes hurt stitched together
Tung cut out and fingers crushed
Freedom is not an option
Escape you can but you`re always to be found
The light gives you away

Escape you can but you`re always to be found
The light gives you away

Some descend into darkness
Some will be forgotten
Your fate is sealed
Forever silent

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | October 1999]


9. Blood On My Hands

This is your life
You`ll never wake up
It`s not a dream
Wellcome to the end of your destiny

Your last warning has reached you now
Oppose me again and I will hurt again
I don`t need to accept your mourning
Your face just disgust me

So take my hand
I wanna kill you now
Blood on my hands
My sister of the night I want to drink your blood
I need to feed of your life to keep from killing you

When I`m not there you dream of a saviour
That`ll come to set you free
This will never happen my love
As I keep you in another dimension

So take my hand
I wanna kill you now
Blood on my hands
My sister of the night I want to drink your blood
I need to feed of your life to keep from killing you

Do you know me... Do you know who I am
I speak with... Speak with the Devil at night
I trust him... Trust him in every word
He tells me... Tells me in which way to judge

You for your crimes to mankind
As weak as you are
I hate you for leaving me
I will see your blood on my hands
I do not forgive easily

When I`m not there you dream of a saviour
That`ll come to set you free
This will never happen my love
As I keep you in another dimension

Sister in life
What have you done
Enemy in death
I now let you go

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | October 2000]


10. The Coming Of A Darker Time

Every given time is a gift
Use it well
Your sporadic venture (is due to loss)
Awakening pressure roams the surface
End of the line
It renders down to nothingness

Hymn to the sacred as far as it goes
Behold the coming
Of a darker time
Presence of evil
Endless life
Given the right to speak the truth

Elite of the trusted must bow
Down in the surface
Which opens and swallows
In dignity and in pride
Your lost
In eternitys quest for life

Hear the blessed souls lie
Watch the sickening souls die

[Music: Cyrus | Lyrics: Athera | November 1999]