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Reborn in Darkness

by Nightlord

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1.
Bedlam 05:22
Roll up, roll up, see the idiots of our age Watch them caper, hear them scream Feel their fearful rage For a penny, you can poke these feeble with a stick And for a shilling we will make them For you perform a trick Souls in pain Minds insane Melancholy and Mania In silent stone above the door For once you pass their faces cold Bedlam your home for evermore Come see, come see And take some sound advice A cautionary tale, a warning Against immorality and vice A moral example, if your passions run too free The frisson of the freak show Move on, move on, enter this school of misery Walk inoffensive madmen along the gallery As you reach the second floor Those rows of cells they hold More dangerous maniacs we have Terrible to behold Hear now hear now to the story of a rake He was left a fortune Much more than he could take Then spends it all on finery With girls and hangers-on Even employs musicians Beware, beware, for our Tom, he liked to bet Takes to heart no sound advice So soon he is in debt He ends up here in Bedlam's care Sent mad in debtors gaol Violent and insane, mind is rent and broken
2.
Black morning, day dawning, forewarning Knife slitting, blood dripping, visceral Hot steaming, man screaming Grasped insides, necromancy Guts spilling, earth reddening, soothsayer See the signs, read the patterns Fates have spoken, shows that the time is right Our cause is just, predetermined We cannot fail, it points the path for us Arms flailing, life failing, suffering Spilt entrails, picked details, harbinger Eyes glazing, voice raising Predicting, vile sorcery Pulled innards, dead organs, oracle The seer, the old ways Omens in entrails As death comes, it takes hold Grips tight as life fails Dire warning, bad omens, uncertain Hush falling, minds clearing, another? New offering, comes willing Lays calmly, clairvoyancy Blade raising, strikes downwards, prophecy
3.
In poppy blooms, on Flanders field They climb the trench, over the top The shattered men, bare blasted trees And still they march, drowning in mud Counting the cost of our wars with their lives They give their today if they don't survive It's for our tomorrow they fight and they kill When do we hand the butcher his bill Upon the shore in northern France A beachhead made, out of the boats The broken troops, the craters gape And still they crawl, among the waves Counting the cost of our wars with their lives Drowning in mud They give their today if they don't survive Among the waves It's for our tomorrow they fight and they kill Above the dunes When do we hand the butcher his bill Counting the dead Dripping with oil, the Middle East A shock and awe, lights up the sky The scattered foes, the fields of flame And still they climb, above the dunes Counting the cost of our wars with their lives They give their today if they don't survive It's for our tomorrow they fight and they kill Never ending When do we hand the butcher his bill Counting the dead
4.
It's been so many years that time has dried the tears Those people are all gone but moments linger on A photo does not give any idea that they lived Their faces stuck in time, unmoving in their prime The world it has moved on Technology's become A way to make them seem More than just a dream They move, they laugh, they wave As if returned from the grave It makes your heart rejoice To once more hear their voice That sense of loss has gone From when you turned it on Your memories now take form The past becomes reborn It almost seems too real But still you miss their feel You reach to touch the screen Those ghosts from the machines The shadows of the past Shows us nothing ever lasts Though none of them survive It reminds us of their lives My children can adore Those that came before It's all so clear to see That they live on in me From nothing we become, returning once we're done I have no wish to be cursed with immortality So when my time has come and to the end succumb Then I'll move on to be a ghost from the machine
5.
Invent a terror to make you bleed A fiery spectacle is what you need You'll get behind me if I make it real You'll fight my war as part of the deal   Death unites like you don't know Our nations grief is put on show Attacking those that pose the threat Don't worry world, it's worth the debt   I dare not show What you can't know Don't stop to wonder What are we fighting for?   Now you're out there, you realise Death reinforces the threat that bites There's a reason it didn't click I need you stupid, we kept you thick   But we've got our pride You're on our side Protect my right We fight, you die I need the poor To fight my war And nobody asks any more “What are we fighting for?” What is that, you're undermanned? Don't you know that was the plan? Black gold flows beneath their sand While occupied we'll rape their land   Some remember from all before Those other times I called for war I made you think it was what you need Now you know it was just my greed
6.
(Instrumental)
7.
Demons of the Ancients Daughters born to elder gods Sharp fangs, winged and scaled hides Crowned heads of Ophidians Dreadful, grasping brass hands Beautiful death Hair of snakes Turn to stone Stherno, she the eldest Forceful and ferocious Boar-tusked, thin and red-haired Second born Euryale She of the far roaming Bellowing cries Hair of snakes, the terror wakes Risk the gaze Your final cries, their blazing eyes Turn to you stone You cannot flee, the last you'll see Fear the gaze Turn you to stone Youngest girl Medusa Guardian and protectress Raped by foul Poseidon Cursed and changed by she so wise Primordial hatred Immortal eyes
8.
Sin Eater 04:13
A body lies, the recent dead Now drink the ale, now eat the bread I close the door, the family waits A priest was called, he came too late A hungry man, a volunteer I should act swift, the devil nears All of his sins I must take on The town it will shun me as one Now smash the cup, its taint must be ruined He is the one become the sin-eater I make the speech, we're all alone All things confessed, his wrongs atoned I give easement and rest to thee Do not return, so I decree An empty shell with face serene His essence flies with conscience clean Playing my part, my solemn role And for thy peace I've pawned my soul Now burn the bowl, its taint must be destroyed I am the one, they call the sin-eater My throat it burns, my body hot My mind it swims, my guts they rot A vision forms before my eyes Of people killed, of children's cries Foul murderer, vile paedophile How many lives did he defile? But not in Hell his punishment To Heaven's gate his spirit sent A beggar man without abode In tattered rags on lonely road Another house, another time I'll take them all, I'll take all crimes Eternal rest for lapsed devout They'll thank me once then turn me out But when I die will I be free Who will step forth to eat for me?
9.
Racing down for Cape Trafalgar October, Eighteen Hundred and Five Twenty-seven ships of the line Flying the white ensign Hearts of Oak the drums roll out Weapons primed, we'll make our stand Taste their fear as we draw near Upon the decks prepare to fight Raking fire, mass mutilation Glorious, blood-soaked, living hell Blood-soaked, living hell Our fleet outgunned Our crew outnumbered England expects The outcome is in our hands To the line of fire we surge Damn the odds to break their line Drawing fire as we sail on With massive loss on every side Under a hail of hostility Cannons blaze as metal whirls Projectile storms pulverize Unto the end prepare to die Shattered pieces, masts come crashing Rigging, sails torn to shreds Broadside to broadside batteries pounding Pummelling, punishing, round after round Cleanse the decks of every last man Blow them all to smithereens Overwhelm the enemy We will have our victory Man the cannons, unleash the fury Fighting relentless, tooth and nail

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released November 18, 2016

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Nightlord London, UK

Nightlord, originally active 1989-1993, reformed in 2010 with all 4 members from the original 1989 line-up, and released and re-released 2 CDs through Copro Records. Appearing over the years in London with Sepultura, Onslaught and Gama Bomb, Annihilator, touring with Onslaught and Artillery and M:Pire of Evil. Future appearances at TITANFEST 2016 & headlining Eradication Festival in Wales in 2017. ... more

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