1. |
Final Embrace
06:21
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Final Embrace
A burning comet of atomic rage
Soaring through the clouds
Like a javelin of the gods
It strikes into the earth
We see the white hot flash
There is no way to escape
And as I look into his eyes
He knows not what is to come
The seas were boiling
My skin was peeling
The sand was melting
My eyes were burning
I stretched out my arms
to embrace my son
I held him close
For one last time
Gone with the blast wave our hopes and dreams
Lost in nuclear fire the home we built
I will never see my wife again
She will never kiss her son goodbye
He will not see the first day of school
Nor feel the warmth of his mothers love
Five winters between birth and death
I grieve for the fate of my only son
Bleached bones on a bed of molten glass
Interlocked as if in tight embrace
We left this world as we lived in it
Together as father and son.
The fire took our lives
but it couldn't take our souls
In the halls of our fathers of old
We will meet again
Again
Again
Again
My son
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2. |
Torn From the Void
03:15
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I have never opened my eyes
I have never spoken a word
I have never seen the sun
Nor felt the rain fall upon my broken face
Why must I live this life
When all I am is pain and darkness
Mother please tell me
Father i must know
Torn from the void
To a life of pain
Ripped from the womb
Into life support
Forced to exist
Until the mercy of death
Grants my only wish
I was never given a name
I was never supposed to survive
I was born out of futile hope
a mothers madness and selfish cruelty
I was saved only to suffer
Cheated out of my own stillbirth
Mother please kill me
Father I must go
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3. |
Funeral of Gaia
04:30
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Dried and crackled the vast ocean floors
Burnt and desolated the lush green woods
Cold and hardened the molten iron core
Her body heaves in aeons of torment
The wind blows cold
across her blackened plains
No sun to warm the surface
of the mother of all
The funeral of Gaia
the last rites of Terra
No one left to mourn her passing
Her children long dead and gone
Shattered and broken the highest mountain peaks
Molten and vanished the ice of the glaciers
Embraced by the giant and abandoned by the dwarf
Long since departed the atmospheric veil
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4. |
My Blood My Land
03:48
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My Blood My Land
I took up the cause to defend my own
Against those who would take them from me
I could not hesitate when the time came
To take the life of those who stood in the way
I had to free their flesh of their souls
Let loose the demons within
To release you from your pain
From your need to hurt my own
I have cause to take your life
No value it has for me
I will see my blood to safety
Without regard for morality
My blood, My land, Your death
Your kin will soon follow your worthless cause
I will take their lives as I took yours
I'll follow your blood to your legacy
No son will inherit your lands
No bloodline will follow your own
In death you'll balance the scales of your life
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5. |
Forever Winter
04:15
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Forever Winter
Years ago
In fear and desperation
A foreign growth within
No cure was ever found
But I found a way
to cheat in the reapers game
I did not know
the price would be so high
Forever black
Forever dead
Forever winter
In the dark
this prison of a dying world
In my heart
In my soul
Forever dead
In the cold
the only one who knows
I saw the end
as the fallout darkened the skies
I held my wife in my arms
as the reaper claimed his prize
I watched as the world I loved
burned with nuclear flame
I stood alone in silence
As the first snow of the final winter fell
Centuries pass
They feel like minutes
I have buried my children
and their childrens children
It has been dark for so long
I can't remember the sun
Immortal and alone
I linger forevermore
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6. |
My Home My Tomb
03:25
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My Home My Tomb
I spent years preparing for this day
Conserving food, ammo and supplies
Little did I know of the truth
That the atomic messiah would bring
There was only one choice to make
To make it fast or slow
The day has come to pass
The final page of history
That wipes away all memory
of our human race
The darkness has come to last
The night falls for eternity
And ends the spark of life
on our planet Earth
Weeks have passed since the initial blast
I dare not go outside, for the air is poison
and my skin burns with radiation
I will not see the sun again
Nor feel the caress of the wind
My own home, my own tomb
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7. |
Bleeding World
04:21
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Bleeding World
A blinding flash of light
On the horizon
A burning wave of death
Only few survive
By our own hand we die
Cursed be this science
That brought about our end
What have we done
The world is bleeding
Rotten at the core
Our people are dying
To an unknown disease
The sun shines no more
upon this frigid wasteland
Our children will not
Survive another winter.
Frozen tears in their eyes
I see my children cry
No mother have they now
I watched her die
Through the darkness shines no light
The end is here
Brought about by our failure
We are to blame
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8. |
Buried by Grief
05:14
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Buried by Grief
Across frozen mountain ranges
Sword in hand through seas of blood
After years of war we have finally won
As we make our way back to our homeland
We see that our kin have met their end
And the sight shatters us all
Faces frozen in terror
Their bodies torn apart
I see his path of destruction
I smell the burning flesh
Buried by grief
We mourn wives and children
Nekron!
I swear that you will pay
Now we march against all odds
Into the realm of the death god
Every step takes our closer to our end
With failure comes certain death
Nothing binds us to this life
There is nothing left to lose
Across the frozen wastes of death
Into the mouth of madness
The time has come for the final battle
And our swords meet their deathforged steel.
The chaosborn son strikes me down
and the chill of death reaches my heart.
I die proud. I die free.
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