OLD MAN'S CHILD LYRICS Born Of The Flickering (1996) 1. Demons Of The Thorncastle 2. Swallowed By A Buried One 3. Born Of The Flickering 4. King Of The Dark Age 5. On Through The Desert Storm 6. Christian Death 7. The Last Chapter 8. Leads To Utopia/Old Man's Dream 1. Demons Of The Thorncastle Deep within the shadowland Far beyond the distance Lies a castle upon the hills Unsettled for a thousand years The soldiers that lived there once Warriors from the north Died beneath their enemies blade And ended with defeat Now a spell on the castle dwells And breeds inside the walls And awakens from a timeless sleep.... Demons from the kingdoms of hell Through the land that they once possessed They ride on the nightside storms And watch over a thousand seas With eyes made in another world Blood seeders, flying Above the mountain sides Searching for the blood they lost.... Searching for revenge Now a spell on the castle dwells And breed inside the walls And awakens from a timeless sleep.... Demons from the kingdoms of hell 2. Swallowed By A Buried One Invisible freeze in the blood-wet grass Combatants lying by their weapons Feeling the warm blood When the air turns cold and no one remains Freezing the warm blood And eating its way through and reigns Men from the desert lands by the sky-high forsakened hills Erased by the passing of man's creation From the cliffs they have watched over the thousand seas And witnessed the decay and desperation As illness and plague have caught them all No one could heal, no one knew, for no one had ever the knowledge Few could they count by the elfin kings That had seen what beauty had been raped What ancestors mad with their healthy hands What erected and what was formed and shaped The finest art one had ever seen Spectacular admirement of these mystic lands One stood there alone, the only one left Strong enough to survive He was built by death, he was known by death And he sings the victorious song Simple deeds, destruction hands Defeating its material self We have left you now, you will never be found again Feeble fortune and rotting food 3. Born Of The Flickering Enthralled into the dustwind Crusaders of a lost battle Warned by a thorn of war Jeweled in their own blood Yarns of fugitive elements In distance to the thorncastle Empire bricks thrown to the soil Sharp and poisonous thorns Pure it is, like defenseless spring births Unpleased by a sudden nightfall Turned its back on love and life And made it all unpure Lovesongs of the dove, seen through Time of what he song A messenger of the nourishing light Were attacked of enemy ravens So therefore, it song no more Pearlgate servants, in the end you gather In the clouds beyond clouds Foundation walls of the raising temple Prisoners of a time that was Promised sentences long before years Came to join the hearse that rode And will always ride In the hearts of them, historical plague 4. King Of The Dark Age Behold the hand that embrace this world Sovereign of the unborn life Destroyer of all Creator of tears and sorrow And all beyond the twilight Servants with human figures Demons that harmed this world Centuries of human creations Shall be buried in dust In a time where no man struggles And where the angels smile The force of evil rises From beneath the grave of god Now in the dark age Where the angels are dead A voice in the silence whispers A new king has conquered this world Centuries of human creations Shall be buried in dust Behold the hand that embraces this world Sovereign of the unborn life Destroyer of all 5. On Through The Desert Storm We hail our light The sun of Satan For with thy might Come forth We dominate the world By one mightful force See the slaughtering Growing weak Born by vice And we drink of the Doomsday chalice And paint us with the blood of him Sowed into flames In their own pitiful graves I kiss the raven that flew with me Trough all the desert storms Winged by sorrow -- grief of man Flying high beneath the sky Quiet and silent through the Night cyclone Tears wet my throne Your dreams were not immortal I enter then my realm We hail our light The ethereal sun For with thy might paragon face We dominate the million eclipses 6. Christian Death Lonley as the autumn evening Flowing on its last days A wanderer of long-past wisdom Facing his last conflict Met the time of withering Destiny, towards a clearer star More bright than ever seen before What's my will? Well on his quest In search for magnificense He weakens before the grave of god Banished, soon dead See it in his eyes Like you see it on the tombs Of human decades, one by one All the things he spoke of Plastering the circuit split Spawn of Satan, lightning blood The circuit of demons, told him What to see 7. The Last Chapter Suicide... my only thought Like the silence in the dark it haunts my world A lonely soul, lost from the path of life I am weak... I am strong...I am soon to be dead A journey to the world of twilight The last chapter of my life, it's now ending The blood on the ground beneath my feet The knife that I hold in my hand Shall be the cause of my death Slowly fade away To the other side My final words shall be Fuck this world.... Ending my life I will be gone tomorrow Slowly I fall My soul has left my body A journey to the world of twilight The first chapter of my life, it's now ending 8. Leads To Utopia/Old Man's Dream A beast swept with passion For one of them who inhaled His shadow Who flung away from the sanity That carried her all the way The sadist has installed demise A laughter leapt from here The cataclysm tides where the Devil rides his carnage A wind flew strong upon my hair That told me this is finally her death The storm of dust, made by human ash And structures are found The flames have scorched all remains Apocalypse, the slaughter's realm Come dragon...it has drank it all