Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins


Original Version Mediabook Version Box Version
1. Nail Their Tongues 9:00 1. Nail Their Tongues 9:00 1. Nail Their Tongues 9:00
2. To Hell or the Hangman 7:16 2. To Hell or the Hangman 7:16 2. To Hell or the Hangman 7:16
3. Where Lie the Gods 9:11 3. Where Lie the Gods 9:11 3. Where Lie the Gods 9:11
4. Exile Amongst the Ruins 7:59 4. Exile Amongst the Ruins 7:59 4. Exile Amongst the Ruins 7:59
5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed 8:28 5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed 8:28 5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed 8:28
6. Stolen Years 5:15 6. Stolen Years 5:15 6. Stolen Years 5:15
7. Sunken Lungs 7:52 7. Sunken Lungs 7:52 7. Sunken Lungs 7:52
8. Last Call 10:32 8. Last Call 10:32 8. Last Call 10:32
--- Bonus CD --- --- Bonus CD ---
1. Stolen Years (Instrumental Version) 5:16 1. Stolen Years (Instrumental Version) 5:16
2. Dark Horse On The Wind 5:36 2. Dark Horse On The Wind 5:36
3. The Foggy Dew (Irish traditional cover) 5:14 3. The Foggy Dew (Irish traditional cover) 5:14
4. Babel's Tower (Rehearsal Demo) 7:48 4. Babel's Tower (Rehearsal Demo) 7:48
5. Come The Flood (Rehearsal Demo) 7:20 5. Come The Flood (Rehearsal Demo) 7:20
6. Ghosts Of The Carnel House (Rehearsal Demo) 7:37 6. Ghosts Of The Carnel House (Rehearsal Demo) 7:37
--- Bonus LP ---
1. Dark Horse On The Wind 5:36
2. The Foggy Dew 5:14
total time 65:33 total time 1:44:24 total time 1:55:14


1. Nail Their Tongues

If you are the son of Adam
- born at me first man
The I will be Cain to thei 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 liars ?
A gospel of ruin from the heretis age
Straight from the mouth of fire

A lone martyr on the will of perdition
Broken flesh that many raitors confeis
A document in the blood of sedition
Blasphemy led from the pinters press

Oh Luther, did you know you were able
to pierce the tongues of liars ?
A gospel of ruin from the heretis 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 shning 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 you in you 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 same witness in this
town needed proof

Send me to Hell
Or to the gallows
She belongs to the Devil
What could I do ?

De you know what it is to lose ?
To be the other man
Who stood go chance
To wake in the yarning 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 all my young life
but Gabriel what can't you see ?
What am I to do ?

Cuir gohlfreaing mé
no cuir chun crochta mé
Is leis an Diabhal I,
Cad a Jhéadfaing a dthéanand

I was never one for salvation
Now clid I seek you redemption
So I'll do what i have to do
to see out the day
Blood in streams mixed with rain
Damn you 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 strong sleep
What seiges, storms and fire
have they resisted in the deep

Where lie the tomb of Gods
Tongues of the occident
Their magic is hidden in shame
Resting entombed within these ancient halls

Thou, Sail on, O' ship of fate
Sail on so strong and great
Humanity with all it's fears
With all the hopes of future years
is hanging breathless on thy fate

Where lie the Gods of old
men and women who jell from peace
The battle has carved another season
on a haggard and defeated jade


4. Exile Amongst the Ruins

The old enemies are dead and long gone, my friend
You are like the boy who cried wolf
A voice buried in another decade's fears

And those songs you sang, to what end?

We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without history, without nation
And without names

How you silenced with joy the words of noble men
Tear down the statues and burn the books
Strike their deeds from history
And turn the clocks to nought
And let year zero begin on my watch

We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without history, without nation
And without names

Remember when I said war was coming?
You hear the engines grinding fast
Express growing louder
We are grinding louder

Pray for me
You pray on your deathbed
You pray for me

We are exiled among the ruins
And we are ghosts among the ruins
Without history, without nations
Without names, without a future

We are the ghosts among the ruins
Without history, without a future


5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed

Make no mistake
The arrow I've drawn is for you
I've been slaspening it's 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 too vast or conquest small
to met the blade of tyranny

Your foolish heart
It poisons the well
We celebrate the final days
and see you all in hell


6. Stolen Years

How many lies would
We have to live
Before we escape the hands
The hands of time
That stole our best years
Where the decades might
Breathe a little less
A little less of the
Night

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 5 am
The breath of day upon my neck
Covating the hours before I wake
another me from his sleep
to gve back the things I take

How hard we tried to tear this world down
mu 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 grow deeper
so step up to the gallows and hand me
out to try one last time

What do we do to save 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




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