Graveyard Dirt For Grace Or Damnation 1. By Wind and Time These weary skies fade deeper, endearing skies Where dreary nights fall sweeter, its sweetest cries Her florid earth now withered, still lingers wild All scars unveiled forever, by wind and time 2. Daylights Wrath Wake in moonlit skies, enslaved to your name For your sense of lifeless recluse is the scent of shame Stem my sorrowed dirge, bestow me all regret For barren winds will carry your impious flesh Blind me within your embrace, besiege the fallen rain And recreate our darkened refuge, your sinful flame... ...still burns When lust breathes despair and sorrow stains all life Withdrawn in the shadows, lies a revenant of the night. Spurn this grief that i no longer hide Taste my pain so vile In manifest i give undying light Where faithless souls abide All life i gave to you Burning forever, enchained together All death enriched by you Spurn this grief that i no longer hide Taste my pain so vile In manifest i give undying light Where faithless souls abide 3. These Hands Defiled Morning breaks, my finest hour, one step nearer my god Beside my love rests still, she knows not what lies ahead Before the end of this day we'll leave this earth... by my hand See these hands unfold and reach before you Feel the lines within and hear their story Touch the flesh so worn, still reaching for you Take their warmth and know that they are yours All my life is there, spread out before you Many lies I've told, I still adore you Though your sins are few, forgive me I implore you So we can share one final embrace Almighty god above has spoken to me A calling from on high unfolds before me Tonight we shall embrace as life drains from us And know no fear of shame, just heavens scent Turn your face to me that i may see you Show no fear of death, let peace surround you This command i give is sacred to me Tomorrow we shall dine at the table of god Can't you hear the divine chorus? The angels choir calling for us Be still my love, let me take us towards heavens gate Pledge your blood to these hands, entrust to me your final breath Eternal bliss beckons for us, hand in hand, now ...and forever No tearful sorrow, no fearful lament But the promise of glory divine To walk among gods, dispel doubt from your mind I have freed us from guilt For my grace or damnation 4. Enslaved by Grief Take me beyond my grief and rid this pain complete Wake me beyond my sleep, and rid this life complete May darkness rage within And emptiness adorn thee A love accursed to sin, a love accursed to mourning Elusive flame in falling night, Conceived of pain, consumed by life No fallen angel by my side As tears run cold through winding streams The faith of a love forsaken As dreams unfold through binding grief The fate of all love awakens Place me in your arms Where death has plundered the sense of your pain Take me in your heart Where death has plundered the sense of your shame Shadows entwine in night-time whispers A time renounced in thought... I pledged to you my love A time renounced in thought... I pledged to you my blood Shadows entwine in night-time whispers 5. The Search for Solitude While winter dreams, my will refrains In its pallor I lie Dark thoughts unwind, repressed in time All that withers is wild Where innocence is pure and desired, my sin shall remain While winter dreams, my will refrains In its pallor I lie Take me, lost shadow, and bleed my pain Where weariness becomes me and bodes my shame I drown forever beneath these languished sounds In oceans of sadness, they drag me down ...down Within this tainted heart lies an empty an empty soul In hollow retreat, a tale of woe May this light betray, so that the dawn will wilt away Unbinding, the valour of hordes deludes your name unseemly, so suffer this wrath of fervent hate Rise from shame, the winds call my name Rise, Reclaim, the air bleeds my pain Bloods sweet suffering in stained hearts misery Dying breath immortalised 6. Silence Awakens My delusion undying, my whispers entrance My rage pales in moonlight, where the dark waters dance Awake in anger to swallow grief In Hells creation not gods disease Anointed hatred, a voice redressed Just silent wander in timeless unrest Denounced by perversion that stained my last breath Enslaved through aversion, enshrined to all death A sinful kiss eludes my pain And scars forever the dying flame With loveless memories, a distant past Now fallen angels shall greet my path Desecration of life, desolation revered All pain unfolding, all pain surreal Seduced by sadness both sullen and scorned Reborn by desire, all desires reborn Pour onto thee my sorrow, grief and despair Hear my cries forever, feel my shadow stare Where sin lies... I roam In fears heart... my home Bring me to the dark, that which pleasures me Revealed in golden light, this scourge of vanity 7. Solace 8. A New Days Fire Night, longest night, the eve of our dismay In silence we rise with dawns cold light Cherished thoughts of home, an image of hope untold Inside our spirits ignite the flame to keep us alive "By lamplight i write to thee Not words of joy but solemn misery Our blood has stained this sodden land In floods of rain, in no-mans land Comrades all each morning light We pray at dawn to make the night" Worn are our hearts, burdened with sickening fear and frozen in foreign fields Deep are our scars, remembered in shades of red when at last our eyes may close Dead are our dreams, lost to relentless fire Sordid beyond belief, and spoiled for all Rid your mind of sympathy and bury your remorse Gone is all hope, scarred by the ash and fire yet drowning in the scarlet rain Dark are our thoughts when fierce-some roars subside and forlorn skies surround Long we have endured the nightmare of Hell on earth And wondered, when will it end? Rid your mind of sympathy and bury your remorse Amidst the blood and fury through the waves and final cries no word, no precious breath was wasted upon the ears of our dying friends But with the meeting of our eyes came the solace of not dying alone... ...or unknown My god, i plead with thee, shield us or end our pain And lessen the sorrow we leave to those whom we hold dear And to those we will never hold, should the morrow be my last