Cruentus - Fossilized
1. Ascending (instrumental)
2. The Catalyst
Bleak days belted by fear and sadness,
with one foot on the gallows
Mistreats of a derailed lifetime, the guillotine awaits
Led by the black, enlightened by (the) dark,
I’m wrongfully accused
Broad axe. Power ending. A hangman in charge
Held up by dust. Pillars of polluted air
Dragged down by the weight existing from our past
Generations of burden
A lifetime of guilt
Head in the dirt and ears to the ground
hearing the cries of their fathers
Broken back, blood filled mouths,
and the torment continues
Death lures with its haunting promise of ease,
a final nail in the coffin
A life in ruins ended, a judgement welcomed
A glimpse of the past, the cries of misery
No hope, nor joy, setbacks and distress
Less of the hopes, staring from a far
Mourning the end, the end of it all
Nothing in sight, still searching for the meaning.
Decadence from without, decaying from within
Heavy weight restraints formed to crack their spines
Dust to fill their souls blackens their hearts
From dusk ’till dawn
Apathetic days
Mourning mornings
Weeping night
3. Nihil Ultra
To an endless tunnel with ease I was seduced
Behind the burden of existence the void
Now I’m sinking to an unrepenting death
And from delusions in the tomb of the living
This is the transition
A werewolf transcended in time
And when the view is slowly fading
Unveiling with each step
The face of many transitions
And feeding of the emptiness within
The frailty bounded within the flesh
Unveiling with each step
Then to slowly realize
The feeding of the emptiness within
Affliction is mine
The race to denial
To the lesser evil and the wall of ash
We travel fast to insignificance
And with disdain at last we’ve come to an ending
How I yearn for her caress
A human body broken down to its core
Nowhere to be found is dignity
Fail the enemy and disembodied invite the misery
4. Mot Alltets Slut
Med tyngden lutad mot eggen, en kniv som väger tungt
Beskåda tårens vandring, den dalar mot dess mål
En vändning i all hast, blickar emot skyn
Mänskliga ben som krossas, hudbitar som flyr
Det kan aldrig sluta
Det finns alltid kvar
En oberäknelig kraft
Mot alla och envar
Med samlat mod
Mot slutets minut
Krälande avskum
Mot alltets slut
Skåda vapnet som glöder, vilande i min hand
Med målet inom avstånd, lukten som hägrar
Det kan aldrig sluta
Det finns alltid kvar
En oberäknelig kraft
Mot alla och envar
Med samlat mod
Mot slutets minut
Krälande avskum
Mot alltets slut
Pestens år - det brinner
Finns fortfarande - kvar
Med envist hat som krälar sig fram
Viskande makter som letar sig ut
Tar vi oss igenom krigets damm
Innan allt är förbi, allt är slut
Se det letar sig framåt, envist och med mod
Det stångar sig mot slutet, i en flod av blod
Nu är det förbi
Men finns ändå kvar
Kraften tog över
Alla och envar
Vi tappade ork
I livets sista minut
Tomma, döda blickar
När vi mötte alltets slut
Svepande - rörelser
Samlade - uttryck
Med nyfunnet mod, ännu en gång
Visar det vägen, ännu en gång
5. The Lost Ones
I stand at a distance try to grasp reality
Although it’s been long coming, we cannot comprehend
Gradually being entombed in the smoke of a dying city,
in a sphere of anguish left to decay
The becoming of a nation in suicidal disorder,
dissolving comes from within
Detained in a lesser creation unimagined to find
A malediction sustained to face the false and deny
Allegations uphold and to there to justify,
and in the relapse not there to resist
The becoming of a nation in suicidal disorder,
dissolving comes from within
With no winds an accusion, they’re just turning away
To the edge of the ruins where we all cross the border
From right to left in ignorance spawn
it is moving in strength by numbers
Like a fire that never completely burned out
it was waiting in silence
Reframed but still would collapse a detest,
the conspiracy
A demonstration in horror
a race leading straight to the gallows
No compromise, not then, not now, not ever
A derailed perspective of injustice and blight retained
by a following of no human insight
We must never give in to their surreal lies,
never give in to their surreal lies
(And) truth be told you were always the victim
Truth be told I was never the victim
6. Prey
And so it began, on the borders out of sight from the watchers
The blood is rushing faster but He is on my side
With a kiss from the eternal bride arrogance we fulfil our mission
A yearning within us ready to be constantly strained
We pray for victory we pray for death
Without any banner but not without any sound
Eternal the fray we’re unable to realize
our perpetual defeat
In (a) total alliance a legacy that will repeat
and repeat and repeat
Over us and behind,
approaching blindly in furious haste
The night sky is so beauty it’s glowing
Unbroken lines ascend the stairs in ecstasy
Invisible still are the scattered remains marked by torches
The view is different from this side,
convinced we stand proud looking at the dispersed crowd
But still they’re coming in an endless stream
How the effort is tearing we can not really see
Forward. In the wilderness of our soul there is no repent
The pikes and spears have little effect,
and we’ve reached the point of no return
Here the stories unfold
The tales echoed in generations to come
This is chaos this is atrocity
Soon when shifting to dawn there is a new reality
A cold presence has filled the emptiness the fury has left
Strained are the sinews of war
Eternal the fray we’re unable to realize
our perpetual defeat
In (a) total alliance a legacy that will repeat
and repeat and repeat
7. Relentless Scourge
Descend their bodies like water from the sky
Embracing my mind as the torches fly by
The silhouette before my eyes rise
Never before have I seen it untied
The whitest of white dipped in colors of red
The most perfect smile across their heads
A cracking noise as they land on the stones
Before me now lies only their bones
With fear and delight I run to the fire
Started by men who cherish a pyre
The red starts to boil and so does their skin
Knowing not the hell they are in
Stare at the massacre is all I can do
Seeing the corpses who all stayed true
The future holds the imminent end
In ashes and filth they all shall blend
As time goes by the memories fade
The only traces are humanly made
The mist took all their shadows away
Determined and doomed, I watched them pray
No symbols nor signs could find my way back
My eyes lies low as the day goes black
Thrown down without breaking a sweat
But to able to forgive is not to forget
As time goes by the memories fade
The only traces are humanly made
The mist took all their shadows away
Determined and doomed, I watched them pray
They attacked without hesitation
Walking toward impending damnation
Suddenly, creatures lured me to turn
White knuckles, with strength I burned
8. Averted Reality
With the last remaining second let this be the moment
Neverwhere
All lifelines gone profound devotion consumes me
now that twilight is drifting away
What will be formed is yet unknown,
but still we’re leaving a serenity of dismay
In the elegant art of violence benighted in trust,
it’s yours to destroy
Weary and hollow unto a night without end it is often ridden
A journey in omission the find the reward if it was ever there
Swallowed by the promise I reject every defection
Unwilling to accept this predestination
Pulsing it lies wide open for you to take
To see me before I fall
(and) it is in your control, I’m so far beyond.
A manifestation undeniably revealed
No sign of warnings they’ve all disappeared,
falsely led by the ways of torment
Cain over pride, we’re following their footsteps
The countless paths that are evermore shifting
and where nothing is certain
And with this I realized the decision could never be mine
The feeling is everlasting, blind and eaten from inside
This will always be justified
9. Doldrums
Welcome to the darkest pits of my mind
Where no light shines through
Where darkness serves as luminary
And the blackest of black decorates the walls
My mind plays tricks on me
Voices are calling from inside
Telling me what to think and to do
They are dragging me down to those pits
Every now and then I wake up
Refreshened with tears in my eyes
I have managed to climb out (of) the pits
But the weight of myself drags me down
As my life torns apart I find myself
Once again in the pits inside
Those walls closing in on me
Drowning inside
The blackest of pits eats me up
Fighting in vein, I’ll end up there again and again
I’ll end up there again
Hanging on to the edge with all my strength
My mind fills up of frustration
I thought I’d be strong to deny
But the weight of myself drags me down
As my life torns apart I find myself
Once again in the pits inside
Those walls closing in on me
And the darkest parts reappears
As I see all things shattered
The burden of depression
Burns me up from inside
Drowning Inside
10. Primordial Reprisal
Dismantle the sun before it rises
Conceal the moon in the dark
Cover the ground during its awakening
Kill the daylight while earth’s breathing
Let the sky fall down
Ride the winds of plague
Sing the chorus of the fallen
Sing the hymns of the dead
Watch lives revert
Encase the remains
Inhale the air
Exhale the dust
Unleashed from above
Released and unchained
Grey clouded, dressed in black
The wings of disease are spreading
Poisonous souls
Testifies from none
No signs, no nothing
Unchained reality
Listening to the deep voices of the trees
Leading the invasion from the depths
Let the dark ascend to cover the light
Carved in intense shapes of black
Your eyes are open graves
Deepest of the deep
Pale skin darkens by blood tears
Red as the de-parted soil
