AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD

ANGELS FALL

There's a grey army at the door

They drag us down, are the rulers of all

Their poison seems to seep through the walls

Through the dustbin worlds they crawl

But I thought I heard you call

Then watch the angels as they fall

These are sad days, my friend

We're here to witness the coming of the end

We shut our eyes and we try and laugh

But we know full well that it's all falling apart

But I thought I heard you call

Then watched the angels as they fall

I thought I saw a burning light

Saw angels fall into the night

Oh we're with god they cried

And with their god they died

RAVEN CHORUS

She stands body bowed

Her tears wet the stone

A widow charcoal black

Grief cuts to the bone

Lifts her head, begs release

The raven chorus marks the peace

The raven chorus calls

Loves kiss soon turns to bile

For love stays but a while

Their eyes burn with hate

Their voices rise - and their hearts break

In battles past and to come

The soon to die are sung

A hymn by the soon to feed

A requiem on the breeze

The raven chorus calls

A tree whose black twisted limbs

Seemes weighed down by all our sins

Makes a fitting seat a throne

As old runic stones

And the modern world won't mean a thing

When mysteries web starts to spin

When above the city's banal hum

Calls the raven and the drum

The raven chorus calls

AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD

So this is the West, a land we're meant to defend

Of happy slaves, who will babble to the end

Beneath the towers, where financiers roost

But above them the Sun

That signs out an ancient truth

Against the modern world

On a hill that leads down to the sea

The last battalions of those who wait to see

The northern lights and the midnight Sun

They await their sunrise

That they know will surely come

Against the modern world

LONG LIVE DEATH

Hear the north wind cry the song of the scythe

So long live death

See the best drowned out by the mass

So long live death

The modern age a game of charades

So long live death

The ancient dead return to watch the cities burn

So long live death

The serpent smiles as he coils the world

So long live death

On the ash tree bodies swing in the breeze

So long live death

Beneath a pagan moon swords rise with runes

So long live death

A SHIP IS BURNING

A ship is burning, out at sea

Flames in the dark, caught on the breeze

Watched from the shore, with tear stained eyes

The king is dead, but a phoenix will arise

From yesterday to tomorrow

On ancient stones, on misty moors

Are craved the names of those who came before

Washed in moonlight, the shadows move

Their voices calling out to you

From yesterday to tomorrow

SUMMER ENDS

Summer ends, winter's sword descends

Death's sweet embrace, veils your face

She dreams, with a glorious scream

That will never end

That will never end

She whispers in the night

Of love and ancient rites

Nature heeds her call

Wakes to rise once more

She dreams, with a glorious scream

That will never end

That will never end

Summer comes again

WOLF-AGE, AXE-AGE

With cold heart and bloody hand

They rule the European land

Brothers will battle, 'till bloody end

And sister's sons their sin betray

Woe is in the world and much wantonness

Axe-age, sword-age, sundered are shields

Wind-age, wolf-age, ere the world crumbles

Will the spear of no man spare his brother