Ihsahn

Bring me my wine And the head of the world I will drink to her demise The subtle art Of decapitation The perfect irony of such an end Bring me the flesh Of your sin and repentance Display the worlds...

These are barren lands Austere and cold Desert night Of frozen time Endless fields of ragged earth Has lost is trail The blood of war Cold lair Howling winds of sand, Hunger, violence, solitary,...

Prayers Confessions The peaceful tools Of a righteous man Redemption Forgiveness Serenity complete And you believe That time will heal Erase your wounds Your lies conceal Cleanse your soul In dreams...

It was never The icy winds of the heights But the coldness of the world That hardened my foundation Whether your approach Is that of praise or blasphemy The construction of my being Will remain the...

Were you not humble Not submissive? Would you not bend your knee? Did you question or object To the world of the many? Had you a vision of your own? Saint of the damned Icon of the rejected Primerval...

Just like secrets, twisted alibis, for empty graves, Unlike manors, cut and burned, a thousand times Not like ours, coiled in coffins, weeping echoes, Weeping echoes Not by statues, golden monuments,...

To drain the blood From his face This black stinking oil And scorch the prints Of everything On these cold hands To [...] the dead From the jaws Of this treacherous call Ashes of the earth And the...

Quiet surface Blurred reflection Heaven's mirror Calm awaiting Like glass until it breaks Like glass until it breaks Peaceful silence Pressing void Moving shadows In the melody Like glass until it...

Black silhouette upon a darkened azure scenery. Cold hand receives this battered stone. This battered stone... Twilight caress the windswept features Unyielding shadow blacker still Its shadow blacker...

Sacrilege Profanity Rabid convulsion Of blasphemy Thus appear my venomous cries To your ears Were they truths or were they lies Rejection Eternal Tyranny Of denial I would surely burn myself at the...