Dimmu Borgir - Kings of the Carnival Creation lyrics

Incarnated marvels simplified
Effects from such a disconsolate kind
Impotence of the once-so-perfect living
Erase and rewind

Stand rigid for the next battle
Peace means reloading your guns
The love for life is all hatred in disguise
A carnival creation with masks undone

In search for the guidelines to
The gateways of sin
Through mires of misanthropy with
Wrath in mind
Sophistication as cruelty and perfection
As virulent truth confidently dawned
To pick the best of enemies
An abyss womb stretched wide open
Exposed to retaliate
With the stigma feasting upon your flesh
As I wish you well
Thorns from the fountains of
Faith licking lepered skin
Worshipped by anyone's mass on
Your planet hell what on earth possessed you

Consuming illusions made from hysteria
And swallowed tongues devoured by doubt
Conducting arts of misconception
Testimonial sufficiency declaring numbness
Of all perceptions

Glance into the blackness hidden
Beneath your surface
And enjoy the suffering
Sanity drained in disrespect
With such bedevilled faith in good
Subsequently trusting evil
Next step for mankind will be
The last seasons in sin

Left are the kings of the carnival creation
Carrying out the echoes of the fallen

Sense the withering eternity as it fades away
The ultimate graceless voyage of all times
Only death will be guarding your angels
Silently cripples joining arms in clamour
Institutionalized for the rebirth
The herd will be hunted