Watain - Underneath the Cenotaph lyrics
[Watain - Underneath the Cenotaph lyrics]
Lifeless and sour from death and from doom
In the soil of my tomb
Not one flower shall bloom
Nothing but death in this earth shall abide
In this my pathway to the other side
And thus I close my eyes
On through the tunnels, darkness ablaze
Passing through Naamah, queen of the gateways
The jaws of her darkness they
Feast on my eyes as the last of the earthly
Lights flickers and dies
Dark are the dreams on the stonebed
For no sunlight shall reach to
The land of the dead
As I journey through tunnels
And blackened chasm
In the realms of Death unbound
Underneath the cenotaph
Revelations revealed through
Crepuscular trance
Shadows of demons in catacombs dance
Luminous signs of impossible shape
Traveling deep, no return, no escape
Wonderous, prosperous marvels most dark
I fall to my knees and behold as I hark
The tongues of the ancients
Damned and aflame chanting in madness
Closer and closer the flames reaching higher
Trial by fire! Trial by fire!
Coalescence of high and low
Hand in hand with the damned I go
A dance in shadows
The burning fears of the world beyond
At the end of these snakelike trails
Are the same as those which forged this heart
And so my birth through death prevails
Dark are my dreams on the stonebed
For no sunlight shall reach to
The land of the dead
In flames I shall at last become
With fire I am one underneath the cenotaph
In the soil of my tomb
Not one flower shall bloom
Nothing but death in this earth shall abide
In this my pathway to the other side
And thus I close my eyes
On through the tunnels, darkness ablaze
Passing through Naamah, queen of the gateways
The jaws of her darkness they
Feast on my eyes as the last of the earthly
Lights flickers and dies
Dark are the dreams on the stonebed
For no sunlight shall reach to
The land of the dead
As I journey through tunnels
And blackened chasm
In the realms of Death unbound
Underneath the cenotaph
Revelations revealed through
Crepuscular trance
Shadows of demons in catacombs dance
Luminous signs of impossible shape
Traveling deep, no return, no escape
Wonderous, prosperous marvels most dark
I fall to my knees and behold as I hark
The tongues of the ancients
Damned and aflame chanting in madness
Closer and closer the flames reaching higher
Trial by fire! Trial by fire!
Coalescence of high and low
Hand in hand with the damned I go
A dance in shadows
The burning fears of the world beyond
At the end of these snakelike trails
Are the same as those which forged this heart
And so my birth through death prevails
Dark are my dreams on the stonebed
For no sunlight shall reach to
The land of the dead
In flames I shall at last become
With fire I am one underneath the cenotaph