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The Serpents Cult

by Sykeus

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1.
Nomad 05:22
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So cold, have you grown on this empty road Scold, cast your blood on this unburnt stone Bowed, is your tale of unending woe Fold, find yourself in this tomb alone I'll ask you tonight Yet you will lie to me And you'll belie So I don't need your clarity Oh the light Let it die We ride From the sea to a burning sunrise Where the crimson ignites Where you cannot be for you cannot hide For I Will accept that I am not right If I can show you foresight Or cast me away and return to the night The birds take flight Rot in the seal of communion Bow to the ophidian's height For you have been forsaken It's for the glory of no man To be turned to his feet Yet the path of the nomad To find but this For in this desert upon nothing We find but a leash For that's what the nomad sees You walk, from the shackles Neath none than a burning sky You gait towards the light No, the chains hold you tight Yet you geld suicide So you've joined with spite Dance in this rancid reunion No there was no fight You were never isolated It's for the glory of no man To be broke to his knees It's that of the nomad That choose but these For in this desert upon nothing We find but a leash For that's what the nomad sees Path of the nomad
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Scylla and Charybdis 04:06
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We sail tonight Before the light Despite the fate we'll meet We close our eyes We know our lies Won't escape the prophecy Upon the prowl I wait As colossal waves come crashing down Above the storm the Gods sent Rain and lightning cascading down Beneath the waves I see its shinning teeth Taking form I cast the sails forth As we go headfirst into the storm We have the choice to choose How we wish to lose our lives Between the jaws or either Scylla or Charybdis Although we fight The ends in sight We've sown and now we'll reap We watched the tides As they rised And from their depths its eyes were seen Upon its scales bore scales Of eternal years and immortal scorn Within its eyes a hate A vow premade to bury us all Under its gaze we spoke A sullen start to a futile war The beast was so divine The battle had no use for swords As we welcome the light from beyond As it rose up the storm held its spite The serpent unravelled unbound by the night It came down And the opus was borne down And then death took it's form (Down) Down The river Styx
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Backs to the Wall 04:03
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Find me alone And awake a dormant sea Serpents now rise From the holes embedded in me Timing confined Contempt through honesty A hell so bright Set fire to the monarchy Judas your life Fed unto the rats Empty inside Widening the cracks Blood unbaptized Severed out of sight Enthralled and despised By the book, by the man Command the guillotine to strike Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall Judgement condoned Begin the severing Breaking of stone A pledge to entropy Moving the sword From the prophet to the policy Break this concord Lay waste the deity Judas your life To the fall of man Fall to the lie And sacrifice the lamb Setting of sun Christening the land What you've become, this is it This is why we put the blood upon your hands Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall Waste this fight Bones will break again Razors sharpen their blades To bare your teeth again One more night Amidst this cemetery Come midnight Destroy what's left of me Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall Backs to the wall, we have failed When did we become so wrong An empty hand, a broken sail We defend our lives behind a breaking wall
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There He Stood 04:27
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Bow down your head Before the gods release their swarm again "Eclipse the seas For no tide or wave can bury me" Carved in lead On a granite stone of holy head The sheep has spilt its blood Inside a wolf again There he stood Upon everything you once had known And so you bled Until you rose and grabbed your sword again You veins will show Once you reap the final consequence Seas of blood Will flow from rivers of your wounded men Sharpen your blade For today the sun will never set There he stood Unarmed upon the open ground Yet so misunderstood In everything you once had known And now we waltz These hooves in 3/4 stampede onwards As icicles erode We bury them deep in the ground Rest peacefully Head by hundred Tumble downward Fate's leash retracts into oblivion In the abyss above You see to the eyes of the Gods Figures of black and red recite your memories Upon sepulchres of old
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Set Perdition Free 03:41
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May Cain strike again Upon the Mount Sinai uncloaked in flame The king of kings defamed And laid to waste alike the Roman hate From the river Cocytus Break the resting of He Claim this world your own And set perdition free Reduce the valley of Eden To what is left of His kingdom When the Serpent speaks right Hell's flames shall burn us alive I pray to you Heaven's trumpets shall sing for you too Hell's gates will split in two and from that realm all fire consumes From the river Cocytus To the shores of your seas Slay the prophet Elias Unleash catastrophe Here us Belial We are beckoning thee Claim this world your own And set perdition free Let this be our final sign The world of knowledge denied Death shall gallop the skies Only hell shall feast tonight From the river Cocytus To the shores of your seas Slay the prophet Elias Unleash catastrophe Here us Belial Break the resting of He Claim this world your own And set perdition free Pray for this Purity remissed Parataxis Behold the crucifix
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The Lust Before the Fall 03:23
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Out from the crypt you creep As shadows creak the crooked floor In rout you raise the scythe To carve a name upon the wall Afore you dip his face Into the pool of primal law Abhorrence roused your fears As lapsing stood before the call It beckons thee Crumble this destiny Wound through the serpents fangs The venom leaves its dormant stall To ash the fate that fades as Substance waits The Lust Before the Fall Reverent this Before the storm that brought its virulent snow (Condemn) Condemn atrocities to form At the break of all Betterments kiss Allows the coming war that will unfold (Relent) Relent the shields that you hold The Lust Before the Fall
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Frozen Hands 04:54
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I watched you crawl out From the depths of hell Your serpent tongue slivered so sweetly As it broke you from your cell I gave you all I had to atrophy And yet you asked for more From a shattered man so callously Masticate my command And reap what you will From these frozen hands My penchant choked by the chains Leading blind into the sun I drank the blood you spilt From the severed head of my only son And now we wait alone Waste away, until the day Where we're left to face our fate Within the tombs, we built to lay Masticate my command And reap what you will From these frozen hands Judgment day has arrived Avert your eyes to spare your pride Leave the righteous denied In the end. The blade's hypocrisies I watched the rivers run dry Abhorrent tendencies clung to my life I drank the sacred stones as a price And its curse befell on my life We are alone in this time And yet the king has left his men to die Stone By Stone We will collapse again
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The Broken Ones 04:02
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Is this the price we pay to lie The oath of blood is spilt To cut the chords before its time Your life will end before tonight From the script the scribe has locked To the guilty aim of a sharpened knife For when the earth comes crashing We are to turn back to our homes And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones For when the earth comes crashing We are turned back to our own And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones Is this the end you wish to write Beneath a song for shelter Burning the light For when the burden comes to flight You will withdraw the fangs you shame Into the hole you've made So keep on slithering For when the earth comes crashing We are to turn back to our homes And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones For when the earth comes crashing We are turned back to our own And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones For when the earth comes crashing We are to turn back to our homes And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones For when the earth comes crashing We are turned back to our own And when the truths are clashing We are denied or the broken ones
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Survival 03:52
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Wound through the leaves Where fate finds its feet Hidden in snakeskin and teeth The venom will come but first you must bleed There you lie unaware to the beast So slow It will swallow your soul to its keep You should run but you will never go It aims for the flesh Like arrows they thresh Euphoria starts to suppress But failure proceeds to progress In walks the alchemist armed with the cure All hail The brew of the saviour falls nothing but short You say goodbye through one final exhale Now you see through the burning red skies The ending of life But somehow you remain alive The reptile relies on your blood to revive Away from the open sky Away from the sun light You think about the price But the poisons in your mind Yeah you've lost the fight And you quiver in psychosis For the comfort hides In the serpent's bite There is something about the pain It's the hate we like The constant pace we rely on We save our pride by our own dedition We can't lose if we give up And we can live in denial It's but our thoughts that we corrupt Before we turn suicidal Our only chance for survival
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This Open Wound 04:29
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Pulse the ground again You feel the waves pass through scaled flesh Guard the keep against concealed avarice So the bloodline never dies as the Apodal lies with eyes that sight none With fear unfounded Come once again into your aggregation Deplete you of your highest form again Moving your throne Into the world Pretend you're alone Back to the dark Before they see you with their open eyes Rise from this open wound Claim it all before the wretch comes to From shapes of servitude The painters brush cuts The gateway shuts on your doom Raise the dead hands And find them clench at your dying throat Gaze the running sands And watch them stop in place with it all erased as the Pestilence stands Before the rotten prince with broken wings Did it all go to plan We wait from the gallows standing A foot before our last upon the land A world overthrown Aim for the soul Bury the bones Tear it apart allow the break to form And with it all undone Rise from this open wound Claim it all before the wretch comes to From shapes of servitude The painters brush cuts The gateway shuts on your doom This fate, it's always the same (Please give me one more chance) There's no end in sight There's no end in sight Through shame, I beg you to stay (Please give me one more chance) But this ends tonight We walk towards the light Rise from this open wound Claim it all before the wretch comes to From shapes of servitude The painters brush cuts The gateway shuts on your doom Rise from this open wound Claim it all before the wretch comes to From shapes of servitude The painters brush cuts The gateway shuts on your doom
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I. This Cursed Fabel 04:08
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My hands won't stop their shaking Tell the gods my life's for the taking I've tried now lord please save me I'm not to blame please take him with me Terror In the wake of the saviour Pleasure Like the tip of a blade Never Have the strength to speak his name Again, for a sickness it hides It tears my flesh wide open It burns me out from inside You say your arms will save me What's faith when it's gone so quickly Error For the truths comprehended Bearer Of disgust and deceit Mirror Appeared before my eyes and then Placed its hand onto mine In front of my eyes It spoke what words cannot describe A truth in disguise What's become of this putrid fable Ascend to the scribe He belongs at the edge of light In cardinal spite He will show you the final fight Search across the land You will find him upon the open sand Mouth agape to the state of the promised land It is well and truly out of your command Full of disease, broke to their knees The gallows a flood of a bloody decree Carve at the trees, the mark guarantee The keeper won't stop, to the earth but a drop in the night Sever At the throats of the children Tether The ropes tight 'round their necks Feather Of the vultures that kettle above their heads As they wait for the dead
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Within the Cult of the Serpent's Tongue 03:07
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It took awhile to realise Where the earth was heading A head first dive To the bottom of the white world Against the Fallen city of stone Made red through blood agone With fires and coals They burnt their city of gold Now a kingdom whose riches is gritstone And yet they roam Through tunnels below And beneath our city alone What is left to atone In the centre of town they hung All those who won't join along But we all sing the song Within the Cult of the Serpent's Tongue The weak are the strong And no one belongs But we all sing the song Yeah we all sing the song Laws on scrolls determined by Complete control Sermonised into the world pre-dating our Own remains Watch it all decay Fall the the service of one Pray to the Serpent's Tongue Appeasements on a plate Coupled with wine and wait Stand at our city's gates In the centre of town they hung All those who won't join along But we all sing the song Within the Cult of the Serpent's Tongue The weak are the strong And no one belongs But we all sing the song Yeah we all sing the song In the centre of town they hung All those who won't join along But we all sing the song Within the Cult of the Serpent's Tongue The weak are the strong And no one belongs But we all sing the song Yeah we all sing the song

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released March 5, 2022

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