WATAIN - Underneath The Cenotaph lyrics

rate me

Lifeless and sour from death and from doom

in the soil of my tomb

not one flower shall bloom

nothing but death in this world shall abide

in this my pathway to the other side

And thus I close my eyes...

On through the tunnels

the 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 deamons in catacombs dance

laminous 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!

coalscense of high and low

hand in hand with the damned, I go

a dance in shadows

The burning fears of the world beyond

and 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