[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]
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[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]
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[Music: Ihsahn & Samoth.]
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[Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn.]
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[6:09]
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Memories of torment strikes me.
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Attemps were made to suffocate me at birth.
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Fools, I was already ancient.
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Thou can not kill what breeds within Thee.
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Alas, this agony, the emptiness of earthborn pride
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hath stirred my faithful heart which guided me to darker paths.
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Far away from their pestilent ways
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cleansed was I from deceitful grace.
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Yet, put to scorn was I
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by those unclean.
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Enslaved by ignorance
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they blindly spat upon
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the deity of hate.
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Awake is the darkest fiend.
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By the fallen one I shall arise.
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Upon bewildered masses,
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to whom the indulgence of my soul portray as sin made god,
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I shall revile and quell the source
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whence mockery of my kind derive.
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This I know: Facile shalt my quest not come to pass.
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Deathwish be my gift to all at last.
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Honour. Commended no longer as virtue.
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Yet, shalt be extolled by light's demise.
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By the fallen one I shall arise.
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Arise.
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[Guitar lead.]
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Believer,
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speak not to me of justice,
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for none have I ever seen.
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By God, I shall give as I receive.
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Betrayer,
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speak not to me at all.
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You and this world
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ripped my fucking heart out.
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Again... again... and again...
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Again... and again...
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The Loss And Curse Of Reverence
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| Emperor |
