[This recording originally released by Emperor in 1999 on the split album "Thorns versus Emperor".]
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[Music and lyrics: Snorre Ruch.]
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[5:58]
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By the Moon's haze and Northern Moonlight.
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Upon the Earth he rode.
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He seeks that which never was
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and never (is) to become.
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The Moon rose, it was crimson in color,
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as if the night saw the coming fall
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that once crushed your domain.
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It ever comes again.
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And again. <i>[6x]
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The moon shone with a fuller red.
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As a cross he was drawn to the Earth.
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What once has been shall be no more.
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Death, he craves his next.
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It is decreed.
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Oh, Lord, hide me from the secret council of the wicked
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and from these wretched words of iniquity.
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For my enemies be against me,
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and they have laid waste my soul in council together.
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Defend me from he that rises up against me.
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Save me from he that bears horns...
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cloven hooves.
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For he lies in wait for my soul
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and desires to take it down a fiery pit.
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The wraith descends to a world
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to feed upon Man's soul.
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See you perished, fall.
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So by the stone, decrees of faith.
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Their kingdom lost.
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The Moon rose, it was crimson in color.
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Tolled one bell.
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What once crushed your domain,
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it ever comes again.
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And again <i>[6x]
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Aerie Descent
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