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"BURNING VILLAGE"

by Mountain Witch

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THE DEAD WON’T SLEEP ------------------- something in the air a fever a morbid scent is wafting over through the cracks it’s sneaking in to sweeten our self-righteous dreams tonight the dead won’t sleep from the outbacks of our minds they come creeping through the night those who once so hastly buried so that we don’t need to worry tonight the dead won’t sleep oh yeah raven-black the godless sky just the fullmoons evil eye witness of the foulest deeds shining on what treason breeds tonight the dead won’t sleep look out the window if you dare soon they will be everywhere let the dead sleep say their killers let the dead sleep pray their killers tonight the dead won’t sleep oh yeah
2.
STONE AGE FUNERAL ----------------- 10000 years ago the world’s a very different place no one really knows hard to put yourself into what you’re gonna eat be careful that it don’t eat you you gotta have the fire you need a roof over your head you gotta find your people they’ll bury you when you are dead with sticks and stones and skin and bones, ok will provide for tommorow and try not to die today im a stone age man she’s a space age woman cos i'm a stone age man and she's a space age woman whatcha talkin bout yuppie with the three-day-beard carbos and lactose? all the things i’ve never heard once i’m in the hole no saber tooth will scrape my ass better keep your mouth shut at the stone age funeral you sit and stare and hear the mammoth's cry you realize there’s stupid ways to die
3.
THE COLD HANDS OF FATE ------------------ hold your breath, hold your horses his greatness's arrival is near our king, our saviour speaker of truth, redeemer of trust when he speaks there is silence when he calls people chorus and cheer courage and dedication bearer of light and esperance appears tidal waves of excitement he enthralls them all so close to the peak of his game in the blink of an eye he will fall oh the swoon, oh the letdown let me spare you the horror, the grief not a king, not a saviour but a traitor and deciever a liar a thief finally mine is vengeance dear people come forward and see don't you lot recognise him rustler of chicken now lies at my feet pushing rocks up the mountains watching them roll down again forever in debt to the light eager to see through the night that will never end
4.
MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS ----------------------- southern sun of midnight pours it’s reddish rays upon white snow blueish ice and water lanes black bits of exposed granite slope great barren peaks of mystery cryptic world of frozen death puffs of smoke from erebus the lavas that restlessly roll their sulphurous currents down yaanek in the ultimate climes of the pole - outpost of the great unknown cryptic land of frozen death headlong through the biting cold to fathom secrets aeons old a burning curiosity dares glaciated mystery the doubts and horrors around us we shall never reveal transcent the loss of reason with sheer scientific zeal deep in the mountains of madness the outer reaches of mind is where i chose to be is where i can see me to wonder what is at the core our little flames are burning for the mountains stand as kingdoms fall there are no answers none at all would to the heavens we'd run back before we'd seen what we did see before our minds were burned when we could easily breathe beyond in the mountains of madness theres something else, you see a cauldron so vast an abyss so deep pylons of a frightful gateway into forbidden spheres of dream complex gulfs of remote time, space, and ultra-dimensionality we’re rolling in the wind across the endless leagues of frozen plateau
5.
HAUNTED BY WAR ------------------ who’s tearing cross the barren landscape with no ones banner in the wind heavy hooves that breach the dirt malicious breed, the giant steed the horseman, in a morbid frenzy aroused by screams and scent of blood ironclad with numb indifference he wields the sword called pondering silence swords and axes wedged together its raining arrows, hailing spears they’re screaming gore, they’re crying havoc shieldwalls break and horses fall beneath blind men the hillside’s blushing one is vengeful the other’s proud they won’t retreat, they won’t give way in the thick of this battle the slayen won’t fall forsaken horseman, he arrives oh battlefield, my crimson lady let me hold you one more time every thrust the air is bleeding every blow a dozen dead every stroke has heart and meaning silence falls upon friend and foe for each one death brings understanding the last beer was the last indeed! the last cut done, my lady's gone at waterloo or azingcourt we’ll meet again haunted by war peace shall never come
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BURNING VILLAGE ------------------------------------- the troops were tired, it began to snow beyond sundown their horses became slow what, from the distance, appeared to be a campfire was a ransacked village slowly burning down from out of nowhere in the middle of the night butchered, not a single soul left alive see a man come of his high horse, see him shake the generals slowest steepest descent towards hell glowing sacrifices on the altars of hate the broken wombs the severed heads of man and mice he recognizes his place of birth what we do it is not right! as they were shouting: don't go inside the flying saucer spreads its light wolfs spring from the undergrowth snakes crawl from the pitchers of bitten throats and poisoned wells of warlords and their witchers a trick of cards a bruised knee amidst the graves below the olive tree the world at war the mind at peace a small device with games and imagery i'm not going to tell cause they will take me elsewhere
7.
FORBIDDEN FORREST ---------------- forbidden forest no one shall enter anyone who dares will die! indeed with my bow and arrow i will hunt you down the spirits of nature they demand your death on sacred ground you trample cannot tell birch from spruce no clue about moss, fern or funghi it’s all the same to you you call yourself a woodsman i call you untrue some stuff with the rodents is all you want to do guardian of the sacred tree servant for eternity never will be fooled by thee go back to your hideous parking place
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ISLE OF BONES --------------------------------------------- take my hand and come with me to a land across the sea where blackened rocks break sanguine waves where the shores have claws and teeth where crackling steps will tread the land covered in bones like snow were twisted bowels hang like leaves from stone cold dead old trees there's no one here except for us the tomb you allways craved were even gods will take there lives divinity depraved how often did i strangle you and then caress your head how often did you stab my back and ressurect me from the dead all your tears can not revive the withered rose that's now your live since the day you broke my heart fortresses kept falling apart seaguls falling from the sky stranded whales long past their time when you squeeze my bony hand i will tell you it's the end theres wooden planks upon these bones the stairs lead up to a hill of what was once a prosperous place only crumbled ruins tell now tell me what did you expect of all the love and hate we’re going were this sickness goes don't answer, it's too late
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BONUS: Extended Intro (free) 01:52

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released February 26, 2016

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