Emperor - The Loss And Curse Of Reverence lyrics

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk".]

[Lyrics: Ihsahn.]

[Music: Ihsahn & Samoth.]

[Arrangements: Samoth & Ihsahn.]

[6:09]

Memories of torment strikes me.

Attemps were made to suffocate me at birth.

Fools, I was already ancient.

Thou can not kill what breeds within Thee.

Alas, this agony, the emptiness of earthborn pride

hath stirred my faithful heart which guided me to darker paths.

Far away from their pestilent ways

cleansed was I from deceitful grace.

Yet, put to scorn was I

by those unclean.

Enslaved by ignorance

they blindly spat upon

the deity of hate.

Awake is the darkest fiend.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Upon bewildered masses,

to whom the indulgence of my soul portray as sin made god,

I shall revile and quell the source

whence mockery of my kind derive.

This I know: Facile shalt my quest not come to pass.

Deathwish be my gift to all at last.

Honour. Commended no longer as virtue.

Yet, shalt be extolled by light's demise.

By the fallen one I shall arise.

Arise.

[Guitar lead.]

Believer,

speak not to me of justice,

for none have I ever seen.

By God, I shall give as I receive.

Betrayer,

speak not to me at all.

You and this world

ripped my fucking heart out.

Again... again... and again...

Again... and again...