Trapped in a vacant place With only scraps and water Freezing cold and hunger Devours sanity The crisis is apparent Help may not arrive Abandoned with one choice Eat human flesh or starve Shards of broken glass Pierce the frozen corpse This body once your friend Will now become your meal Slice into remains Swallow all your pride Digest the meat you carve How does it sit with you? With Fortune's bitter smile Your deeds are not in vain You'll live another day While others merely rot Yes, you know the table's turned As you find you can't subdue The crippling guilt and shame That now is eating you

You terrorize my homeland Taking what was mine A trail of blood and tears Is all you leave behind Only one thing pleases me And that's to see you pay I told you once, I told you twice Never fuck with me Now that I've gone mad There's nothing you can do The gates of hell have opened And now they slam behind you Your blood is all I need to satisfy my longing thirst When you took my life you know you should have killed me first Vengeance occupies my thoughts, I know this for a fact That you'll never live to rue the day you ever crossed my path I carry out your sentence Useless are your pleas Cause never will I ever show you Any sympathy

The time of distress draws near One by one the seven seals will open But we will be armed and prepared So that our lives may be spared Among us is one sent to spy Find him and remove him from the premises They plan to invade and seize We will not be taken on our knees Peacefully we have come To take away your father Peacefully we have come For the unholy martyr A crusade of mayhem and defiance Subsequent failures to comply Now their souls are charred by the flames Forever with them the shame

The strain infects you deep inside It is just a matter of time Before the pain that makes you writhe Makes you wish you weren't alive Like a nightmare coming true This killer wages war on you There's not much more that you can do In a nutshell, you are screwed Incoherent visions of a mind that's gone insane Many others wonder if you'll live another day What will be the outcome of this infernal spell Nobody knows for certain, but odds are a grim farewell One million cuts from deep within Blood starts seeping from your skin A gruesome sight that makes you cringe Time's winding down your chance is slim On your face the look of fear Your frightened eyes shed blood soaked tears Death, he whispers in your ear "Enough's enough, your life ends here" To god above you cry for mercy but it never comes Suffering in agony, it dawns on you, you know you're done The sun now sets on you today, your soul is finally free Close your eyes and have no fear for now you may rest in peace The strain breaks out and multiplies To find a host to victimize Epidemic, there's no cure Here to stay, lurking to this day

Scream now for your life There is no end in sight Except that which I permit Your soul you must submit Diagonal steel, hanging high Just one way for you to die I shall cleanse your sin When your neck feels the wind I love the guillotine Hell in the heaven's death machine Separate the body from the source Of all the hate and all the wars Stagnation of the soul and mind Is why you now must die Death for you is no illusion Fear the queen of retribution For the laws you've violated She will have your head Kneel before the god of gore Your path is at its end Your blood will be my currency And all of it I'll spend

Alone I weep Remorse is tearing me apart Self-inflicted agony Destruction of serenity Clutching what is out of reach Chasing nothing but a dream I try to mend the broken seams Anger and frustration mock me 'til I can't take anymore Is this the end, or do I have the chance to be reborn? The dawn is closing in, there's no telling what there is that one may find Don't look back, what was then now is just a figment of the mind Darkness follows As the flames fall victim to the pouring rain With nothing left Solitude greets me and hope just passes by Patience is thinning as I sit and wait Redemption is distant and still it grows faint The obsession dwindles, sanity's maintained Yet for the life that I once lived a longing remains

A badge, a pledge: to serve and to protect A phrase that once held meaning when the job deserved respect The law was once a solace for the just Long ago when officers were people you could trust But now it seems it's gotten to their heads Their sirens and their flashing lights: these are what I dread Because you never know if the man behind the lights Is just as fucking crooked as the crime he claims he fights Well that's it. The boys in blue, defenders of our rights Greedy fucking bullies that have got us in their sights The length of your hair or the color of your skin Is all they need to see to know just how much shit you're in Some are on the take, the rest are simply dicks Relishing the chance to make some citizen their bitch Just to squeeze another dollar in their pockets, does it matter While their heads and their asses and their pension's getting fatter? Well that's it. The man has raised an iron fist to beat us to the ground Our reaction to injustice is to take it lying down? Only if we oppose it is it ever gonna stop 'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop Selectively enforcing the most trivial misdemeanors While murderers and rapists run free Petty drug offenses, traffic tickets, volume ordinances These are your priority? Incarcerate the criminals, bring honor to the system That once cleaned our streets of all of its sleaze And leave law-abiding citizens the right to drink our beer And play our music just as loud as we please! Seems law enforcement's purpose is to make our lives a hell They will not rest 'til each of us are rotting in a cell And if we don't oppose it, well it's never gonna stop 'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop A flash of the badge is all you'll see Before you're beaten senselessly For not adhering to the norm Laughing they will throw you in a cage Where you'll sleep and shit and age Until they say you've been reformed Picking up the pieces of your brain Coping if you're not insane From their administrative pain You try to get your life back on its track But pigs won't cut you any slack And so it all begins again Corruption is becoming just a symbol of the shield As cops abuse the power we've entrusted them to wield Why aren't we opposing this? It's never gonna stop unless We ram our boots straight up the ass of every fucking crooked cop Take a stand, prove we're the Man and it ain't them anymore Ensure that your defiant fist is used for what it's for Perhaps we can oppose it, maybe it can be stopped 'Til then beware, BEWARE, beware the crooked cop Awash in blissful ignorance, do we really think it's fine? To this dear friends, a warning true: beware these crooked swine And don't believe the old cliché, I know that pigs can fly Above the law, while us below look up and curse the sky

In a far off land Where Muhammed meets the Lord A prince is born of blood To live a life of scorn Many have since walked in his ways He's carved such a path that one could walk for days His name is the son, the son of the snake Vlad is his name, the sire of the stake With the heat of hell burning in his veins He shall impale, the grass will be stained Condemned to be raised by the whip of the Turks So his father could appease a people of no worth Little does he know that when he dies His son shall return to a trumpet's call of cries With the heat of hell burning in his veins He shall impale, the grass will be stained With the blood of all who dare oppose him Son of blood, bringer of woes So many terrors one could tell Of just what happened when Vlad returned from hell From a grail to a stake, I'd rather die Before I'd eat with him, let me tell you why He loves the smell of death when he dines But don't complain, he'll see it as a sign Oh how generous he is to your pleas Holding you to a higher standard for all to sea Opening doors to the poor Bring them in from the cold Asking if they're hungry Wait until they're sold Leave them behind With deprived, empty eyes Feeding them flames Go along with the cries Enchant the town square with a chalice most high Ripe for the taking if you dare try Even kings are amazed at what they see That Tepes' blood terror can even overcome greed No matter how fatal his terror could be He still succumbed to the will of mortality No one knows just how he fell Fallen in battle or swallowed up in hell Either fucking way, he's dead as shit And he's given me some rhymes I can spit So the name of the devil might not be forgotten Here's to the Impaler wherever he's rotting

*The Summoning* (instrumental) *Litany of Woes* Welcome sinner to this place Your judgment has arrived They've deemed your faith defective And our counsel they've prescribed Forgive my sanctimony if I Declare your future grave But I fear your life is surely lost If you're soul's unfit to save It seems to me it's heresy For which you are to blame Infected with temptation You've disgraced our sacred name Our holy creed's in atrophy Our flock you've led astray With words of slander. In contempt You've wracked them with dismay A heretic! It's clear that you're Enraptured in your lies Content ensnaring countless fools In the evils you've devised Reflection is the devil's logic It's knowledge not required Our holy words and precepts are What you should have admired There seems to be no remedy For which you are accused It's our "infallibilities" Through which you're to be used And ours alone! Die not in vain Confess your insurrection Or do despair, your soul prepare For spiritual dissection Hear me now you pious thieves The pilfer value from beliefs Though golden is the road you pave It's all the straighter to the grave Your path is not the only way You've only led yourselves astray Apostle I am nevermore Disciple of my own accord Farewell sinner leave this place It's time to meet your maker Though Mercy pleads with outstretched hand You still choose to forsake her We're sorry we've no sympathy By which you'd be redeemed We've only agony divine Of which you've never dreamed As you can see it's our decree You'll suffer for your crime Your expression, unrepentant, though It shall distort in time Blasphemy! Catastrophe! You've forfeit your salvation Your sins, irreconcilable Condemned to immolation!