Lucifer's Hammer : Selected Lyrics

From 'The Mists of Time' CD

Woodland Realm

I hear the voices
From the lost isle calling
Sailing across the primevil sea
Passing unbeheld regions
If such a place of tranquility
Exists beyond my dreams
I must find where fiery god stars
Fell through the ethereal mist
Eternal tears of life
Wandering among the trees
They whisper to one
Secrets of all nature
None know but the dragonfly and water
In the willow meads
Curling around shining lakes
Toward dark pine forests
Where wolves sing
Sunlight turns to gold
I can take the shape
Of everything in creation
Raindrops to starlight
Forever in my Woodland Realm
Time is eternal
In the shadowland
 

Sad Birds Midst

In the distance
Hear the castles
Old rusty bells
From the far silent midnight
Comes a flame
To carry me on my journey
To the other side
Beyond those frosty autumn woods
I've seen the final eternity
At the galaxy's edge
I know of dying suns
And boiling seas
Untold ancient talisman
Lie beneath the ocean floor
To the sun
And I can
Out soar them all
 

Phantom Spirit

By the light of the moon
I have risen it seems
To the realm of the stars
Far above the souls' prison
Disappearing into a silent limbo
I who could hear any whisper
In the world
Through winds and rains
Whispers that spread
Beyond the dreaming spires
Of other worlds
My spirit shipped
The bonds of tree and lake
To ride upon the solar wind
To return by nightfall
As the first shadow of dusk
Doomed to walk between
The dark and light
An ancient ghost
Of death and night
 

Ethereal Sea of Forever

Follow me through
The mist of silent shades
Follow an echo
Of music of the spheres
For are my words
Not like a fire
With a whisper
The clouds shall depart
The destiny of spirit
One of epic greatness
But also infinite dimension
A mystery and a disturbing one
That will last
As the remains themselves
Now let me take us there
A place of enchantment
And power that is drawn
From itself the same gives life
To a place of special beauty
Unexplored
As ghosts we haunt the gloom
And goblins lurk in the noctum
A yawning space beckons
To the Ethereal Sea
Of Forever
 

Celestial Vision

And I often sigh
Brooding sleepless curse
Beyond a murky dream
The ascent seemed age-long
A meaningless journey
Going on some grim ending
My memory cannot seize
Into a most wretched silence
Embark unto nothingness
Now the shadows deepen
In the twilight of my
Dark heart
No tomb no long slow sleep of death
Embalmed in this bleak and frigid clime
My blood doth so sluggishly run
Frozen in motionless ripples of crystal
Still I hear voices
And they seem to be crying
In some forgotten world
Far above

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From the 'Hymns To The Moon' demo

The Entrance to Gehenna

Behold the horned one, dread lord of death and ressurection
Guardian of the underworld, transcend hell to ride with thee
Reborn, one must die and to die one must be born
Nothing remains without change
Holy grail of immortality upon black winds
Our banners flow free
Grasp hilt of steel at sight  our enemy
We ride as one, the twin horse chariot followers of the bell
Guiding our swords
Vultures circling, waiting for the dead
Thou who at noon of night doth reigns
Howling ghouls at the gates
Hail, our time hath come
Released horde of the dead, led by choir of the cross
Let our magic come to birth...

The Dark Tower of Mordor

The towers tremble to the tombs of kings
Doom approaches, the dead awake for the hour has come
For the oathbreakers at the stone of erech
We shall stand again when the black breath blows and death's shadow grows
And all that is passed come!
Athelas life to the dying
In the kings hands lying
Mighty were the fallen
War now calls

Orodruin mountain of fire
Mount doom and it's red nightfall
Tower of Cirith Ungol

Alone here at journey's end I lie in darkness
Buried deep beyond all towers strong and high
Beyond a;; mountains steep above all shadows rides the sun
And stars, forever dwell
I will not say the day is done
Nor bid the stars farewell...

(inspired by, and dedicated to, master storyteller  J.R.R Tolkein)

Garden of Solitude Beyond

Ascend beyond the sun, soul of infinite space
Before whom time is ashamed and understanding
Dark, through thou art afar thy rays are on the earth
Your tears fall for the dead
I withdraw into the sky
Soul hidden in time, marvelous seed of the stars
The downwind and sunset cloud beyond the first
Clouded glow of the rising moon
Walk among the ancient trees
Garden of solitude emerging from the shadows
From where we had lurked so long
Appreciate beauty of the flame at this mystic hour