The Mensis Ritual - Lordship (All Lyrics)

1. Feed the Swamp

Thin venire of gold
Veils a mouldering kingdom a kiln long gone cold and a lord's withered soul
Mindless he flounders  at the end of an age

In the bowels of the world with rot taking hold
Benighted and blighted cursed deities devolve
They await demise
Beyond all redemption

How far can it sink
Deep corruption that won't burn away
The stink of decline
A corpulent body lies ripe in decay

Seal a pact clear the path
Preordained no turning back
Snuff the embers stoke the dark
As the flame dies feed the swamp

Seal a pact clear the path
Preordained no turning back
Snuff the embers stoke the dark
As the flame dies feed the swamp

All will prostrate and surely obey
As darkness lays claim
In ash and in decay
The cursed one will reign
Put the father to rest and dispose of a lingering shame
In perdition and dust he awaits a grim fate
Struggle in vain guardians
Antiquated servants cling to what must be erased

How far can it sink
How long can the new age be kept at bay
The cleansing at hand
Lords of old tremble they will rue the day

Seal a pact clear the path
Preordained no turning back
Snuff the embers stoke the dark
As the flame dies feed the swamp

Seal a pact clear the path
This deception could never last
A new order birthed in blood
As the flame dies feed the swamp

Feed
Passing light
Endless night
Age of dark
Vision of might

Survey the ashes of a stagnating kingdom righteously despised
Revenge and purpose whispers the serpent

Survey the ashes of a decrepid kingdom laid low by the hubris of a lord at his end
Feared from the start
Man's true power

Feed, feed, feed, feed the swamp
In the bowels of the world
With rot taking hold

2. Abyssal Entombment

Last from the flame
Martyred immortal condemned to this fate
In darkness to sleep
Entombed in the deep
Wile away aeons awaiting deceit

Beneath the earth for all eternity  to atrophy
Slumbering god like stasis in concealed chasm dream
Primeval progenitor resplendent in blackest flame
Arise now and submit to unending pain

To die a thousand times still trapped within a breaking mind
Light guides the body back eroding reason in decline
Extricating gouging mutilating this soul torn asunder
Transfused with darkened boon
Behold incarnate rage

Led astray
Seeking power the misguided seal their fate
Born in pain
The abyss father
First of man made again
In a crucible of torment
Grief evermore vile and deformed waiting in scorn
Lurking in gloom

A kingdom turned to cruelty counts it's numbered days
For the crimes of a few now all humanity will pay

Seeping from the core corrupting all life in it's way
The first among heroes Ensnared he obeys
Scions and minions enslaved by the beast that lies within
The price exacted for their greed and for their sin

Led astray
Within the garden all anguish all pain
Embalming black tarred embrace

All will pay
Unto the father the sins of the sons will not be erased

Transgressions beyond all comprehension
A depraved cruelty and an utter disregard
Prone and broken torn at by thine own undeserving progeny
Deprived of every comfort every solace
A ruinous path permitted in their ignorance
Condemns them in their greed
As purest hatred  is unleashed

All will pay
All will pay
For this abyssal entombment

Led astray
Seeking power the misguided seal their fate
Born in pain
The abyss father
First of man made again
In a crucible of torment
Grief evermore vile and deformed waiting in scorn
Lurking in gloom

3. Hopeless

Dead eyes may yet see
The path of a pilgrim in blessed disease
Suppressed and ensorcelled the cycle repeats
May a hopeless heart sever the bindings
Rise from bent knees

Arise and reform
Cursed son of ash
Bound  to seek in their deceit
As fate surely bears up
Death burdens down
Yet no dreamless sleep
Burn Burn for the gods
A fool or a martyr
Cinder abdicates
Bring champions forth
Unkindled unworthy
Just fuel for the forge

Hopeless
Pray for an end
Offered false redemption
Caught in contention
Between a grim sacrifice and the end of all light

Hope is the curse
Strength in darkness
A ring burned in flesh warding death
Idols are spurned
Servile no longer lord take what is left

Hopeless
Pray for an end
Offered false redemption
While lordship beckons
A damned game to play a pawn either way
Pray pray for an end
Beholden to none
Divine will undone
Relinquish the sun

Dead eyes will now see
The truth of creation
And the dawn of a new age
Gods lie dead
Splendour goes to rust
The age of dark is unfurling
Guided by hollow hands

Martyrdom a naive conception
The dark soul of man's insurrection
Damnation undead in perdition
Purpose without hope
Without hope

Cast on the pyre
By deities afraid of the true strength of man
The dark soul writhes
As it rises ascendant the serpent triumphant
The dark soul writhes

Hopeless
Pray for an end
Offered false redemption
While lordship beckons
A damned game to play a pawn either way
Pray Pray for an end
Beholden to none
Divine will undone
Relinquish the sun

Hopeless

4. Lord of Hollows

Aglow behold the true face of man
In ascension they bleed
Outcast dishevelled this wretched progeny
From duality slowly return in cursed transformation

Usurpation's conception achieved
Through desperation is sown darkest faith
And the servant she whispers of sovereignty foretold denying martyrdom's shackles

Lord of Hollows

Wrest from its mantle original light
From twilight eternal night
Marks a new dawn for the detested

Who have suffered too long
A punishment from divine jealousy
Stirs violent reckoning
At the hand of the one who was promised in his palm is raised godless light

Lord of Hollows

Gods fall
Bow before a liege forged in ash
The sigil burns
As ages turn
Eclipse the sun
Bow before a liege forged in ash
Cinder in wake
The age of dark will swallow all

Willingly cursed
Tendrils of darkness burrow withered flesh
True power is earned
True power is taken
Shepherd the spurned
Accumulating the strength of unworthy contenders
The hallowed rites of devourment

Resisting servitude's cycle
To claim a forgotten birthright
Swelling with godless light

Breaking the wheel
Resisting servitude's cycle
To claim a forgotten birthright
Swelling with godless light

Eternal night
Godless light

Within a single breast subsumed resides all power
 Suffused with righteous might the bringer of purification

Breaking the wheel
Resisting servitude's cycle
To claim a forgotten birthright
Swelling with godless light

Lord of hollows

Gods fall before him
The sigil burns
With new power
All kneel in awe
The sigil burns
As ages turn
Lord of hollows

5. Whispering Void

At the end of a road never broken
Circular path trodden in ash
At the crossing of ages
Drowning in ruin and horror
Find the will to ascend

Where Gods lose their minds
All mortal matter is consumed by their madness
Condemned to live on yet die
To exist outside time
Amid dimming light

What hope shines for sane thought
This light that dims lingers on in the fade
Darkness enclosing
Ushers in a new age
Without redemption
Salvation or creed
Illusive progression
Cannot supercede
The cycles divined

This waking nightmare
Countless cycles pass resisting despair
Damned flame burdened heir
To live on yet die refuse and defy
Heroes with iron resolve
Psychically decimated left without hope
Diminished by fear
Broken like them yet refusing to yield

Mind exhausted and tainted
Emaciated flesh crushed lacerated
Cast asunder torn hollow form
Again and again these trials to endure

The Serpent he whispers alone in the dark of the void
Whispers of lordship a balm for this twisted heart
Why give all for embers when a throne sits prime for the taking
Preside over madness
Suzerain displacing a God

Hollowed by sadness
Lord over madness
Forever
Hollowed by sadness
Consumed by this madness
Forever