Is this a dream, is it a nightmare?
What can I do?
Slipping away, I'm falling from this lifeline,
I'm coming home to you.

Back from Hell again
I can take you there....

I've fought with an ancient beast that lived inside me
I'm coming home
A casket of stars surrounds this blackened and lost soul
Am I the only one?
Again and Again, Yeah one more last time
I'm coming home
Walking into a golden mirror of sunshine
I'm coming home to you

Farewell last sunrise
You can take me
Where the solemn angel rides
Through the Dust of Paradise

Walk with me through the Dust of Paradise - My fri

13. Black Sunday

[Japanese Bonus Track]



Production Info

Produced by Andy Sneap
Assistant Engineers: Steve Clow and Danny Spriggs
Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire UK (June/July 1998)
Mixed at DP International, Birmingham UK (July 1998)
Pre-Production: Crash Studios, Liverpool

Lineup

Brian Dixon - Drums
Garry Jennings - Guitar
Lee Dorrian - Vocals
Leo Smee - Bass

All songs by Dixon/Dorrian/Jennings/Smee

1. Cathedral Flames

2. Melancholy Emperor

Blazing ball of fire - final bang ignites
Fleets of hungry angels feast on earth like flies
Burning soul of karma - furnace of mankind
Human skull and crossbones - treasures left behind
Holy father - reaps earth's seed
Sacred mother spreads his disease
Religious inferno - burial of mind
Mental crucifixion, love destroyed by lies
Decomposing morals - mummified in time
Lord of retribution, judge us for our crimes
Holy father - reaps earth's seed
Sacred mother spreads his disease
Master of ceremonies - awakens from eternal nyte
For our sins we pay the price - society it's time to die.
Melancholy emperor - king of our demise
Arises from deep shadows - bearing endtyme scythe
Skull of ancient wisdom, cloaked in funeral sky
Spreads his wings wide open, engulfs the cosmos wide
Holy father - reaps earth's seed
Sacred mother spreads his disease
Holy father - reaps earth's seed
Sacred mother spreads his disease

3. Requiem For The Sun

Lifeblood flows down the rivers of sorrow
Love a distant dream we've left behind
Utopic fortunes we see in tomorrow
Blind illusions as all hope fades and dies
Sleeping forest under shimmering moonlight
Enchantment reigns in your mystical haze
Ghosts of life awake unto twilight
As the living rest in cold empty graves
All that's weary beneath the sun
Fades to darkness now his death has come
Frozen ice cold in naked beauty
Oh warmth of nocturn come unto me
Shadows are the sails of night
That soon shall come to hide the light
In sorcery and divine flight
We flock to you to gain our might
I watch the sun fall for the last time
No more visions of it's pain to behold
All light has gone forever from my sight

4. Whores To Oblivion

World is falling before our eyes
We've sold our souls for - empty lies
Indoctrinations circle writhes In persecuted brainwashed minds
Master of this empty void controls your thoughts all - love destroyed
Hell is worth it for heavens prize
To war & pain desensitized
Whores to oblivion - rising faster
Death to Utopian - War is Master
Propaganda has bought your mind
An afterlife you fantasize,
The social ladder that you have climbed
Reality left long behind
Carry me away with the setting sun
my dream of death has - just begun
Pain of mind destruction calls
This seething cage I must break from
Whores to oblivion - rising fa

5. Alchemist Of Sorrows

Alchemist of sorrow
I am Midas in reverse, my gold has turned to lead
all lovers I've forsaken are dancing with the dead
lust and desire burning in hellfire
great god below me, my future you have read
Euphoria found it's grave with the love you gave
all magic died with my dreams of an Autumn bride
now she's gone away, days are dark eternal
golden shores become grey 'cos I'm always yours
Alchemist of sorrow
Robed in black behind my back, deaths conscience in control
slimy green fingers molest deep into my soul
lost in satire possessed by nothing higher
from the tallest mountain, I gaze into depths so low
Euphoria found it's grave with the love we made
all magic died with my dreams of an autumn bride
now she's gone away, days are dark eternal
golden shores become grey 'cos I'm always

6. Ultra-Earth

Bright red mist shrouds the world - streets in flames,
Robots taking control - human slaves
Auto-mechanical man - human clone,
Technological plan - just beginning
Withered sun overhangs - moon on fire
Universe in reverse - Ultra Earth
Clockwork hearts, plastic souls - breeding fast,
Remote control embryo - manufactured
Cybergod satellite - looking down,
Thought police film your mind - live transmission
Withered sun overhangs - moon on fire
Universe in reverse - Ultra Earth
See earths fate through the mist of a burning pyre
come with me, the inferno will take us higher.

7. Astral Queen

She walks under the moon, into the valley of fire
Astral Queen is dynamite
From this land of madness - she possesses the key
A pyramid shape controls the ocean waves,
She sails the seas of celestial grace
Where the blind man wanders, her darkness carries the light
Soul and mind lost in her deep space,
Her magic power has a hold - oh so strange
Blue Queen of cosmic beauty sanctions all the pain,

8. Sea Serpent

Liquid God takes my soul away
Flying high through a bloodshot sky
I fall back down to my water grave
Walking Dead when you leave me dry
Sea serpents surround me
Aqua demons - drowning me
Save my soul from this grave
Liquid God-you have made
Inside your church I worship everyday
unholy water quenches the thirst
There is no future I've drank it all away
Before your altar I accept the curse
Sea serpents surround me
Aqua Demons - drowning me
I swim your seas, limbless, in vain
As senses sink into your domain
Taste his golden blood again
Raise the chalice to the Sea Gods name
As life sips by faith in you numbs the pain