[Verse 1]
Lord knows you did not belong
You never marched to the rhythm of their drum
They thought your instinct was wrong
But you were sure in your heart

[Chorus 1]
Now you're in the ascendancy
You had nothing but self-belief
You're in the ascendancy
And there you must stay

[Verse 2]
Accelerating too fast to stop
To a height from where you can't see the bottom
Still, you remember who you are
And who you were at the start

[Chorus 2]
Your star is in the ascendancy
Wielding power with empathy
You have the asc¿ndancy
And long may you reign
[Verse 3]
All you know is that you had to aim high
Or you'd never look yours¿lf in the eye
Nothing happens if you don't even try
With every fiber in your heart

[Chorus 3]
Your star is in the ascendancy
Almost risen to its apogee
Into the heaven you will go
You're in the ascendancy
Take advantage, be all you can be
You have the ascendancy
And long may you reign
				

[Verse 1]
In your mind hangs a picture of yourself
It's the man that you wanted to be
There were times when you¿d stop to admire
The fine strokes of a confident hand and its honesty

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Now you've covered it over
Now you can't bear to look
You can't stand to face up
To what you forsook

[Chorus 1]
Your portrait is burning, burning
Douse the fire now
Burning out of control
Yet you seem so invincible somehow

[Verse 2]
Once you were revered by statesmen
And cardinals sought your advice
Your name was embossed on the lips of the great
And the good and the famous but oh what a price
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Now the paint is corrupted
It's consuming your mind
Devouring itself and each principle
You left behind

[Chorus 2]
Your effigy's burning, burning
Kill this fire now
Burning into your soul
Are you still invincible now?

[Bridge 1]
Enslaved to the dark side of the mirror
From whence there is no return
Bonded for the price of nothing dearer
Then a cause-celebre, you'd eventually spurn

[Bridge 2]
The eyes of the portrait, they turn
Glaring at you as they burn

[Verse 3]
In the end, you were tempted away
From the path you had wanted to take
Such is life in the limelight
When you trade integrity for gold
You were warned Heaven's sake
[Pre-Chorus 3]
You had such good intentions
They just melted away
Like the paint on your picture
And now you must pay

[Chorus 3]
Your portrait is burning, burning
Douse the fire now
Burning out of control
Burning, burning
Kill this fire now
Burning into your soul
You were never invincible

[Outro]
Burning, burning
				

[Verse 1]
Twelve evil men
Lords of an allegiance so fell
Sworn to misrule
An Earthly supreme court to Hell

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Creation of confusion
The world became polarized
And out from the chaos
The end will arrive

[Chorus 1]
Our destiny lies in the hands
Of the twelve
The lords infernal
Must the fortunes of men so depend
On the will of such demons

[Verse 2]
Twelve forceful men
Lords of the law one and all
Razing the ground
In wait for our temples to fall
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Divide and then conquer
How can we make a stand
With our hands at each other's throats
As they planned

[Chorus 2]
Our future resides in the hands
Of the twelve
The lords infernal
Must the fate of us all stand or fall
By the powers of evil

[Bridge]
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
We are twelve one and all
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Twelve to rule overall
Rulers of the kind who'll inflict
Poverty on every class
Each has sworn to entangle the law
Till trust is a thing of the past
There are those whose only desire
Is to stoke up the fires of war
But the twelfth is the one who won't rest
Until Heaven and Earth are no more
[Outro]
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
Earth infernal, the infernal lords
				

[Instrumental]
				

[Verse 1]
To take arms against a troubled sea
Or swallow one's raging heart
The right path seems occluded always
A moral compass without a chart
To writhe in silence or share the lament
The choice of the afflicted

[Chorus]
A sorrow unspent
A sorrow unspent
A sorrow unspent until now

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, to contain such sorrow
The dam could burst tomorrow

[Verse 2]
Damned if you do and damned if you don't
All the same, a card must be played
Release the burden or carry the load
Then live with the choice you have made
To bite your tongue or raise your voic¿ in dissent
The curse of compunction
[Chorus]
A sorrow unsp¿nt
A sorrow unspent
A sorrow unspent until now

[Bridge]
Silent rage behind the dam wall
(Building over countless years)
Stand back and wait for the fall
(A lifetime of unshed tears)
Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

[Verse 3]
So will you hold back or rise to the call
Could fury have the final say
If conscience, in the end, makes cowards of us all
Must we live to rue the day
To seethe in bitterness or kill without relent
The torture of the damned

[Chorus]
A sorrow unspent
A sorrow unspent
A sorrow unspent until now
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, to contain such sorrow
The dam could burst tomorrow
				

[Verse]
In the age of Aquarian minds
A ray of light still remains
The echo of a distant past
When intellect was forged in flame
A guiding angel incarnate
Sowing seeds to germinate
From Asia, the gift would come
A knowledge denied to no one

[Pre-Chorus 1]
There was hunger to understand
In his guidance, all learning thrived
And our senses were in his hands
We called him the bringer of light

[Chorus]
The dawn of Lucifer lit our minds
But his name would be vilified
The dawn of Lucifer will be known
By the children of the children of tomorrow
[Post-Chorus]
The children of tomorrow
Do you believe that?

[Bridge]
So began a luminous age
Forty-seven centuries ago
Luciferic wisdom was born
All we were destined to know
Fierce passion, clearer sight
Scientific brains ignite
A leap forward at full speed
The new enlightened creed

[Pre-Chorus 2]
But the centuries came and went
And we lost the brilliance we'd gained
The great influence finally spent
Though the age will poem around again

[Chorus]
The dawn of Lucifer lit our minds
But his name would be vilified
The dawn of Lucifer will be known
By the children of the children of tomorrow
[Outro]
The dawn of Lucifer lit our minds
The dawn of Lucifer will be known
				

[Verse 1]
I stand before you now to speak for my own kind
We are the future
We disavow ourselves from all your false beliefs
And science culture

[Chorus 1]
You think the Earth is round you'd better think again
You know it all but you're not right
It¿s our belief we are the center of this universe
Our information comes from second sight
From second sight, from second sight
From second sight
From righteous second sight

[Verse 2]
It's time to end this failed experiment of d¿mocracy
Tear down the structure
And w¿ the righteous have use for feeble laws
We have the scripture
[Chorus 2]
You think men landed on the moon then think again
You know it all but you're not right
We scorn the media and their fraudulent view but then
We have received the gift of second sight
Of second sight, of second sight
Of second sight
Of righteous second sight

[Chorus 3]
You still think two and two is four then think again
You know it all still you're not right
We trust in only the word of our anointed one
His information comes from second sight
From second sight, from second sight
From second sight
From righteous second sight

[Outro]
Ah, we have a gift of second sight
Of second sight, of second sight
Of second sight
				

[Verse 1]
Goodnight sweet King farewell, now I weep
Flights of angels sing you to your sleep
To sleep perchance to dream eternally

[Pre-Chorus 1]
The King was taken too soon
Stricken down
A serpent's sting in the garden
His heart stopped dead by the poison
But that snake was I, who would ever know?

[Chorus 1]
Hail Caesar, brother of mine
My hand is stained with your blood divine
Did you know?
Hail Caesar, slain by me
Now I deliver your elegy, a threnody, your elegy

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[Verse 2]
Your only son and heir has lost his mind
Crazed with grief so [?] next to line
With heavy heart must accept the throne as mine

[Pre-Chorus 2]
The Prince suspects me I fear
Strike him down
He raves of a phantom at midnight
A whispered tale in opaque light
But that truth so vile must remain unknown

[Chorus 2]
Hail Caesar, Lord of mine
Stabbed in the back by your own kind
Did you know?
Hail Caesar, blood to me
I will continue your legacy and your elegy

[Outro]
Your elegy (Your elegy)
Your elegy (Your elegy)
Hail Caesar
Did you know?
Hail Caesar
Hear me now, hear me now
This is your elegy
				

[Verse 1]
By dawn's early light
A terrifying sight lay revealed
Where there once had been a vale of green
Now lay destruction

[Pre-Chorus 1]
The legend told of the scene of a massacre
Eleven thousand young brave hearts were¿lost
Draped¿in¿the flags of¿their fathers they¿fought and fell
Before the fading light said farewell

[Chorus]
The blood ran deep
Into the virgin soil
Their blood ran deep
Common blood and royal

[Verse 2]
They'd marched South to war
With confidence and Rome on their side
While the Nobles on the front line stood proud
Too soon they would die
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Among the bodies of pikemen and reivers
Lay the remnants of the great king himself
Whose sovereign blood joined a flowing red river
Now at one with his subjects to rest

[Chorus]
The blood ran deep
Into the virgin soil
Their blood ran deep
Common blood and royal

[Verse 3]
In lands to the North
One day in September is marked
By a clash so ferocious
The very earth itself felt the scar

[Pre-Chorus 1]
The legend told of the scene of a massacre
Eleven thousand young brave hearts were lost
Draped in the flags of their fathers they fought and fell
Before the fading light said farewell

[Chorus]
The blood ran deep
Into the virgin soil
Their blood ran deep
Common blood and royal
[Outro]
The blood ran deep
The blood ran deep
Common blood and royal
				

[Verse 1]
Somewhere in a distant year to come
You'll find the capsule that I bury now
As you read and listen to my words
Open-mouthed you'll stare and wonder how

[Pre-Chorus 1]
My God how could they let it happen
Had seven nations lost their minds?
Oh, the fools they chose to lead them
Such was life
Before the final war

[Chorus]
Here we stand
Before the final war
We know it's coming
Behold the Earth we bequeath to you

[Post-Chorus]
We bequeath to you
[Bridge]
This scorched infernal earth beneath our feet
Radiates pain from its crust
As its guardians, we must fain accept defeat
Earth to ash and so to dust

[Verse 2]
To the children of a future world
Should any human life still remain
Hear your forbears' warning, heed it well
From our example, you must now refrain

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Oh, Lord, they filled the air with poison
Sent polar ice into the sea
And the rising sea destroyed them
Such was life
Before the final war

[Chorus]
Here we stand
Before the final war
We know it's coming
Before the final war
Behold the Earth we bequeath to you