Swords and Rages

Chorus

Hope burns to cinder beneath the northern sun

The white-haired witch find the nightmare begun

From the pyre I rise with a blackened breath

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Verse 1

My father wore a golden cross while he let the peasants bleed

A tyrant lord in Sweden planting every hollow seed

The church bells rang for mercy while they dragged me to the stake

I felt the wood start popping for a god who wouldn't wake

No angels came to save me so I called a deeper name

A deal signed in the embers in a sanctuary of flame

Pre-Chorus

Renounce the light

Renounce the skin

Serve the pit

Let the darkness in

Chorus

Hope burns to cinder beneath the northern sun

The white-haired witch find the nightmare begun

From the pyre I rise with a blackened breath

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Verse 2

Through the gates of brimstone where the civil wars ignite

I found the sorcerer leading rebels in the night

But Matthias was a shadow and Lucifer a ghost

I crushed the silver throne and scattered every host

Smithy forged a spirit scythe and washed away the shame

I carved my new salvation with a terrifying name

Pre-Chorus

Renounce the light

Renounce the skin

Serve the pit

Let the darkness in

Drop

Hope is dead

Hope is dead

Bridge

Hellwitch snarls and Purgatori drinks the ruby vein

Atrocitas and Baphomet are screaming in the rain

Seven tongues and thirty years of ink upon the page

The Coffin lid is open let us out of every cage

Swords and sex and violence and the heavy metal thunder

The pale goddess rises tearing all the world asunder

Chorus

Hope burns to cinder beneath the northern sun

The white-haired witch find the nightmare begun

From the pyre I rise with a blackened breath

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Kneel for the queen call me Lady Death

Post-Chorus

Hell is mine

The throne is mine

Blood and bone

Hell is mine

La la la la la

Lady Death

Lady Death