"Teufelsreich" lyrics - WATAIN

WATAIN
"Teufelsreich"
(Erik Danielsson / Watain)

...Ruins
Of origin unknown
Towering above our heartlands
Beneath celestial malignment
As star collide with star
Over a terror ridden Bethlehem

[Chorus:]
A scarlet moon
Shall shine upon
A fallen Babylon
Where no morn shall dawn

The silence of the prophets
And their severed tongues;
Omerta, omerta

For dark are they indeed
The depths we now must traverse
Steeply they stretch into night unmapped
Where stars like lidless eyes gleam

[Bridge:]
From deep down there
Returning my stare
Until fearless into that abyss I may fall
And the flames of the altar rise

[Chorus:]
A scarlet moon
Shall shine upon
A fallen Babylon
In churning seas the ash outpoured

[Outro:]
And thus I lay my head
Upon heaving earth
And abandon myself in the fever of dreams
In search of...