Throne Of Tragedy lyrics
Song information
Artist: Arcturus
Album: La Masquerade Infernale
Lyrics
[Poem by jørn hernik sværen / translation by kristoffer garm rygg]
Hear!
From this day forth
Are the heights of horeb broken
And the sea of sulphur
- ice
And blasphemy!
In heaven's chambers:
Souls had fled their halls
And closed was the book of life
And behold!
The great, white throne:
Black
With sacred blood
Our father -
Dead by his own hands:
An epitaph
Worthy no king
And so ie everything
A nameless lie
Who, my god
Am i?
Man knows me
As lucifer, the serpent of old
The wretched hold my banner high
Your gift
- all life! -
I grant the grave
Yet I am not your death
Come carry forth the crown
To your once held throne
Here is where my suffering should cease
- but alas: I am crowned
In grief unheard of!
In this lone monarchy
- without friend or foe -
I greet the morning sun
With strife and a song:
Please speak my name!
And leave me not
In the dust of death
I am weighed down
Beneath the tragedy crown, -
Nameless
And alone
A fatherless son