The Tongue Of Fire lyrics

Song information

Artist: Emperor
Album: Scattered Ashes - A Decade Of Emperial Wrath

Lyrics

[Originally released in 2001 on the album "prometheus - the discipline of fire and demise".]

[Music: ihsahn.]
[Lyrics: ihsahn.]
[7:10]

Teach me the tongue of fire
So that I may set the world ablaze
For it is cold
And this blindness can no longer give me shelter
Teach me the tongue of fire
So that I may cry out loud my wrath
And my passion
Or else my coil will blister and decay

[Guitar lead: ihsahn]

The tongue of fire

The soul is never silent
But wordless, held imprisoned in a cursed tomb
Wherein reflections never fade, never die
Slowly maddened by (the) emptiness

[Guitar lead: ihsahn]

Left to perish in the ever-dark coil
Yet, always alert it its slumber
Scorned by the drops of light
Piercing through the surface
And it screams

The soul is never silent
But wordless

Teach me the tongue of fire
So that I may set the world ablaze
For it is cold
And this blindness can no longer give me shelter
Teach me the tongue of fire
So that I may cry out loud my wrath
And my passion
Or else my coil will blister and decay