Ye Entrancemperium lyrics

Song information

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

Lyrics

[Originally released in 1997 on the album "anthems to the welkin at dusk".]

[Lyrics: ihsahn.]
[Music: samoth & ihsahn.]
[Arrangements: samoth & ihsahn.]
[Opening theme originally composed by euronymous.]
[5:14]

Drawn towards these lands again
Seeking death and sacred soil
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
Growing stronger once I enter my empire beyond

Emperium!
Behold my coming

The fullmoon rise above me
Enlightening my realm in a silvery glow
Yet the shadows crawl beneath my storming sky
Guarding treasures from forbidden light

I still remember
Though ages ago it seems
The first time I entered the gates
The revelation of ritual death
By which I became divine
Sacrifice of the life I had
Among the flesh of the light

And now I enter again
Even stronger, yet amazed by what I see
In ecstasy I mock the world

Suddenly I memorize
Asking what I left behind
Nothing

Can I ever comprehend?
Will my longing ever end?
Never

Drawn towards these lands again
Seeking death and sacred soil
I ride the longing winds of my blackened soul
Eternally