Ghost - IMPERA Album Lyrics

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Imperium

[Instrumental]

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Kaisarion

Hey

Kaisarion
A prophecy told
We're building our empire
From the ashes of an old
Kaisarion
The fruit of the womb
Our brotherhood of good faith
Sealed an apostate witch's doom

It's the sound of another deadline
Whistling past your ears
It's the sight of a million regrets
Mounting over years
It's the words that were never spoken
That echoes through the times
It's the smell of the burning temples
Swept away by rhymes

(Hypatia) far away from the stench of the heavens
(Hypatia) long ago, yet too close to forever
(Hypatia) when the paradise is lost, go straight to

Kaisarion
A matter of love
When mother earth is calling
For a father up above
Kaisarion
Put on the smiles
And throw your holy rocks
Right at her, for her satanic wiles

It's the truth of candor shone
Through a prism of deceit
It's the continence of bishops
With their choirboys ensuite
It's the tongue selling adulation
That licks to no avail
It's the noise of the righteous dogma
That hides the handmaid's tail

(Hypatia) far away from the stench of the heavens
(Hypatia) long ago, yet too close to forever
(Hypatia) when a paradise is lost, go straight to

It's the sound of another deadline
Whistling past your ears
It's the sight of a million regrets
Mounting over years
It's the words that were never spoken
That echoes through the times
It's the smell of the burning temples
Swept away by rhymes
It's the truth of candor shone
Through a prism of deceit
It's the continence of bishops
With their choirboys ensuite
It's the tongue selling adulation
That licks to no avail
It's the noise of the righteous dogma
That hides the handmaid's tail

(Hypatia) far away from the stench of the heavens
(Hypatia) long ago, yet too close to forever
(Hypatia) when a paradise is lost, go straight to
(Hypatia) far away from the stench of the heavens
(Hypatia) long ago, yet too close to forever
(Hypatia) when a paradise is lost, go straight to

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Spillways

Through benediction
You tried to rid your mind
Of malediction
But through all this time
You tried to peel it off
And it's such a ride, ahh

Your desolation
Led you into this
Vile incarnation
Of consummated bliss
I know you need it now
To make you feel alive, ahh

All your faith, all your rage
All your pain, it ain't over now
And I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith, all your rage
All your pain, it ain't over now

It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yearning need to bleed
Through the spillways (spillways)

You keep a casket
Buried deep within
You try to mask it
But fall back in sin
You wanna shake it off
But you're stuck inside

When stripped of rags
Of skin and spine
Human decay, corpus dei
Terminally dispelled
And it's such a ride

All your faith, all your rage
All your pain, it ain't over now
And I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith, all your rage
All your pain, it ain't over now

It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yearning need to bleed
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Spillways, spillways

It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yearning need to bleed
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul

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Call Me Little Sunshine

Call out in the middle of the night
For when else would I hear you?
Fall out in the cold starlight
I can save you if you do

You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone

Call me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little Sunshine

Light up in the middle of the day
For how else could you see me?
Ease up to the hunter from the prey
And transform indefinitely

You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone

Call me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little Sunshine

You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
You will never walk alone
You can always reach me
You will never ever walk alone
Even when you're dead and gone
You can always reach me
All you gotta do is call me, call me

Call me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little Sunshine

Call me Little Sunshine
Call me, call me Mephistopheles
Call me when you feel all alone
Just call me Little Sunshine

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Hunter's Moon

It's been a long time coming
I'm coming back for you, my friend
To where we'd hide as children
I'm coming back for you, my friend

Though my memories are faded, they
Come back to haunt me once again
And though my mind is somewhat jaded now
It's time for me to strike again
Tonight

It's a hunter's moon

Under a headstone, sister
I'm dying to see you, my friend
Back in the old cemetery
I'm dying to see you, my friend

Though my memories are faded, they
Come back to haunt me once again
And though my mind is somewhat jaded now
It's time for me to strike again
Tonight

It's a hunter's moon

Ooh, I'm coming
I'm dying
To see you one last time together

Though my memories are faded, they
Come back to haunt me once again
And though my mind is somewhat jaded now
It's time for me to strike again
I'm coming back for you, my friend
Tonight

It's a hunter's moon

(A hunt, hunt, hunter's moon)
(A hunt, hunt, hunter)
(Hunt, hunt, hunt)

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Watcher in the Sky

Searchlights, searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Evil-utionary the optics for us
To get answers as to why
We signal to another dimension
That we stand here ready for reply

Communication is key
When you unlock to believe
Can you see what I see?

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

The kaleidoscopian visions we've seen
Tell of bloodlines of top notch
The pre-destinated will dispatch
While your realm has rotted on our watch

Communication is key
When you unlock to believe
Can you see what I see?

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

For the light of our savior (savior)
His Machiavellian grace (grace)
And in the sheen of his splendor (splendor)
There is a better place, go

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky
Searchlights
Looking for the watcher in the sky

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Dominion

[Instrumental]

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Twenties

Smile for the summer
After all these days, I still think about you
But girl you've been on my mind
I get visions, in my mind
Searching for the words I cannot find
Girl I think about you, everyday
Sometimes I don't know what to say
After all these days, I still think about you
But girl you've been on my mind
We texting every night, loving every night
But I don't know how you feel
Wanna text you all the time, wanna see you all the time
I wanna hold your hand and call you mine
I might have got some hints, but do I overthink?
When I realise my heart will sink
After all these days, I still think about you
But girl you've been on my mind
We texting every night, loving every night
But I don't know how you feel
Hold my hand, I wish
Go smile, pray for the summer
It will soon be over then we can do whatever
Baby girl I want you to be my forever
Girl I won't make you fall 'cus i'll never let it never
After all these days, I still think about you
But girl you've been on my mind
We texting every night, loving every night
But I don't know how you feel
Lalalala, lalalala, lalalalala
Hold my hand, I wish
Go smile, pray for the summer
It will soon be over then we can do whatever
Baby girl I want you to be my forever
Girl I won't make you fall 'cus i'll never let it never

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Darkness at the Heart of My Love

When the summer dies
Severing the ties
I'm with you always, always

Will you walk the line?
My path serpentine
Remember always
That love is all you need
Tell me who you wanna be
And I will set you free

There's a darkness at the heart of my love
That runs cold, runs deep
The darkness at the heart of my love
For you

Will you spill the wine
To summon the divine?
I'm with you always, always

Now paint a pair of eyes
And let's watch as it dries
Remember always, that love is all you need
Tell me who you wanna be
And I will set you free

There's a darkness at the heart of my love
That runs cold, runs deep
The darkness at the heart of my love
So bold, so sweet

There's a darkness at the heart of my love
That runs cold, runs deep
The darkness at the heart of my love
For you

Remember always
That love is all you need
Tell me who you wanna be
And I will set you free

There's a darkness at the heart of my love
That runs cold, runs deep
The darkness at the heart of my love
So bold, so sweet

There's a darkness at the heart of my love (my love)
That runs cold (runs cold), runs deep (runs deep)
The darkness at the heart of my love (my love)
So bold (so bold), so sweet (so sweet)

And all this time you knew
That I would put you through
The darkness at the heart of my love
For you

When the summer dies
Severing the ties
I'm with you always, always

Paint a pair of eyes
Let's watch as it dries
I'm with you always, always

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Griftwood

Yes, yeah

Suffering for the lord is not an easy thing
Be it a conjuring
So ordained and adored, so immaculate
Ooh, so worth the debt

I'm your rock, baby
I won't back down
I'm your rock, baby
Ask yourself, ooh
Are you righteous? Yes
You wanna play with the sire? Yes
You want a view from the spire? Yes
You want a seat by the pyre?
And never ever suffer again? Yes, yeah, yeah

Sacrifice for the whore leads the way from shame
Be it a loser's game
The disdained and abhorred lash of the senate whip
Ooh, it's a power trip

I'm your rock, baby
I won't back down
I'm your rock, baby
Ask yourself, ooh
Are you righteous? Yes
You want to play with the sire? Yes
You want a view from the spire? Yes
You want a seat by the pyre
And never ever suffer again? Yes
You want to console the griever? Yes
You want to guide the believer? Yes
You are the greatest deceiver
And never ever suffer again

Holy mother, you washeth the sin from my feet
Holy mother
You shine like the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky
Holy mother, you washeth the sin from my feet (mother)
Holy mother
You shine like the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky
Holy mother, the world has set me on your shoulders (holy)
Holy mother
You shine like the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky

I'm your rock, baby
I won't back down
I'm your rock, baby
Ask yourself
Are you righteous? Yes
You want to play with the sire? Yes
You want a view from the spire? Yes
You want a seat by the pyre?
And never ever suffer again (never ever suffer again)
Never ever suffer again
You want to play with the sire? Yes
You want a view from the spire? Yes
You want a seat by the pyre?
And never ever suffer again, yeah

You want to console the griever
You want to guide the believer
You are the greatest deceiver
And never ever suffer again

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Bite of Passage

[Instrumental]

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Respite on the Spitalfields

We're here in the after
Of a murderous crafter
The past is spun like a yarn and mangled
With flesh and blood and bones
I wonder, did no one hear the distant thunder?

The autumnal reaper
The stains of this creeper
Will last, the shine and the sham entangled
Like salting earth with tears of Jesus
He sliced and diced our dreams to pieces

For the dreams that you dread
Can become just as real
As the blood that was shed
With the slash of his steel
Now the street walking dead
Was quite a scene, wasn't it?
For the lost and misled
Were promised seats by the pit

We will break away together
I'll be the shadow
You'll be the light
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night

We're leaving this city
So this is farewell
Goodbye seven sisters
And Saint Jezebel
The moon in the gutter
Has a story to tell
One day he will come back
From the bowels of hell

He appeared to ascend
So we all stood there in awe
Now we have to pretend
We didn't see what we saw
With the curtain unveiled
To the sound of applause
That the king that we hailed
Was the wizard of Oz

We will break away together
I'll be the shadow
You'll be the light
Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night

Nothing ever lasts forever
We will go softly into the night

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh