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Rex Irae (Requiem) - Lyrics by Celtic Frost


Lyrics
Introduction
Rex lrae ...
Dream Encounter
King Wrath:"
You ..."
Dream Voice:"... have joined your father's feast
Those who saw: Essence or fall
Floods of dramatic silence
And words, from whom we don't know"
Overture
King Wrath:"
Let me dream ...
Flee from false ...I have tasted the weight of lust
My hands on the skein of height"
Dream Voice:"... A pallid death
Mirage into dark
The horizons echo your glance
Following a detractive sleep"I am the wrath beneath the heavens
The downfall's monologue
Fallen into the vision of effect
Quiet as gods can be
Orgies of fearlnbreeding and death
I have walked Carthagia's sandsl've touched those buried walls
I am the ...
All mortal is love?
Remembrance has won
Breathing glorified innonce
Quiescence has died therefore
I am the ...
Remembrance I
King Wrath:"
We stood before the portals of Babylon
And saw it's petrified fall
We tasted the wine of Persepolis,
As mute as our era's breath"
Dream Voice:"... Have seen your decline's symbols
But carried another life
Death was never a fragment of
Exalting fantasy ..."
Remembrance III
King Wrath:"
This last region - Last of fire
Orgasmic cries - Tears and words
Wrath and strenght - Oh, gods! For you!
Before the throne ... - Death"
Overture: Final
King Wrath:"
Fright and praise
A faded light
Intimate rests my book
Unwritten what seems true
I am the ..."
Dream Voice:"
Art of might!
You remaining king
Take your predesessor's hand
You son of my Jade gift ...I am the ..."

Book: Shattered Sighs