ASHES

Ring a ring of roses

A pocket full of posies
Atishoo, atishoo
We all fall down

Ashes on the water

Ashes in the sea
Ashes on the riverside
One, two, three

RATS

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia]

In times of turmoil
In times like these
Beliefs contagious
Spreading disease
This wretched mischief is now coursing through your souls
Never to let go
Never to let go

[Refrain: Cardinal Copia]

Them rats! (rats�rats�rats�)

[Verse 2: Cardinal Copia]

Into your sanctum
You let them in
Now all your loved ones
And all your kin
Will suffer punishments beneath the wrath of God
Never to forgive
Never to forgive

[Refrain: Cardinal Copia]

Them rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)

[Pre-Solo: Cardinal Copia]

This devastation left your cities to be burnt
Never to return
Never to return

[Guitar Solo: Nameless Ghoul (Fire & Aether)]

[Post-Solo: Cardinal Copia]

Them filthy rodents are still coming for your souls
Never to let go
Never to let go

[Refrain: Cardinal Copia]

Them rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�)
(Aaah whoah)

[Outro: Cardinal Copia]

They're still coming after you (rats!)
(Aaah whoah)
And there's nothing you can do (rats!)
(Aaah whoah)
They're still coming after you (rats!)
(Aaah whoah)
And there's nothing you can do (rats!)
(Aaah whoah)
Rats! (rats�rats�rats�rats�rats�rats�)

[Instrumental Outro]

FAITH

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia]

There is a scourge in the guise of sanctity
A perpetrator with a quill
Although it�s...
Often steeped in well-spun mystery
The accuser sends the bill

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

I am all eyes
I am all ears
I am the wall
And I�m watching you fall

[Post-Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Because faith is mine!

[Verse 2: Cardinal Copia]

The Luddites shun the diabolical
A fecal trail across the land
Although it...
Stinks, feels and looks identical
A pack of fools can take the stand

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

I am all eyes
I am all ears
I am the wall
And I�m watching you fall

[Post-Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Because faith is mine!

[Solo: Nameless Ghouls (Fire & Aether)]

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

I am all eyes
I am all ears
I am the wall
And I�m watching you fall
I am all eyes
I am all ears
I am the wall
And I�m watching you fall
I am all eyes
I am all ears
I am the wall
And I�m watching you fall

[Post-Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Because faith is mine!

SEE THE LIGHT

[Verse 1]
Many a sin I have witnessed and in many indeed I have been
Many a rat I have befriended and so many a thorn stood between
But of all the demons I have known
None could compare to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger

[Chorus]
Drink me, eat me
Then you�ll see the light

[Verse 2]
Many a mind I have haunted and in many a way I have been
Often the one to have flaunted an image grotesque and obscene
But of all the dark roads that I roam
None could compare to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger
Every day that you feed me with hate I grow stronger

[Chorus]
Drink me, eat me
Then you�ll see the light

MIASMA

DANCE MACABRE

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia]

You'll soon be hearing the chime
Close to midnight
If I could turn back the time
I'd make all right

[Pre-Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

How could it end like this?
There's a sting in the way you kiss me
Something within your eyes
Said it could be the last time
'Fore it's over!

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Just wanna be
Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be
I wanna bewitch you all night

[Verse 2: Cardinal Copia]

It keeps on giving me chills
But I know now
I feel the closer we get
To the last vow

[Pre-Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

I don�t wanna end like this (Like this, yeah)
But the sting in the way you kiss me (I'm loving it)
Something within your eyes
Said it could be the last time
'Fore it's over!

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Just wanna be
Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be
I wanna bewitch you all night
Just wanna be
I wanna bewitch you, one last time in the ancient rhyme
Just wanna be
I wanna bewitch you all night

[Solo: Nameless Ghouls (Fire & Aether)]

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Just wanna be
Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be
Wanna bewitch you all right
Just wanna be
Wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be
I wanna bewitch you all night

[Outro]
All right!
Woh-woh-woh, wohh!

PRO MEMORIA

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia]

Lucifer, whispering
Silently into your mind
Who walks behind
Who walks behind
Standing tall, invincible
But do not forget your knives
To save your lives
To save your lives
[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]
Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die

[Verse 2: Cardinal Copia]

Don�t you vomit savage slurs
Spewed up wickedly
To hide from me
To hide from me
Navigate all alone
On this tempestuous sea
To ride with me
To ride with me

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die
Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die

[Solo: Nameless Ghoul (Fire & Aether)]

[Verse 3: Cardinal Copia]

Lucifer, whispering
Silently into your mind
Who walks behind
Who walks behind
Had you had the chance today
You would�ve sold out too
Ain�t that right
Sweet Saint Peter?

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die
Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die

[Solo: Nameless Ghoul (Fire & Aether)]

[Chorus: Cardinal Copia]

Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die
Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die
Don't you forget about dying
Don't you forget about your friend death
Don't you forget that you will die

WITCH IMAGE
[Verse 1]
You have never stood this close to where you want to be
You have always waded in the shallows between me and the deep blue sea

[Pre-Chorus]
You would never want me to appear
You never want this to be over
You never want it to reach out to the edge of time

[Chorus]
While you sleep in earthly delight
Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you have done you can not undo

[Verse 2]
I have always kept you closer than you have known
I am riding in the shadows behind you on a pale white horse

[Pre-Chorus]
You would never want me to appear
You never want this to be over
Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you have done you can not undo

[Chorus]
While you sleep in earthly delight
Still your soul will suffer this plight
Like your father in hell
What you have sold you can not unsell

While you sleep in earthly delight

Someone's flesh is rotting tonight
Like no other to you
What you have done you can not undo

While you sleep in earthly delight

Still your soul will suffer this plight
But like a mother would save
Her own child from digging a grave

HELVETESFONSTER

LIFE ETERNAL

[Chorus]
Can you hear me say your name forever?
Can you see me longing for you forever?
Would you let me touch your soul forever?
Can you feel me longing for you forever?

[Verse 1]
I know the light grows darker down below
But in your eyes it is gone before you know
This is the moment of just letting go

[Bridge]
She said, if you had life eternal...
[Chorus]
Can you hear me say your name forever?
Can you see me longing for you forever, forever?

Would you let me touch your soul forever?

Can you feel me longing for you forever, forever?

[Verse 2]
We dance once more
I feel your hands are cold
Within your heart, a story to be told
This is the moment of just letting go

[Chorus]
Can you hear me say your name forever?
Can you feel me longing for you forever?
Would you let me touch your soul forever?
Can you see me longing for you forever?

[Outro]
Forever... if you had life eternal?

IT'S A SIN

[Intro]
Twenty seconds and counting
T minus fifteen seconds
Guidance is internal

[Verse 1]
When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame

For everything, I long to do

No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

[Chorus]
It's a, it's a, it's a
It's a sin, it's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin

[Verse 2]
At school, they taught me how to be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed

For everything, I long to do

No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

[Chorus]
It's a, it's a, it's a

It's a sin, it's a sin

Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin

[Bridge]
Father, forgive me, I tried not to do it
Turned over a new leaf, then tore right through it
Whatever you taught me, I didn't believe it
Father, you fought me, 'cause I didn't care
And I still don't understand

[Verse 3]
So I look back upon my life
Forever with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything, I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common, too

[Chorus]
It's a, it's a, it's a
It's a sin, it's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Every place I've ever been
Everywhere I'm going to
It's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a
It's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a
It's a sin

AVALANCHE

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia]

Well, I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath the golden hill
You, who wish to conquer pain
You must learn, learn to serve me well

[Verse 2: Cardinal Copia]

You strike my side by accident
As you go down for your gold
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
Is neither starved nor cold
He does not ask for your company
Not at the center, the center of the world

[Verse 3: Cardinal Copia]

When I am on a pedestal
You did not raise me there
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare
I, myself, am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare

[Verse 4: Cardinal Copia]

You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love that you offer me
They're the crumbs I've left behind
Your pain is no credential here
It's just the shadow; shadow of my wound

[Verse 5: Cardinal Copia]

I have begun to long for you
I, who have no greed
I have begun to ask for you
I, who have no need
You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe

[Verse 6: Cardinal Copia]

Do not dress in those rags for me
I know you are not poor
You don't love me quite so fiercely now
When you know that you are not sure
It is your turn, beloved
It is your flesh that I wear