AT THE GATES -  1991 MCD
"Gardens of Greif" [Dolores]
Track List:
1. Souls Of The Evil Departed
2. At the Gates
3. All Life Ends
4. City Of Screaming Statues


1. SOULS OF THE EVIL DEPARTED
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Floating Away Within Dreams
From A Thousand Worlds,
My Sould Has Left The Spheres Of Man
For All Time...
The Rest of Me
The Rotten Limbs And My Bones
Dwelling Within
The Sacred Gardens of Greif
While MY Mind is Adrift
Upon The Seas OF Starvation
A Tombstone Is Raised To Mark
I Am Not Forgotten
I Remember Faintly,
Like Whispers From Beyond All Time
The Reasons For MY Death
But Reason Are Part Of Life
And I Am Forever More, Part Of Death
Part Of Death
Part Of Death
I Greet You Welcome
To The World Of The Evil Departed
The Neverending Landscape Of Damnation
We Were Sowing The Seeds Of Blasphemy
Consumed By The Burning Flame Of Eternity
We Were Sowing The Seeds Of Blasphemy
Souls Of The Evil Departed
All Dwell Here
In A Number Beyond Counting
Souls Of The Evil Departed
Souls Of The Evil Departed
The Memories Are Slowly Eating Away
At My Shredded Sanity
The Yerning For Life Has Vanished,
Nothing Left To Live For
In This Void
Of Lost Souls And Insanity
My Existance
Is A Mockery


2. AT THE GATES
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It is cold out here
and lonely is my journey
I walk the trail of broken souls
the darkest path through infinity
far behind my body rot
for me no more tomorrow
fear or pain i know not
and yet i am filled with sorrow
i am at the gates
Lord of chaos
let me sleep
space is deep
Lord of chaos...
through the gates the journey goes on
the fate of my immortal soul
through the gates the journey goes on
and on...
All i crave is to sleep
All i crave is to sleep
Across the seas without no name
the weak spot of the creation
My crown of thorns all life it drains
as the sears back of my mind
but at the side of my lake
insanity wait for me to find
i am all as i am you and me
i am everything and will forever be
a part of your throughout eternity
when you die you too will be
heaven waits below as you will see
i am at the the gates but where are the keys
all i crave is to sleep
all i crave is to sleep
lord of chaos...


3. ALL LIFE ENDS
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My life fades
my visions dim
all that remains
are memories
I remember a time of chaos
time of war
as men began to feed on man
only the scavengers survived
gone now, swept away
for reasons long forgotten
touched of a blase
which engulfed them all
a firestorm of fear
the answer is written in their bones
all life ends
i remember an old man
griping my wrist, he was dying
"imagine", he said
"looking into the eyes of a nova,
the bursting flames, the roar of it's energy
frintly echoing down the corridors of time,
whispering: all life ends
"death, he said "is like a bolt of lightning,
Light cast upon every secret,
just for a moment, till the last spark of life fades
and all is dark..."
then he breathed out his last breath into my ear
his gaze already way out among the stars...
among the ruins of the past
i shelter from the storm
my mind is numb from the lonliness
and the rain that never stops
this wasteland, once a beautiful place
where trees and flowers grew
where deer, and squirells had their home
now rotting are their bones
Where raging waters grind the earth
i go to end my days
the sea that witnessed mankinds birth
shall watch us die again
black and deep,
empty of life
as in the heaven so below
the sun has now forever set
and bids our time to go
i am tired
and i fear not
the cold that now descends
as light grows dim, i bid farewell
all life ends
i am leaving now, my body stiff
just watching for a while
that rigid shell, so small and weak
a corpse on a broken cliff
the stars are calling me now
with distant, speechless voices
and caught by a wind i drift away
and nothing calls me to stay...
i am ridint the wind that has no name,
the fire that burns without a flame
caught by the spell on which all depends,
all life ends
the answer is written in my bones,
all life ends


4. CITY OF SCREAMING STATUES
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scream...
city of screaming statues
your sould will grow to understand
and respect this place
it will be with you in your heart on your journey
the gates of the city lies before you
the temples of truth whisperin their waves
chase your visions, slay your fears the sound of your thought
scream...
the struggle of the soul
depends on the strencth of your will
among the twisted shapes of your madness
your will find your light and your genius
in the city there the statues they scream
for their truth to be real...
the dreams and the visions
the reality and the light
within the soul of the city
it lies within your mind
it may be whatever you wish it to be...
in the city of screaming statues
they scream
for their truth to be real...
stand up and turn your back on reality
lie down and let your dreams attack
the silence of a soul that is true
is the silence that you lack
reach out
and touch the time
and the skies will sight as you die
feel the strenght of it
pulsating through you
as the gates
they close behind you
the answers lie within the city
within the light
is the sunrise of your soul, time is the key
the music of the truth...now behold
the gates of the city lies before you
the temples of truth whispering their waves
chase your visions, slay your fears
what moves the truth is the sound of your thought
the statues they scream
for their truth to be real
within the city
where death aint the end
the statues they scream