[Lyrics: Fagerlind/Haarlov] A lonely shape in a phantom court Where wraith lights dance from dead braziers Tortured to illuminate this immense abandon With spectral shadows of immemorial past Descent in plague-ridden dormancy A lichen king of a distant cull Stripped from grace in infamy With a rusty crown pried from his skull Immense upheaval as tides of vengeance flow A charnel earth cloaked in death The cup of fate has tipped again Destiny carved by grim malign Overruled through endless ages At the bosom of the depth Quest the calling Through realms of hadean splendour Emolliate the world In a skeletal grip of betrayal Cypress? cast last saturnine shadows The moon will spew its final glow Stars as corpselights snuffed on a grave On a forgotten world dust will settle Monarch of the apocalypse raises his chalice To this, his ultimate sanction Asphyxiate as darkness dances Under bibleblack nighted domes