Darkness Descends Lyrics - Darkness Descends - Dark Angel

FEAR 

The world now stands ancient, showing her age 

Antique, senile, archaic 

Peroration impending, not one to assuage 

The human remnants of earth 

Pandemic winds chill the soul 

Eradication of the will 

Nihilism extracts its toll 

Frightening the meekly servile 

Sacrosanct, the religious ones 

Are fast becoming extinct 

Choatic precursors of what will befall 

Permeate the night air 

The fear of the end preys on the minds 

Of all the soon-to-be dead 

With death at the hands of a hideous fiend 

A grisly fate to comprehend 

DEATH 

This city is guilty 

The crime is life 

The sentence is death 

Darkness descends 

FIRE 

Internal combustion, plutonic rage 

The bodies create their own hell 

The flame from within, unleashed from its cage 

Purging the great sins of all 

Admissions of guilt are all that are sought 

By judges who have twisted laws 

The quick abrogation of the populace 

Striking with great enmity 

Listing the ways in which we will die 

As the prophets claim we will soon 

Self-immolation that unjustified 

Stygian shores ahead loom 

The coffins are ready, the death warrant signed 

Depression has swiftly set in 

Inimical powers against humankind 

This charnelhouse ensanguined 

DEATH 

This city is guilty 

The crime is life 

The sentence is death 

Darkness descends 

MORTIS 

Decaying, the ruins fall swift to the ground 

The carnage is morbid and great 

Mephitic deathstench of corpses abound 

The earth meets an untimely fate 

The horrific malignance, spreading its wings 

Across the expanse of the sky 

Contamination and all that it brings 

The judges commit genocide 

Retaliation, a useless ploy 

We've gazed into the face of fear 

We know that it stands for our own bitter end 

The end we realize is now here 

The claws of denouement grasp at our lungs 

Asphyxiation rules supreme 

The future of mankind cut down while they're young 

Our children die clutching their dreams... 

DEATH 

This city is guilty 

The crime is life 

The sentence is death 

Darkness descends