Slaves to Darkness

from The Hell We Have Chosen by Strixskog

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Harrowing and gaunt
Your shade shifts in the murk of your deeds
Stalking the unknowing
Bleeding the bereft
No fellow to man
No lender of hand
Deed upon deed you worship upon your own alter
You sacrifice the lives of others
You burn all belief
You spurn all in faith
You dwell in the cold embrace of nothingness
For what will you stand?
For what will you not bend?
There is no wrong
And rights what you command
Your hex burns bright on your tongue like wicked flame
Perverting the lost to peruse your realm of pain
You are the lies
That causes man to hang
You are the shadow
That leads all to early graves
You laugh and celebrate as the world dissolves to dust
For you there is no redemption
There is no hallowed ground
You are the true nightmare
You are what man should fear
For in mankind’s reflection you are always near
You are the animal within
The instincts to follow unhindered desire
To bask in immorality
For the sake of your own rotting vanity
You hate what you are
You hate all creation
You wish for the death of every creed and nation
The truth is your afraid
To face the coming day
And though you whisper death
You hold onto every breath
The paradox of the wicked life
Within is the greatest strife
You fear to face yourself
So you turn on life instead

Pain is the purpose of your existence.
Yet pain of living is what you fear
You prey on the weak but fail to see
You are a slave
A slave to your own darkness

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from The Hell We Have Chosen, released January 18, 2023

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