Illnath Lyrics

Album: Unknown

By The Hands Of Violent Winter Lyrics

By the hands of violent winter, his fate was sealed

 Crawling on the icy slopes with limbs frozen cold

 Memories of untold torture, in his mind

 Waking from the endless slumber leaving him numb

 

 Creeping worms they eat his mind

 Feelings blind this clouded time

 They took his soul, so they could find

 The truth

 

 Feeling hate for usurpers gone mad

 Reaching in for the power he had

 Wanting more than he could give

 But they would never falter

 In his mind only memories of hate

 Planted there by the monger's of fate

 Reaching out for sanity

 But hope is ever fading

 

 Looking for the answer

 Why did they do this to me?

 Leaving me deserted

 I never asked for this hell

 

 Reaching out for fires burning, in his eyes

 Hope is still a trusty friend but fires burn low

 Snow keeps falling all around him, as he screams

 Seemingly the only answer is from the void

 

 Defeated and forsaken, he lies in fields of snow

 Only sign of life his eyes, in panic seeking solace

 Sun, rising high

 Bringing, warmth and energy again

 

 Waking up from a steady state

 Of suspended animation

 Blinded by these rays of light

 Hailing from the sky

 

 Senses now return to him

 Tribulations feeling dim

 Now a sordid memory

 Impeding doom approaching

 

 As he run, try to shake off the vice

 No one hearing his desperate cries

 The usurpers are hunting him

 Hounds barking and wolves closing in

 His escape was a futile attempt

 He is hunted by common consent

 Now returned to the bleak white cell

 I hope that dying is the end of this hell

 

 [Solo]

 

 Looking for the answer

 Why are they doing this?

 What is it I have done?

 To deserve this living hell

 

 By the violent hands of winter, his fate is sealed

 Dying by the hands of strangers leaving him cold

 Memories of untold torture still in his mind

 Never more awakening, this time it's the end

 Defeated and forsaken, his peers would not let go

 The trial was an endless one, and death did not yet show

 Come, reap my life

 Now, it's the time of my departure

 

 Afore of him a shadow stands

 It's glowing with eternal might

 "I am one of many names

 And one of them is bringer of light"

 

 [By the hands of violent winter - Comments]

 

 [The idea for this lyric came from and old horror-movie, that I can't remember the name of. But it was about a guy who had his memories shared with those of a cat. He got away from the scientist guys and ran and ran but they caught up with him in the end nevertheless, and all the time he had these flashy images running through his mind that he knew wasn't his own.I wrote it because I found it a scary though that you were being experimented upon and you could do nothing about it. And in the end dying is not even a relief.The lyric was written together with Tyr, before Narrenschiff joined the band.]

 [- Tobias]