Bal-Sagoth - The Hammer Of The Emperor Lyrics

Sinistrous legendary fulgurites from me
My name is a word of power on the lips of my followers
You can't escape me, I'm inside your mind
Beware the Grand Arbiter of Temporal Jurisprudence
For when it comes at last, terrible shall be thy punishment

In the ceaseless shadow at the center of infinity
The spheres have aligned, after the day, comes the night
My time has come, how seldom falls the opportunity
To forge an empire without bloodshed, it will yet come to war

She came bearing dark portents
(The foreshadowing)

Fever dreams, dark omens and auguries, prophecy
Why, when I meet your narcotic sloe eyed gaze?
Does the image of a viper nestling in a bed of blossoms fill my mind's eye?

Why, when you come to me by the pale light of a waning moon
Do I glimpse the sheen of Ophidian scales through the veils of sable?
Why, when you enrapture me with your envenomed kisses
Does the flicker of a serpent's tongue score my flesh?

Enthralled by the vitreous luster of your rubicund lips
Your snow pale skin musky with the intoxicating scent of night
But such wicket thorns beneath this rose, come, witch, fly to me

A garland of newborn stars to adorn thee
The Permian extinction, a parting gift
May your maleficent soul walk only in dark places