'SONGS FROM THE BLOOD'
All lyrics by Byronic Sex & Exle

STRONGHOLD OF NIGHT
Welcome, to the night
Fortress of all time

Ages, dust and cold
Darkness, last stronghold

Timeless, depths unknown
Leading, where souls can't go

Standing, proud, alone
Darkness, last stronghold

SONG FROM THE BLOOD
Here, at the edge of all crime
There's only I and what's mine
And if what's lost were piled high, it would
Rise above for all time
Sing a song from the blood
From before history began
From when skin cracked like it should
When flesh ripped and hatred hummed

Oh, the children of the night
Dancing with teeth shining bright
And what sweet music they make
What sweet music they make….

NOCTURNAL ABYSS
The cruelty of the shadows
On European floors
The ghosts that creep behind these
Dormant, dusty doors
Hidden in the skull room
Of dark despair and gloom
The beast of the numbers
The phantom pain of doom

The walls move around me
Beyond the law of space
No sanctuary here in
This Babel of disgrace
The night is crawling grim, and
My candle it goes dim
Escape cannot be seen in
This labyrinth of sin

LORD OF CONFUSION
The warlike days are over
All consigned to our fate
Centuries rot in splendour
History lies in graves

I am the lord of confusion
Omega of all pain
The past it shines like a furnace
As the future fades away

Battles raged in the mountains
Armies came and died
A terror rose within their hearts, and
Their treasure in the soil now lies

I am the lord of confusion
Omega of all pain
The past it shines like a furnace
As the future fades away

OBSESSION (KISSING WITH TEETH)
A trap sprung from devil wings
Stalking you in dreams
Stranger sleeping on the floor
Better than it seems

You see the demons in our eyes
Take you by surprise
Ages since the last we saw
Something there has died
This man belongs to me!
Rise from history!

Obsession!
Obsession!
Obsession…

Why do you cower so
Shaking as we throw
Dormant from the dust we rise
Hands upon your throat
You're on your knees!
We kiss with teeth!

Obsession!
Obsession!
Obsession…

SHIP OF DEATH
Still wind, dry land abandoned
Fair sails, calm oceans forgotten
Air chokes, boat groans as if rotten
Plague rats, hot ash, dead horizon
Bringing cargo of corruption
Sailing on seas of destruction

Shiver men at the watch time
Numbers shrink, hit the dead line
Tempers fray, judgement is fever
Panic grips, questions of evil
Bringing cargo of corruption
Sailing on seas of destruction

Death rolls forward, never fleeting
Crew falls, gone, disappearing
Stern to sail, ripping, searching
Quarter none, finding nothing
Bringing cargo of corruption
Sailing on seas of destruction

One man left, dying, fearing
Steering blind, I the Captain
Monster waits, hiding, sneering
Rotting earth, sailors dying
Bringing cargo of corruption
Drifting aimless to destruction


WAITING FOR THE MOON
Darkness all around us
Surrounds us, silence falls
Powers in the midnight
Deep in the twilight, he calls
I'm here, waiting for the moon to come
Waiting for the moon to come, waiting for the moon to come
I'm here, waiting for the moon to come
For the moon to come, waiting for the moon to come

Sleep, pulls me onwards
Through streets and forwards through the dark
Up, through the gravestones
Lifting up the tombstone in my heart
I'm here, waiting for the moon to come
For the moon to come, waiting for the moon to come
I'm here, waiting for the moon to come
For the moon to come, waiting for the moon to come

BLOODSTAINS
Time, denied
Defined by cruelty and lies
Surprised, demise
Autumnal soft moonlight
Supposed to know
Which heads to kiss or roll
To smile or scowl
Hunt, prowl, howl

Paths are wet
Not yet, the bloodied fur and breath
Up the steps
The crack and snap of necks
To plan, be proud
The bitter rage and shroud
The road to hell
Will suit me just as well

All this time, this crime, just bloodstains at my feet
These lives, these knives, just bloodstains on the street

Cold, the tide
The prize, rising at midnight
Nothing left
Eternity not yet
The salt on skin
The cut goes deeper in
Alone, supreme
New world enter me

All this time, this crime, just bloodstains at my feet
These lives, these knives, just bloodstains on the street

BRIDE OF PAIN
Cold as the dark falls
A cross on the tomb wall
A gap where the soul crawls
Forsaken, the night calls

This dress a reminder
Of faces and times that
Foreshadow and dawning
Sweet kisses and warnings

Free, in the arms of
Free, in the charms of
Death

Where are you my lover?
Where are you my sister?
Why leave me alone here
When death is so near?

Free, in the arms of
Free, in the charms of
Cold, in the arms of
Cold, in the charms of
Death

ALL I NEED IS LOVE
All I need is love
Eternity and blood
All I need is breath
A kiss of fire and death
Until the war is won
Until the time has come

All I need is time
To make the world all mine
All I need is hate
To light my heart again
Until the war is won
Until the time has come

All I need is love
Eternity and blood
All I need is breath
A kiss of fire and breath
Until the war is won
Until the time has come

FOREVER BOX
I, who rolled the lead
Who danced, velvet and dead
Who played with fire to win
Commanded sword and kin

No tears on marble skin
No sigh in heart of sin
No time to weep, regret
No flinch at heaven yet

To take the last crate
To flee the hounds of fate
To sail the blackened sea
To bleed, raw and free

To take the last crate
To flee the hounds of fate
To sail the blackened sea
To bleed, raw and free
Eternity