Verse One:
“Bestow thee my serpents
These snakes on my shoulders
My sorrow and weakness
Entomb them in deepness
O fertile soil
O dust and O clod
Take my serpents of wrath
Free me of this stained life”
Thus spoke the barren pit:
“Never have I taken
A serpent without the man
Come whole or nay at all”
Despair.
Now the night weights on his shoulders
Heavy, the burden of tears
He walks this Earth, odious his thoughts
With the serpents of wrath crescent
A halo but dark
Verse Two:
Turns to Man
Begging for aid
“My fellow men, you watched me break on your behalf,
Bled before you, deformed before you”
“I ask thee now; enslaved by this scorn, take my serpents of rue
Thus spoke his fellowmen:
“Dare not to call ye man”
“You didst bled for your crime”
“Now face the scorn alone”
Despair befells him
Bridge:
“Crime?”
He screams
“Crime of speaking?”
No man is free
While Yama is king
Verse Three:
O' Yama the great
O' time, O' rue
I shall fight you
I will face you
Through the valley of death
The city of the blind
Through the gates of memory
Through my thoughts
Your walls, hide your mages and guards
And those who betrayed me
They will face my wrath

They die like rats
They will pay with blood
They will serve my god
They will feel my pain
They will feed my friends
They will join my call
Or they will die
Outro:
The sermon of the crickets is bliss
Cursed are those who break the silence of the night

Verse One:
A hateful cry
Wounded and scared
Gallows twirling
Whip writhing
A trail of blood
Coagulated line
Stars shining bright
Attesting a new dawn
Soil quaking
Etched with blood
People woke with the cries
Who is it that scars
Darkness shall spread and swallow the world
Shadows will lead and rule the streets
Fears shall spread
Like the wings of death
Tears will flow
Like the endless rivers of Styx
Waters of woe and rue
And sadness will last forever
(Persian)
نگاه کن آن گاه که آتش می شود
آن شب ستاره ها بر تن مهر کفر می شوند
نگاه کن درب دوزخ باز می شود
مرا به تو می کشد
مرا پایین می کشد
نگاه کن قلب من پرخون زخم می شود
دریده می شود
بی جان می شود
نگاه کن گردنم از دار آویخته می شود
Translation:
Lo! when fire errupts
The night when starts become seals of blasphemy on our flesh
Lo! the gates of hell expanding
pulling me in
pulling me below
Lo! my heart scars bloody and tears
It becomes lifeless
Lo! the noose around my neck
Chorus:
O' lord of light, open thy arms
Take your children of night
What in me is dark, illuminate
what is low, rise and support
Bridge:
Via in urbem miseriae sum
Via ad gentes relictas sum
Via in aeternam maestitiam sum
Elementi illi solum quem aevus non consumat
facti sunt ante me et extra aevum sto
Proicite spes omnes qui hic introeunt
Abandon all hope ye who enter here x2
Verse Two:
To the east I look and my heart is hardened with pain
To north to the south
I beckon
Wield thy pain like a weapon
I have seen the deaf and the blind and the mute
Yet I've never seen such mule
Bread for slavery
I exclaim
Death to the weak, wealth to the strong
I have with my claws and my sword
Opened their hearts and found nothing worth loving
Nothing at all
I saw tar coating their hearts
And a mist folding their brains
I have recalled the whip and the flesh
And I have never pitied them

Intro
Wandered immortal
The poison eternal
Barren land at my feet
Tall I stand on my highest cliff
And I look down solemnly
Hear the laughter of a sovereign that I must become
Lives spent at my will
They perish like wilted flowers
Verse One:
I’ve witnessed temples burn and
Fall to oblivion
I’ve witnessed boiling blood
Searching for a vein
I’ve seen kingdoms tremble
And kings hanged by the neck
As they looked down on son of man
Trapped in filth
I’ve seen empires crumble and
Masses, scattered
I’ve seen them reunited
O’er wars in vain
I’ve endured pain of perish
In centuries of wandering
And never seen a thing, that lasts eternal
Chorus:
I witnessed the truth twisted
(And I've) Spoken yet lies were louder
Lest this darkness consume me
I’ve knelt before the lord of light
Bestow me the seed of knowing
Bless me with the light of thee
Verse Two:
It was my fate to be branded
The lord of lies
Taker of thoughts
Forget not that these words are from a deceiver, bringer of cries
My will was to scatter wisdom
Just as it was to my father
Yet my fortune deemed otherwise
And I became the lord of lies

Verse One:
O terrors that lay in the four corners of the world
Shadows that cradle the foulest of beasts
Hear me! For my wrath is upon this earth
O night! What say you with your screamless spout... Gaping...
Cursed be this path
Ere now I had seen such beast that fed on it's flesh and sang a lament in it's death
And that beast was this nation and that corpse was their will...
They praise me
I smite them
They praise me
I crush them
They praise me
The fabric of the universe is changed
Nature of things
From flesh rises
Immense power
Verse Two:
O' greatest shadows
Embrace me
Like a veil they cover me
As they have foul things forever
This night of many horrors
Shields me
O' mother night as you veil shelters
My sorrows unfold
My strength is unchained
Empty and void of life I roam
Seeking nothing
A droplet an astray
A Wanderer
Outro:
(Persian, from Azhdahak by Bahram Beyzaie)
ای شب! تو سیاه تر از هر شب دیگری
و دلی دیدم سیاه تر از سیاهی تو
و تازیانه ای سخت بلند
بگونه ی ماری دهان گشوده
و دهانی به سوی من گشوده
من بنگریستم
از پس تیرگی درد
و یامای پادشاه را دیدم که هشیار بود
بر من بنگریست، ژرف، و هشیار بود
اینک او مست هشیاری خود بود
و از شانه های من سرخ ترین خون من برآمده بود
تازیانه بود و تن، و تن زیر تازیانه بود
آنک زمین بخفت و آسمان به خواب رفته بود
و اینک در همه ی این گیهان به خواب رفته ی خاموش
تنها من اژدهاک با درد خود بیدار مانده بودم
و سرخ ترین خون من
تنها آتش روشن در این دشت خاموش بود

Translation:
Oh, night! You're darker than any other night,
And I saw a heart darker than your darkness.
And a tall and hard whip,
Like an open-mouthed serpent,
And a mouth opened towards me.
I looked
Beyond the darkness of pain,
And I saw Yama the king, wide awake,
Gazing deeply and soberly at me.
Now, he was sober in his consciousness,
And my reddest blood emerged from my shouldere.
There was a whip and a body, and a body under the whip,
The earth was sleeping, and the sky was asleep,
And in this whole world, everything had fallen into a silent slumber,
Only I, Azhdahak (the dragon), remained awake with my pain,
And the reddest blood of mine,
Was the only burning fire in this silent desert.

Verse One:
Darkness falls and my dreams turn to fire
My heavy heart beats yet clamant
All these stars
Let them burn and dissolve
For they’re a flickers of hope that’s lost
My wounds are sealed by the effigy of fire
They yawn and forge a false desire
And I’m here in midst of this pit
Surrounded by my brothers
So let it burn let it burn and
Scorch the sky above us
Plague of Artuad, spread thy whore legs
And let it burn
Rain o’er our heads
In vain our dreams
In vain our desires
Bridge:
Rise! Servants of the serpents
To darkest horizons
To death
By the power of the flesh
Rise!
Children of darkness align
Verse Two:
The night weights on my shoulders, burdensome
Seldom I see those starry skies
Forfeit my life to this walk of spite
Unlike a jewel
A fate so cruel
Wounded I roam with the burden of nights
Dreams of a cleansing tortures my mind
I forget that I'm merely a man
Yet enraged like a beast of man
Fire of this mortal weakness burns the husk
Chorus:
Our tongues once were maimed
Now through her do we speak
Our hand were binded
Now through her we are freed
Our eyes once blinded
Now through her do we see
By night we reclaim what by day was taken
Our hearts once in chains
Now her light has melted
Our binds and our shackles
Our coughs and our cage
We are freed in her light
Verse Two:
The cage can't hold me
I'm too strong
Pure in blood and free in thought
My vessel's hollow of wanting and lost
My blade sharpened with sweat and blood
I paste the valley like a king
Death surrounds me like a veil
I raise my voice and thousands fall
Worshiping the unholy man that I become
Outro:
As swiftly as leaves flying on the winds back
My strokes shall fall
And my foes shall be corpse
Ere their last breath leaves them
Death will be a friend but different to each
To me a servant to them, relief from their pain

Verse One:
Tear out my heart that I may feel
Tear our my song that I may heal
Pluck out my eyes that I may see
Tear our my flesh that I may be free
Tear out my wings that I may walk
Tear out my lungs that I may breathe
Tear out my tongue that I may speak
Forsake that I may recall
Mindless who goest without a will
Is will itself
Cruelty of life opened my eyes and
Set me on a path to become
A beat of man
Evolve
Transcend
Become
Chorus:
Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on stony bed,
never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead.
In the black wind the stars shall die,
and still on gold here let them lie,
till the dark lord lifts up his hand
over dead sea and withered land.
My hate is pure as a mother's love
Father's awe
As a son's despise who had to watch all he loved die
I hate for once I loved, for once I loved
Bridge:
My legacy is that of pain
My heritage is a constant loss
Tears flow like a torrent of fire
Burning scorching as lava
Verse Two:
Long and eerie shrieked the oaf
Loomed afar a beat abhorred
Howled in pain the wounded wolf
Sneered ajar the horned lord
Bellowed in distance the stillborn child
Roamed in vein the wraith of man
The light of joy in indulgence died
Gallows betrothed the clergyman
My heart will reap where it hath sown
And garner up it's fruit of tear
The blackest face of woe is death
And that is my lover
Become the adversary
The grand foe
Death shall free us all
Wings to fly up high x2