(Intro Child Chor /Heavy Guitar)
(Female Voice)
Beneath the chapel carved in stone
Where frozen roots around it wind
A crypt awakes with hollow groan
To guard the lost of humankind
(Male Voice)
Dark marble pillars scar the night
Black angel statues bend and stare
Wax crowns are drowning ghostly light
Dead roses poison ancient air
REFRAIN I
(Duett)
Dance of the dead beneath the flame
Where shattered hearts still speak our name
One final waltz through grief and dread
Forevermore we dance instead
(Male Voice)
The silver runes begin to blaze
Cold shadows writhe across the floor
A toxic vortex starts to graze
The iron veins upon the door
(Female Voice)
A deathly shiver floods the hall
Like tortured lungs beyond the veil
The realm beyond begins to crawl
As if the afterworld turns pale
(Duett)
And from the endless void they rise
The lovers buried far too soon
With silent scars and vacant eyes
Still chasing vows through tombs of doom
REFRAIN II
(Duett)
Dance of the dead through endless years
With broken hymns and vanished tears
One final touch before we fade
Inside the dark our vows were made
(Female Voice)
A violin begins to cry
The gramophone exhales the past
Dead fingers trace the air nearby
Like dying embers burning fast
(Male Voice)
Then through the candle painted haze
I saw Elena dressed in white
A phantom drifting through the maze
Like winter carved from fading light
(Female Voice)
“One hundred years…” she whispered low
“…and still you leave my soul alone”
(Male Voice)
Her trembling hands like fallen snow
Felt warmer than the grave I’d known
HEAVY GUITAR SOLO
(Screaming lead guitars over choir and double bass drums)
Shadows spinning through the green
Ghostly figures crash and sway
Frozen hearts now rise unseen
As death itself begins to fray
The candles burst in violent streams
The statues crack from ancient cries
The crypt awakens from its dreams
While thunder tears the poisoned skies
REFRAIN III
(Duett)
Dance of the dead through cursed decay
Where love refused to rot away
The crypt became our sacred thread
Two dying hearts no grave could shred
BREAKDOWN
(Male Voice)
The blackened hourglass starts to crack
Blue fragments stain the mourning ground
The vortex pulls the lost ones back
While screaming storms consume the sound
(Female Voice)
“I will not fade again tonight
I will not drown beyond that gate”
(Male Voice)
Then I pulled her to the light
And spat into the jaws of fate
(Duett — heavier)
The dead screamed out
The pillars shook
The angel statues turned to look
The gates beyond were torn apart
By two lost souls with one black heart
FINAL REFRAIN IV
(Full Duett — massive finale)
Dance of the dead — the end denied
We tore the veil itself aside
No chains remained
No gods could mend
The night we killed
The fucking end
The portal roared
The heavens bled
Yet hand in hand
We still were led
No final grave
No last descent
Two damned souls
The dark heaven sent
Dance of the dead
Now let it spread
For even death…
Can wake the dead.
StormFire
