Symphony for a Hopeless God

(Sanctus) (Sanctus Dominus) (Sanctus) (Sanctus Dominus Deus) (Sanctus) (Sanctus Dominus) (Sanctus) (Sanctus Dominus Deus) (Sanctus Dominus) (Sanctus Dominus Deus) While the witches burn Sacrificed on the pyre of lies, ignorance and greed Hide deep in your heart, your secrets, your thoughts and your life If you want to stay alive Be humble and submissive This is your only right Without a cry Without a sigh Without a word of pride Be patient, don’t breathe a word You are too weak to fight You have no choice You have no voice You have nowhere to hide [The Inquisitor:] “Confess your sins, Daughter And now behold the Light Let the Holy flames purify your soul And pray our merciful Lord” Don’t let the witches burn! Sacrificed on the pyre of ignorance and lies Oh witches burn Can’t you see, you’re as guilty as their persecutors Don’t let them feed on your primal fears Don’t let them feed on the blood of innocence and tears All my power lies In the magic of bearing a child In the magic of giving life Why do you hunt me down Perpetuate that ritual crime Quenching your thirst for cries Now look right into my eyes I have no spell to cast I am no witch I am no devil I am no slave of God [The Inquisitor:] “Confess your sins, Daughter And behold your Lord We’ll break your resilience No matter how long you fight” Don’t let the witches burn! Sacrificed on the pyre of ignorance and lies Oh witches burn Can’t you see, you’re as guilty as their persecutors Don’t let them feed on your primal fears Don’t let them feed on the blood of innocence and tears [The Inquisitor:] “Confess your sins, Daughter Don’t resist You’re a slave to our power Granted by our Lord We’ll break your resilience No matter how long you fight!” Don’t let the witches burn Sacrificed on the pyre of ignorance and lies Oh witches burn Can’t you see, you’re as guilty as their persecutors Don’t let them feed on your primal fears Don’t let them feed on the blood of innocence and tears

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025

(Jour de colère que ce jour là) (Qui réduira la Terre en cendres) If there’s a God somewhere in the skies What does he think of the mankind he created? If there’s a God somewhere in this world What does he think of those who kill in his name? “Why are you killing each other in my name? What are these words you say I did proclaim? How did you think that you’d be saved on The colour of your skin, the color of your heart?” See the tears of a hopeless God As he silently grieves in the dark While we sowed the wind We broke his very dreams Too late the dice have been cast It’s all carved right into our hearts If there’s a heaven somewhere above us Is it really worth the pain and the dead? If there’s a hell somewhere below us Is it really worse than the mass graves and the camps? How could you ever remain silent and blind To the atrocities, the torture and the pain? Why have you crated man in your own image? How could it justify the slaughters and the crimes? See the tears of a hopeless God As he silently grieves in the dark While we sowed the wind We broke his very dreams Too late the dice have been cast It’s all carved right into our hearts (Miscreatur nostri Deus) (Sicut erat in principio) (Et nune et semper et in saecula saeculorum) A seed of dream in a hopeless world Has been carefully sowed in our hearts While we threw our beliefs to the wind And reaped the whirlwind Let’s give it a chance to grow now Despite all odds we might rekindle a flame in the night See the tears of a hopeless God As he silently grieves in the dark While we sowed the wind We broke his very dreams But still inside our hearts A flame of hope is burning right here in the night...

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 24, 2025

(Démons, Dieux et Diables) (Idoles de pierre et de marbre) (Le sang et les larmes abreuvent la soif de vos armes) (Combien d’enfants faudra-t’il vous sacrifier encore?) Broken by a world that doesn’t walk the same pace as mine Broken by betrayals, treacheries and lies Broken by the fear of what’s waiting for me beyond my terrestrial life Broken by those one track minded moralizers Can’t we break free from superstition and lies? Why are these men putting these strange ideas in their mind? Let’s play with fire tonight Let’s pretend we don’t feel the burn of our skin Let’s play with winterly ice Let’s pretend we don’t feel the frost on our lips Let’s play with devils and gods Let’s pretend men could leave religion to the past... Broken by puppeteers pulling the strings from beyond the sky Broken like a doll too worn and torn apart Broken by the hatred and the howling injustice of men Broken is the trust I put in human kind Can’t you see we are all the same in this world? Why do we need those crutches to stand up and face our life? Let’s play with fire tonight Let’s pretend we don’t feel the burn of our skin Let’s play with winterly ice Let’s pretend we don’t feel the frost on our lips Let’s play with devils and gods Let’s pretend men could leave religion to the past... (Démons, Dieux et Diables) (Idoles de pierre et de marbre) (Le sang et les larmes abreuvent la soif de vos armes) (Combien d’enfants faudra-t’il vous sacrifier encore?) Let’s play with fire tonight Let’s pretend we don’t feel the burn of our skin Let’s play with winterly ice Let’s pretend we don’t feel the frost on our lips Let’s play with fire and sparks Let’s pretend we don’t feel the bite in our flesh Let’s play with devils and gods Let’s pretend men could leave religion to the past...

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Oh Eve behold the tears of your last daughter on earth And pray for her children forever lost She’s walking through empty streets Dragging her feet on the ground Her stare meets nothing but death Lifeless silhouettes all around While smoke is shrouding the town Flames are consuming her house Ashes are filling the air Leaving a taste of death in her mouth Why did men wreak death on their brothers? We built our own pyre Oh Eve behold the tears of your last daughter on earth Left alone in a world lain to waste She prays and she cries for her children forever lost She’s clinging to memories of happiness and hope Laughters, distant and dull already vanished in the past And she can’t see any light Darkness swallowing her heart Fallen from the Garden of Eden Thrown down to vultures and to wolves There’s no one left here anymore No one to save, no one to love Oh Eve behold the tears of your last daughter on earth Left alone in a world laid to waste She prays and she cries for her children forever lost She’s walking through empty streets Dragging her feet on the ground Her stare meets nothing but death Lifeless silhouettes all around While smoke is shrouding the town Flames are consuming her house Ashes are filling the air Leaving a taste of death in her mouth Oh Eve behold the tears of your last daughter on earth Left alone in a world laid to waste She prays and she cries for her children forever lost Oh Eve behold the tears of your last daughter on earth Left alone in a world laid to waste She prays and she cries for her children forever lost...

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 24, 2025

In a world drumming another beat In a stride of a different pace I can’t believe in God, my friend I can’t believe in angels! I’m not afraid of going to Hell Don’t try to blind me with your light Don’t need a god to lead me through time! Don’t need a friend to open my eyes Don’t try to blind me with easy promises of afterlife But strangely there’s a void inside my mind And nothing seems to help me fill the gap I’ve lost my faith in God, disgusted by religion I lost my hope in humankind Don’t try to blind me with your light Don’t need a god to lead me through time! Don’t need a friend to open my eyes Don’t try to blind me with easy promises of afterlife Don’t try to blind me with your light Don’t need a god to lead me through time! Don’t need a friend to open my eyes Don’t try to blind me with easy promises of afterlife

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025

They’ve been cheating you from the start How could you be so blind to all the signs? It was all written in their eyes And now you stand alone and betrayed By the puppeteers behind They had it all planned in their mind They virtuously played their favorite part They sowed the doubt inside your heart To isolate you from the real life They show you nothing but a mask Their beautiful words and their smile Are nothing but a hideous lie Oh they tell you all you want to hear Now tear down their mask and let’s see You were too young much too weak to fight So vulnerable, fragile and innocent An easy prey for those who feed On the human distress of our lonely lives They show you nothing but a mask Their beautiful words and their smile Are nothing but a hideous lie Oh they tell you all you want to hear Now tear down their mask and let’s see! My heart is bleeding as I see what you’ve become Now they control your mind Oh how I’d like to break the spell And hold you tight again, my long lost friends They show you nothing but a mask Their beautiful words and their smile Are nothing but a hideous lie Oh they tell you all you want to hear Now tear down their mask and come with me

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

Can you see the walls all around? Can you feel the strings right on your arms? Can you hear the roar of the crowd? They’re all waiting for their dreams to come alive Will you drink that bitter cup of wine? To the dregs of regrets remorse and lies The air is cold and it’s freezing your mind The room is dark and you can see no way out! We lost the key But still we’re waiting for the answers We lost our words But still we speak and still we argue We learnt to cry We learnt to hide We learnt to lie We learnt to die Take me away from this hideous madness Far from the Asylum of Eden We are all prisoners in a gilded cage Waiting for our destiny, betrayed by our beloved gods Why should we care about what we’ll become in the end? We have nothing left to lose and even less to gain! Can you hear that voice in your head Telling you what to think, to feel, to say? Don’t you know that you lost your free will? Long ago, thrown to vultures, gods and devils Can you feel how they’re controlling your mind? You’re the toy of a temperamental child But you’re trapped with no hope and no way out Welcome to the Asylum of Eden We lost our mind But still we hope for our redemption We lost our faith But still we hope for our salvation We learnt to howl We learnt to whine We learnt to fight We learnt to die Let me escape from the walls surrounding my mind Let me have a dream that’s really mine We are all prisoners in a gilded cage Waiting for our destiny, betrayed by our beloved gods Why should we care about what we’ll become in the end? We have nothing left to lose and even less to gain! (Oh) (Oh) (Oh) (Oh) (Oh) (Oh) We lost our gods But still we strive to stay alive We lost our dream But still we’re looking for its meaning We learnt to hope... We learnt to love... Let us deny the shadows surrounding our dreams We will find a way to overcome our fears We are all prisoners in a gilded cage Waiting for our destiny, betrayed by our beloved gods Why should we care about what we’ll become in the end? We have nothing left to lose but forever hope remains!

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

(Gaïa) (Ouranos) (Atlas) (Prometheus) (Chronos) (Hyperion) (Come to me now...) (Viens avec nous) (Viens, donne-moi la main) (Souffrir ne sert à rien) (Ton combat est vain...) This battle was lost from the start No truce with that enemy inside I fought that war before... The same wounds and the same deadly conclusion Wake up!... Titans by my side! Break up!... God’s curse of humankind! O hopeless world O hated gods O wake up the Titans Stand up and fight! (Gaïa) (Ouranos) (Atlas) (Prometheus) The riddle was rigged again from the start No key it’s just an illusion I’ve read this all before... The same book with the same foolish stories Stand up!... Read between the lines! Speak up!... Reject all their lies! O hopeless world O hated gods O wake up the Titans Stand up and fight Lost in a world between death and life I’m not afraid of the darkest night (Oh...) (...) I feel so cold inside I’m waiting for your light I’ve seen their face of stone in the dark I don’t believe in heaven or hell I lived that life before... The same gods with the same foolish beliefs Wake up!... Titans by my side! Break up!... God’s curse of humankind! O hopeless world O hated gods O wake up the Titans And let gods die!

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 24, 2025

Theory of life, divine intervention of result of chance Statistical happenstance? Time after time... I wonder why we’re here Lost in a world bound to collapse on us (Science! Will you help us to survive?) (Science! Of destroy the human kind?) When I was a child I used to be afraid In a world endangered by the reckless pride of men In a world where profit egoism and thoughtlessness Are a plague and the common roots of what they call “progress” Born in the wealth of our western world I never suffered from hunger or from thirst Closing my eyes I can’t erase the pictures Of suffering and pain, of agonizing children (Silence! For the good of human kind) (Silence! Until the end of time) When I was a child I used to be afraid In a world endangered by the reckless pride of men In a world where profit egoism and thoughtlessness Are a plague and the common roots of what they call “progress” (Look at us now) (Your own creation) (How we grew up) (Stronger than gods and devils) (Theory of Life) (Cradled by fear of death) (We’re mortal toys in your hands) Tell me it’s not too late to change The plot of that absurd tragedy Don’t tell me it’s already sealed Everything’s written by the hand, by the hand of men! When I was a child I used to be afraid In a world endangered by the reckless pride of men In a world where profit egoism and thoughtlessness Are a plague and the common roots of what they call “progress”

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

(Where are the angels?) (Deus Dominus) (Where are the angels?) (Sanctus spiritus) (Deus Dominus) (Occulta tuas lacrimas) (Where are the angels?) (Misereatur nostri Dominus Deus) (Misereatur nostri Dominus Deus) (Where are the angels of destiny?) Lost in an endless nightmare of pain Wherever I turn my eyes I see children slain Hate and despair has spread in our hearts Fire is raining down over humankind Where are your trumpets to overcome these walls? Where are your miracles and the hope we’re dying for? Where are your angels of destiny? Where are the saviors of your soul? Where are your white wings of mercy when you’re lost in despair While blood is pouring down like red rain all over the world? We spoiled, we looted the treasures of Earth Soiling, corrupting anything that we touch We turn our eyes from the seeds that we sow Knowing the harvest our children will have to reap Mankind is bound to vanish from the Earth Too late to shed our tears Satan’s waiting for the feast Where are your angels of destiny? Where are the saviors of your soul? Where are your white wings of mercy when you’re lost in despair While blood is pouring down like red rain all over the world? (Where are the angels?) (Sanctus spiritus) (Where are the angels?) (Sanctus spiritus) (Where are the angels of destiny?) Where are your angels of destiny? Where are the saviors of your soul? Where are your white wings of mercy when you’re lost in despair While blood is pouring down like red rain all over the world?

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 24, 2025

There’s a jar hidden in the shadows Waiting in the silence of the night Pay attention to the writing on its side Made of blood of suffering and of lies Have you felt its call in the dark? Have you heard the hoarse breath of hell’s guards? Have you seen the darkness kill the light? Have you felt destruction and death inside? Never trust the gods and their angels They like to play with your desires and your life They put a deadly toy in your innocent hands Scoffing at you as you opened the jar of lies Pandora’s tears have fallen on the world of my dreams Pandora’s sin has seeped into the blood of our veins Pandora’s legacy is carved in our hearts Lying on the ground with that jar in your hands You could not read the warning signs at all “Open me” said a voice inside your head “Let me grant you eternity and love” It’s a lie – don’t open that jar Can’t you see the obscene treachery of gods? It’s a like don’t you know what’s inside You’re to unleash the curse of humankind Too late, it was written in the stars If only I could change the choices of the past But you would be surprised by what’s hidden between the lies Since hope remained hidden inside the cursed jar Pandora’s tears have fallen on the world of my dreams Pandora’s sin has seeped into the blood of our veins Pandora’s legacy is carved in our hearts Pandora’s tears have fallen on the world of my dreams Pandora’s sin has seeped into the blood of our veins Pandora’s legacy is carved in our hearts, all our hearts Oh...

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 24, 2025