Name: Empty Emperor
Duration: P00H05M57S
Description: A song based on an old folk tale that reminded us of someone we know. Another interpretation would be the old phrase 'cut your nose off to spite your face'

Empty Emperor

from Unclean Rituals by Hesper Payne

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A song based on an old folk tale that reminded us of someone we know. Another interpretation would be the old phrase 'cut your nose off to spite your face'

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let me tell you a story
of hatred death and despair
from a time of darkness
screams of the wretched fill the air

Empty Emperor brooding in the darkness
upon a throne of skulls
dead eyes see everything
staring at the suns demise
winged things of abysal origin
scream over ashen wastes
grubbing in the dirt below
the decendants of betrayal

old, dead, hands
reach for your soul

Empty Emperor alone among the shadows
rules over a cold dead world
corpse planet, monoliths of deadstone
stand stark against a pitiless sky
funeral fire, consuming pyre
inferno tombs that where once cities
devestation now in rule
carnage dances to the Emperors tune

alone entombed in the frozen planet
doomed until the end of time

alone I control this world
the forces of decay
are mine to command
entropy my cold and sterile lover
birthed to me her children
from her barren womb

Empty Emperor carious in grimnity
surveys his charnel palace
feeling neither joy nor glory
the embodyment of the void
ash statues frozen in fear
stand sentinel on nothing but dust
Empty Emperor finally in solitude
planet death spins on into darkness

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from Unclean Rituals, released July 1, 2010

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Hesper Payne Liège, Belgium

Doomed Heavy Metal inspired by the myths and landscape of North East England. Formed in 2004 and not dead yet.

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