Nocturnal

The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal Lyrics
1.Of Darkness Spawned

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Pretenders to the throne kneel before him
Appalling wretched demon king
Praise be to us his children
Spawns of evil's reckoning

Doomed from the inception
Claiming fire as our home
Licked by flames our steel grows stronger
To be forged in hate forevermore

A hellish scorn quickly approaches violent climax
Infernal legions, the time nears when we'll strike
The shadows serving to enshroud us our blackened hearts
Those forgotten looming just beyond their sight

The blood of pariahs through our veins
Sin and Hell our mainstay, forever to remain
Oh to ye wicked ones and oh to blood a reaper's song
Demons born of man's sickest desire

Those of the darkness spawned
Fires of Hell I stoke thee high
Through the open gates ever so wide, bury me in sin
The daggers have been raised, now let's begin

The margins of sanity blur into night
As one will move beyond the light
Murder effortlessly without a tear
Our motives to them never clear

Damn this liars' world, we are the truth you've all awaited
Impaling holy fallacy, the filthy blood of Christian seed
Akin to the looming serpent, we've patiently anticipated
The time to rise is upon us

My lord, I kneel before you, now paint me bloody red
Bathing in blasphemy, I beat the path that's traveled less
The forgotten, your minions, our souls of black
We are thousands in the darkness waiting to attack

Infernal legions, their heads shall be your prize
Trophies to our dominions of conquests only fantasized
Oh to ye wicked ones and oh to blood a reaper's song
Demons born of man's sickest desire

Those of the darkness spawned
Fires of Hell I stoke thee high
Through the open gates ever so wide
Bury me in sin, the daggers have been raised

Oh the dance of death, she's a sweet one
To our victory we will drink


2.Virally Yours

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

The sound of vomiting to my ears' like singing
Now I'm beginning to become erect
With illness I'm obsessed in the beds of the fallen I rest
A fixation amplified the smell here is what I like best

Feverishly combing the buckets of waste
Wrapping myself in the filth ridden sheets
Raping the shells of the comatose
To fulfill my needs

Photographing bedsores
Cultured by my sick neglect
It's more then a job
It's a love for me to walk this close with death

When you hear a flat line
You know surely I'll be near
To when the reaper's sickle is drawn
I am ever aware

I wish I could pull these strings
In death there are finer things
Malpractice forever be my bitter name

How quickly life does fade away
One flip of the rivers man coin
Could send you screaming to your grave

Grief stricken family watches on
Ceaseless prayers for an only son
I'm afraid that nothing can be done
The moment has finally come

The wrath of a God exemplified
To the pearly gates He'll soon arrive
To leave here his husk in this room of white
I'm quivering at thought

Pull the plug I'm begging you
Take the ride to the cold and blue
The reaper's yellowed lichen finger
Aims ever so true

The origins of disease
I have witnessed in my dreams
The flooding of the blackest blood
To quench my fetid needs

I wish I could pull these strings
In death there are finer things
Malpractice forever be my bitter name
I wish I could pull these strings
In death there are finer things


3.Nocturnal

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Between the lies our dead language tongues
Before the dawns our hearts they, shall hunt
The smell of blood excites the nostrils
At first cut the sanguinary worship of

Red spraying punctures a sight so divine
Clutching her carcass face frozen in time
A distorted dialect for the draining of veins
To the flooding of bed sheets with sick crimson rain

A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm we bow

Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be

Damnation's diction a deadly disclosure
Our poisons in their goblets drip
How perfectly hideous, so eloquently scribed
Each scripture so skillfully sick

Parchments scabbed over with plasmatic prose
Prophesize permanent night
The words of sheer blackness paint ebony my soul
And bestow me with infernal might

A warped diction of scriptures befouled
Traditions steeped within disgraces reviled
Father, unholy one, to your night realm we bow

Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere the sun

By the light unspoken
This language of brutality
Enraptured I have become unholy
Nights arms welcome me

Nocturnal majesty, sworn to black we'll always be
Hatred and persistence destined to see
A complete eclipse of that hated sphere the sun


4.Deathmask Divine

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Removal of the eyes gives my heart a saddened chill
I preserve them in formaldehyde to gaze upon at will
How their greenish flecks befell me that starlit winter's night
I lost all that I ever was while locked within their sight

Before you sits a broken man, your fragile pinkish heart in hand
Peculiar how it can hurt so bad while love is only in the mind
I sew the gaping chest work, each thread is made with love
The bosom where I would rest my face is covered in your blood

No, this is not the end
You'll live on eternally
Oh Lord, it's not the end
My secret you'll forever be

I interrupt this transformation, a familiar lust swelling in me
A long and soulful kiss, the shades are drawn, the living world
can't see
The coil of entrails, how curious the smell
So pungent to my eager nostrils, hands further compelled

No, it's not the end
Forever you'll be in my arms

I could never let you go, my darling, cold and blue
I wonder, are you dreaming still, spread eagled, blood removed
I weave the sucking trocar beneath your bruising skin
Tonight I'll lay beside you, darling, in necromantic sin

Pinned to the bed sheets like a prized butterfly, you're mine
I hear your voice so precious, echoing deeply inside
I did my best to love you while you did live and breathe
This tender taxidermy, trophy of the bereaved

I could never let you go, my darling, cold and blue
I wonder, are you dreaming still, spread eagled, blood removed
I weave the sucking trocar beneath your bruising skin
Tonight I'll lay beside you, darling, in necromantic sin


5.What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

This twisted wretched place shadowed
By the utmost darks of hell
In dreams of black beyond the bounds
Of a withered witch's spell

Where the doors surely are locked
When the sun threatens to wane
Where shamblers dwell in dim moon light
Beyond the warmth of day

Liars line the roads at dawn
Watchful eyes are upon you held
Sacred weapons to the sacred revealed
To be unleashed upon the council of hell

Blood flows down the streets at night
Where wolves cry out for flesh
Where a horrible curse taints the woodlands nearby
With the forms of the walking dead

Unholy inversion of hope
Twisting the faith of the meek into hate
Driven insane by the dark one
To bring fourth the foul biddings he speaks

The undead are among us
At dawn they shrink back to their silken beds
They dance by night and drink the blood
Of a child's broken neck

His spires are growing taller
Still their shadows spreading throughout the land
Freeing the evils that sleep within the weaker minds of man

Into the tower never go the horrors multiply
The gears can mince the strongest ones
Leaving heroes paralyzed
The rivers flow with poison, the sands swallow you whole
The ghouls that roam this darkened wood
Are thirsting for your throat

Unholy inversion of hope
Twisting the faith of the meek into hate
Driven insane by the dark one
To bring forth the foul biddings he speaks

The undead are among us
At dawn they shrink back to their silken beds
They dance by night and drink the blood
Of a child's broken neck

His spires are growing taller
Still their shadows spreading throughout the land
Freeing the evils that sleep within the weaker minds of man


6.Climactic Degradation

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Devastate, leave them weeping in your wake
A family's broken dreams, with glove in hand I separate
Mutilate them, carve them up, bring them to their knees
The powers of a knife at hand, if it breathes, it fucking bleeds

Mankind, end time, disgusted with this race
I pluck them from the universe
Pawns on my favorite game

Cut them all down, completely randomized
Never a clue nor a trace is left, identity disguised
I measure joy in suffering, with a rope and blade I maim
Humiliate these fallen souls, this earth of sick disgrace

Climactic degradation rapture in blood achieved
Suffocate them, rip them, rape them, make them fucking scream
Orgasmic mutilation, on terror I do feed
Annihilate this bastard race, I'll make them bleed for me

I'm taking you down with me into this hell of hells
Stabbed in the throat, sputtering blood, my need is never
quelled
You must stand here before me, my judgment ends in death
Tower above your broken bodies, face speckled in red

How sweet it is to revel in your flesh
I won't stop until the last is dead

Climactic degradation rapture in blood achieved
Suffocate them, rip them, rape them, make them fucking scream
Orgasmic mutilation, on terror I do feed
Annihilate this bastard race, I'll make them bleed for me


7.Warborn

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Amidst a swirling din of smoke
And screaming on the battlefield born
Reared on the teat of my dear mother war
Hardened to stone through abuse
Mocked, beaten and scorned
A bayonet severed umbilical cord

The wind sings its sad lullaby
Through a blackened and hollow ribcage
I'm to die in battle divine
With the flames as my grave

This realm of inhuman carnage
Where the blood eternally rains
To my brothers who've fallen before me
I will walk with you again

This my demented playground
The horizon is howling ablaze
The skeletal village illuminates the sky
As fire destroys their grains

With glee I rape and torture
My pleasure is inflicting pain
With a vigor unholy, I'll fight to my doom
'Til I've vanquished the Christian God's ways

Sure it must be such a different world
To which those on the outside exist
At least I know who loves me here
No delusions, all weakness dismissed

This era of inhuman tragedy
To be ushered by my iron hand
The ovens bellowed to crematory highs
To dispose of the God-fearing man

The wind sings its sad lullaby
Through a blackened and hollow ribcage
I'm to die in battle divine
With the flames as my grave

This realm of inhuman carnage
Where the blood eternally rains
To my brothers who've fallen before me
I will walk with you again


8.I Worship Only What You Bleed

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Strnad, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

Oh, it's flowing through me
Combusting with contempt
Rationality abandoning
Chemically lead astray

Stepping outside the confines of this circle
Bane of society become
I'm about to cross the line and take a life
Nothing can stop me now

Murderous functioning
An animal within me speaks
Nothing but blood could satisfy
These carnal needs

I am your master
Superior I reign
Poised just above you
On this death distorted chain

The need to kill transcends temptation
I'm sick and in need of blood
Withdrawals haunt me, taunt me sickly baiting
My deeds can never be undone

Murderous functioning
An animal within me speaks
Nothing but blood could satisfy
These carnal needs

I am your shepherd
Cloaked in obscenity
Heed these sickening words
I worship only what you bleed

I am your master
Superior I reign
Poised just above you
On this death distorted chain


9.To A Breathless Oblivion

Lyricist:Brian Garrett Eschbach, John A Kempainon, Shannon Michael
Lucas, Trevor Scott Strnad, Ryan Williams

The chair's been kicked, a rope tied to the rafters
Blue faced and broken necked, I sigh
Relieving my vision from the sick mocking stare
Of that hated sun burning the sky

Slumped like a headless scarecrow
Cold and limp against the wall
Blood paints a pattern of rohrschach's design
Thawing the winter that burdens this heart

Shit-stained and shameful
An exit in disgrace
Not a splash but just a ripple left
I end this life in vain

In the dead of the darkness, I breach the still lake
Towards the reflection of the moon
The night colored liquid arresting my lungs
Finally in peace in this watery tomb

Destroy this fragile body
To be gorged upon by worms
Not a splash but just a ripple is left
In the wake of my merciless scorn

Beyond those cursed stars above
Lies the answer that I seek
On the backs of bullets rides my name
Longing to kiss my cheek

Resentfully decline retire this hated life
Without guilt, I break these veins
Carved with salvation's knife

Turn not away, avert not your face
This is how it was meant to be
In silence found hanging there above a pool of waste
The beauteous workings of mortality

No one can truly touch another
Parallel never to cross
Pointless fumbling, sad mistake
Only capable of pain

Beyond those cursed stars above
Lies the answer that I seek
On the backs of bullets rides my name
Longing to kiss my cheek

Resentfully decline, retire this hated life
Without guilt I break these veins
Carved with salvation's knife

Beyond those cursed stars above
Lies the answer that I seek
On the backs of bullets rides my name
Longing to kiss my cheek

Resentfully decline retire this hated life
Without guilt I break these veins
Carved with salvation's knife

Beyond those cursed stars above
Lies the answer that I seek


10.Everything Went Black

Crawling the walls through every crack and crevice
teems blackness washing over the windowpanes painting the
buildings in between
creeping down the alley ways consuming every street
soundless swarm of nothingness sure to doom us all

pulling screaming earthlings into its toothless jaws
endlessly beginning spreading with no sign of stop
horror of horrors truly maddening in size
running just prolongs the end inevitably it strides

where has it come from? how can it be stopped?
so quickly we're to meet our end our empire we have lost
karmatic Armageddon no religion could foresee
a planet once forsaken not even a memory

streetlights bend into the void cars enveloped whole
darkness deeper than a blindman's sleep soon to paint the world
insatiable its hunger it drinks the sea without a belch
stretching to the other side where it is sure to meet itself

unearthly vacuum devouring the hourglass now empty
its time to say goodbye watching your life flash before mortal
eyes
terror fills your heart screams of anguish greet your ears
living death voracious insidious impervious to damage we are
slaughtered as if lambs.