Lyrics - Rex Irae (requiem) by Celtic Frost

Introduction
Rex lrae ...
Dream
Encounter
King
Wrath:"
You ..."
Dream
Voice:"... have joined your father's feast
Those who saw:
Essence or fall
Floods of dramatic silence
And words, from whom we don't know"
Overture
King
Wrath:"
Let me dream ...
Flee from false ...
I have tasted the weight of lust
My hands on the skein of height"
Dream
Voice:"...
A pallid death
Mirage into dark
The horizons echo your glance
Following a detractive sleep"
I am the wrath beneath the heavens
The downfall's monologue
Fallen into the vision of effect
Quiet as gods can be
Orgies of fearlnbreeding and death
I have walked
Carthagia's sandsl've touched those buried walls
I am the ...
All mortal is love?
Remembrance has won
Breathing glorified innonce
Quiescence has died therefore
I am the ...
Remembrance
IKing
Wrath:"
We stood before the portals of
Babylon
And saw it's petrified fall
We tasted the wine of
Persepolis,
As mute as our era's breath"
Dream
Voice:"...
Have seen your decline's symbols
But carried another life
Death was never a fragment of
Exalting fantasy ..."
Remembrance
IIIKing
Wrath:"
This last region -
Last of fire
Orgasmic cries -
Tears and words
Wrath and strenght -
Oh, gods!
For you!
Before the throne ... -
Death"
Overture:
Final
King
Wrath:"
Fright and praise
A faded light
Intimate rests my book
Unwritten what seems true
I am the ..."
Dream
Voice:"
Art of might!
You remaining king
Take your predesessor's hand
You son of my
Jade gift ...
I am the ..."

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