Lyrics The Hammer of the Emperor - Bal-Sagoth

The Hammer of the Emperor

Sinistrous legendry fulgurates from me.
My name is a word of power on the lips
of my followers.
You can’t escape me, I’m inside your mind.
Beware the Grand
Arbiter of Temporal Jurisprudence, for when it comes at last, terrible shall be
thy punishment.
In the ceaseless shadow at the centre of infinity,
the spheres have aligned.
After the day, comes the night.
My time has come
How seldom falls the opportunity to forge an empire without bloodshed.
It will yet come to war
She Came Bearing Dark Portents (The Foreshadowing):
Fever-dreams, dark omens and augeries.
Prophecy!
Why, when I meet your narcotic sloe-eyed gaze, does the image of a viper
nestling in a bed of blossoms fill my mind’s eye?
Why, when you come to me by the pale light of a waning moon, do I glimpse the
sheen of ophidian scales through the veils of sable?
Why, when you enrapture me with your envenomed kisses, does the flicker of a
serpent’s tongue score my flesh?
Enthralled by the vitreous lustre of your rubicund lips, your snow-pale skin
musky with the intoxicating scent of night… but such wicked thorns beneath
this rose.
Come witch, fly to me!
A garland of newborn stars to adorn thee… the Permian Extinction,
a parting gift.
May your maleficent soul walk only in dark places