Lyrics Rex Irae (Requiem) - Celtic Frost

Rex Irae (Requiem)

You …
… have joined your fathers feast
those who saw: essence or fall
floods of dramatic silence
and words, from whom we dont know
Overture/king wrath: let me dream …
Flee from false …
I have tasted the weight of lust
My hands on the skein of height
… a pallid death
mirage into dark
the horizons echo your glance
following a detractive sleep
I am the wrath beneath the heavens
The downfalls monologue
Fallen into the vision of effect
Quiet as gods can be
(joining the kings words)
Orgies of fear
Lnbreeding and death
I have walked carthagias sands
Lve 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 i: we stood before the portals of babylon
And saw its petrified fall
… have seen your declines symbols
but carried another life
We tasted the wine of persepolis,
As mute as our eras breath
death was never a fragment of exalting fantasy …
Remembrance iii (?): this last region — last of fire
Orgasmic cries — tears and words
Wrath and strenght — oh, gods!
for you!
Before the throne … — death
Overture: finale: fright and praise
A faded light
Intimate rests my book
Unwritten what seems true
I am the …
art of might!
you remaining king
take your predesessors hand
you son of my jade gift …
i am the …