Candlemass Emperor Of The Void lyrics

I am the king of the great Islands of Gray
Windswept and scatted, bent and confused
My castle is my ruin, the moldering grave
Where the memory fades along
With the mourning cry of the mother

Who counts the wounds, who sees the hunger
The flight of denial, the fibers the nerves
The raptures and bursts from arteric to cell
Continuously repeating the hymn of life and death
And the wholly whore, desecrated in desperation


I am the king, the ruler of the Gray Islands
I'm the emperor of the void
I am gray, the weakened ruler of these islands
I'm the emperor of the void

I stand before destruction, touching the stone of my realm
So dignified, unmerciful, without empathy
You saw my birth, an ornament in your grain
You see my death, terrible and divine