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Moonlight streaks the sky
Bats casting shadows below, crossing the forest
The wolves stalk through the trees
Ghost lights dance out from the open mouths of corpses
Try as you might, you'll never stay me
Your crosses and torches, your lights and pitchforks
And time after time, you'll never save me
From this lonely cold
Follow me up to my castle on the hill
Down into the cellar where I sleep every day
In a casket closed with my friends growing old
Bound to the walls in chains, they're screaming
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Bad Luck
02:04
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Every day feels the same to me
Haunted by my past
When I get a break from my disease
You know that shit never lasts
Black cats and mirrors breaking
I'm on some bad luck, baby
Thirteen passing ravens
I'm on some bad luck
Everything seems the same to me
The walls are falling down
I'm a walking cataclysm
That you don't want around
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Serpentess
02:07
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No wind's roaming between the trees
Something's moving across the leaves
A passenger in a passing glance
Then the pain takes me back again, yeah
When she's calling my name
Another subject in her domain
Wicked thoughts, the poison sets in
A servant of the serpentess
Victim of her touch
Eyes are twisted, the skin is rough
I brace myself, make a run for it
Then the toxin pulls me back in
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Lurk In The Darkness
01:46
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The voice in the dark, the eyes in the trees
I can see you, but you can't see me
Blood in your eyes from courting with death
The ghosts that you're making out of your breath
I'll show you how deep evil can be
To lurk in the darkness with me
Pull back the skin, saturated red
Darling, you can't kill what's already dead
Clawing the flesh, gnaw on the bones
It's true, when your time comes, we all die alone
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Mistress Of The Night
02:32
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She dresses in white with a fire in her eyes
Like starlight and dancing to thunder
She's breathing ghosts under high, lightless skies
How long has she hungered?
Tonight, she'll bring me to life
And take a little more light from inside
My mistress of the night
Not like this, just leave me to die
Red under streetlights is flowing out
Her wrist to her lips, and she's covered in blood
Heart in my throat, her true color is showing now
An everlasting love
Tonight while I'm still alive
She'll take a little more life from inside
My mistress of the night
Forever lost in the ice of her eyes
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We Walk The Earth
02:14
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Another night lost, aghast
The aftermath of death is black
Out from the corners of my eyes
Cemetery gates that I’ll never pass
You can’t save us again
From where I am, there’s no going back
We decide to walk alive
Amidst the mortal men
Can you pull me back from the angels
That call me into the light?
Out from the haunting darkness of night
I arise
Here we go, gnashing teeth again
Thrashing deep ‘til our bitter end
A zombie pacified
With no arms or legs or breath to expend
Stalk beneath the full moon’s ascent
Witch’s black magic marionettes
Remember everyday from here on out
Belongs to the living dead
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Gravediggers
03:37
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We march through the cemetery gates
Up from their coffins, the dead re-awake
Shrieks on the wind and a full moon eclipse
Legions of the damned dance in circles of six
The dead will conquer tonight
If we don't take a stand together
Aim for the head, give them eternal rest
Forever and ever
The devils, the vampires, lycans
Zombies, and the dead pretenders
With rusted shovels, we rise
To face the midnight, no, we'll never surrender
We're gravediggers
There's blood on our faces and dirt on our hands
Exhuming for the sake of humankind
Burying the shadows, no place left to hide
This city of the dead, they're making their homes
Among the broken tombstones and fences of bone
A curse bestowed upon these lands
Hordes of undead puppeted by necromantic hands
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Buried Alive
03:01
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In the dark of the night
Summer of '95
Dead and cold, but I'm awake
I rang the bell, but no one's listening
To my own attempts
At dying to be saved
Buried alive
Knowing none that would survive
Down deep in the crypt
That I fell into
Days and weeks turn to years
In this tomb, I've waited here
For someone to light the way
Scratches on the lid of my coffin
Echoing, condemned
To wait another day
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Wolfpact
03:36
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If I were you, I wouldn't stay too long
Out here in the dark, the moon is burning strong
But then I saw you standing
Saw you standing, sifting through the guts
Of some dead man right before me
Lie down, close your eyes
'Cause you don't fear the moonlight
Like I do
Blood is a bond that's difficult to break
Be careful what you wish for and the pacts that you make
If you could see yourself
Right here, right now
You'd scream
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The Witching Bell
03:08
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In a chapel faded grey
An ominous knell emanates
Flesh and bone, withered stone
Words in black-bound ancient tome
Things foretold take my rest
The visions of a bitter death
Something wicked this ways comes
In the wake of the setting sun
As she sounds the witching bell
In the dusk beneath black clouds
Abandoned church yard ringing out
Clamoring for my soul
In my sleep, I hear its toll
Restless dreams, arrested screams
Ravens take flight from the trees
Serpentess, purple sky
Writhing flesh in black and white
The ministry with cross and hood
The village gates painted with blood
Set out to set her to burn
I dream that none make their return
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Creature
02:37
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Something's reaching up inside
Lock the basement door behind
I can't get too close without tearing you apart
Keep you in a safe place and leave you in the dark
You should really learn to keep to yourself
Dead things in little glass jars on the shelf
And are you missing something?
Don't leave without your head
You might find something worse instead
I'm the creature hiding in your dreams
I'm the ghost of what I used to be
I'm a monster and you'd better stay away
I'm a cold chill that leaves you in the grave
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Ruined Tower Records Pennsylvania
Ruined Tower Records is an independent lo-fi record label formed by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Rob Adams, from southeastern Pennsylvania.
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