Hellwake Rising

Deep in the pyre They slept in ash Chains in the pit Now they snap, they crack Under black stone The old evil stirs Broken seal, red moon Hounds nose the earth and purr The earth splits open The dead get up Cold hands on the altar The silence erupts Hellwake rising Hellwake rising The grave got teeth tonight Hellwake rising Hellwake rising They come for the holy light Rot under the nails Smoke in the gums Bodies on the service road Skin split, then the black stuff comes One’s got a jaw wired shut And it won’t stop twitching Another’s ribs push out Like fingers through a soul gone missing A calf split open, guts dragging on the asphalt Dragging meat and rusted hair Eyes half sunk in the sockets Still staring straight through air Vampires at the window Counting with blood on the sill Werewolves in the chapel Dragging gravel through the aisle The bell keeps shaking The glass turns red Saints with their candles Surrounded by the dead Hellwake rising Hellwake rising The grave got teeth tonight Hellwake rising Hellwake rising They come for the holy light Let the iron doors break Let the graves come wide We stand at the threshold With fire in our eyes The rafters start to groan No mercy for the crawling No peace for the cursed When the old world cracks The dark returns first Rise Rise Rattle the tombs Rise Rise Burn through the rooms Shatter the walls Their mouths are full of hymnbook scraps Hellwake rising Hellwake rising The grave got teeth tonight Hellwake rising Hellwake rising They come for the holy light