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When Empires Fall

by Ancient Empire

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In a land forgotten in time An army awakes Forged in shadows of the cross Warriors rise up Our ranks swell as we conquer Enslaved as they fall In the name of our god Warriors fight on On the edge of a foreign land Fire lights the sky They awake to the sound of steel The sounds of dying The scream of a broken race Echoes in the night As the sun breaks the horizon Warriors fight on We ride for our country We fight for our land We march through the chaos And fall on the battlefields We fight ‘till our last breath And die with a heart of steel We’re soldiers born for battle Forged in the shadow of the cross In a land forsaken in time A nation awakes In the shadow of brutal gods Warriors rise up Our men die as they fight Our legions will fall On and on through history Soldiers fight on
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I face the demons in my mind As we fly on through the night And whisper a prayer for my last day Beneath the moon and dim starlight Full speed ahead as we draw closer I feel my pulse begin to race For God and country I will kill and die The enemy’s life I will take In the calm before the storm We sit in silence, each man on his own I close my eyes and I see my destiny Is it agony and pain? I hear my thoughts over the engines On our way to victory! In the calm before the storm All is quiet in the skies As we reach our destination All guns ablaze, we join the fight Wings of steel, on the attack Death is flying through the air Wings of steel, fire from above Screaming out a final prayer Man-made lightning, it rips the night War birds of prey, in lethal flight As the bombs scar the earth below Wounded planes drop from the sky A driving rain of flesh and bone I set the sights for one last try Target destroyed, we turn to leave As our wings get blown away The enemy’s guns have hit their mark Our sacrifice won’t be in vain In the chaos we are lost Victory is won but at what cost?
3.
It’s been the end of days for two thousand years Yet tomorrow always comes And we’re still waiting, counting all the signs Hearing myth and prophecy Have we reached the final day? You predict the end yet the sun still rises Just like the day before And still the prophets warn of the end Until the next one’s come and gone The Earth is changing, the bombs still fall Hope is fading away Who will really know on the last day? Who will still believe after the last day? The people cry out: Our time has come Have we reached the final day?
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Behold the valley of slaughter As you journey on the road Cling to hope and carry a fire As the world and man erode Will you die alone in darkness? Or will you try to struggle on? Are you haunted by memories? Dreams of a life now gone Face your demons on the road Will you find a way to make it through? Another night starving and cold Can you find the will to see this through? Man in this nightmare of pain Life slips away Survival overcomes us all Only the savage remains
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Warring countries spill onto the land A new regime is taking command Enemies of the state feed the machine Reeducate the people and wipe the slate clean Hate leads to genocide Purge the nation Kill the innocent And watch its people fall In the killing fields Seeds of hell, through the killing fields Disease starvation, famine and strife Forever change the way of life Forcing endless labor supports the new state Deprived of all rights the fields are their fate In the killing fields Seeds of hell, through the killing fields Face the end in the killing fields Stand and fall through the killing fields To keep you is no benefit And to destroy you is no loss The killings would end but not for years Flood the fields with all your tears
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Fear infecting as it spreads To overwhelm the soul The final days, are they drawing near? Has the prophecy been told? Catastrophe, degradation, the decline and fall Dreams of a hunted race Scattered through the ages Imprisoned by invaders in their lands Destined for sacrifice Catastrophe, degradation, the decline and fall Seeds of destruction contained within Soon the end of all Cancel the sky, scratch out the earth and end your world Enslave your own kind, spread famine and disease The sacred time is here Pain, but all is not lost Some make their escape Their future’s end closes on the shore It’s the prophecy revealed
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In the war to end all wars A fight for the island Months spent in isolation With no hope in sight A battle destined to be lost With no reinforcements How many of our men will die? Captured and stripped of weapons The death march begins No food or water for days Beaten and executed No longer seen as human Defeat and suffering How many of us have to die? Liberators gone but not forgotten How many rangers will we send? Ghost soldiers, a sacrifice to rescue Last survivors saved in the end In the undercover of night The rescue begins We march behind enemy lines With deadly purpose We save our brothers in arms A tale from survivors About the death march of Bataan
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Rising from the flames at the dawn of forever An empire to last through the ages On mighty winds it carries To the ends of the earth The glory of its power courageous In our time we were the future All gifts of life in our hands Now from the past we reclaim these lands And fight to retake our ancient empire A shadow in history gone without a trace An earth left to evolve on its own Drifting through the darkness Timeless thoughts in exile Waking to a vision of humanity An empire destined to fall Another will rise All that they had become Is lost in the end Impossible weapons, technology unknown Lay waste to the cities of man Consuming all the world in oceans of flame A cleansing fire prepares their return Fight for the ancient empire!
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Emperors eternal, true rulers of Earth Their power manifest, a war to remove Pestilent race infesting their home They traveled time to retake their throne Supreme again, secure in their might Yet unaware of the coming fight Humans descend from the edge of time Taking the battle far and wide From the hands of a forgotten race A shattered Earth is laid to waste Like the approach of dawn And the onset of night A conflict unending All things at an end when empires fall
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released June 30, 2013

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