Top Songs By Sabbat
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Sabbat
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Andy Sneap
Composer
Martin Walkyier
Composer
Lyrics
Standing on a strange shore-
This desolate coastline
It offers cold comfort
Very little more than the sky
For a blanket
The earth for my bed
(THE SISTERS OF WYRD:)
"The threads upon the loom of life
Have foreordained your coming here
So weep not mannikins of mankind
Dry your worthless puppet-tears."
Unanswered questions-
How they play on my mind
Now that darkness is falling and
Still there's no sign of my guide
Either I have been betrayed-
They have left me to die
Or worse still at this moment he lies-
An unwitting victim by brigands attacked
Left naked and dead with a knife
In his back
Childhood terrors return to me now
From the rand stench of fear in
The sweat on my brow
Deceit and despair are to me
Kith and kin
Seduced into slumber-
My nightmare begins
"Welcome - welcome to my domain
I have been biding my time
Watching and waiting -
But now you are mine
Weaving the web that entwines you
Like a puppet you play on the end
Of your strings 'till the end of
Your days."
Daylight flees as night gives chase
I'm held in panic's dank embrace
I smother in his cold caress -
The sum of all my worthlessness
I have been told to thank the Lord
For all that He will send
But if death should come to meet me -
Must I greet him as a friend?
Now I see that this quest is
A test of my fidelity -
Has God forsaken me?
When madness sings his lullaby a
Nightmare filled with unknown things -
To cast aspersion on my sanity
Faith starts to flounder in
A mind torn apart
My thoughts move in time with
The beat of my heart
A creature of habit
I make easy prey
Cross faith and fire cannot
Hold at bay the beast that
Pursues me -
The end drawing near
My soul keeps no secrets -
He knows what I fear
Flying so high on the wings
Of a dream
Over mountain and forest -
'cross river and stream
While the creatures that feed
Off the doubts I invent
Await my arrival with evil intent
"Welcome - welcome to my domain
I have been biding my time
Watching and waiting -
But now you are mine
Weaving the web that entwines you
Like a puppet you play on the end
Of your strings 'till the end of
Your days."
So in that twilight world that
Lies amidst life and death I dream
And writhe in fitful slumber no-one
Hears my silent screams
Except the horse's head that stares
With black and lifeless eyes
Atop its totem glaring as it mocks
My helpless cries
Now I see that this quest is
A test of my fidelity -
Has God forsaken me?
When madness sings his lullaby a
Nightmare filled with unknown things -
To cast aspersion on my sanity
To cast aspersion on my sanity
Shapeless form surround me
Casting shadows in the night
I feel their breath upon me-
Catch their faces in the light
Somnambulistic hunters come
To prey upon my fears -
As peals of psychopathic laughter
Echo in my ears
Startled I waken from my
Death-like sleep
Though fearful and shaken
I crawl to my feet
Still my memories taunt me -
Like ghosts they appear
Forever to haunt me when
Darkness draws near
"Welcome - welcome to my domain
I have been biding my time
Watching and waiting -
But now you are mine
Weaving the web that entwines you
Like a puppet you play on the end
Of your strings 'till the end of
Your days."
Then fleeing from the terrors
Of the night before I leave
The remnants of reality behind
Me 'neath the trees
Walking in the light of dawn I
Pray that God will send -
His wisdom now to guide me
Through this night-time without end
Now I see that this quest is
A test of my fidelity-
Has God forsaken me?
When madness sings his lullaby a
Nightmare filled with unknown things -
To cast aspersion on my sanity
Written by: Andy Sneap, Martin Walkyier
