Removal of the Oaken Stake

Encased in shadows

So silently I've slept

Dreaming of the day

My needs haphazardly are met

I recall an ancient time

When I did rule this land

But by this godforsaken spell

The life I'd known was stripped right from these hands

In death I'm bound

Nailed to the ground

Stabbed through the heart

The only tender human part

Removal from my breast

The killing oaken stake

When this curse is broken

And these yellowed bones regenerate again

When this coffin steams so foul

Glowing with crimson light

Inhuman sweat shall stain

The silk as death returns to life

No, no pity for the fool

It's fangs to he who stirs my slumber

Quenching an olden thirst

To rise once again unencumbered

I'll live again

An incubus in human skin

Buried by time and dust

A most harrowed secret kept

Older than memory

Through history I've crept

Hidden the ancient world

Where vampires ruled the lands

But by man's dreadful mortal schemes

They've captured us in purgatory's dance

In death I'm bound

Nailed to the ground

Stabbed through the heart

The only tender human part

In death I'm bound

Nailed to the ground

Right through the heart

What you'd call lore it's very real to me

Removal from my breast

The killing oaken stake

When this curse is broken

And these yellowed bones regenerate again

When this coffin steams so foul

Glowing with crimson light

Inhuman sweat shall stain

The silk as death returns to life