The Secret Doctrine (1993)

 MORGANA LEFAY

album: "The Secret Doctrine" (1993)

1. Rooms Of Sleep

2. What Am I

3. Alley Of Oaks

4. Soldiers Of The Holy Empire

5. Paradise Lost

6. Nowhere Island

7. The Mirror

8. State Of Intoxication

9. Cold World

10. Lord Of The Rings

11. Last Rites

12. Dying Evolution

13. The Secret Doctrine

1. Rooms Of Sleep

Dreaming - hagridden through my fear

By the circe of awakening

Stranger - take away the dark and

Save me from insanity

In this place unknown

They seek for souls

From the shadow zone

They're crawling into rooms of sleep

Creatures - are haunting my domains

Seeds of hell in my paradise

Screaming - dreaming that I dream

That I'm awake in this evil dwell

I am awake but I only dream

That I'm awake in the dream within

In a place unknown

They seek for souls

Hear the demons call

When they're crawling into rooms of sleep

Into rooms of sleep

Drowning - in my bed of pain

Falling deeper and deeper down

Stranger - take away the dark and

Wake me up from insanity

I am awake but I only dream

That I'm awake in the dream within

In a place unknown

They seek for souls

Hear the demons call

When they're crawling into rooms of sleep

Into rooms of sleep

2. What Am I

In the darkness I see her shadow

As a lonely sad silhouette

I'm remorseful but my pride still

Is too strong to accept my regrets

I sit in silence crouched in a corner

I hear the hollow ticking of the clock

My mind is chasing thoughts that are fleeing

Oh god of mercy! Do I know what I have done

I rest my head in hands that tremble

I'm repressing thoughts of what I am

I am scared of the power of my feelings

I can't bear the burden of the deeds

I can't trust the nature of my being

Cause my hate is fiery and profound

Each passing minute feels like an eon

Time seems unreal in the presence of death

I'm spinning deeper into my madness

Clinging on to traces of hope

I rest my head in hands that are shaking

I'm denying the facts of what I am

I close my eyes but the scene I'm seeing

Keep's repeating again and again

I can't leash the fury I'm feeling

I cannot break the circle of my rage

I can't trust the nature of my being

'Cos my hate is fiery and profound

3. Alley Of Oaks

Let's take a walk a sunny day

And find those hidden roads

Which goes to secret places

And to magic nooks

Can you hear the whisperings

From the trees

They're fortelling memories

Creatures you've never seen catch

The gossip from the sizzling leaves

When we walk the alley of the oaks

To where those diffuse shadows loom

Underneath that mound of stone

There lives the beings of your denial

Shadows, luring eyes behind trees and

boulders, oh world of wonders

Can you see, can you see them

They are here closer than you

Wanted them to ever come to you

But it's for real not a fairy-tale

When we walk the alley of the oaks

To where those diffuse shadows loom

Was there something behind me?

What did move over there?

Hear voices and laughter

It's something else here!

4. Soldiers Of The Holy Empire

Look into the dragons eyes

In the mist of dark forgotten times

Summon up the beast of flame

Unchain the warlord call its name

Children of the sun

Let him reign the chosen one

And save you from the night

In which you fear to die

The dragon rule with iron hand

Through blood - he'll reposses the land

From the dungeon to the throne

From the darkness freedom has been born

Soldiers of the sun

Let him rule the chosen one

And save you from the night

In which you fear to die

Soldiers of the holy empire

Hail the dynasty - the dragons eyes forsees victory

Soldiers of the holy empire

Hail the dynasty - make the enemy crawl

Soldiers of the sun

Let him rule the raging one

Into dawning light

The time of fear will die

Soldiers of the holy empire

Hail the dynasty - the dragons eyes forsees victory

Soldiers of the holy empire

Hail the dynasty - make the enemy crawl

5. Paradise Lost

I am the lord of the fallen

The ultimate rebel from paradise

A philosopher free thinking breed

The sovereign of anarchy

Legionaries of every tribe

This is where we dwell

A place of eternal dusk

We are the dignitaries of hell

Here we shall rule

Even though it isn't hell

I will retake

My lost paradise

Into the garden of Eden

As a serpent I come to tempt

I offer you to taste the fruit

From the tree of knowledge

I make you a demigod

I give you my thoughts

I want to make sure that you will be

A rebellion to the trinity

Here we shall rule

Even though it isn't hell

I will retake

My lost paradise

Fallen into the abyss of fire

Fallen into the abyss of fire

6. Nowhere Island

I miss the evenings the small talk that we had

I miss your presence the good things and the bad

I smell the morning air the colours of the dawn

Things that matter now when it's out of reach

All the things I took for granted

I do now esteem

Every thing that I neglected

I wish to redeem

In this silence on nowhere island

I can see the life I had passing by

In the place of dying I'm weeping crying

Too late to be forgiven for my sins and lies

In this nowhere I'm looking back on life

What was my vision in life before I died - I know

That this place of emptiness a castody for souls

Will not bring me back no one hear my calls

All the things I took for granted

I don now esteem

Every thing that I neglected

I wish to redeem

In this silence on nowhere island

I can see the life I had passing by

In the place of dying I'm weeping crying

Too late to be forgiven for my sins and lies

My destination the cold eternity

I will forever roam through infinity

And I am doomed to silence in this astral skies

I want to be again I wish I were alive

All the things I took for granted

I do now esteem

Every thing that I neglected

I wish to redeem

In this silence on nowhere island

I can see the life I had passing by

In the place of dying I'm weeping crying

Too late to be forgiven for my sins and lies

7. The Mirror

What's beyond the chamber mirror

The evening coloured secret window

Is there just an inverted picture of

This room's reality

I have witnessed tiny little changes

Within that darkened reflected room

Things have altered seemingly in wrongful

Places of false dimensions

Hypnotised my soul is waiting

Horrified my senses fading

The mirror stares into my soul

Suspiciously I'm moving closer

And I wave my hand before me

In disbelief I watch the image of myself

Yet standing still

I'm staring deep into my eyes

Touch the mirror while I wonder why

In that moment my reflection grabs my arm

And pulls me through

To a room that is reversed

My common sense I feel it burst

The mirror takes what god forsakes

The mirror

Screaming - in silence

Staring out from the mirror

Reality - fades away

And I am locked beyond the mirror

Shadows - near me

Whisperings that scare me

Help me - take me out

Crush the mirror of despair

The mirror

8. State Of Intoxication

You're nude just screwed

Your dick is in pain but you're in a good mood

With nothing in mind almost blind

Your pecker's a mess but you do feel fine

You're gucked you're sucked you've fucked

You're glued to the sheets like a piece of rock?

White stains on her behind

Fruits of the labour of the bump and grind

State of intoxication

I'm flying high on love

Make love no way

It's a physical act with no foreplay

Doin' the deeds that your boner needs

Drain your balls into the pussy you feed

You sweat you howl you growl

Fornicate her with your heart and soul

Dirty deeds done dirty sheets

A combination of sticky and sweet

State of intoxication

I'm flying high on love

Romance no chance

Extacy is like a woodoo dance

A fuck is an act not a shameful crime

It has been done since the dawn of time

What do we do? We screw!

Armadillos are doin' it too

A matter of course our source

Nature is an unstoppable force

State of intoxication

I'm flying high on love

9. Cold World

What a cold world we rule

Preparing for war to keep the peace intact

White lies, politics and dirt

Thrown in our eyes

And where do we stand

And what are we thinking of

When so much is wrong

Why do we not care

Segregation and hate

Opinions and words of the fools who seek to rule

Shaved heads, lunatics with flags

Marching the streets

Oh, where are we now

And what are we going to

Is the world so insane

Are we doomed to lose

I will speak my mind if I so want to

This cold world sucks have we all gone crazy

When religion decays

Bullshit will save the faith, praise the lord

Brainwash, talk in tounges to god

Who'll never appear

Where will we be

And what will the future hold

We're listening to fools

And play by their rules

I will speak my mind if I so want to

This cold world sucks have we all gone crazy

10. Lord Of The Rings

Three rings for the elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for the mortal men doomed to die,

One for the dark lord on his dark throne

In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie

One ring to rule them all one ring to find them

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie"

The lord of the rings

The one of them all

The lord of the rings

Gets into your soul

Three rings in the elven-land defying the dark

The dwarf-lords have lost their rings three have been found

By the mortal men now bearing Sauron's mark

The war of the ring begins on evil ground

In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie

One ring to rule them all one ring to find them

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the land of the dark lord where freedom dies

The lord of the rings

he one of them all

The lord of the rings

Gets into your soul

11. Last Rites

He lies awake with his eyes closed

As he thinks of eternity

The last meal served on silver plates

Left a taste of cold steel

His memories haunt him

Though what's past is so far away

He's drowning in fear of death

But does anyone give a damned

First light of the morning

Will witness his fall

At the end of a rope he'll hang

Feeding the crows

As he walks to the gallows pole

The priest reads his last rites

Twelve feet to the ground

Then there's just six more to god

First light of the morning

Will witness his fall

At the end of a rope he'll hang

Feeding the crows

From the end of the gallow

To the land of the dead

He has joined with the hallowed

In the land of the dead

From the end of the gallow

To the land of the dead

He has joined with the hallowed

In the land of the dead

From the end of the gallow

To the land of the dead

He has joined with the hallowed

In the land of the dead

12. Dying Evolution

In this time of desolation

In this time of apathy

In the age of desperation

We're dying to be free

I will live in hell until I die

I will crawl this earth of dust and fire

My dying expectations

My dying will to live

The plague of radiation

I have no more to give

I will live in hell until I die

I will crawl this earth of dust and fire

This barren desolated place

Where evolution dies in disgrace

Dying evolution

We hailed the war

That devastated earth

We're now before a

Dying evolution

In this time of desolation

In this time of apathy

In the age of desparation

We're dying to be free

I will live in hell until I die

I will crawl this earth of dust and fire

This barren desolated place

Where evolution dies in disgrace

Dying evolution

We hailed the war

That devastated earth

We're now before a

Dying evolution

13. The Secret Doctrine

In the secret doctrine I have read,

From the creation and its manifoldness has sprung

And that the hord of evil is not dead

And that armageddon already has begun

About forgotten places I have read,

And secret paths to heaven and hell

Names of angels, life and death

All that is mentioned clear and well,

In the secret doctrine of heaven and hell

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Line-up:

Charles Rytkonen - vocals

Tony Eriksson - guitar

Jonas Soderlind - drums

Tommi Karppanen - guitar

Joakim Lundberg - drums