Video musicale
Video musicale
Crediti
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Candlemass
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Leif Edling
Songwriter
Testi
[Verse 1]
I am the king of the great islands of grey
Windswept and scarred, bent and confused
My castle's my ruin, the moldering grave
Where memory fades along
With the mourning cry of the mother
[Verse 2]
I am the king
The ruler of these grey islands
I'm the emperor of the void
I am grey
The weakened ruler of these islands
I'm the emperor of the void
[Verse 3]
Who counts the wounds?
Who sees the hunger, the flight of denial?
The fibers, the nerve
That rapture and bursts from artery to cell
[Verse 4]
Continuously repeat
The hymn of life and death
The holy whore
Desecrated in desperation
[Verse 5]
I am the king
The ruler of these grey islands
I'm the emperor of the void
I am grey
The weakened ruler of these islands
I'm the emperor of the void
[Verse 6]
Emperor of the void
Emperor of the void
[Verse 7]
I stand before destruction
Touching the stone of my realm
So dignified
Unmerciful, without empathy
You saw my birth
An ornament in your grain
You see my death
Terrible and divine
[Verse 8]
I am the king
The ruler of these grey islands
I'm the emperor of the void
I am grey
The weakened ruler of these islands
I'm the emperor of the void
Written by: Leif Edling
