[ti:Dante's Inferno]
[ar:Iced Earth]
[al:Alive In Athens (1999)]
[offset:500]
[00:00.00]song:Dante's Inferno
[00:03.85]artist:Iced Earth
[00:06.03]album:Alive In Athens (1999)
[00:07.81]submitted by:lacrimas
[00:11.52][Music : Schaffer / Lyrics : Schaffer]
[00:13.96]
[00:14.93]Through the fiery caverns we sail
[00:22.00]Virgil at my side my guide and master
[00:28.82]Questing through the nine plains of hell
[00:35.80]Infernal wisdom shall fill my soul
[00:42.72]Slowly now the days departing
[00:49.72]The darkened air releases me
[00:56.76]Frightening visions of my journey
[01:03.67]Entrance me to limbo I'm not Free
[01:11.41]
[01:38.98]Abandon all hope who enter here
[01:45.44]Enter the gates, Charon awaits
[01:50.94]
[02:23.79]Abandon all hope who enter here
[02:28.32]For this is where all things are left behind
[02:32.83]Every doubt and every cowardice must die
[02:37.38]Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair
[02:41.94]
[02:46.71]The souls that wail on this plain pray for death
[02:51.23]Denial is the reason for their suffering
[02:55.81]Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath
[03:00.33]The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need
[03:05.20]
[03:29.12]Descention, thrusting to the second plain
[03:33.79]Minos judges as his tail twines
[03:38.26]Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls
[03:42.66]A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas
[03:47.76]
[05:31.02]Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames
[05:38.67]Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain
[05:47.06]Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time
[05:55.32]The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time
[06:02.06]The vicious beast Cerebus, three heads, blooded eyes
[06:09.57]Tears his talons through the air, all the skinners cry
[06:17.37]all the skinners cry
[06:21.58]
[07:31.51]Down, be still thy cursed wolf
[07:34.45]The master scorns its name
[07:36.88]Dive to the next plain
[07:39.04]The sullen and the vain
[07:41.45]Suffer for greed
[07:43.52]The prodigal they bleed
[07:45.57]For all eternity
[07:47.43]Plutus holds the key
[07:50.75]
[08:06.51]Damned, the wrathful and the vain
[08:09.70]Suffer the fifth plain
[08:11.94]Cross the river Styx
[08:14.26]Heed your crucifix
[08:16.29]The mudded corpses cry
[08:18.47]Howling to the sky
[08:20.60]Reach the other side
[08:22.76]Open wide the gate
[08:26.02]
[09:13.87]Enter the sixth circle of barren land and flames
[09:17.22]Passing through the gate of dis the furies scream her name
[09:21.11]Belching forth in agony invoking her to rise
[09:24.68]The spirit's rage consuming us the evil in their cries
[09:28.51]Queen of vipers, queen of serpents
[09:32.17]Cast their souls to stone
[09:35.91]Spread to wealth of Gorgon's power
[09:39.78]Medusa's inner soul
[09:42.40]
[11:47.88]We're drawing ever closer to the seventh hell
[11:54.49]They violate their neighbors, their god and themselves
[11:58.72]We're sailing slowly through the boiling river of blood
[12:09.94]Immersed in the depths below souls scream in agony
[12:19.60]The twisted beast he laughs, he draws his arrow back
[12:24.06]His sights on anyone exposing of their flesh
[12:31.30]He impales their hearts with ease
[12:34.80]And shrugs their piercing screams
[12:38.52]Pity is they'll never die
[12:41.70]They'll suffer here eternally
[12:46.56]
[13:56.44]Imagine a place where every horror comes to life
[14:00.88]Where every torture is real and time stands still
[14:06.60]Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end
[14:14.28]
[14:15.66]In a cold and timeless grave buried head first in shit
[14:21.08]Praying all the while for a quick & painless death
[14:26.69]Scratching furiously at scabbed and oozing wounds
[14:32.72]
[14:35.61]Lucifer ... angel of light
[14:41.27]Cast below god of ice
[14:46.94]Ruling hell unholy trinity
[14:49.86]The traitors freeze for all eternity
[14:52.57]Lucifer ... betrayer of god
[14:58.41]Tormentor ruthless and cold
[15:03.72]Judas' screaming here in agony
[15:07.07]The traitors freeze for all eternity