THE DARK SAGA
1996
Dark Saga (3:42)Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer & Shawver. Lyrics: Barlow
Music: Schaffer & Shawver. Lyrics: Simmons
Music: Schaffer & Shawver. Lyrics: Barlow
Music: Schaffer & Shawver. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
Music: Schaffer. Lyrics: Schaffer
The Ripper (2:44) <-> Bonus Track
Written by G. Tipton - Gull Songs Ltd.
Jon Schaffer Rhythm guitar & vocals
Matthew Barlow Lead vocals
Randall Shawver Lead guitar
Dave Abell Bass guitar
Mark Prator Drums Produced by Jim Morris and Jon Schaffer
Engineered by Jim Morris
Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida,
mid. Jan - mid. Feb 1996
- Dark Saga (3:42)
- The deal was rigged
- There's darkness in my soul
- I want to die again
- An empty soul shrouded in darkness
- Alone and confused what am I?
- Images flash memories jaded
- He took my life God damn his lies
- Fight son of the damned, bring down the heavens
- Smash in the gates, burn 'em down
- You must accept the fate that you've chosen
- You will obey your destiny
- Chorus:
- I cheated myself for love
- Love unconditional
- Now just to see her face
- I've lost it all
- Bridge:
- I know there's goodness in me
- Though I'm not the same
- I will defy the master
- I will refuse to be his slave
- No, I was betrayed I can't accept this
- My future's unclear, it's a lie
- I'll follow my heart stand and be counted
- The curse will lift I will survive
- Repeat chorus:
- I Died For You (3:48)
- I can't believe this now
- This isn't what I planned
- I lived and died and now
- I just can't understand
- With all the love I feel
- I could never leave her
- No matter what the cost
- My souls the price to see her
- Chorus:
- Oh how I love you
- The pain won't go away
- Oh when I need you
- You're always so far away
- I cry for you
- Leaving myself to blame
- I died for you
- I gave up everything
- The pain was just to much
- When I finally saw her
- She's happy and in love
- In love with my best friend
- What makes it hurt so bad
- Is that I love them both
- And they will never know
- For love I sold my soul
- Repeat chorus:
- Violate (3:38)
- Enter now the fiendish one
- Twisted little man
- Vile wretch disgusting mess
- Perverted little man
- Born of hell and in disease
- Hate festers in his veins
- Demonic clown and shapeshifter
- Little man gone insane
- Enter now
- Enter now
- And violate
- I'll beat you with your spinal cord
- Split your skull in two
- I'll feast on your intestines
- There's nothing I can't do
- I'll rip your heart out of your chest
- Watch it beat as you cry
- I revel in your agony
- I violate and make you die
- Enter now
- Enter now
- And violate
- The Hunter (3:55)
- A force of light an angel
- Sent through time to destroy
- Avenging the dark ones
- Descending angelic force
- Heaven sent the hunter
- Her mission to crucify
- Slay the hellborn
- His offspring demonic force
- Chorus:
- Descending from heaven
- The angel sworn to bring him down
- The hunter the thunder
- The wrath of heavens comin' down
- She swore an oath, an allegiance
- Armageddon is in sight
- To be the thorn in the devils back
- To make him weak, the final fight
- Repeat chorus:
- The Last Laugh (3:46)
- My personal quest is to make your life hell
- Yes dear friend listen up well
- The power I've given I can take as well
- Pre-chorus:
- I am your father destroyer of the light
- I've taken your soul and have given you life
- You are the damned condemned by my hand
- My son creature of the night
- Chorus:
- Extending, now you rise
- Tormented, soul of fire
- Deception in my eyes
- Your life, your life is mine
- Bridge:
- My new born son burn now with anger
- I command and you must follow
- Fly now and do battle
- The heavens fall, mankind's disaster
- In your hour of darkness
- You warm my soul
- God won't save you
- Your souls been sold
- Pre-chorus:
- Repeat chorus:
- Depths Of Hell (3:01)
- Angels coming from above
- Take the essence of his love
- Challengers call him from al around
- Demons coming from the ground
- Battles won and nothing gained
- Feel the pain
- Feel the shock
- From the depths of hell
- Darkness dwelling in his soul
- True damnation no control
- Shattered pieces of his past
- Broken dreams among the dead
- When the smoke clears he will arise
- Feel the pain
- Feel the shock
- From the depths of hell
- Vengeance Is Mine (4:01)
- Hear now this story of the man that should not be
- A ghoul of blackened torment, sullen atrocity
- A kindred soul to the devils own, malignance personified
- Cast from his fire he molests the purest light
- Profane to humanity menaced by flesh and bone
- Screams of the unknown youth to him the sweetest tone
- Undying in his will to kill his bloodlust is profound
- For the blood of the lamb I've got to bring him down
- Chorus:
- For all the young lives you have slain
- Fear now you shall obtain
- Vengeance is mine
- For every young one that has died
- Your psychopathic genocide
- Vengeance is mine
- I shall do what the law won't do, I can make the sacrifice
- For the families of these bodies
- which held such precious life
- Mine is not to ask forgiveness this deed I've proudly done
- Without god without the devil this time I have won
- Repeat chorus:
- Scarred (5:54)
- Darkness calls down to me
- Sweat pours from my body like rain
- Growing wiser with each touch
- A pawn in Lucifer's game, am I?
- It attacks me in the black abyss
- The entity formless yet full of rage
- The mark of the beast my body
- Scarring me for eternal life
- Chorus:
- I brought this all upon myself
- Sold my soul to change my life
- It's up to me and no one else
- The beast in me can't control my life
- Bridge:
- And so it's begun, the end of me
- The seed was sewn now it's growing inside
- My fate in control, not mine
- He lied
- Repeat chorus:
- Slave To The Dark (4:03)
- A twisted state of mind, torn between two worlds
- One of which the new me hates and the one that's coming true
- The power is unleashed, they perish at my gaze
- But am I really in control or am I just a slave
- I called upon this god to deliver unto me
- To grant what I desire he brought me to my knees
- He turned his back on me and filled me with his lies
- Ask and I received damnation was the price
- I signed my name in blood, didn't read the fine print
- Now I'm just a puppet god for the devils own descent
- Bound and shackled here forever damned a slave
- Fallen bloody tears can't wash the pain away
- Chorus:
- All at once it's clear to me
- Damnation and destiny
- A slave to darkness shall I be
- Damnation and destiny
- And so I must repent or will I be destroyed
- Will the one that lives in me release me from this lie
- And will the wrath of god have mercy on my soul
- Or humiliate me, desecrate me, like his only son
- Repeat chorus:
- A Question Of Heaven (7:40)
- The time is close now, the end is near
- My walk through the valley, trails of fear
- I feel empty, my penance overdue, I guess it's too late now
- To be with you
- I'm extremely frightened of what will surely be
- I sold myself, the death of me
- I know you can't forgive me
- I know I'm on my own, I've betrayed you
- I walk alone
- What exactly is the meaning of this
- Just pawns in your twisted game
- Severe pain for the lie I'm livin'
- For a love I never could betray
- Bridge:
- Question me not say the lord unto thee
- You have chosen your own fate and your own destiny
- Denied of this life is what you are to be
- You have chosen your own fate and your own destiny
- Lord I pound my fists at you
- Won't you just let me die
- Would I not suffer enough
- No inner peace no after life
- Repeat Bridge:
- I did what I thought was right
- All for the love of my life
- I know it's sad but true
- Something is very wrong
- Condemned to suffer so long
- For a love so true
- The question that lies within
- Is so hard to understand
- It still tears at me
- And in my dying breath
- My heart holds no regrets
- I wouldn't change a thing
- My spirit begins to rise into the heavenly skies
- Just to be shunned away by you
- Now all I want is to die, no streets of gold in the sky
- And I wash my hands of you
- Bridge:
- Rising to the heavens light
- Just to plea for death
- Just to be denied