Night was surrounding,
Shrieks were sounding,
Heartbeat pounding;
‘twas the night of Samhain.
People drowning,
Chainsaw grinding,
Leather straps binding;
‘twas midnight at Samhain.
Nightly death-knell o’er the graveyard,
Pain plainly painted on their faces,
Flayer flaying with his sharpened shard,
Assured to remove all tainted traces.
Alone in an alley, singing: the bard,
Rhyming night and day, he paces,
At 2am comes Death’s calling card,
Ceasing his existence in all mortal places.
Night was surrounding,
Shrieks were sounding,
Heartbeat pounding;
‘twas the night of Samhain.
People drowning,
Chainsaw grinding,
Leather straps binding;
‘twas midnight at Samhain.
Children out seeking favoured sweets,
Madmen out slicing their prey,
A father, drunk, finds his children to beat,
The feeble screams emitted, their thoughts betrayed.
The madman enters, seeing his treat,
The thread then snaps, not caring to fray,
Surging forth towards, madman’s treat is reaped,
His sustenance is found in their pain.
Night was surrounding,
Shrieks were sounding,
Heartbeat pounding;
‘twas the night of Samhain.
People drowning,
Chainsaw grinding,
Leather straps binding;
‘twas midnight at Samhain.
Night slips down over everything
A psycho stalking through the morgue,
The dead to him pleasure will bring,
One last duty they will perform.
Sensed in the air, energy sings,
Flowing out in torrents, it pours,
Surging through all, the power rings,
Deadly to all if it’s ignored.
Leather marks the lair of the sadist,
Whips and chains from which victims are hung,
The walls writhe, the air full of mist,
Their breath ripped from their throats, it had come.
The pain is felt as flesh suffers fist,
No more can it be felt as fun,
Escape impossible from this tryst,
A world of torment this has become.
Night was surrounding,
Shrieks were sounding,
Heartbeat pounding;
‘twas the night of Samhain.
People drowning,
Chainsaw grinding,
Leather straps binding;
‘twas midnight at Samhain.
The call of the Earth’s plea forgotten,
Madness and death doth plague this land,
Earth is now left decayed, rotten,
All of this done by man’s hand.
Peace and joy are now thought barren,
Time passes through glass like sand,
Counting down to the demise of men,
Going against the earth's master plan.
Night was surrounding,
Shrieks were sounding,
Heartbeat pounding;
‘twas the night of Samhain.
People drowning,
Chainsaw grinding,
Leather straps binding;
‘twas midnight at Samhain.
Witches covens
Magick brethren,
Witches rising tonight,
Pentacle glad
Rites skyclad,
Paganism rose this night.
Samhain feast
Not of the Beast,
Christianity lying tonight,
Halloween seems
Full of screams,
But not this Samhain night.
A band from the southern UK who keep moving to far-flung realms. Exploring metal, rock, classical, prog, and pretty much anything else that takes our fancy at a given moment.
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