Pagan Altar - Rising of the Dead lyrics

An eerie silence descends upon, every graveyard and burial ground A distant church striking midnight, Is the only living sound The stillness of the nighttime air, slowly fills with impending doom As a mask of cloud rolls across the sky, to blot out the blood red moon. A cloak of mist creeps through crumbling walls, to carpet the graveyard floor To encircle the disused chapels, and block up their rotting doors It swirls around forgotten tombs, with obliterated names While night shadows flit and dance between, the unattended graves Cold chill of d**h is all around, carried on the wings of hate As an unseen hand forces open the rusty cemetery gates Burning resentment of the living, that’s aimed at all mankind Feeds the anguish of the long dead souls, lying in the ground The time has come, the time is here, the entire world will see The gates of hell have opened, Satan now walks free The forgotten army lie beneath the earth, Await his siren call The voice from within the deepest realm, heard by one and all Gravestones tilt and shudder, And slip below the ground Marble pillars that have stood for years, topple and come crashing down Sealed tombs gape wide open, to lay bare the corpse inside At the order of their master, they open their sightless eyes The time has come, the time is here, the entire world will see The gates of hell have opened, Satan now walks free Forgotten army lie beneath the earth, have answered the Clarion call The being from within the deepest realm, he leads them one and all. As one they strive to move dead limbs, to walk the earth once more Soldiers of the past are called to arms, awakens them as before Driven on by fake memory, of injustice and the pain A rotting hand breaks through the earth, To clutch the sky again