Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked – Part 1) Lyrics Album by Iced Earth
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1. Overture
(Instrumental)
2. Something Wicked (Part 1)
I can see clearly now
a painful vision indeed.
An attempt at genocide,
12.000 years of pain.
The human thirst for dominance
leads them to Setian ground,
the gravest of all threats now exists
and all galaxies could suffer.
Imagine the consequence
if Man does succeed,
the universe and all that
lives will suffer evermore.
Like a virus Man will spread
through the time continuum.
It’s a power they can’t comprehend,
a power we must secure.
So heed my word, a prophecy
that’s bleak and haunting.
Acceptance not fear will pave
the wave for life returning.
The Elder foreseen in sacred
flames our world is burning.
Yet more things are clear by
grand design, punishment unfolding.
Faith in the prophecy!
We’ll take this tragedy,
unite as one.
Fate show man no sympathy!
Something wicked feeds,
thy will be done.
Ten thousand souls,
one for every year of framing.
One of thirteen, the High Priest,
and the twelve that council.
Charged with our tome, retribution
for our loved ones suffering.
In secret they’ll meet, a global
network that endures for centuries.
Faith in the prophecy!
We’ll take this tragedy,
unite as one.
Fate show man no sympathy!
Something wicked feeds,
thy will be done.
3. Invasion
(Instrumental)
4. Motivation of Man
At last we will claim
what is rightfully ours.
Absolute power, absolute knowledge.
All the galaxies and the
subjects therein will kneel
before the human race.
Unlimited power,
unlimited knowledge.
Mankind will be one with
the Architect of the Universe!
At last within my grasp,
we are one step closer to cleansing.
We claim the universe,
causing galaxies to cower.
Unlimited power,
unlimited knowledge for…
Man will no longer be seen
as primitive or inferior.
Unlimited power,
unlimited knowledge for man!
5. Setian Massacre
Screaming in agony,
cries fill the air.
Eyes once full of hope
shedding tears of despair.
All that they’ve
ever known is dead!
Fire reigns from above,
iron birds of dread.
All that they ever
loved is dead.
All that they
ever dreamt is dead!
Yet there’s a glint of hope
if the chosen can survive,
in secret the ten thousand hide.
East in the mountains
the chosen bide their time.
The Clouding, our strike
on mankind!
Temples are burning,
streets soaked with blood.
Heed the prophecy,
destiny is done.
All that they
ever loved is dead,
all that they
ever dreamt is dead.
Yet there’s a glint of hope
if the chosen can survive,
in secret the ten thousand hide.
East in the mountains
the chosen bide their time.
The Clouding, our strike
on mankind!
6. A Charge to Keep
I must believe that what’s a
memory now was the only way to
know that all of those you love
were just stripped away.
And now if I’m the one to
lead us to a brand new day,
at peace I must be with the
brutal truth to truly lead the way.
Please, God give me
the strength to lead.
It’s my charge to keep!
Bring the sorrow,
the fuel I need.
It’s my charge to keep!
Please, God give me
the strength to lead.
It’s my charge to keep!
Bring the sorrow,
the fuel I need.
It’s my charge to keep!
Now we must wipe the tears away,
gather up our inner strength.
The loss of those we can’t replace
will bring about their fate.
And though many lifetimes it will
take to bring justice on the way.
We must never falter, we must never fail,
this is our charge to keep!
Please, God give me
the strength to lead.
It’s my charge to keep!
Bring the sorrow,
the fuel I need.
It’s my charge to keep!
7. Reflections
As I reflect on the situation,
a heavy heart for the task at hand,
I witnessed savagery, hands tied to destiny.
The exodus of the chosen
as foreseen in the prophecy,
hiding until it’s time to
cloud all the human minds.
When they spoke of the invasion
we were chosen from ties that bind.
Bloodlines through centuries
destined to be the ones to lead.
The twelve and I, a new high council
absorb the power of the Watcher’s eye.
The high priest resides in me,
the Elder lives on in all thirteen…
8. Ten Thousand Strong
A gathering summoned by the Elder,
the consequence of what’s imminent.
A prophecy dark foreboding
forces them to face human intent.
The chosen seek refuge in the mountains,
reluctantly their loved ones recognize.
The sacrifice they must adhere to the
only hope for future Setian life.
Like a Martyr sacrifice!
Await the day of Clouding,
Earth Mother’s sharing in our pain.
Erase the human memory,
they know not of where they came.
And though our hearts are broken
we have to wipe the tears away.
In vain they did not suffer,
ten thousand strong will
seize the day!
What we possess mankind is after,
direct descendants of the Architect.
Children of God, seeds of creation,
the stakes so high, we must never relent.
While in wait ‘till human minds are clouded,
initiation of the Master Plan.
Assimilate and build new life among them,
centuries will past, patience will win.
We are the bane of man!
Await the day of Clouding,
Earth Mother’s sharing in our pain.
Erase the human memory,
they know not of where they came.
And though our hearts are broken
we have to wipe the tears away.
In vain they did not suffer,
ten thousand strong will
seize the day!
Earth Mother’s crying out in pain,
we have to wipe the tears away.
Our hearts are broken,
ten thousand seize the day!
9. Execution
(Instrumental)
Kill them all, die!
10. Order of the Rose
Passed down through centuries
the order lives and feeds upon them.
A global fraternity, philanthropy,
tactical deception.
In plain sight throughout all time,
contriving human decline.
Instilling those who lead,
seizing opportunities.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order thrives so
the day arrive of his birth.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order lives for the
day of Man’s coming curse.
Create divisive creeds,
embrace the fact man needs religion.
Prophets, saviors and priests,
all convinced they have the answers.
The truth is they’ll never know
behind faith they’ll hide and hope.
We’ll build them a martyr son,
sacrificial lamb, the holy one.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order thrives so
the day arrive of his birth.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order lives for the
day of Man’s coming curse.
The object of their divide,
so convinced their way is right.
The narrow view of all mankind,
in the name of God they will divide.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order thrives so
the day arrive of his birth.
Rise of Setian Evocation,
and the order lives for the
day of Man’s coming curse.
11. Cataclysm
(Instrumental)
12. The Clouding
As I awake I have no memory of this.
Who I am, where I’m from, why do I exist?
This strange beauty surrounds me
but where I am confounds me.
I see others who appear the same as me,
a look of loss in their eyes, adrift aimlessly.
What’s the point, what does it all mean?
Who am I, show me a purpose please!
Take this sense of wonder, make it go away!
Please tell me I am not alone and lost here,
that there is something that’s made me feel this way.
Take this sense of sadness, make it go away!
Please give me something that’s familiar,
a friendly touch, a memorable embrace.
I try to speak but empty eyes stare back at me,
twisted tongues segregate, factions are forming.
I’ll stay with those that resemble me to
survive this harsh reality.
As the days pass most
have gone their own way,
nomadic tribes discover life
in a world that feels so strange.
But still I want answers!
What’s the point,
what does all this mean?
Take this sense of wonder, make it go away!
Please tell me I am not alone and lost here,
that there is something that’s made me feel this way.
Take this sense of sadness, make it go away!
Please give me something that’s familiar,
a friendly touch, a memorable embrace.
Lies, the human core is lies!
We wiped their minds, cleaned the slate,
the clouding did divide.
Fate, we sealed human fate!
Now they’re ours throughout
all time to manipulate
Never trust in the motives of Man,
they failed to evolve in Mother Nature’s plan.
And though they seem safe in this early clouded state
the nature of their heresy has proven quite innate.
Pain, mankind will know pain
for their crimes on our kind.
They’ll never be the same!
Death, they will know death!
Suffering for centuries,
at war with every breath.
Never trust in the motives of Man,
they failed to evolve in Mother Nature’s plan.
And though they seem safe in this early clouded state
the nature of their heresy has proven quite innate.
13. Infiltrate and Assimilate
We must be swift integrating with Man,
instating the vision of the master plan.
We’ll placate the humans in need!
Their form we have taken
and their tongue we can speak,
plotting and planning, total secrecy.
We’ll infiltrate and take the lead!
Misery unfolding
for the rest of time,
a world that they created
for their vicious crimes.
This is the start of
what is meant to be.
Infiltrate, assimilate,
fulfill our destiny.
The ten thousand
chosen charged with our creed,
ensuring division in societies.
Instate the Domino Decree!
Lead them to wander
new land, across the seas,
creating new cultures,
fascist or free.
Division will bring
them to their knees!
Misery unfolding
for the rest of time,
a world that they created
for their vicious crimes.
This is the start of
what is meant to be.
Infiltrate, assimilate,
fulfill our destiny.
14. Retribution Through the Ages
Time, thousands of years pass by
but with the ancient rites intact.
Man, mankind has multiplied,
spreading worldwide as planned.
Kings and their armies preen,
draw lines in the sand.
Fight for their so called rights
to God, gold and land.
And through the ages
we hand them their fate,
marionettes on a string.
Phased retribution precise
and exact until the birth of
the one sets us free.
Blood, Earth Mother’s soaked in blood
spilled from the warring Clans of Man.
Greed will serve to feed unrest,
antagonized within by our hand.
Pain, death and pestilence
will shake human faith.
Creeds serving heresy,
a crutch for Man’s flawed way
And through the ages
we hand them their fate,
marionettes on a string.
Phased retribution precise
and exact until the birth of
the one sets us free.
15. Something Wicked (Part 2)
(Instrumental)
16. The Domino Decree
Cause, this is the creed that brings effect,
that of which of mankind’s besieged.
By our plans devised infect,
kings and empires rise and fall.
By the Rose and our decree
of the Elder’s prophecy that
rids us of the human threat,
and frees the hand of destiny.
Fate by our dominion
in their sovereign states.
Fall like dominos,
framing mankind’s fate.
Kill, assassinate the ones that lead
by their example we deceive.
With religions we create martyrs,
saviors and their slaves.
To a sad sadistic need, to crucify
a puppet king of a selfish vile race
that is filled to the core by greed.
Fate by our dominion
in their sovereign states.
Fall like dominos,
framing mankind’s fate.
Divide mankind,
destroy their kind!
Fear will make us free,
cast doubt through history.
Divide…
Fate by our dominion
in their sovereign states.
Fall like dominos,
framing mankind’s fate.
17. Framing Armageddon
Centuries pass step by step,
Revelation’s coming threat.
Sand of time, dark intent,
devise of creeds breed discontent.
Prophecy, stars collide,
born is he who turns the tide.
Ancient rage, vehemence,
indignation and torment.
Framing Armageddon…
Dark equation, Astrology,
Armageddon, The Reckoning,
Revelation, Astral Beast,
Armageddon, The Reckoning!
Shallow views, intolerance,
Jewish, Muslim, Protestant.
The root of man’s insolence
lies in fear and arrogance.
A valid threat if they unite
Moses, Muhammad, Jesus Christ!
Born of Man with second sight,
twist their words we will divide.
Framing Armageddon…
Dark equation, Astrology,
Armageddon, The Reckoning,
Revelation, Astral Beast,
Armageddon, The Reckoning!
If humans learn what’s truly at stake,
and of the birth of Set Abominae.
(Their primitive minds, a maddened state,
frame it as the Elder deemed, frame it our way!
Framing Armageddon…
18. When Stars Collide (Born Is He)
Look unto the days of warning,
a night that the sky is burning
when stars collide.
Pure mathematical perfection,
ancient pain feeds resurrection
when stars collide.
Forged in flames, sacred fire,
born in eastern sands in guile.
Born is he, ten millennia
after the Clouding of Man.
Sincerest veneration for he
that vindicates the end of Man.
Sworn are we, ten millennia
after the Clouding of Man.
Unleash abomination as we
accelerate the end of Man.
Look unto the days of warning,
a night that the sky is burning
when stars collide.
Pure mathematical perfection,
ancient pain feeds resurrection
when stars collide.
Forged in flames, sacred fire,
born in eastern sands in guile.
Born is he, ten millennia
after the Clouding of Man.
Sincerest veneration for he
that vindicates the end of Man.
Sworn are we, ten millennia
after the Clouding of Man.
Unleash abomination as we
accelerate the end of Man.
19. The Awakening
(Instrumental)
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