Song Lyrics- Spirit Blade: Dark Ritual

Hour Of Trial
Adapted by Paeter Frandsen, based on "In The Hour Of Trial" by James Montgomery and Spencer Lane (Public Domain). Adapted Lyrics are Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

In the hour of trial, come and plead for me. Or by my denial I may depart from thee.
If you see me waver, with a look recall. Don't let fear or danger make me slip and fall.

With forbidden pleasures would this vain world charm; or its sordid treasures spread to work me harm.
Bring to my remembrance sad Gethsemane; or, in darker semblance, morbid Calvary.

Chorus:
Don't just leave me alone. 'Cuz I'm not safe on my own.
Tell me what this is for. Don't understand anymore.

Should your mercy send me sorrow, toil, and woe, or should pain attend me on my path below,
grant that I may never fail thy hand to see. Grant that I may ever learn to trust in thee.

(Chorus)

With my last hour coming, filled with strife and pain; with my dust returning to the dust again;
on your truth relying through this mortal strife, quickly take me, dying, to eternal life.

Silence
By Paeter Frandsen, Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

Why now your silence? Why have you neglected to extend any guidance when I want to obey?
How long your absence? How can you expect me to maintain my subsistence when you're so far away?

Faded reliance. For lack of view I misconstrue and stand in defiance of what you would advise.
Accept my compliance with what you choose. I'll not refuse, persisting through silence.
But in your silence, rise. In your silence, rise. Arise and come. Rise and come.

Why now your silence? Why have you neglected to extend any guidance when I want to obey?

Lead Me
Adapted by Paeter Frandsen, based on "He Leadeth Me" by Joseph H. Gilmore and William B. Bradbury (Public Domain) and "Nearer My God To Thee", by Sarah F. Adams and Lowell Mason (Public Domain). Adapted Lyrics are Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

While I am wandering, the sun slips away; and darkness discovers me, sleeping in decay.
Yet, in my dreams I'll be nearer my God to thee. Nearer my God to thee. Nearer to thee.

Sometimes in scenes of deepest gloom, sometimes where Eden's flowers bloom;
whatever I do, wherever I'll be, I'll need your hand to be leading me.

Chorus:
He's leading me, he's leading me. By his own hand he's leading me.
His trusting servant I will be if God himself is leading me.

If I entrust my life to you, despite what you may lead me through,
I'll never need a path to see, if I can know you're leading me.

(Chorus)

Mercy now is what I plead in my hour of desperate need.
Turn me not away unblessed. Calm my anguish into rest.

(Chorus)

And when my task on earth is done; all conflicts passed, except for one;
in death's cold wave I will not flee, because I know you're leading me.

(Chorus)

So help me trust what I can't see, because I know you're leading me.

Death Come Quickly
Adapted with new material by Paeter Frandsen based on "Lord It Belongs Not To My Care" by Richard Baxter (Public Domain). Adapted Lyrics are Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

I don't know what awaits me now, or what my fate may be; to live and face my foes again, or die, your face to see.
Now it belongs not to my care if I should die or live. To love and serve you is my share, each day you choose to give.

Chorus:
But if you don't mind too much, let death come quickly now, because I'm not sure how I can last much longer.
It would only take your touch to rip this pain away. But if you have me stay it'll make me stronger.

If life is long, then I'll be glad that I can long obey. If short, then why should I be sad to welcome endless day?
You lead me through no darker rooms than you've gone through before. To leave behind an empty tomb I must go through this door.

(Chorus)

Nearer my God to thee. Nearer to thee. Though it may be a cross that is raising me,
Still all my song shall be, "Nearer my God to thee." Nearer my God to thee. Nearer to thee.

(Chorus)

Soon the pain will be too much. Let death come quickly now. I know you won't allow this hell much longer.
It would only take your touch to lift my grief away. But if you want I'll stay, just make me stronger.

Necromancy
By Paeter Frandsen, Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

Writhing and dying all over again. Torture consuming me, I can't defend.
Hatred surrounding me, so much for friends. Abandoned, forgotten, alone I descend.

But one future, a new existence; all that I have left, clinging to providence.

Pre-Chorus/Chorus:
It will be necromancy sanctified, full-reversal homicide, ripping out the pain inside;
Annihilation override, turning over genocide, immortal life and death defied.

Bring me to life. Your sacrifice rescues my soul from this hell.
Bring me to life. A grip like a vise is pulling me under its spell.

Flesh tearing out of me. Screaming, I cry. Death and The Great Necromancer nearby.
Afterward, flesh animated again. Now, indestructable life with no end.

One future, a new existence; all that I have left, clinging to providence.

(Pre-Chorus/Chorus)

So let them use me and brutalize me. Let them strip me down and destroy me.
Let them mock me. Let them hate me. Let them kill me. You will restore me.

(Chorus)

Veritas
By Paeter Frandsen, Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

Chorus: 
Will it be biased toward authenticity and of the highest form of integrity?
Is it consistent with pure reality and then persistent in its veracity?

Used
By Paeter Frandsen, Copyright 2008, Spirit Blade Productions.

I'm an instrument used by his power. I'm an instrument used to devour everything.
Everything out of control.

Who is using you now? Who is using you now?

Your words feel pious and pure, but can you be sure that someone can cling to the things that you say?
Caught up in the sound it may seem profound, but still in the end your inventions will fade.

Chorus:
Who is using you now? Explain to me how you're trying to help someone else more than you.
Consumed in your pride; look deeper inside. You're filling your eyes with the lies you accrue.

It's for your own good. And if you understood, I think you'd come to see I'm only thinking of you.
I think it's for the best you give this fight a rest and leave the work to me. I will decide what is true.

You know what language to use, but I'm not confused. You must think you sound so concerned as you pray.
But don't think I'm blind. It's easy to find the lie in your smile a mile away.

(Chorus)

It shouldn't be this way; a price too high to pay. It's much too great a cost. Why don't you think this is strange?
Won't let it end like this; a wrong I can't dismiss. This battle might be lost, but I can make it all change.

Bring him your light. Your sacrifice can rescue his soul from this hell.
Bring him your light. A grip like a vise is pulling him under its spell.

(Chorus)

Who is using you now?