Lyrics: Rex Irae (Requiem: Overture – Fourth Version)
Album: Into the Pandemonium
Artist: Celtic Frost
 

lNTRODUCTION: Rex lrae …

DREAM ENCOUNTER: (King Wrath)
(Dream Voice)
You …
… have joined your father’s feast
Those who saw: Essence or fall
Floods of dramatic silence
And words, from whom we don’t know

OVERTURE/KING WRATH: Let me dream …
Flee from false …
I have tasted the weight of lust
My hands on the skein of height
… A pallid death
Mirage into dark
The horizons echo your glance
Following a detractive sleep
I am the wrath beneath the heavens
The downfall’s monologue
Fallen into the vision of effect
Quiet as gods can be
(Joining the king’s words)
Orgies of fear
lnbreeding and death
I have walked Carthagia’s sands
l’ve touched those buried walls
I am the …
All mortal is love?
Remembrance has won
Breathing glorified innonce
Quiescence has died therefore
I am the …

REMEMBRANCE I: We stood before the portals of Babylon
And saw it’s petrified fall
… Have seen your decline’s symbols
But carried another life
We tasted the wine of Persepolis,
As mute as our era’s breath
Death was never a fragment of
Exalting fantasy …

REMEMBRANCE III (?): This last region – Last of fire
Orgasmic cries – Tears and words
Wrath and strenght – Oh, gods! For you!
Before the throne … – Death

OVERTURE: FINALE: Fright and praise
A faded light
Intimate rests my book
Unwritten what seems true
I am the …
Art of might!
You remaining king
Take your predesessor’s hand
You son of my Jade gift …
I am the …