When the runners came from Bethlehem
All breathless with good news
They were passing a baton forward through time
The commission, from God?s lips to our ears
Carried by His Saints, two thousand years
Connects us all to the same lifeline
As I fix my eyes ahead
I can feel the Spirit?s breath
And I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I wanna run with fire
It?s my heart?s desire
Lifting Your love higher
In the history of our faith?s arrivals
Great awakenings, Welsh revivals
Saints and martyrs, summoned by a new birth
Patrick?s save of the Irish nation
William Carey?s expectation
Lambs and lions called to the ends of the earth
Gotta put my hands to the plow
Not looking back, not now
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I wanna run with fire
It?s my heart?s desire
Lifting Your love higher
It?s my heart?s desire
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
Echoing across the world
From the shores of Galilee
I can hear the mission bell call
For you and me
I can hear the mission bell
Ringing out loud and clear
It's the revolution Jesus started
And it's here
I wanna run with fire
It?s my heart?s desire
Lifting Your love higher
(Chris De Garmo)
In the wooden chair
Beside my window
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
I recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came fromigh above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yest you know the game
I'll wait her for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
she brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
CHORUS
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till Sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
CHORUS
The underground will rise
And save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
[January 1999 - Rocket Summer]
"Move along it takes too long,you`re holding back the line!"
I tell you -we`ve been waiting here forever
"Go ahead,don`t worry-yet-`coz everything is fine"
A brand new world for us-it`s now or never
We`ll change the rules for those native fools
Hail intervention-we`re under one flag
`coz we are on the mission and we`ll never go back
Now we`re on the mission-the average man
is down on his knees,so he won`t understand
Above the suspicion and fear of the law
we do what we do what it takes to continue the war
The mission`s right over your head
"It`s not what you think"-as it`s always been said
No visable victims-we`re very discrete
There`s no turning back `til the day when the mission`s
complete
"Hurry up and check the map,there must be something left"
Nobody`s getting rich by moving slower
"Torch their towns,forget the clowns accusing us in theft"
Remember how it works-we`re taking over!
It could be strange and will need some changes,so...
Hail intervention-we`re under one flag
`coz we are on the mission and we`ll never go back
My Shining Star
Oh Teach Me More
My Heart Is Bleeding
For The Lost Ones
There's So Many People
So Many Souls
Lost Without A Warning
I Can't See Them Go
The Wrong Direction
Your Voice Is Calling
Calling On Me
Lord, Here I Am
The Mission, My Mission
I Wanna Go
The Final Hour
Will Soon Be Here
We Don't Know
When The Bell Is Ringing
The Mission, My Mission
I Wanna Go
Black Sheep Five, this is Red Dog One, come back
[S.G.]This is Black Sheep, copy
State your position
[S.G.]Well I'm in zone three but it's lookin pretty dry out here
[S.G.]Request permission to put The Mission in action
Affirmative Black Sheep Five, that's a green light
You can set it when you're ready
[S.G.]Ten-four Red Dog, it's on
[Shock G]
Aiyyo question:
what does an Afro-rockin next-droppin Westside type
have in common with a East rock a vest put you to rest type?
(What?) Women, we swimmin in 'em, like batter
I'm bony, he fatter (Watch it son!) My bad Pun
I'm havin fun, playin with my Kiss side
I'm ready to hit the telly, tickle bellies from the inside
Y'all know that Shock's my name
I rock brew instead of champagne
Ask around the world and they'll t-tell you the same
[Big Pun]
Yo what the deal Shock? (Love yo)
You know me, keepin they heels cocked
Still round cause I'm down, 400 lbs of steel cock
You feel hot I warn you, what? I never call you slut
or diss you that's why my initials is on your butt
I get it up when you need it, promise I'll never beat it
Satisfaction guaranteed it, twice as hard if you eat it
My style's comedic, but in the bed ain't nuttin funny
I'm bustin your bunny and leave you smothered with nuttin but honey
We on a mission in the club tonight
(girl)You know we widdit
[Pun]Maxin he ain't on the thug tonight
(girl)You know we widdit
[S.G.]I like your thighs, ain't no cellulite
(girl)You know we widdit
PLAY WITH MEEE!
[all]The Mission
Relax your feet and let me rub you right
(girl)You know we widdit
[S.G.]When it's over you can hug me tight
(girl)You know we widdit
[Pun]Packin heat cause I'm a thug for life
(girl)You know we widdit
LAY WITH MEEE!
[all]The Mission
[Styles]
Whateva, what you got, let's bounce, it's twelve o'clock
Let's blaze the thai, jump in the ride, find a live inside
Stressed all week, scheduled sheets, rhymes and beats
Hit the streets find a club and then bag the freaks
Whateva throw the keys to valet, let's make our way
to the club entrance (Yo there go Pun with like ten chicks!)
The line's sexy, but we gon' get in this bitch
Let me light a clip, look for the shorties with the nicest hips
[Whateva]
We had to bend a piece like the Max casual slacks
Ordered the Cognac, laid back, planned our attack
Straight off the back I'd approach, 'fore we took off our coats
She got close, threw me the signal like a third base coach
[S]Yo Whateva what's the deal?
[W]Yo ain't no time to speak
[S]Where you at?
[W]What you think, about to find that freak
The night's just beginning, strobe lights and nice women
Get in where you fit in, it's just The Mission
[Big Pun]
Physically blubber bound, but I crush a hundred rounds
Eat every bit of you my tongue is Digital Underground
Fuck around and catch the tongue twister
Big Pun'll make you come til you cough up a lung sister
I ain't playin I be layin the laws sprayin your jaw
Makin em all pray, I came in em raw
Breakin em off, like I had two and the bump
Whylin in the club, while my thugs, doin The Hump
(girl) *repeat 2X*
I'd love for you, to come on through
And play with MEEEE [The Mission!]
You want me to, I love you Boo
So lay with MEEE [The Mission!]
[Shock G]
Yeah we're lookin good, raidin the skivvies now
Stand by for coordinates on that supply drop
and make it heavy on the lotion, whip cream, and vaseline
Why don't you bounce to the crib wit me
(girl)You know we widdit
Puff an L, take a swig wit me
(girl)You know we widdit
[Pun]Open your mouth, make history
(girl)You know we widdit
PLAY WITH MEEE!
[all]The Mission
Come up to suite, at the telly with me
(girl)You know we widdit
[Pun]Rub jelly on your belly with me
(girl)You know we widdit
[S.G.]Work up a sweat and get smelly with me
(girl)You know we widdit
LAY WITH MEEE!
[all]The Mission
[Shock G]
I'm over 30 in this, still dirty in this, still flirty
with these misses, still Kissin 'Em Back (The same mission black!)
Yeah I'd love to meet my soulmate, but what if I don't?
(Good point) I ain't dyin horny, I ain't dyin broke (No way!)
No actually forget the money, all I need is love in my life
(In your life nigga?) I'm talkin about tonight nigga
Yo Styles, is that the freak that we was dancin with?
(I think so, yup!) Yeah c'mon let's see what's up
Yo let's slide in the silk sheets
(girl)Ooooooooh
I'ma prove I'ma real freak
(girl)Ooooooooh!
[S.G.]I won't get mine til you feel free
(girl)Ooooooooh
PLAY WITH MEEE!
[all]The Mission
I'm ready to go downtown on ya
(girl)Ooooooooh
[S.G.]I rub lotion all around on ya
(girl)Ooooooooh!
[S.G.]I wanna make freaky squeaky sounds witcha
LAY WITH MEEE!
(feat. Stephen Marley)
[Chorus: Stephen Marley]
From Jungle to Rema
From Tivoli to Matthews Lane
From Waterhouse to Drewsland
From Baneland to Delacre
[Verse 1: Damian Marley]
A youth and youth fi have a plan and have some ambition
And make sure unnu firm ina di Armageddon
So when you son become a man, him know just where you stand
Him know him poopa set it so him follow tradition
If Marcus Garvey say fi read then why some man ah pree
Cause knowledge ah the key and it wll set the people free
And Haile I philosophy is African unity
Unno watch dey segregation and social impurity
The race is not just for the swift but those who can endure
Make sure you have a steady footing in ah zion door
And keep dem thoughts dem pure, Jah love is for the poor
But some likkkle bwoy ah burst some gun dem mooma can't afford
If Jah say blood fi run let Jah will be done
The heaven and the earth will pass away before him word no come
But if 'I'm rise without a cause there will be no reward
For you to enter Zion gates because you are a fraud
[Chorus:]
For the youths in the struggle
Fighting Guerilla warfare
Somalia to Ethiopia
From Egypt to Zimbabwe
[Verse 2:]
Haile Selassie say ah war if colour is a scar
If one from every nation can come live up an ah par
So don't care who you are there's a brighter morning star
It's shining with di town and tell the people near and far
You seek and you will search with science and research
The flesh it is the temple and the temple is the church
Haile Selassie say fi work so how some man ah lurks
Dem fix upon the cornerside like rubbish heap and dirt
Haile Selassie say ah one respect for every man
No care dey race, no care dey colour nor di religion
So make a decision fi bun di division
Cause each and every rasta youth to trot pon di mission
[Chorus:]
From Portmore to Kingston
From Kingston to Montego Bay
From Seaview to Riverton
Come and hundred proclaim
From Jungle to Rema
From Tivoli to Matthews Lane
From Southside to Telaville
From Iraq to USA
From Waterhouse to Drewsland
Take this down to where the streets are cold and nameless
Just be sure to watch your back cuz they will
Find you and attack you without warning
There's trouble all around this place and danger in the
strangest face
If you get lost along the way just close your eyes and
softly say
The silent words you never heard when you were sleeping
soundly in your bed
They won't go away
They don't leave
They won't go away
They don't sleep
We have only just begun to see the future
In the corner of our eyes a little circle will arise and
start to take you
The ships are sailing in the bay and they won't leave
till they've been paid
And everyone's been bought and sold but no one's worth
their weight in gold
It's only just a feeling but the devil has been dealing
all the cards
They won't go away
They don't leave
They won't go away
I open up my head inside
And find another person's mind
I'm gonna take this chance I've got
I run denying as we speak
Hiding my face among the weak
Some say their day is on the way
Into the wild
I'm with a mission
Over the hill
Come here with me
Into the wild
Into the wild
High above the serpentine
I cross below the well-worn lines
Entangled in a missing memory
I find an oversight
I formed this sword that will give rise
To something some new world is here to seize
Into the wild
Into the wild
Into the wild
I'm with a mission
Over the hill
Come here with me
Into the wild
I'm with a mission
Over the hill
Come here with me
Stop, stop, stop the train wreck
It's not the way, way we started out
It seems we've lost the road map, and I can't find another way
Hard times it had a hold, but now we're back on the track
We had it wrong, now make this right
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
And we're moving on, this is our time,
Let's start a revolution
We must stay the course to make it worth our lives
Let's start a revolution
Stop, stop, stop the train wreck,
It's not the way, way we started out
Side-tracked... falling far, we're back to the way we started again
Can't, can't, can't compete now, we must keep dependence in our hearts
You, me pulling through, somehow committed we'll finish this phase
We've come this far... we proved them wrong
And we're moving on, this is our time,
Let's start a revolution
We must stay the course to make it worth our lives
Let's start a revolution
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
Yesterday was our ambition, can't keep this routine going
No, no, stop the mission
No, no, stop the mission
No, no, stop the mission
No, no, stop the mission
And we're moving on, this is our time,
Let's start a revolution
We must stay the course to make it worth our lives
No, no, stop the mission
No, no, stop the mission
(we're on a mission) --> salt-n-pepa
[ verse 1 ]
This is a mission, not a small time thing
Let me tell you 'bout what happened when the phone went (*ring*)
Well, I was coolin at the crib with this girl suzanne
And everything was goin just accordin to plan
When the phone rang - yo, I couldn't believe it
Told myself to ignore it, forget it, leave it
Just when things had started goin great
It rang again I said, "hold up, wait"
Picked up the phone, yelled, "who the hell is this? "
Somebody said, "this is serious business
There's a tape in the mailbox between your doors
Take the tape from the box, and put it in yours"
I listened to the tape and my mouth just dropped
I picked up the phone, but the man hung up
It said, yo, 'this tape will self-destruct'
I pressed the deck, but the tape was stuck
Oh well, what the heck, I just cleaned up the mess
Opened up the closet, got the bullet-proof west
Loaded up the sawed-off, the double-barrel
The rambo knife with the hunting apparel
Threw on the trench, kissed the girl good-bye
She said, "special ed, don't go, you might die"
Started cryin and huggin on me, so I shut her
I said, "sorry baby, but I gotta do what I gotta
(you're on a mission)
Do what I gotta
This is a mission, not a small-time thing
[ verse 2 ]
Took the express on a air force jet
The thoughts in my mind broke me out into sweat
I was thinkin of the message again and again
In particular the name of lu chin chen
Yo, I landed in japan with intent to kill
You could tell I wasn't jokin by the look on my grill
Took a look at the picture of the man that I was after
A 5 foot 10 black-belt karate master
Knew where to find him, knew where he would be
I turned around and showin up mr. chen found me
I looked him in the eye with a stare so cold
I said, "i came to revenge for the rhymes you stole
Now you must die, because that is my mission"
He flipped back, got into a fighting position
The tiger style, the shit was wild
He threw his hands in the air, he started to smile
I said, "you can smile now, but you won't for long
Cause sucker, you'll be sorry that you stole my song"
He said, "choose your style", I broke fool, I said, "what? "
Pulled out the knife, tried to shove it in his gut
It didn't even cut, I flipped, I started buggin
Pulled out the hand gun, I shot a slug in
His chest, he said, "buddah bless" and stood proud
Out shot the bullet, mr. chen just bowed
So I shot him again - yo, I couldn't believe
Mr. chen caught the bullet in this two front teeth
Yo, he kicked me on the floor just like I was a child
I got fed up, I thought of flatbush style
Stood to my feet, threw my hands to the sky
Shaked him then, I faked him, then I caught him in the eye
He started stumblin, yo, I started wildin
He tripped, busted his lip, I started smilin
Knew he was defeated, but I wasn't done yet
So I shot him with the shotie, then I jetted in the jet
(you're on a mission)
Jetted in the jet
Here’s a call going out across the land in every nation
A call to all who swear allegiance to the cross of Christ
A call to true humility,to live our lives responsibly.
To deepen our devotion to the cross at any price.
Let us then be sober moving only in the spirit
As aliens and strangers in a hostile foreign land
The message we’re proclaiming is repentance and forgiveness.
The offer of salvation to the dying race of man.
CHORUS:
To love the lord our God,is the heartbeat of our mission.
The spring from which our service overflows.
Across the street or around the world.
The mission’s still the same.
Proclaim and live the truth
in Jesus name!
As a candle is consumed
by the passion of the flame
spilling light unsparingly
throughout the darkened room.
Let us burn to know him deeper
then our service flaming bright.
will radiate his passions and blaze with holy light
[Intro: Solomon Childs]
Come on, New York City
Yo, Tone Starks, I got you man
Theodore... uh-huh
Thinkers and doers, nothing to gain (that's right)
Hear the hunger? Huh?
[Solomon Childs:]
I'mma show you how the game is formatted
How types grew up when the pressure's had it
I'm gon' corner the market, I've been straight for three years
And robbery homicide's, still got me as the target
Military apparrel, keep walking
While you motherfuckers talk shit
Boulevard Time Warner, death on your mans
These cats kill me, they be so gangsta
Two gats on 'em in the parole office
Thirty one wins, no losses
And hear the camera shots in the hood
Run off faster, then Kentucky Derby horses
You ask what's really good, half of these gangsta rappers
Ain't even allowed back in they own hood
With they war stories and they sinister box
And explain how you so hardcore
For being in a video with R. Kelly doing the wop
Valentine bees up, Funk Flex you killin 'em homey
So fuck what they say, never ease up
[Interlude: Solomon Childs]
Yeah... the Theodore... Yo Starks, what's good man
I'm looking in they eyes, man
They not ready, man, they are not ready, you hear?
[Solomon Childs:]
Since B.I.G., everybody ready to die
Not me... I'm try'nna live til I'm a hundred and five
T-H, E-O, D-O-R-E
Lauryn Hill, I'll kill a nigga softly
Grace period, part one
You little niggaz gon' be our son
Gon' have niggaz in yo backyard
So what you got knowledge of self
General Starks can't save you god
The Theodore, gon' swarm down on you like hawks
You ain't a killa, motherfucker
Ease up, on the gun talk, let's bring it back
To the knuckle checks and pipes
Blood, no exception, gon' have me
Strip you wannabe niggaz for ya stripes
Homey, I ain't got no time for the two twelve
This the championship edition
I want trophies on the shelf
So put the bally in the air, and yell out 'the king was here'
[Outro: Solomon Childs]
2-20, motherfucker...
You can't see me, man
Castleton Avenue hero
Broadway & Henderson
The mayor of New York...
20-20 eyesight..
And I bury you...
New York City, man
All the way from the future
[Music by Libor Krvk]
[Instrumental]
[scratching for ten seconds]
Madlib turn the strings up
My knuckleheads, put them things with the beams up
You won't need your heat this time around
I spits fire, it's like the rounds are rounds
In a big ass block of the bitch-ass niggaz
Who wan' hate, cause they don't get cash with us
But they really on Jay and Mad dilznick
If you want the truth then that's just it
Them sick cause I slipped they chick this magic stick
We all act, can we get them balls back
I keeps it simple as well as complicated
Jaylib for service, just compensate us
I'm tryin to cop the Maker's and hop up in the latest whips
Caked rockin gators
It's P.I., D.I. and L.I.B.
Better know what the hell I bring, it's fire
[scratching for a bit]
Yo, wait, now let me speak on these journalists
Only the ones who need to learn and listen
Before they criticize verses that burns kitchens
Live from the land of Hearns and Pistons
You heard me~? ! Beats and rhymes so dirty
Play it too loud and you'll feel a burn where you pissin
Up, my nigga turn the motherfuckin strings up
The ultimate link-up, about to cha-ching up
Jaylib baby don't forget the name
How you want it, Beemer four-fifth or Range
Come see the Dilla lay with the fifth
Maybe you can write an article about how Jay play with them whips
And who said producers ain't supposed to rap
They don't want the Ruger to bang well close your traps
Better not run them jibs or fibs no more
We pullin plugs so haters ("can't live no more")
My style cap to the bible rap to the title track
I got It locked and aim like a rifle master
After the nine double I need therapy cause my mind struggles
I search but all I can find Is trouble
With my big eye open when I roll with a flow
It's just like magnifico
Though my creations are felt and got occupational wealth
Still wicked as satan's health
It's ok for your health take a journey today
You'll learn the rules If ya please let me play with your mind
I make ya feel divine when I unravel a rhyme
That's gonna make you travel through time
You wanna get high I'll take you to the bottom of the sky
Pass the galax I hypno's gonna teach you to fly
Close your eye then close your other eye
Now In a flash you on another ride to the other side
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
I want wisdom but wisdom's only friend Is time
Who I I run away from
But he always catches me and walks faster than I ran
Time always gets his way
An uninvited guest who spends more than just one day
Told me the only way that I can meet wise
Is If he brought his friend mistake
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Y'all know I'm movin' like a current through the socket I shock 'em
Put me on the stereo here we go spritiual I sock 'em
From the top to the bottom ya know what I got 'em
I load the mic up with heat lock It cock It and rock 'em
Cause here I come travelin' searchin' for wisdom
Hittin' another plane that's In between the drum
So journey with me I think you'll find when your done
Spooks raisin' up the caliber out shinin' the sun
My control raps speak the truth like phone taps
I know you wanna express yourself blow that
Cause my dispersement of searches remain stable and pertinent
When I'm hurtin' It the verbal philosophy resembles socrates
Now who the fuck wanna rock with me
My approach Is thunderous like giants with knockin' knees
And then I'm on a mission for bad karma that blister my balls
Ga ga got 'em from behind his pigeon door
Time always gets his way
An uninvited guest who spends more than just one day
Told me the only way that I can meet wise
Is If he brought his friend mistake
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Travelin' searchin' for wisdom the mission
Timeless monoliths of hate
Infuriating my cryptic devotion
The code to open the final gate... where the funeral
dream resides
Awaiting into the emerald abysm
Guided through visionary flames
Guided through visionary flames
By the calling of an astral fiend
Rest in fire, arriving ...so far from home, but this is
the place
Farseeing ...sun and moon corroding, this is the place,
finish the mission
...The final time to liberate and to unveil the code to
open the final gate
Timeless monoliths of hate
Here's a call going out across the land in every nation
A call to all who swear allegiance to the cross of Christ
A call to true humility, to live our lives responsibly.
To deepen our devotion to the cross at any price.
Let us then be sober moving only in the spirit
As aliens and strangers in a hostile foreign land
The message we're proclaiming is repentance and forgiveness.
The offer of salvation to the dying race of man.
CHORUS:
To love the lord our god, is the heartbeat of our mission.
The spring from which our service overflows.
Across the street or around the world.
The mission's still the same.
Proclaim and live the truth
In Jesus name!
As a candle is consumed
By the passion of the flame
Spilling light unsparingly
Throughout the darkened room.
Let us burn to know him deeper
Then our service flaming bright.
Will radiate his passions and blaze with holy light
For years and years we waited
And now the time has come
To leave these barren lands
Towards new horizons.
No matter what has happened
And what was said or done.
Words are to be to forgotten.
We will roam on!
We cross the gates of darkness
Into the black of night.
We don't fear anybody:
Got the second sight.
We move a little further
Towards the borderline.
Before the dawn of day
Our souls come back to life.
And life comes back again.
The mission's to fight to be free again.
To stand our ground and to be immortal.
This is our mission so here we stand.
We have the right to be ourself again.
They held us down for so long
Our backs against the wall
We didn't see a future,
Did not hear the call.
But now that things have changed
Now that our fears are small
We create a vision
Face it - one for all.
We cross the gates of darkness
Into the black of night.
We don't fear anybody:
Got the second sight.
We move a little further
Towards the borderline.
Before the dawn of day
Our souls come back to life.
And all I see, in front of me.
Every step I take is bringing me closer to me!
The mission's to fight to be free again.
To stand our ground and to be immortal.
This is our mission so here we stand.
We have the right to be ourself again.
The mission's to fight to be free again.
All that we are is everything we've ever been.
And what we'll be is what we are.
All we are
All we are
All we ara
Is everything we've ever been.
The mission's to fight to be free again.
To stand our ground and to be immortal.
This is our mission so here we stand.
We have the right to be ourself again.
The mission's to fight to be free again.
To stand our ground and to be immortal.
This is our mission so here we stand.
We have the right to be ourself again.
The mission's to fight to be free again.
To stand our ground and to be immortal.
This is our mission so here we stand.
We have the right to be ourself again.
The autumn's vice on dregs of life has past
While roundabout the hills the snow drives fast
The mercenary slips his lair
And grappled in his hands there bears
The solitary hope of nations thralled
Wherefore comes this titan of men?
The seas lie in wait for his ships of stealth
'Cross monstrous waves of seething crests
And ocean vales of uneasy rest
Ne'er terror nor lust shall ever waylay
Tempestuous gales these masts will outstand
And hold steadfast 'til death or land
Ferried aloft the standard's face is revealed
And borne upon the winds of a godless zeal
He forges on through the perpetual dark
And closes in on the ancient ark
Where the fame of erstwhile heroes's stored
And all cherished tales of battlelore
The sceptre wrench'd from the master's hand
Argentine skies below he stands
Ferried aloft the standard's face is revealed
And borne upon the winds of a godless zeal
He forges on through the perpetual dark
And closes in on the ancient ark
Where the fame of erstwhile heroes's stored
And all cherished tales of battlelore
The sceptre wrench'd from the master's hand
Argentine skies below he stands
Primordial mores are all but lost
The latter days know nothing of the cost
Insipid lives of lifeless men
Their doctrine's claim on penitence
Doth rules the weakest minds of those not freed
Ensanguined spoils of crusades' toils are fixed
To pietism's clasp on those betwixt the amalgam of gods
and men
Our mercenary strives to rend
Anathematic bonds of theists' call, for one an all
The faithless one shall never fall
