Dante's Inferno-Iced Earth

[00:00.00]song:Dante's Inferno [00:03.85]artist:Iced Earth [00:06.03]album:Alive In Athens (1999) [00:07.81] [00:11.52][Music : Schaffer / Lyrics : Schaffer] [00:13.96] [00:14.93]Through the fiery caverns we sail [00:22.00]Virgil at my side my guide and master [00:28.82]Questing through the nine plains of hell [00:35.80]Infernal wisdom shall fill my soul [00:42.72]Slowly now the days departing [00:49.72]The darkened air releases me [00:56.76]Frightening visions of my journey [01:03.67]Entrance me to limbo I'm not Free [01:11.41] [01:38.98]Abandon all hope who enter here [01:45.44]Enter the gates, Charon awaits [01:50.94] [02:23.79]Abandon all hope who enter here [02:28.32]For this is where all things are left behind [02:32.83]Every doubt and every cowardice must die [02:37.38]Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair [02:41.94] [02:46.71]The souls that wail on this plain pray for death [02:51.23]Denial is the reason for their suffering [02:55.81]Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath [03:00.33]The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need [03:05.20] [03:29.12]Descention, thrusting to the second plain [03:33.79]Minos judges as his tail twines [03:38.26]Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls [03:42.66]A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas [03:47.76] [05:31.02]Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames [05:38.67]Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain [05:47.06]Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time [05:55.32]The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time [06:02.06]The vicious beast Cerebus, three heads, blooded eyes [06:09.57]Tears his talons through the air, all the skinners cry [06:17.37]all the skinners cry [06:21.58] [07:31.51]Down, be still thy cursed wolf [07:34.45]The master scorns its name [07:36.88]Dive to the next plain [07:39.04]The sullen and the vain [07:41.45]Suffer for greed [07:43.52]The prodigal they bleed [07:45.57]For all eternity [07:47.43]Plutus holds the key [07:50.75] [08:06.51]Damned, the wrathful and the vain [08:09.70]Suffer the fifth plain [08:11.94]Cross the river Styx [08:14.26]Heed your crucifix [08:16.29]The mudded corpses cry [08:18.47]Howling to the sky [08:20.60]Reach the other side [08:22.76]Open wide the gate [08:26.02] [09:13.87]Enter the sixth circle of barren land and flames [09:17.22]Passing through the gate of dis the furies scream her name [09:21.11]Belching forth in agony invoking her to rise [09:24.68]The spirit's rage consuming us the evil in their cries [09:28.51]Queen of vipers, queen of serpents [09:32.17]Cast their souls to stone [09:35.91]Spread to wealth of Gorgon's power [09:39.78]Medusa's inner soul [09:42.40] [11:47.88]We're drawing ever closer to the seventh hell [11:54.49]They violate their neighbors, their god and themselves [11:58.72]We're sailing slowly through the boiling river of blood [12:09.94]Immersed in the depths below souls scream in agony [12:19.60]The twisted beast he laughs, he draws his arrow back [12:24.06]His sights on anyone exposing of their flesh [12:31.30]He impales their hearts with ease [12:34.80]And shrugs their piercing screams [12:38.52]Pity is they'll never die [12:41.70]They'll suffer here eternally [12:46.56] [13:56.44]Imagine a place where every horror comes to life [14:00.88]Where every torture is real and time stands still [14:06.60]Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end [14:14.28] [14:15.66]In a cold and timeless grave buried head first in **** [14:21.08]Praying all the while for a quick & painless death [14:26.69]Scratching furiously at scabbed and oozing wounds [14:32.72] [14:35.61]Lucifer ... angel of light [14:41.27]Cast below god of ice [14:46.94]Ruling hell unholy trinity [14:49.86]The traitors freeze for all eternity [14:52.57]Lucifer ... betrayer of god [14:58.41]Tormentor ruthless and cold [15:03.72]Judas' screaming here in agony [15:07.07]The traitors freeze for all eternity