Dantes Inferno Lyrics by Iced Earth

Dantes Inferno Lyrics

    Through the fiery caverns we sail
    Virgil at my side my guide and master
    Questing through the nine plains of hell
    Infernal wisdom shall fill my soul
    Slowly now the days departing
    The darkened air releases me
    Frightening visions of my journey
    Entrance me to limbo I'm not
    Free

    Abandon all hope who enter here
    Enter the gates, Charon awaits

    Abandon all hope who enter here
    For this is where all things are left behind
    Every doubt and every cowardice must die
    Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair

    The souls that wail on this plain pray for death
    Denial is the reason for their suffering
    Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath
    The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need

    Descention, thrusting to the second plain
    Minos judges as his tail twines
    Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls
    A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas

    Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames
    Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain
    Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time
    The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time
    The vicious beast Cerebus, three heads, blooded eyes
    Tears his talons through the air, all the skinners cry

    Down, be still thy cursed wolf
    The master scorns its name
    Dive to the next plain
    The sullen and the vain
    Suffer for greed
    The prodigal they bleed
    For all eternity
    Plutus holds the key

    Damned, the wrathful and the vain
    Suffer the fifth plain
    Cross the river Styx
    Heed your crucifix
    The mudded corpses cry
    Howling to the sky
    Reach the other side
    Open wide the gate

    Enter the sixth circle of barren land and flames
    Passing through the gate of dis the furies scream her name
    Belching forth in agony invoking her to rise
    The spirit's rage consuming us the evil in their cries
    Queen of vipers, queen of serpents
    Cast their souls to stone
    Spread to wealth of Gorgon's power
    Medusa¹s inner soul

    We¹re drawing ever closer to the seventh hell
    They violate their neighbors, their god and themselves
    We're sailing slowly through the boiling river of blood
    Immersed in the depths below souls scream in agony
    The twisted beast he laughs, he draws his arrow back
    His sights on anyone exposing of their flesh
    He impales their hearts with ease
    And shrugs their piercing screams
    Pity is they'll never die
    They'll suffer here eternally

    Imagine a place where every horror comes to life
    Where every torture is real and time stands still
    Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end

    In a cold and timeless grave buried head first in shit
    Praying all the while for a quick & painless death
    Scratching furiously at scabbed and oozing wounds

    Lucifer ... angel of light
    Cast below god of ice
    Ruling hell unholy trinity
    The traitors freeze for all eternity
    Lucifer ... betrayer of god
    Tormentor ruthless and cold
    Judas' screaming here in agony
    The traitors freeze for all eternity
     

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