Emperor Of The Void - Candlemass

I am the king of the great islands of grey

Windswept and scarred, bent and confused

My castle’s my ruin, the moldering grave

Where the memory fades along

With the mourning cry of the mother

I am the king, the ruler of the grey Islands

I’m the emperor of the void

I am grey, the weakened ruler of these islands

I’m the emperor of the void

Who counts the wounds?

Who sees the hunger, the flight of denial?

The fibers, the nerves

That raptures and bursts from artery to cell

Continuously repeating

The hymn of life and death

And the holy whore

Desecrated in desperation

I am the king, the ruler of the grey Islands

I’m the emperor of the void

I am grey, the weakened ruler of these islands

I’m the emperor of the void

I stand before destruction, touching the stone of my realm

So dignified, unmerciful, without empathy

You saw my birth, an ornament in your grain

You see my death, terrible and divine

I am the king, the ruler of the grey Islands

I’m the emperor of the void

I am grey, the weakened ruler of these islands

I’m the emperor of the void