Dante's Inferno

Song Dante's Inferno
Artist Iced Earth
Album Burnt Offerings

Lyrics

[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 shit
[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