Damnatio ad Bestias Songtext
von Maniae

The dead are singing a name
The living curse
A name I forgot a long time ago
Into a mass grave
The well born I was
Now is lulled by the sounds of the shouts
The rifles and of the deflagrations

Shards of mirror as crown of thorns

For my penitence
I raise the white flag
For the dead and for light
I left behind


The insane ghost I′ve become
Suffers from the judgements and taunts
As from a sharp-cutting knife
Slashing his mind
Those who cry and those who scold
Slowly destroy the shell
Of the man they've desecrated
Since his first shot

In search of the pieces of the past
For the light, for life, for the dead
And their memory
I′m scrutnizing the last bullet
Which shall silence their chant

Return to dust
Return to light

In memoriam
Angelus apatrida
Damnatio ad bestias
Gloria mortuorum

My blood shall join what is no longer
The innocent I was the dead took with them
The love of my people, the man I could become
Far from my ghost

Deliver me from pain
Deliver me from the howls
Deliver me from death
Deliver me from life


I can see redemption
At the rifle barrel
Whose I've pulled the trigger
This is Light