The Impaler was no myth But a man carved from shadow He built his throne on bones And crowned himself in silence Not even death dared take him Why must you invade Peasants enslaved? All people betrayed Blood shed again He ruled Romania Beneath his mania In Transylvania Impalement strikes you straight to hell Valeria dies, ten thousand lies A sealed lead sarcophagus Entombed with riches Lost in the abyss That haven't been claimed Oh, Anubis calls again Sun sets another night Doors crossed, no sleep tonight Sands drift the cold winds blow Whispers of death All have now been told Prophesies are unfulfilled Above the graves Beneath until the sands of time Turn to glass For his excuse to slaughter the innocents Come to sacred lands Run while you can Chain and lock you down Raise your bleeding hand Suffer then and suffer now Fooled you once again Grab you by your sickened heart Facing to the sky Throws you down with bruiting force Spear through your eye You've arrived, look inside See that he is hidden in plain sight Reach for light, feel his bite Veiled inside yet buried deep in night Cry for your doom They feared him more than armies A prince draped in blood, who ruled not by faith, but by fear The Impaler, a name spoken in darkened halls With breath held as if he might hear it They hunted him like a phantom, chained him like a man And dragged him from the walls he once ruled The blade feel at Davon His head, severed clean, was wrapped in silk and sent across the sea A gift from the sultan The body, they buried, but they never found the soul Thirty thousand people stand Impaled across the land All within his belief Beneath, beneath, beneath, beneath, beneath The dungeon he lies His reign won't die A sealed led sarcophagus Entombed with riches Lost in the abyss That haven't been claimed Oh, beneath lives the Impaler dies Stole what once was his before Under the sultan And brought his head to show what lay beneath He has shown unholy prince of fate upon his throne All kingdoms lie and wait And question why your lives could be taken away Conception cession for words of reason Empires share and burn, and they wonder why I walk the gallows path The trail of traitor's end Hung in foreign lands Stripped of my name No crown to defend Treacherous Chains all on the walls Their cowardice My final fall The whisper Why a prince would be dragged away Born from war And to war returned Now the silence reigns While my banner burns I stagger through the ranks Steel reflects the light And the grinning janissaries Chant out my last rites Come out! Passages in mnemonic text Dragged into light Blades descend As my corpse feeds the shadows Of the cold moonlight That lie beneath Iron mask A royal bloodline's price All soda for gold One final breath sacrificed Empire collapsed Beneath sultan's flag No vow shall hold Beneath sultan Empire collapsed Beneath sultan's flag No vow shall hold Beneath sultan