Shadow of the Old Ones (A Cthulhu Mythos Song)

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The majority of the lyrics are respectfully borrowed from the song "The Carol of the Olde Ones" by The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

Lyrics:

In a world so cold
Where darkness resides
Where sanity fades and reason subsides
A lurking horror
Ancient and divine
Unspeakable dread
The end of all time

Whispers in the shadows
Secrets untold
The realm of the ancients
Forever unfolds
Lost in the void
Trapped in their dreams
Madness seeps in
Tearing at the seams

In the depths of the abyss
Where horrors crawl
We face the darkness
As it devours us all
For the stars align
And chaos awakes
We tremble in fear
As Old Ones take shape

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed; now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake
They will return; mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here
They will reclaim all in their name
Hopes turn to black when they come back
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then; it's theirs again

Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bringing a returning season of doom

Final solstice
Final Solstice

Up from the sea, from underground
Down from the sky, they're all around
They will return: mankind will learn
New kinds of fear when they are here
(x2)

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars are now right
Eons have passed; now then at last
Prison walls break, Old Ones awake
Madness will reign, terror and pain
Woes without end where they extend
Ignorant fools, mankind now rules
Where they ruled then; it's theirs again

Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning
Bringing a returning season of doom

Final solstice
Final solstice

In the depths of the abyss
Where horrors crawl
We face the darkness
As it devours us all
For the stars align
And chaos awakes
We tremble in fear
As Old Ones take shape

A lurking horror
Ancient and divine
Unspeakable dread
The end of all time

Look to the sky, way up on high
There in the night stars now are right
They will return