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[lady talking] No matter how advanced medical technology becomes many people still believe in the ancient healing arts [fades out] [Verse 1:] I had
go ahead and convince me otherwise [Chorus] So many empty words were spoken here today So many promises Id like to dream away Like verses whispered in some ancient ritual
Just holdin' you to me As through the window the moonlight streams Oh won't you baby be in my book of dreams Now the ritual begins 'Neath the wedding
Ceremony Rock 'n' roll music got you good, good baby Ceremony Funky style music got you good, now children Ceremony Rock 'n' roll music got you good, oh Ancient rhythm hit machine Ritual
Overpowered by his tendency for evil A man drew out an ancient magic formula Painted two circles on the ground And burned pine and poplar Other ingredients
rule of father time Leaches pass judgment on their fellow kind And die when their inner self goes astray Alas, I pay homage to the ancient ones Speak
with a cross Children of your lord Semen peppers their faces We seek to distort Our kingdom shall come Rise, the dead burst forth from ancient tombs
loss This chapel of ritual Smells of dead human sacrifices From the altar... Beduins and nomads Carried through the times Through pestilences and famines These ancient
Ancient Egyptian teleportation ritual She bit his icy neck Drains the life out of him Replenishing her own cherished youth The Nile flows The Nile flows
hungry eyes from the mountains high within a circle of cryptic stones into the shades of thoughts into unknown depths through the lunar gates by the rituals
me erupts Of unknown which comes from above Abductions of many who claim To be victims of strange rituals Celestial visitors returning Since ancient
insects devour all remaining tissues Rotting and shifting remains Sixty miles of carcasses Making residence under an ancient city Burial galleries of ritual
Your life is in danger... Beware of the cannibal whores Keep your distance from the uncivilised humans Observe their daily ritual of desvration and dismemberment
I thought that I'd discovered the joy Of loving one so completely That lonely sinking feeling Creeps up on me Here in this silent room we wait on ancient ritual
the caverns of the unholy Oh, the ancients all hope of Abraham Send you to the sacred land To change form, the daunting rituals that leave you scorned
we feast Hellfire's ancient pagan rite All've gathered in blackened fire To celebrate, TO BLEED FOR SATAN The earth's grown black, ancient dawn Sacred