Tonight is the night
The empowering wind that draws breath from despite
Roars â??neath my wings as I soar with the end in sight

Choirs ignite
A swansong for Leda
Deathknells for Troy
Tragedy blooms from one act
I am nemesis

Poured in my arms
When my daughter's eyelids closed
I swore to slaughter those
Who stole my ray of moonlight

So strike up the skies
The diction of thunder
God-given rites
No fiction can deafen the fact
I am nemesis

Cowled in the utter grief
I am the priest of a new disorder
Whose flag unfurled
Bears a hatred for the western world

The is no compromise
No piped lament
To stay the blind
Just a shrike cacophony of war

Ashes ember, fires rise
No longer am I paralyzed
Now I drown in a loss worth fighting for

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis
Nemesis
Nemesis

Tonight is the night
The city sweats fever, the filth in her womb
Shifts like the season's unease at the hands of doom

Restless inside
Her split underbelly
Suitored with flies
Martial bowels now contract
I am nemesis

Poured in my arms
When my daughter's eyelids closed
I swore to slaughter those
Who stole my ray of moonlight
Never again
Our enemies entertained
I toy at the clasp of her chain
And remember the fight

Cowled in utter grief
I am the priest of a new disorder
Whose flag unfurled
Bears a hatred for the western world

There is no compromise
No piped lament to stay the blind
Just a shrike cacophony of war

Ashes ember, fires rise
No longer am I Palestined
Now I drown in a loss worth fighting for

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis

Black is my heart
Black is my heart
Black is my heart
I am nemesis
Nemesis


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Nemesis Lyrics as written by Paul James Allender Daniel Lloyd Davey

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Cloud9

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    I believe the song is about great loss and that it explains the emotions a Father would go through through the loss of his daughter.

    (Tragedy blooms from one act- I am Nemesis!) This part of the song shows that through his loss he saught out the revenge that he deserves to inflict

    (Poured in my arms, When my daughter's eyelids closed, I swore to slaughter those Who stole my ray of moonlight.) Here he sings of his daughter laying in his arms as she died and it is where he swears to get his revenge

    (Ashes ember, fires rise, No longer am I paralysed. Now I drown in a loss worth fighting for.

    Black is my heart, I am Nemesis!) Here he goes on as to the imense destruction he is inflicting against the world and that he does not regret fighting for his daughter and that there is nothing left of him now that he has lost his daughter. He has become the God of Hatred and Vengance(Nemesis)

    (Cowled in utter grief, I am the priest of a new disorder, Whose flag unfurled Bears a hatred for the western world.) Finaly he explains that within his new army of hatred that through his grief he will push on towards his final battle agains his enemy

    that is just what i get out of it all

    P.S. About that whole Green Monkey bit..... GROW THE **** UP

    Otherguy223on July 19, 2005   Link

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