Count the stains

Read your sins within the blood

Caressing the scorched flesh

Desolated and helpless

With your forsaken soul

crying out in agony



Your lacerated eyes

Gazes straight into death

And the throbbing red stream

keeps ebbing as you stare...



Heading for death

Meet the void beyond the gates

Forever burn in the purgatory

Bloodcurling whisperings

from your lungs, throat and lips

Take my hand and I'll spare your soul

Follow me through eternity

Come to me, I'm bleeding for you



[chorus:]

Lick the wound - let the black blood flow in thee

Lick the wound and feel the rush as life begins again

Lick the wound - to be blessed by the hand of death

Lick the wound, to feel the rush as life begins again



Wrists torn open wide

Pulsating erupting veins

As if the wine of life itself

You shall seek unto it's well



Feast upon the blood of the dead

A gluttony in demonic seed

Suck until the very last drop

Drink, swallow, quench your thirst

A desire deeper than passion itself

Join with me in a crusade for blood,

an everlasting orgasm of ecstasy



Feel the hunger within, feel the ancient lust

Drying veins crying out in pain

Lick my wounds and become one with the night

In the ageless obscured infinity

Close your eyes and greet immortality

Greet the demons' cold embrace

The touch of death shall awake you

let the carnage begin, my veins are open for you



[Guitar lead by Jens Ryden]



[chorus:]

Lick the wound - let the black blood flow in thee

Lick the wound and feel the rush as life begins again

Lick the wound - to be blessed by the hand of death

Lick the wound, to feel the rush as life begins again