Visions Of Terminal Darkness scene 2

   Это может быть монолог любого из членов ордена Chronicler'ов, но скорее всего - его основателя. Вайпер в данном случае - некое абстрактное воплощение зла. Главный же герой, видевший историю на тысячелетия вперед, прекрасно осознает, что конец всего сущего неизбежен.
Gloom of ages - то же, что Dark Ages
Despite of the Prediction - имеется в виду изначальная предрешенность судьбы, которую Летописцам дано изменять.
No more man with the pipe - здесь подразумевается дудочник с первого альбома Pink Floyd "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" как олицетворение детской безмятежности.
Baal [ba:l] - в д.с. демон, злой дух.
Killing Cipher - число Зверя 666.
 
           Visions Of Terminal Darkness
                SCENE: 2
                When Viper Smiles
                18.08.02.
                monologue in 3 parts

Epigraph:    "...This constant longing for your touch
This bitter ocean of hatred and pain
This loneliness I need to be who I am..."
                Tuomas Holopainen
               
                1.

I saw the sign: the star's inflamed
The wall and left the writing:
"The vengeance nears to all the blamed
Upon the wings of lightning"

It has appeared before my sight
To presage and betoken
The incarnations of my spite -
Well-founded and outspoken

In my murk depths I rested long
Engrossed by the stupefaction
And sang my slow and mournful song
About the lost perfection

The havoc's crowned my fairy tale
And after its completion
Here are no fightings for the grail
Nor wars for demolition

I've stopped the story of my way
Amidst the glowing pages
Since that my grief leads me astray
Throughout the Gloom of Ages

I witnessed how this life betrays,
Beheld the demons' glowers
And when the Black Queen bared her grace,
We were the fateless lovers

I did not praise the innocence
'Cause when the passion merges
With fire, it evokes the sense
That burns the being's verges

And most of my own spells and odes
Were born by the assistance
Of phantoms and their fearful words
To rhyme my frail existence

These spirits soar above my earth
To guard its great conception
I'm lonely, but I'm not a serf
Who'd take a mean perception

And till the splashing water brings
The voices of the sirens,
The gales will dance upon my strings
To shed the veil of silence

                2.

The tocsins yet not toll to leave
And my iced blood is running
Back to the passed love's sweet reprieve
And her enchanting cunning

Where every touch and every kiss
Was like a benediction
To be enliven from Decease
Despite of the Prediction

The brief desire... was it right
To make my pain so restless?
I followed her enticing light
Into the horrid wasteness

And ne'er to find the primrose path
In my enclosing boredom
Now just my banner on the staff
Pains black the skies of autumn

The dreams of youth I do not chase
With years it's grew much harder
The lone souls all are on the race
From one death to another

The bitter tears I tried to wipe
Within the dawning azure
But 'twas no more man with the pipe
To hold the childhood's pleasure...
               
                3.

Reality is dull and glum
Its dreary as the marshes
But finally the storms will come
To set this world on ashes

The future of the local space
Empurpled with the slaughter
It's not an empty pointless phrase
Let fall by some mad author

'Cause when the Baal will break the seal
And read the Killing Cipher,
The damned shall feel the baneful thrill
And face the smiling Viper

There'll be no new faith to unite
Mankind nor last endeavor
For those, who can't enjoy the night,
The Truth is gone forever