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[Verse 1]
Around the altar of Saint Sebastian
Where the sick are limping
Hoping for miracles
Gleaming sweat in torchlight
Sale of salvation
Hope for life and health
Here where death dwells
Clerical vulture are stealing

[Pre-Chorus]
Oblations falling from the hands of the dying
Mass graves open like mouths full of rotting teeth
Swallowing knights and clerics whole
The world is burning, familiar things perish

[Chorus]
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
The Black Death
Black rots are dancing around the dead
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
666 years ago
The day the Norwegian Realm died
[Verse 2]
The Great Death stops
Laughs weirdly and dances
Rats scurrying
Fleas itching and tickling
Lice on rosaries
Light on polished breastplate
But no armour stops
The arrows of pestilence

[Pre-Chorus]
Oblations falling from the hands of the dying
Mass graves open like mouths full of rotting teeth
Swallowing knights and clerics whole
The world is burning, familiar things perish

[Chorus]
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
The Black Death
Black rots are dancing around the dead
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
666 years ago
The day the Norwegian Realm died
[Post-Chorus]
And then came the Danes
And then came Protestantism
Magic and folk beliefs disappeared
And then came modernism

[Interlude]
In the middle of life we are in death
Whom will we call as a helper
If not you Lord
Who for our sins
Justly have got angry?

[Bridge]
But first
In the same place
Another time
A time of swords
A time of wolves
Everything at risk
Everything in flux

[Verse 3]
There is no mercy anywhere
Bodies piled high around the altars
No room for kneeling and praying
No quiet for psalms or psalters
Corpse upon corpse in piles with no one to bury them
Dead in spite of all oblations
The plague acknowledges no martyr's power
The Black Death swallows earthly splendor
[Refrain]
An entire nation annihilated
Saint Sebastian and his miracles came short
Dice decide who dies
Nothing left of anything that once made sense
Nothing left of anything that once gave life meaning
Nothing left of anything that once gave life meaning

[Verse 4]
Erected for the business of the foremost merchants of Oslo
An altar built in the church of Saint Halvard
Today the ruin lies in daylight
Beneath the dizzying abyss of the clear sky
Here prayers fell on deaf ears
Bodies piled in front of the church doors
No more chapels for funerals and peace
When the plague ran wild no one was safe anywhere

[Refrain]
An entire nation annihilated
Saint Sebastian and his miracles came short
Dice decide who dies
Nothing left of anything that once made sense
Nothing left of anything that once gave life meaning
Nothing left of anything that once gave life meaning

[Interlude]
In the middle of life we are in death
Holy merciful Saviour
Don’t bring a bitter death to us
We hurry towards death
Let us desist from sin
You will be a vile corpse! Why not avoid sinning
You will be a vile corpse! Why seek for anger
You will be a vile corpse! Why wear splendid clothes
You will be a vile corpse! Why look for signs of glory
You will be a vile corpse! Why not confess and do penance
You will be a vile corpse! Do not rejoice at your neighbour's expense

[Bridge]
The arrows of the plague
Harm all
Like a storm
God is resting
The parish dies
Bit by the worm of Satan
Saint Sebastian was a holy man
Maybe he could save people from the Devil
Sebastian was a holy man
Maybe he could save people from the Devil

[Verse 5]
He died in Rome in 287
Killed in a manner that should spread terror and dread
Martyred by Emperor Diocletian
Murdered by the Roman Empire of Satan
Pierced by Moorish archers
Elevated to one of fourteen protectors of sufferers
When he survived being trussed up and shot
He became a symbol that death has lost its power
Even though he had his brains bashed in and his body was thrown in the sewers
His altars are even today wreathed in the smoke of incense

[Bridge]
1348 was the year when a flea from a rat
Infected the first one in Oslo's East End and then went west
The outcome was inevitable
Pilgrims found it best to go to Hamar
Where every priest immediately left our world
The journey then continued to Nidaros
All men suffered the same fate
How then was one to interpret
That the stiff grin of death was spreading
From a ship landing in Bjørgvin in 1349?
In every village there were signs
All over the country rumours flew:
A ship has landed in Bjørgvin harbour with only corpses on board
A ship has landed in Bjørgvin harbour with only corpses on board
A ship has landed in Bjørgvin harbour with only corpses on board
A ship has landed in Bjørgvin harbour with only corpses on board
Oh, no!

[Chorus]
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
The Black Death
Black rots are dancing around the dead
The Black Death
The bubonic plague lays waste to the land
666 years ago
The day the Norwegian Realm died

[Post-Chorus]
And then came the Danes
And then came Protestantism
Magic and folk beliefs disappeared
And then came modernism

[Outro]
All is lost
Ground by the jaws of time
The idol man made
The saint a man
Only the reality of death lives on
And no one can tell you what comes after the twilight