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