2. Beyond Enlightenment
[lyrics: Sundin]
Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion,
brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions
Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions
Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation
"Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet
A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat"
All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control
My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall
Demand my fall
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation"
forming law and justice into obscuration
leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire,
In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires
"You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies
With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies"
Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused
A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied
Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide
Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death
In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left
3. Vernal Awakening
[lyrics: Sundin]
Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge,
the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged,
Created life in fetters from cradle to grave
A future in darkness with mankind enslaved
Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail
Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore
So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost:
"Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth,
will a wasteland remain?
Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man
- his enfeebled domain?
Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim
Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man
So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found:
"Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall
let disorder arise!
An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth
hides now cloaked in disguise
Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions
Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion
Autumn - beckons forth the
winter - rising gloom in hand
Raging with bleak coldness 'til
vernal light commands
Final chapter closed - world devoid of use
Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
4. Void Of Tranquillity
[lyrics: Sundin, Stanne]
In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past
Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins
Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before
The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore
Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul
Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal
The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely
as you're about to pass away The darkness that
surrounds you fades...
You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal
forgivness for thy impure soul
Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre
Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death
Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time
An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime
Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand
Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one
Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey
journey to a thousand secrets untold
Credlous at first to this place of wonder
Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades
Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away
Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs
This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world
Brought forth, the abyss now appears -
foulmouthed temptations call me near
Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be
Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond
The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay
Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony
Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be
All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail
- lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair
Indescribable light descends between spheres
Spheres that behold that nondescript fear
Thought of the sins that were done in the past
the past is forgotten and the present will last
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within
Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin
Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty
Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny
Into the void of tranquillity
Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails
Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail
Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale
The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale
Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away
Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway
Forced to return - departure of soul
Material world - arrival as told
5. Unfurled By Dawn
[lyrics: Stanne]
Time and space unite
era of darkness - we mourn
Times of sorrow despite
our preach is put to scorn...
In ways like these I shall be reborn
to my words I conform
To seek the path of knowledge through time
In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason)
Subconcious powers flow
- we burn the ways forlorn
Am I in time with forces I am born
Are those disguised
Excuse is being dumb
In spirit fails...
Self realization in supreme conciousness
Explore the self - within a millenia of peace
Reach into the soil of humankind
Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground
Feel the wind of time now changing
Hear the voice that whispers near
Explore the inner strength within you now
seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
"I've seen the void that echo fear"
Fly into this void of inner consioucness
we seek eternally
Greet enlightned ways...
I spead out wings of knowledge
is essential in mournful times like these
Words I repent
Voice from inner self shall lead my way
Former ways of life I repent
to inner consciosness I've ascent
Mortal way of living is the key
Key to the secret it beholds
Come to seek the path with me
in unfathomable harmony
the way life is meant to be
enjoy and just adore life...
Burning desire in thee
letting your soul fly free
No sould shall be the same
burn with a different flame
Sowing the seeds of man
proving the things your can
Seeing the things that'll be
the priors in life I can see
Each of mankind is a star
that will keep on shining eternally
Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind
enchanted over things that you will find
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
In affection we loom - a reflection of time
Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule)
Search the inner self - find the self within
Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore)
things that' s left unsaid
Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse
nothing to forbid
In the empty eyes of the last of mortals
those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened
Before this dawn of eternal light we stand
once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten
...to the forgotten
Internal sadness cured through the light
to reach the sadest river in sight
Whispers of molten souls in my ear
on wings of twillight I am born....
Now enthrone thoughts of the past
the embryo of time
Your life lies yet unfolded
'til enlightened ways we see
In my dreams I've seen repention
as in tales that were never told
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
6. YESTERWORLD
[lyrics: Stanne]
Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate
I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape
of re-emerged figments of imagination
I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep
Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye
reveal that a dreamscape lies therein
A yearning for a world
where the everlost find their peace
In the pearly gates of dawn
on the astral feed of minds
- envenomed to the bone
forever cleansed from all called wrath
as slumber sneaks upon
and steals the thought of man
all ridden from inner aggression...
A voyage beyond this world
In this paralell to real life
- access lies in dreams
Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep
- the key to what's beyond
In the wake of man we see
essential dreams unfulfilled
Enhance the value of life
engraved words on the page of man
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"This ain't no dream..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's your dream coming true"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames
that burn in the errors of our ways
In a night when the sky floats blue
as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling
in their outmost pride
Now from dimensions fallen from the skies
- like the flow of a stream
From my sleep I continue onward
- sleep is just a shape of destiny
Weak sunlight of dawns to come,
dancing swiftly in the shadows
Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams
...landscape of my dreams
Dim reflections of the pale
a shade of grey in mind
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"It's your reality..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's much more than a dream"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
Soon these worlds will be one
and mankind feasts on the sights of it all
I yearn for things to come
Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber
as the mist slippes away to reveal...
And the wind tears a scream from my lips
- I am there....
In the dreamscape I adore
(a moonclad reflection)
1. Nightfall By The Shore Of Time
[lyrics: Sundin]
A shimmer trace of divinity lost
in the beckoning midnight vault
(We are) lulled within the wake
of a cold November's nightfall
Nightfall...
A communion of life and eternity,
of Races scattered in the depths
of the universal dark
Above us minds went sailing free
and blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea
Paragon of beauty,
Oh, spark of Creation;
We march to the rhythm of the Night
Starborn flew the Dove of Man
in the eventide of life,
whose wonders crowned
our yesterdays with light
Fire - Earth - Water - Wind
We lived beneath the waning moon of truth
And danced in hunger for the Powermind
(of Youth)
Like the dark to a dying Flame;
Sweepingly embracing its grieving remains
Defiantly blazing the black that awaits
Counting the days 'til the new Age awaits
Times' lustful cyclones arise,
Piercing the fairest of Skies
In elysian awakening of spiritual glory
we see what our history belies
Meadows of Asphodel
Burning in the hunted dawn
Tragedies die among fiery flames
as the firewood of Wisdom is sawn
Our Guardians were blind
My lightbringer ephemeral
Within the heart of all;
A cold and dusky melancholy night,
as ever sullied the fair face of light
Whose seeds of life they grind
To dust, of vapour is our mind
...evermore
Paragon of beauty,
Oh, spark of Creation;
We march to the rhythm of the Night
Nightfall by the shore of time,
a tidal wave of fire and woe
Swept away with the last of life
the core of the enigma as bestowed
Our crystal spirits melt to flow
the mountainside along
To join as one with seas of old
in symbiotic songs:
"Communion... Within the Oversoul
of the Universe"
We are but fragment of Eternity,
pale shadows of what we'll once be
In life's outer regions I will find
the foremost Tranquility
Chanting the odes of Magonia
A soulstream in flight to the Otherworld
...to the Otherworld
2. Crimson Winds
[lyrics: Stanne]
Force of anger, Mordant senseless wrath
Manifold is the Terminus of oneself
Invocate ye lord of the Left-behinds
Preserve a seat for the weakened minds
Reserving that limpid yet so used
Veil of deceiving hostility
Close now is the threshold of insanity
Neverending force of hatred,
fear, them darkened spheres
Deprecated existence, Manifest of darkness be
Manifest for unspeakable actions
Fire sermons to condemn those fallen
Fallen from pride, fallen from the manger
Father, lend to me thy wisdom, Thy wisdom of old
Now all is clear:
"Pierce the side of the neverending blindness
Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten
Father of Light, Father of Darkness
-I will not implore to no master of thine!"
Everflaming
Intemperate malice in the extreme
Forms are twisted, Everfalling
Crescent skies, the wait, The calling
Eyes unseeing, Stars rearrange
Tears of our blood running from the runes
Misgivings fall silent
Excitement stir up the spheres
My sweet Norderland
To reap the fields of ignorance and lies
Trails of omission swept away
Never be found again
Release of agony
So Hebulous, yet ominous is the Terminus
Flames of Hatred burn me
Firesoul - Hear me, Blinded fool
-Take heed to the forgotten twilight
Now kneel to the omniscient twilight
Crimson Winds, Ornaments in the dark
The weep of pain, Drowned by tears
Drowned by tears of Northerly blood
Runes of force,
Fulfillment of a sombre ordeal I know
"Pierce the side of the neverending blindness
Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten
Father of Light, Father of Darkness
-I will not implore to no master of thine!"
Everflaming
Everlasting lust for wisdom and for solitude
Coming of dawn, Knowledge in the image of flesh
Unbridled to the world I wander now
Light cast upon this place of mysteries
Truth hurts for my tongue is venomous
Unbound yet bound for disbelief
Darkness, I grasp your every nerve
Everflaming now and forevermore
3. A Bolt Of Blazing Gold
[lyrics: Sundin]
A bolt of blazing gold,
lifted from the horizon's edge
Another radiant dawn sends new hope,
avowed my hearty pledge
My yearning to be part
of nature's truthful solitude
Of wisdom's inner light
that shines in mystic multitude
The guiding source within,
so few of us will ever know
And few will ever climb
the great world-tree from which we've grown
But those who seek will find
the rhythm that vibrates high and far
And rearrange the cosmic threads,
the pattern of the Weave of Stars
A bolt of blazing gold,
a sunfire in zenith hurled
Oh, wingless skydancer,
rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled
What wonders do you hold ensnared
with your mighty heart?
What secrets may be mine
to brother-share as we depart?
Of richest emerald forged,
my soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
through dark air soaring, restlessly
If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
portrays my naked sentiment
A bolt of blazing gold,
swallowed by the waveless sea
The ocean-winds set sail,
in breeze towards their destiny
On solarbeams they rode,
white sea-gull-wings in harmony
For a moment's startling glimpse
a sienna-burnt tranquility
Oh father of the coloured sky,
unwear thy robe of shadowhood
Let nature's soul once clash again
'neath blooming glades of golden wood
We're the ones who seek
to dance to fallen serenades
The magic hymns of gold;
as softly sung, the sunlight fades
...away
Of richest emerald forged,
my soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
through dark air soaring, restlessly
If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
portrays my naked sentiment
A world of silent stone,
as frozen in the nightly sky
In heaven's dark recesses laid,
no living soul draws nigh
For seconds all is still,
no moonlight heaves throughout the dark
Nor do the heavens breathe,
no dryads wreathe within the dark
Within my dark domain...
4. In Tears Bereaved
[lyrics: Sundin]
Beautiful, oh web of stars
that looms amid the sons of Earth
Enfolds me in thine sylvan arms
that unity's vehement charms
befalls a weary son of Earth
Beautiful, in tears bereaved
in sylphlike sadness, left to bleed
Bewailed upon a bed of thorns,
impaled, a heart, on sorrow's horns
A seeker's ode to thee I read
My tearful soul thy mourning heed
The stream that leaves thine open wounds;
A life-blood licked by hungry hounds
No verdant balm to soothe our wounds
Wherefore betwixt two worlds I'm torn
Ere thralled by sin I'll die - forlorn
This slumbering world of shallow fools
may one day clasp the cosmic Hell
lest journeymen by Earthen rules
bring forth the truth for which Angels fell
To the earth and sky and sea
I call that thou may answer me;
Father of Nature, of beast and mankind,
my soul for thy love, my tears for thy pain
...An Eden in fire,
what lives shan't remain
For when I live under a different sky,
beneath the ethereal hills the clouds passing by
Remember the time of which I cried to be part
Remember these words, for they have flown
from my heart.
5. Skywards
[lyrics: Stanne]
Cast out from a world of selfdeceit
in senseless fear of denial
Forgive the others indifference
and on paths of wisdom trait
In grief thou shalt not wander
With hopefilled heart now walk
Do not fear the slow proceeding
Fear only the stillness of invention
Mocking words and actions a defeat
for intellect and mind
Saveth me for I know not how
to break free from these chains of scorn
Oh I wonder how can I turn the sense of doubt
in the minds of them all
Our needs are depending in images in life
and the more you agree in the far more they ask
I am an outcast but I am free to speak
the words from my heart
And when I know the secrets
in the minds of the weak
I shall return and be grateful
For the lessons learned from the past
Hear me, See me
I am now forever one with myself
I sense the forces that deep within me burn
I smell remains of fear forever gone
I feel now comfort with who I have to be
Now is the time for retributive thoughts
To be content is happiness
Not the overflow of material things
that we seek to make a stand
in this era of greed and self-inflicted
pain in the shape of disappointment
Do not fear the slow proceeding
That's all I ask of thee
What lies ahead you will never know
so come prepared
Oh I wish for thee to see the vast plains
and the field, The open seas, The wailing trees
The treasures of my kingdom
reach the level of understanding now
exploring, Considering the actions of the past
On a journey forever
Still you're in the water struggling
while I clasp the skies
Can you see the lifeblood dripping
from the cheek of everscorn?
Yes I can!
I am an outcast but I am free to speak
the words from my heart
And when I know the secrets
in the minds of the weak
I shall return and be grateful
For the lessons learned from the past
Hear me, See me
I am now forever one with myself
6. Through Ebony Archways
[lyrics: Stanne]
There is a silent man in a tower
Mute in a blinded world
Yet words dance on virgin lips
Freezing the winds of blood
Clad in layers of darkest velvet
Drenched in the gloomy light of dawn
...All Black
And in his wait for the grand finale
Standing atop of the stairs
From dawn to dusk his heart's a blaze
Uncovering words from an obsolete state of mind
Sharpen them! Turn them into arrows!
Descend into grief - Without a bow no arrows fly
...Bitter Black
Passing through the ebony archways
Hand in hand with the wisdom of stars
Wisdom dressed in blackest array
There is no man in that tower
Walking the shores in black
Bitter frost now bite the walls of hope
No traces in the sand...
7. Shadow Duet
[lyrics: Sundin]
\Voice of the Shadow of Beauty\ - sung by Anders Frid�n
/Voice of the Shadow of Darkness/ - sung by Mikael Stanne
\shadows play
in my wilderness' mindscape
they seek\
/one spiteful and wicked
one humble and meek/
\a windswept pale landscape
of edified thought\
/two frictional forces
a triad have brought/
\woven\
/a soft breeze whispers slowly/
\within me\
/in the valley of my mind/
\the aerial mists sink falling\
/and its breath both foul and holy
is like the deer to a dying hind/
\slowly traversing the atmosphere
calling\
/wordless, yet in soul so true/
\nameless, yet it lives in you\
/shapeless like the purity of pain/
\lawful when all fear is slain\
-one shadow of beauty caressing the flowers
the paleness of winter reflects in her eyes-
\deity of stardom\
/enticer of stardoom/
\so soft and so silent\
/maternal - eternal/
\serenity fades\
/blinded by visions of sunlight nocturnal/
\with the darkening of skies\
/one shadow of darkness
a shade of deep hate
a wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze
in sheets of sharp silver
laid youthful to die
reborn into vengeance
dark flames dance in grace
dark flames dance in grace
in the grace of storms/
\one shadow of beauty\
/one shadow of darkness/
\sailing free on the sea within my mind\
\surging dark oceans
perpetual waters
creator of life
and reclaimer of souls\
/mother ocean/
\watching the deep fjords uneasily moving\
/whipping the white waves towards the cold air/
\rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion\
/a cascade of lost feathers
adrift on the sea/
\hark\
/a serenade in the tongue of the wind/
\the sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower
hovering further athwart a leafy cover\
/a shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither
and therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither
alas, in tune with the tide of time
i was, but I'm not
nor I'll be with its pride
yes, aeons have flown
but more is to come
for I know time/
\but time is not eternal, their life stars not immortal\
/a friend that I greet with open arms/
\setting souls can never\
/a brother soul of deadly harm/
\pass through the pearly portal\
\no bliss be given\
/and joy/
\nor joy\
/flowing down the gates of hell
fire/
\i cry for you...\
/don't spill your tears for me
but for your kit and kin/
\my scions of light?\
/deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure
which is the fuel for life
and glory/
\silent your dark desires within entirety's light\
-solitude
sanctity
sanctuary
sanctum, sanctum,
sanctum (tranquility)
\hear me
/you who hold the fate of stars in hand
before creation's eye I stand
my soul set free/
in summerland\
\mighty the strand of the universe\
/a chaos void tomb of dead worlds/
\hark\
/what?/
\divinity flows in your heart
cast it alight, the seed of all art
slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\
/silent, you fool/
\a cradle of roses
embedded in stillness and shade\
/silent, you fool
thine words are untrue
remember Endymion's crestfallen tears
serene art the gods, yet pain is their way
he touched by the heavens
his hellfire nears
a silent divinity, now see your body of air/
\free now your heavenly body of air\
\come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one
holding the fate of all life in both hands
breathing life-force
like gold made from sand\
/my winged steed of moonlight
black stallion of thunder
we rode above the greenish earth
and tore the green asunder/
\but what you left bleeding
destroyed a soulforsaken world
and your deeds of sharp silver
decoyed a mindforsaken herd\
\a duet of shadows\
a duet of shadows
\a duet of thoughts\
a duet of thoughts
\of beings we feed
with the dust of our thoughts
residing within us
the two-fold wheel of life
of insight created: a triad of jewels\
a thin leaf of the life-tree's truth
8. My Faeryland Forgotten
[lyrics: Sundin]
Labyrinth of time...
Mine alone for now and ever more
(I'm all alone...)
...and I flew
above sepulchral monoliths,
nebulously dancing beneath the dew
(Of morning, in ye twilight land of old)
Abiding teardrops borne by thorns,
thine fragments I twine true
(In mourning, stream adorned in rage untold)
...flow adorned in rage untold
Eternal - forever - more
And they'll forever grow
and hold in heart what springs anew
From the shadows glades unwitnessed
which light the flames
from deep within where we all grew
...Everlasting ember-glow
Labyrinth of Time,
in harmony confined
Thus the dark heat from
beyond the stars
engulfed a world of fear still robed in ice
A throne in fire dies...
Pulsating through the skies
He who wore the gown
shall drown the "Reich of tears" in cries
Enthroned in fire dies...
A kingdom's last demise
And I know...
The ardent hearth midst life and death
won't end my journey morrowless
(I won't laugh in mirth all sorrowless)
Come, fly afloat on a wave of emotions,
of crestfallen scorn
Oh, this my whirlwind of darkness
a tide I once lulled but alas now withdrawn
Now...hand in hand with sorrow
towards the still, perpetual seas
Into the tranquil depths of solitude
in bliss my spirit flees
Through the wind I will go
To my twilight land, alone
Where sanctuary is mine
Within my throne world, my labyrinth of time
And he who is the God
of an infinite shape and faces,
ever weaving fates of life
upon the pattern of his traces
In the Golden Dawn of Winter
he'll stand risen from the night
in serenity all solemn,
clad in moonlight's milky white
Through the wind I will go
To my twilight land, alone
Where sanctuary is mine
Within the hands of this labyrinth of time
Labyrinth of time...
Eternal - forever - more
Time...infinity of mind
Divinity of life
Labyrinth of time
In harmony confined
Burn - upon my
Might - by my
Command - into the fire
Your throne of fire fell...
Bestowed upon your Hell
Burnt shall be your
"Might", and your
command shan't drown my fire
(...My Faeryland Forgotten)
...Mine alone for now and ever more
9. Alone
[lyrics: Sundin]
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
and I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me
What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories
Forever gone...departed by the minds of man
Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn
your ignorant ways
Like the leaves of the high trees
I wither and fall,
Borne by autumnal winds
to my funeral hall
I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness
I have been told to honour life
and what therein I'll find
but if all I see is darkness,
let me die and wake up blind
As the gleaming blade before me,
singing lullabies of loss
Whispering "Death is your redeemer
to the Paradise you've lost"
Mankind, evoker of inferno
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation
and dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come
Why should I stay here where I do not belong?
Of weakness burns my within...And empty shell
I've lost the way to the sanctity I need
I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,
no frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night
My mournful roam has ended
I hide in the shadows white binding my time,
sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme
with the fury of damnation
Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden
and the white sky lay open in a soul that was free
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast
and I woke up one morning with no reason to be)
I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless
Sorrow
I'm all alone within a shadow fire of fear
Take me home to whence I came
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life
Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...
[lyrics: Sundin]
Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion,
brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions
Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions
Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation
"Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet
A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat"
All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control
My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall
Demand my fall
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation"
forming law and justice into obscuration
leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire,
In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires
"You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies
With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies"
Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused
A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied
Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide
Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death
In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left
3. Vernal Awakening
[lyrics: Sundin]
Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge,
the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged,
Created life in fetters from cradle to grave
A future in darkness with mankind enslaved
Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail
Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore
So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost:
"Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth,
will a wasteland remain?
Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man
- his enfeebled domain?
Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim
Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man
So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found:
"Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall
let disorder arise!
An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth
hides now cloaked in disguise
Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions
Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions - constant fatal life-corrosion
Autumn - beckons forth the
winter - rising gloom in hand
Raging with bleak coldness 'til
vernal light commands
Final chapter closed - world devoid of use
Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
4. Void Of Tranquillity
[lyrics: Sundin, Stanne]
In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past
Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins
Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before
The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore
Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul
Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal
The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely
as you're about to pass away The darkness that
surrounds you fades...
You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal
forgivness for thy impure soul
Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre
Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death
Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time
An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime
Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand
Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one
Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey
journey to a thousand secrets untold
Credlous at first to this place of wonder
Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades
Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away
Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs
This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world
Brought forth, the abyss now appears -
foulmouthed temptations call me near
Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be
Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond
The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay
Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony
Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be
All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail
- lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair
Indescribable light descends between spheres
Spheres that behold that nondescript fear
Thought of the sins that were done in the past
the past is forgotten and the present will last
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within
Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin
Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty
Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny
Into the void of tranquillity
Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails
Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail
Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale
The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale
Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away
Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway
Forced to return - departure of soul
Material world - arrival as told
5. Unfurled By Dawn
[lyrics: Stanne]
Time and space unite
era of darkness - we mourn
Times of sorrow despite
our preach is put to scorn...
In ways like these I shall be reborn
to my words I conform
To seek the path of knowledge through time
In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason)
Subconcious powers flow
- we burn the ways forlorn
Am I in time with forces I am born
Are those disguised
Excuse is being dumb
In spirit fails...
Self realization in supreme conciousness
Explore the self - within a millenia of peace
Reach into the soil of humankind
Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground
Feel the wind of time now changing
Hear the voice that whispers near
Explore the inner strength within you now
seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
"I've seen the void that echo fear"
Fly into this void of inner consioucness
we seek eternally
Greet enlightned ways...
I spead out wings of knowledge
is essential in mournful times like these
Words I repent
Voice from inner self shall lead my way
Former ways of life I repent
to inner consciosness I've ascent
Mortal way of living is the key
Key to the secret it beholds
Come to seek the path with me
in unfathomable harmony
the way life is meant to be
enjoy and just adore life...
Burning desire in thee
letting your soul fly free
No sould shall be the same
burn with a different flame
Sowing the seeds of man
proving the things your can
Seeing the things that'll be
the priors in life I can see
Each of mankind is a star
that will keep on shining eternally
Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind
enchanted over things that you will find
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
In affection we loom - a reflection of time
Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule)
Search the inner self - find the self within
Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore)
things that' s left unsaid
Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse
nothing to forbid
In the empty eyes of the last of mortals
those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened
Before this dawn of eternal light we stand
once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten
...to the forgotten
Internal sadness cured through the light
to reach the sadest river in sight
Whispers of molten souls in my ear
on wings of twillight I am born....
Now enthrone thoughts of the past
the embryo of time
Your life lies yet unfolded
'til enlightened ways we see
In my dreams I've seen repention
as in tales that were never told
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
6. YESTERWORLD
[lyrics: Stanne]
Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate
I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape
of re-emerged figments of imagination
I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep
Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye
reveal that a dreamscape lies therein
A yearning for a world
where the everlost find their peace
In the pearly gates of dawn
on the astral feed of minds
- envenomed to the bone
forever cleansed from all called wrath
as slumber sneaks upon
and steals the thought of man
all ridden from inner aggression...
A voyage beyond this world
In this paralell to real life
- access lies in dreams
Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep
- the key to what's beyond
In the wake of man we see
essential dreams unfulfilled
Enhance the value of life
engraved words on the page of man
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"This ain't no dream..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's your dream coming true"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames
that burn in the errors of our ways
In a night when the sky floats blue
as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling
in their outmost pride
Now from dimensions fallen from the skies
- like the flow of a stream
From my sleep I continue onward
- sleep is just a shape of destiny
Weak sunlight of dawns to come,
dancing swiftly in the shadows
Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams
...landscape of my dreams
Dim reflections of the pale
a shade of grey in mind
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"It's your reality..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's much more than a dream"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
Soon these worlds will be one
and mankind feasts on the sights of it all
I yearn for things to come
Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber
as the mist slippes away to reveal...
And the wind tears a scream from my lips
- I am there....
In the dreamscape I adore
(a moonclad reflection)
1. Nightfall By The Shore Of Time
[lyrics: Sundin]
A shimmer trace of divinity lost
in the beckoning midnight vault
(We are) lulled within the wake
of a cold November's nightfall
Nightfall...
A communion of life and eternity,
of Races scattered in the depths
of the universal dark
Above us minds went sailing free
and blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea
Paragon of beauty,
Oh, spark of Creation;
We march to the rhythm of the Night
Starborn flew the Dove of Man
in the eventide of life,
whose wonders crowned
our yesterdays with light
Fire - Earth - Water - Wind
We lived beneath the waning moon of truth
And danced in hunger for the Powermind
(of Youth)
Like the dark to a dying Flame;
Sweepingly embracing its grieving remains
Defiantly blazing the black that awaits
Counting the days 'til the new Age awaits
Times' lustful cyclones arise,
Piercing the fairest of Skies
In elysian awakening of spiritual glory
we see what our history belies
Meadows of Asphodel
Burning in the hunted dawn
Tragedies die among fiery flames
as the firewood of Wisdom is sawn
Our Guardians were blind
My lightbringer ephemeral
Within the heart of all;
A cold and dusky melancholy night,
as ever sullied the fair face of light
Whose seeds of life they grind
To dust, of vapour is our mind
...evermore
Paragon of beauty,
Oh, spark of Creation;
We march to the rhythm of the Night
Nightfall by the shore of time,
a tidal wave of fire and woe
Swept away with the last of life
the core of the enigma as bestowed
Our crystal spirits melt to flow
the mountainside along
To join as one with seas of old
in symbiotic songs:
"Communion... Within the Oversoul
of the Universe"
We are but fragment of Eternity,
pale shadows of what we'll once be
In life's outer regions I will find
the foremost Tranquility
Chanting the odes of Magonia
A soulstream in flight to the Otherworld
...to the Otherworld
2. Crimson Winds
[lyrics: Stanne]
Force of anger, Mordant senseless wrath
Manifold is the Terminus of oneself
Invocate ye lord of the Left-behinds
Preserve a seat for the weakened minds
Reserving that limpid yet so used
Veil of deceiving hostility
Close now is the threshold of insanity
Neverending force of hatred,
fear, them darkened spheres
Deprecated existence, Manifest of darkness be
Manifest for unspeakable actions
Fire sermons to condemn those fallen
Fallen from pride, fallen from the manger
Father, lend to me thy wisdom, Thy wisdom of old
Now all is clear:
"Pierce the side of the neverending blindness
Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten
Father of Light, Father of Darkness
-I will not implore to no master of thine!"
Everflaming
Intemperate malice in the extreme
Forms are twisted, Everfalling
Crescent skies, the wait, The calling
Eyes unseeing, Stars rearrange
Tears of our blood running from the runes
Misgivings fall silent
Excitement stir up the spheres
My sweet Norderland
To reap the fields of ignorance and lies
Trails of omission swept away
Never be found again
Release of agony
So Hebulous, yet ominous is the Terminus
Flames of Hatred burn me
Firesoul - Hear me, Blinded fool
-Take heed to the forgotten twilight
Now kneel to the omniscient twilight
Crimson Winds, Ornaments in the dark
The weep of pain, Drowned by tears
Drowned by tears of Northerly blood
Runes of force,
Fulfillment of a sombre ordeal I know
"Pierce the side of the neverending blindness
Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten
Father of Light, Father of Darkness
-I will not implore to no master of thine!"
Everflaming
Everlasting lust for wisdom and for solitude
Coming of dawn, Knowledge in the image of flesh
Unbridled to the world I wander now
Light cast upon this place of mysteries
Truth hurts for my tongue is venomous
Unbound yet bound for disbelief
Darkness, I grasp your every nerve
Everflaming now and forevermore
3. A Bolt Of Blazing Gold
[lyrics: Sundin]
A bolt of blazing gold,
lifted from the horizon's edge
Another radiant dawn sends new hope,
avowed my hearty pledge
My yearning to be part
of nature's truthful solitude
Of wisdom's inner light
that shines in mystic multitude
The guiding source within,
so few of us will ever know
And few will ever climb
the great world-tree from which we've grown
But those who seek will find
the rhythm that vibrates high and far
And rearrange the cosmic threads,
the pattern of the Weave of Stars
A bolt of blazing gold,
a sunfire in zenith hurled
Oh, wingless skydancer,
rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled
What wonders do you hold ensnared
with your mighty heart?
What secrets may be mine
to brother-share as we depart?
Of richest emerald forged,
my soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
through dark air soaring, restlessly
If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
portrays my naked sentiment
A bolt of blazing gold,
swallowed by the waveless sea
The ocean-winds set sail,
in breeze towards their destiny
On solarbeams they rode,
white sea-gull-wings in harmony
For a moment's startling glimpse
a sienna-burnt tranquility
Oh father of the coloured sky,
unwear thy robe of shadowhood
Let nature's soul once clash again
'neath blooming glades of golden wood
We're the ones who seek
to dance to fallen serenades
The magic hymns of gold;
as softly sung, the sunlight fades
...away
Of richest emerald forged,
my soul still rises, longingly
From inferno's winding caverns,
through dark air soaring, restlessly
If silence was enough!
No words can grasp my starkest thoughts
No language known to man
portrays my naked sentiment
A world of silent stone,
as frozen in the nightly sky
In heaven's dark recesses laid,
no living soul draws nigh
For seconds all is still,
no moonlight heaves throughout the dark
Nor do the heavens breathe,
no dryads wreathe within the dark
Within my dark domain...
4. In Tears Bereaved
[lyrics: Sundin]
Beautiful, oh web of stars
that looms amid the sons of Earth
Enfolds me in thine sylvan arms
that unity's vehement charms
befalls a weary son of Earth
Beautiful, in tears bereaved
in sylphlike sadness, left to bleed
Bewailed upon a bed of thorns,
impaled, a heart, on sorrow's horns
A seeker's ode to thee I read
My tearful soul thy mourning heed
The stream that leaves thine open wounds;
A life-blood licked by hungry hounds
No verdant balm to soothe our wounds
Wherefore betwixt two worlds I'm torn
Ere thralled by sin I'll die - forlorn
This slumbering world of shallow fools
may one day clasp the cosmic Hell
lest journeymen by Earthen rules
bring forth the truth for which Angels fell
To the earth and sky and sea
I call that thou may answer me;
Father of Nature, of beast and mankind,
my soul for thy love, my tears for thy pain
...An Eden in fire,
what lives shan't remain
For when I live under a different sky,
beneath the ethereal hills the clouds passing by
Remember the time of which I cried to be part
Remember these words, for they have flown
from my heart.
5. Skywards
[lyrics: Stanne]
Cast out from a world of selfdeceit
in senseless fear of denial
Forgive the others indifference
and on paths of wisdom trait
In grief thou shalt not wander
With hopefilled heart now walk
Do not fear the slow proceeding
Fear only the stillness of invention
Mocking words and actions a defeat
for intellect and mind
Saveth me for I know not how
to break free from these chains of scorn
Oh I wonder how can I turn the sense of doubt
in the minds of them all
Our needs are depending in images in life
and the more you agree in the far more they ask
I am an outcast but I am free to speak
the words from my heart
And when I know the secrets
in the minds of the weak
I shall return and be grateful
For the lessons learned from the past
Hear me, See me
I am now forever one with myself
I sense the forces that deep within me burn
I smell remains of fear forever gone
I feel now comfort with who I have to be
Now is the time for retributive thoughts
To be content is happiness
Not the overflow of material things
that we seek to make a stand
in this era of greed and self-inflicted
pain in the shape of disappointment
Do not fear the slow proceeding
That's all I ask of thee
What lies ahead you will never know
so come prepared
Oh I wish for thee to see the vast plains
and the field, The open seas, The wailing trees
The treasures of my kingdom
reach the level of understanding now
exploring, Considering the actions of the past
On a journey forever
Still you're in the water struggling
while I clasp the skies
Can you see the lifeblood dripping
from the cheek of everscorn?
Yes I can!
I am an outcast but I am free to speak
the words from my heart
And when I know the secrets
in the minds of the weak
I shall return and be grateful
For the lessons learned from the past
Hear me, See me
I am now forever one with myself
6. Through Ebony Archways
[lyrics: Stanne]
There is a silent man in a tower
Mute in a blinded world
Yet words dance on virgin lips
Freezing the winds of blood
Clad in layers of darkest velvet
Drenched in the gloomy light of dawn
...All Black
And in his wait for the grand finale
Standing atop of the stairs
From dawn to dusk his heart's a blaze
Uncovering words from an obsolete state of mind
Sharpen them! Turn them into arrows!
Descend into grief - Without a bow no arrows fly
...Bitter Black
Passing through the ebony archways
Hand in hand with the wisdom of stars
Wisdom dressed in blackest array
There is no man in that tower
Walking the shores in black
Bitter frost now bite the walls of hope
No traces in the sand...
7. Shadow Duet
[lyrics: Sundin]
\Voice of the Shadow of Beauty\ - sung by Anders Frid�n
/Voice of the Shadow of Darkness/ - sung by Mikael Stanne
\shadows play
in my wilderness' mindscape
they seek\
/one spiteful and wicked
one humble and meek/
\a windswept pale landscape
of edified thought\
/two frictional forces
a triad have brought/
\woven\
/a soft breeze whispers slowly/
\within me\
/in the valley of my mind/
\the aerial mists sink falling\
/and its breath both foul and holy
is like the deer to a dying hind/
\slowly traversing the atmosphere
calling\
/wordless, yet in soul so true/
\nameless, yet it lives in you\
/shapeless like the purity of pain/
\lawful when all fear is slain\
-one shadow of beauty caressing the flowers
the paleness of winter reflects in her eyes-
\deity of stardom\
/enticer of stardoom/
\so soft and so silent\
/maternal - eternal/
\serenity fades\
/blinded by visions of sunlight nocturnal/
\with the darkening of skies\
/one shadow of darkness
a shade of deep hate
a wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze
in sheets of sharp silver
laid youthful to die
reborn into vengeance
dark flames dance in grace
dark flames dance in grace
in the grace of storms/
\one shadow of beauty\
/one shadow of darkness/
\sailing free on the sea within my mind\
\surging dark oceans
perpetual waters
creator of life
and reclaimer of souls\
/mother ocean/
\watching the deep fjords uneasily moving\
/whipping the white waves towards the cold air/
\rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion\
/a cascade of lost feathers
adrift on the sea/
\hark\
/a serenade in the tongue of the wind/
\the sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower
hovering further athwart a leafy cover\
/a shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither
and therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither
alas, in tune with the tide of time
i was, but I'm not
nor I'll be with its pride
yes, aeons have flown
but more is to come
for I know time/
\but time is not eternal, their life stars not immortal\
/a friend that I greet with open arms/
\setting souls can never\
/a brother soul of deadly harm/
\pass through the pearly portal\
\no bliss be given\
/and joy/
\nor joy\
/flowing down the gates of hell
fire/
\i cry for you...\
/don't spill your tears for me
but for your kit and kin/
\my scions of light?\
/deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure
which is the fuel for life
and glory/
\silent your dark desires within entirety's light\
-solitude
sanctity
sanctuary
sanctum, sanctum,
sanctum (tranquility)
\hear me
/you who hold the fate of stars in hand
before creation's eye I stand
my soul set free/
in summerland\
\mighty the strand of the universe\
/a chaos void tomb of dead worlds/
\hark\
/what?/
\divinity flows in your heart
cast it alight, the seed of all art
slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind\
/silent, you fool/
\a cradle of roses
embedded in stillness and shade\
/silent, you fool
thine words are untrue
remember Endymion's crestfallen tears
serene art the gods, yet pain is their way
he touched by the heavens
his hellfire nears
a silent divinity, now see your body of air/
\free now your heavenly body of air\
\come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one
holding the fate of all life in both hands
breathing life-force
like gold made from sand\
/my winged steed of moonlight
black stallion of thunder
we rode above the greenish earth
and tore the green asunder/
\but what you left bleeding
destroyed a soulforsaken world
and your deeds of sharp silver
decoyed a mindforsaken herd\
\a duet of shadows\
a duet of shadows
\a duet of thoughts\
a duet of thoughts
\of beings we feed
with the dust of our thoughts
residing within us
the two-fold wheel of life
of insight created: a triad of jewels\
a thin leaf of the life-tree's truth
8. My Faeryland Forgotten
[lyrics: Sundin]
Labyrinth of time...
Mine alone for now and ever more
(I'm all alone...)
...and I flew
above sepulchral monoliths,
nebulously dancing beneath the dew
(Of morning, in ye twilight land of old)
Abiding teardrops borne by thorns,
thine fragments I twine true
(In mourning, stream adorned in rage untold)
...flow adorned in rage untold
Eternal - forever - more
And they'll forever grow
and hold in heart what springs anew
From the shadows glades unwitnessed
which light the flames
from deep within where we all grew
...Everlasting ember-glow
Labyrinth of Time,
in harmony confined
Thus the dark heat from
beyond the stars
engulfed a world of fear still robed in ice
A throne in fire dies...
Pulsating through the skies
He who wore the gown
shall drown the "Reich of tears" in cries
Enthroned in fire dies...
A kingdom's last demise
And I know...
The ardent hearth midst life and death
won't end my journey morrowless
(I won't laugh in mirth all sorrowless)
Come, fly afloat on a wave of emotions,
of crestfallen scorn
Oh, this my whirlwind of darkness
a tide I once lulled but alas now withdrawn
Now...hand in hand with sorrow
towards the still, perpetual seas
Into the tranquil depths of solitude
in bliss my spirit flees
Through the wind I will go
To my twilight land, alone
Where sanctuary is mine
Within my throne world, my labyrinth of time
And he who is the God
of an infinite shape and faces,
ever weaving fates of life
upon the pattern of his traces
In the Golden Dawn of Winter
he'll stand risen from the night
in serenity all solemn,
clad in moonlight's milky white
Through the wind I will go
To my twilight land, alone
Where sanctuary is mine
Within the hands of this labyrinth of time
Labyrinth of time...
Eternal - forever - more
Time...infinity of mind
Divinity of life
Labyrinth of time
In harmony confined
Burn - upon my
Might - by my
Command - into the fire
Your throne of fire fell...
Bestowed upon your Hell
Burnt shall be your
"Might", and your
command shan't drown my fire
(...My Faeryland Forgotten)
...Mine alone for now and ever more
9. Alone
[lyrics: Sundin]
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
and I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me
What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories
Forever gone...departed by the minds of man
Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn
your ignorant ways
Like the leaves of the high trees
I wither and fall,
Borne by autumnal winds
to my funeral hall
I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness
I have been told to honour life
and what therein I'll find
but if all I see is darkness,
let me die and wake up blind
As the gleaming blade before me,
singing lullabies of loss
Whispering "Death is your redeemer
to the Paradise you've lost"
Mankind, evoker of inferno
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation
and dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come
Why should I stay here where I do not belong?
Of weakness burns my within...And empty shell
I've lost the way to the sanctity I need
I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,
no frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night
My mournful roam has ended
I hide in the shadows white binding my time,
sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme
with the fury of damnation
Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden
and the white sky lay open in a soul that was free
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast
and I woke up one morning with no reason to be)
I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless
Sorrow
I'm all alone within a shadow fire of fear
Take me home to whence I came
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life
Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...
1. Punish My Heaven
We are the outstretched fingers
That seize and hold the wind...
The strangeness of awakening
In an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
For the first proud beams of light
As the hours grow longer
And the shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows
Bring me the light
In the darkness that never ends
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
We have arrived
At the outermost crossroads
The charge of cosmos
At our atmospheric skies
Will cause our fall
If I had wings, would I be forgiving?
If I had horns
Would there be flames to shy my smile?
Hymns of loss are heard
From the masses in the streets
Praising the last of days
I punish
Bring me the night
In the fires that never end
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
The charge of cosmos
Charging at us from unearthly distance
I challenge the universe
It's the choice between heaven and hell
My soul bears all the weight of mountains
As mankind weaves its silent end
Can there be no forgiveness?
I curse the heaven above me
As the light sinks through
My outstretched fingers
Fading in my open arms
Make each tear in my bare hands
A lifetime in hell
On this last day of light
When our autumn leaves fell
And as heaven itself commands me
Out of its lair
I fear not
My face lined for darkness
I'll go!
2. Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew
Make all the cold trees mourn
Their branches frozen in sightless motion
Waving, reaching for the whipping rain
There was silence
And the firmament withdrew
Revealing all, shapelessly and swiftly
In carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky
The relics of myths that exploded and died
Dismantle the sun and stars in their rise
And rend from the skyline
The black in our eyes
The skyline so empty
All but one, nonexistent
Words were not, nor gesture, thought or life
The skydancers laid slain and old
The firmament in perpetual withdrawal
Lux Aeterna - Sing unto the world
3. Edenspring
Time conceals itself in error
When all is turned to lie
Oh blissful rapture flee from me
The liquid light shares its grandeur
The spring of Eden shall never run dry
Creation holds its breath
Tomorrow is no friend of mind
Drench logic - Drench judgement
Awake - Every sense is new
For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented form
What now must burn
Shall with newfound strength emerge
Drift my eyes
Bacchi gates bid me welcome
Drench logic
Drench judgement
So drink from the fountain everlasting... drown
With these eyes the land can no longer deceive us
He cried into nothing with the voice of his soul
New logic brought upon the remains of his land
The land deceives
Bacchi gates bid me welcome
Drench logic - Drench judgement
Awake - Every sense is new
For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented form
4. The Dividing Line
Strangelove
Dance the dividing line
We shall burn the earth
We shall burn our lives
For the tallest tree shall battle most
The wind it leaves the week behind
The storm that you've denied me
Shall force your world to fall
Your castles made to tremble
With foundations based upon a lie
The storm that you've denied me
Sweep the undivided truth
His mind shall not of thoughts be tempted
Nor words can heal his bleeding scars
We must burn our minds
Colours collide with the world of his beliefs
Bring back the storm of distant years
Tumbling, trembling as there is no waking up
There is no dividing line as logic now fails
Stream upwards, rage against them all
Speak of words hidden in your song
Mere mortals strive for length in numbers
There is no dividing line
As the writer defies the empty page
The empty mind its feed shall seek
Pass on to the frail and mindless
Now what sanity discards
The storm shall sweep the weak of heart
And tear your castles down
Crush the very foundations
On which your faith is based
Torn across the dividing line
5. The Gallery
Come and dance through my vanity's halls
Welcome to my exhibition
Ornaments fall
The fate of my art, condemned
And the creative seed
That grows to the tune of the harvest song
Embody my lifelong passion
Intertwine with the structures of my art
Those empty frames staring at me
One lonely portrait covers the lovestarved canvas
In honour of the birthless rebellion within me
Every picture holds a tale
Every shade tells of a thousand words
The artistry of living chaos
Is pictured in the poets tears
Because everything burns
The final concept
Is all but a thought away
Be gone, you foul enchantress of decay!
My thoughts and words will come to right
In my chamber where chaos conveys
Kneel down to my desire
Deep in the vaults of my carnal agony
Emptiness! Orchestration through colours
The gallery
To never return to my guidance
Burning my art
6. The One Brooding Warning
Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free
Freedom beyond the enslavement
Never let loose upon the world
Con we forgive the enchanter that
Dance beyond the skyline dark
The stains of fire, the one begotten ancestor
To one of far greater strength
Starvation divine
For he shall stand no taller than the flames
That is his feed
Let us not go gently
Into the endless winternight
We are but strangers
Acting on our fragmentary perception
Perception is the lie of the misled
Things are not what they appear
So swear by your deception
There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning
Appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stand clearer than night
Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free
Freedom beyond the enslavement
Never let loose upon the world
Con we forgive the enchanter that
Dance beyond the skyline dark
There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning
Appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stand clearer than night
7. Midway Through Infinity
Wings of fire burn the night
Slumbering eyes their flares shall greet
Let the past cling on its futile self
And may the present rush for the future's glare
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter
Two forces gone full circle
Never shall one of the other grow fond
Join me, the time is upon us
He spoke and in fury we flew
Far beyond the limits of time
Disown the borders of life itself
Crafted and moulded all in one form
Split up and scattered in the world that we own
Grow towards me
Beknight the strength of the symbiosis
Backwards striving
Counterparts with different eyes have observed
Of time unconditional
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter
Tell of days to come
Tomorrow remembered
Your yesterday, my future
Recollection of the day
Delusions cast where dead trees sway
The sabre that separates
Is the candle that burns both ends
Born from death you now confront me
Back to death with my life I take you
Die more with each movement of mine
8. Lethe
Give me the drink of the fluid
That disintegrates
And lend me the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe [x2]
Hold me near, unravel the stars
As I speed through the heavens
Speed through the night
For you are my blade and my rope
Your are my [x2]
Lethe
In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
The memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again
Steal me, invade me and charge me again
For I burn and I shudder
Burn with each movement of
So, cleansed through a floodlight
I appear; renewed and reforged
Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe
Hold me near, my one friend and guide
As I drown through your fingers
Drown through your love
For you are the life I hate
You are my [x2]
Lethe
Drag me down, in passionate sighs
With the ocean above me
And flames in my eyes
And grant me a life I can live
Without...
Take me away...[x2]
...From the life that I hate.
9. The Emptiness From Which I Fed
Silence in shivering solitude
Obligations pressure for all to bear
All the pitiful answers, the innocent lies
Can mere words fill
The emptiness from which I fed?
Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now in the other shore
Behind: The emptiness from which I fled
Can silence be shared?
If so, can the perception of silence
Fit into the frame which is represent
The unity for which we stand?
The confines representing a timeless sacrifice
No eye can of silence tell lie
Silence, yet the absence of sound
Does not feed me
The essence of beauty alone
Fall silent to lingering charm
Brought forth be the sun
Shed light on the emptiness
What can be extracted from nothing
What can be found within the emptiness
Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now on the other shore
Behind: The emptiness from which I fed
Brought forth be the errors of our ways
As is denial so is contempt
Introspective to all but one
Tear apart the flames
No eye can of silence tell lie
How can I even begin
The battle where no one wins
From answers I now flee
Screaming out too no avail
Have I become what for so long I've dread
The missing pieces
Must now be replaced
What eyesight fails to grasp
Is the emptiness from which I fled
10. Mine Is The Grandeur...
[Instrumental]
11. ...Of Melancholy Burning
Jackal, aches for pain beyond me
Bestiality beckons - The anger set free
For there is no pain greater than thine
For there is no gain but the fury inside
Desolated since derived
Torn screaming from the gaping wound
Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Outward reprisal
Swear by your throne
Fallen words shall grieve thee
The grandeur of melancholy
Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
Storm through the still glowing night
Ember eyes beyond reason shall see
Flee from the safety of the sheltering sky
See all but logic, so vengeance shall be mine
The grandeur of melancholy burning... oh burning
Charge into uncertainty's promised land
Always and never
Your are the nail
Cursed, cursed
Oh essence of the night guide me
Cursed, cursed
Oh sweet revenge heal me
Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
The nail
Jackal, aches for pain beyond me
The storm that now grabs me
Is the storm of my soul
For there is no pain greater than mine
For there is no gain but the fury inside
Once so bereaved
And ever so suppressed
Charge and split up the anger
Wake up the jackal
Let out his wrath
Always and never
He spoke of his pain
Always and never
You are the nail
Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Always and never
You are the nail
12. Bringer Of Torture
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Kreator cover]
Young girl so sweet and once so innocent
Your life is so brutal, true emotions suppressed
You scream but he won't hear a word till he's had his way
Victim of the cruelest kind of love
Against his urges there is no defence
The one who gave you life stole your innocence
You want to be at any cost
But you're chained by the shame
And everything seems to be lost
Bringer of torture
You're not afraid of dying
Nothing could be worse than this life
You're terrified of the pain
The pain that returns with the night
Bringer of torture
Insanity and terror, hand in hand
Till childhood dreams come to an end
This situation, so vile and insane will never be over
He's coming back again, again and again
13. Sacred Reich
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Sacred Reich cover]
Striking fear in the hearts of men
The war machine will leave you dead
Rockets launching, lightning up the sky
The end is near, it's your time to die
Lightning war hitting fast and hard
No time to act the world caught off guard
The Fuhrer's troops invade the land
To spread his teachings the master plan
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
His Nazi army to control the world
Exterminate those who stand in his way
Evil butchers know just what to do
Killing millions of Russians and Jews
Can this madman be stopped
Is there hope for world peace
We must kill Hitler
To stop this Nazi disease
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
Goering's Luftwaffe turned to ash
Stormtroopers fall in defeat
The end of the Final Solution
The Third Reich falls to it's knees
His dream undone
Hitler is dead
The beloved Fuhrer
Put a bullet in his head
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
14. 22 Acacia Avenue
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Iron Maiden cover]
If you're feeling down depressed and lonely
I know a place where we can go
22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know
So if you're looking for a good time
And you're prepared to pay the price
Fifteen quid is all she asks for
Everybody's got their vice
If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece
You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free
So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go
You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know
Charlotte can't you get out from all of this madness
Can't you see it only brings you sadness
When you entertain your men don't you know the risk of getting disease
Some day when you're reaching the age of forty
I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying
Nobody then will want to know
You won't have any beautiful wares to show any more
22 the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight
Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life
Don't you ever think about the bad times
Why do you have to live this way
Do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay
Sometimes when you're strolling down the avenue
The way you walk it makes men think of having you
When you're walking down the street
Everybody stops and turns to stare at you
22 the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight
Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please
Bite her excite her make her get down on her knees
Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got
Caress her molest her she always does what you want
You're running away don't you know what you're doing
Can't you see it'll lead you to ruin
Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away
You believe that because what you're earning
Your life's good don't you know that you're hurting
All the people that love you don't cast them aside
All the men that are constantly drooling
It's no life for you stop all that screwing
You're packing your bags and you're coming with me
15. Lady In Black
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Mercyful Fate cover]
On a magical misty morning
I was standing in the Autumn rain
Suddenly the birds fell silent
Would I ever hear them sing again...
Hear them sing again...
Without a word of warning
I saw a shadow in the Autumn rain
Just like in my nightly dreams
The Lady In Black had come again...
The Lady had come again...
Begging me to follow her into the misty rain
Begging me to follow her into the no more pain
Her eyes were hypnotizing
Burning deep inside my brain
The Lady In Black was here now
She was here to take me far away...
Take me far away...
"Follow me to the other side"
Through the tunnel of light we travel, fading away
Through the tunnel of light we travel
We're fading away
Through the light that's shining bright
We're fading away
Through the light that's shining bright
We're fading away
16. My Friend Of Misery
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Metallica cover]
You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can rattles the most
The sound of your own voice must soothe you
Hearing only what you want to hear
And knowing only what you've heard
You, you're smothered in tragedy
And you're out to save the world
Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery
You still stood there screaming
No one caring about these words you tell
My friend, before your voice is gone
One man's fun is another's hell
These times are sent to try men's souls
But something's wrong with all you see
You, you'll take it on all yourself
Remember, misery loves company
Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery
You just stood there screaming
My friend of misery
We are the outstretched fingers
That seize and hold the wind...
The strangeness of awakening
In an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
For the first proud beams of light
As the hours grow longer
And the shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows
Bring me the light
In the darkness that never ends
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
We have arrived
At the outermost crossroads
The charge of cosmos
At our atmospheric skies
Will cause our fall
If I had wings, would I be forgiving?
If I had horns
Would there be flames to shy my smile?
Hymns of loss are heard
From the masses in the streets
Praising the last of days
I punish
Bring me the night
In the fires that never end
The dawn will never come
Punish my heaven
The charge of cosmos
Charging at us from unearthly distance
I challenge the universe
It's the choice between heaven and hell
My soul bears all the weight of mountains
As mankind weaves its silent end
Can there be no forgiveness?
I curse the heaven above me
As the light sinks through
My outstretched fingers
Fading in my open arms
Make each tear in my bare hands
A lifetime in hell
On this last day of light
When our autumn leaves fell
And as heaven itself commands me
Out of its lair
I fear not
My face lined for darkness
I'll go!
2. Silence, And The Firmament Withdrew
Make all the cold trees mourn
Their branches frozen in sightless motion
Waving, reaching for the whipping rain
There was silence
And the firmament withdrew
Revealing all, shapelessly and swiftly
In carmine and crimson stood flaming the sky
The relics of myths that exploded and died
Dismantle the sun and stars in their rise
And rend from the skyline
The black in our eyes
The skyline so empty
All but one, nonexistent
Words were not, nor gesture, thought or life
The skydancers laid slain and old
The firmament in perpetual withdrawal
Lux Aeterna - Sing unto the world
3. Edenspring
Time conceals itself in error
When all is turned to lie
Oh blissful rapture flee from me
The liquid light shares its grandeur
The spring of Eden shall never run dry
Creation holds its breath
Tomorrow is no friend of mind
Drench logic - Drench judgement
Awake - Every sense is new
For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented form
What now must burn
Shall with newfound strength emerge
Drift my eyes
Bacchi gates bid me welcome
Drench logic
Drench judgement
So drink from the fountain everlasting... drown
With these eyes the land can no longer deceive us
He cried into nothing with the voice of his soul
New logic brought upon the remains of his land
The land deceives
Bacchi gates bid me welcome
Drench logic - Drench judgement
Awake - Every sense is new
For we know no tomorrow
And yesterday appears in fragmented form
4. The Dividing Line
Strangelove
Dance the dividing line
We shall burn the earth
We shall burn our lives
For the tallest tree shall battle most
The wind it leaves the week behind
The storm that you've denied me
Shall force your world to fall
Your castles made to tremble
With foundations based upon a lie
The storm that you've denied me
Sweep the undivided truth
His mind shall not of thoughts be tempted
Nor words can heal his bleeding scars
We must burn our minds
Colours collide with the world of his beliefs
Bring back the storm of distant years
Tumbling, trembling as there is no waking up
There is no dividing line as logic now fails
Stream upwards, rage against them all
Speak of words hidden in your song
Mere mortals strive for length in numbers
There is no dividing line
As the writer defies the empty page
The empty mind its feed shall seek
Pass on to the frail and mindless
Now what sanity discards
The storm shall sweep the weak of heart
And tear your castles down
Crush the very foundations
On which your faith is based
Torn across the dividing line
5. The Gallery
Come and dance through my vanity's halls
Welcome to my exhibition
Ornaments fall
The fate of my art, condemned
And the creative seed
That grows to the tune of the harvest song
Embody my lifelong passion
Intertwine with the structures of my art
Those empty frames staring at me
One lonely portrait covers the lovestarved canvas
In honour of the birthless rebellion within me
Every picture holds a tale
Every shade tells of a thousand words
The artistry of living chaos
Is pictured in the poets tears
Because everything burns
The final concept
Is all but a thought away
Be gone, you foul enchantress of decay!
My thoughts and words will come to right
In my chamber where chaos conveys
Kneel down to my desire
Deep in the vaults of my carnal agony
Emptiness! Orchestration through colours
The gallery
To never return to my guidance
Burning my art
6. The One Brooding Warning
Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free
Freedom beyond the enslavement
Never let loose upon the world
Con we forgive the enchanter that
Dance beyond the skyline dark
The stains of fire, the one begotten ancestor
To one of far greater strength
Starvation divine
For he shall stand no taller than the flames
That is his feed
Let us not go gently
Into the endless winternight
We are but strangers
Acting on our fragmentary perception
Perception is the lie of the misled
Things are not what they appear
So swear by your deception
There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning
Appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stand clearer than night
Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force
From which it feeds
The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee
Behold the answers that darkness sets free
Freedom beyond the enslavement
Never let loose upon the world
Con we forgive the enchanter that
Dance beyond the skyline dark
There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame
Quench the desire to reign
With fear of its dawning
Appears now in sight
The one brooding warning
Stand clearer than night
7. Midway Through Infinity
Wings of fire burn the night
Slumbering eyes their flares shall greet
Let the past cling on its futile self
And may the present rush for the future's glare
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter
Two forces gone full circle
Never shall one of the other grow fond
Join me, the time is upon us
He spoke and in fury we flew
Far beyond the limits of time
Disown the borders of life itself
Crafted and moulded all in one form
Split up and scattered in the world that we own
Grow towards me
Beknight the strength of the symbiosis
Backwards striving
Counterparts with different eyes have observed
Of time unconditional
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
So infinity clash
Grave to cradle
Cradle to grave
In twofold matter
Tell of days to come
Tomorrow remembered
Your yesterday, my future
Recollection of the day
Delusions cast where dead trees sway
The sabre that separates
Is the candle that burns both ends
Born from death you now confront me
Back to death with my life I take you
Die more with each movement of mine
8. Lethe
Give me the drink of the fluid
That disintegrates
And lend me the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe [x2]
Hold me near, unravel the stars
As I speed through the heavens
Speed through the night
For you are my blade and my rope
Your are my [x2]
Lethe
In currents of cobalt
You storm through my heart
To sever, to puncture
The memories that burn
Let sweep through the arteries
In sharp stabs of pain
Your talonlike fingers to kill me again
Steal me, invade me and charge me again
For I burn and I shudder
Burn with each movement of
So, cleansed through a floodlight
I appear; renewed and reforged
Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing
Of forgetfulness, empty and strong
Lethe
Hold me near, my one friend and guide
As I drown through your fingers
Drown through your love
For you are the life I hate
You are my [x2]
Lethe
Drag me down, in passionate sighs
With the ocean above me
And flames in my eyes
And grant me a life I can live
Without...
Take me away...[x2]
...From the life that I hate.
9. The Emptiness From Which I Fed
Silence in shivering solitude
Obligations pressure for all to bear
All the pitiful answers, the innocent lies
Can mere words fill
The emptiness from which I fed?
Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now in the other shore
Behind: The emptiness from which I fled
Can silence be shared?
If so, can the perception of silence
Fit into the frame which is represent
The unity for which we stand?
The confines representing a timeless sacrifice
No eye can of silence tell lie
Silence, yet the absence of sound
Does not feed me
The essence of beauty alone
Fall silent to lingering charm
Brought forth be the sun
Shed light on the emptiness
What can be extracted from nothing
What can be found within the emptiness
Be gone, oh yielding evidence of greed
Safe now on the other shore
Behind: The emptiness from which I fed
Brought forth be the errors of our ways
As is denial so is contempt
Introspective to all but one
Tear apart the flames
No eye can of silence tell lie
How can I even begin
The battle where no one wins
From answers I now flee
Screaming out too no avail
Have I become what for so long I've dread
The missing pieces
Must now be replaced
What eyesight fails to grasp
Is the emptiness from which I fled
10. Mine Is The Grandeur...
[Instrumental]
11. ...Of Melancholy Burning
Jackal, aches for pain beyond me
Bestiality beckons - The anger set free
For there is no pain greater than thine
For there is no gain but the fury inside
Desolated since derived
Torn screaming from the gaping wound
Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Outward reprisal
Swear by your throne
Fallen words shall grieve thee
The grandeur of melancholy
Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
Storm through the still glowing night
Ember eyes beyond reason shall see
Flee from the safety of the sheltering sky
See all but logic, so vengeance shall be mine
The grandeur of melancholy burning... oh burning
Charge into uncertainty's promised land
Always and never
Your are the nail
Cursed, cursed
Oh essence of the night guide me
Cursed, cursed
Oh sweet revenge heal me
Frailty, thy name is weakness
Vengeance, thy name is pain
The nail
Jackal, aches for pain beyond me
The storm that now grabs me
Is the storm of my soul
For there is no pain greater than mine
For there is no gain but the fury inside
Once so bereaved
And ever so suppressed
Charge and split up the anger
Wake up the jackal
Let out his wrath
Always and never
He spoke of his pain
Always and never
You are the nail
Always be cherished
The grandeur of melancholy
Always and never
You are the nail
12. Bringer Of Torture
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Kreator cover]
Young girl so sweet and once so innocent
Your life is so brutal, true emotions suppressed
You scream but he won't hear a word till he's had his way
Victim of the cruelest kind of love
Against his urges there is no defence
The one who gave you life stole your innocence
You want to be at any cost
But you're chained by the shame
And everything seems to be lost
Bringer of torture
You're not afraid of dying
Nothing could be worse than this life
You're terrified of the pain
The pain that returns with the night
Bringer of torture
Insanity and terror, hand in hand
Till childhood dreams come to an end
This situation, so vile and insane will never be over
He's coming back again, again and again
13. Sacred Reich
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Sacred Reich cover]
Striking fear in the hearts of men
The war machine will leave you dead
Rockets launching, lightning up the sky
The end is near, it's your time to die
Lightning war hitting fast and hard
No time to act the world caught off guard
The Fuhrer's troops invade the land
To spread his teachings the master plan
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
His Nazi army to control the world
Exterminate those who stand in his way
Evil butchers know just what to do
Killing millions of Russians and Jews
Can this madman be stopped
Is there hope for world peace
We must kill Hitler
To stop this Nazi disease
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
Goering's Luftwaffe turned to ash
Stormtroopers fall in defeat
The end of the Final Solution
The Third Reich falls to it's knees
His dream undone
Hitler is dead
The beloved Fuhrer
Put a bullet in his head
Blitzkrieg, lightning war
Hitler to kill them all
Pure bred Arayan man
Sacred Reich's master plan
14. 22 Acacia Avenue
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Iron Maiden cover]
If you're feeling down depressed and lonely
I know a place where we can go
22 Acacia Avenue meet a lady that I know
So if you're looking for a good time
And you're prepared to pay the price
Fifteen quid is all she asks for
Everybody's got their vice
If you're waiting for a long time for the rest to do their piece
You can tell her that you know me and you might even get it free
So any time you're down the East End don't you hesitate to go
You can take my honest word for it she'll teach you more than you can know
Charlotte can't you get out from all of this madness
Can't you see it only brings you sadness
When you entertain your men don't you know the risk of getting disease
Some day when you're reaching the age of forty
I bet you'll regret the days when you were laying
Nobody then will want to know
You won't have any beautiful wares to show any more
22 the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight
Charlotte isn't it time you stopped this mad life
Don't you ever think about the bad times
Why do you have to live this way
Do you enjoy your lay or is it the pay
Sometimes when you're strolling down the avenue
The way you walk it makes men think of having you
When you're walking down the street
Everybody stops and turns to stare at you
22 the avenue that's the place where we all go
You will find it's warm inside the red light's burning bright tonight
Beat her mistreat her do anything that you please
Bite her excite her make her get down on her knees
Abuse her misuse her she can take all that you've got
Caress her molest her she always does what you want
You're running away don't you know what you're doing
Can't you see it'll lead you to ruin
Charlotte you've taken your life and you've thrown it away
You believe that because what you're earning
Your life's good don't you know that you're hurting
All the people that love you don't cast them aside
All the men that are constantly drooling
It's no life for you stop all that screwing
You're packing your bags and you're coming with me
15. Lady In Black
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Mercyful Fate cover]
On a magical misty morning
I was standing in the Autumn rain
Suddenly the birds fell silent
Would I ever hear them sing again...
Hear them sing again...
Without a word of warning
I saw a shadow in the Autumn rain
Just like in my nightly dreams
The Lady In Black had come again...
The Lady had come again...
Begging me to follow her into the misty rain
Begging me to follow her into the no more pain
Her eyes were hypnotizing
Burning deep inside my brain
The Lady In Black was here now
She was here to take me far away...
Take me far away...
"Follow me to the other side"
Through the tunnel of light we travel, fading away
Through the tunnel of light we travel
We're fading away
Through the light that's shining bright
We're fading away
Through the light that's shining bright
We're fading away
16. My Friend Of Misery
["The Gallery" 2005 reissue track]
[Metallica cover]
You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can rattles the most
The sound of your own voice must soothe you
Hearing only what you want to hear
And knowing only what you've heard
You, you're smothered in tragedy
And you're out to save the world
Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery
You still stood there screaming
No one caring about these words you tell
My friend, before your voice is gone
One man's fun is another's hell
These times are sent to try men's souls
But something's wrong with all you see
You, you'll take it on all yourself
Remember, misery loves company
Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery
You just stood there screaming
My friend of misery
1. Of Chaos And Eternal Night
[Sundin, Johansson, Jivarp]
This is a tale long to live but alas so short to tell
by the wind and by time, by everything that flees
A torment of my liking: exploring extremes
All thoughts secluded as fear stalks its blooded soil
In the winding path where a chain now rattles
With links merely death can break
Stains of pride - derelict
In feverish visions of agonising light
Pulsating rhythms unpure
So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos
So scream out to the skies:
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Never is the dark any threat to my existence
Comforting ravens claws grip the stars that fell tonight
THe stealth of infinite beauty
Nevertheless heaven fell tonight
Racing along with the strangled teardrop
Life's elixir in benevolent lust
Slit open the throat that is virtue
Let fire ravage its caverns with joy
Ardent but silent in twilight resigned
Delivered from virtue in vehement plight
Yet ask not of your vanity
(The hooved agitator in your creed)
To let loose all the stars of heaven
Stray across the vault your seed
Concealed cravings must through fulfilment be broken
Hide no longer behind the veil of unconvincing lies
So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos
So scream out to the skies
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
I've seen fires waving patterns
Forging ornaments - hidden from a world of distress
Grace through hatred
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
In shadows now vengeful waiting out your bitter foe
The mirror distorts
Sinful is the perceiving eye
Tearless in nondescript form
Scarlet secrets tell of nightmarish fear
Illusions that speak of endless night
A venture in terms of one hazardous journey
into Chaos and Eternal Night
Deliver me from virtue,
Hidden no more beneath tender veil of lies
And let 'em all out;
unseen and sinful
... Of Chaos and Eternal Night
2. With The Flaming Shades Of Fall
[Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson]
Colours burst in wild explosions;
Fiery, flaming shades of fall
All in accord with my pounding heart
Behold the autumnweaver
In bronze and yellow dying
Colours unfold into dreams
In hordes of a thousand and one
The bleeding
Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer
Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming
Colours burst within
Spare me those unending fires!
Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall
September flies beyond our reach
As the flames reborn their fall
October is the art we teach
With the Flaming Shades of Fall
November,
Robe of prophet - heart of false redeemer
Night whispers as the flaming shades of fall now die
Darkness, wild and unchained
Towards its heart we plunge
We must crush the false redeemer
With the flaming shades of fall
3. Away, Delight, Away
[Henriksson, Johansson]
As false as our minds our eyes refuse to see
They claw for the falseness in me
From where all life springs anew
We are cleansed through the crystal fire
Fill me with sound, fill me with hatred
Let my life bring life to the soil
The soil beneath my feet
Messenger of pain sailing silence
Commander of my sorrow riding rage
Infinity is eternal - never born so it may never die
Colours speak my name
Through the crowns I am baptised in the
First gnawing rays from a blackened sun
In the name of my blood I curse thee
Shelter me under the trees
Spread your twilight wings
My broken body is dripping with sin
Your skin so delicate
Your undemanding bliss will carry me far
I bid farewell to this godforsaken land
Nevermore shall I return
I join with the riders on the horizon
For they are my blood!
For they are my saviours!
They bring me hatred, bring me fire
They take me down to the land I know not
Then crush me - Take me down
Then they build me once more again
Slayer of my anger sailing silence
The angel of my lust
She is tasting shame
4. Alone
[taken from _Skydancer_, re-recorded with new vocals]
[Henriksson, Sundin]
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
and I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me
What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories
Forever gone... departed by the minds of man
Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn
your ignorant ways
Like the leaves of the high trees
I wither and fall,
Borne by autumnal winds
to my funeral hall
I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness
I have been told to honour life
and what therein I'll find,
but if all I see is darkness,
let me die and wake up blind
As the gleaming blade before me,
singing lullabies of loss
Whispering "Death is your redeemer
to the Paradise you've lost"
Mankind, evoker of inferno
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation
and dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come
Why should I stay here where I do not belong?
Of weakness burns my within... An empty shell
I've lost the way to the sanctity I need
I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,
no frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night
My mournful roam has ended
I hide in the shadows while biding my time,
sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme
with the fury of damnation
Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden
and the white sky lay open in a soul that was free
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast
and I woke up one morning with no reason to be)
I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless Sorrow
I'm all alone within a shadowfire of fear
Take me home to whence I came
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life
Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...
[Sundin, Johansson, Jivarp]
This is a tale long to live but alas so short to tell
by the wind and by time, by everything that flees
A torment of my liking: exploring extremes
All thoughts secluded as fear stalks its blooded soil
In the winding path where a chain now rattles
With links merely death can break
Stains of pride - derelict
In feverish visions of agonising light
Pulsating rhythms unpure
So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos
So scream out to the skies:
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Never is the dark any threat to my existence
Comforting ravens claws grip the stars that fell tonight
THe stealth of infinite beauty
Nevertheless heaven fell tonight
Racing along with the strangled teardrop
Life's elixir in benevolent lust
Slit open the throat that is virtue
Let fire ravage its caverns with joy
Ardent but silent in twilight resigned
Delivered from virtue in vehement plight
Yet ask not of your vanity
(The hooved agitator in your creed)
To let loose all the stars of heaven
Stray across the vault your seed
Concealed cravings must through fulfilment be broken
Hide no longer behind the veil of unconvincing lies
So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos
So scream out to the skies
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
I've seen fires waving patterns
Forging ornaments - hidden from a world of distress
Grace through hatred
Of Chaos and Eternal Night
In shadows now vengeful waiting out your bitter foe
The mirror distorts
Sinful is the perceiving eye
Tearless in nondescript form
Scarlet secrets tell of nightmarish fear
Illusions that speak of endless night
A venture in terms of one hazardous journey
into Chaos and Eternal Night
Deliver me from virtue,
Hidden no more beneath tender veil of lies
And let 'em all out;
unseen and sinful
... Of Chaos and Eternal Night
2. With The Flaming Shades Of Fall
[Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson]
Colours burst in wild explosions;
Fiery, flaming shades of fall
All in accord with my pounding heart
Behold the autumnweaver
In bronze and yellow dying
Colours unfold into dreams
In hordes of a thousand and one
The bleeding
Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer
Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming
Colours burst within
Spare me those unending fires!
Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall
September flies beyond our reach
As the flames reborn their fall
October is the art we teach
With the Flaming Shades of Fall
November,
Robe of prophet - heart of false redeemer
Night whispers as the flaming shades of fall now die
Darkness, wild and unchained
Towards its heart we plunge
We must crush the false redeemer
With the flaming shades of fall
3. Away, Delight, Away
[Henriksson, Johansson]
As false as our minds our eyes refuse to see
They claw for the falseness in me
From where all life springs anew
We are cleansed through the crystal fire
Fill me with sound, fill me with hatred
Let my life bring life to the soil
The soil beneath my feet
Messenger of pain sailing silence
Commander of my sorrow riding rage
Infinity is eternal - never born so it may never die
Colours speak my name
Through the crowns I am baptised in the
First gnawing rays from a blackened sun
In the name of my blood I curse thee
Shelter me under the trees
Spread your twilight wings
My broken body is dripping with sin
Your skin so delicate
Your undemanding bliss will carry me far
I bid farewell to this godforsaken land
Nevermore shall I return
I join with the riders on the horizon
For they are my blood!
For they are my saviours!
They bring me hatred, bring me fire
They take me down to the land I know not
Then crush me - Take me down
Then they build me once more again
Slayer of my anger sailing silence
The angel of my lust
She is tasting shame
4. Alone
[taken from _Skydancer_, re-recorded with new vocals]
[Henriksson, Sundin]
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
and I stared in woe at the world before me
My weeping eyes could not bear to tell
or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me
What became of the lands that were?
A pearl in the nest of memories
Forever gone... departed by the minds of man
Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood
Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn
your ignorant ways
Like the leaves of the high trees
I wither and fall,
Borne by autumnal winds
to my funeral hall
I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness
I have been told to honour life
and what therein I'll find,
but if all I see is darkness,
let me die and wake up blind
As the gleaming blade before me,
singing lullabies of loss
Whispering "Death is your redeemer
to the Paradise you've lost"
Mankind, evoker of inferno
Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation
and dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come
Why should I stay here where I do not belong?
Of weakness burns my within... An empty shell
I've lost the way to the sanctity I need
I'll greet the dawn that brings no life,
no frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night
My mournful roam has ended
I hide in the shadows while biding my time,
sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme
with the fury of damnation
Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden
and the white sky lay open in a soul that was free
(But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast
and I woke up one morning with no reason to be)
I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless Sorrow
I'm all alone within a shadowfire of fear
Take me home to whence I came
Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life
Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope...
1. Zodijackyl Light
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall
defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
order of the vertical path
Descendent
crawl in the remnants of one thousand lies
Restaging
torching a world that was left behind
Zodiackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
deride the embers of his faith
the bringer that on million horses ride
Waiting for the call within the spark of sin
ever reminiscent of the coming of storm
Can you see the cosmic face in which disorder lies
Burning of opression
the inventor
is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
to frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
feasting on debris from celestical wars
Burning in the sky
beyond the realm of time
Sequence of the nucleus
the glowing dust in flight
Zodijackal light
And they ride, they ride
the drama takes the lead
the beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
constellation disarray
that darkness could not have existed
that bares no witness to the light
Sweet endless
Perpetually pronge through interior vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the beast
Zodijackyl light.
2. Razorfever
Born of laughter
strangled by sin
No remorse
mistreat the soul again
No features
the blur of things denied
No return
the cross to bear is my own
Just one sip and life returns
Razorfever
The pollution of your narrow perception
Read into the lines of men's work
Degeneration: let the truth be known
Numb the pain with the liquid of fire
Razorfever burns
Born a desperation's child
admist the last descent
Fierce as that of angel's wrath
to lay the soul to rest
Just one sip
Just one more
Just one
and so my world can be restored.
3. Shadowlit Facade
Develop every aspect
enchance its foetal form
distort for the purpose of another aim
For you shall know me
see why in shadows I hide
Lest be thy own defeat
Contence refined
Truth might falter
give up your vows
update the aura
of the shadowlit facade
Pinned down to your defences
by the struggle for one others awe
Content in loneliness
For the dawn shall cast no shadow
from your monolith of lies
descend from the delusion of degradation and despair
For the one that reaps good fortune
on the cost of all good faith
Suffering must lead him on
amidst his loneliness
For the one who speaks besides his tongue
shall learn all is not good and fair
All in vain - the search that never ends
Action, reaction
still no words come clear
in denial of the constant change
Unbegun, undenial, unforseen by thee
the words underneath the shelter be
Spare me.
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall
defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
order of the vertical path
Descendent
crawl in the remnants of one thousand lies
Restaging
torching a world that was left behind
Zodiackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
deride the embers of his faith
the bringer that on million horses ride
Waiting for the call within the spark of sin
ever reminiscent of the coming of storm
Can you see the cosmic face in which disorder lies
Burning of opression
the inventor
is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
to frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
feasting on debris from celestical wars
Burning in the sky
beyond the realm of time
Sequence of the nucleus
the glowing dust in flight
Zodijackal light
And they ride, they ride
the drama takes the lead
the beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
constellation disarray
that darkness could not have existed
that bares no witness to the light
Sweet endless
Perpetually pronge through interior vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the beast
Zodijackyl light.
2. Razorfever
Born of laughter
strangled by sin
No remorse
mistreat the soul again
No features
the blur of things denied
No return
the cross to bear is my own
Just one sip and life returns
Razorfever
The pollution of your narrow perception
Read into the lines of men's work
Degeneration: let the truth be known
Numb the pain with the liquid of fire
Razorfever burns
Born a desperation's child
admist the last descent
Fierce as that of angel's wrath
to lay the soul to rest
Just one sip
Just one more
Just one
and so my world can be restored.
3. Shadowlit Facade
Develop every aspect
enchance its foetal form
distort for the purpose of another aim
For you shall know me
see why in shadows I hide
Lest be thy own defeat
Contence refined
Truth might falter
give up your vows
update the aura
of the shadowlit facade
Pinned down to your defences
by the struggle for one others awe
Content in loneliness
For the dawn shall cast no shadow
from your monolith of lies
descend from the delusion of degradation and despair
For the one that reaps good fortune
on the cost of all good faith
Suffering must lead him on
amidst his loneliness
For the one who speaks besides his tongue
shall learn all is not good and fair
All in vain - the search that never ends
Action, reaction
still no words come clear
in denial of the constant change
Unbegun, undenial, unforseen by thee
the words underneath the shelter be
Spare me.
1. Dreamlore Degenerate
[Music: Henriksson, Sundin]
[Words: Stanne]
For thou sweepst me
in thy ribe if guill
with garments forged
in spiteful steel
No tainted pride
shall make conviction cease
None shall be unto thee proven
worthy of thy outmost fear
Let alone the silent longing
instinct shun the ones you dear
As the hunter boldly stalks his prey
intoxicated
Conviction reigns where truth might sway
intimidated
Silence the bore
Shun the ones you dear
The hunt is over
so the feast begins
What feast is enduring
when all is said and done
Everchange of hearts
The hunter's reason fail
The hunt is treason
The hunt is over
so the feast begins
Why search for endurance
when all is said and done?
2. Zodijackyl Light
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall
defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
Order of the vertical path
Descendent
crawlin the remnants of one thousand lies
Restaging
torching a world that was left behind
Zodijackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
deride the embers of his fall
The bringer that on millions horses ride
Waiting for the call within, the spark of sin
ever reminiscent of the coming of storm
Can you see the cosmic face
in which disorder lies
Burning of oppression
the inventors
is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
to frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
feasting on debris from celestial wars
Burning in the sky
beyond the realm of time:
Sequence if the nucleus
the glowing dust in fligh
Zodijackyl light
And they ride, they ride
the drama takes the lead
the beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
constellation disarray
that darkness could not have existed
that bares no witness to the light
Sweet endless
Perpetually plunge through interior vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the beast
Zodijackyl light.
3. Hedon
[Music: Henriksson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin]
Enter Suicidal Angels;
How hungry we've become;
like animals naked in shame
Fed with the hooves of apocalypse
that galloped down, disordered worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to a word
that spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, sleeped in decadence
holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, it the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
to draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
that emanate from our warty, haunted bodies
severed and numbered they are
Nihilist, Hedon
the priceless art of their lives
Sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow
in the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your chindren wild
and filled with death
# Jupiter in our unforgiving eves:
a pandemonium of bodies and gold
Eager, as a part of your face
and the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
as the wine-rush,
changing from androgynous wombs
to open free the lid of pain #
Hedon,
rinsed in post-human shadows
a monument scorned by the teeth of time
Stale-faced keeper of secrets,
loaded with implosive fire
the whore that carried the apostle
to the mating point on the graves of giants
We look at you, afraid
to see what we really are.
4. Scythe, Rage And Roses
[Music: Henriksson]
[Words: Stanne]
Fast fading roses
Non-lingering words
Scythe be my instrument
Through dreams I now rage
No guidance is me offered
No forgiveness thee is promised
Now van distance be a factor
when engraved in me thou art?
Nourished by the soul my flame
shall serve to torch the earth
Denial serves me
That fire cannot burn
with flames of no origin
That star cannot bring guidance
without force or form
One is darkness
The other silence
Without silence the darkness
looses its splendour
Sweet bliss that sleep now giveth
tempt with forgetful night
Ever haunting that image within
swear to the answers denied
5. Constant
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
With each daring new concept
creation and form
one fragment of shelter
from heaven be torn
The bleeding through barriers
shine of redemption
The taste of renewal
let art once again be a weapon
The whim of the forger is theft from the flow
the hatchet now redden with creation's blood
Constant is forever
I am the creation
so bold in design
The errors of one thousand minds
bleed out through a world gone blind
This is the magic that a name would stain.
6. Dissolution Factor Red
[Music: Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin, Stanne]
Drenched in the perfume of hell
Impasto of burning oils
forming continents on my
outstretched naked body,
erupting
crimson
stains of shame
stains of shame
Limbs that leave their Nests of Red
to spin the reels of pain
Attach the nails and electrodes
and spin the reels again
Retreating hunger running through the years
carries the scorn on skeleton wings
Storm me thou with the sharpened claw
swift hammer nails that pierce the shoulder of
time
Behind the sunset, with movement regained
For there lie shadows even farther from the light
I run, devoid of mation,
devoid of name
attach the nails and electrodes
black moratorium, haven of refuge
...
7. Insanity's Crescendo
[Music: Henriksson, Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Stanne]
Gently hold our heads
gently hold our heads on high
Aimless time in fear new hide
overthrow the plan
confusion lies in all my words
mad is the soul
We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament
this is the dawning of a new age
A heart that beats the wrong way
insanity's crescendo
Windcolour - second sight
a touch of silence and the violence of dark
Illusion span - the aroma of time
shadowlife and the scent of nothingness
Infinite fall of instinct
order of one spells deceit
Infinite lack of trust
order of one obsolete
Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead?
When it's found, can judgement make amends?
From force-fed impressions
let us mortify the mind
each soul to violate
each instinct to be rendered false
Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames
now for the blood of heaven
Unlearn and the cleansing comes
Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses
Cursed victim of a distance near
The first dreams - the clearest vision
Aimlessly steer towards our night
we belong to thee
Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence
entangled within
Dimly begotten in clarity found
virginlike tears for impurity bound
Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky
to greet now this vision an emerald dawn
Empty the sun - carve out the wind
Insanity's crescendo
tear out the blinded eye
Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear
lightning veins in crude exterior
Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy
lay down the law that made instince fall
Escape now and revert
this cleansing rebirth
torn asunder be
Affect me not; darkened vision
insanity's crescendo
Grimly tread the footsteps torn
rebellious stand the seeker tall
The thorn of insanity's hand
take this darkened vision from my sight
Nailed to the image of ignorance
Each soul to violate
for the blood of heaven
8. Still Moving Sinews
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Sundin, Stanne]
No-one survives such an attack
and we all stood like monuments
baring the nails in her back
Still moving sinews
in a graceful impression of life
shyly the arms, shyly the breasts
fold fear die
Ten fingers driven
through the heart, through the core
as I stare into those strange, magnetic eyes
and wonder: (for you / me)
are there demons there?
I knew it all the time. The misanthropes
were right to crucify themselves in the
need of a saviour. Still moving sinews
struggle fearsome with a lifeline forlorn,
caught in the nest of the impending dark fate.
Semi-worlds, lifetight lodges
where faces stiffen,
plagued with the frost of disease
Our capsules barely meet
The worms of disorder
like living black numbers
that drip from her pergament skin
Joined in sweet fury
to anoint the decay
fragile and reddened in lifelost array
9. Atom Heart 243.5
[Music: Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson]
[Words: Sundin]
Still alive
all knowing eye
beneath your stream of words
your rapid stream of words
Though none will
ever live to share
the radiant stream
the promised hues
from which your picture fell
Re-seal the components from atom hearts
Revert, non-owner of worlds
As uncommunication becomes the manifest
our alien, architectural skeletons in unison collapse
Death rode these silent caravans
and steered them to the ?(o/a)?im of the world.
Their diaries and withered letters
all devoted to the art of dying
The enterprise, academy
the crafts held in our hands
all devoted to the art of dying
No room to arrange
the final row of masks
drenched in chameleon-ink
for the grand charade
The tongues that burn in you
the slowly altered language
that colonised your heartland
advanced through broken doors
And they still believe in you
They seem to see
so many things
booked in your pestilent eye
Your stale lids, your iris punctured
by tongues licking a lie
The enterprise, wolvenlore
the cursed seed of man
plunged through the tunnels of uncreation
We reach out to move the landmark,
hands seeping down from the chronicles of time
The quill now blunt
the scribe devoured
10. Tidal Tantrum
[Music: Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
Come death of dearling
the claws of the raven hold fast
Enticed and starving
a lustful revenge to the last
Unlight flood the seeker's eye
Come flame or false hope
gifted in spirit as I
Forced upon freedom
Let impulse nor stillness be spared
Fierce tidal tantrum
nourishing rapture within
Come feast or fire
repellent in forceful defence
Unchained, forgiving to none
solemn in swirling embrace
11. Tongues
[Music: Henriksson, Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin]
Tongues, lost in me
yours be the sharp and the vile
Glide neath my skin
storm through my nerves
I bury the nomad years
hours in the earth
couldn't exorcise these searing, pecking tongues
Immune you say
yet venom strikes in strangest guises
as the viper in our eyes
Tongue, throat, tongue
slayer of the word and stealer of wisdom
A monumental reign of terrors
throats slit up to stain the target
We're food for the hounds of trauma,
prey to the crows of stress
No power left to retrieve my stolen language
filtered through the illiterate fingers of death
Flies
let sickness be poured
from the cupped hands of bedlam
On account of their brightness
I made friends with the word and the moon
went with the tide and left for the sound
of dead instruments thrown out of tune
The red square patterns, dragonrise and
evenclaw
decoying from pandemonic symmetry
Let ring
a dissonant note in the music of the spheres
the streak of promise in the nuclear sky
These whipping black tongues
aching to lick me back to life
to inject their truths within me
1. Freecard
set against these hardest hours
anger paled, for in this fear
the theft of privacy
we all see it break sometimes,
see it tear us apart
that which left behind
screams out loud this night
so much is asked in silence
expect not and you'll find
thousand miles
from the nearest truth
rotating, entangled
- I continue not to heal
another no-night
waits its turn
so I call upon
my freecard
to postpone
if time was one with many faces
which one would call to me?
where all our paths in one now end
that with the power to gather the mislead
now will lead them all astray
so push it ever further
to unsuspecting dark
build that second layer
for the hours to take fast
a rest from the giving
like a heart between beats
greater than the need
for community
the need for the right solitude
come to know
that an outrage is inevitable
through many try
an escape is unsuccessful
in the midst of a nerve-night
the victim of soulkill
true self is mere torture
death rides these nerves
2. Therein
gentle storm / thundering silence
inferior force / uncontrolled calm
vital unlife / logic/chaos/logic
the tone of which his birth ascend
the beat that of a heart descend
repeating in the infinite
an insight made it clear
order stormed the surface
where chaos set the norm
had there always been balance?
...surely not
therein lies the beauty
it was solid
yet everchanging
it was different
yet the same
so I starve myself for energy
the song around his soul will bend
the notes that in this hole will melt
crawl out of science
a dreamland if you dear
disorder clawed the boundaries
we're ordered to stand clear
was it always different
...never the same?
therein lies the beauty
as there were no witnesses
there was nothing to be told
as nothing could be grasped
the story could unfold
superimposed on the elemtens of anger
/ fear / anxiety / hate / despair / remorse
so break from all that fear hold fast
exposed now turn to all you lack
let echoes be the answers
return from all the screams
wordless now the last attack
so silent it hurts to listen
was it always solid
...to never change?
therein lies the beauty
3. Undo Control
there were words of lust
in these arms of the stranger
and there in silence though were words of no milder
so in thinking of that madness
that ravage the thoughts
in the loneliest of hours
I resist without control
the demand I get from excellence
the void I felt from answering
not only an addition
it generated need
in these endless nights of freezing
my weight on the other side
I resist without control
feel the thorns of uncontrol
claws that set in sleeps December
let loose on the verge
talked to me as strangers once did
the tone was set for winter
sweet uncontrol
beyond proportion
into the night
so strike me deeper
I resist without control
feel the thorns of uncontrol
the death that craved no life
now ended
in return
drifting uncontrolably
within the night
4. Auctioned
outsmart the fever
and take us farther from
the killing life in capsules
a life that can't belong
so if I wake up dead to the world
with the helm at my command
the reaching out of this
faced tomorrow in the 11: th hour
beckoned closer
now as nightfall sends it's grace
cue to enter the insatiable ideal
slam it shut but the portal pounding lingers
what is it; is time undone
cannot falter in the security of labour
was I supposed to believe?
where did I sign
did I miss the auction where my life went under the club?
went the half mile
wondered when the resolution would come
life became too solid
diluted by the essence of denial
caught in fire's eye
the self and filter that is I
my lip was venom
words formed in my mouth
hid beneath the tongue
never to be seen
5. To A Bitter Halt
faintly arisen / tenderly torn
dreamlike decision, unconsciously born
firm in conviction yet tempt me they can
deny me of trust and a demon I hide
a drive to be less than the fortunate
a dream in the casket of eden
crave that which you do not desire
cling tightly to your deepest fear
I rose the greatest monument
again and again
I bear the greatest treasure
of time and a word
treson spilt on the loneliest of graves
desperation dealt the losing hand again
wherein lie the purpose of the day?
Is there return in sadness?
does your ceiling differ much from mine
where we see each other
here in this light
is that pillow more than a frame
that holds the chaos fast?
now his hand a fist
gain control
silence fell and eyes now widened
filling up the strength collapsing
capable of the ending froze in the tracks
brought to a bitter halt
on the floor it seems the steps are showing
left a print just like it did in me
what has been and what will be
never care 'cause I was in between
as I said with on afoot in loneliness
you hide here in me
6. The Sun Fired Blanks
upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
there rode the sickness out of our sight
carried torches burned out long before it's time
among these ruins where our love to be found
ambition falters when no better is to be known
cling to the unfounded pride
death to our belonging
and our ministy of two
set the higher standard
and to a greater fall descend
slaves to one another
and to others be it not
soothing be temptation
force the conscience to a halt
caused a high vibration
a tender light to be part of you
the two-way escape
7. Nether Novas
what late forgotten nights to emptiness has given
and now November morning will be taken asunder
the shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging
dug into the undiscovered of a life, a pest, a plague
falling back into the arms - no never
admitting to a life alone - no
claiming there are sparks inside - no
outside looking back - no
so the lie never stopped
cling to the wave it cried and onward to the night
expecting not and nothing in the presence of a lie
the deeper that it dug the more now had to go
surrender was a fact and the room was decorated
- the lie never stopped
what late forgotten nights to emptiness has given
the strangers may they come in ignorance's disguise
so into the dark walking to leave the last of times
kneedeep in desperation to fill the gap behind
boldly thread the night forever
November thought are right - oh never
taken from the fall - no
frightened by the key but the trail behind the house
felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped
found at loss for words, now words aren't enough
someone told, a vacancy was open
someone laughed, the silence here was broken
dug up to make room
the room which you furnaced and graced
there is no vacancy
the least can fill the fountain
the most will flood the mold
8. Day To End
waiting for the day to end
as silence came too late
I turn my eyes inside
close the lids
deny the world to enter
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
all the thoughts that you defined
tread the light again
take the pain away
it feels as though time as tears
never seem to end
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
oh, inside
oh, inside
oh, inside
as I hold you in I try to make sure
these treasures that I hide
these treasures that I hide
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
9. Dobermann
where were the eyes that followed
how could they've found?
these misery's merchants
struck the message deep
"we have come to stay"
dogs fled there in the dark of his path
feared him as once they all did
like a ghost in daylight
on an overcrowded street
he wishes
to be something he is not
lie a shadow at midnight
that originate in air
he wishes to release
deep in the back it had caught him
the anchor they threw at his life
oh these misery's merchants
dragged through life as a burden
rushed off to his cage of glass
to open the single window
a means of escape, out in the open
there are still holes in these walls
puking information into the unwanting
probing the last hope of defence
so he plugged up the holes
shut the outside window
in doing that, madness payed a visit
...and then suddenly in mid-thought
escape was a factor and as from inside
pushing out were words
through fingers came uncovering
revealing the truth of him there in the dark...
skin began to crawl as they neared him
is all pleasure release?
oh these misery's merchants
saw the message clear
"it is time to pay"
like a ghost in daylight
on an overcrowded street
10. On Your Time
neither here nor there in our unity of twine
solitary sanity, traded in for life
once we crawled into the artificial night
all was left and I arrived on your time
there in the collision
wish answers could arrive
was I kept up for this?
did the physical emotion
break the fall of sleep?
I'd never thought of things that you would say
could never tell if what you said were lies
it's in here eating
it's down there drinking
be with me, not against me
bear with it, love against me
I've never known if there was enough time
could never tell if it was done just right
an icicle thrust
to soothe the disorder
between the eyes
where the well is the deepest
and so unease carried words
that spoke of no matter
was I held here for this?
did the path of devotion stay from what you felt?
I've never seen things here in this light
could never tell it your touch was deeper than skin
once I thought that what no time can heal
is here in me - but time proved me wrong
deeper still toward an outward pride
no more lies - I'm here on your time
11. Exposure
[bonus track]
Rise I say, yes, rise above!!
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
Down you go to lands below
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
They who reign in sand
Take this brightest strike
In their so-called castles
Now with walls of glass
I can see, I can see, I can see
All your deeds, all your needs
On your knees
So I'll crack your feeble shell
Can you even see
The works of what you fear?
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
Further inside
'Til all you have is mine
Evil is as evil does
What evil's done to me
Dreams he said, dreams he wore
Dreams he wore, dreams he wore
Hope he said, hope he wore
Evil he said and evil he wore
I'll strip you down
I'll tear you down
I'll plunder up and down
I'll break the lock
till nails come off
You're under they all lie
Rise above the light
Rise above afar
Rise above your fears
And tread on what you know
Blind to your eyes
Blind to your mind
Cause evil is what evil does
What evil does to me
Taste and you'll see
the fruit you took is foul
Evil is what evil does
What evil does to me
You who turn to others
With everything you lack
A face that bears not seeing
Then I'll turn my back
I can see, I can see, I can see
All your deeds, all your needs
On your knees
So I'll crack your fuckin' shell
[Music: Henriksson, Sundin]
[Words: Stanne]
For thou sweepst me
in thy ribe if guill
with garments forged
in spiteful steel
No tainted pride
shall make conviction cease
None shall be unto thee proven
worthy of thy outmost fear
Let alone the silent longing
instinct shun the ones you dear
As the hunter boldly stalks his prey
intoxicated
Conviction reigns where truth might sway
intimidated
Silence the bore
Shun the ones you dear
The hunt is over
so the feast begins
What feast is enduring
when all is said and done
Everchange of hearts
The hunter's reason fail
The hunt is treason
The hunt is over
so the feast begins
Why search for endurance
when all is said and done?
2. Zodijackyl Light
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall
defeat in spiritless action
Isolation - burn the greenwood
Order of the vertical path
Descendent
crawlin the remnants of one thousand lies
Restaging
torching a world that was left behind
Zodijackyl light
Cross the sharpest void
deride the embers of his fall
The bringer that on millions horses ride
Waiting for the call within, the spark of sin
ever reminiscent of the coming of storm
Can you see the cosmic face
in which disorder lies
Burning of oppression
the inventors
is the killing hand
Be that of the darkest sin
to frustrate hope and love
I shall not be blinded
I shall not be forced
Resistance
feasting on debris from celestial wars
Burning in the sky
beyond the realm of time:
Sequence if the nucleus
the glowing dust in fligh
Zodijackyl light
And they ride, they ride
the drama takes the lead
the beast of heaven their guide
Racing through the vastness
constellation disarray
that darkness could not have existed
that bares no witness to the light
Sweet endless
Perpetually plunge through interior vaults
So seamless
Joints of time cannot shackle the beast
Zodijackyl light.
3. Hedon
[Music: Henriksson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin]
Enter Suicidal Angels;
How hungry we've become;
like animals naked in shame
Fed with the hooves of apocalypse
that galloped down, disordered worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to a word
that spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, sleeped in decadence
holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, it the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
to draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
that emanate from our warty, haunted bodies
severed and numbered they are
Nihilist, Hedon
the priceless art of their lives
Sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow
in the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your chindren wild
and filled with death
# Jupiter in our unforgiving eves:
a pandemonium of bodies and gold
Eager, as a part of your face
and the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
as the wine-rush,
changing from androgynous wombs
to open free the lid of pain #
Hedon,
rinsed in post-human shadows
a monument scorned by the teeth of time
Stale-faced keeper of secrets,
loaded with implosive fire
the whore that carried the apostle
to the mating point on the graves of giants
We look at you, afraid
to see what we really are.
4. Scythe, Rage And Roses
[Music: Henriksson]
[Words: Stanne]
Fast fading roses
Non-lingering words
Scythe be my instrument
Through dreams I now rage
No guidance is me offered
No forgiveness thee is promised
Now van distance be a factor
when engraved in me thou art?
Nourished by the soul my flame
shall serve to torch the earth
Denial serves me
That fire cannot burn
with flames of no origin
That star cannot bring guidance
without force or form
One is darkness
The other silence
Without silence the darkness
looses its splendour
Sweet bliss that sleep now giveth
tempt with forgetful night
Ever haunting that image within
swear to the answers denied
5. Constant
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
With each daring new concept
creation and form
one fragment of shelter
from heaven be torn
The bleeding through barriers
shine of redemption
The taste of renewal
let art once again be a weapon
The whim of the forger is theft from the flow
the hatchet now redden with creation's blood
Constant is forever
I am the creation
so bold in design
The errors of one thousand minds
bleed out through a world gone blind
This is the magic that a name would stain.
6. Dissolution Factor Red
[Music: Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin, Stanne]
Drenched in the perfume of hell
Impasto of burning oils
forming continents on my
outstretched naked body,
erupting
crimson
stains of shame
stains of shame
Limbs that leave their Nests of Red
to spin the reels of pain
Attach the nails and electrodes
and spin the reels again
Retreating hunger running through the years
carries the scorn on skeleton wings
Storm me thou with the sharpened claw
swift hammer nails that pierce the shoulder of
time
Behind the sunset, with movement regained
For there lie shadows even farther from the light
I run, devoid of mation,
devoid of name
attach the nails and electrodes
black moratorium, haven of refuge
...
7. Insanity's Crescendo
[Music: Henriksson, Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Stanne]
Gently hold our heads
gently hold our heads on high
Aimless time in fear new hide
overthrow the plan
confusion lies in all my words
mad is the soul
We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament
this is the dawning of a new age
A heart that beats the wrong way
insanity's crescendo
Windcolour - second sight
a touch of silence and the violence of dark
Illusion span - the aroma of time
shadowlife and the scent of nothingness
Infinite fall of instinct
order of one spells deceit
Infinite lack of trust
order of one obsolete
Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead?
When it's found, can judgement make amends?
From force-fed impressions
let us mortify the mind
each soul to violate
each instinct to be rendered false
Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames
now for the blood of heaven
Unlearn and the cleansing comes
Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses
Cursed victim of a distance near
The first dreams - the clearest vision
Aimlessly steer towards our night
we belong to thee
Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence
entangled within
Dimly begotten in clarity found
virginlike tears for impurity bound
Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky
to greet now this vision an emerald dawn
Empty the sun - carve out the wind
Insanity's crescendo
tear out the blinded eye
Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear
lightning veins in crude exterior
Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy
lay down the law that made instince fall
Escape now and revert
this cleansing rebirth
torn asunder be
Affect me not; darkened vision
insanity's crescendo
Grimly tread the footsteps torn
rebellious stand the seeker tall
The thorn of insanity's hand
take this darkened vision from my sight
Nailed to the image of ignorance
Each soul to violate
for the blood of heaven
8. Still Moving Sinews
[Music: Sundin, Johansson]
[Words: Sundin, Stanne]
No-one survives such an attack
and we all stood like monuments
baring the nails in her back
Still moving sinews
in a graceful impression of life
shyly the arms, shyly the breasts
fold fear die
Ten fingers driven
through the heart, through the core
as I stare into those strange, magnetic eyes
and wonder: (for you / me)
are there demons there?
I knew it all the time. The misanthropes
were right to crucify themselves in the
need of a saviour. Still moving sinews
struggle fearsome with a lifeline forlorn,
caught in the nest of the impending dark fate.
Semi-worlds, lifetight lodges
where faces stiffen,
plagued with the frost of disease
Our capsules barely meet
The worms of disorder
like living black numbers
that drip from her pergament skin
Joined in sweet fury
to anoint the decay
fragile and reddened in lifelost array
9. Atom Heart 243.5
[Music: Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson]
[Words: Sundin]
Still alive
all knowing eye
beneath your stream of words
your rapid stream of words
Though none will
ever live to share
the radiant stream
the promised hues
from which your picture fell
Re-seal the components from atom hearts
Revert, non-owner of worlds
As uncommunication becomes the manifest
our alien, architectural skeletons in unison collapse
Death rode these silent caravans
and steered them to the ?(o/a)?im of the world.
Their diaries and withered letters
all devoted to the art of dying
The enterprise, academy
the crafts held in our hands
all devoted to the art of dying
No room to arrange
the final row of masks
drenched in chameleon-ink
for the grand charade
The tongues that burn in you
the slowly altered language
that colonised your heartland
advanced through broken doors
And they still believe in you
They seem to see
so many things
booked in your pestilent eye
Your stale lids, your iris punctured
by tongues licking a lie
The enterprise, wolvenlore
the cursed seed of man
plunged through the tunnels of uncreation
We reach out to move the landmark,
hands seeping down from the chronicles of time
The quill now blunt
the scribe devoured
10. Tidal Tantrum
[Music: Johansson]
[Words: Stanne]
Come death of dearling
the claws of the raven hold fast
Enticed and starving
a lustful revenge to the last
Unlight flood the seeker's eye
Come flame or false hope
gifted in spirit as I
Forced upon freedom
Let impulse nor stillness be spared
Fierce tidal tantrum
nourishing rapture within
Come feast or fire
repellent in forceful defence
Unchained, forgiving to none
solemn in swirling embrace
11. Tongues
[Music: Henriksson, Johansson, Sundin]
[Words: Sundin]
Tongues, lost in me
yours be the sharp and the vile
Glide neath my skin
storm through my nerves
I bury the nomad years
hours in the earth
couldn't exorcise these searing, pecking tongues
Immune you say
yet venom strikes in strangest guises
as the viper in our eyes
Tongue, throat, tongue
slayer of the word and stealer of wisdom
A monumental reign of terrors
throats slit up to stain the target
We're food for the hounds of trauma,
prey to the crows of stress
No power left to retrieve my stolen language
filtered through the illiterate fingers of death
Flies
let sickness be poured
from the cupped hands of bedlam
On account of their brightness
I made friends with the word and the moon
went with the tide and left for the sound
of dead instruments thrown out of tune
The red square patterns, dragonrise and
evenclaw
decoying from pandemonic symmetry
Let ring
a dissonant note in the music of the spheres
the streak of promise in the nuclear sky
These whipping black tongues
aching to lick me back to life
to inject their truths within me
1. Freecard
set against these hardest hours
anger paled, for in this fear
the theft of privacy
we all see it break sometimes,
see it tear us apart
that which left behind
screams out loud this night
so much is asked in silence
expect not and you'll find
thousand miles
from the nearest truth
rotating, entangled
- I continue not to heal
another no-night
waits its turn
so I call upon
my freecard
to postpone
if time was one with many faces
which one would call to me?
where all our paths in one now end
that with the power to gather the mislead
now will lead them all astray
so push it ever further
to unsuspecting dark
build that second layer
for the hours to take fast
a rest from the giving
like a heart between beats
greater than the need
for community
the need for the right solitude
come to know
that an outrage is inevitable
through many try
an escape is unsuccessful
in the midst of a nerve-night
the victim of soulkill
true self is mere torture
death rides these nerves
2. Therein
gentle storm / thundering silence
inferior force / uncontrolled calm
vital unlife / logic/chaos/logic
the tone of which his birth ascend
the beat that of a heart descend
repeating in the infinite
an insight made it clear
order stormed the surface
where chaos set the norm
had there always been balance?
...surely not
therein lies the beauty
it was solid
yet everchanging
it was different
yet the same
so I starve myself for energy
the song around his soul will bend
the notes that in this hole will melt
crawl out of science
a dreamland if you dear
disorder clawed the boundaries
we're ordered to stand clear
was it always different
...never the same?
therein lies the beauty
as there were no witnesses
there was nothing to be told
as nothing could be grasped
the story could unfold
superimposed on the elemtens of anger
/ fear / anxiety / hate / despair / remorse
so break from all that fear hold fast
exposed now turn to all you lack
let echoes be the answers
return from all the screams
wordless now the last attack
so silent it hurts to listen
was it always solid
...to never change?
therein lies the beauty
3. Undo Control
there were words of lust
in these arms of the stranger
and there in silence though were words of no milder
so in thinking of that madness
that ravage the thoughts
in the loneliest of hours
I resist without control
the demand I get from excellence
the void I felt from answering
not only an addition
it generated need
in these endless nights of freezing
my weight on the other side
I resist without control
feel the thorns of uncontrol
claws that set in sleeps December
let loose on the verge
talked to me as strangers once did
the tone was set for winter
sweet uncontrol
beyond proportion
into the night
so strike me deeper
I resist without control
feel the thorns of uncontrol
the death that craved no life
now ended
in return
drifting uncontrolably
within the night
4. Auctioned
outsmart the fever
and take us farther from
the killing life in capsules
a life that can't belong
so if I wake up dead to the world
with the helm at my command
the reaching out of this
faced tomorrow in the 11: th hour
beckoned closer
now as nightfall sends it's grace
cue to enter the insatiable ideal
slam it shut but the portal pounding lingers
what is it; is time undone
cannot falter in the security of labour
was I supposed to believe?
where did I sign
did I miss the auction where my life went under the club?
went the half mile
wondered when the resolution would come
life became too solid
diluted by the essence of denial
caught in fire's eye
the self and filter that is I
my lip was venom
words formed in my mouth
hid beneath the tongue
never to be seen
5. To A Bitter Halt
faintly arisen / tenderly torn
dreamlike decision, unconsciously born
firm in conviction yet tempt me they can
deny me of trust and a demon I hide
a drive to be less than the fortunate
a dream in the casket of eden
crave that which you do not desire
cling tightly to your deepest fear
I rose the greatest monument
again and again
I bear the greatest treasure
of time and a word
treson spilt on the loneliest of graves
desperation dealt the losing hand again
wherein lie the purpose of the day?
Is there return in sadness?
does your ceiling differ much from mine
where we see each other
here in this light
is that pillow more than a frame
that holds the chaos fast?
now his hand a fist
gain control
silence fell and eyes now widened
filling up the strength collapsing
capable of the ending froze in the tracks
brought to a bitter halt
on the floor it seems the steps are showing
left a print just like it did in me
what has been and what will be
never care 'cause I was in between
as I said with on afoot in loneliness
you hide here in me
6. The Sun Fired Blanks
upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
there rode the sickness out of our sight
carried torches burned out long before it's time
among these ruins where our love to be found
ambition falters when no better is to be known
cling to the unfounded pride
death to our belonging
and our ministy of two
set the higher standard
and to a greater fall descend
slaves to one another
and to others be it not
soothing be temptation
force the conscience to a halt
caused a high vibration
a tender light to be part of you
the two-way escape
7. Nether Novas
what late forgotten nights to emptiness has given
and now November morning will be taken asunder
the shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging
dug into the undiscovered of a life, a pest, a plague
falling back into the arms - no never
admitting to a life alone - no
claiming there are sparks inside - no
outside looking back - no
so the lie never stopped
cling to the wave it cried and onward to the night
expecting not and nothing in the presence of a lie
the deeper that it dug the more now had to go
surrender was a fact and the room was decorated
- the lie never stopped
what late forgotten nights to emptiness has given
the strangers may they come in ignorance's disguise
so into the dark walking to leave the last of times
kneedeep in desperation to fill the gap behind
boldly thread the night forever
November thought are right - oh never
taken from the fall - no
frightened by the key but the trail behind the house
felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped
found at loss for words, now words aren't enough
someone told, a vacancy was open
someone laughed, the silence here was broken
dug up to make room
the room which you furnaced and graced
there is no vacancy
the least can fill the fountain
the most will flood the mold
8. Day To End
waiting for the day to end
as silence came too late
I turn my eyes inside
close the lids
deny the world to enter
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
all the thoughts that you defined
tread the light again
take the pain away
it feels as though time as tears
never seem to end
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
oh, inside
oh, inside
oh, inside
as I hold you in I try to make sure
these treasures that I hide
these treasures that I hide
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
'cause I'm turning the desires down
again rose the monstrous of hours in between
I taint the thought
the trauma born inside
9. Dobermann
where were the eyes that followed
how could they've found?
these misery's merchants
struck the message deep
"we have come to stay"
dogs fled there in the dark of his path
feared him as once they all did
like a ghost in daylight
on an overcrowded street
he wishes
to be something he is not
lie a shadow at midnight
that originate in air
he wishes to release
deep in the back it had caught him
the anchor they threw at his life
oh these misery's merchants
dragged through life as a burden
rushed off to his cage of glass
to open the single window
a means of escape, out in the open
there are still holes in these walls
puking information into the unwanting
probing the last hope of defence
so he plugged up the holes
shut the outside window
in doing that, madness payed a visit
...and then suddenly in mid-thought
escape was a factor and as from inside
pushing out were words
through fingers came uncovering
revealing the truth of him there in the dark...
skin began to crawl as they neared him
is all pleasure release?
oh these misery's merchants
saw the message clear
"it is time to pay"
like a ghost in daylight
on an overcrowded street
10. On Your Time
neither here nor there in our unity of twine
solitary sanity, traded in for life
once we crawled into the artificial night
all was left and I arrived on your time
there in the collision
wish answers could arrive
was I kept up for this?
did the physical emotion
break the fall of sleep?
I'd never thought of things that you would say
could never tell if what you said were lies
it's in here eating
it's down there drinking
be with me, not against me
bear with it, love against me
I've never known if there was enough time
could never tell if it was done just right
an icicle thrust
to soothe the disorder
between the eyes
where the well is the deepest
and so unease carried words
that spoke of no matter
was I held here for this?
did the path of devotion stay from what you felt?
I've never seen things here in this light
could never tell it your touch was deeper than skin
once I thought that what no time can heal
is here in me - but time proved me wrong
deeper still toward an outward pride
no more lies - I'm here on your time
11. Exposure
[bonus track]
Rise I say, yes, rise above!!
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
Down you go to lands below
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
They who reign in sand
Take this brightest strike
In their so-called castles
Now with walls of glass
I can see, I can see, I can see
All your deeds, all your needs
On your knees
So I'll crack your feeble shell
Can you even see
The works of what you fear?
Cause evil is as evil does
What evil does to me
Further inside
'Til all you have is mine
Evil is as evil does
What evil's done to me
Dreams he said, dreams he wore
Dreams he wore, dreams he wore
Hope he said, hope he wore
Evil he said and evil he wore
I'll strip you down
I'll tear you down
I'll plunder up and down
I'll break the lock
till nails come off
You're under they all lie
Rise above the light
Rise above afar
Rise above your fears
And tread on what you know
Blind to your eyes
Blind to your mind
Cause evil is what evil does
What evil does to me
Taste and you'll see
the fruit you took is foul
Evil is what evil does
What evil does to me
You who turn to others
With everything you lack
A face that bears not seeing
Then I'll turn my back
I can see, I can see, I can see
All your deeds, all your needs
On your knees
So I'll crack your fuckin' shell
1. The Wonders At Your Feet
[music: Brandstrom, Jivarp, Henriksson]
deeper shades of red descending
smear our names, the stains unending
turn forgiveness,
break the lens distorted
crush the infidel and turn about
famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder
eradicate the lungs and take us higher
these are the wonders at your feet
weighed upon a wider scale
afraid to see what takes us down
sing destruction, sing of unfullfillment
search abandoned, let the blood be fevered
ridden of the self provided things get easier
ignite our minds and let's burn brighter
these are the wonders at your feet
2. Not Built To Last
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson, Brandstrom]
what came as no surprise
to a jaded mind no less
insight comes to soothing grace
left to waiting days
..another chord unstrummed
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
in the paleness of a less than life
from a corner watching old paint dry
never once a break
into the self again
an endeavour that will flat our fail
what maturity comes to end
never one to face
..another beat undone
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
once again
another instant saved today
left a print that leads nowhere
never built to last
what makes it work
a part of life that makes the weak hearts grow
take it in if you?re willing to say
willing to do
prepared to lay it down
just know this
it was never built to last
3. Indifferent Suns
[music: Nicklasson, Henriksson]
and although it can be argued
whether time will ever come to end
there is an overcoming sense of failing
if you never can see the end
in the giving of our hope eternal
we stumble blindly and forget the way
is there ever time for answers
when the world comes tumbling down
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we're the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
and even if in days of wonders
a glance that may stray from the fold
cast aside in the spirit of ignorance
a mere nuisance when it?s time to pay
come undone now the strive and the passion
giving under to the forces that be
can you even think of questions
when the world comes tumbling down
we shut our eyes and turn away
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we're the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
4. Feast Of Burden
[music: Henriksson, Jivarp]
"Scars torn open
Bondaged slave
Eating my wrists"
A thrust that numbs the pain
Secondary now the instinct
Thrust beyond control
Chaotc
Are the tracks before me
Barren are the ones behind
Carried in a cage controlling
Driven
Driven on, Driven in
Headlong onto the breach
Driven on, Driven in
Taken to the extreme
Headlong onto the breach
Pumping fast the race is on
furious in striving
The Feast of burden begins
The Feast of burden begins
Driven on, Driven in
Taken to the extreme
Headlong onto the breach
Driven on, Driven in
Headlong onto the breach
"The enslaving force
Thrown ahead
Unrelenting"
Faithfully holding fast
Steaming ahead unknowing
Careless again it seems
Oblivious to the pressure
The Feast of burden begins
The Feast of burden begins
5. Haven
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
now as the lights go down
deeper now it seems than long before
there are no noises here
just a silence gone bad
something I will never hide
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
if there were words for this
would I sing or should I scream?
I'd give my blood to stay
my blood just to stay right here
something can never share
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
6. The Same
[music: Brandstrom, Jivarp, Henriksson]
what we always fear and loathe
becomes of us
repay the visit of our loss
reset the marks again
the turning point
seems to be holding on
sands of ages and the stars above
everchanging as the same hearts beat
repeating 'til the end
seas of slander and the soil we walk
everchanging as the same hearts beat
it ends up all the same
the sail that never knew the wind
barren and lost
our wrecks these shores will never reach
a trek on darker trails
let days be done
it takes forever
7. Fabric
[music: Brandstrom]
scattered throughout now
indefinite form
willed to find strangers
in the wickedest state
when it comes upon you my friend
fear not - it makes us men
hidden within ourselves now
lured into hiding out of sight
creation in purity
we don't need no host
suck it in
it waits for no one
take it down
the coming of descent
fiery changeling
reddened and frail
perspire to save it
the remnant of this game
if it launches again today
will our lives begin again
turning away from tides of lust
stronger return against all odds
suck it in
it waits for no one
take it down
the coming of descent
raised to take stand
to separate grace
shown in the wake of new light
seeing it will break
the flavour of acquired taste
another boundary yet to face
witness the revolution
the fabric of essence
come again
8. Ego Drama
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
wrestled on its back
the ego showed his face
charged up, receiving
came out knowing
hopeless intrusion
where nothing can be found
strewn, the seeds were wasted
on the innocent in awe
fruitless connection
in the ripeness of his age
drawn and thrust in anger
the dagger once again will fail
The ego drama unfolds
hopeless intrusion
where nothing can be found
strewn, the seeds were wasted
on the innocent in awe
it's over
if nothing comes along
it's over for you
so in denial stand where shame is not
and unto others fall
the blame, the guilt,
the others fault
come on now-
scratch and claw with all your strength
take on the wildest bull in the horde
come burn them fingers fast
and take back what they owe
return the safety where there was none...
9. Rundown
[music: Henriksson, Jivarp]
cowardice, this chain of events
gather and plot the ensnaring of me (ensnaring)
gone now the sense of lust
is there a cost for the reckless excess?
taken in the growth and trust
retaliatory strike at the weakest spot
raked away the remains of my fall
that laid scattered cross plains of regret
humble in defence of the wicked
run down, naked and blind
merciless, the onslaught of demands
get in line for the numbning
I won't make a stand
redeemer of the slavery
reconcile with the carefree and content
ensnarer, caretaker
lead not these the frail into battle again
crossing out the ramblings of others
tired of the same old refrain
knowing this will all be corrected
torn down, wasted and lost
I can't take it anymore 'cause I am rundown
can't take it anymore 'cause this is wrong
tired and rundown
spat it out
the foolish lines you fed
it holds a place in the civilized mind
forcefed, the turn of our venturesome quest
being rundown as we seek
the day this was lost
all that you see
all that'll be
rundown
10. Emptier Still
[music: Henriksson]
secrets in here
claim no belonging
together again
or send me to madness
I know that I should have listened
was given a choice I turned down forever
so tell me are you lonely
emptier still
as time takes us farther
away from the goals
by which we are measured
I know that I should have stayed true
to you and to me
but time never heals
so here alone I stand
so tell me are you lonely
tell me are you mine
I see you standing there
your face against the wall
so turn right around
I who know your deepest fear
and yet you walk away
so turn right around so tell me are you lonely
tell me are you mine
don't speak for you are me
11. At Loss For Words
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
waiting for [x2] the signs to bring
the first to sing
felt in-between these fears
set to unknown tunes
so tempt these fragile fiends
a grace gone dark
you'll never know
never feel
never taste the depths of your defeat
break into the hearts and minds of man
never one to tell [x2]
sucking on a lie that never ends
found at loss for words
locking on [x2] to faith gone bad
sweet touch of sin
not in the sleight of hand
can facts be lost
never understate your case
deny our weight
there never is
there never was
there can never be
a break from binding chains
break into the hearts and minds of man
never one to tell
sucking on a lie that never ends
found at loss for words
12. Cornered
[Advanced Copies only]
There never was a night like this
How could there ever be
Through sweat and velvet misery
The fever race in me
Cornered in a symmetrical design
Sphere-like chrome on a sea enraged...
hatred
What the mirror sees
is the clutching at straws
taking us under
The storm of the ocean
this velvety crush
Ringcorners- firm in the outrage
Synaptic patterns
Waves contort
Break into these cellular walls
Why...
Globes of disease, infest my dreams
burning the ends of my veins
Pattern and form, the squares cling fast
Dance the tide now
Could never bare another night
although I know it'll come
The freezing ends of what is me
The icy rages...
free
Cornered in a symmetrical design
Sphere-like chrome on a sea enraged...
hatred
Take hold of the boundaries -
The Perimeter Sea
Burn!
Enflame the oppressors
But if four was one
in a corner alone
recovering - licking the wounds
delerium coming
the weakness kicks in
Resigning, cornered within
[music: Brandstrom, Jivarp, Henriksson]
deeper shades of red descending
smear our names, the stains unending
turn forgiveness,
break the lens distorted
crush the infidel and turn about
famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder
eradicate the lungs and take us higher
these are the wonders at your feet
weighed upon a wider scale
afraid to see what takes us down
sing destruction, sing of unfullfillment
search abandoned, let the blood be fevered
ridden of the self provided things get easier
ignite our minds and let's burn brighter
these are the wonders at your feet
2. Not Built To Last
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson, Brandstrom]
what came as no surprise
to a jaded mind no less
insight comes to soothing grace
left to waiting days
..another chord unstrummed
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
in the paleness of a less than life
from a corner watching old paint dry
never once a break
into the self again
an endeavour that will flat our fail
what maturity comes to end
never one to face
..another beat undone
our secret's safe and sound
solid now unless it breaks in two
faithfully unbound
none of this was ever built to last
once again
another instant saved today
left a print that leads nowhere
never built to last
what makes it work
a part of life that makes the weak hearts grow
take it in if you?re willing to say
willing to do
prepared to lay it down
just know this
it was never built to last
3. Indifferent Suns
[music: Nicklasson, Henriksson]
and although it can be argued
whether time will ever come to end
there is an overcoming sense of failing
if you never can see the end
in the giving of our hope eternal
we stumble blindly and forget the way
is there ever time for answers
when the world comes tumbling down
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we're the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
and even if in days of wonders
a glance that may stray from the fold
cast aside in the spirit of ignorance
a mere nuisance when it?s time to pay
come undone now the strive and the passion
giving under to the forces that be
can you even think of questions
when the world comes tumbling down
we shut our eyes and turn away
all along we keep staring at the sun
closing our minds
saying we're the ones
all along we keep staring at the sun
blind to see it when the day will come
4. Feast Of Burden
[music: Henriksson, Jivarp]
"Scars torn open
Bondaged slave
Eating my wrists"
A thrust that numbs the pain
Secondary now the instinct
Thrust beyond control
Chaotc
Are the tracks before me
Barren are the ones behind
Carried in a cage controlling
Driven
Driven on, Driven in
Headlong onto the breach
Driven on, Driven in
Taken to the extreme
Headlong onto the breach
Pumping fast the race is on
furious in striving
The Feast of burden begins
The Feast of burden begins
Driven on, Driven in
Taken to the extreme
Headlong onto the breach
Driven on, Driven in
Headlong onto the breach
"The enslaving force
Thrown ahead
Unrelenting"
Faithfully holding fast
Steaming ahead unknowing
Careless again it seems
Oblivious to the pressure
The Feast of burden begins
The Feast of burden begins
5. Haven
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
now as the lights go down
deeper now it seems than long before
there are no noises here
just a silence gone bad
something I will never hide
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
if there were words for this
would I sing or should I scream?
I'd give my blood to stay
my blood just to stay right here
something can never share
this urging need to
invite the darkside in
into my haven
6. The Same
[music: Brandstrom, Jivarp, Henriksson]
what we always fear and loathe
becomes of us
repay the visit of our loss
reset the marks again
the turning point
seems to be holding on
sands of ages and the stars above
everchanging as the same hearts beat
repeating 'til the end
seas of slander and the soil we walk
everchanging as the same hearts beat
it ends up all the same
the sail that never knew the wind
barren and lost
our wrecks these shores will never reach
a trek on darker trails
let days be done
it takes forever
7. Fabric
[music: Brandstrom]
scattered throughout now
indefinite form
willed to find strangers
in the wickedest state
when it comes upon you my friend
fear not - it makes us men
hidden within ourselves now
lured into hiding out of sight
creation in purity
we don't need no host
suck it in
it waits for no one
take it down
the coming of descent
fiery changeling
reddened and frail
perspire to save it
the remnant of this game
if it launches again today
will our lives begin again
turning away from tides of lust
stronger return against all odds
suck it in
it waits for no one
take it down
the coming of descent
raised to take stand
to separate grace
shown in the wake of new light
seeing it will break
the flavour of acquired taste
another boundary yet to face
witness the revolution
the fabric of essence
come again
8. Ego Drama
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
wrestled on its back
the ego showed his face
charged up, receiving
came out knowing
hopeless intrusion
where nothing can be found
strewn, the seeds were wasted
on the innocent in awe
fruitless connection
in the ripeness of his age
drawn and thrust in anger
the dagger once again will fail
The ego drama unfolds
hopeless intrusion
where nothing can be found
strewn, the seeds were wasted
on the innocent in awe
it's over
if nothing comes along
it's over for you
so in denial stand where shame is not
and unto others fall
the blame, the guilt,
the others fault
come on now-
scratch and claw with all your strength
take on the wildest bull in the horde
come burn them fingers fast
and take back what they owe
return the safety where there was none...
9. Rundown
[music: Henriksson, Jivarp]
cowardice, this chain of events
gather and plot the ensnaring of me (ensnaring)
gone now the sense of lust
is there a cost for the reckless excess?
taken in the growth and trust
retaliatory strike at the weakest spot
raked away the remains of my fall
that laid scattered cross plains of regret
humble in defence of the wicked
run down, naked and blind
merciless, the onslaught of demands
get in line for the numbning
I won't make a stand
redeemer of the slavery
reconcile with the carefree and content
ensnarer, caretaker
lead not these the frail into battle again
crossing out the ramblings of others
tired of the same old refrain
knowing this will all be corrected
torn down, wasted and lost
I can't take it anymore 'cause I am rundown
can't take it anymore 'cause this is wrong
tired and rundown
spat it out
the foolish lines you fed
it holds a place in the civilized mind
forcefed, the turn of our venturesome quest
being rundown as we seek
the day this was lost
all that you see
all that'll be
rundown
10. Emptier Still
[music: Henriksson]
secrets in here
claim no belonging
together again
or send me to madness
I know that I should have listened
was given a choice I turned down forever
so tell me are you lonely
emptier still
as time takes us farther
away from the goals
by which we are measured
I know that I should have stayed true
to you and to me
but time never heals
so here alone I stand
so tell me are you lonely
tell me are you mine
I see you standing there
your face against the wall
so turn right around
I who know your deepest fear
and yet you walk away
so turn right around so tell me are you lonely
tell me are you mine
don't speak for you are me
11. At Loss For Words
[music: Jivarp, Henriksson]
waiting for [x2] the signs to bring
the first to sing
felt in-between these fears
set to unknown tunes
so tempt these fragile fiends
a grace gone dark
you'll never know
never feel
never taste the depths of your defeat
break into the hearts and minds of man
never one to tell [x2]
sucking on a lie that never ends
found at loss for words
locking on [x2] to faith gone bad
sweet touch of sin
not in the sleight of hand
can facts be lost
never understate your case
deny our weight
there never is
there never was
there can never be
a break from binding chains
break into the hearts and minds of man
never one to tell
sucking on a lie that never ends
found at loss for words
12. Cornered
[Advanced Copies only]
There never was a night like this
How could there ever be
Through sweat and velvet misery
The fever race in me
Cornered in a symmetrical design
Sphere-like chrome on a sea enraged...
hatred
What the mirror sees
is the clutching at straws
taking us under
The storm of the ocean
this velvety crush
Ringcorners- firm in the outrage
Synaptic patterns
Waves contort
Break into these cellular walls
Why...
Globes of disease, infest my dreams
burning the ends of my veins
Pattern and form, the squares cling fast
Dance the tide now
Could never bare another night
although I know it'll come
The freezing ends of what is me
The icy rages...
free
Cornered in a symmetrical design
Sphere-like chrome on a sea enraged...
hatred
Take hold of the boundaries -
The Perimeter Sea
Burn!
Enflame the oppressors
But if four was one
in a corner alone
recovering - licking the wounds
delerium coming
the weakness kicks in
Resigning, cornered within
1. Final Resistance
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
The plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety
Perimeter alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
A final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that
Haunts each waking day
Request for countertmeasures
To state claim of this my cavern
None to take and none be given
As the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
Is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
In the silent halls of none
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight
Everybody said No
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life
Everybody said No
This is the final resistance
2. Hours Passed In Exile
What if:
A) some things are destined to failure
B) some things are never meant to be
C) someone never sees
D) someone never opens
E) somehow we are different
Though I never claimed to be right
Give to me the benefit of doubt
I brought you fires
That you put out
I brought you fires
For I cannot be without
I came with sadness
But this my shattered heart can't bear
What of the times in exile
What of the hours passed
What if touches seem too trivial
You can never tell me I'm wrong
A song I've heard so long
So what if healing takes forever
So what if time is meant for others
So what is left is but a shatter
And what is broken can't be whole
3. Monochromatic Stains
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing
Like fingerprints on your heart
Reading out the last lines of code
To the untrained eye a secret
I bled away the last of you
Sought trust in shapes of combined results
That trickles from a less than solid case
Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust
Burn the gracing grounds
What will give in first
The body or the lash
Monochromatic stains
Who will cave in first
The leader or the fake
Monochromatic stains
This pile of ashes of a soul
Informant pokes abound
These sickly little fingers
Get away from me
Tread not the path of least restraint
Each piece of evidence a lie, a lie
The body, the face all items in place
I don't remember a thing
A sacrifice made to the loss of mind
Folly a man's demise
Track now the stains that allow my fall
Sickening, the sight of it all
Never shall I claim my innocence
I just was not there
4. Single Part Of Two
"Come with me," he said and erased it from his mind
"Be with me now," but of love we are frightened stiff
We'd rather leave and head for the skies
Than say all the right words too soon
"And I never thought you would
But always knew you could"
"We take off from here," and in that
Instant nothing remained of what was
Whereas the soul provides, freedom
Narrowed down for the taking
"I never wanted you to lie
-never needed fragments of your day"
A broken promise made,
To always come around
-never to stay
And as tired as clich�s come
Did not expect nor frown upon
Lighter hearts have taken bait
Sweetened words now with bitter taste
A distance kept that never fails to close us in
And forget the days that still linger on
Inside the single part of two
We'd rather leave no trace and not look back
Than face the anxiety here and now
5. The Treason Wall
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear
Wrapped up nicely in ourselves
Chaos resolves
That which order defiles
Worthless lives
Are ordered blind
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
That all belongs to me
I don't believe
I won't believe
I raise my hand against it all
For those who don't recognize the call
Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls
Going to break it down
Let me nail you to the treason wall
Stab the night and the day from your sight
And set the thought to flame
Feeble devout
Nothing resides
Break it to pieces
That obstinate mind
I raise my fist to hold the line
Against those who set themselves on high
Going to break it down
6. Format C: For Cortex
Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense
How to discern just where right belongs
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to see
There is no need for you to start revolutions
I don't want you to talk to the minions
Just show me a brand new face
An open mind against a dying race
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to hear/feel
Cannot fail in this the era of losers
Burnt the shell of those that once held the torches
Cannot give you the senses anew
Nor will you know innocence again
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to know
In time all your questions will be answered
Not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed
All preconceptions crumble
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to learn
Won't hold up to the standards you keep
Never came from the formative years
Just show me a brand new mind
Keep in what you left behind
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to be
7. Damage Done
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed
Those final words to fracture the very structure
Can't stand this glacial pace
The damage done
It seems these days are getting shorter
Derails my train of thought
What said in hand was done
Chased unforgiveness down these corridors
Locked down the basis for the willing form
A trail far from strayed
The damage done
Set aside from eyes of others
Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
Brought out for all to see
The damage done
Face contradicting needs
We bring our cages home
For none to see
In vain to lessen
Responsibility
The damage done
8. Cathode Ray Sunshine
Carry our streams
Lift up our less than elated lives
Transmit our selves
We breathe out
Where no one whispers
Take in all the dark light
Turn the nighttime into day
Cathode ray Sunshine
Speak out and we receive
Show me and let us in
Alienate
Block out all
Amid the breaking of the light
See it again and again
Single sight
Sensory perception
Turn the nighttime into day
To our great distrust
Escapism a means of
Getting through alive
Take it in and spit it out again
That measly filth
Focal degradation
Bring the chaos into light
Cathode ray Sunshine
Burn
9. The Enemy
To remain objective
To a closer call
Secretly rejected
And to mediocrity fall
Caught on the downslopes of life
The patted shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
Encouraging on the negative scale
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy like I do
A social repellant
(not) merely an adversary
Lost to the failing words
Kept the last of all
Understood glances
To work against
10. I, Deception
Could not have forseen
What the lies of the bearer would bring
Trailing the marks of his errors
Trace the original sin
Fallen I cling to deception
This talk of madness is in me
Come now as the drapery falls
From homes that take the foul in hand
Mind cloven Sweet spoken
With words that led us off the track
Truth altered Blindsighted
Thrive on the illusion
And the image of a life to be
Unmount the shielding facade
Cast to death the disciples
Fevered rage to burn them
Fallen
Endure the spit of others
Locked inside the pretence cage
Where the cause will be certain
Fallen I'll see you inside
11. White Noise / Black Silence
Time in argument will end
Flames of preparation
Fingers felt the whipping
Hand that feeds the flame
Escalate the drought
Itching to join the fray
Wishing darkness was sound
Shutting desires out
Wishing darkness was sound
But as moths to the flame...
...We go
You the ignorant
Take sides in these three dimensions
Nullify importance
Confined within the page
Scan for raoture again
Look for an instant save
Wishing darkness was sound
Shutting desires out
Wishing darkness was sound
But as moths to the flame...
...We go....
Mere moments pass and still it seems
Detached from insight, thought and word
Ever since it lost its edge
Lost in the noise forever be
In the blur of information
The nail that never sticks
The nail that never sticks
White Noise
Black silence
Venting a foul stench
Purging the fevered self
Behind a traitor's name
Face the consequence
Taken back in the eyes of fairness
A nobody forever
Hidden and locked away
Working the boards again
Giving the wrath away
12. Ex Nihilo
[Instrumental]
13. The Poison Well
[Japanese bonus track]
Unless another wall is breaking
Nothing can come of this
Elusive
Against our better judgement
Allow our image to stand ground
Turn around and
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Nobody ever goes
With ideals as infestations
Hinder the radical mind
Retune our aim
Now is time for hiding
For it stabs fear in you
So coward
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Nobody ever goes
A thought to infect you
An idea to perfect you
A flesh to restrain you
No heart to forgive you
The poison well
Runs dry
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord
They told of outposts firm as trees
Whispers laid no basis for
The plunge to the chasm depths
Seen none, nor felt the safety
Perimeter alarm
I see the bearings of disaster
What can you tell me of the inside
Is it as bright as all can see?
To make a chemical stand
A final front to the days ahead
In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement
Smothered by the numeral that
Haunts each waking day
Request for countertmeasures
To state claim of this my cavern
None to take and none be given
As the window breaks to black
A process left to solitude
Is the action left undone
Answers left to echo
In the silent halls of none
Cast down the hopes and aspirations
Shut the windows tight
Everybody said No
Reset your fears and good intentions
Barred up for life
Everybody said No
This is the final resistance
2. Hours Passed In Exile
What if:
A) some things are destined to failure
B) some things are never meant to be
C) someone never sees
D) someone never opens
E) somehow we are different
Though I never claimed to be right
Give to me the benefit of doubt
I brought you fires
That you put out
I brought you fires
For I cannot be without
I came with sadness
But this my shattered heart can't bear
What of the times in exile
What of the hours passed
What if touches seem too trivial
You can never tell me I'm wrong
A song I've heard so long
So what if healing takes forever
So what if time is meant for others
So what is left is but a shatter
And what is broken can't be whole
3. Monochromatic Stains
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing
Like fingerprints on your heart
Reading out the last lines of code
To the untrained eye a secret
I bled away the last of you
Sought trust in shapes of combined results
That trickles from a less than solid case
Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust
Burn the gracing grounds
What will give in first
The body or the lash
Monochromatic stains
Who will cave in first
The leader or the fake
Monochromatic stains
This pile of ashes of a soul
Informant pokes abound
These sickly little fingers
Get away from me
Tread not the path of least restraint
Each piece of evidence a lie, a lie
The body, the face all items in place
I don't remember a thing
A sacrifice made to the loss of mind
Folly a man's demise
Track now the stains that allow my fall
Sickening, the sight of it all
Never shall I claim my innocence
I just was not there
4. Single Part Of Two
"Come with me," he said and erased it from his mind
"Be with me now," but of love we are frightened stiff
We'd rather leave and head for the skies
Than say all the right words too soon
"And I never thought you would
But always knew you could"
"We take off from here," and in that
Instant nothing remained of what was
Whereas the soul provides, freedom
Narrowed down for the taking
"I never wanted you to lie
-never needed fragments of your day"
A broken promise made,
To always come around
-never to stay
And as tired as clich�s come
Did not expect nor frown upon
Lighter hearts have taken bait
Sweetened words now with bitter taste
A distance kept that never fails to close us in
And forget the days that still linger on
Inside the single part of two
We'd rather leave no trace and not look back
Than face the anxiety here and now
5. The Treason Wall
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear
Wrapped up nicely in ourselves
Chaos resolves
That which order defiles
Worthless lives
Are ordered blind
I don't believe
Taste and you will see
That all belongs to me
I don't believe
I won't believe
I raise my hand against it all
For those who don't recognize the call
Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls
Going to break it down
Let me nail you to the treason wall
Stab the night and the day from your sight
And set the thought to flame
Feeble devout
Nothing resides
Break it to pieces
That obstinate mind
I raise my fist to hold the line
Against those who set themselves on high
Going to break it down
6. Format C: For Cortex
Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense
How to discern just where right belongs
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to see
There is no need for you to start revolutions
I don't want you to talk to the minions
Just show me a brand new face
An open mind against a dying race
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to hear/feel
Cannot fail in this the era of losers
Burnt the shell of those that once held the torches
Cannot give you the senses anew
Nor will you know innocence again
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to know
In time all your questions will be answered
Not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed
All preconceptions crumble
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to learn
Won't hold up to the standards you keep
Never came from the formative years
Just show me a brand new mind
Keep in what you left behind
Something has got to give
These things I just don't want you to be
7. Damage Done
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed
Those final words to fracture the very structure
Can't stand this glacial pace
The damage done
It seems these days are getting shorter
Derails my train of thought
What said in hand was done
Chased unforgiveness down these corridors
Locked down the basis for the willing form
A trail far from strayed
The damage done
Set aside from eyes of others
Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
Brought out for all to see
The damage done
Face contradicting needs
We bring our cages home
For none to see
In vain to lessen
Responsibility
The damage done
8. Cathode Ray Sunshine
Carry our streams
Lift up our less than elated lives
Transmit our selves
We breathe out
Where no one whispers
Take in all the dark light
Turn the nighttime into day
Cathode ray Sunshine
Speak out and we receive
Show me and let us in
Alienate
Block out all
Amid the breaking of the light
See it again and again
Single sight
Sensory perception
Turn the nighttime into day
To our great distrust
Escapism a means of
Getting through alive
Take it in and spit it out again
That measly filth
Focal degradation
Bring the chaos into light
Cathode ray Sunshine
Burn
9. The Enemy
To remain objective
To a closer call
Secretly rejected
And to mediocrity fall
Caught on the downslopes of life
The patted shoulder remembers
The elbowed side resists
Encircled ad nauseum
An enemy to define ourselves
An enemy to refine our hate
Encouraging on the negative scale
Bent out of shape is the measuring norm
In words and in writing
No one knows my enemy like I do
A social repellant
(not) merely an adversary
Lost to the failing words
Kept the last of all
Understood glances
To work against
10. I, Deception
Could not have forseen
What the lies of the bearer would bring
Trailing the marks of his errors
Trace the original sin
Fallen I cling to deception
This talk of madness is in me
Come now as the drapery falls
From homes that take the foul in hand
Mind cloven Sweet spoken
With words that led us off the track
Truth altered Blindsighted
Thrive on the illusion
And the image of a life to be
Unmount the shielding facade
Cast to death the disciples
Fevered rage to burn them
Fallen
Endure the spit of others
Locked inside the pretence cage
Where the cause will be certain
Fallen I'll see you inside
11. White Noise / Black Silence
Time in argument will end
Flames of preparation
Fingers felt the whipping
Hand that feeds the flame
Escalate the drought
Itching to join the fray
Wishing darkness was sound
Shutting desires out
Wishing darkness was sound
But as moths to the flame...
...We go
You the ignorant
Take sides in these three dimensions
Nullify importance
Confined within the page
Scan for raoture again
Look for an instant save
Wishing darkness was sound
Shutting desires out
Wishing darkness was sound
But as moths to the flame...
...We go....
Mere moments pass and still it seems
Detached from insight, thought and word
Ever since it lost its edge
Lost in the noise forever be
In the blur of information
The nail that never sticks
The nail that never sticks
White Noise
Black silence
Venting a foul stench
Purging the fevered self
Behind a traitor's name
Face the consequence
Taken back in the eyes of fairness
A nobody forever
Hidden and locked away
Working the boards again
Giving the wrath away
12. Ex Nihilo
[Instrumental]
13. The Poison Well
[Japanese bonus track]
Unless another wall is breaking
Nothing can come of this
Elusive
Against our better judgement
Allow our image to stand ground
Turn around and
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Nobody ever goes
With ideals as infestations
Hinder the radical mind
Retune our aim
Now is time for hiding
For it stabs fear in you
So coward
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Nobody ever goes
A thought to infect you
An idea to perfect you
A flesh to restrain you
No heart to forgive you
The poison well
Runs dry
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
Break the path and let's get going
To the place where nobody ever goes
1. Static
nothing of a man was he
his true face of sleep a deception
fell through all the way to the bottom
learned to hold
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
why define ourselves by misguiding light?
how can we receive the static in their eyes
each blink of light an accuser
each unlit shape an assassin
crawled the outer rim
with his back exposed
the shadows unending
fought off the stares
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
nullify the ego, stay right back
stay right back
how can we receive
the static?
fear that strangles spirit
denial speaks the truth
fear that strangles spirit
crushes me and you
wicked are the senses, wicked are the words
give me the static
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
2. The Poison Well
unless another wall is breaking
nothing can come of this
elusive
against our better judgement
(allow) our image to stand ground
turn around and
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
with ideals as infestations
hinder the radical mind
retune our aim
now it's time for hiding
for it stabs fear in you
so coward
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
a thought to infect you
an idea to perfect you
a flesh to restrain you
no heart to forgive you
the poison well
i dried
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
3. Misery In Me
we no longer support ourselves
we live through each others tears
we no longer caress, no longer take hold
til this will be over again
the dream is over when all this begins
the past not part of the deal
the failing words i once said to you
you turned and walked out the door
gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
we no longer sustain ourselves
we live through each other's wounds
let's no longer detain, no longer suppress
pretend to be something we're not
the world is over when all is the same
a companion always there
but you have deceived
when all this is gone
you took back what you already had
gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
we no longer care if it breaks
it falls on belated pride
we keep on heading inwards
so this might be our only chance
to turn it around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
4. Cornered
there never was a night like this
how could there ever be?
through sweat and velvet misery
the fever-race in me
cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred
what the mirror sees
is the clutching at straws
taking us under
the storm of the ocean
this velvety crush
ringcorners, firm in the outrage
synoptic patterns
waves contort
break into these cellular walls
globes of disease
infest my dreams
burning the ends of my veins
pattern and form
the squares cling fast
dance the tide now
could never bear another night
although i know it will come
the freezing ends of what is me
the icing rages free
cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred
take hold of the boundaries
on this perimeter sea
burn, enflame the oppressor
and if four was one
in a corner alone
recovering, licking the wounds
delirium coming
the weakness kicks in
reforming, cornered within
5. In Sight
we are to be something here again
we are to play soldiers now, pretend
we are born inside these endless halls of shame
we are jaded by the error-ways of man
it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
and even if i go today
i won't understand
understand
we are to be something we are not
we are to repeat our faults my friend
we are taken down from sanity's lonely heights
we are shown the downward spiral ways of man
it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
no, they will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
'cause even if i die today
i won't understand
understand
6. No-One
uncontrolled spaces
lifeless til provoked
deep uncharted oceans
nonexistent til claimed
great raging fires
silent
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
me, me, me, me
tall reaching branches
pointless to even try
countless flaming cities
measured without cost
all-seeing eyes
without stories to tell
inside the orchard there's a scent of devilry
as was in my heart
...the sweetness overripe...
rancid in attempt to overcome the shackles
if only the soil could hold
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
the wide open wound
won't heal without purpose
it never stops
the wide open wound
that never heals
the no one is me
the no one is me
7. Exposure
rise, i say, yes rise above
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me
down you go to lands below
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me
they who reign in sand
take this brightest strike
in their so called castles
now with walls of glass
i can see, i can see, i can see
all your deeds, all your needs, on your knees
so i'll crack your feeble shell
can you even see the works of what you fear?
'cause evil is as evil does what evil's done to me
further inside, til all you have is mine
evil is as evil does, the evil done to me
dreams, he said
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
hope, he said
hope he wore
love, he said
and evil he wore
i'll strip you down
i'll tear you down
i'll burden you with tears
i'll bring you down
til nails come off
i'll turn your bed of lies
dreams upon a night
dreams upon your thoughts
dreams upon your fears
and dreams upon your love
blind to your eyes, blind to your mind
'cause evil is what evil does, what evil does to me
taste and you'll see the fruit you took is foul
evil is what evil does, what evil's done to me
you who turn to others
with everything you lack
a face that bears not seeing
then i'll turn my back
i can see, i can see, i can see
all your needs, all your deeds, on your knees
so i'll crack your fucking shell
8. Yesterworld
Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate
I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape
of re-emerged figments of imagination
I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep
Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye
reveal that a dreamscape lies therein
A yearning for a world
where the everlost find their peace
In the pearly gates of dawn
on the astral feed of minds
- envenomed to the bone
forever cleansed from all called wrath
as slumber sneaks upon
and steals the thought of man
all ridden from inner aggression...
A voyage beyond this world
In this paralell to real life
- access lies in dreams
Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep
- the key to what's beyond
In the wake of man we see
essential dreams unfulfilled
Enhance the value of life
engraved words on the page of man
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"This ain't no dream..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's your dream coming true"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames
that burn in the errors of our ways
In a night when the sky floats blue
as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling
in their outmost pride
Now from dimensions fallen from the skies
- like the flow of a stream
From my sleep I continue onward
- sleep is just a shape of destiny
Weak sunlight of dawns to come,
dancing swiftly in the shadows
Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams
...landscape of my dreams
Dim reflections of the pale
a shade of grey in mind
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"It's your reality..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's much more than a dream"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
Soon these worlds will be one
and mankind feasts on the sights of it all
I yearn for things to come
Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber
as the mist slippes away to reveal...
And the wind tears a scream from my lips
- I am there....
In the dreamscape I adore
(a moonclad reflection)
9. Unfurled By Dawn
Time and space unite
era of darkness - we mourn
Times of sorrow despite
our preach is put to scorn...
In ways like these I shall be reborn
to my words I conform
To seek the path of knowledge through time
In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason)
Subconcious powers flow
- we burn the ways forlorn
Am I in time with forces I am born
Are those disguised
Excuse is being dumb
In spirit fails...
Self realization in supreme conciousness
Explore the self - within a millenia of peace
Reach into the soil of humankind
Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground
Feel the wind of time now changing
Hear the voice that whispers near
Explore the inner strength within you now
seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
"I've seen the void that echo fear"
Fly into this void of inner consioucness
we seek eternally
Greet enlightned ways...
I spead out wings of knowledge
is essential in mournful times like these
Words I repent
Voice from inner self shall lead my way
Former ways of life I repent
to inner consciosness I've ascent
Mortal way of living is the key
Key to the secret it beholds
Come to seek the path with me
in unfathomable harmony
the way life is meant to be
enjoy and just adore life...
Burning desire in thee
letting your soul fly free
No sould shall be the same
burn with a different flame
Sowing the seeds of man
proving the things your can
Seeing the things that'll be
the priors in life I can see
Each of mankind is a star
that will keep on shining eternally
Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind
enchanted over things that you will find
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
In affection we loom - a reflection of time
Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule)
Search the inner self - find the self within
Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore)
things that' s left unsaid
Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse
nothing to forbid
In the empty eyes of the last of mortals
those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened
Before this dawn of eternal light we stand
once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten
...to the forgotten
Internal sadness cured through the light
to reach the sadest river in sight
Whispers of molten souls in my ear
on wings of twillight I am born....
Now enthrone thoughts of the past
the embryo of time
Your life lies yet unfolded
'til enlightened ways we see
In my dreams I've seen repention
as in tales that were never told
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
10. Midwinter / Beyond Enlightenment
Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion,
brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions
Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions
Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation
"Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet
A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat"
All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control
My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall
Demand my fall
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation"
forming law and justice into obscuration
leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire,
In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires
"You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies
With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies"
Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused
A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied
Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide
Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death
In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left
11. Vernal Awakening
Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge,
the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged,
Created life in fetters from cradle to grave
A future in darkness with mankind enslaved
Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail
Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore
So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost:
"Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth,
will a wasteland remain?
Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man
- his enfeebled domain?
Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim
Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man
So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found:
"Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall
let disorder arise!
An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth
hides now cloaked in disguise
Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions
Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions -
constant fatal life-corrosion
Autumn - beckons forth the
winter - rising gloom in hand
Raging with bleak coldness 'til
vernal light commands
Final chapter closed - world devoid of use
Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
12. Void Of Tranquillity
[lyrics: Sundin, Stanne]
In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past
Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins
Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before
The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore
Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul
Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal
The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely
as you're about to pass away The darkness that
surrounds you fades...
You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal
forgivness for thy impure soul
Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre
Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death
Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time
An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime
Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand
Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one
Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey
journey to a thousand secrets untold
Credlous at first to this place of wonder
Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades
Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away
Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs
This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world
Brought forth, the abyss now appears - foulmouthed temptations call me near
Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be
Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond
The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay
Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony
Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be
All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail
- lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair
Indescribable light descends between spheres
Spheres that behold that nondescript fear
Thought of the sins that were done in the past
the past is forgotten and the present will last
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within
Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin
Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty
Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny
Into the void of tranquillity
Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails
Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail
Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale
The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale
Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away
Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway
Forced to return - departure of soul
Material world - arrival as told
nothing of a man was he
his true face of sleep a deception
fell through all the way to the bottom
learned to hold
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
why define ourselves by misguiding light?
how can we receive the static in their eyes
each blink of light an accuser
each unlit shape an assassin
crawled the outer rim
with his back exposed
the shadows unending
fought off the stares
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
nullify the ego, stay right back
stay right back
how can we receive
the static?
fear that strangles spirit
denial speaks the truth
fear that strangles spirit
crushes me and you
wicked are the senses, wicked are the words
give me the static
again we vowed not to hold sacred
but to damn that hollow gaze
unsteady on these shorelines
mute to an unthought scream
another word fell silent
like the static in their eyes
against all fleeing logic
we let our minds go
blank
2. The Poison Well
unless another wall is breaking
nothing can come of this
elusive
against our better judgement
(allow) our image to stand ground
turn around and
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
with ideals as infestations
hinder the radical mind
retune our aim
now it's time for hiding
for it stabs fear in you
so coward
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
a thought to infect you
an idea to perfect you
a flesh to restrain you
no heart to forgive you
the poison well
i dried
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
break the path and let's get going
to the place where nobody ever goes
nobody ever goes
3. Misery In Me
we no longer support ourselves
we live through each others tears
we no longer caress, no longer take hold
til this will be over again
the dream is over when all this begins
the past not part of the deal
the failing words i once said to you
you turned and walked out the door
gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
we no longer sustain ourselves
we live through each other's wounds
let's no longer detain, no longer suppress
pretend to be something we're not
the world is over when all is the same
a companion always there
but you have deceived
when all this is gone
you took back what you already had
gone
over
i said it's fine
you burn them bridges
and you turn around
around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
we no longer care if it breaks
it falls on belated pride
we keep on heading inwards
so this might be our only chance
to turn it around
can't you see the misery in me?
can't you see the misery is me?
don't you know the fear i feel inside?
the misery in me
4. Cornered
there never was a night like this
how could there ever be?
through sweat and velvet misery
the fever-race in me
cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred
what the mirror sees
is the clutching at straws
taking us under
the storm of the ocean
this velvety crush
ringcorners, firm in the outrage
synoptic patterns
waves contort
break into these cellular walls
globes of disease
infest my dreams
burning the ends of my veins
pattern and form
the squares cling fast
dance the tide now
could never bear another night
although i know it will come
the freezing ends of what is me
the icing rages free
cornered in symmetrical design
spherelike chrome on a sea enraged
hatred
take hold of the boundaries
on this perimeter sea
burn, enflame the oppressor
and if four was one
in a corner alone
recovering, licking the wounds
delirium coming
the weakness kicks in
reforming, cornered within
5. In Sight
we are to be something here again
we are to play soldiers now, pretend
we are born inside these endless halls of shame
we are jaded by the error-ways of man
it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
and even if i go today
i won't understand
understand
we are to be something we are not
we are to repeat our faults my friend
we are taken down from sanity's lonely heights
we are shown the downward spiral ways of man
it doesn't make us strong
it doesn't make us strong
the things that i find stranger here
will not let us in
no, they will not let us in
show me, i won't tell
'cause even if i die today
i won't understand
understand
6. No-One
uncontrolled spaces
lifeless til provoked
deep uncharted oceans
nonexistent til claimed
great raging fires
silent
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
me, me, me, me
tall reaching branches
pointless to even try
countless flaming cities
measured without cost
all-seeing eyes
without stories to tell
inside the orchard there's a scent of devilry
as was in my heart
...the sweetness overripe...
rancid in attempt to overcome the shackles
if only the soil could hold
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
when there is no one
when no one is mine
the no one is me
the no one is me
the wide open wound
won't heal without purpose
it never stops
the wide open wound
that never heals
the no one is me
the no one is me
7. Exposure
rise, i say, yes rise above
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me
down you go to lands below
'cause evil is as evil does, what evil does to me
they who reign in sand
take this brightest strike
in their so called castles
now with walls of glass
i can see, i can see, i can see
all your deeds, all your needs, on your knees
so i'll crack your feeble shell
can you even see the works of what you fear?
'cause evil is as evil does what evil's done to me
further inside, til all you have is mine
evil is as evil does, the evil done to me
dreams, he said
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
dreams he wore
hope, he said
hope he wore
love, he said
and evil he wore
i'll strip you down
i'll tear you down
i'll burden you with tears
i'll bring you down
til nails come off
i'll turn your bed of lies
dreams upon a night
dreams upon your thoughts
dreams upon your fears
and dreams upon your love
blind to your eyes, blind to your mind
'cause evil is what evil does, what evil does to me
taste and you'll see the fruit you took is foul
evil is what evil does, what evil's done to me
you who turn to others
with everything you lack
a face that bears not seeing
then i'll turn my back
i can see, i can see, i can see
all your needs, all your deeds, on your knees
so i'll crack your fucking shell
8. Yesterworld
Over the moor of mist and through valleys of fate
I fly on my voyage through this moonlit landscape
of re-emerged figments of imagination
I am aroused in sleep....aroused in sleep
Far beyond the gate which reflects in the closed eye
reveal that a dreamscape lies therein
A yearning for a world
where the everlost find their peace
In the pearly gates of dawn
on the astral feed of minds
- envenomed to the bone
forever cleansed from all called wrath
as slumber sneaks upon
and steals the thought of man
all ridden from inner aggression...
A voyage beyond this world
In this paralell to real life
- access lies in dreams
Unveil hidden secrets in our sleep
- the key to what's beyond
In the wake of man we see
essential dreams unfulfilled
Enhance the value of life
engraved words on the page of man
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"This ain't no dream..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's your dream coming true"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
I am eaten away in mouthfuls by flames
that burn in the errors of our ways
In a night when the sky floats blue
as touquoise, and the stars of silver are twinkling
in their outmost pride
Now from dimensions fallen from the skies
- like the flow of a stream
From my sleep I continue onward
- sleep is just a shape of destiny
Weak sunlight of dawns to come,
dancing swiftly in the shadows
Shimmering, shining in a landscape of dreams
...landscape of my dreams
Dim reflections of the pale
a shade of grey in mind
In the presence of the moon
an owl awakes and calls a name
tells a story of a world
accessable only at night...
"It's your reality..."
Legend tells of a yesterworld
a dreamscape of strange light
"It's much more than a dream"
Transcendance of the soul
All by the sign of the moon
Soon these worlds will be one
and mankind feasts on the sights of it all
I yearn for things to come
Still wrapped in the thrall of slumber
as the mist slippes away to reveal...
And the wind tears a scream from my lips
- I am there....
In the dreamscape I adore
(a moonclad reflection)
9. Unfurled By Dawn
Time and space unite
era of darkness - we mourn
Times of sorrow despite
our preach is put to scorn...
In ways like these I shall be reborn
to my words I conform
To seek the path of knowledge through time
In a life in a lack of rhyme (or reason)
Subconcious powers flow
- we burn the ways forlorn
Am I in time with forces I am born
Are those disguised
Excuse is being dumb
In spirit fails...
Self realization in supreme conciousness
Explore the self - within a millenia of peace
Reach into the soil of humankind
Bury secrets beneath this hallowed ground
Feel the wind of time now changing
Hear the voice that whispers near
Explore the inner strength within you now
seek deep in your soul - it'll show you how
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
"I've seen the void that echo fear"
Fly into this void of inner consioucness
we seek eternally
Greet enlightned ways...
I spead out wings of knowledge
is essential in mournful times like these
Words I repent
Voice from inner self shall lead my way
Former ways of life I repent
to inner consciosness I've ascent
Mortal way of living is the key
Key to the secret it beholds
Come to seek the path with me
in unfathomable harmony
the way life is meant to be
enjoy and just adore life...
Burning desire in thee
letting your soul fly free
No sould shall be the same
burn with a different flame
Sowing the seeds of man
proving the things your can
Seeing the things that'll be
the priors in life I can see
Each of mankind is a star
that will keep on shining eternally
Unveil the hidden unknown things in mind
enchanted over things that you will find
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
In affection we loom - a reflection of time
Walless prison, consumed - ignore irrelevance (a rule)
Search the inner self - find the self within
Finding things I've seen in dreams (seeing evermore)
things that' s left unsaid
Surrending to this inner force, feeling no remorse
nothing to forbid
In the empty eyes of the last of mortals
those songs they echo as in halls of the enlightened
Before this dawn of eternal light we stand
once more now as darkness belongs to the forgotten
...to the forgotten
Internal sadness cured through the light
to reach the sadest river in sight
Whispers of molten souls in my ear
on wings of twillight I am born....
Now enthrone thoughts of the past
the embryo of time
Your life lies yet unfolded
'til enlightened ways we see
In my dreams I've seen repention
as in tales that were never told
Join us - in this quest to satisfy
Join us - and none shall mortify
I've seen the light unfurled by dawn
I've seen the blackest ways we scorn
We shan't conform - we shall remain...
10. Midwinter / Beyond Enlightenment
Now oppression stalks the remnants of compassion,
brewing hatred to surface in wicked actions
Cloaked in peace and mercy, force their false confessions
Sentenced am I dying, cleansed from all salvation
"Defy our accusations and a certain death you'll meet
A fool denies the obvious, and fools we shall defeat"
All sanity now vanquished, ever mould beyond control
My guilt stands yet unproven though they still demand my fall
Demand my fall
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Now my fate lies in their "hands of liberation"
forming law and justice into obscuration
leading lies ensuring my life ceased in fire,
In the name of peace, to cleance my dark desires
"You stand accused of herasy and all what that implies
With darkened minds you summon those who're fallen from the skies"
Envenomed bleed their poisoned hearts, the power they've abused
A deadly game of envy in which my life I'll lose
Blood runs beyond enlightenment at inquisition's hands
Vicious burn the fires swiftly out of hand
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Shackled, fettered - choking as I drown
Fooled and tortured - confess comitted crimes
Sentenced by superstition - my innocense denied
Truth is strange than fiction - religious genocide
Alone in blind desperation, I face my mournful death
In flames I meet termination, but my memory will be left
11. Vernal Awakening
Enthroned through this age of confusion an urge,
the weakness and flooy since aeons emerged,
Created life in fetters from cradle to grave
A future in darkness with mankind enslaved
Trail of life decayed - wasteland whall prevail
Hatred lies in store - chaos evermore
So runs the spiel from where lives are found and lost:
"Learn from past failures - prevent to pay the cost"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
When our time spells an end to our ruling of this earth,
will a wasteland remain?
Will all life cease to be by the wicked ways of man
- his enfeebled domain?
Nature left in flames - Suffering, now to maim
Cataclysm at hand - unveiled unto man
So runs the spiel from where lives are lost and found:
"Progression in spirit eliminates all bounds"
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
Hallow minds start to burn with the flaming shades of fall
let disorder arise!
An avenge to be brought to the ones who graveled earth
hides now cloaked in disguise
Blind deception, mass confusion - interbreeding dark illusions
Tumbelling, falling, brings conclusions -
constant fatal life-corrosion
Autumn - beckons forth the
winter - rising gloom in hand
Raging with bleak coldness 'til
vernal light commands
Final chapter closed - world devoid of use
Failure brings despair - death reveals its lair
Sunlight fades as nightfall rises in shadows formed in clay
What once dwelt shall dwell no more when darkness sees the day
A bleakwinter of enmity and terror shall take form
What man created will be ruined when hate conjures the storm
12. Void Of Tranquillity
[lyrics: Sundin, Stanne]
In orbit they pass around you - the memories from abandoned past
Images from within your mind bring unknown feelings into your veins
Delve into thy twillight past, a voyage done before
The borderland 'twixt life and death - existing evermore
Emerging from material guise - an ever-living soul
Thy spirit lives forever more, in spite of aim or goal
The forces of your vital mind deteriates vagely
as you're about to pass away The darkness that
surrounds you fades...
You reach out to touch, to feel the eternal
forgivness for thy impure soul
Desperation fills your mind - approach the centre
Centre of infernal salvation and infernal death
Enter to the plain of life, to knowledge loomed through time
An ever-living certainty where life is formed to chime
Foolishness and wisdom walk gently hand hand in hand
Embraced in darkest universe as contraries blend as one
Fear fills your mind on this ongoing journey
journey to a thousand secrets untold
Credlous at first to this place of wonder
Wonder's so real - it could be an illusion
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Your soul now levitates slowly and below your body fades
Your conciousness remains but thy skin will soon rot away
Visions from an obscure rality appear as your soul departs
This once so undisturbed and now frail and feeble world
Brought forth, the abyss now appears - foulmouthed temptations call me near
Dark visions laughing over me - if swollowed I will cease to be
Tempted to this world beyond - eager to break the bond
The sacred promise of an earthly stay - now broken as you writhe in dismay
Come to where all life descends in brimful harmony
Cautious, interlacing, they engrave what they shall be
All bounds cannot be broken or confusion will prevail
- lifeless dark eternity of chaos and despair
Indescribable light descends between spheres
Spheres that behold that nondescript fear
Thought of the sins that were done in the past
the past is forgotten and the present will last
Through dark veils of destiny - Realm of shades revealed
Through dark veils of destiny - Infinite life concealed
Floating through these halls of light, emotions burst within
Pure beauty of divinity enrobes remaining sin
Alone, enthralled, I bow this force, paternal majesty
Freed from anguish, freed from hate - into my destiny
Into the void of tranquillity
Through the rise and fall of worlds, one greater mind prevails
Conjuring new creations as it watches the old ones fail
Eternal coil of time and place - reality and tale
The answers to all questions hide within this astral vale
Passed through tranquillity - aeons now flow away
Claimants of destiny - death can no more hold sway
Forced to return - departure of soul
Material world - arrival as told
1. Lost To Apathy
The unsaid tone of weak despair
Fail to resonate
Frayed end of our binding threads
Will disintegrate
By the laws our physique state
Failure to communicate
None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function
Ongoing choices the trials will end
Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
Indecision/non-vision what matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
To test pain receptors
Nothing matters ever here
Put up a non-reaction
These eyes will never see
Covered up from reality
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The unknown world that you deny
No priority
Cannot fail if you never start
How predictable
I want to know where did it end
For madness to start
Always the sceptic and never be part
Introvertive/non-descriptive
It matters not, not
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
The battle is over
Lost to apathy
2. Derivation TNB
To each a blind eye
To all the filter of self-control
To none a sense
That we are lost inside
Victims, not witnesses
An accomplice, not a bystander
In a time when worlds collide
For us a safe denial
Not to push beyond our goals
For us a shattered image
What our sanity allows
You're an island of tranquillity in a sea of chaos
3. The Endless Feed (Chaos Seed Remix)
No more chaos seed
I am not what you're supposed to see, no
I hear a mighty cheer
Your faith could not be any stronger
In your head the stage is set
A product of what we're being fed
Oblivious by design
Not susceptible to any mind
No more fictitious needs
No more chaos seed
I am not what you're supposed to see, no
I can take
What's being given
I can down
Whatever comes
I will do
What you deem necessary
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
I hear a mighty cheer
Your faith could not be any stronger
In your head the stage is set
A product of what we're being fed
Oblivious by design
Not susceptible to any mind
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
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My fear compels me...
4. Undo Control (Live)
There were words of lust
In these arms
Arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words
Words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
That ravage the thoughts
In the loneliest of hours
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
The demand I get from excellence
The void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
It generated need
In these endless nights of freezing
My weight on the other side
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Uncontrol
Uncontrol
Claws that set in sleeps December
Let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter
Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
1, 2, 3, 4
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Uncontrol
Uncontrol
The death that craved no life
Now ended
In return, in return
Drifting uncontrollably
Within the night
Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
I resist without control
The unsaid tone of weak despair
Fail to resonate
Frayed end of our binding threads
Will disintegrate
By the laws our physique state
Failure to communicate
None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function
Ongoing choices the trials will end
Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
Indecision/non-vision what matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
To test pain receptors
Nothing matters ever here
Put up a non-reaction
These eyes will never see
Covered up from reality
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The unknown world that you deny
No priority
Cannot fail if you never start
How predictable
I want to know where did it end
For madness to start
Always the sceptic and never be part
Introvertive/non-descriptive
It matters not, not
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
The shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
The battle is over
Lost to apathy
2. Derivation TNB
To each a blind eye
To all the filter of self-control
To none a sense
That we are lost inside
Victims, not witnesses
An accomplice, not a bystander
In a time when worlds collide
For us a safe denial
Not to push beyond our goals
For us a shattered image
What our sanity allows
You're an island of tranquillity in a sea of chaos
3. The Endless Feed (Chaos Seed Remix)
No more chaos seed
I am not what you're supposed to see, no
I hear a mighty cheer
Your faith could not be any stronger
In your head the stage is set
A product of what we're being fed
Oblivious by design
Not susceptible to any mind
No more fictitious needs
No more chaos seed
I am not what you're supposed to see, no
I can take
What's being given
I can down
Whatever comes
I will do
What you deem necessary
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
I hear a mighty cheer
Your faith could not be any stronger
In your head the stage is set
A product of what we're being fed
Oblivious by design
Not susceptible to any mind
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
My fear compels me
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My fear compels me...
4. Undo Control (Live)
There were words of lust
In these arms
Arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words
Words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
That ravage the thoughts
In the loneliest of hours
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
The demand I get from excellence
The void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
It generated need
In these endless nights of freezing
My weight on the other side
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Uncontrol
Uncontrol
Claws that set in sleeps December
Let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter
Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
1, 2, 3, 4
I resist without control
I resist without control
I resist without control
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Feel the thorns of uncontrol
Uncontrol
Uncontrol
The death that craved no life
Now ended
In return, in return
Drifting uncontrollably
Within the night
Sweet uncontrol
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
I resist without control
1. The New Build
A human force stronger than logic
beyond the focus and the grander ideas
one microcosmos in this wretched piece of hell
distant memories of what empathy we felt
no revolution in what they must overthrow
in on a secret we all know
the need that is our enemy
I don't even want to see you
doing all the same things as me
don't ever let this be you
knowing what it is that drives me
it's all in the future
said with one foot in the grave
all in the plan of what we never could achieve
no satisfaction
we excuse ourselves from progress by post-altering our motives
stories set to match whatever beat that drives the impulse
whatever tune that carries through
what's in a soul that rattles empty
in this one reality, too few
our reach is never wider than the depth of what we grasp
a vicious curse on all that we partake in/side the conflict
where no one is the wiser
a space invaded
a face evaded
my space invaded
selfish dosn't begin to cover the sense
in this utopia of one to escape the argument
to put another filter on
2. Through Smudged Lenses
Let none be themselves
turn of the century lies not within the others
turn on the watchful eye
the blindness ends tonight
shelter for the shattered in unison we strive
dore to disassociate and cut the binds that tie abstractualize further
to the ends of facts and foe
will it out of meaning as silence speaks the truth
I want to hear your scream
I want to see you stand atop the patheon of fiction
and your failure grasping for a hiding place among indifferent stones
a brief reflection it sets the soul apart
no selection
it tears our world apart
These walls are protecting us
Burn them to the ground
This haven of refuge
Burn it to the ground
So smudge the lens a little
muffle the voice phase out of sound a while and let it go
citizens of choice in a twilight world of your design
left to our devices we stumble on
Burn it to the ground
No firewall will save you
Burn it to the ground
Take me to the keep and bare the darkest void
thousand fold the agony of silenced screams
Alone tune right out of static
exorcise the dark how else can we move on
3. Out Of Nothing
Make enemies of truth and reason
in that a rage is born
start out a promise and a venture
where direction was never the goal
How does it feel to run out of nothing?
Where do you go when you run out?
Never you mind the grand perspective
other forces kept at bay
as you narrow the field of vision
to retain a sense of control
Your focus will remain unfixed
in the haze of a world unhinged
Create a sense of purpose
around which you base your faith
the doubt that haunts your skin
an itch that will linger on forever
How does it feel to run out of nothing?
Where do you go when you run out?
You wave off critique as an offender
never question where your motives lie
as a part of the greatest fable
the beast all had forgotten
instincts in a dead end rampage
destruction as a saving grace
You run out of nothing
How does it feel?
to run out of nothing
Where do you go?
When you run out
4. The Endless Feed
You try to hide the fact
hidden from yourself
your own favourite entertainer
is none other than the one we call you
and you need the others to fortify your disgust for the worst of us,
to the rest of us
Entertain the thought that we are still alive
entertain the notion of impending doom
entertain our worst suspicions and our fears
just pull us in and take us down
I hear a mighty cheer
your faith could not be any stronger
in your head the stage is set
a product of what we're being fed
oblivious by design not susceptible to any mind
I can take what's being given
I can down whatever comes
I will do what you deem necessary
My fear compels me
No more ficticious needs
i will not be made a mockery
no more chaos seed
i am not what you're supposed to see
without a sense of danger
everything is lost
in the name of entertainment
we are doomed
5. Lost To Apathy
The unsaid tone of weak despair
fail to resonate
frayed ends of our binding
threads will disintegrate
By laws our physiques state
failure to communicate
none too sentient hear no,
see no works its magic against all function
ongoing choices the trials will end
filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left
indecision / nonvision
what matters taken away
Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to apathy
So overcome with pointless tears
to test pain receptors
nothing matters ever here
put up a nonreaction
these eyes will never see
covered up from reality
The unknown world that you deny
no priority
cannot fail if you never start
how predictable
i want to know where did it end
for madness to start
always the skeptic and never be part
introvertive/nondescriptive
it matters not
not
6. Mind Matters
You are all that matters in my private demonology
those who fail us now
the sons of wishes
the bastard child of dream
enemies of hope
let it be gone
it's all pretend
Mind matters, matters not
Never again
in perfect clarity
see the day in childlike vision
where does it lead from here
on without that guidance
disaster role model without a part
our search is wider
cast off those wide-eyed hopes and dreams
Mind matters, matters not
No need to see you there
the path we made is clear
just stay ahead of me
this is not for me to see
This time a prayer onto nothing
project again
direct oppose to action
all across the board
shortcomings close to call
7. One Thought
Insufficient facts make up for frail foundation
breeding the obscene for the opinion
customized insight null and substance void
upon these wheels our world will roll
let it be decided
who will take the blame?
another soul to drain
what is it that we see?
One thought bringing it down
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
Has it come to this?
enjoying things by proxy
live through others
die just like the rest
we all end up screaming a little louder
to cover up another piece of silence
Punch another hole through media
turn it off
brace for impact to a once greater vision
our lives now stand to fall
this tyranny of fear a stranglehold on us
stronger day by day
time to turn it off
8. Dry Run
It comes from all we're giving
in seemingly endless supply
as signals cross defiantly into this volatile mix
we charge and the stubborn mind repeats the errors
to challenge our grounds
either soar above or the detour takes you right back down
to where no one wants to see
misgivings in this starry nightlights fill in the blanks that one will fall
to the haunts and horrors
There is nothing left
A mere shadow
When adrenaline runs dry
There is nothing there
Empty prop
When adrenaline runs dry
It gets you deep down low
as they told you of the blazing heights
the stage from which the world is viewed
is the mirror to shatter the image the crypt he kept for hiding
retreat from another attack
pointlessly forgiving a refuge in deceptive black
It works within the system and they won't understand
A lesser known deciever will fool you even more
Taunt the wasted
it's all about nothing
what to squeeze within the span of attention
brought to ground, let the chaos pass
that one will fail by the screams and terrors
9. Am I 1?
I grant to you
no privilage of person
no sense of self
denial of choice
its wants out
so from all the little bits and pieces
a simple case of lost and found
a wicked new beginning
i don't ever want to see
it's the oldest trick in the book
just like everything you always knew
turned upon its very end
there's nothing left to be
half a mind to say all the things that bother me today
you better check if it's me in that coffin of yours
or just the one you thought you knew
I am one,
Who am I?
No character to be lost inside
A mind is hard to please
so wander aimlessly
Hands clenched in fists of rage
concealed in frustration
there's a part of me that cannot deal
with the character I am forced to be
a thinly veiled plan to lay your world afoot
lost in community
blind in belonging
is there really nothing more than this?
the emptiness remains
so put on your brave face
and take the plunge again
10. Senses Tied
Riddled by the trappings of words that makes the edges blur
here on the outskirts of sincerity
and pride stretched as far as words can reach
by the lure of higher meaning
there's something out there
lost behind the power lines
It's all the same to me
Lost all faith in promises and deadlines closing in
tired of deciphering the wayward strands of truth
I don't care
'Cause I can't feel
I don't know anymore
Sure we've had a good run with vowels, nouns, and letters
but within its very nature the ability to distort
there's nothing in the words I hear that makes me want to take a stand
it has gone on for far too long
I chose to disengage the ends of our conditioning to swallow
take and like it
rather keep me in the dark
than look me in the eye
It's all the same things pulling us down to,
Senses gone I cheer,
It's all these same things making us blind
There's nothing here for me
Hear it coming
heading for you now
I can't even stand the tons of arrogance and denial on display
here you are listless, left for deaf
thinking about what standards we set in times of weary tongues
and ears that hear no end to it
unwilling or unable
the difference left for times judgment it passes on from wicked mouths
as victim takes on another role
new bold oppressor
our teacher's product now stands tall
11. My Negation
It's all this reeking ego
craves the sun to never set
why do threads of anger never linger,
why does the ember turn to stone?
To where the longing goes in
with the sins of old
a face of nothing,
to never see as blind
as free
everything I want is in the end of this
everything I need will be the end of me
My negation
Will you know my name?
And sense the danger coming
My negation
Can you see my face?
What's to become of me?
The art of reduction
Stripped down through what seems defendable
scaled to bare revisions to stop making sense
levelling pillars of towering fear
rational instincts and insight to spare
end of falseness
end of grace
everything I fear is in this failing
nothing of what I am is in this end
1. Nothing To No One
Force it to begin
Spark the flame
To firebursting sin
Doctrine denied
Over and over again
Keeping death of all things private
Expose this failed creation
What is done is dead
What is done is dead
To be content, an abomination
Are you satisfied
Are you done with this
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Be nothing to no one
What's in a true life?
Behind the crumbling walls
Of dream and infant illusion
Action without movement
Desire without heart
It is over and done
It is over and done
To crave for touchless objects
And fathom without eyes
The fall of all things personal
That no one sees
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Leave nothing to no one
Awaken to the screams
Of unresolved
Demands and accusations
Words are free
These are the outer symptoms
Of inner detonation
Will force us to inaction
Rid us of resolve
Take the burden off me
Lead me to my grave
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Leave nothing to no one
2. The Lesser Faith
Dreamt up a new word today
In my ignorance I gave it meaning
Who was I to know
To say it is to know it
To hear it is to believe, is to believe
I dreamt the world would end
I was not wrong
To doubt, to discredit
The words I've heard before
From inside a shell pretending
It's all you've shown your faith
And what you've always known
So lay your trust in the unthinkable
It's time to justify your lesser faith
It's all your faith has shown
And all you'll ever know
Why do you matter, you're insignificant
How can you justify your lesser faith?
To know it is to fear it
To fear it is to say no, is to say no
To the blazing highs and lows
I know I'll fail
To break, to cast it down
You take your lead
From a staff that must be broken in two
It's all your faith has shown
And all you'll ever know
Why do you matter, you're insignificant
How can you justify your lesser faith?
3. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)
This is a ghost town
Alive with the echoes of failures fled
Lit up by shining faces,
That parade these streets
What used to be
Of humility is gone
You walk the mounds
Of skull and bones
Where living is denied
I see more movement in decomposition
Than in those hollow eyes
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
Set flame to the ensnarers
And pierce that ornate shield
Branded by what claims you
You wear the mark of death
Tear from loss and agony
A character defined
Stripped of all but tragedy
What life is left to find
Go now, until there's nothing left
Go now, the dying has begun
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
So I flee from all that is me
To hide behind this pale dead face
Whatever happened to desire, want and need
Whatever happened to integrity
Imagination is a curse in all of this
Whatever happened to the ones left behind
This is a ghost town
Bodies dragged through endless streets
Go now, to never return
I've seen more pitiful humiliation
Than you could never hide
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
4. Blind At Heart
I tell you here
Of all that crimes and hours broken
What never came, will never be the same
I tell you this, I tell you what
The mind that has been flooded
All the exits sealed
A poison set to enter
The unforgiving me
Probes and infiltrators
Infiltrate me
It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)...Go
No need for your defenses
My angerwall will hold
Take your steady pride
In monotony and beat
Invaders and corruptors
Invade me
It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
And never again
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)
A super nova of flame on fire
This broken spirit, blind at heart
Bite down hard on frustration
The siege that can't be broken
This hollow flame of fear
I tell you this, I tell you what
So close without connection
Locked inside the sphere
I take the blame upon me
And scream at what I see
I'm blind at heart
So blind at heart
It's in these hour we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
And never again
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)
5. Icipher
Like lust has yet to fail me
No power to subside
My instincts never broken
This downfall so close at hand
The thing that scares me most
Is the fear I see in others
And the thing that really
Frightens me to the core
Is when I see that fear in you
Like shields against the action
No enemy to subdue
We barricade forever
The which hinds inside of us all
The thing that scares me the most
Is the fear I see in others
The thing that really
Frightens me to the core
Is when I see that fear in you
To break the rules and patterns
Are you're scared enough
Before the end is here
Are you scared enough
Are you scared enough
Are you scared enough
The thing that scares me the most
Is the fear I see in others
That look that sends shivers
Down my spine
Will haunt me to the end
Of living days and nights
You're the thing that matters to me most
And I sense this fear in you
6. Inside The Particle Storm
Inside the particle storm
Where clouds of napalm shimmer
With the promise of one final dawn
Inside the particle bliss
Where ages collide into nothingness
Obliteration's one final kiss
A claw in the garden of eden
Clogging the bloodstream of birth
Tearing a hole in the fabric of life
The horizon enriched with scars
Inside the particle blaze
A chamber of dissolution
Proclaiming the end of days
We leave now
Nothing will follow, nothing at all
The cleansing flames of entropy
To devour us all
Our lungs are filled with sarin
Our children drowning like dogs
Handcuffed to the weight of cold dark matter
Without purpose, meaning, or name
Inside the particle storm
The poison gene of humanity
Nullified
This is the moment
When black ships anchor to the sky
The heavy hands of chaos
Descend in merciless demise
7. Empty Me
What night never abandoned
In shallow darkness dwell
The evidence in pools of black
Light cannot penetrate, light cannot penetrate
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Lifted from the living days
To be bent right out of shape
Let blades and satisfiers
Cut and lick these wounds
In reversal of repentance
This bastard son of lies
To bring meaning to it all, meaning to it all
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Take now from this body
A coward's heart
And a soul beyond repair
Empty me
Between insecurity and reason
Self deprecation as a means to the end
Out of reach but never closer
A cure that searches for the cause
Cause for chaos
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Drawn from memories the fragments linger
On ages of thought and seconds of sleep
What is it here that tempts the night
To stab the day and kill the light
8. Misery's Crown
All has now been broken
On streets I dare not walk
Freedom is an illusion
I build my fences high
If there was something out there
I've learned not to expect
There's a hundred million reasons
Not to care
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
As always in these matters
You broke the deal of deals
And wasted what was given
To revel in your mess
I gave up all for nothing
I tried my best and failed
There's a thousand million reasons
Never to share again
This is how it all begins
This is how it all begins
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
This is how it all begins
Come now
Come now
Come now
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
9. Focus Shift
I think I just forgot
To pick up the shells
From my recent discharge
And you took the blame
Explanations falter
To ears fallen deaf
Wherever I go I get lost
A reference to something
That both of us knew
Nothing that favors the few
In the darkness electric we see
That silence has spoken tonight
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
Your face is a map
I fail to discover
Drowned the sounds
Lost in the order
It's the look that stayed my words
The unblinking knowledge
Interlocked and holding
No stalemate to break
Take hold of the flame that unites
In the silence that speaks to me now
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
I struggle to find the words
That negate my meaning
I fail to comprehend
What message is given
I decline the steady hand
That leads to rejection
Tempted by the closure
With no sense of pride
Drown the fury and swallow the fire
Drown the fury, swallow the fire
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
10. The Mundane And The Magic
Seen through these dreamless eyes
Blind buildings stark to the sky
Silhouettes as dividing walls
Guarding the eternal secret
Where is the flame to haunt you
Who do you answer to
My lies are always wishes
Lies that make me
See beyond the rationale
Accept the fate that nothing is meant to be
Be the least connected
Stay true to the last original
Apply layers to reality
Things only you can see
Add a beat to normality
To tap the core of insanity
I let my dreams cross over
To days of endless gray
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
We'd forged a new unknown
I let my dreams cross over
To nothingness and back again
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
Where is the dark I came to find
In latter days as time will find you
Memories will never let you get closer
The silent sighs in useless company
Wish for darkness and death again
In the face of ignorance and fear
I cast it right back
Some things were never there to begin with
Objectivity is truth denied
Apply layers to reality
Things only you can see
Add a beat to normality
To tap the core of insanity
I let my dreams cross over
To days of endless gray
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
We'd forged a new unknown
I let my dreams cross over
To nothingness and back again
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
Where is the dark I came to find
11. A Closer End
[Japanese bonus track]
As in the life of rain
You're only alive when you're falling
The coldest chill
In the emptiness of reason
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It begins today
So light up the days
With the darkest of waking dreams
For endless puzzles
To reflect our aim
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It starts today
It seems you've passed the mark
Of indescribable dark
I fear you've drowned
In hope of what you think will come
Extracted from the sharpest of moments
Built to greet you when the time will come
Empty spaces on foundations of denial
Your structure is dust
As in the death of dream
Awakenings will leave you stranded
Where no one is listening
Where no one is around
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It begins today
12. Winter Triangle
[Australian bonus track]
13. Below The Radiance
[Expanded edition track]
[Music: Henriksson, Jivarp. Lyrics: Stanne]
I don't mind the fall
It's the climb from the bottom
That hurts the most
Here today, a stab of emptiness
Divert your eyes
From the judgemental stares
So nonforgiving
Yet what do they know
And what have they seen
I cannot do it
[Chorus:]
I plunge myself against these rocks of ice
Go
Helldriven hounds now on my trail
To play a part
Uphold a bland facade
Do the expected
If only nothing remained
Of facts and furies
These are the seconds
That will not be forgotten
This is the time
What have I done
What do they know
I cannot do it
Eyes on the prize
Yet never tell them
In shadows hide it
What eyes can tell
How well you know
Familiar urges
The same old place
Where you will know it
And they will pay
Force it to begin
Spark the flame
To firebursting sin
Doctrine denied
Over and over again
Keeping death of all things private
Expose this failed creation
What is done is dead
What is done is dead
To be content, an abomination
Are you satisfied
Are you done with this
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Be nothing to no one
What's in a true life?
Behind the crumbling walls
Of dream and infant illusion
Action without movement
Desire without heart
It is over and done
It is over and done
To crave for touchless objects
And fathom without eyes
The fall of all things personal
That no one sees
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Leave nothing to no one
Awaken to the screams
Of unresolved
Demands and accusations
Words are free
These are the outer symptoms
Of inner detonation
Will force us to inaction
Rid us of resolve
Take the burden off me
Lead me to my grave
The ultimate rebellion
The sacrifice is endless
The ultimate rebellion
Leave nothing to no one
2. The Lesser Faith
Dreamt up a new word today
In my ignorance I gave it meaning
Who was I to know
To say it is to know it
To hear it is to believe, is to believe
I dreamt the world would end
I was not wrong
To doubt, to discredit
The words I've heard before
From inside a shell pretending
It's all you've shown your faith
And what you've always known
So lay your trust in the unthinkable
It's time to justify your lesser faith
It's all your faith has shown
And all you'll ever know
Why do you matter, you're insignificant
How can you justify your lesser faith?
To know it is to fear it
To fear it is to say no, is to say no
To the blazing highs and lows
I know I'll fail
To break, to cast it down
You take your lead
From a staff that must be broken in two
It's all your faith has shown
And all you'll ever know
Why do you matter, you're insignificant
How can you justify your lesser faith?
3. Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)
This is a ghost town
Alive with the echoes of failures fled
Lit up by shining faces,
That parade these streets
What used to be
Of humility is gone
You walk the mounds
Of skull and bones
Where living is denied
I see more movement in decomposition
Than in those hollow eyes
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
Set flame to the ensnarers
And pierce that ornate shield
Branded by what claims you
You wear the mark of death
Tear from loss and agony
A character defined
Stripped of all but tragedy
What life is left to find
Go now, until there's nothing left
Go now, the dying has begun
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
So I flee from all that is me
To hide behind this pale dead face
Whatever happened to desire, want and need
Whatever happened to integrity
Imagination is a curse in all of this
Whatever happened to the ones left behind
This is a ghost town
Bodies dragged through endless streets
Go now, to never return
I've seen more pitiful humiliation
Than you could never hide
It is the only place I know
Where death is most alive
It is when truth is turned to lie
That death is most alive
4. Blind At Heart
I tell you here
Of all that crimes and hours broken
What never came, will never be the same
I tell you this, I tell you what
The mind that has been flooded
All the exits sealed
A poison set to enter
The unforgiving me
Probes and infiltrators
Infiltrate me
It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)...Go
No need for your defenses
My angerwall will hold
Take your steady pride
In monotony and beat
Invaders and corruptors
Invade me
It's in these hours we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
And never again
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)
A super nova of flame on fire
This broken spirit, blind at heart
Bite down hard on frustration
The siege that can't be broken
This hollow flame of fear
I tell you this, I tell you what
So close without connection
Locked inside the sphere
I take the blame upon me
And scream at what I see
I'm blind at heart
So blind at heart
It's in these hour we forget ourselves (Ourselves)
And never again
Within a fire that consumes itself (Itself)
5. Icipher
Like lust has yet to fail me
No power to subside
My instincts never broken
This downfall so close at hand
The thing that scares me most
Is the fear I see in others
And the thing that really
Frightens me to the core
Is when I see that fear in you
Like shields against the action
No enemy to subdue
We barricade forever
The which hinds inside of us all
The thing that scares me the most
Is the fear I see in others
The thing that really
Frightens me to the core
Is when I see that fear in you
To break the rules and patterns
Are you're scared enough
Before the end is here
Are you scared enough
Are you scared enough
Are you scared enough
The thing that scares me the most
Is the fear I see in others
That look that sends shivers
Down my spine
Will haunt me to the end
Of living days and nights
You're the thing that matters to me most
And I sense this fear in you
6. Inside The Particle Storm
Inside the particle storm
Where clouds of napalm shimmer
With the promise of one final dawn
Inside the particle bliss
Where ages collide into nothingness
Obliteration's one final kiss
A claw in the garden of eden
Clogging the bloodstream of birth
Tearing a hole in the fabric of life
The horizon enriched with scars
Inside the particle blaze
A chamber of dissolution
Proclaiming the end of days
We leave now
Nothing will follow, nothing at all
The cleansing flames of entropy
To devour us all
Our lungs are filled with sarin
Our children drowning like dogs
Handcuffed to the weight of cold dark matter
Without purpose, meaning, or name
Inside the particle storm
The poison gene of humanity
Nullified
This is the moment
When black ships anchor to the sky
The heavy hands of chaos
Descend in merciless demise
7. Empty Me
What night never abandoned
In shallow darkness dwell
The evidence in pools of black
Light cannot penetrate, light cannot penetrate
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Lifted from the living days
To be bent right out of shape
Let blades and satisfiers
Cut and lick these wounds
In reversal of repentance
This bastard son of lies
To bring meaning to it all, meaning to it all
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Take now from this body
A coward's heart
And a soul beyond repair
Empty me
Between insecurity and reason
Self deprecation as a means to the end
Out of reach but never closer
A cure that searches for the cause
Cause for chaos
Have you come for my forgiveness
There's nothing left to give
No response to your repentance
This empty me
Drawn from memories the fragments linger
On ages of thought and seconds of sleep
What is it here that tempts the night
To stab the day and kill the light
8. Misery's Crown
All has now been broken
On streets I dare not walk
Freedom is an illusion
I build my fences high
If there was something out there
I've learned not to expect
There's a hundred million reasons
Not to care
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
As always in these matters
You broke the deal of deals
And wasted what was given
To revel in your mess
I gave up all for nothing
I tried my best and failed
There's a thousand million reasons
Never to share again
This is how it all begins
This is how it all begins
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
This is how it all begins
Come now
Come now
Come now
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Don't bring it
Don't bring it
Don't bring your misery down on me
Wear misery's crown
9. Focus Shift
I think I just forgot
To pick up the shells
From my recent discharge
And you took the blame
Explanations falter
To ears fallen deaf
Wherever I go I get lost
A reference to something
That both of us knew
Nothing that favors the few
In the darkness electric we see
That silence has spoken tonight
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
Your face is a map
I fail to discover
Drowned the sounds
Lost in the order
It's the look that stayed my words
The unblinking knowledge
Interlocked and holding
No stalemate to break
Take hold of the flame that unites
In the silence that speaks to me now
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
I struggle to find the words
That negate my meaning
I fail to comprehend
What message is given
I decline the steady hand
That leads to rejection
Tempted by the closure
With no sense of pride
Drown the fury and swallow the fire
Drown the fury, swallow the fire
I think I have lost my language
Whatever I've said I deny
I think I have lost my way
Whatever was missing is gone
I let my focus shift
10. The Mundane And The Magic
Seen through these dreamless eyes
Blind buildings stark to the sky
Silhouettes as dividing walls
Guarding the eternal secret
Where is the flame to haunt you
Who do you answer to
My lies are always wishes
Lies that make me
See beyond the rationale
Accept the fate that nothing is meant to be
Be the least connected
Stay true to the last original
Apply layers to reality
Things only you can see
Add a beat to normality
To tap the core of insanity
I let my dreams cross over
To days of endless gray
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
We'd forged a new unknown
I let my dreams cross over
To nothingness and back again
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
Where is the dark I came to find
In latter days as time will find you
Memories will never let you get closer
The silent sighs in useless company
Wish for darkness and death again
In the face of ignorance and fear
I cast it right back
Some things were never there to begin with
Objectivity is truth denied
Apply layers to reality
Things only you can see
Add a beat to normality
To tap the core of insanity
I let my dreams cross over
To days of endless gray
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
We'd forged a new unknown
I let my dreams cross over
To nothingness and back again
If I could merge the mundane and the magic
Where is the dark I came to find
11. A Closer End
[Japanese bonus track]
As in the life of rain
You're only alive when you're falling
The coldest chill
In the emptiness of reason
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It begins today
So light up the days
With the darkest of waking dreams
For endless puzzles
To reflect our aim
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It starts today
It seems you've passed the mark
Of indescribable dark
I fear you've drowned
In hope of what you think will come
Extracted from the sharpest of moments
Built to greet you when the time will come
Empty spaces on foundations of denial
Your structure is dust
As in the death of dream
Awakenings will leave you stranded
Where no one is listening
Where no one is around
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
With nothing to gain
You brought it upon yourself
It's slow but final
It begins today
12. Winter Triangle
[Australian bonus track]
13. Below The Radiance
[Expanded edition track]
[Music: Henriksson, Jivarp. Lyrics: Stanne]
I don't mind the fall
It's the climb from the bottom
That hurts the most
Here today, a stab of emptiness
Divert your eyes
From the judgemental stares
So nonforgiving
Yet what do they know
And what have they seen
I cannot do it
[Chorus:]
I plunge myself against these rocks of ice
Go
Helldriven hounds now on my trail
To play a part
Uphold a bland facade
Do the expected
If only nothing remained
Of facts and furies
These are the seconds
That will not be forgotten
This is the time
What have I done
What do they know
I cannot do it
Eyes on the prize
Yet never tell them
In shadows hide it
What eyes can tell
How well you know
Familiar urges
The same old place
Where you will know it
And they will pay
1. Shadow In Our Blood
We are delusional
To go against mortality
Still we fight, love and create
As the only creatures
In on life's grand secret
We sense the pointlessness beyond
There is a void between our hands
That drown the sounds of night
An arrow laced with liquid darkness
For every sungods heart
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
We are delusional
From fictional reality
To prayers for prosperity
Loneliness
Can we resist your pale attraction
Give in to the dream with open eyes
How will this world within a world live on
Another page torn from the book of strangers
Who says "I" when all voices fear their own sound
And who remembers the hours
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
Here in the barren and still
Far from the shores of real
Dreams borne beyond borders
On weave of thought and want
Here were invincible
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
2. Dream Oblivion
He takes a stand
And looks his enemy in the eye
This goes no further
I have the upper hand
This ends on my terms
I challenge non-existence
Every single day
The end of mind
End of freedom
End of everything
A most violent event
Breaks individuality
And turns out your shadow
In devastating light
That push against our eye
Dance to the bloodsong
In dream oblivion
He makes a point
Of sticking to the lie
This is the last time
I'm now done with this
I carry my nothing
Every single day
The end of mind
End of freedom
End of everything
Now with reality on end
The fall of all morality
Dance to the bloodsong
In devastating light
That push against our eye
Dance to the bloodsong
In dream oblivion
The end of faith
End of meaning
End of everthing
3. The Fatalist
Eventually they'll come
Your name has been called
Out for aeons
To claim the blood
And salvage what remains
For once we've seen the fragile nature
Of things behind these windows
Where nothing lives
And nothing ends
And seen what drives the hopeless
In between their closing yellowed walls
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
How can we fight fatigue?
In pre-historic sorrow?
When all is preordained
The cycle never ends
What once had been an endless realm
Of possibility and dream
Now laid to waste and ruin
Laid to waste again
You wash your hands in blood
You squander time
We borrow from eternity
Is it another lame excuse?
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
You are the fatalist
If nothing changes
Then nothing ends
Your thoughts are broken
Your reasoning is flawed
The defense is just an act
And lies are all you've got
You are the fatalist
You are the fatalist
How easy we can see?
Defeat behind your argument
The fatalistic smile
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
The day has come
The day has come
You walk the ground that screams for murder
4. In My Absence
Eyes that meet to say farewell
And linger through the sleepless nights
A trail of days that end in tears
But I can never be there
The rush of hours that never seem to end
What life has dealt you can not comprehend
I am the absentee
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here
How could I have known what preceded your own thoughts
Wish that I could listen to what only speaks inside
Every raging dissonance
Each jarring note
But I could never be there
How could you think that I would understand
When words just go around what the heart truly wants?
I am the absentee
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here
I want to tell you,
Of the exploding light
How everything is visible
Moments before the dark
I am never, never there
I know you're out there searching tonight
Another day and I'm not there
Thrust with nails of conflict
Anxiety and pain
Through spells of anger, confusion and defeat
I wish you'd see me here in front of you,
But I am not here
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes
I know your out there,
But I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes,
Lead me right
5. The Grandest Accusation
What if you are an island of sorrow
Then I'll be the raging sea
What if you are the reaching trees
Then I'll be the storm that with fire rages
The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For venomous disease
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation
Your face is your name
Word and shield
Sharp as a curse
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation
You chose rejection
Over thoughts of insight
You take action
From focus on intent
And brace for impact
Not waiting for the fall
What cries here, cries inside
Man is the cemetery of unlived life
The grand accusation
What if you were a country of grief
With me the invading force
What if you were to measure the hollow
That captivates and devours you
The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For venomous disease
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
6. At The Point Of Ignition
Do not hide your sorrow,
Or banish it from sight
Take it out to burn,
Turn the pain against it
In a day, that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life, that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?
In the proud momentum,
Thrust the hand from the start
Our fragile fate falls apart
I hear you in my echo,
A few steps behind
I see you in my shadow, waiting inside
What if we don't question the meaning of it all
The answer in our system
Bound to kill the spark
The moments so illusive
One dream never ends
Scorns the doubting nomads
That burn another trail
In a day that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In the life, that hides behind you
What are you?
The shine of trembling stars,
Out in the distant
Curse this lack of site,
Into darkness without end
In a day that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?
In a day that holds no other
What are we?
In a life that hides behind you
What are you? What are you?
7. Her Silent Language
Why do I see her, the never ending nights?
Why do I see her, wearing nothing but the dark?
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
I know where you live
I can see through your darkness
And when you sleep
I hear the heart that beats you
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see?
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
Eyes far into the distance
A life that does not connect
Time played well its parts
On the strings that blind us
Encounters in silence
Words elude the freeing night
Wish I could fathom
What is too hard to tell
Her head hangs low
In the silence of her room
Her head hangs low
She takes a bite out of her heart
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
8. Arkhangelsk
Willed by winter's so called frost
Fix the in anxieties from grip
The frost that burned the honorees
Underneath the heavy clouds
The lifted sword, the broken shield
The hand that drew the final word
From the frozen mouth of Arkhangelsk
Let them go, let them burn the world to cinders
Let the rats run down
Falling through the tungsten skies
The burning clouds of Arkhangelsk
To the eye of judgement now
What will stand when time of the end (time of the end)?
Center stone, into fire
All to nothing and nothing to lose
They gather groaning to the souls
Of the grinding wheels of Arkhangelsk
With one word, one movement in the fabric
Everything dies
The storm that sweeps the world away
From the frozen plains of Arkhangelsk
Inherit from the morning star
What others brought
And the land, forgot
Soaring through van allen belts
Through blazing stars, through dying suns
Collide not now, but carry us
Through the burning air of Arkhangelsk
9. I Am The Void
Drink this water again
That runs by without memory
Where your name is lost
Drink and forget yourself
This featureless stream
That carries your face further on
These waters know you
It calls you by your one true name
Have you ever noticed
The spaces in-between
Where life is in recession
And agony begins?
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the... void!
You rest your weary head
On to the underworld
And let the silent whispers
Guide your waking dreams
In time with the pulse
Of what is long since gone
The beat of the fallen
Is cold already in your blood
The machinery of chaos
Comes alive in you
Chained to the grinding wheel
Of forces unseen
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the... void!
I am the void!
You have always been between another set of walls
Outside of which the world is watching down on you
Inside the silence speaks
Kept close to the endless alibi
Never reaching out
Never give in
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the void
10. Surface The Infinite
It starts below
The pile and the burning in the
Darkness in the recipe
And fire in the soul
To paralyze and strangle hold
Disable the design
The remnants of reality
In our measured time
Is torn apart
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
The smirk on our reality
At the future we foresee
Blood that seeks redemption
In endless nights of sin
Spades without spears
That pierce the blinding sun
We heard from the heralds of grief
That nothing remains
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
Breaks into day
Upsets the system
It's in our nature to bear
The hidden to the end
What if this feeling contains the truth?
What if our dreams give way to the dogma of old?
What if lost desire can be found?
No shelter, no barriers between what's already inside
Betrays what the surface holds
We wear our lives
On waters and dust
Like daemons of the lost
Still wrapped in our own confusion,
The call of the abyss
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
11. Iridium
Let the horizon lead
Onto the ether of the night
Draped across the burning heavens
Flying homeward like a bird of the soul
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
Iridium
Now is the time to leave
We lie awake, we stand afire
At the edge of the world
Above a myriad of light
Below the mantle of the stars
And strangely they fall
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
Iridium
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
An end beyond compare
Iridium
12. Star Of Nothingness
[Limited Edition bonus track]
[Instrumental]
13. To Where Fires Cannot Feed
[Limited Edition bonus track]
We throw ourselves
Like rocks against the heavens
To call to us attention
And set our sights for higher ground
Weaved within the nervous system
Of our planet and the vows we keep
The dormant fragments
Of self-destructing code
Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive
We nod at each other from across the open plain grave
And go to memories to visit our own lives
We hide in the bodies of greater beings
Together as one in the face of endless trials
You carry my life
Inside you my only witness
Our hands held against
In suffering
Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive
We are delusional
To go against mortality
Still we fight, love and create
As the only creatures
In on life's grand secret
We sense the pointlessness beyond
There is a void between our hands
That drown the sounds of night
An arrow laced with liquid darkness
For every sungods heart
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
We are delusional
From fictional reality
To prayers for prosperity
Loneliness
Can we resist your pale attraction
Give in to the dream with open eyes
How will this world within a world live on
Another page torn from the book of strangers
Who says "I" when all voices fear their own sound
And who remembers the hours
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
Here in the barren and still
Far from the shores of real
Dreams borne beyond borders
On weave of thought and want
Here were invincible
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
2. Dream Oblivion
He takes a stand
And looks his enemy in the eye
This goes no further
I have the upper hand
This ends on my terms
I challenge non-existence
Every single day
The end of mind
End of freedom
End of everything
A most violent event
Breaks individuality
And turns out your shadow
In devastating light
That push against our eye
Dance to the bloodsong
In dream oblivion
He makes a point
Of sticking to the lie
This is the last time
I'm now done with this
I carry my nothing
Every single day
The end of mind
End of freedom
End of everything
Now with reality on end
The fall of all morality
Dance to the bloodsong
In devastating light
That push against our eye
Dance to the bloodsong
In dream oblivion
The end of faith
End of meaning
End of everthing
3. The Fatalist
Eventually they'll come
Your name has been called
Out for aeons
To claim the blood
And salvage what remains
For once we've seen the fragile nature
Of things behind these windows
Where nothing lives
And nothing ends
And seen what drives the hopeless
In between their closing yellowed walls
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
How can we fight fatigue?
In pre-historic sorrow?
When all is preordained
The cycle never ends
What once had been an endless realm
Of possibility and dream
Now laid to waste and ruin
Laid to waste again
You wash your hands in blood
You squander time
We borrow from eternity
Is it another lame excuse?
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
You are the fatalist
If nothing changes
Then nothing ends
Your thoughts are broken
Your reasoning is flawed
The defense is just an act
And lies are all you've got
You are the fatalist
You are the fatalist
How easy we can see?
Defeat behind your argument
The fatalistic smile
The day has come
You are the fatalist
The day has come
You are the fatalist
You walk on soil that dreams of blood
The day has come
The day has come
You walk the ground that screams for murder
4. In My Absence
Eyes that meet to say farewell
And linger through the sleepless nights
A trail of days that end in tears
But I can never be there
The rush of hours that never seem to end
What life has dealt you can not comprehend
I am the absentee
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here
How could I have known what preceded your own thoughts
Wish that I could listen to what only speaks inside
Every raging dissonance
Each jarring note
But I could never be there
How could you think that I would understand
When words just go around what the heart truly wants?
I am the absentee
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see through your eyes,
I'm right here
I want to tell you,
Of the exploding light
How everything is visible
Moments before the dark
I am never, never there
I know you're out there searching tonight
Another day and I'm not there
Thrust with nails of conflict
Anxiety and pain
Through spells of anger, confusion and defeat
I wish you'd see me here in front of you,
But I am not here
I know you're out there searching tonight
I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes
I know your out there,
But I'm right here
Another day and I cannot see though your eyes,
Lead me right
5. The Grandest Accusation
What if you are an island of sorrow
Then I'll be the raging sea
What if you are the reaching trees
Then I'll be the storm that with fire rages
The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For venomous disease
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation
Your face is your name
Word and shield
Sharp as a curse
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
The grand accusation
You chose rejection
Over thoughts of insight
You take action
From focus on intent
And brace for impact
Not waiting for the fall
What cries here, cries inside
Man is the cemetery of unlived life
The grand accusation
What if you were a country of grief
With me the invading force
What if you were to measure the hollow
That captivates and devours you
The new loneliness
Your name on the door
Just like a diagnose
For venomous disease
Man is the cemetery for unlived life
All for nought
6. At The Point Of Ignition
Do not hide your sorrow,
Or banish it from sight
Take it out to burn,
Turn the pain against it
In a day, that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life, that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?
In the proud momentum,
Thrust the hand from the start
Our fragile fate falls apart
I hear you in my echo,
A few steps behind
I see you in my shadow, waiting inside
What if we don't question the meaning of it all
The answer in our system
Bound to kill the spark
The moments so illusive
One dream never ends
Scorns the doubting nomads
That burn another trail
In a day that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In the life, that hides behind you
What are you?
The shine of trembling stars,
Out in the distant
Curse this lack of site,
Into darkness without end
In a day that holds no other
What are we? The fuel or the flame?
In a life that hides behind you
What are you? The fuel or the flame?
In a day that holds no other
What are we?
In a life that hides behind you
What are you? What are you?
7. Her Silent Language
Why do I see her, the never ending nights?
Why do I see her, wearing nothing but the dark?
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
I know where you live
I can see through your darkness
And when you sleep
I hear the heart that beats you
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see?
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
Eyes far into the distance
A life that does not connect
Time played well its parts
On the strings that blind us
Encounters in silence
Words elude the freeing night
Wish I could fathom
What is too hard to tell
Her head hangs low
In the silence of her room
Her head hangs low
She takes a bite out of her heart
Have you come here to warn me
Of what I cannot see
You want to tell me something
But you do not have the words
8. Arkhangelsk
Willed by winter's so called frost
Fix the in anxieties from grip
The frost that burned the honorees
Underneath the heavy clouds
The lifted sword, the broken shield
The hand that drew the final word
From the frozen mouth of Arkhangelsk
Let them go, let them burn the world to cinders
Let the rats run down
Falling through the tungsten skies
The burning clouds of Arkhangelsk
To the eye of judgement now
What will stand when time of the end (time of the end)?
Center stone, into fire
All to nothing and nothing to lose
They gather groaning to the souls
Of the grinding wheels of Arkhangelsk
With one word, one movement in the fabric
Everything dies
The storm that sweeps the world away
From the frozen plains of Arkhangelsk
Inherit from the morning star
What others brought
And the land, forgot
Soaring through van allen belts
Through blazing stars, through dying suns
Collide not now, but carry us
Through the burning air of Arkhangelsk
9. I Am The Void
Drink this water again
That runs by without memory
Where your name is lost
Drink and forget yourself
This featureless stream
That carries your face further on
These waters know you
It calls you by your one true name
Have you ever noticed
The spaces in-between
Where life is in recession
And agony begins?
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the... void!
You rest your weary head
On to the underworld
And let the silent whispers
Guide your waking dreams
In time with the pulse
Of what is long since gone
The beat of the fallen
Is cold already in your blood
The machinery of chaos
Comes alive in you
Chained to the grinding wheel
Of forces unseen
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the... void!
I am the void!
You have always been between another set of walls
Outside of which the world is watching down on you
Inside the silence speaks
Kept close to the endless alibi
Never reaching out
Never give in
I am the call
I speak inside of you
I am the void
That haunts you
I am the howl
That calls you out
I am the void
I am the void
10. Surface The Infinite
It starts below
The pile and the burning in the
Darkness in the recipe
And fire in the soul
To paralyze and strangle hold
Disable the design
The remnants of reality
In our measured time
Is torn apart
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
The smirk on our reality
At the future we foresee
Blood that seeks redemption
In endless nights of sin
Spades without spears
That pierce the blinding sun
We heard from the heralds of grief
That nothing remains
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
Breaks into day
Upsets the system
It's in our nature to bear
The hidden to the end
What if this feeling contains the truth?
What if our dreams give way to the dogma of old?
What if lost desire can be found?
No shelter, no barriers between what's already inside
Betrays what the surface holds
We wear our lives
On waters and dust
Like daemons of the lost
Still wrapped in our own confusion,
The call of the abyss
We carry our fear inside,
A space that hold the darkness
We stretch our skin around,
To cover the abyss
11. Iridium
Let the horizon lead
Onto the ether of the night
Draped across the burning heavens
Flying homeward like a bird of the soul
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
Iridium
Now is the time to leave
We lie awake, we stand afire
At the edge of the world
Above a myriad of light
Below the mantle of the stars
And strangely they fall
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
Iridium
Shattered into a million brighter stars
Each flare unique and rare
Scattered across forever
Out from creation's core
An end beyond compare
An end beyond compare
Iridium
12. Star Of Nothingness
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13. To Where Fires Cannot Feed
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We throw ourselves
Like rocks against the heavens
To call to us attention
And set our sights for higher ground
Weaved within the nervous system
Of our planet and the vows we keep
The dormant fragments
Of self-destructing code
Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive
We nod at each other from across the open plain grave
And go to memories to visit our own lives
We hide in the bodies of greater beings
Together as one in the face of endless trials
You carry my life
Inside you my only witness
Our hands held against
In suffering
Into the emptiness
Where fires cannot feed
No way to hold
The burden of love alive
