With blatant deception they rape the fields of life,
With brutal destruction enforcing hatred and strife,
They take beauty in their hands yet put back only pain,
Their bigotry and greed has always been the same.
With blind acceptance with swallow all their lies,
Engulfe
d by their hatred we learn only to despise,
They have nothing in their arrogance, their narrow minded stance,
But they won't ...
The new day is dawning they start counting the dead,
The hard swollen bellies of the children not fed,
Their land dry and parched still they pray for the rain,
The massacre continous yet again and again.
Year after year the lands ring deaths bell,
The childrens blind eyes have a sad tale to tell,
Their limbs bent and twisted, their kinds hold no spark,
They're crying in vain for no light break...
[Music: Berholtz, Dimsdale]
[Lyrics: Svensson]
[Cello: Hellgren]
A painfull planet in disguise
on wich I cannot breathe
Blinded by lies of light
alone in despair
Punished by my birth
slaughtered bu my belief
The future is near
and with it a connected fear
Leave your sordid life
and join the dead I know
I am the god of none-divine
Drink my blood, thick of sin
Bound to my opressed soul
Follow my...
Feel the wind slowly approaching
from the deep fiords in the north
Slaying the remains of the fading automn
to reign and vigil earth
As escort knights of the frost
Behind them flocks of ravens
Blessed are those who sail with thee
they'l bring calm to this unsettled world
Dreadfull whispers broke the silence
The living became statues of paleness and ice
on their cheeks flew tears of blood
tears...
[Music: Berholtz, Dimsdale]
[Lyrics: Svensson]
Feel the wind slowly approaching
from the deep fiords in the north
Slaying the remains of the fading automn
to reign and vigil earth
As escort knights of the frost
Behind them flocks of ravens
Blessed are those who sail with thee
they'l bring calm to this unsettled world
Dreadfull whispers broke the silence
The living became statues of paleness an...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale, Svensson]
Farewell repulsive earth upon which I've wandered
Nevermore your grandeur I shall behold
Farewell, farewell oh sun and moon
A new age entered enchanted by its gloom
My bloodstained path concealed by lies
Deceit's door stood wide open and I entered
Welcome, welcome bearer of that midnight lamp
Enter the gates that I for you hav...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale, Svensson, Kvist]
Dictator of the worshipped sky,
risen from her velvet grave
Encaged in the artwork drawn by the mad
Dethroned, enslaved
She descended from scarlet heavens
filled with splendour and pride
Unknowing of her grievous future
more malign than the plague
She fell through the silence,
enwrapped in an arch of blood
Slowly toward...
Crawling helpless through my scornful mind
looking upon my inner thoughts
Bless the stars my company in the night
Demoniaced, fettered inshackles of light
I feel rage for the disdainful burning sun
whose light makes me paralysed
Damned to live in the eternal darkness
Please just for once let me bear the sunset
A runaway in a world of sin
Alone I see the spirits fade away
Bless the stars my com...
[Instrumental]
[Music: Bergholtz, Svensson]
Mystic night come encircle me
with your inimitable darkness
Drown me in agony and sombre thoughts
Come fourth your legions of unpurity
I'll bring myself under your domination
Just one of hundred million subjects
in your precious kingdom in the sky
Master of fire, earth, water and wind
Winter... a petrified nature in a frozen world
Silence... listen to the thunderstorm
A new star is born anothe...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale, Svensson]
She arrived in the coldest of winters,
to a slumbering world so white
Naked she came and with eyes so blue,
a monument of beauty she was
The white covered world was peaceful
and she arrived like the mist before dawn
A dreamlike shadeless goddess raised by the frost in the north
But behind her mask of glimmering goodness
a wick...
[Music: Berholtz, Svensson]
[Cello: Hellgren]
Licked and seduced by cerulean waves
as I travel through millions of coloured skies
To wach and to touch the night that enslaves
and listen to choirs of tormented cries
Take me to the lake of dreams
where future turns to past
Let me taste its bloodred wine
the most intence I've ever seen
Poison me delightful wine of life
my bride in the darkest of the nights
Never again will the night turn to ...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics taken from Walter De La Mare's quot;The Green Roomquot;]
Tomorrow waits me at my gates
while all my yesterdays swarm near
And one mouth whines, too late,
too late and one is dumb with fear
Was this the all that life could give
Me, who from cradle hungered on,
body and soul aflame to live,
giving my all and then be gone
Have done with moaning, idio...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale]
I've disarmed the weak for the lies to show
I've fought without mercy I've slain with my sword
I've stricken upon the ones who seek
and blood ahs been shed from the souls so meek
For my paradise was burned and my visions encaged
Soulless and dying, a slave to my rage
I've beared the relic for the stars to touch,
to envy the gods and cut...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Music: Dinsdale, Svensson]
Rise, angel of night, in glamorous pride
and spread thy polluted wings
Destroy the fundamental conditions
for our existence beneath contempt
Feed me with thy blissful tears,
seduce me in nocturnal rapture
Oh, mannequin of darkness you are my immortal
Penetration in festering flesh so pale
Accompanied by orgiastic screams of ail...
Like the shadow from Mordor, creeping slowly forward,
Unleashed from it's sanctuary by the devil in man,
The world thrown into torm
ent by their uncarping greed,
We stare into the face of death screaming to be freed.
Their control is complete, we the voiceless have none,
Beaten into defeat by the arm of the strong,
Now the shadow gets darker for they've stolen the sun,
And the sale of our eart...
Echoing, ripping through the silence
tearing the soil off my soul
Silent you are, yet so loud
Beautiful still so violent and harsh
As you bleed so beautifully
I wach in silence and harmony
Fascinated and stunned of the pain you bring
Alone I stand to hear the silence
In a belovwed scream
A scream of a soul so pure but still toxicated
A scream for love in torment and hatred
A scream without beg...
[Instrumental]
[Music:Bergholtz, Dinsdale]
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale, Svensson]
Gather me courage and gather me strength
to find the infinite source of disdain
To sip its fluid, a bittersweet taste
beyond the candescent vaults of disgrace
Enslaved and weak I worship thee
you are my master you made me meek
Enslaved and weak I worship thee
you are my master, command me a deed
Summon the masses and walk thro...
[Music: Bergholtz, Dinsdale]
[Lyrics: Dinsdale, Svensson]
As he wandered in silverly halls among silent marbles,
enigmatic sculptures each with different tales to tell,
he touched their hard faces yet soft
like the mist over a sleeping sea
Their beauty and sorrow was feeding his superior soul
Through a heart of stone no blood will flow,
to cleanse the evil cold as snow
Oh pitiful earth that me...
On the brink of destruction the world trembles in fear,
The madman is screaming, a crumpled corpse lying near,
The people are fighting for what's left of the mess,
Their minds blown to fragments now blend with the dust.
The corpses are moving, hungry maggots give life,
The brave men of the worl
d have now fought their last fight,
A mothers last scream as in death she brings life,
An hier to th...
[Music: Dinsdalle, Svensson]
[Lyrics: Dinsdalle, Svensson]
There's a land without delight
were saints immortal were slain
Infinite day expelled by night
and pleasures unite in pain
In this land without delight
thousands of candles glow
within their flame of misty light
my blood will always flow
Drown me in the crimson sky
and utopian disease
The spirit of all life will die
Hail the godless seas
Repeat first
Come burn with me
in the oean so deep
The mi...