- Earthbound
The sorrow of my soul, earthbound and cold
The tide will never turn
I've been dead for years, drowned in all my tears
Have you forsaken me?
Frequent days of loss, crawling to the cross
The silence screams so loud
Conquered by the sun, my fate is done
- A Phantom Dissonance
The chorus of life has spoken;
past has the child of reason.
Fading through winters' lonely passage
We crawl at the feet of evolution
Some became kings and some became gods
and the rest just followed,
swallowed their freedom and joined the charade
- A Scenery Of Loss
The winds of a dying dream, a tempest unveiled
Once again arcane rain fell - cold, sorrowful and so frail
O, those weeping times, all of my life's a lie
An endless torrent of anguished tears' o behold my cry
The affliction of a stained creation becometh my tragedy
Lachrymose is the light - touching the buried again
O, this scenery of loss always present within me
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
[Poem by William Wordsworth, anno 1799]
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
- Akherousia
My light slowly fades away
My hope's gone and went astray
But I see their dark dream-sails...
Take me away... from here!
In the cold of winter I found the other half of me.
An amethyst broke through the walls of silent solitude.
- Bloodflower
Bloodflower
I've made a good living by dying;
Endless wait, grey solace ruling my mind
Constrained by time and drained by the cold,
Still I found myself shivering under the rising sun
You are the star, you are the moon
- Cthulhu Rising
His life's still breathing, dead but dreaming...
And dark shines the stars out of time so lost.
The ocean roars as the sky turns black,
As their eyes are gleamings, gleaming in the darkness.
The scorn of distorted faces enraptures the world,
Spiteful is the fire that burn in their souls.
The Last Amorphous Blight of Nethermost Confusion, devour mortality!
- Daylight Misery
Deprived of my treasure, my "aye" to life;
My peace of mind after sunset's occurrence
Away I walk to ye doleful masquerade;
My ravening and my words becometh aghast
The sun rises high, my feelings they die
Daylight misery... (leave me be)
- Dead World Assembly
Ghosts with gentle voices, calling us never to wake
And we see another nation rising from the ashes
Soon to unearth what we cannot escape
As time draws near for all of us
- Deadlight
Greed in a cage obsolete
painting colors of old
Victims of culture unfold,
the world sighs once more
Look at us, our eyes are dead;
A gaze of incentives mislead
A deadlight, a whisper
- Death Come Near Me
By day I sleep, at night I weep!
O Death, come near me!
Be the one for me, be the one who stays.
My rivers are frozen, and mischosen,
and the shadows around me sickens my heart.
O Death, come near me,
and stay (by my side). Hear my silent cry!
- Death, Come Near Me
By day I sleep, at night I weep!
O Death, come near me!
Be the one for me, be the one who stays.
My rivers are frozen, and mischosen,
and the shadows around me sickens my heart.
O Death, come near me,
- Death,Come Near Me
By day I sleep, at night I weep!
O Death, come near me!
Be the one for me, be the one who stays.
My rivers are frozen, and mischosen,
and the shadows around me sickens my heart.
O Death, come near me,
- Devil's Moon
In the Nocturnal Sky Hell is Chanting…
Angels bounded in the Mountain of Doom.
Oh, I can Hear their Cries
which for Us reveals an Orgasmic Sin.
The Long Walk of Spiteful Blasphemy
shall End in the Dark of The Devils Black Moon.
The Devils Moon cast it´s Shade over the Mountain of Doom
- Elysian Night
I am so far away...
You see, I'm nothing without thee
I fall down, down to the ground,
and all alone, I wish that I could go
Drown here with me,
hold me, save me
- End of the Rope
All the misery you create,
and all the pain you shape...
You are not to blame, my friend.
Somebody filled your empty page.
Shaped as we silently wept,
confined (as) transformation begins.
The table was set and then we slept
- Forever My Queen
I'm running away with myself
I think I ran a little too far
Your love is more than a tease
And I'm gonna give it all of my heart
The situation is all wrapped up
No more need to be said, oh no
You live in my world gotta heed me
And I know that you can 'cause you need me
- Heaven Laid in Tears
Behold the skies, they're full of lies... in disguise
Behold the skies, they're full of lies... in disguise
O, creator, so long we have fallen to our knees
So long we have murdered our honor, while protecting thine
Behold the skies, they're full of lies... in disguise
Behold the skies, they're full of lies... in disguise
- Heavy Lies The Crown
Clouds of defiance
Over mankind they gently weep
To this verge I collapse
While god stays sound asleep
Losing the balance
I’m losing the hold of it all
Make these trembling ghosts
- Hellspawned Fire
Hail Almighty God of Death!
By your side I will Crush the Light.
Black Majesty, Evil Sorcery for Glorious Victory.
I Summon the Fire, I Summon the Air,
I Summon the Waters and the Earth.
I am Here, I am There
Just to be Everywhere!
- It Grieves My heart
The world is falling so cold and grey.
Shallow and empty life lingers on.
It grieves my heart, it tears me apart...
I hear this constant disharmony!
Lost in a dead world...
With broken wings!
- Luciferian Warwinds
Cry Now, Sweet Enchantress…
Shed a Tear for My Sorrows Forgotten!
This Winding Maze of My Dream draws Near…
in Extasy Seeking for this Land.
Great Rebellious Rose in Silence
after He Fell from the Holy Skies.
Now His Voice from Below Enlightens My Flame to Be.
- Morphine Cloud
One single night, one single day
Before it all just sweeps away...
With the paradise I do not know,
Through the joy I never had
I'm all alone on my isolated throne
Why have you forsaken me?
- No Greater Sorrow
I am bewildered by this cruel fate -
clouding my judgement.
Sowing the seeds of life in soil of ruin?
the winds feel silent and kissed Deaths wings.
Its colder than before, still the winters passed
and springtime haste fully took all it came for.
Often I stare at the clouds drifting by, imagining you there -
- Not Breathing
You look so calm, are you sleeping?
I'm closing the door to our illusion
Where I lost myself in windswept dreams...
Two worlds so far apart
I remember when I gave her my Eden...
From this dry land ardour now sleeps forsaken
All the fear inside of me that I don't want her to see;
- On Sunday They Will Kill The World
On a Sunday they will kill the world
And on Monday they will cry and shout
Then on Tuesday they will just try out
What will happen to the burning crowd
And you hearing this song
You will smile, and think that Iіm wrong
Iіm a friend you killed in your mind
- Pale Tortured Blue
On my naked back
A dance of the nocturnal sun
The tall grass crawls around me;
In adoration bowing
Can I find you in your dark?
Can you find me in your heart?
There’s a fallen statue in the wilderness
- Reversio Ad Seccesum
A, mundus facit nos redire, redire ad secessum.
Spesne aliquando veniat animis tenebrosis quae solae ambulant.
Hear my silent prayer as I weep tonight!
Dawn gets greyer, thou hast taken flight!
Love abandons the soil, leaves a shade...
It whispers 'goodbye' as we quietly fade... away!
- Reversio Ad Secessum
A, mundus facit nos redire, redire ad secessum.
Spesne aliquando veniat animis tenebrosis quae solae ambulant.
Hear my silent prayer as I weep tonight!
Dawn gets greyer, thou hast taken flight!
Love abandons the soil, leaves a shade...
It whispers 'goodbye' as we quietly fade... away!
- Seasons Apart
Take my hand; Follow me through tranquillity
Stay with me, you will see ardour where shadows grow
Feel my heart, relieve your hope of this fading love
Winter came far too soon, but still the flowers bloom
And winter came too soon, and will the flowers die;
Bow down their heads under the cold, cold sky?
In a world growing blind,
- Serenade Of Sorrow
Draconian "Serenade Of Sorrow"
[Lucifer: ]
And the fires burn'd inside my eye's
as ye fall's ascending like a moment o' joy.
My thorns where sown in ye light o' Day,
and the winds... they blew...
until my winds, they blew no more.
- She Dies
The cold winds blew into life, my adored.
A bleeding heart we share, now on Azrael’s wings.
I fall like autumn rain…
You are my everything.
This lovelorn kiss of death in lugubrious silence…
Dawn breaks open like a wound… and the dreadful sun
- Silent Winter
[2003] Where Lovers Mourn
I will darken these exhaulted summers,
and let you dwell in the blissful cold!
Heal yourself into pure realities...
explore the light from the other seal!
Whispering like the silent mouth of tomorrow...
- Stellar Tombs
A place where daylight aches
It’s all unreal to you
A sunset calls me here
I swear to love it’s true
So alien this vaulted screen
And patterns form into contours
The dark around me as dense as matter...
- Storming Heaven
Lucifer:
In glory and pride we rage and the dragon blisters…
May endless tears of pain stain His beloved throne.
We’ll now dethroneth The Prophet and descend’th
upon The Lamb and the reign of the holy tyrant!
A darkness sweeps over the mighty skies
and armies of wrath storms the holy gates.
- The Abhorrent Rays
As the delicate nightsky once again dies
The mist of dawn brought ruin and demise
Darkness dissolves, every dream withdraws;
Returning into a world of shallowness and lies
This world is helpless...
I descend... I flee
To sympathize for their souls;
- The Amaranth
[Lyrics by Anders Jacobsson, Jan 2002 & March 2002]
[Voice of Venus:]
Thou art a flower, growing into his soul.
You light his silent path of night...
Thy winds they blow for his love and shadows...
He's praising the beauty of thee... in a far away land.
Thou art The Amaranth!
- The Apostasy Canticle
When our flames were lit by chaos...
We knew not the grip; the bondage of light
Then he waved his sceptre, and cosmos was formed
Too late we knew our freedom was lost
He blinded us; polluted our minds and forced us to drink his blood
I will show the world god's true face, I will let the thunder roar... forevermore
- The Cry Of Silence
Filled with sorrow...
Bleak inner self touched by pride,
Devoured by solitude, still wrapped in time.
Flowing pain...
Holding myself back in suspicion...
And lingering in the dust...
The dust of my abandoned remains.
- The Cry of Silence pt.1
Filled with sorrow...
Bleak inner self touched by pride,
devoured by solitude, still wrapped in time.
I'm flowing with pain!
Holding myself back in suspicion...
and lingering in the dust...
the dust of my abandoned remains.
- The Death of Hours
A closing sanctuary in this shimmering night;
so tired, so restless under an ominous light
I found myself in thoughts of dying,
Shivered in bitter dismay
I see you there; and I wonder why
the silence does not break
- The Drowning Age
On the shore, lost in our time,
currents are bursting through
From the sky; an aberration;
chimeras' burning you
In the dark; inside the earth
blood runs barren now
See this age, so discolored...
It's breaking down somehow
- The Dying
We flew over these lands and broke our wings in the flight.
Precipitation so far from salvation to a blinding light of despairing life
I’m falling – my soul is starving.
So beautiful, this silent call –
With eyes of mist and snow –
This tear of our persistent cry.
Oh, how I cry...
- The Empty Stare
My mind wandered off in the distance,
Where I am far from all that cages me
All I could think of Death
Her name disguised in silence;
Angelwings and ravenclaws...
The shredding of my soul,
Steeped in a lavender smile
- The Everlasting Scar
Увидь сейчас, как я потерян
И призван в горе я извне
Не отпускай то восхищенье
И прикоснись к моей душе.
Тебя я вижу в тени каждой
В моменте каждом, что дышу.
Ты словно тихий странник бледный,
- The Failure Epiphany
I see your picture and all I feel is sorrow...
No hate no love... No barren signs from above
Can I be you for a while?
Let me see
Can you be me for a moment?
Let it be... Resolution
- The Gothic Embrace
(I Mourn that the Night Passes Us by)
(Lyrics by Anders Jacobsson, August 1998, edited July 1999)
Lucifer:
Oh angel o' my winter;
grieveth for the pain o' sadness.
A gothic embrace restores my love
God took away...
- The Last Hour of Ancient Sunlight
Black is the sunlight shimmering below;
it flows through life and the guilt we share
Our sorrow, it cuts through the undergrowth,
as we abandon this ravenous Earth alone
The zeitgeist dimmed the surface and seized the soul
Our Mother wept behind the fence,
and we drained her blood, then forgetting her face,
- The Marriage Of Attaris
“You cannot hide from a grace already perceived
That’s a fierce grace indeed!
And you cannot hide a tree that is growing;
Valiantly stretching for the stars
Angles weep as they count your scars”
These rivers of blood-
Fields scorched to ash
- The Morningstar
"I’ve cried a river for you to swim
to let you know the state we’re in.
I’ve dreamt a vision for you to see
that the night is the only worthy key"
I have seen Heaven’s sleep,
and I’ve watched the angels weep,
they are slaves of fear and pain
- The Quiet Storm
We stumble through life
shedding the same tears,
forming the same stream,
asking the same questions,
dreading the new day
It's so quiet here,
still violence is speaking;
I close my eyes.
- The Solitude
While stars outspread the night-time watch
and wind through darkened treetops swirl;
I slowly bow my frozen features
in grief, in sadness and in woe...
in grief, in sadness and in woe.
In solitude forever!
- The Wretched Tide
We're leaving today
After dust-ridden shutters close
And heartbeats they rush
Then to cease in your embrace
These scars though-out the night
Left no more fighting in us
No tears to fill the void
- Wall of Sighs
Today I lost my way
A circle of light I wept
and this torn curtain sank
a dire masquerade I slept
Empty value rending the afterglow
to witness the birth of the end
Hollow minds, a static lucidity...
- With Love and Defiance
[Bonus Track]
Awake in slumbering world
As structures outside cave in
So harbor us, sweet sorrow
This lonely, exquisite hollow
Oh, mother on conscious dark sails…