OPETH LYRICS

album: "Orchid" (1995)



1. In The Mist She Was
Standing

Seven milestones...
Under a watching autumn
eye
Contorted trees are spreading forth
The message of the
wind

With frozen hands I rode with the stars

With anger the wind
blew
Giving wings to my stallion
Clouds gathered across the
moon
Blazing the white light

Passing the lake I know so well
I am
near, yet so far away

Arrival...
I saw her shadow (standing) in the
darkness
Awaiting me like the night
Awaits the day
Standing silent
smiling at my presence
A black candle holds the only light

Darkness
encloses
And the candle seem to expire
In her cold, cold hand
And as a
forlorn soul
It will fade away

Touching her flesh in this night
My
blood froze forever
Embraced before the dawn
A kiss brought total
eclipse

And she spoke
Once and forever
I am so cold
In mist
enrobed the twilight
She was standing...

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2. Under The Weeping Moon

Once again I've
cried
Unto the moon
That burning flame
That has guided me
Through
all these years
The lake from which you flow

With eyes of fire
Once
unlit but now alive
This energy, sparkling
Like a morning star

The
morning star

Riding the fires of
The northern gold
I've searched
the eye
I laugh under the weeping moon

I am the watcher in the
skies
Nor the emeralds know my mark
Glisten to mark their presence
Set
the enigma ablaze
Searching...
Finding...

Burn the winter
landmarks
That said I was there
Burn the spirit of cold
That travel
through my soul

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3.
Silhouette

[Instrumental]

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4. The Forest Of October

The memories that
now rests in this forest
Forever shadowing the sunrise of my heart
Wings
leave their nest at my coming
Swaying away unto the cold glowing
sky
Dreaming away for a while
My spirit sighs in peace
Gazing unto the
stars
Please, take me there

I am so alone, so cold
My heart is to
scarred to glow
I wish the sunrise to come
Take my soul (away)
From
this cold, lonely shell
I am free

From the eternal sea I
rose
Veiled in darkness on either shore
Lost my pride, lost its
glow
For me the sun rose no more

The forest of October
Sleeps
silent when I depart
The web of time
Hides my last trace

My blaze
travel the last universe
Like the sights of magic
Wrapped in aeons
My
mind is one with my soul
I fall alone
While leaves fall from the weeping
trees

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5. The Twilight Is My
Robe

Unto you I whisper
The wildest dreams

In the
coldness of night

Shrouded in crystals
Through a frosty dusk
Souls
of the fullmoon awaits
Their shadows ablaze

We are all bending
Our
tired leaves over your empty shell
In the sign of true esteem
Are you
beloved lord
Sighing deep under these waterfalls?

The birds of the
sun
Seperates these dark clouds
While the winds of winter sleeps gently
around
I am sworn to the oath
To breathe...

At the waters I
dwell
The waves are still whispering
Ancient lullabies
I
die....
While our mystic brothers still seek

Under your command I will
obey
In my vision
You are the embodiment of pure freedom
But through my
eyes you are made of stone

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6.
Requiem


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7. The Apostle In Triumph

In solitude I
wander....
Through the vast enchanted forest
The surrounding skies are
one
Torn apart by the phenomenon of lightning
Rain is pouring down my
(now) shivering shoulders
In the rain my tears are forever lost

The
darkened oaks are my only shelter
Red leaves are blown by the wind
An
ebony raven now catches my eye
Sitting in calmness
Before spreading his
black wings
Reaching for the skies

In this forest
Where wolves cry
their agony unto the moon
My spirit is hidden
In the form of
wisdom
carved on a black stone
The only way to follow

Open your
soul
Redeem, I am immortal

Blinded by a light
My soul is held up in
glory
I engulf the skies
The apostle in triumph

Through the eternal
flame I travel
As the rain keeps falling....
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album: "Morningrise" (1996)


1. Advent

It was all
true
A parlour strode, and the night sets forever
I stray in the quiet
cold
And you gird me when I dare to listen

Elastic meadow, endless
arms of sorrow
Lips try to form "because"
Trying to adapt to the
wilderness
Where even foes close their eyes and leave

We are inside
the glade
Every now and then I wipe the dust aside
To
remember...

How I drape my face with my bare hands
The same that
brought me here
But you were beyond all help
The folded message that wept
my name

Shadows skulk at my coming
We survey the slopes
In search
for the words to write the missing page
The tainted dogma

Time grows
short
As the piper plays his tune
We are almost there

You are
beyond all help
Dancing into the void
We are almost there

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2. The Night And The Silent
Water

And so you left us
Jaded and gaunt, some
September
Wilted with the seasons
But hidden inside the delusion
I saw
you eyes, somewhere

Devoid of death
The aura poises amidst (the
storm)
In solid tears I linger
A parlour glade, moonlit
sorrow

Lonely resting pools
Relics of the moon-dogged lake
Whisper:
"All your words are missgiven"

Am I like them?
Those who mourn and
turn away
Those who would give anything
To see you again
If only for
another second

Your face was, like the photograph
Painted white
We
did not speak very often about it
What does it matter now?

Cloak of
autumn shroud
I gaze, dim ricochet of stars
I reckon it is time for me to
leave

You sleep in the light
Yet the night and the silent
water
Still so dark

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3.
Nectar

I arose from the lullaby
Enduring yet another
tale
You tempt me again
With your embrace, so tainted
Within the night
you beckon
Cursing me with every glance

Bring me through
Carry my
empty shadow
And guide me inside your warped labyrinth
To the well of
sin
I swear I will always love you

Leave me speechless
Release my
yearning
The soil I walk is clad with light
Drifting moons thrust me with
their rays
And I fall inside

I lament this heritage
Cannot bid
farewell
The pale face...you went as far as you could
And from that
moment
I witnessed your beauty, felt your death

Mine is yours, mine is
yours

In the wake of dawn
The mist of morning linger before it
leaves
Invisible eyes, red reflection
It is you
Smiling in the midst of
the moor

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4. Black Rose
Immortal

In the name of desperation
I call your name
A
lamentation I sigh
Again and again

Spiritual eclipse
The gateways
are closed for me to seek

The night...
A veil of stars, watching
My
shadow is born from light
The light of the eye, in darkness

Over
troubled waters memories soar
Endlessly, searching night and day
The
moonlight caresses a lonely hill
With the calmness of a whisper

I wear
a naked soul
A blank face in the streaming water
It is cold in
here
Frost scar my coat with dust

Eyes attach to your mute
portrait
We spoke only through thoughts
Together we gazed,
awaited
Hours brought thirst and the rising sun

Sunbirds leave their
dark recesses
Shadows glide the archways

Do not turn your face towards
me
Confronting me with my loneliness
You are in a forest unknown
The
secret orchard
And your voice is vast and achromatic
But still so
precious

Lullaby of the crescent moon took you
Mesmerized, its
kaleidoscopic face
Granted you a hollow stare
Another soul within the
divine herd

I have kept it
The Amaranth symbol
Hiddin inside the
golden shrine
Until we rejoice in the meadow
Of the end
When we both
walk the shadows
It will set ablaze and vanish
Black rose
immortal

It is getting dark again
Dusk shuffle across the
fields
The evening trees moan as if they knew
At night I always dream of
you

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5. To Bid You
Farewell

I am awaiting the sunrise
Gazing modestly through
the coldest morning
Once it came you lied
Embracing us over autumn's proud
treetops

I stand motionless
In a parade of falling rain
Your voice
I cannot hear
As I am falling again

Devotion eludes
And in sadness
I lumber
In my own ashes I am standing without a soul
She wept and
whispered: "I know..."

We walked into the night
Am I to bid you
farewell?

Why can't you see that I try
When every tear I shed
Is
for you?

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album: "My Arms, Your Hearse"
(1998)


1.
Prologue

[Instrumental]

A morning in magenta,
the petals fed from the dew.
She held her breath for a moment, to pause off
the stream.
Still clinging to vast, old memories.
And I would marvel at
her beauty, playing through the rain.
The coffin is beautifully
engraved.
Stained by soil, symbols of death.
All of which are stared upon,
with porcelain eyes it seems.
Some spoke, and it was my turn to go.
In
death entwined, I could not believe.
But it hangs around my neck.
A soft
breeze passed me by, somewhat warmer for a second.
I knew it was the coming
of spring, thus our APRIL ETHEREAL.

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2. April Ethereal

It was me, peering through
the looking-glass.
Beyond the embrace of Christ.
Like the secret face
within the tapestry.
Like a bird of prey over the crest.
And she was
swathed in sorrow, as if born within its mask.

Her candlelight snuffed,
the icon smiled.
Emptiness followed by her wake.
I could clasp her in
undying love.
Within ghostlike rapture the final word was mine.

She
faced me in awe. 'twas a token of ebony colour.
Embodied in faint
vapour.
Wandering through April's fire.
Compelled to grasp and to hold the
one that was you.

I will endure, hide away.
I would outrun the scythe,
glaring with failure.

It is a mere destiny I thought, a threshold I had
crossed before.
The rain was waving goodbye, and when the night came
the
forest folded its branches around me.
Something passed by, and I went into a
dream.
She laughing and weeping at once: "take me away".

I don't know
how or why, I'll never know WHEN.

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3.
When


Red sun rising somewhere through the dense fog.
The
portrait of the jaded dawn who had seen it all before.

This day wept on
my shoulders.
Still the same as yesterday.
This path seems endless, body
is numb.
The soul has lost its flame.
Walking in familiar traces to find
my way back home.

So there I was.
Within the sobriety of the
immortals.
A semblance of supernatural winds passing through.
The garden
sighs, flowers die.

The gate was closed that day, but I was bound to
carry on.
She could not see me through the windows.
In dismay, strangest
twist upon her lips.
Graven face, she said my name.

Once inside I
heard whispers in the parlour.
The gilded faces grin, aware of my final
demise.

And I cried, I knew she had lied.
Her obsession had died, it
had died.

When can I take you from this place?
When is the word but a
sigh?
When is death our lone beholder?
When do we walk the final
steps?
When can we scream instead of whisper?

When is the new
beginning,
the end of this sad MADRIGAL.

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4. Madrigal

[Instrumental]

Our
abode 'mongst the stars is waiting,
long enough for our last breath of
life.
You stare at nothing, right through me,
at times resembling the
Devil's concubine.
And me, I am the idol that would long
to caress our
eyes until they would open no more.
I would comfort you if I only
could,
but as we all know by now... I am just thin air.
Unaware as you are
of my presence,
you are losing yourself.
Hiding within THE AMEN
CORNER.

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5. The Amen
Corner


White summer.
So far I have gone to see you
again.
Hiding your face in the palm of your hands.
Finding solace in the
words I do despise.

You snatch at every sound.
And even though you
believe that I am shackled within death,
memories are tainted with
paleness.
Crestfallen still.
Those eyes... empty like a barren
well.

It was the only task I would undertake.
To reap the harvest that
was mine.
The seed that had sprung into a florid meadow,
and left me
helpless in your embrace.
The bond we never spoke of, once stark and
enticing,
now slowly smoldering to dust.

The celestial touch, from
grey to black.
A fathomless void enclosing.
Unwritten secrets beneath the
cobwebs.
I can not endure.

And so I rose from my sleep.
The moon
turned away its face.
Overture of the long, black night
begins...
something you said: "Eerie circles upon the waters".

Until
now we have shared the same aura.
My ashes within your hands.

My
breath in the sepulchral mound.
You know that your night is my day.
The
final spark that blew life into me,
the DEMON OF THE FALL.

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6. Demon Of The Fall


Silent
dance with death.
Everything is lost.
Torn by the arrival of
Autumn.
The blink of an eye, you know it's me
You keep the dagger close at
hand.

And you saw nothing.
False love turned to pure hate.
The wind
cried a lamentation
before merging with the grey.

Demon of the
fall.

Gasping for another breath.
She rose, screaming at closed
doors.
Seductive faint mist forging
through the cracks in the
wall.

I shant resist.
In tears for all of eternity.
She turned
around and faced me for the first time.

Run away, run away.
Just one
second, and I was left with nothing.
Her fragrance still pulsating through
damp air.
That day came to an end.

And she had lost in me, her
CREDENCE.

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7.
Credence


Deserted again.
You speak to me through the
shadows.
Walking in closed rooms, using cold words.
Captured by the
night.
The yearning escapes from my embrace.

Strange silhouettes
whisper your thoughts, scream your sadness.
And they all turned
away,
unable to face more of this death.

Credence in my
word.
Written in dust, tainted by memories.
I confess my hope, recognize
my loneliness.

Your laughter weeps the truth.
Push me into
corners.
Confirming the epitaph of my soul
and displaying the once unknown
KARMA.

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8.
Karma

And as they say, grief is only able to possess.
The
rotting body clad in ancient clothes
is left behind with a wave of the
hand.

I have gone away. The bed is cold and empty.
Trees bend their
boughs toward the earth.
And nighttime birds float as black faces.

It
was the hand reaching out through the mirror.
Unknown and scarred by
life...
the luring eyes, you had never seen.

You have nothing more to
find.
You have nothing more to loose.

The cold season drifts over the
land.
They huddle in the brown corners.

Some would settle for
less.
The castles were all empty, asleep.
Long awaiting their
king.
Beckoning round the bend.

Amidst the forest one would hear that
I had been there.
Draped within a fate I could not change,
and always
welcoming Winter's EPILOGUE.

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9.
Epilogue


[Instrumental]

There it was.
The
final destiny.
A sunrise that never came,
still the night lamp that never
faded away.
Farewell was the word,
and the afterglow was the brave
morning.
Rising and telling everyone
about the beauty of its
PROLOGUE.

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10. Circle Of The
Tyrants


After the battle is
over
And the sands drunken the blood
All what there remains
Is the
bitterness of delusion

The immortality of the gods
Sits at their
side
As they leave the walls behind
To reach the jewels gleam

The
days have come
When the steel will rule
And upon his head
A crown of
gold

Your hand wields the might
The tyrant's the precursor
You
carry the will
As the morning is near

I sing the ballads
Of victory
and defeat
I hear the tales
Of frozen mystery

The new kingdoms
rise
By the circle of the tyrants
In the land of darkness
The warrior,
that was me
Grotesque glory
None will ever see them fall
And hunts and
war
Are like everlasting shadows

Where the winds cannot reach
The
tyrant's might was born
And often I look back
With tears in my
eyes
Grotesque glory
None will ever see them fall
And hunts and
wars

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11. Remember
Tomorrow


Unchain the colours
before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the
horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of the
fire.

Tears for rememberance, and tears for joy,
Tears for somebody
and this lonely boy.
Out in the madness, the all seeing eye,
Flickers
above us, to light up the sky.

Unchain the colours before my
eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the
clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of the fire.

album: "Still Life" (1999)

1. The Moor

The sigh of
summer upon my return
Fifteen alike since I was here
Bathed in deep fog,
blurring my trail
Snuffing the first morning rays

Weary from what
might have been ages
Still calm with my mind at peace
Would I prosper or
fall, drain the past
The lapse of the moment took it's turn

I was foul
and tainted, devoid of faith
Wearing my death-mask at birth
The hands of
God, decrepit and thin
Cold caress and then nothing
I was taken away from
my plight
A treason bestowed to the crowd
Branded a jonah with fevered
blood
Ungodly freak, defiler

Pale touch, writhing in the
embers
Damp mud burning in my eyes
All the faces turned away
And all
would sneer at my demise

Outcast with dogmas forged below
Seared and
beaten, banished from where I was born
No mercy would help me on my way
In
the pouring rain nothing is the same

Vows in ashes
I pledge myself to
no-one
Seethed and spiteful
All shudder at the call of my name
If
you'll bear with me
You'll fear of me

There is no forgiveness in these
eyes
For any of you but one
Dispel the mist for now
Melinda is the
reason why I've come

She is waterdrops over the pyre
A thistle in my
hands
Stained and torn, aged and brown
Virtous shell with kindred
innocense

I awoke from the miasma
Passing swiftly through the
moor
This is here, waters stir
And in the distance all that was lost
If
you'll bear with me
You'll fear of me
You'd never leave me to
A fate
with you

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2. Godhead's
Lament

Marauder
Staining the soil, midst of
stillness
Beloved fraternity to an end
Red eyes probe the scene
All the
same
Stilted for the beholder
Depravity from the core
Handcarved death
in stoneladen aisles

I hide the scars from my past
Yet they sense my
(mute) dirge
This is when it all falls apart
White hands grasping for
straws

Sly smile, poisoned glare behind
Undisguised manmade
nova
Mute cry, don't dare to tread
Searing beams tracking you
down

Adoring what never has been
Some will bring with them all they
have seen

Searching my way to perplexion
The gleam of her eyes
In
that moment she knew

Thought I could not leave this place
On this
imminent day
As I've reached the final dawn
To what's gone astray
What
would they care if I did stay
No-one would know
What would they care if I
did stay
No-one should know

Thought I could not leave this place
On
this imminent day
As I've reached the final dawn
To what's gone
astray
What would they care if I did stay
No-one would know
What would
they care if I did stay
No-one should know

Still brooding, soothing
clam
That rigid, twisted face
Blank godhead, tear my name
Lost virtue,
frantic lust

Sly smile, poisoned glare behind
Undisguised manmade
nova
Mute cry, don't dare to tread
Searing beams tracking you
down

Adoring what never has been
Some will bring with them all they
have seen

Searching my way to perplexion
In crumbling faith I saw
her
Bearing her pain in the wilderness
The gleam of her eyes
In that
moment she knew

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3.
Benighted

Come into this night
Here we'll be gone
So far
away
From our weak and crumbling lives
Come into this night
When days
are done
Lost and astray
In what's vanished from your eyes

What
came and distorted your sight
Saw you benighted by your fright

Come
into this night
Your plight alone
Carry your weight
You are flawed as
all of us
Come into this night
You only home
It's never too late
To
repent, suffer the loss

What came and distorted your sight
Saw you
benighted by your fright

What came and distorted your sight
Saw you
benighted by your fright

Come into this night
When you're able
To
undo your deeds
And atone with your lonely soul
Once you're into this
night
All minds are stable
Forget all your needs
Lose the grip of all
control

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4. Moonlapse
Vertigo

Kept warm by the light of the lantern
Lost sight of
everything tonight
My presence blackens their pattern
A pock in the
healthy and calm

Their scorn behind your back
My promise would put
them down
No trace of reverance left
Immemorial fire in their
eyes

I would persih at the given signal
At the slightest touch from my
soul
Tainted prophet in flesh
For all the plagued and lost

Dripping
sin
Decision in stalemate
Dare to feel death at hand
Surprised me with
its voice
Through the forest came the morn

Across the leafy
pathway
Their deeds smeared in blood
For all to behold
The council of
the cross
Must have sensed my coming
The pest through the air
With
despise for squalor
Lashing out at the poor

I turned away my
eyes
In pallor escape from the end
Fading time to leave from here
And
less to fulfill my task
She would be safe and firm
Nothing of this is in
vain
Taken away from stifling grace
And saved from the past


5. Face Of Melinda

By the
turnstile beckons a damsel fair
The face of Melinda neath blackened
hair
No joy would flicker in her eyes
Brooding sadness came to a
rise

Words would falter to atone
Failure had passed the stepping
stone
She had sworn her vows to another
This is when no-one will
bother

And conceded pain in crumbling mirth
A harlot of God upon the
earth
Found where she sacrificed her ways
That hollow love in her
face

Still I plotted to have her back
The contentment that would fill
the crack
My soul released a fluttering sigh
This day fell, the darkness
nigh

I took her by the hand to say
All faith forever has been washed
away
I returned for you in great dismay
Come with me, far away to
stay

Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime
She spoke of her vices and
broke the rhyme
But baffled herself with the final line
My promise is made
but my heart is thine

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6. Serenity
Painted Death

Returned from a hibernal dream
Voices fell
like marble
No longer by my side
Gone all that would linger

Ripped
from my embrace
Melinda reflected in shafts
Red line round her neck
Met
the earth in silence

White faced, haggard grin
This serenity painted
death
With a halo of bitter disease
Black paragon in lingering
breath

White faced, haggard grin
This serenity painted death
With a
halo of bitter disease
Black paragon in lingering breath

Saw here
fading, blank stare into me
Clenched fist from the beautiful
pain

Darkness reared its head
Tearing within the reeling haze
Took
control, claiming my flesh
Piercing rage, perfect tantrum
Each and every
one would die at my hand
Choking in warm ponds of blood
At last, weak and
torn, I went down
Drained from strength, flickering breath

Came with
the moon
The wayward in concious state
Flanked and barred in destiny's
end
Underneath with hope in laches
Swathed in filth, any would
betoken
Starlit shadows on the wall
Finally there to collect me
From
the bowels of sin

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7. White
Cluster

Still it came passing by
The pieces weaved together
rose the sun
And fooled me with another day
The knocking message called
for my life

Sealed the spell of my scrawny body
Soil to skin, my next
of kin
Damp air grasped, stole the words
And greeted me with a
hiss

This is forgiveness, so I know
Once I repent I seal the lid
I
slither for you and I'm dying
I find trust in hate

They wear white for
me
Seemingly jaded and lost
I forge myself into your dreams
And here I
am your life

Hangman, clutching at his tools
I will come for
you

The noose is tied
Murmur through the crowd
Plunging into
anywhere but here

Cloak-captured sighs of relief
As the primal touch
brought me back
And the last sight I did see is still here
Beckoning right
behind me

album: "Blackwater Park" (2001)



1. The Leper Affinity

We
entered Winter once again
Naked, freezing from my breath
Neath the lid all
limbs tucked away
This coffin is your abode from now
and onwards
Your
body is mine to avail
Such a tragic sight you are
Slave under my
creed
Spurring me with those tears
I am beyond death
Midst a dreaming
affinity
Saving strength now, faint whispers
Come erotic communion in its
splendour
Fever mirrored ghosts
Night time consolation, cross the
line
Draw murder into art
Sleep inside through days
In the wake of this
relief
Shivering, longing for more
Insanity at it's peak
Love me to my
death
Lost are days of Spring
You sighted and let me in
Keep the beast
inside
Shackled within my hide
Screaming out too late
Losing to my
hate
Grew together with your skin
And paced the trails of sin
Your gaze
covered with virgin snow
Rigid features
It's the shallow deeds who is to
blame
Deafening shrieks pierced the night
A step from oblivion
Moving
into the dim lights
Hiding within a reverie
It was worth it for the wait
alone


2.
Bleak

Beating
Heart still beating for the
cause
Feeding
Soul still feeding from the loss
Aching
Limbs are
aching from the rush
Fading
You are fading from my sight
Break of
morning, coldness lingers on
Shroud me into nightmares of the
sun
Moving
I am moving closer to your side
Luring
You are luring me
into the night
Crying
Who is crying for you here
Dying
I am dying
fast inside your tears
Plunging towards bereavement faster yet
Clearing
thoughts, my mind is set
Devious movements in your eyes
Moved me from
relief
Breath comes out white clouds with your lies
And filters through
me
You're close to the final word
You're staring right past me in
dismay
A liquid seeps from your chest
And drains me away
Mist ripples
round your thin white neck
And draws me a line
Cold fingers mark this
dying wreck
This moment is mine
Help me cure you
Atone for all you've
done
Help me leave you
As all the days are gone
Night fall
again
Taking what's left of me
Slight twist, shivering corpse
Ornated
with water, fills the cracks
Clasped in my lims by tradition
This is all
you need


3.
Harvest

Stay with me awhile
Rise above the vile
Name my
final rest
Poured into my chest

Into the orchard I walk peering way
past the gate
Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait
Drained by the
coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead
Halo of death, all I see is
departure
Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr

Pledge
yourself to me
Never leave me be
Sweat breaks on my brow
Given time
ends now

Into the orchard I walk peering way past the gate
Wilted
scenes for us who couldn't wait
Drained by the coldest caress, stalking
shadows ahead
Halo of death, all I see is departure
Mourner's lament but
it's me who's the martyr

Spirit painted sin
Embers neath my
skin
Veiled in pale embrace
Reached and touched my face

Into the
orchard I walk peering way past the gate
Wilted scenes for us who couldn't
wait
Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead
(Release your
grip, let me go, into the night)
Halo of death, All I see is
departure
Mourner's lament but it's me who's the martyr


4. The Drapery Falls

Please
remedy my confusion
And thrust me back to the day
The silence of your
seclusion
Brings night into all you say
Pull me down again
And guide me
into pain
I'm counting nocturnal hours
Drowned visions in haunted
sleep
Faint flickering of your powers
Leaks out to show what you
keep
Pull me down again
And guide me into
There is failure
inside
This test I can't persist
Kept back by the enigma
No criterias
demanded here
Deadly patterns made my wreath
Prosperous in your
ways
Pale ghost in the corner
Pouring a caress on your shoulder
Puzzled
by shrewd innocence
Runs a thick tide beneath
Ushered into inner
graves
Nails bleeding from the struggle
It is the end for the weak at
heart
Always the same
A lullaby for the ones who've lost all
Reeling
inside
My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects
Stare of primal
regrets
You turn your back and you walk away
Never again
Spiralling to
the ground below
Like Autumn leaves left in the wake to
fade
away
Waking up to your sound again
And lapse into the ways of
misery


5. Dirge For
November

Lost, here is nowhere
Searching home
still
Turning past me, all are gone
Time is now
The omen showed, took
me away
Preparations are done, this can't last
The mere reflection brought
disgust
No ordeal to conquer, this firm slit
It sheds upon the floor,
dripping into a pool
Grant me sleep, take me under
Like the wings of a
dove, folding around
I fade into this tender care


6. The Funeral Portrait

You wait by the
window
Morning's breath on the sill
Idle hands given another try
So you
wait and you savour the moment
Outside the canvas turned white
Ruby eyes
in the fog
Rain washing clean all the sins
A liquid gown that covers
all
Your loathe turns endless
Opened mirage soothes your sense
Locked
on the pinnacle
The best secret within
Like a derelict child
Heart
burning for a stranger
Ascending to the meek
Flock round the liars in
awe
Caked in the soil beneath
Fear me when we meet
Turn away in
admiration
My firm grip round the nucleus of joy
Enough of this
You
will leave me now
You will see it now
Perish at my hands
Close to
you
Tangled up in hair
Fresh stigma look
Shall I take you with
me
And it is cold
Ruby eyes in the fog
It is me
And you are just
like them all
Stained by the names of fathers
I'm greeting my downward
fall
Leaving the throes to others


7. Patterns In The
Ivy

[Instrumental]


8. Blackwater Park

Confessor
Of the
tragedies in man
Lurking in the core of us all
The last dying call for the
everlost
Brief encounters, bleeding pain
Lepers coiled neath the
trees
Dying men in bewildered soliloquys
Perversions bloom round the
bend
Seekers, lost in their quest
Ghosts of friends frolic
under the
waning moon
It is the year of death
Wielding his instruments
Stealth
sovereign reaper
Touching us with ease
Infecting the roots in an
instant
Burning crop of disease
I am just a spectator
An advocate
documenting the loss
Fluttering with conceit
This doesn't concern me
yet
Still far from the knell
Taunting their bereavement
Mod round the
dead
Point fingers at the details
Probing vomits for more
Caight in
unbridled suspense
We have all lost it now
Catching the flakes of
dismay
Born the travesty of man
Regular pulse midst pandemonium
You're
plucked to the mass
Parched with thirst for the wicked
Sick liaisons
raised this monumental mark
The sun sets forever over Blackwater
park


9. Still Day Beneath The
Sun

There is a light that hits the gloom around
Shows the
footprints round this grave
Dried up roses scattered on the
mound
Honouring the one engraved

Will ever the morning
Carry
away
The souls of those for whom we cry

Leaving, grieving
Seeking,
meeting
Binding, unwinding
Sighing "You"

Black procession through
the narrow aisles
Another's gone for all to see
Near the site for one who
lost his trials
Sleeping neath the ground is me

Still day beneath the
sun
Asking you who is the one
And when the day is late
We know who must
forever wait


10. Patterns In The
Ivy 2

Without you I cannot confide in anything
The hope is
pale designed in light of dreams you bring
Summer's gone, the day is done
soon comes the night
Biding time, leaving the line and out of
sight

One moonlit shadow on the wall
Disrupted in its own
creation
Veiled in the darkness of this fall
Is this the end -
manifestation

It runs in me, your poison seething in my veins
This
skin is old and stained by late September rains
A final word from me would be
the first for you
The rest is long but I'll go on inside and
through

One moonlit shadow on the wall
Disrupted in its own
creation
Veiled in the darkness of this fall
Is this the end -
manifestation

Patterns in the Ivy
Patterns in the IIIIIIIIIIvy

album: "Deliverance" (2002)


1. Wreath

Falling inside
again
This nightmare always the same
Still never enough
Halting at
the brink of discovery
Moving into the darkness
Leaking inside to cover
up
Dragging me down and under
Entangled and undone at once
Old
memories
I'm not in need but wish to know
What are the tragedies
The
history behind the walls
Pacing further down
Familiar children's
laughter
Dissonant and out of time
And their eyes are dead
Watching
myself in a pool of water
Wearing the mask of a ghost
Smeared all across
my skin
Rotten earth and insects
Endless night
Always preserving the
calm
Movement behind
Bleeding animals in a field of fire
There is no
absolution
Death is but a fairytale
They are mere visions
They are
afraid of me
Clear insight
A smoke is rising nearby
Dust covering my
coat
Blend together to spell my name
Pale, covered me with sweat

There are no words left
Sole provider of death
Distorted faith in
myself
Human harvest burning
Blackest pages turning
Twisted
perception come true
Captured in dreams connected
Staring right back

Spiritual decay - Still seeking
Frozen in time
Mourn this departure
- All watching
Calling me back
Closure to bleak matters - I'm leaving

End of a search
Coming of morning
Calling me back
Closure to
bleak matters - I'm leaving
End of a search
Coming of morning -
Returning

_____________________________

2.
Deliverance

Floating on mist
crept up the caverns of my
brain
receving no warning
from nothing to a life code
walk with me,
you'll never leave
wait to see your spirit free
tell me how your heart's
in need
as i drown you in the sea
unwinding snares of distrust
your
wrist in my face grip
look me in the eye, i'm clear
this is your time

face down beneath the waterline
gazing into the deep
from love to
death
in a time span of seconds
oblivious to regret
pushed into
belief
in liquid cellophane
gasping for air
mercy in my eyes
is
the shade of the night
the piercing sounds you make
soaring higher,
higher now
and once left in my wake
your memory is nothing but the scars
on me
all over now
forgotten why i needed this
standing down

disappear into the obscure
resting days
waiting for new disease

biding time
looked inside insanity
it always burns within
the
downward spiral never ends
when driven into sin
your salvation's found
in a sinner's deed
the devil guides the day
tells me what to say

pours himself inside
and snuffs the final light

deliverance

thrown back at me

deliverance
laughing at me

__________________________

3. A Fair Judgement

Losing
sleep, in too deep
Fading sun, what have I done
Came so close to what I
need most
Nothing left here
Cut the ties, uncover disguise
Left
behind all intertwined
Lost control, moved out of the role now
Nothing's
left here
Leave it be
It was meant for me
Soul sacrifice
Forgot
the advice
Lost track of time
In a flurry of smoke
Waiting anxiety

For a fair judgement deserved

__________________________

4. For Absent
Friends

[Instrumental]

________________________

5. Master's Apprentices

There is a voice
calling for me
There is a light coming down on me
There is a doubt that
is clearing
There is a day that is dawning
There is a wound that is
healing
There is a season waiting for me
There is a road that is turning

There is a fire still burning
A sickness in me
Constant pace towards
the end
The need is stronger
This time the need is deeper
There is a
peace I am searching
There is a freedom I'm depending on
There is a pain
that's never ending
There is a rain falling only on me
There is a dream
I am living
There is a life I am dreaming of
There is a death I'm
awaiting
There is a home I am deserting
i hold my breath and wait

only moments remain
movement for departed hope
effect for absent
friend
sever the faith from my body
leave me begging for more
take
what i have and deliver me
into everlasting sleep
soothing trance

colours fade
and disappear
ethereal light
showing me what i can
do without
in a motionless scense
there is only me
i take what i can

controlling you to get ahead
fading away
and leaving
long for
sleep
closer now
lead the way into death
every wretched dream
i
have left behind
every waking hour
i lie in wait
sucked inside by
will
gone into the flood
all my questions unfurled
as i was put to
the test
once i'm below there's no turning back
plunging into the
deepest void
departed shell left drained behind
pacing roads unknown

searching for a new home
desert in my eye
barren lands inside


_____________________________


6. By The Pain I See In
Others

Let me taste
Let me feel
I need to know what
you keep inside
No need to speak
Just let it be
Carry out this wish
for me let nothing interfere
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the
soil
Discard your clothes
Let loose you hair
We're intertwined
forever and have always been
Say the word
And I'll depart
Upon your
lips dwells nothing but the meaning of my cause
And so comes the dark

Vibrant as ever before
Flowers already withered
In this endless
winter of souls
Outside in the park
The days move along
And nothing
ever changes
They have nothing on us
And we've always knew
That
nothing ever changes
Rise to submission
I'm still beneath in the soil

This is ours alone
Feeding of the warmth
Lured out from inside

Depending on the life blood
Silently
Whispering
Move in me and
set me free

"Htaed otni yaw eht dael
Won resolc
Peels rof gnol

Gnivael dna
Yawa gnidaf

Tuohtiw Od Nac I Tahw
Em
Gniwohs
Thgil Laerehte
Raeppasid Dna
Edaf Sruoloc
Ecnart
Gnihtoos"

album: "Damnation" (2003)



1. Windowpane

Blank face
in the windowpane
Made clear in seconds of light
Disappears and returns
again
Counting hours, searching the night

Might be waiting for
someone
Might be there for us to see
Might be in need of talking
Might
be staring directly at me

Inside plays a lullaby
Slurred voice over
children cries
On the inside

Haunting loneliness in the eye
Skin
covering a secret scar
His hand is waving a goodbye
There's no response or
action returned

There is deep prejudice in me
Outshines all reason
inside
Given dreams all ridden with pain
And projected unto the
last

__________________________

2. In My Time Of
Need

I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading
I try
to forget you as you forgot me
This time there is nothing left for you to
take, this is goodbye

Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would
ask me to stay

And I should contemplate this change
To ease the
pain
And I should step out of the rain
Turn away

Close to ending it
all, I am drifting through the stages
Of the rapture born within this
loss
Thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core of my
soul

Summer is miles and miles away
And no one would ask me to
stay

And I should contemplate this change
To ease the pain
And I
should step out of the rain
Turn away

At times the dark's fading
slowly
But it never sustains
Would someone watch over me
In my time of
need

____________________________

3. Death Whispered A
Lullaby

Out on the road there are fireflies circling
Deep
in the woods, where the lost souls hide
Over the hill there are men
returning
Trying to find some peace of mind

Sleep my
child

Under the fog there are shadows moving
Don't be afraid, hold my
hand
Into the dark there are eyelids closing
Buried alive in the shifting
sands

Sleep my child

Speak to me now and the world will
crumble
Open a door and the moon will fall
All of your life, all your
memories
Go to your dreams, forget it all

Sleep my child

__________________

4. Closure

Heal myself-a feather
on my heart
Look inside-there never was a start
Peel myself-dispose of
severed skin
All subsides-around me and within

There's nothing painful
in this
There's no upheaval
Redemption for my pathos
All sins
undone

Awaiting word on what's to come
In helpless prayers a hope
lives on
As I've come clean I've forgotten what I promised
In the rays of
the sun I am longing for the darkness

________________________

5. Hope Leaves

In the corner beside my
window
There hangs a lonely photograph
There is no reason
I'd never
notice
A memory that could hold me back

There is a wound that's always
bleeding
There is a road I'm always walking
And I know you'll never return
to this place

Gone through days without talking
There is a comfort in
silence
So used to losing all ambition
Struggling to maintain what's
left

Once undone, there is only smoke
Burning in my eyes to
blind
To cover up what really happened
Force the darkness unto
me

___________________________

6. To Rid The
Disease


There's nobody here, there's nobody near
I try not
to care, dead eyes always stare
Let these matters be, don't trust what you
see
Take hold of your time, step into the line

There's innocence torn
from its maker
Stillborn the trust in you
This failure has made the
creator
So would you tell him what to do (would you)

Leave your mark
upon the head of someone
Who'll cry for his state, we know it's too late
I
turn round to see what was meant to be
Faint movement release to rid the
disease

There's innocence torn from its maker
Stillborn the trust in
you
(I have lost all trust I had in you)
This failure has made the
creator
So would you tell him what to do
(I have lost all trust I had in
you)

_____________________________

7. Ending
Credits

[Instrutmental]

__________________________

8. Weakness

Found you there in the blink of
an eye
(I) miss you
Turned away into a thousand dreams
Found out what
they mean

Lost you there in a moment of truth
(I) trust you
Gave
away the one and only heart
(A) gift to tear apart

Stain me, save
me
Take me to my home
Hold me, show me
Take me to my home

Weaker
now, drawing fluid from me
(You) kill me
I'm not afraid of what you have
just done
(But of) what you've just become

album: "Ghost Reveries" (2005)



1. Ghost Of
Perdition

Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on
Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted
face upon the head

Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning
no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew
deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the
one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die
young"

Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the
Gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner
light

Road into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher

Darkness
by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us
under
Rose up to it's call
In his arms she'd fall
Mother light
received
And a faithful servant's free

In time the hissing of her
sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a
diary
Everything seemed clean that is unstained
The incoherent talk of
ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and
what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give

Ghost of
perdition
A saint's premonition's unclear
Keeper of holy hoards
Keeper
of holy whores

To see a beloved son
In despair of what's to
come

If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would
change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The
phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten
morals
Where the victim is the prey

_____________________________

2. The Baying Of The Hounds

I hear the baying
of the hounds
In the distance, I hear them devouring
Pest ridden jackals
of the earth
Diabolical beasts and roaming the forests
In wait and
constant protectors
Calling you to sit by his side
Your self loathing
image in his flesh
A revelation upon which you linger

His words are
flies
Swarming towards the true insects
Feasting on buried dreams
And
spreading decay upon your skin
His eyes spew forth a darkness
That cut
through and paralyze
Casts light upon your secrets
Forced to confront your
enemies

His mouth is a vortex
Sucking you into it's
pandemonium
Fools you with a helping hand of ashes
Reached out in false
dismay
His body is a country
The cities lay dead and beyond
despair
Friends turned enemies unable to come clean
In a rising fog of
reeking death

Everything you believed is a lie
Everyone you loved is a
death burden
So you take comfort in him
And you are receptive to stark
wishes
No longer struggling to declare your stand
You would inflict no
harm to others
They are unaware of you
And in a loop of futile
events
You are everything, they are nothing

Drown in the deep
mire
With past desires
Beneath the mire
Drown desire now with
you

Lined up verses on dead skin
"The tainted lips of the
stranger
Resting upon hers"

And I embrace bereavement
Everything
beloved is shattered anyway
I would devote myself to anyone
I would accept
any flaws

I am too weak to resist
Tension vibrating with
horror
Finding the outcast in my eyes
Pushing nerves on a
puppet
Endless poison in my veins
Clean intent now tainted with
death

And so, cold touch now inhumane
Every waking hour
Awaiting a
reverie to unfold
And now they are calling me
Louder by the minute
The
baying of the hounds
Calling me back to my home

__________________________

3. Beneath The Mire

Haunted nights for
halcyon days
Can't sleep to the scraping of his voice
Nature's way struck
grief in me
And I became a ghost in sickness

Willingly guided into
heresy
Beneath the surface, stark emptiness
And you'd pity my
conviction
Whereas I thought of myself as a leader

You'd cling to your
pleasant hope
It is twisted fascination
While I'd ruin the obstacles into
despair
And I'm praising death

Lost love of the heart
In a
holocaust scene memory

Decrepit body wearing transparent skin
Inside,
the smoke of failure

Wept for solace and submit to faith
In his shadow
I'm choking
Yet flourishing

Master

A delusion made me
stronger
Yet I'm draped in pale withering flesh
I sacrificed more than I
had
And left my woes beneath the mire

____________________________

4. Atonement

Cleared the fog that was veiled
around me
And blurred my sights
Suddenly, I'm no longer aching
To honor
my plights

Rising moon and my skin is peeling
Past undone
Suddenly,
I can't justify
What I had become

____________________________

5. Reverie / Harlequin Forest

Into the
trees
Past meadow grounds
And further away from my home
Baying behind
me
I hear the hounds
Flock's chasing to find me alone

A trail of
sickness
Leading to me
If I am haunted
Then you will
see

Searching the darkness
And emptiness
I'm hiding away from the
sun
Will never rest
Will never be at ease
All my matter's expired so I
run

There falls another
Vapor hands released the blade
Insane
regrets at the drop
Instruments of death before me

Lose all to save a
little
At your peril it's justified
And dismiss your demons
As death
becomes a jest
You are the laughing stock
Of the absinthe
minded
Confessions stuck in your mouth
And long gone fevers
reappear

Nocturnally helpless
And weak in the light
Depending on a
prayer
Pacing deserted roads to find
A seed of hope

They are the
trees
Rotten pulp inside and never well
Roots sucking, thieving from my
source
Tired boughs reaching for the light

It is all false
pretension
Harlequin forest
Awaiting redemption for a lifetime
As they
die alone
With no one by their side
Are they forgiven?

Stark
determination
Poisoning the soul
Unfettered beast inside
Claiming
sovereign control

And now the woods are burning
Tearing life crops
asunder
Useless blackened remains
Still pyre smoldering

______________________________

6. Hours Of Wealth

Found a way
to rid myself clean of pain
And the fever that's been haunting me
Has gone
away

Looking through my window
I seem to recognize
All the people
passing by
But I am alone
And far from home
And nobody knows
me

Never heard me say goodbye
Never shall I speak to anyone
again
All days are in darkness
And I'm biding my time
Once I am sure of
my task I will rise again

______________________________

7. The
Grand Conjuration

Majesty
Faithful me
Pour
yourself
Into me

Wield your power
Martyr's price
Stare me
down
To the ground

The eyes of the devil
Fixed on his
sinners

Slake my thirst
Eternal wealth
Heathen key
Round my
neck

This poetry
Our blasphemy
Know the sounds
Of
infamy

The hands of Satan
Assembling his flock
Pale horse
rider
Scouring the earth

Whispered conjuration
A belief takes
form
Choking hand tapping
The veins in your throat

His orders in
your mouth
A decree for domination
Beneath the tides of wisdom
Spins
the undertow of hate

Injected seeds of vengeance
Usurper's eyes of the
powerless
Clean path to his kingdom
Beckoning in the mist

(The
grand conjuration)

Tell my why
Love subsides
In the light
Of
your wishes

Say my name
Ease the pain
Clear the smoke
In my
head

_______________________

8. Isolation
Years

There's a sense of longing in me
As I read Rosemary's
letter
Her writing's honest
Can't forget the years she's lost

In
isolation
She talks about her love
And as I read
"I'll die alone"
I
know she was aching

There's a certain detail seen here
The pen must
have slipped to the side
And left a stain
Next to his name
She knows
he's gone

And isolation
Is all that would remain
"The wound in me
is pouring out
To rest on a lover's shore"

_____________________________

9. Soldier Of Fortune

[Deep Purple
cover]

I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the
life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing
you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would
surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have
sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin'
'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been
a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were
cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thought my eyes
Had seen
you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not
here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo
in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll
always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill
goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune

______________________

album: "The Roundhouse Tapes"
(2007)


1. When

Red sun rising
somewhere through the dense fog.
The portrait of the jaded dawn
Who had
seen it all before.
This day wept on my shoulders.

Still the same as
yesterday.
This path seems endless, body is numb.
The soul has lost its
flame.
Walking in familiar traces to find my way back home.

So there I
was.
Within the sobriety of the immortals.
A semblance of supernatural
winds passing through,
The garden sighs, flowers die.

The gate was
closed that day,
But I was bound to carry on.
She could not see me through
the windows.
In dismay, strangest twist upon her lips.

Graven face,
she said my name.
Once inside I heard whispers in the parlour.
The gilded
faces grin, aware of my final demise.
And I cried, I knew she had
lied.

Her obsession had died, it had died.
When can I take you from
this place?
When is the word but a sigh?
When is death our lone
beholder?

When do we walk the final steps?
When can we scream instead
of whisper?
When is the new beginning, the end of this sad
Madrigal.

____________________________

2. Ghost Of
Perdition

Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on
Mother's Bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted
face upon the head

Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning
no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew
deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the
one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die
young"

Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the
gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner
light

Road into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher

Darkness
by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us
under
Rose up to it's call
In his arms she'd fall
Mother light
received
And a faithful servant's free

In time the hissing of her
sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a
diary
Everything seemed clean and is unstained
The incoherent talk of
ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and
what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give

Ghost of
Perdition
A saint's premonitions unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper
of holy whores

To see a beloved son
In despair of what's to
come

If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would
change
Would conviction fall
In the shadows of the righteous
The
phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten
morals
Where the victim is the prey

______________________________

3. Under The Weeping Moon

Once again I've
cried
Unto the moon
That burning flame
That has guided
me

Through all these years
The lake from which you flow
With eyes
of fire
Once unlit but now alive

This energy, sparkling
Like a
morning star
The morning star
Riding the fires of

The northern
gold
I've searched the eye
I laugh under the weeping moon
I am the
watcher in the skies

Nor the emeralds know my mark
Glisten to mark
their presence
Set the enigma ablaze
Searching...Finding...

Burn
the winter landmarks
That said I was there
Burn the spirit of cold
That
travel through my soul

___________________________

4.
Bleak

Beating
Heart still beating for the
cause
Feeding
Soul still feeding from the loss
Aching
Limbs are
aching from the rush
Fading
You are fading from my sight
Break of
morning, coldness lingers on
Shroud me into nightmares of the
sun
Moving
I am moving closer to your side
Luring
You are luring me
into the night
Crying
Who is crying for you here
Dying
I am dying
fast inside your tears
Plunging towards bereavement faster yet
Clearing
thoughts, my mind is set
Devious movements in your eyes
Moved me from
relief
Breath comes out white clouds with your lies
And filters through
me
You're close to the final word
You're staring right past me in
dismay
A liquid seeps from your chest
And drains me away
Mist ripples
round your thin white neck
And draws me a line
Cold fingers mark this
dying wreck
This moment is mine

Help me cure you
Atone for all
you've done
Help me leave you
As all the days are gone
Night fall
again
Taking what's left of me
Slight twist, shivering corpse
Ornated
with water, fills the cracks
Clasped in my lims by tradition
This is all
you need

___________________________

5. Face Of
Melinda

By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair
The face of
Melinda neath blackened hair
No joy would flicker in her eyes
Brooding
sadness came to a rise

Words would falter to atone
Failure had passed
the stepping stone
She had sworn her vows to another
This is when no-one
will bother

And conceded pain in crumbling mirth
A harlot of God upon
the earth
Found where she sacrificed her ways
That hollow love in her
face

Still I plotted to have her back
The contentment that would fill
the crack
My soul released a fluttering sigh
This day fell, the darkness
nigh

I took her by the hand to say
All faith forever has been washed
away
I returned for you in great dismay
Come with me, far away to
stay

Endlessly gazing in nocturnal prime
She spoke of her vices and
broke the rhyme
But baffled herself with the final line
My promise is made
but my heart is thine

_____________________________

6. The Night
And The Silent Water

And so you left us
Jaded and gaunt,
some September
Wilted with the seasons
But hidden inside the
delusion

I saw your eyes, somewhere
Devoid of death
The aura poises
amidst (the storm)
In solid tears I linger

A parlour glade, moonlit
sorrow
Lonely resting pools
Relics of the moon dogged lake
Whisper:
"All your words are misgiven"

Am I like them?
Those who mourn and turn
away
Those who would give anything
To see you again

If only for
another second
Your face was, like the photograph
Painted white
We did
not speak very often about it

What does it matter now?
Cloak of autumn
shroud
I gaze, dim ricochet of stars
I reckon it is time for me to
leave

You sleep in the light
Yet the night and the silent
water
Still so dark...

________________________

7.
Windowpane

Blank face in the windowpane
Made clear in
seconds of light
Disappears and returns again
Counting hours, searching
the night
Might be waiting for someone
Might be there for us to
see
Might be in need of talking
Might be staring directly at me
Inside
plays a lullaby
Slurred voice over children cries
On the
inside

Haunting loneliness in the eye
Skin covering secret
scars
His hand is waving a goodbye
There's no response or action
returned

There is deep prejudice in me
Outshines all reasons
inside
Given dreams all ridden with pain
And projected unto the
last

____________________________

8. Blackwater
Park

Confessor
Of the tragedies in man
Lurking in the
core of us all
The last dying call for the everlost
Brief encounters,
bleeding pain
Lepers coiled neath the trees
Dying men in bewildered
soliloquys
Perversions bloom round the bend
Seekers, lost in their
quest
Ghosts of friends frolic
under the waning moon
It is the year of
death
Wielding his instruments
Stealth sovereign reaper
Touching us
with ease
Infecting the roots in an instant
Burning crop of disease
I
am just a spectator
An advocate documenting the loss
Fluttering with
conceit
This doesn't concern me yet
Still far from the knell
Taunting
their bereavement
Mod round the dead
Point fingers at the
details
Probing vomits for more
Caight in unbridled suspense
We have
all lost it now
Catching the flakes of dismay
Born the travesty of
man
Regular pulse midst pandemonium
You're plucked to the mass
Parched
with thirst for the wicked
Sick liaisons raised this monumental mark
The
sun sets forever over Blackwater park

________________________

9. Demon Of The Fall

Silent dance with
death.
Everything is lost.
Torn by the arrival of Autumn.
The blink of
an eye, you know it's me.
You keep the dagger close at hand.
And you saw
nothing.
False love turned to pure hate.
The wind cried a lamentation
before merging with the grey.
Demon of the fall.
Gasping for another
breath.
She rose, screaming at closed doors.
Seductive faint mist forging
through the cracks in the wall.
I shan't resist.
In tears for all of
eternity.
She turned around and faced me for the first time.
Run away, run
away.
Just one second, and I was left with nothing.
Her fragrance still
pulsating through damp air.
That day came to an end.
And she had lost in
me, her Credence.

album: "Watershed" (2008)

1. Coil

[Mikael
Akerfeldt:]
She told me
Why she told me lies
Always take care of
this
I told her how I've always stayed
Always waiting for
nothing

[x2]
When I get out of here
When I leave you
behind
I'll find that the years passed us by

And I can see
you
Running through the fields of sorrow
Yes I can, see you
Running
through the fields of sorrow

[x2]
When you get out of
here
When you leave me behind
You'll find that the years passed us
by

And I can see you
Running through the fields of sorrow
Yes I
can, see you
Running through the fields of sorrow

________________________

2. Heir Apparent

Cold days
Old
ways
Told lies
No more

So many years to clean the slate
Endless
despair within its wake
His touch soiling what used to be clean
His gaze
burning on the edge of our dreams

Cold days
Cold days

And again
he rides in
It's September and he covets the gullible
Skeletal
wish
Hunter
A thousand lies cast from the throne of secrecy

Hear
him spewing forth a meaning to miserables lies
See the twisted hand of doubt
seal the affair
The insect trust
Believer
our body a vehicle to him
just the same

Pearls before swine they are nothing but blind
Submit to
nothing and swallow my spit of scorn
Invisible king
Dying
Procession of
woe struck down by sorrow

A burden so great weighs heavy on old and
withered beliefs
The swift solution crumbles beneath the mock notes of a
masterpiece
Death in his eyes
Waiting
Spiralling judgement provoked in
the rains

Futile test drowned in the levee of deception
His futile
test drowned in the levee of deception

In the year of his
sovereign
Rid us of your judgement
Heir apparent

_________________________

3. The Lotus Eater

The liquid is
in your throat
For hopeless delight

After all you fell in love with
death,
Life has aborted.
All you've had and all you became,
The night
is calling, you pray forth.

The barren waste is your land
Your crops,
they were sown to die

The skin is a mirror
The eyes hollow with
ignorance
Health runs from your lips
Sucked in and safe in a world of
sleep

All those years caring for a liar
A benefit road that is winding
higher
You're a moth too close to the fire

You are stuck in a route of
confusion
Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all

Fleeing
your sorrows
Pushing your spirit away

Sick of the weakness of the
psyche
A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into
despair
Resenting the goods of a savior

And cries out
For the
restless will also die

A selection culled from the damned, drawing a
lifeline of one
A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a
follower

O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself
I wish
you'd never come back for us to see the beckoning end

And the pride of a
mother brought flaws in a mother's son
And the love from a father was used by
a father's son

Overheard us talking in a smoke of lost hope
The
language of a parting so clear and so true
Overheard us talking

________________________

4. Burden

I, once upon a
time
Carried a burden inside
I sung a last goodbye
A broken rhyme I had
underlined
There's an ocean of sorrow in you

A sorrow in me

I
saw movement in their eyes
Thay said I no longer knew the way
I had given
up the ghost
A passive mind submit to fear
And the wait for redemption at
hand

Waiting to fail

Failing again

If death should take me
now
Count my mistakes and let me through
Whisper in my ear
You've taken
more than we've received
And the ocean of sorrow is you


5. Porcelain Heart

[Mikael
Akerfeldt]

I lost all I had (that April day),
I turned to my
friends (nothing to say),
I wrote down a name (and read it twice),
I
wallowed in shame.

I said that I loved (eternal schemes),
I cling to
my past (like childish dreams)
I promised to stay (and held my breath)
I
went far away.

Icy roads beneath my feet,
Lead me through wastelands
of deceit,
Rest your head now, don't you cry,
Don't ever ask the reason
why

Kept inside our idle race
Ghost of an idol's false embrace
Rest
your head now, don't you cry
Don't ever ask the reasons why.

_____________________

6. Hessian Peel

Will their
children cry
When their mother dies
And in the autumn of their
lives
Will they feel the same?

[reversed lyrics
2:03-2:22:]
"I see you
My sweet Satan
Come back tonight
Out of
the courtyard"

Her longing for me
Comin' down like hail
Why did you
leave me?

Come here inside
And tell me how
How in my final
days
I've found her out

The light comes on
The signal for us to end
our lives
You wait beneath the white sheets and you wait forever

The
night comes on
Your weakness starting to erase all your lies
So I left you
alone
We all left you alone

[reversed lyrics
7:21-7:24:]
"They'll lock all your reasons why"

Lock the children
away from harm
They'll lock all your reason why
Seeking tenderness with a
dagger
Skin is blocked by the years of trial

You felt abandoned in the
fog of flesh
Sitting in place from the dead
Awaiting the face of the moon
to ascend
You follow the siren in your head

In your head

______________________

7. Hex Omega

Two years
In
your heart
One moment of doubt

Two lives
Torn apart
One second
from now

Held him
In your arms
Your fever subside
Always safe
from harm
Kept demons inside

Still you always start runnin'
Touch
the light
From the moon
Some way mother cried
Left us space
here

___________________________

8. Derelict
Herds

[Bonus track]

Someone died for looking too
far
While I was asleep in my house
A child was killed, I heard it from a
friend
A war raged in a distant land
Cost me to linger on a piece of
text

Someone died
Not here, never here

There was a
fever
There is a failure
Are you a believer?
That someone lied to
you

You hold it closer to your chest
There was a meaning for this
test
But you forgot and it's gone now
You were controlled
somehow

There was a mean time
An invitation of sorts
I remember
life
I, I was sick with sorrow

I'd fallen asleep
And dreamt of my
sins here
It was your turn
Adamant smile and said, "Thank
you"

There was a sickness right in the family
While I shuddered in the
cold
Woman hanged for her sins while I craved mine
An old man drowned in
this life herd
As I made amends with my fathers

Someone died
Not
here, never here

_______________________

9. Bridge Of
Sighs

[Special edition bonus track]
[Robin Trower
cover]

[x2]
Sun don't shine
The moon don't move
The
tides to wash me clean

Why so unforgiving
And why so cold
Spent a
long time crossing
The bridge of sighs

[x2]
Cold wind
blows
And the gods look down
In anger of this poor child

Why so
unforgiving
And why so cold
Been a long time crossing
The bridge of
sighs

__________________________

10. Den Ständiga
Resan

[Bonus track]

När jag tänker på den
ständiga resan genom livet
När det alltid känns som höst
Då vänder sig
vinden sakta mot norr
Och blommorna dör
Det faller regn i mina
drömmar

Jag måste resa igen och leta efter tröst
Jag måste leta igen
efter ömhetens röst
Jag måste resa igen till nästa höst
Den ständiga resan
till nästa höst

[Guitar]

När jag vandrar på den steniga
vägen genom livet
När det känns som jag bar på en sorg
Då gömmer sig solen
sakta i moln
Och ordet är adjö
Snart faller snö i mina drömmar

Jag
måste resa igen och leta efter tröst
Jag måste leta igen efter ömhetens
röst
Jag måste resa igen till nästa höst
Den ständiga resan till nästa
höst
Oooo den ständiga resan till nästa
höst

[Guitar]

[English translation:]

The
Perpetual Journey

When I think of the perpetual journey through
life
When it always feels like autumn
The wind moves slowly to the
north
And the flowers die
Rain falls in my dreams

I must travel
again and search for comfort
I must search again for the voice of
tenderness
I must travel again to next autumn
The perpetual journey to
next autumn

When I wander on the stony road through life
When it felt
like I carried a sorrow
Then the sun hides slowly in the clouds
and
[indisinct] goodbye
Soon the snow falls in my dreams

I must
travel again and search for comfort
I must search again for the voice of
tenderness
I must travel again to next autumn
The perpetual journey to
next autumn
Oooo the perpetual journey to next autumn