(music: Laine & Yli-Sirniö, lyrics: Laine)
On pathless ways you wither
and hope has flown away
Rise before my sight
In the great eternity
darkest obscurities
no sun will ever shine again
As the days of gold have passed
never to return
Just like a dream too bright to last
is the curse of the red river
See the raging torrent
wash your soul to the valley below
to the graves
of the sea of oppression
And see the bleak reflections
of the days that are no more
from the dreadful shadows
As the days of gold have passed
never to return
Just like a dream too bright to last
are the beds of blood by the rivers of red
(music & lyrics: Mårtenson)
Without a sound
saw the eagle rising
The bringer of storms
under dark clouds flying
The forlorn waves rowing ashore
the island with no name
Many a ship
here lost its way
A few return
from the cross swell may
Brave men of old
their screams now silent
Forever gone
as the sea embraced them
The forlorn waves rowing ashore
the island with no name
A man unknown
sailor of the seas
Cast overboard
here he found his peace
(music & lyrics: Perttilä)
I could hold that hand no more
I turned away and tried to swim back to the shore
To let go of joy and fear
Forsaking all that will melt down to tears
Forever shifting place and time
Caught in delusion
This dream is only mine
Released from
all sorrow
you bring tonight
Reflecting
a sunrise
as I close my eyes
In the distance for evermore
swimming miles and miles to never reach the shore
Last flicker of reality
All I can portray is only real to me
Released from
all sorrow
you bring tonight
Reflecting
a sunrise
as I close my eyes
Drifting with
true wonders
to never touch the ground
Merge sorrow
with beauty
as I close my eyes
Another thruth
a different sun
No infinity could be the only one
So I embrace
the other side
and it hits me with sunlight
and shatters the space
purpose and time
rejoice this night
is shifting worlds
A thousand suns
No one can share this end of time
(music: Mårtenson, lyrics: Jussi K. Niemelä)
Wash her
Kiss her
Feel my
Thunder
She's gone
Like my wrath
She’s gone
You scream
Watch me
Kneeling
Touch her
She's here
Heat fire
She’s here
Summoning me
Blessing our grief
My love
Lie down
Praying
Worship
Dying
My life
Bleeding
My life
Sleeping
Weeping
Hear my
Silence
She's gone
Fire
She’s gone
Hold the candles and slay the sky
Take her home
Sanctify
Curse the darkness to make it right
Watch the dawn, closing her eyes
See it shine
See me rise
Like the sun
Breeding life
Make her sleep
In my heart
There she waits
Fire
And I feel the rays
Closing in on me
And her spirit stays
Fire
(music & lyrics: Tarvonen)
What grief and obscurity surround my soul
like an autumn night on a barren earth?
Insignificant to suffer here
The struggle eternal and futile
No heaven I desire nor the night of inferno
Never indulge a wench in my arms
Away from the sense of despair
All in all the soundless void
(Hearken now what I beg)
Build a house of the underworld
my dwelling in earth to hide
Dig my grave near the guarding elms
and cover it with black gems
Then forever leave my court
In peace I want to rest
A hill shall never mount on my grave
but the earth turns under the meadow
None shall know my resting chamber
under the frosted elm
The rest of the album lyrics can be found in the album booklet