Her dirge still echoes in these woods Mourning lingers in the vales As the wind cries on the shore Her wailing can be heared
Mirthless is this wandering through Hollow days Like a pale ghost I waste away in This foul world
What sin do I atone for in this Dreadful way Why the gods snee rat me as I Keep writhing in pain
Where has my dearest gone to Where sings now my maiden fair Beneath the darksome waters Underneath the moonlit waves
Where is our ill-starred son Where lies our poor stillborn child Below the silent mound In the arms of scared earth
She become weary of the world Tired of this marred life Burdened with sorrow far too deep A pain impossible to bear
There is no light at the end of this Blackened path Calm again are the sullen waters Before me
If gods shall hearken to me Fate with be bening I leave these woes behind Depart from these cares
For we shall be reunited on the Other side I desscend to my love and caress her forevermore
2. Song Of The Storm
The wind gathers the clouds in the sky empyrean cracks and roars the calm before the storm grows now to thunder's song gone are the singing birds, silently sigh only the trees. Hear now the moment when the son of thunder speaks
The roar in crescendo, fills hte dark air and once more The bringer of chaos makes the wind rise again Watch him whirling, dancing in the step of time... In the flash of lightning appears the majesty of skies
As the tempest sets world on to it's knees, Still steady stands one man brave Challenging alone the nature Screaming fiercely ovet the gale
Filled with the anger are also phrases of storm And easily from the ground apart is the man soon torn Cold is their embrance, of iron their handshake both Mortal facing undying and the warring of their powers
For thousand years last their struggle, One teardrop shed for every year,still Enough to bring forth the thousand lakes, enough for thousand rivers to shape and as the northwind rises again and the heaven cracks and roars once more two headstrong figures will test to defeat each others
3. Medeia
Where there once was love, only hatred now resides Where I once had heart, only nothingness now dwels
Guilt-ridden shall be your days Heart-rending your nights
By starlight I rock to sleep my dearest ones Under the cold sky I lull to rest my darlings Good to ie in a bed of cloudberry flowers Soft to dream on a moss-grown pillow
Betrayed by one I loved, deceived by one I caressed Cast into the dark, thrust into the endless night
But even bitter is your fate Way darker your path
For nothing have I been by your side In vain have i wasted this life All that was fair has been marred now All the love I gave you have emptied my heart
Soon I'll be feeling no pain sleeping in silent shade The ones you cherist most I'll take with me to my dreams
Haunted by your deeds Wrapped into the grief You are bound into this sorrow Until the end of time
4. Dying Chant
As I lay dying at the eve of my days There is a void inside me, hollowed by the years
Tmie has made these scars, burned them in my soul Mouldred this ugly figure of anguish and woe
Only death by my side, in the darkness waiting I weep for what I've done, cry for what I've not
I beg for salvation, that cannot be found Never in this life, not whit these memories
I have never shown regret or asked for forgiveness I have never relented, no, or yielded to prayers
Only vision in my mind, as I give my life How she hides her face, and turn away
5. The Elder
In the arms of rimed soil, lies the autumns last withered leaf Land now bare and naed, awaits it's snowy sheet
And as the light still lingers, painting scarlet this barren scene An old man sings his song of melancholy and relinquish
I'm a whirl deep in dark waters, A stare in the shades of fir-trees I'm riding above with north wind, Herding the black clouds of rain Mine is the kingdom, Far from the moon to the sun I am the elder, Standing forever as one
And in that sudden moment, when everything's turned to still, He abruptly breaks the silence, becomes one with longing
And singing ever stronger, nature joins as one with him Fire in his eyes, universe under twisted grin
6. Black Waters
Somber is my mind, now that Misfortunehas faced my kind; Weary glazed stare, Beneath the Pitch-black hair. On my cheeks, once so live, Adorn Flood of tears, caused by strife And as I griewe under the sky, even Raven croaks to me it's despise
My warm hand against your cold Palm... Words echoing in the air through You're gone...
Somber is my mind, Black is the Colour I feel These completely dead emotions, Drain the last bit of me No matter how many tiers I shed, No matter how much I repent Some things just can't be undone And some of us can't be forgiven.
No matter how many tears I shed, Some this can't be undone...
I've reached the point of the no return, These are deeds from I can not flee From a reflection I see a tired man, Longin for a relief The Black waters in front of me Will sway me till I'm in sleep, Carry me to the shores of Manala Where I'll be free from my sins. The Black waters will sway me till I'm sleep...
This Roaring stream will wash me Pure and clean...
7. Shades Of Deep Green
...This path leads into dark...
In shrouding veil of thickening dusk, In the caress of darkening woods There winds my path, narrow and fading
Let this twilight linger upon me Moon and stars take over when sun has fled And bring her scent to me
May the blowing of winds cease And all birds fall silent from singing May the dreary waters lay still And hands of time stop turning
So in forms of evening mist I can feel her slender grace In shades of deep green I can drown in her tender eyes
What a cruel world left for me to roam alone These journeys are filled with craving, these moments with loss
Neither the glittering dew on moors, nor the the whispering wind in dales But only these shadows of green can remind me of her
8. Bitter End
The silent moment right before the Dusk fades away I open my eyes but the darkness stays Nightfrost covers the brittle flowers Around you I realize that what I dreamt is true
Beauty beyond words My dearest one Her light burns my eyes She is all mine
By these frosty waters I rest by Your side I hold you in my arms for the last Time If only I could tell you how I need Your love If only you had seen what I kept in My heart
Now it's the time of grieving Reign of sorrow in my heart All i have ever wanted Is today forever gone Bitter is the nightly silence Bitter till the end of time The sky grown ever darker Through now she''ll always be mine
I hold you on my arms so tight I kiss your frozen lips for this last Time For the first time
9. Journey Unknown
I'm rushing through the cosmos, Reaching the light from the beyond the sun I see my self dissolving, as universe locks me into its arms When you dream of the sea of stars And in the sky the northern lights flame Sometimes do you remember, hear the silence between the worlds
Swirling surges of plasma, permeate me as i continue my fall Distorted dimensions swarm around me, Flickering a while, soon lost to sight And all these shapes I've seen Always through thick darksome mist Become now clear vision of consternation and awe
Into soothing silenceI lapse, Under your guarding eyes I rest At the gates of your kingdom, I bow down and enter
Domed stellar colonnades outline the arch of the sky A scene from here to eternity and everything that betwenn lies The grandeur of all existence, reveals me now pass my closed eyes And as my slepp turns ever deeper, I'm really awaken for the first time
10. In The Halls Of Awaiting
Evening full of grandeur, skies tinged with red Mountains crowned with crimson, treetops with scarlet blaze As the dusk is falling, night settles in Stars slowly come out, moon glides skywards ...Still cheerless is in my soul, my heart filled with cares...
Longing for the misty shores, weather-beaten strands so poor Where the weeping sky archs over water calm Pining for primeval woods, murky shade of leafy roof Where the silent trees arch over our path
Do you walk in mourning, still wear the grief Raiment of sorrow, remembrance of me Through the years of bleakness, winters of bitter cold Will you not forget me, forsake my soul ...Low-spirited is my song, downhearted my tune...
Beyond enchanted sea, wistful is my sleep Darkness by my side, through the dreary night Will you follow me, through eternity To another world, to the quiet halls
I've lost my way in the dark, strayed apart from my love I've faced the demons of might, passed away into shades
Long are lonely years, slowly pass these days In undying land, in the divine light Where I wait...in the dark
The black of the night turns to dusk of the dawn Through the mist now shines the fairest light of all The caress I've waited for eternity Into the shades, together we fade
