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from Amorphis - My Kantele (1998)
I must be out of my mind as I hear you call
My name is even though I can't see you anywhere Surely this feeling is coming from something Someone gave me yesterday as I searched for you And I hear you call I hear you call my name But when I turn around There's nothing to be found I must be dreaming a dream of a lunatic My fingers taste like some strawberry icecream I hear you call my name but I don't think it's the same I heard you whisper in my ear |
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from Amorphis - My Kantele (1998)
In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not define
I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare I have this fascination, no cause for deviation It's called levitation There's no cause to start and scream, nor rub your eyes, This is no dream Although I sit upon this chair, I rise and float up in the air I have this fascination, no cause for deviation It's called levitation Magnetic force, repel-attract, once it starts, there's no turning back I offer you this chance to learn, take it now there's no return |
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from Amorphis - My Kantele (1998)
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music, reckon that the kantele Was fashioned by a god Out of [a] great pike’s shoulders From a water-dog’s hooked bones: It was made from the grief Molded from sorrow Its belly out of hard days Its soundboard from endless woes Strings gathered from torments And its pegs from other ills Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense So it not play, will not rejoice at all Music will not play to please Give off the right sort of joy For it was fashioned from cares Molded from sorrow. |
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from Amorphis - My Kantele (1998)
Where have you been,where have you been
my son, my merry son? On the seashore, on the seashore mother, my darling one. And what have you been doing there my son, my merry son? I have been watering my horse mother, my darling one. Why is there blood upon your feet my son, my merry son? My horse stamped with its iron shoe mother, my darling one. Why there is blood upon your sword my son,my merry son? I have stabbed my brother to death mother, my darling one. What now of you, where will you go my son, my wretched son? To other lands to foreign lands my dame, my darling one. When will you be returning home my son, my wretched son? When all the world to judgment comes my dame, my darling one. |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
Terror, when the darkness binds your limbs
Terror, when the fear freezes your nerves Horror, when the pain climbs up your veins Darkness, creeping under you skin Moment of life, when we all have to choose, which way to go and for whom to sacrifice your life Invoke the god - pray To lead you back to life - pray Cursed by religion - hate Learned upon church - fake In the verge of hell, of human mind Redemption of your soul, as darkness binds you tight Moment of life, when we all have to choose, which way to go and for whom to sacrifice your life |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
A wave the sound of Noisiu's voice
his singing was ever sweet... Noisiu's grave has now been made and the accompaniment was mournful For him I poured out - hero of heroes, the deadly drink that killed him Dear his short shining hair a handsome man, even very beautiful Dear the grey eyes that women loved fierce they were foes |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
I shall have a son,
out of Cornwall shall he come, that shall be a wild boar, bristled with steel... he shall be a man most brave and noble in thought Thou shall kneel for him, for every man shall humble in front of our lord I stood upon the sand of the sea and the great wind told me to carry on He shall once know the secret of Holy Grail And so was the coronation made And there was he, sworn unto his lords and the commons to be true king |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
“The sound of thousand warriors
The fields of thousand battles Still, in our hearts we can hear the great hymn of Karelia.” |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
We sail across the sea,
In our thoughts we float over mountains All this vanity that we could hide The truth The truth is to be alive and to live your life in fear by hate and create our own gods We all ourselves are created our own images Ourselves we are created our own gods In the misty morning When the sun is rising, When the whole sky is red like blood Man can realize the real meaning of life to love and respect your life Your salvation, or is just your damnation. We all ourselves... |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
True Celtic power
from the cape of Cornwall Cry of hope, angels cry This was omen, our sign, prediction Distant gate, gothic grave Through ages our clan still remain In this proud land I grew up strong, My tears are flowing all around The wind is twisting my sorrow I still believe in truth and hate All through my life I have carried our ring, The omen All this was the fragment from my life In this proud land I was born alone I was taught to fight, taught to win They told me the way of steel and secret I am the unburied child, child without a nam, Without fate, I fight for peace and love, I am reborn |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one, As we all gather once again the gods of war summon us... summon us North wind blows to our valley men with ships, with swords, with honor Their horses between flames, their dogs eating enemy childs, Our heavenly father, what is this mortality, do you see my mortal agony Look, I see the shield up high this must be the sign from my lord this can be my death-sentence what a fine day to die Taste of blood comes up high Wind blows hard, our men fall... one by one This oath claims me I must bleed for my generation Strong is the enemy, strong is my sword the hammer is rising I feel their cold steel Now when I leave this world I shall open the mighty oaken gate and we all shall gather once again |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
We have to know, we have to see
Religions so many, which one of them are so real, That it makes us to believe ? Crushing the chains of faith To find the way of immortality, We're hiding behind the cross To find shelter, we're searching for the name of god In this maze of hatred The name of god is lost Under the flag of salvation we are cleared this land of pagans Under the cover of Christianity, we stained our hands in blood At these times of anguish The name of God is lost "I saw the coming of the end, Sun stopped its shining, Air is no longer fresh, Then it was too late to realize, that we can't breathe our hate." The lost name of God |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
In his eyes
The evil spirit rise Turns to darkness with Satan's name "As the time is right dead bodies rise up from their graves And when the time comes near Oh, I see the prince of glory" Holy month Sacred hounds Under the hill Do you hear their call |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
Erosion of life I see
it makes the passion burn in me Life it always withers away Death will eternally stay Corpses in their coffins forever rest in peace? There sleeping with the aspergillus is this justice to the dead? The atrocious sight of burial ceremony Christians weeping for the departed They won't understand, they should envy them! The deceased they know, if there's a paradise Or shall we feel, the purgatory! I open the graves, admire the rot I can feel the presence, of something beyond Aureola of nauseating reek Wings of shriveled skin Holy beauty of a carcass Divine sight for me to gaze upon! Necrolatic! Reverence for putrefaction Necrolatic! reverence for the stench I kneel, before a carrion I pray, before the dead I know, they shall rise I fear, for the scourge I revere, power of the dead |
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from Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1998)
As the sun falls down
and the swell crashes into the shore The great warriors of doom and wind ride high Silent is the silence, the only breathing of horses sound, Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us And we all live under the black mark Oh lord, lead us to the paradise My lord, is this the promised land is this your gift Let us fly into your dreams Let us taste some blood Sorrow - the unknown force Hate - respect your enemy Bitterness - shall be forever Silence - nothing left Let us fly into your dreams Let us taste some blood |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
Last day brings the grace
For bearers of forbidden name Step into five-fold mace As son as father in a frame Someday fire wipes the rain Fears are frozen tears Whisper things that no one hears Cry now, cry now for me again Tomorrow's pride and pain Why you kneel before my name Crushing my belief And make shape to my relief For who you said your prayers I can't hear them anyway |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
Not thirsty am I for the blood
Of redeemer of thy greed My hunger can't be satisfied With flesh of thy nazarene No gilded streets of heaven's grace Entice me in thy speech No holy mother doth condone All your pillage war and greed But know thee that all oceans worth Of waters turned holy Won't change the course of river That runs inside of me My blood flows ever skyward And pools where thy black is white For woulst thou not carme at my soul With sword of thy supreme truth Strike me down on my bended knees For thy baptism so soothe My blood flows ever skywawrd And pools where thy black is white Alone am I to raise my head In the starless forest night |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
You live only for yourself
Or send your soul to the heaven's grace Been weak as the autumn leaves Or strong as the growing seed Swallowed into the black Search for the entrace Chorus: Watch to the eyes of morning star Beckon for the savior But it's much too far Reach for the infinity The only thing that remains is decay |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
As a rot to rape the spring sown seed
A plague sprang forth of his tracks Churns ran red when cows milked blood And famine cracked poor backs Who would hear a lament sad Under the bright blue sky That's sung in hovels dark and low With eyes too weak to cry But horror be the nightfall's gloom For the man upon the road When moon doth laugh at worthless lives Twice hard for all promise showed Empty stare upon his face Nine fathoms deep He set upon the road again On ground that bears no seed |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
Bathed in the rust of moon
Is the death bed's lullaby Sung so softly with the stars Reflected in her eyes It's the blaze that beckons men Into the woods, of beaten path Is the sight of the fire that No maiden's eyes should have Iron does as iron's told And drinks of life's red gold But shame won't leave with dying breath The life that wants its own death And the forest hums its silent hymn Heard by those of solitude As mist it wells Up the brook's dark banks Bewitched by there fir woods |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
My soul is bleeding
I feel so small Afraid that this will never end I can't understand the pain in my bones I sleep through another trance Climb over the rainbow From here you can see so much I need someone to take me down But who can you trust Got so many things to say But it's something I don't wanna be Gotta get away case it's time to shine Like a fallen angel I run I won't ever see the sun See the circle is now complete Yet the harvest remains undone Where hemlock grows and vermin crowl All dreams descend with fear Crushed by the darkness that wells inside That beast I hold so dear |
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from Amorphis - Tuonela (2000)
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions that no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And face the everlasting task So lonely to wander So sad to be alone In the mist of the unknown Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true So hard to stand my ground Never again..never again will I fail..will I fail Will you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the wayWill you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the way.. the way |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
Tear dimmed rememberance
In a womb of time Breath upon me Possessed by the passion Fate will set you free Infertile Chased be the precious When flesh is an enemy Fair weather man (pre-chorus:) Step aside from the way of a better man than you So you fall at his feet he’s the one who betrays you It’s the servants devotion for the decay Stand up (chorus:) There are no flowers on your grave There are no chains There I keep chanting for the forgotten name Why you feel so empty And still have everything It’s fullfilment I’ve got more companions When I’m all alone Flesh is fetching |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory Sadistic forms of new way discipline Like i love myself i love to sin (pre-chorus:) And i want more And i want it low Of course you wont forgive me But i wont crawl Look out for number one I pray on you it has begun Let the night stand one thousand years Longstanding ,everlasting Breathless masquerade I'm your devil in disguise (pre-chorus) (chorus:) Grieve stricken heart Calls upon you Grieve stricken heart My only look you fools I love my misery too I'm the one to see your collapse I'm on the side of destruction On the side of black and i love to sin Mentally transmitted disease Rotten wretched attraction And i love myself (pre-chorus) (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
She's riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder Planets before melting face The keys for the wounded Sinking into underground Please the one who wants it Something is pulling you down It's not the cravings why you need it (pre-chorus) It's a rush hour inside my head Don't wanna share the anguish And I will take it away from you Before you can change it (chorus) That bastard hallucination's pushing me Like a damned I walk over Touch the sky when it's burning red Standing the ground I have chosen Shivering in outer space There's no one who can hear you Getting into different state It's like getting nowhere Gathering all those fears and fails There's no one who can see you Someone is pulling you down It's not the cravings why you need it (pre-chorus) (chorus |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
How does it feel
Blessed to receive Be modest and forgiving How does it feel You can try to hate me But you’re only hurting yourself (chorus:) Drifting in your shady memories Where to go when sorrow breeds Let the fear run through Breath in black and stiffling air All those words they disappear No need to rest it’s too early to die You don’t have to say Why rue for that day When you’ve open up your eyes again Now it’s your fate Face your heart ache You wish to make it unreal (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
For the cold pale women
I leave some of my goodness I leave the veil of sin And let go my dreams (pre-chorus:) Eternity follows me everywhere Your words so hollow won't go anywhere Distant shadows disappears It searches the gate beyond the stars And there i can see her again (chorus:) Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong And i'm alive to be here Is it just an omen Is it me walking blindly I will find the answer When i wake up from my dream (pre-chorus) And there i can kill her again (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
Astonishment when I bend over you creep
Put a noose around my neck Which side I decide it's my time to reap It's your side wicked and deaf Take me to the place I can sleep Wipe away all misery Turn my path away From the mind tearing tragedy Consuming range of vision I can see they decline It's a state of execution I fly free tonight *New moon laughs on it's own Without compassion I crawl through the realms unknown And kneel to the :goddess of the sad man:(4 times) Inhale all mists from the shadows And hide before the dawn Face your mortal horror You won't be reborn Is he a proud man or just a fraud Fooling himself with losers talk Punished to eternal vanity It's thy destiny to cry for purity You infidel slime I grace insanity satisfy my agony I know what my goddess needs I bet there's something wrong inside my psycho creep fire burns within her eyes take me to the deadly ride I remember how she was when she choked on her own pride *Repeat |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory Sadistic forms of new way discipline Like I love myself I love to sin *And I want more And I want it low Of course you wont forgive me But I wont crawl Look out for number one I pray on you it has begun Let the night stand one thousand years Longstanding ,everlasting Breathless masquerade I'm your devil in disguise *Repeat **Grieve stricken heart Calls upon you Grieve stricken heart My only look you fools I love my misery too I'm the one to see your collapse I'm on the side of destruction On the side of black and I love to sin Mentally transmitted disease Rotten wretched attraction And I love myself *Repeat **Repeat |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
Once I was there
Standing outside Looking in Beside my window Smiling face, shattering It's an old man's pride That climbs over understanding It wasn't your child That I was hurting (pre-chorus) And I turn my back to the world Well I don't care What can I say if I see you all as dead (chorus) Under the dying sun it comes Weaving fear but I have none I know that mushroom cloud Won't come very near What do you have to believe in And all the poison you breathe in The crystal heart shatters within Once I was there Standing outside Moving in Inside my window Crying face, shattering Take all that you have And leave the rest now for today It's the old folk's sign That took away for chastity (pre-chorus) (chorus |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
We craved the light from the darkness
It's a morning of misfortune The dawn of a mankind Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak Forget the mature plan We are but humans you'll see (chorus) I can hear the silence See invisible emptiness Tarnish the halo of your guidance And the night is over That women in grief Luxurious Gehenna And what I have become What I have done to you Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak Forget the mature plan We are but humans you'll see (chorus) (chorus |
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from Amorphis - Am Universum (2001)
So many years i've been fading
And closed the doors behind Pay that price if you lost it all The end is not the past recall (pre-chorus:) Waiting for the enclosening darkness And there you will be the light As it's carved in your soul Step out from your mould (chorus:) The captured mind is a captured state But only free will has it's sustain You burn away all you once loved Now it's time to turn away It's all too clear you've been hiding Nothing to tell but lies Feel shame when you distain it all Your stand is not the past recall (pre-chorus) (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
The Devil weds a widow
Death another's leftovers Better to lie on a willows Rest on alder boughs Than upon a widow's bed On a used woman's pillow Sweeter the side of a fence Than a widow's flank Softer the side of a grove Than a widow's beside is The Devil weds a widow The grave one twice wed A widow's hand is rougher Than a dry spruce bough With which she strikes the playful Grabs the one who laughs A widow has had her games And spent a merry evening |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn But how do I feel in my gloomy depths? This is how the lucky feel How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn A black winter day This is how the lucky feel How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn A black winter day No darker than that Gloomier than an autumn night A black winter day |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Many rocks the rapid has
A lot of billows the sea More plentiful are my cares Than cones on a spruce Beard moss on a juniper Gnarls upon a pine bark Knobs upon a fir Husks on a grass-top Boughs on a bad tree. Drag my cares away Carry off my griefs For no horse can draw No iron-shod jerk Without the shaft-bow shaking off The cares of this skinny one The sorrows of this black bird |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Last day brings the grace
For bearers of forbidden name Step into five-fold mace As son as father in a frame Someday fire wipes the rain Fears are frozen tears Whisper things that no one hears Cry now, cry now for me again Tomorrow's pride and pain Why you kneel before my name Crushing my belief And make shape to my relief For who you said your prayers I can't hear them anyway |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
I went to wash at the shore
I went to bathe in the sea And there I, a hen, was lost I, a bird Untimely died Let not my brother Ever in this world Water his war-horse Upon the seashore! Waters of the sea So much blood of mine Fishes of the sea So much flesh of mine Such the death of the young maid End of the fair little hen |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002) | |||||
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
A wave the sound of Noisiu's voice
his singing was ever sweet... Noisiu's grave has now been made and the accompaniment was mournful For him I poured out - hero of heroes, the deadly drink that killed him Dear his short shining hair a handsome man, even very beautiful Dear the grey eyes that women loved fierce they were foes |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002) | |||||
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music, reckon that the kantele Was fashioned by a god Out of [a] great pike’s shoulders From a water-dog’s hooked bones: It was made from the grief Molded from sorrow Its belly out of hard days Its soundboard from endless woes Strings gathered from torments And its pegs from other ills Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense So it not play, will not rejoice at all Music will not play to please Give off the right sort of joy For it was fashioned from cares Molded from sorrow. |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Old folk remember
And those today learn How before their time Life was different here: Without the sun people lived Groped about without the moon With candles sowing was done Planting performed with torches. At the time we lived Without the sunshine Who had covered up our sun And who had hidden our moon? Without the moonlight stumbled With our fists fumbled the land With our hands we sought out roads With hands roads, with fingers swamps We could not live without sun Nor manage without moonlight; Who would seek out the sun Who spy out the moon? Who else if not God The one son of God? |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
In the morning mist
By [the] waning moon Through the woods she set on foot With a sacred blade Cut the berries down Dug up the dreaded mandrake root “Tread my path to summer’s end, This bequest I leave you”, she says “You will see what could be evergreen Turn to copper and fade to gray” By the standing stones Atropine eyes smiled at me Sitting in a sluggish vertigo Sands of time form another dream No love without sacrifice No life springs without decay The final kiss is a wormy one In soil’s cold caress, to rest we’ll lay |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one, As we all gather once again the gods of war summon us... summon us North wind blows to our valley men with ships, with swords, with honor Their horses between flames, their dogs eating enemy childs, Our heavenly father, what is this mortality, do you see my mortal agony Look, I see the shield up high this must be the sign from my lord this can be my death-sentence what a fine day to die Taste of blood comes up high Wind blows hard, our men fall... one by one This oath claims me I must bleed for my generation Strong is the enemy, strong is my sword the hammer is rising I feel their cold steel Now when I leave this world I shall open the mighty oaken gate and we all shall gather once again |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
The calloo's spirits are low
Swimming on the chill water But the orphan's are lower Walking down the village street. The sparrow's belly is chill Sitting on the icy bough But my belly is more chill As I step from glade to glade. Chorus: The dove's heart is cold As it pecks the village rick But I'm colder still As I drink the icy water. (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Sorrow is my bread
And tears I drink as wine Oblivion my happiness Ground under teeth of time For cold be the stone When frost devoured the land Consolation is no gift Of winter's icy hand Upon a crust of snow I'll lay my broken frame What steel and iron won't take I'll give in winter's name No good a sullen soul no use a simple knave No groom for brides of plaited hair This man old and lame If only I could breathe To see the sun of may but still longer are the nights than days As I wither away Came the man of crown With sound of war drums beat Said no sword arm's strong enough Without my two good feet But not overlooked am I In eyes of the maid I'll wed I'll reap the crops of Tuonela My bride's wealth in death |
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from Amorphis - Story 10th Anniversary (2002)
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions that no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And face the everlasting task So lonely to wander So sad to be alone In the mist of the unknown Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true So hard to stand my ground Never again..never again will I fail..will I fail Will you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the wayWill you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the way.. the way |
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from Amorphis - Day of Your Beliefs (2003)
I can hear your yearnings
your anguished cries let the nourishment pass you by as it leaves you without without a trace it leaves you without the scars it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs bitter is the end the end of your cry let your nourishment pass you by it'll leave you without without your faith it'll leave you without your grace it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs |
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from Amorphis - Day of Your Beliefs (2003)
I can hear your yearnings
your anguished cries let the nourishment pass you by as it leaves you without without a trace it leaves you without the scars it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs bitter is the end the end of your cry let your nourishment pass you by it'll leave you without without your faith it'll leave you without your grace it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Tear dimmed remembrance
in the womb of time breath upon me possessed by the passion fate will set you free infertile chaste be the precious when flesh is an enemy fair-weather man (pre chorus) Step aside from the way of a better man than you so you fall at his feet he's the one who betrays you it's the servant's devotion for the decay stand up (chorus) there are no flowers on your grave there are no chains there I keep chanting for the forgotten name why you feel so empty and still have everything it's fulfillment I've got more companions when I'm all alone flesh is fetching (pre-chorus) (chorus) (pre-chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Better it would be for me
And better it would have been Had I not been born, not grown Not been brought into the world Not had to come to this earth Not been suckled for the world If I'd died a three-night-old Been lost in my swaddling band I'd have needed but a span of cloth A span more of wood, But a cubit of good earth Two words from the priest Three verses from the cantor One clang from the bell |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn But how do I feel in my gloomy depths? This is how the lucky feel How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn A black winter day This is how the lucky feel How the blessed man think Like a daybreak in spring The sun on a spring morning Like the flat brink of a cloud Like a dark night in autumn A black winter day No darker than that Gloomier than an autumn night A black winter day |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
How does it feel
Blessed to receive Be modest and forgiving How does it feel You can try to hate me But you're only hurting yourself (chorus) Drifting in your shady memories Where to go when sorrow breeds Let the fear run through Breathe in black and stifling air All those words they disappear No need to rest it's too early to die You don't have to say Why rue for that day When you've open up your eyes again Now it's your fate Face your heartache You wish to make it unreal (chorus) (chorus) |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
I went to wash at the shore
I went to bathe in the sea And there I, a hen, was lost I, a bird Untimely died Let not my brother Ever in this world Water his war-horse Upon the seashore! Waters of the sea So much blood of mine Fishes of the sea So much flesh of mine Such the death of the young maid End of the fair little hen |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Where has the sun gone from us
Where is the moon lost to us The moon will not gleam at all Nor will the sun shine at all Death opens its mouth The son of the Northlander Camo to look, to listen "There beyond the river is hero walking" He took one step and took another To the north's shore he hurried He drew his sword, wrenched the iron Snatched from the sheath the harsh one Upon whose point the moon shone Upon whose hilt the sun flashed Upon whose back a horse stands He uttered a word, spoke thus, "There the sun has gone from you The sun gone and the moon lost" |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music, reckon that the kantele Was fashioned by a god Out of [a] great pike’s shoulders From a water-dog’s hooked bones: It was made from the grief Molded from sorrow Its belly out of hard days Its soundboard from endless woes Strings gathered from torments And its pegs from other ills Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense So it not play, will not rejoice at all Music will not play to please Give off the right sort of joy For it was fashioned from cares Molded from sorrow. |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
In the morning mist
By [the] waning moon Through the woods she set on foot With a sacred blade Cut the berries down Dug up the dreaded mandrake root “Tread my path to summer’s end, This bequest I leave you”, she says “You will see what could be evergreen Turn to copper and fade to gray” By the standing stones Atropine eyes smiled at me Sitting in a sluggish vertigo Sands of time form another dream No love without sacrifice No life springs without decay The final kiss is a wormy one In soil’s cold caress, to rest we’ll lay |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Where have you been,where have you been
my son, my merry son? On the seashore, on the seashore mother, my darling one. And what have you been doing there my son, my merry son? I have been watering my horse mother, my darling one. Why is there blood upon your feet my son, my merry son? My horse stamped with its iron shoe mother, my darling one. Why there is blood upon your sword my son,my merry son? I have stabbed my brother to death mother, my darling one. What now of you, where will you go my son, my wretched son? To other lands to foreign lands my dame, my darling one. When will you be returning home my son, my wretched son? When all the world to judgment comes my dame, my darling one. |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
A bird flew out of Lapland
An eagle from the Northeast One wing ruffled the water And the other swept the sky It's tail skimmed the sea It flutters, it glides It looks, it turns round "Why, man, are you in the sea Fellow, among the billows?" |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
We have to know, we have to see
Religions so many, which one of them are so real, That it makes us to believe ? Crushing the chains of faith To find the way of immortality, We're hiding behind the cross To find shelter, we're searching for the name of god In this maze of hatred The name of god is lost Under the flag of salvation we are cleared this land of pagans Under the cover of Christianity, we stained our hands in blood At these times of anguish The name of God is lost "I saw the coming of the end, Sun stopped its shining, Air is no longer fresh, Then it was too late to realize, that we can't breathe our hate." The lost name of God |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go Answering the questions that no one ever asks Float through the sea of madness And face the everlasting task So lonely to wander So sad to be alone In the mist of the unknown Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true So hard to stand my ground Never again never again will I fail will I fail Chorus: Will you tell me not to wait Tell me to live for today As the flowers wither I will forget my pain Since the stars have shone The devil has shown me the way Repeat chorus |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
As the sun falls down
and the swell crashes into the shore The great warriors of doom and wind ride high Silent is the silence, the only breathing of horses sound, Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us And we all live under the black mark Oh lord, lead us to the paradise My lord, is this the promised land is this your gift Let us fly into your dreams Let us taste some blood Sorrow - the unknown force Hate - respect your enemy Bitterness - shall be forever Silence - nothing left Let us fly into your dreams Let us taste some blood |
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from Amorphis - Chapters (2004)
In the vale where I once listened out for the light
Where the little birds warble The ptarmigans babble And my heart looked about for some rest from its trouble I cast my eyes downward upon the seaside And a fair young girl on the shore I espied Who was sitting and weeping To see the waves leaping And over the skyline sad vigil was keeping. O why are you weeping alone on the shore? Now still from your eyes I can see the tears pour. What sorrow and smart So pierces your heart That even at midnight it will not depart? |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
I can hear your yearnings
your anguished cries let the nourishment pass you by as it leaves you without without a trace it leaves you without the scars it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs bitter is the end the end of your cry let your nourishment pass you by it'll leave you without without your faith it'll leave you without your grace it's a day of the ruins the time of your relief it's a day of the judgements the day of your beliefs |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
Blackness falls on empty calmness
the night is full I've kissed the frozen sweetness the mist around my grief don't let the past wear you down let go of the life that haunts you tonight don't let the silence take the sound alone and isolated ethereal solitude you can keep all your secrets there's no one to hold on to don't let the past wear you down let go of the life that haunts you tonight don't let the silence take the sound don't let the past wear you down let go of the life that haunts you tonight don't let the silence take the sound |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
Kiss the devil's mark
like a self-denial without temptation she suffers from shame prodigious perversions it's her final dimension feel affection for her longings lamentation for no reason why deep mistrust over matter seduce it's will to melt away she's plagued with pain making me insane passionate repulsion kiss the evil inside that you cannot deny smiling at your sufferings feel affection for her longings lamentation for no reason why deep mistrust over matter seduce its will to melt away |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
Nothing is more than too much
I'm waiting for the tarnishing touch you wish for the last kiss goodbye like the child that cannot lie I walk away now from you and your sun it goes down from you as I walk away now from you and from from your sun holding the wounds of the bleeding souls you summon all the restless folk to share the feast of anxiety like the spawn that cannot breed I walk away now from you and your sun it goes down from you as I walk away now from you and from from your sun |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
The god of deception
a man with your face see him still wondering searching for your grave needles called luster it's only a one night stand and you are six feet under dead by your own hand as you lost your destination something drilled holes in your soul it's time to meet your maker raise the relief on your temple as you lost your destination something drilled holes in your soul it's time to meet your maker raise the relief on your temple make them blame themselves regret the deceased until the truth kills it's novelty attrition of their beliefs as you lost your destination something drilled holes in your soul it's time to meet your maker raise the relief on your temple it's the pain that calls the tune those heartbreaking moments mislaid it all all the happiness you can die at your leisure make them blame themselves regret the deceased until the truth kills its novelty attrition of their beliefs |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
I climb to the higher ground
to see what's behind the sun step on the hands made out of clay the hands of stained mortals all there is and all you'll have bless the one who cannot cry there is no night there is no sunlight until you refuse to die I'd let you sleep now but I don't know how I'd let you grieve now but I don't know how I chant the songs of madness to be the chosen one still all these bleeding wounds cannot be cured by sadness all there is and all you'll have bless the one who cannot cry there is no night there is no sunlight until you refuse to die I'd let you sleep now but I don't know how I'd let you grieve now but I don't know how |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
There's no existing misery
that just fades away faint hearted mindless tracks through the wicked world the world of today and all the people wait too long makes them hate too much foolishness fills this empty space misgiving all the fortune misgiving all the luck stay clear of the killing goodness the greed of the dying gods can't you feel the raging darkness the eyes stare at your heart I see you dancing with the doomed backwards to the womb the spiral of life comes to the end darkness will descend it will descend and all the people wait too long makes them hate too much foolishness fills this empty space misgiving all the fortune misgiving all the luck and all the people wait too long makes them hate too much foolishness fills this empty space misgiving all the fortune misgiving all the luck |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
Feel the ground
the mourning soil close your eyes and lay confront the passage of time eternity which you cannot betray barter away this haziness down to earth this sparkling distress thereafter you calling me hallowed barter away this haziness down to earth this sparkling distress thereafter you calling me hallowed sadness eclipsed passing your heart calling out the shadows from the dark you still believe that your life was empty and now all that has gone barter away this haziness down to earth this sparkling distress thereafter you calling me hallowed barter away this haziness down to earth this sparkling distress thereafter you calling me hallowed down to earth this sparkling distress down to earth this sparkling distress |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
I hear you
hear your worthless speech unheard and sensational feeding my comprehension let me see beyond all additional show me something real something low and dramatical when all this sinful glittery is still too much to see taste the death from my hand cleanse your senses take the death from my hands please your senses I fear you planetary misfortune who will pray for my hallucinations I'm not attuned when you fold your hands it's a wave of the salvation and their slaves are their kings futility of this creation stand before the illusionist the man of misapprehension taste the death from my hand cleanse your senses take the death from my hands please your senses |
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from Amorphis - Far From The Sun (2006)
I let you take
this breeding sorrow you're too close to see as the pride inside of you is smashed to smithereens this fire hunts the soulless and the weak bursting out the madness in me and through all the that fear I have to keep I still pretend to be real you can't resist all those fools beside you spread your arms and share this hatred with me as it smashes your soul to smithereens this fire hunts the soulless and the weak bursting out the madness in me and through all the that fear I have to keep I still pretend to be real |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
Free flowing water
The air is so warm It breathes for you It sees through you before the storm And if the lake can't Be the sister To the moon To the river To the sun The leaves are falling Cutting the moonlight They brake the waves Gazing to the stars And if the lake can't Be the sister To the moon To the river To the earth I know I wouldn't be strong Wouldn't be brother to the moon I know I wouldn't be strong Wouldn't be sister to the woods Here is another soul Another path Another God Here is another soul Another path Here is another God I know I wouldn't be strong Wouldn't be brother to the moon I know I wouldn't be strong Wouldn't be sister to the woods |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
A beautiful day when it's over
Clouds high up in the sky A beautiful day when it's over Nobody will bury me In this wicked world the war I live In this wicked world to war I go Here's my good life, best I ever have How did I get here? Beautiful yard, trees against the sky There is an empty opening They only live for one summer This world is too good for me In this wicked world the war I live In this wicked world to war I go Here's my good life, best I ever have How did I get here? In this wicked world the war I live In this wicked world to war I go Here's my good life, best I ever have How did I get here? |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
I will never sleep alone (never without you)
Whatever you say to me I already know If I said something to you You would take those words There's so much power in those words (You don't know) You don't know nothing yet About the dreams I have I will make you sleep (You don't know) You don't know nothing yet About the dreams I have Sleep is a house for lovers You will be the mistress (of that house) You will be given the wide belt And the big key to the gate If I said something to you You would take those words There's so much power in those words |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
Fate changed
Life healed like a wound How does the kind of life heal That leaves such a scar I cover myself, I uncover myself Now I know how to do things No longer will I listen to any talk Now I know and it's working Everything hurts inside of me Out from the frozen lake She finally grew into her full might She grew from a tiny thing On this lake as I drove there to meet her Now I know how to do things No longer will I listen to any talk Now I know and it's working Everything hurts inside of me I cover, uncover, I cover myself I cover, uncover, I cover myself I cover, uncover, I cover myself I cover, uncover, I cover myself Now I know how to do things No longer will I listen to any talk Now I know and it's working Everything hurts inside of me Now I know how to do things No longer will I listen to any talk Now I know and it's working Everything hurts |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
I, I woke up
The God of fire woke me up At the edge of burning ground I'm, I'm damned To put out the fire My hand is a trap for that fire It won't surprise me in my dream My dream wakes me up, instantly Without a word my hand is a trap Trap for that fire I, I drown it with water I kill it on the spot It won't have time to run far It won't get away from m |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
That's what my sister says
And during that day Came spring and summer Oh, when did you fly here? It was you I found The same flesh and blood (The same flesh and blood) (My flesh) It was you that I found (My blood) It was you that I met One just like me, same flesh and blood (My flesh) It was you that I found (My blood) It was you that I met One just like me, my flesh and blood A hard place, this world And nowhere else Does one make so many mistakes What's done is done Done and gone The same flesh and blood (The same flesh and blood) (My flesh) It was you that I found (My blood) It was you that I met One just like me, same flesh and blood (My flesh) It was you that I found (My blood) It was you that I met One just like me, my flesh and blood (My flesh) (My blood) You're the one just like me Same flesh and blood (My flesh) It was you that I found (My blood) It was you that I met You're the one just like me My flesh and blood |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
You have a woman here
One made of stone You made her for yourself You piled her up Made a stone face Stone fingers and eyes There's no room beside her For another woman A live and breathing one It makes me sad to see You have made a woman Out of rocks and wood Grasses and tree bark To lie beside you, beside you There's no room beside her For another woman A live and breathing one There's no room beside her For another woman A live and breathing one (No!) I made that stone woman For you to see me and say I am here (I am here) (I am here) |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
In my dream smoke followed me
As on fire the whole world had been To the yard I walked in Up the frontstep and opened the door Cranes flew over to the North As I walked on dry And passed through a grove Yellow with flowers They had been expecting me They said so and I believed Im my dream smoke came to me And we became as one Cranes flew over to the North As I walked on dry And passed through a grove Yellow with flowers Cranes flew over to the North As I walked on dry And passed through a grove Yellow with flowers I am smoke I am smoke |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
Spring came in one day
The clouds in front of the moon Tore themselves to shreds So that two moons passed in one night Winter went and spring came And the clouds tore off their clothes Washed them in the rivers of rain And naked in the dark they stayed Waited for their cloaks to dry They darkened the face of the moon They would have tried to kill it If they could have reached that far As it spied on the clouds Winter went and spring came And the clouds tore off their clothes Washed them in the rivers of rain And naked in the dark they stayed Waited for their cloaks to dry They've taken off in the rivers of heaven They've taken off They've taken off |
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from Amorphis - Eclipse (2006)
No longer I was breathing
No more bleeding Inside the urn Under a soil and black stone Under a soil and black stone And I was listening And felt no pain To the sunrise to east I'll leave my grief To the stars' shine Casting my eyes by the long nights Blessed I was To rest then Inside the urn Under a soil and black stone And I was listening And felt no pain To the sunrise to east I'll leave my grief Leave my grief Soil upon me So fragile As a veil Without secrets The staring Space so wide And I was listening And felt no pain To the sunrise to east I'll leave my grief Leave my grief Inside the urn Under a soil and black stone |
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from Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
What was denied from poor
I thought to be riches I run for them there and then It made me take my due To death I'd plunge with joy My happiness to claim I am prepared to face the war Under the black soil I'm righteous if I so desire Until I reveal my worth And take to myself What was denied from me I stalked them in their celebrations I delved into the words I aimed at the highest of the high And decided it's mine to take Wont to crawl I was To cringe and fawn A servant on hours of day But a holder of nocturnal sway What was denied from poor I thought to be love I run for it here and now It makes me take my due |
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from Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
Still searching for my way
The right way to be Still pondering What I've done I'm still thinking what I've said Still finding from within And all that I know Is still not enough I'm being held by the one Shadow tormenting my soul The curving neck of the swan The slow turning of a bird's head So white its plumes and feathers Its breast like the moon in water Silent and tranquil it moves On the river in the calm I wander back on familiar roads I sense the marks I left on the hills I see the cuts and wounds of my deeds They make me muse on life Up the hill and the mountain I look back, I look down There flows the River of Death And here the wind in my hair |
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from Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
On his trail the stones they grew
He was lead astray Forces strange he had to face Magic unseen When he asked, he was not answered But he would not yield What he asked for was not given A shape to his dream To a whirling mass of water Mountains of high His desire he spoke out To claim his due A shadow moved in Louhi's mirror The fairest maid of them all Restless mind found her to his liking But the queen wanted more Louhi spoke in riddled tones of three things to achieve Find and catch the devil's moose and bring it here to me Seize the stallion born of fire, harness the flaming horse He captured and bound the moose, he tamed the golden horse Still remained the one final test Hunt the bird from the stream of death |
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from Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
Only one can make me do my good deeds
Only one and the shadow of that one Only one can make me do my evil deeds Only one and the shadow of that one Her alone I will lend my ear to Only her I will obey Her alone I will always want to serve Only her I will defy Only one can make me wage all my wars Only one and the shadow of that one Only one can make me do all my deeds Only one and the shadow of that one My understanding under her advice My understanding under her advice Birth of my knowing under her advice My desires I fulfil by revolting |
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from Amorphis - Silent Waters (2007)
I am of crimson blood
Nought shall hold me Mirror mine the dark of night Reflects me in water Ablaze are my eyes My soul consumed by woe My braids weaved by the wind An image, black in my mind Leave I must now with haste Me who tires of quiet life Me whose path leads to war Me who fears no death I, I yearn for more I yearn to rise I yearn for everything I yearn for you I yearn to rise |