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from Metal Militia : A Tribute To Metallica [omnibus] (1994)
You just stood there screaming,
fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can rattles the most The sound of your voice must soothe you Hearing only what you want to hear, and knowing only what you've heard You you're smothered in tragedy You're out to save the world Misery You insist that the weight of the world, Should be on your shoulders Misery There's much more to life than what you see My friend of Misery You still stood there screaming No one caring about these words you tell My friend before your voice is gone One man's fun is another's hell These times are sent to try men's souls, But something's wrong with all you see You you'll take it on all yourself Remember, Misery loves company Misery You insist that the weight of the world, Should be on your shoulders Misery There's much more to life than what you see My friend of Misery You just stood there screaming My friend of Misery |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Jackal, aches for pain beyond me
Bestiality beckons - The anger set free For there is no pain greater than thine For there is no gain but the fury inside Desolated since derived Torn screaming from the gaping wound Always be cherished The grandeur of melancholy Outward reprisal Swear by your throne Fallen words shall grieve thee The grandeur of melancholy Frailty, thy name is weakness Vengeance, thy name is pain Storm through the still glowing night Ember eyes beyond reason shall see Flee from the safety of the sheltering sky See all but logic, so vengeance shall be The grandeur of melancholy burning... oh burning Charge into uncertainty's promised land Always and never Your are the nail Cursed, cursed Oh essence of the night guide me Cursed, cursed Oh sweet revenge heal me Frailty, thy name is weakness Vengeance, thy name is pain The nail Jackal, aches for pain beyond me The storm that now grabs me Is the storm of my soul For there is no pain greater than mine For there is no gain but the fury inside Once so bereaved And ever so suppressed Charge and split up the anger Wake up the jackal Let out his wrath Always and never He spoke of his pain Always and never You are the nail Always be cherished The grandeur of melancholy Always and never You are the nail |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Time conceals itself in error
When all is turned to lie Oh blissful rapture, flee from me The liquid light shares its grandeur The spring of Eden shall never run dry Creation holds its breath Tomorrow is no friend of mind Drench logic, drench judgement Awake, every sense is new For we know no tomorrow And yesterday appears in fragmented form What now must burn Shall with newfound strength emerge Drift my eyes Bacchi gates, bid me welcome Drench logic Drench judgement So drink from the fountain everlasting...drown With these eyes, the land can no longer deceive us He cried into nothing with the voice of his soul New logic brought upon the remains of his land The land deceives Bacchi gates, bid me welcome Drench logic, drench judgement Awake, every sense is new For we know no tomorrow And yesterday appears in fragmented form |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Lethe,
Give me to drink of the fluid that disintegrates And lend me the sweet balm and blessing Of forgetfulness, empty and strong Hold me near, unravel the stars As I speed through the heavens, I speed through the night For you are my blade and my rope You are my Lethe (You are my all) In currents of cobalt you storm through my heart To sever, to puncture the memories that burn Let sweep through the arteries in sharp stabs of pain Your talon-like fingers to kill me again Steal me, invade me, and charge me again (And again, and again, and again) For I burn and I shudder Burn with each movement of So, cleansed through a floodlight I appear, renewed and reforged Caressed by the sweet balm and blessing Of forgetfulness, empty and strong Lethe, Hold me near, my one friend and guide As I drown through your fingers, Drown through your love For you are the life that I hate You are my, you are my... Drag me down in passionate sighs With the ocean above me and flames in my eyes And grant my a life I can live Without... Take me away... Take me away... From the life that I hate |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Wings of fire burn the night
Slumbering eyes their flares shall greet Let the past cling on its futile self And may the present rush for the future's glare Grave to cradle Cradle to grave So infinity clash Grave to cradle Cradle to grave In twofold matter Two forces gone full circle Never shall one of the other grow fond Join me, the time is upon us He spoke and in fury we flew Far beyond the limits of time Disown the borders of life itself Crafted and moulded all in one form Split up and scattered in the world that we own Grow towards me Beknight the strength of the symbiosis Backwards striving Counterparts with different eyes have observed Of time unconditional Grave to cradle Cradle to grave So infinity clash Grave to cradle Cradle to grave In twofold matter Tell of days to come Tomorrow remembered Your yesterday, my future Recollection of the day Delusions cast where dead trees sway The sabre that separates Is the candle that burns both ends Born from death you now confront me Back to death with my life I take you Die more with each movement of mine |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
We are the outstretched fingers
that seize and hold the wind The strangeness of awakening In an oh, so silent world Breathlessly waiting for the first proud beams of light As the hours grow longer and the shadows never fall My sky has forsaken me My desperation grows Bring me the light In the fires that never end The dawn will never come Punish my heaven That's right You will suffer my punishment We have arrived at the outermost crossroads The charge of cosmos at our atmospheric skies will cause our fall Oh, our downfall If I had wings, would I be forgiving? If I had horns, would there be flames to shy my smile? Hymns of loss are heard from the masses in the streets Praising the last of days I punish Bring me the night In the fires that never end The dawn will never come Punish my Heaven The charge of cosmos charging us from unearthly distance I challenge the universe It's the choice between Heaven... and Hell My soul bears all the weight of mountains as mankind weaves its silent end Can there be no forgiveness? I curse the heaven above me as the light sinks through my outstretched fingers, fading in my open arms Make each tear in my bare hands a lifetime in Hell On this last day of light when our autumn leaves fell And as heaven itself commands me our of its lair I fear not My face lined with darkness, I'll go! I'll go! |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Strangelove
Dance the dividing line We shall burn the earth We shall burn our lives For the tallest tree shall battle most The wind it leaves the week behind The storm that you've denied me Shall force your world to fall Your castles made to tremble With foundations based upon a lie The storm that you've denied me Sweep the undivided truth His mind shall not of thoughts be tempted Nor words can heal his bleeding scars We must burn our minds Colours collide with the world of his beliefs Bring back the storm of distant years Tumbling, trembling as there is no waking up There is no dividing line as logic now fails Stream upwards, rage against them all Speak of words hidden in your song Mere mortals strive for length in numbers There is no dividing line As the writer defies the empty page The empty mind its feed shall seek Pass on to the frail and mindless Now what sanity discards The storm shall sweep the weak of heart And tear your castles down Crush the very foundations On which your faith is based Torn across the dividing line |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
The gallery
Come and dance through my vanity's halls Welcome to my exhibition Ornaments fall The fate of my art, condemned And the creative seed That grows to the tune of the harvest song Embody my lifelong passion Intertwine with the structures of my art Those empty frames staring at me One lonely portrait covers the lovestarved canvas In honour of the birthless rebellion within me Every picture holds a tale Every shade tells of a thousand words The artistry of living chaos Is pictured in the poets tears Because everything burns The final concept Is all but a thought away Be gone, you foul enchantress of decay! My thoughts and words will come to right In my chamber where chaos conveys Kneel down to my desire Deep in the vaults of my carnal agony Emptiness! Orchestration through colours The gallery To never return to my guidance Burning my art |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery (1995)
Devoid of life
Far from the strengthening force From which it feeds The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee Behold the answers that darkness sets free Freedom beyond the enslavement Never let loose upon the world Con we forgive the enchanter that Dance beyond the skyline dark The stains of fire, the one begotten ancestor To one of far greater strength Starvation divine For he shall stand no taller than the flames That is his feed Let us not go gently Into the endless winternight We are but strangers Acting on our fragmentary perception Perception is the lie of the misled Things are not what they appear So swear by your deception There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame Quench the desire to reign With fear of its dawning Appears now in sight The one brooding warning Stand clearer than night Devoid of life Far from the strengthening force From which it feeds The unbroken silence swear allegiance to thee Behold the answers that darkness sets free Freedom beyond the enslavement Never let loose upon the world Con we forgive the enchanter that Dance beyond the skyline dark There shan't be fire, nor shall the flame Quench the desire to reign With fear of its dawning Appears now in sight The one brooding warning Stand clearer than night |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Outsmart the fever.
And take us farther from. The killing life in capsules, A life that can't belong. If I wake up dead to world, With the helm at my command. The reaching out of this.. Oh, faced tomorrow. In the eleventh hour, beckoned closer. Now as nightfall sends its grace. Oh, cue to enter, the insatiable ideal. Slam it shut. But the portal pounding lingers. What it is. Is time undone? I cannot falter in the security of labor. Was I supposed to believe? Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh, the Auction? Oh where my life.. Where did I sign? Did I miss... The Auction? Went the half mile, Wondered when the resolution would come. Life became to solid, Diluted by the essence of denial. Caught in fire's eye. Oh the self and the filter that is I. My lip was venom. Words formed in my mouth, And hid beneath the tongue. Never to be.. Never to be seen.. Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh the Auction. Oh where my life.. Where did I sign? Did I miss, the Auction? Was I supposed to believe? Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, Oh, the Auction? Oh where my life, Where did I sign? Did I miss, the Auction? Oh where my life! Where did I sign? Oh did I miss, the Auction? Where my life.. Where did I sign.. Did I miss.. The Auction, where my life went under the club.. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Waiting for the day to end..
The silence came too late. I turn my eyes inside, Close the lids, deny the world to enter. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down. Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. All the thoughts that you defined. Tread the light again. Take the pain away. It feels as though time as tears, Never seem to end. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down. Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. As I hold you, and I try to make sure. These treasures that I hide. These treasures that I hide.. 'Cause I'm turning the desires down, Again rose the monstrous of hours in between. Taint the thought, the trauma born inside. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Where were the eyes that followed
How could they've found? These misery's merchants Struck the message deep "We have come to stay" Dogs fled there in the dark of his path Feared him as once they all did Like a ghost in daylight On an overcrowded street He wishes To be something he is not Like a shadow at midnight That originate in air He wishes to release Deep in the back it had caught him The anchor they threw at his life Oh these misery's merchants Dragged through life as a burden Rushed off to his cage of glass To open the single window A means of escape, out in the open There are still holes in these walls Puking information into the unwanting Probing the last hope of defense So he plugged up the holes Shut the outside window In doing that, madness payed a visit ...and then suddenly in mid-thought Escape was a factor and as from inside Pushing out were words Through fingers came uncovering Revealing the truth of him there in the dark... Skin began to crawl as they neared him Is all pleasure release? Oh these misery's merchants Saw the message clear "It is time to pay" Like A Ghost In Daylight On an overcrowded street |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Set against these hardest hours
Anger paled, for in this fear the theft of privacy We all see it break sometimes see it tear us apart that which left behind screams out loud this night So much is asked in silence Except not and you'll find Thousand miles from the nearest truth Rotating, Entangled - I continue not to heal Another No-Night waits its turn So I call upon My freecard To postpone If time was one with many faces Which one would call to me? Where all our paths in one now end That with the power to gather the mislead now will lead them all astray So push it ever further To unsuspecting dark Build that second layer For the hours to take fast A rest from the giving Like a heart between beats Greater than the need for community The need for the right solitude Come to know that outrage is inevitable Though many try, an escape is unsuccessful In the midst of a nerve-night The victim of soulkill True self is mere toture Death rides these nerves Another No-Night waits its turn So I call upon My freecard To postpone |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given And now November morning Will be taken asunder The shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging Dug into the undiscovered Of a life, a pest, a plague Falling back into the arms - no, never Admitting to a life alone - no There are sparks inside Outside looking back - no The lie never stopped ... Cling to the wave, it cried And onward to the night Expecting not and nothing In the presence of a lie The deeper that it dug, the more now had to go Surrender was a fact and the room was decorated No, no, no - the lie never stopped What late forgotten night To emptiness has given ... The strangers Oh, may they come In ignorance's disguise So in the dark walking To leave the last of times Knee-deep in desperation To fill the gap behind ... Boldly tread the night forever November thoughts are right - oh, never Taken from the fall - no Frightened by the key, but the trail behind the house Felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped Found at loss for words, now words aren't enough Someone told A vacancy was open Someone laughed The silence here was broken Dug up to make room The room which you furnished and graced There is no vacancy The least can fill the fountain The most will flood the mold |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
neither here nor there
in our unity of twine solitary sanity traded in for life once we crawled into the artificial night all was left, and i arrived on your time on your time ...and so young and brave i was there on your time... .. -there in the collision wish answers could arrive was i kept up for this? did the physical emotion break the fall of sleep? i'd never thought of things that you would say i could never tell if what you said were lies lies .. it's in here eating it's down there drinking be with me not against me bear with it love against me i've never known if there was enough time i could never tell if it was done just right- i've never known i've never known i've never known if there was enough time could never tell could never tell could never tell if it was done just right an icicle thrust to soothe the disorder between the eyes where the well is the deepest the deepest well -i've never known if there was enough time i could never tell if it was done just right ... so unease carried words that spoke of no matter was i held here for this? did the path of devotion stray from what you felt? i've never seen things here in this light i could never tell if your touch was deeper than skin- .. i live on your time once i thought that what no time could heal was here in me, but time proved me wrong deeper still, toward an outward pride no more lies, i'm here on your time |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
upon our evening when the sun fired blanks
there rode the sickness out of our sight carried torches burned out long before it's time among these ruins where our love to be found ambition falters when no better is to be known cling to the unfounded pride death to our belonging and our ministy of two set the higher standard and to a greater fall descend slaves to one another and to others be it not soothing be temptation force the conscience to a halt caused a high vibration a tender light to be part of you the two-way escape |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Gentle storm, thundering silence
Inferior force, uncontrolled calm Vital unlife, logic, chaos, logic The tone of which his birth ascend The beat that of a heart descend Repeating in the infinite An insight made it clear Order stormed the surface Where chaos set the norm Had there always been balance? ...Surely not Therein lies the beauty It was solid Yet everchanging It was different Yet the same So I starve myself for energy The song around his soul will bend The notes that in this hole will melt Crawl out of science A dreamland if you dare Disorder clawed the boundaries We're ordered to stand clear Was it always different ...Never the same? Therein lies the beauty It was solid Yet everchanging It was different Yet the same So I starve myself for Energy As there was no witnesses There was nothing to be told As nothing could be grasped The story could unfold Superimposed on the elements of anger Fear, anxiety | hate | despair | remorse So break from all that fear hold fast Exposed, now turn to all you lack Let echoes be the answers Return from all the screams Wordless now the last attack So silent it hurts to listen Was it always solid To never change? Therein lies the beauty It was solid... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
Faintly arisen | Tenderly torn
Dream like decision, unconsciously born Firm in conviction yet tempt me they can deny me of trust and the demon i hide A drive to be less then the fortunate a dream in the casket of Eden Crave that which you do not desire cling tightly to your deepest fear I rose greatest monument again and again I bear greatest treasure of time and word Treason split on the loneliest of graves Desperation dealt the losing hand again Wherein lie the purpose of the day? Is there return in sadness? Does your ceiling differ much from mine where we see each other Here in this light Is that pillow more then a frame that holds the chaos fast? Now his hand a fist gain control Silence fell and eyes now widened filling up, the strange collapsing capable of the ending, froze in the tracks brought to a bitter halt On the floor it seems the steps are showing left a print just like it did in me What has been and will be never care cause i was in between As i said one with one foot in loneliness You hide here in me |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
there were words of lust in these arms
arms of the stranger and there in silence though were words words of no milder so in thinking of that madness that ravaged the thoughts in the loneliest of (hours) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now the demand i get from excellence the void i felt from answering not only an addiction it generated need in these endless nights of freezing my weight on the other side, the other (side) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol now .. i resist without control feel the thorns of uncontrol claws that set in sleeps' december let loose on the verge talked to me as strangers once did the tone was set for winter sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper ... i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of alcohol feel the thorns of uncontrol now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns the death that craved no life now ended in return, in return drifting uncontrolably within the night sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999)
there were words of lust in these arms
arms of the stranger and there in silence though were words words of no milder so in thinking of that madness that ravaged the thoughts in the loneliest of (hours) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now the demand i get from excellence the void i felt from answering not only an addiction it generated need in these endless nights of freezing my weight on the other side, the other (side) i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of uncontrol now .. i resist without control feel the thorns of uncontrol claws that set in sleeps' december let loose on the verge talked to me as strangers once did the tone was set for winter sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper ... i resist without control i resist without control i resist without control now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns of alcohol feel the thorns of uncontrol now feel the thorns of uncontrol feel the thorns the death that craved no life now ended in return, in return drifting uncontrolably within the night sweet uncontrol beyond proportions into the night so strike me deeper |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
A bolt of blazing gold,
Lifted from the horizon's edge Another radiant dawn sends new hope, Avowed my hearty pledge My yearning to be part Of nature's truthful solitude Of wisdom's inner light That shines in mystic multitude The guiding source within, So few of us will ever know And few will ever climb The great world-tree from which we've grown But those who seek will find The rhythm that vibrates high and far And rearrange the cosmic threads, The pattern of the Weave of Stars A bolt of blazing gold, A sunfire in zenith hurled Oh, wingless skydancer, Rejoiced upon the warmth unfurled What wonders do you hold ensnared With your mighty heart? What secrets may be mine To brother-share as we depart? Of richest emerald forged, My soul still rises, longingly From inferno's winding caverns, Through dark air soaring, restlessly If silence was enough! No words can grasp my starkest thoughts No language known to man Portrays my naked sentiment A bolt of blazing gold, Swallowed by the waveless sea The ocean-winds set sail, In breeze towards their destiny On solarbeams they rode, White sea-gull-wings in harmony For a moment's startling glimpse A sienna-burnt tranquility Oh father of the coloured sky, Unwear thy robe of shadowhood Let nature's soul once clash again 'Neath blooming glades of goldenwood We're the ones who seek To dance to fallen serenades The magic hymns of gold; As softly sung, the sunlight fades ...Away Of richest emerald forged, My soul still rises, longingly From inferno's winding caverns, Through dark air soaring, restlessly If silence was enough! No words can grasp my starkest thoughts No language known to man Portrays my naked sentiment A world of silent stone, As frozen in the nightly sky In heaven's dark recesses laid, No living soul draws nigh For seconds all is still, No moonlight heaves throughout the dark Nor do the heavens breathe, No dryads wreathe within the dark Within my dark domain... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
"Let me die", I cried as the curtain fell
And I stared in woe at the world before me My weeping eyes could not bear to tell Or the shattered kingdom in ruins before me What became of the lands that were? A pearl in the nest of memories Forever gone...departed by the minds of man Scavengers, feeding on your mother's blood Parasites of life, with my heart I condemn Your ignorant ways Like the leaves of the high trees I wither and fall, Borne by autumnal winds To my funeral hall I'm all alone in the grip of the silent sadness I have been told to honour life And what therein I'll find But if all I see is darkness, Let me die and wake up blind As the gleaming blade before me, Singing lullabies of loss Whispering "Death is your redeemer To the Paradise you've lost" Mankind, evoker of inferno Let me burn your honoured Crown of Creation And dethrone you to ashes for aeons to come Why should I stay here where I do not belong? Of weakness burns my within...And empty shell I've lost the way to the sanctity I need I'll greet the dawn that brings no life, No frail beams of sun to cleanse the black night My mournful roam has ended I hide in the shadows white binding my time, Sheltered from this world which disorderly rhyme With the fury of damnation Once I held in my hand the starlight of Eden And the white sky lay open in a soul that was free (But the years flew so fast as the shadows were cast And I woke up one morning with no reason to be) I'm all alone in the shade of the nameless Sorrow I'm all alone within a shadowfire of fear Take me home to whence I came Where I'll find light to feed my flame of life Or my heart will die without a whisper of hope... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
[Henriksson, Johansson]
As false as our minds our eyes refuse to see They claw for the falseness in me From where all life springs anew We are cleansed through the crystal fire Fill me with sound, fill me with hatred Let my life bring life to the soil The soil beneath my feet Messenger of pain sailing silence Commander of my sorrow riding rage Infinity is eternal - never born so it may never die Colours speak my name Through the crowns I am baptised in the First gnawing rays from a blackened sun In the name of my blood I curse thee Shelter me under the trees Spread your twilight wings My broken body is dripping with sin Your skin so delicate Your undemanding bliss will carry me far I bid farewell to this godforsaken land Nevermore shall I return I join with the riders on the horizon For they are my blood! For they are my saviours! They bring me hatred, bring me fire They take me down to the land I know not Then crush me - Take me down Then they build me once more again Slayer of my anger sailing silence The angel of my lust She is tasting shame |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Force of anger, Mordant senseless wrath
Manifold is the Terminus of oneself Invocate ye lord of the Left-behinds Preserve a seat for the weakened minds Reserving that limpid yet so used Veil of deceiving hostility Close now is the threshold of insanity Neverending force of hatred, Fear, them darkened spheres Deprecated existence, Manifest of darkness be Manifest for unspeakable actions Fire sermons to condemn those fallen Fallen from pride, fallen from the manger Father, lend to me thy wisdom, Thy wisdom of old Now all is clear: "Pierce the side of the neverending blindness Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten Father of Light, Father of Darkness -I will not implore to no master of thine!" Everflaming Intemperate malice in the extreme Forms are twisted, Everfalling Crescent skies, the wait, The calling Eyes unseeing, Stars rearrange Tears of our blood running from the runes Misgivings fall silent Excitement stir up the spheres My sweet Norderland To reap the fields of ignorance and lies Trails of omission swept away Never be found again Release of agony So Hebulous, yet ominous is the Terminus Flames of Hatred burn me Firesoul - Hear me, Blinded fool -Take heed to the forgotten twilight Now kneel to the omniscient twilight Crimson Winds, Ornaments in the dark The weep of pain, Drowned by tears Drowned by tears of Northerly blood Runes of force, Fulfillment of a sombre ordeal I know "Pierce the side of the neverending blindness Then thereby be it stated in the name of the forgotten Father of Light, Father of Darkness -I will not implore to no master of thine!" Everflaming Everlasting lust for wisdom and for solitude Coming of dawn, Knowledge in the image of flesh Unbridled to the world I wander now Light cast upon this place of mysteries Truth hurts for my tongue is venomous Unbound yet bound for disbelief Darkness, I grasp your every nerve Everflaming now and forevermore |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Beautiful, oh web of stars
That looms amid the sons of Earth Enfolds me in thine sylvan arms That unity's vehement charms Befalls a weary son of Earth Beautiful, in tears bereaved In sylphlike sadness, left to bleed Bewailed upon a bed of thorns, Impaled, a heart, on sorrow's horns A seeker's ode to thee I read My tearful soul thy mourning heed The stream that leaves thine open wounds; A life-blood licked by hungry hounds No verdant balm to soothe our wounds Wherefore betwixt two worlds I'm torn Ere thralled by sin I'll die - forlorn This slumbering world of shallow fools May one day clasp the cosmic Hell Lest journeymen by Earthen rules Bring forth the truth for which Angels fell To the earth and sky and sea I call that thou may answer me; Father of Nature, of beast and mankind, My soul for thy love, my tears for thy pain ...An Eden in fire, What lives shan't remain For when I live under a different sky, Beneath the ethereal hills the clouds passing by Remember the time of which I cried to be part Remember these words, for they have flown From my heart. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Labyrinth of time...
Mine alone for now and ever more (I'm all alone...) ...And I flew Above sepulchral monoliths, Nebulously dancing beneath the dew (Of morning, in ye twilightland of old) Abiding teardrops borne by thorns, Thine fragments I twine true (In mourning, stream adorned in rage untold) ...Flow adorned in rage untold Eternal - forever - more And they'll forever grow And hold in heart what springs anew From the shadowsglades unwitnessed Which light the flames From deep within where we all grew ...Everlasting ember-glow Labyrinth of Time, In harmony confined Thus the dark heat from Beyond the stars Engulfed a world of fear still robed in ice A throne in fire dies... Pulsating through the skies He who wore the gown Shall drown the "Reich of tears" in cries Enthroned in fire dies... A kingdom's last demise And I know... The ardent hearth midst life and death Won't end my journey morrowless (I won't laugh in mirth all sorrowless) Come, fly afloat on a wave of emotions, Of crestfallen scorn Oh, this my whirlwind of darkness A tide I once lulled but alas now withdrawn Now...hand in hand with sorrow Towards the still, perpetual seas Into the tranquil depths of solitude In bliss my spirit flees Through the wind I will go To my twilightland, alone Where sanctuary is mine Within my throneworld, my labyrinth of time And he who is the God Of an infinite shape and faces, Ever weaving fates of life Upon the pattern of his traces In the Golden Dawn of Winter He'll stand risen from the night In serenity all solemn, Clad in moonlight's milky white Through the wind I will go To my twilightland, alone Where sanctuary is mine Within the hands of this labyrinth of time Labyrinth of time... Eternal - forever - more Time...infinity of mind Divinity of life Labyrinth of time In harmony confined Burn - upon my Might - by my Command - into the fire Your throne of fire fell... Bestowed upon your Hell Burnt shall be your "Might", and your Command shan't drown my fire (...My Faeryland Forgotten) ...Mine alone for now and ever more |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Nightfall!
A shimmertrace of divinity lost In the beckoning midnight vault (We are) lulled within the wake Of a cold November's nightfall Nightfall... A communion of life and eternity of races Scattered in the depths of the universal dark Above us minds went sailing free And blossomed in the vast nocturnal sea Paragon of beauty Oh, spark of Creation We march to the rhythm of the Night Starborn flew the Dove of Man In the eventide of life Whose wonders crowned Our yesterdays with light Fire - Earth - Water - Wind Fire - Earth - Water - Wind We lived beneath the waning moon of truth And danced in hunger for the Powermind Like the dark to a dying Flame; Sweepingly embracing its grieving remains Defiantly blazing the black that awaits Counting the days 'til the new Age awaits Times' lustful cyclones arise Piercing the fairest of Skies In elysian awakening of spiritual glory We see what our history belies Meadows of Asphodel Burning in the hunted dawn Tragedies die among fiery flames As the firewood of Wisdom is sawn Our Guardians were blind My lightbringer ephemeral Within the heart of all A cold and dusky melancholy night as ever sullied the fair face of light Whose seeds of life they grind To dust, of vapour is our mind ...Evermore Paragon of beauty Oh, spark of Creation We march to the rhythm of the Night Nightfall by the shore of time A tidal wave of fire and woe Swept away with the last of life The core of the enigma as bestowed Our crystal spirits melt to flow The mountainside along To join as one with seas of old In symbiotic songs: "Communion... Within the Oversoul Of the Universe" We are but fragment of Eternity Pale shadows of what we'll once be In life's outer regions I will find the foremost Tranquility Chanting the odes of Magonia A soulstream in flight to the Otherworld ...To the Otherworld |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
[Sundin, Johansson, Jivarp]
This is a tale long to live but alas so short to tell by the wind and by time, by everything that flees A torment of my liking: exploring extremes All thoughts secluded as fear stalks its blooded soil In the winding path where a chain now rattles With links merely death can break Stains of pride - derelict In feverish visions of agonising light Pulsating rhythms unpure So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos So scream out to the skies: Of Chaos and Eternal Night Never is the dark any threat to my existence Comforting ravens claws grip the stars that fell tonight THe stealth of infinite beauty Nevertheless heaven fell tonight Racing along with the strangled teardrop Life's elixir in benevolent lust Slit open the throat that is virtue Let fire ravage its caverns with joy Ardent but silent in twilight resigned Delivered from virtue in vehement plight Yet ask not of your vanity (The hooved agitator in your creed) To let loose all the stars of heaven Stray across the vault your seed Concealed cravings must through fulfilment be broken Hide no longer behind the veil of unconvincing lies So pound the drum and strike the chords of chaos So scream out to the skies Of Chaos and Eternal Night I've seen fires waving patterns Forging ornaments - hidden from a world of distress Grace through hatred Of Chaos and Eternal Night In shadows now vengeful waiting out your bitter foe The mirror distorts Sinful is the perceiving eye Tearless in nondescript form Scarlet secrets tell of nightmarish fear Illusions that speak of endless night A venture in terms of one hazardous journey into Chaos and Eternal Night Deliver me from virtue, Hidden no more beneath tender veil of lies And let 'em all out; unseen and sinful ... Of Chaos and Eternal Night |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Shadows play
in my wilderness' mindscape (they seek) One spiteful and wicked, One humble and meek A windswept pale landscape of edified (thought) Two frictional forces a triad have brought Woven A soft breeze whispers slowly Within me in the valley of my mind the aerial mists sink falling And its breath both foul and holy is like the deer to a dying hind Slowly traversing the atmosphere calling Wordless, yet in soul so true Nameless, yet it lives in you Shapeless like the purity of pain Lawful when all fear is slain One shadow of beauty caressing the flowers, the paleness of winter reflects in her eyes- Deity of stardom Enticer of stardoom So soft and so silent Maternal - eternal Serenity fades Blinded by visions of sunlight (nocturnal) With the darkening of skies One shadow of darkness A shade of deep hate A wanderer's spectre with fury ablaze In sheets of sharp silver Laid youthful to die Reborn into vengeance Dark flames dance in grace Dark flames dance in grace In the grace of storms One shadow of beauty One shadow of darkness Sailing free on the sea within my mind Surging dark oceans, Perpetual waters Creator of life And reclaimer of (souls) Mother ocean Watching the deep fjords uneasily moving Whipping the white waves towards the cold air Rising like swans in a scarred, sudden motion A cascade of lost feathers... adrift on the sea Hark A serenade in the tongue of the wind The sighs of the centuries, so sonorous in the bower Hovering further athwart a leafy cover A shelter for those whose time's wind make them wither And therefore they choose to guide this time-wind hither Alas, in tune with the tide of time I was, but I'm not Nor I'll be with its pride Yes, aeons have flown But more is to come For I know time But time is not eternal, their lifestars not immortal A friend that I greet with open arms Setting souls can never A brothersoul of deadly harm Pass through the pearly portal No bliss be give And joy Nor joy Flowing down the gates of hell Fire I cry for you... Don't spill your tears for me But for your kit and kin My scions of light? Deprived of the lust and the treasure of pleasure Which is the fuel for life And glory Silent your dark desires within entirety's light Solitude Sanctity Sanctuary Sanctum (sanctum) Sanctum- (tranquility) Hear me You who hold the fate of stars in hand Before creation's eye I stand My soul set free In summerland Mighty the strand of the universe A chaosvoid tomb of dead worlds Hark What? Divinity flows in your heart Cast it alight, the seed of all art Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind Silent, you fool A cradle of roses Embedded in stillness and shade Silent, you fool Thine words are untrue Remember Endymion's crestfallen tears Serene art the gods, yet pain is their way He touched by the heavens His hellfire nears A silent divinity, now see your body (of air) Free now your heavenly body of air Come bathe in the rays of the all-seeing one Holding the fate of all life in both hands Breathing life-force Like gold made from sand My winged steed of moonlight Black stallion of thunder We rode above the greenish earth And tore the green asunder But what you left bleeding Destroyed a soulforsaken world And your deeds of sharp silver Decoyed a mindforsaken herd A duet of shadows A duet of shadows A duet of thoughts A duet of thoughts Of beings we feed With the dust of our thoughts Residing within us The two-fold wheel of life Of insight created: a triad of jewels (A thin leaf of the life-tree's truth) |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
Cast out from a world of selfdeceit
In senseless fear of denial Forgive the others indifference And on paths of wisdom trait In grief thou shalt not wander With hopefilled heart now walk Do not fear the slow proceeding Fear only the stillness of invention Mocking words and actions a defeat For intellect and mind Saveth me for I know not how To break free from these chains of scorn Oh I wonder how can I turn the sense of doubt In the minds of them all Our needs are depending in images in life And the more you agree in the far more they ask I am an outcast but I am free to speak The words from my heart And when I know the secrets In the minds of the weak I shall return and be grateful For the lessons learned from the past Hear me, See me I am now forever one with myself I sense the forces that deep within me burn I smell remains of fear forever gone I feel now comfort with who I have to be Now is the time for retributive thoughts To be content is happiness Not the overflow of material things That we seek to make a stand In this era of greed and self-inflicted Pain in the shape of disappointment Do not fear the slow proceeding That's all I ask of thee What lies ahead you will never know So come prepared Oh I wish for thee to see the vast plains And the field, The open seas, The wailing trees The treasures of my kingdom Reach the level of understanding now Exploring, Considering the actions of the past On a journey forever Still you're in the water struggling While I clasp the skies Can you see the lifeblood dripping From the cheek of everscorn? Yes I can! I am an outcast but I am free to speak The words from my heart And when I know the secrets In the minds of the weak I shall return and be grateful For the lessons learned from the past Hear me, See me I am now forever one with myself |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
There is a silent man in a tower
Mute in a blinded world Yet words dance on virgin lips Freezing the winds of blood Clad in layers of darkest velvet Drenched in the gloomy light of dawn ...All Black And in his wait for the grand finale Standing atop of the stairs From dawn to dusk his heart's a blaze Uncovering words from an obsolete state of mind Sharpen them! Turn them into arrows! Descend into grief - Without a bow no arrows fly ...Bitter Black Passing through the ebony archways Hand in hand with the wisdom of stars Wisdom dressed in blackest array There is no man in that tower Walking the shores in black Bitter frost now bite the walls of hope No traces in the sand... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer Of Chaos (1999)
[Sundin, Johansson, Henriksson]
Colours burst in wild explosions; Fiery, flaming shades of fall All in accord with my pounding heart Behold the autumnweaver In bronze and yellow dying Colours unfold into dreams In hordes of a thousand and one The bleeding Unwearing their masks to the last notes of summer Their flutes and horns in nightly swarming Colours burst within Spare me those unending fires! Bestowed upon the flaming shades of fall September flies beyond our reach As the flames reborn their fall October is the art we teach With the Flaming Shades of Fall November, Robe of prophet - heart of false redeemer Night whispers as the flaming shades of fall now die Darkness, wild and unchained Towards its heart we plunge We must crush the false redeemer With the flaming shades of fall |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Still alive
all knowing eye beneath your stream of words your rapid stream of words Though none will ever live to share the radiant stream the promised hues from which your picture fell Re-seal the components from atom hearts Revert, non-owner of worlds As uncommunication becomes the manifest our alien, architectural skeletons in unison collapse Death rode these silent caravans and steered them to the ?(o/a)?im of the world. Their diaries and withered letters all devoted to the art of dying The enterprise, academy the crafts held in our hands all devoted to the art of dying No room to arrange the final row of masks drenched in chameleon-ink for the grand charade The tongues that burn in you the slowly altered language that colonised your heartland advanced through broken doors And they still believe in you They seem to see so many things booked in your pestilent eye Your stale lids, your iris punctured by tongues licking a lie The enterprise, wolvenlore the cursed seed of man plunged through the tunnels of uncreation We reach out to move the landmark, hands seeping down from the chronicles of time The quill now blunt the scribe devoured |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Young girl so sweet
and once so innocent Your life so brutal, true emotions suppressed You scream, but he won't hear a word till he's had his away Victim of the cruelest kind of love Against his urges there's no defence The one who gave you life stole your innocence You want to be free at any cost but you're chained by the shame and everything seems to be lost Bringer of Torture Bringer of Torture You're not afraid of dying Nothing could be worse than this life You're terrified of the pain, the pain that returns with the night With the night! Bringer of Torture Bringer of Torture Bringer of Torture Insanity and terror, hand and hand 'till childhood dreams comes to an end The situation, so vile and insane, Will never be over, he's coming back again, again and again Bringer of Torture |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
With each daring new concept
creation and form one fragment of shelter from heaven be torn The bleeding through barriers shine of redemption The taste of renewal let art once again be a weapon The whim of the forger is theft from the flow the hatchet now redden with creation's blood Constant is forever I am the creation so bold in design The errors of one thousand minds bleed out through a world gone blind This is the magic that a name would stain. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
For thou sweepst me
in thy ribe if guill with garments forged in spiteful steel No tainted pride shall make conviction cease None shall be unto thee proven worthy of thy outmost fear Let alone the silent longing instinct shun the ones you dear As the hunter boldly stalks his prey intoxicated Conviction reigns where truth might sway intimidated Silence the bore Shun the ones you dear The hunt is over so the feast begins What feast is enduring when all is said and done Everchange of hearts The hunter's reason fail The hunt is treason The hunt is over so the feast begins Why search for endurance when all is said and done? |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Enter Suicidal Angels; How hungry we've become; like animals naked in shame Fed with the hooves of apocalypse that galloped down, disordered worlds behind From word to a word I was led to a word that spanned over cultures in rage Crimson masses, sleeped in decadence holding our tongues to the thirsty sun So, it the future still open? Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts to draw down the end from within We need not the horns that emanate from our warty, haunted bodies severed and numbered they are Nihilist, Hedon the priceless art of their lives Sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads. skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow in the fold of your shivering arms Hedon, Your chindren wild and filled with death # Jupiter in our unforgiving eves: a pandemonium of bodies and gold Eager, as a part of your face and the sickness attached to your skin (stone) as the wine-rush, changing from androgynous wombs to open free the lid of pain # Hedon, rinsed in post-human shadows a monument scorned by the teeth of time Stale-faced keeper of secrets, loaded with implosive fire the whore that carried the apostle to the mating point on the graves of giants We look at you, afraid to see what we really are. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Gently hold our heads gently hold our heads on high Aimless time in fear new hide overthrow the plan confusion lies in all my words mad is the soul We barricade ourselves in holes of temperament this is the dawning of a new age A heart that beats the wrong way insanity's crescendo Windcolour - second sight a touch of silence and the violence of dark Illusion span - the aroma of time shadowlife and the scent of nothingness Infinite fall of instinct order of one spells deceit Infinite lack of trust order of one obsolete Oh escaping time is all we lost ahead? When it's found, can judgement make amends? From force-fed impressions let us mortify the mind each soul to violate each instinct to be rendered false Torn asunder be the conventional forms and frames now for the blood of heaven Unlearn and the cleansing comes Fell a tremor in the pillars of the senses Cursed victim of a distance near The first dreams - the clearest vision Aimlessly steer towards our night we belong to thee Oh dearest bliss, unnerving silence entangled within Dimly begotten in clarity found virginlike tears for impurity bound Beseech he who darken the stars and the sky to greet now this vision an emerald dawn Empty the sun - carve out the wind Insanity's crescendo tear out the blinded eye Lament of thunder - take comfort in fear lightning veins in crude exterior Voice the oppression - voice the hypocrisy lay down the law that made instince fall Escape now and revert this cleansing rebirth torn asunder be Affect me not; darkened vision insanity's crescendo Grimly tread the footsteps torn rebellious stand the seeker tall The thorn of insanity's hand take this darkened vision from my sight Nailed to the image of ignorance Each soul to violate for the blood of heaven |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Born of laughter
strangled by sin No remorse mistreat the soul again No features the blur of things denied No return the cross to bear is my own Just one sip and life returns Razorfever The pollution of your narrow perception Read into the lines of men's work Degeneration: let the truth be known Numb the pain with the liquid of fire Razorfever burns Born a desperation's child admist the last descent Fierce as that of angel's wrath to lay the soul to rest Just one sip Just one more Just one and so my world can be restored. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Develop every aspect
enchance its foetal form distort for the purpose of another aim For you shall know me see why in shadows I hide Lest be thy own defeat Contence refined Truth might falter give up your vows update the aura of the shadowlit facade Pinned down to your defences by the struggle for one others awe Content in loneliness For the dawn shall cast no shadow from your monolith of lies descend from the delusion of degradation and despair For the one that reaps good fortune on the cost of all good faith Suffering must lead him on amidst his loneliness For the one who speaks besides his tongue shall learn all is not good and fair All in vain - the search that never ends Action, reaction still no words come clear in denial of the constant change Unbegun, undenial, unforseen by thee the words underneath the shelter be Spare me. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
No-one survives such an attack
and we all stood like monuments baring the nails in her back Still moving sinews in a graceful impression of life shyly the arms, shyly the breasts fold fear die Ten fingers driven through the heart, through the core as I stare into those strange, magnetic eyes and wonder: (for you / me) are there demons there? I knew it all the time. The misanthropes were right to crucify themselves in the need of a saviour. Still moving sinews struggle fearsome with a lifeline forlorn, caught in the nest of the impending dark fate. Semi-worlds, lifetight lodges where faces stiffen, plagued with the frost of disease Our capsules barely meet The worms of disorder like living black numbers that drip from her pergament skin Joined in sweet fury to anoint the decay fragile and reddened in lifelost array |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Come death of dearling
the claws of the raven hold fast Enticed and starving a lustful revenge to the last Unlight flood the seeker's eye Come flame or false hope gifted in spirit as I Forced upon freedom Let impulse nor stillness be spared Fierce tidal tantrum nourishing rapture within Come feast or fire repellent in forceful defence Unchained, forgiving to none solemn in swirling embrace |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Tongues, lost in me
yours be the sharp and the vile Glide neath my skin storm through my nerves I bury the nomad years hours in the earth couldn't exorcise these searing, pecking tongues Immune you say yet venom strikes in strangest guises as the viper in our eyes Tongue, throat, tongue slayer of the word and stealer of wisdom A monumental reign of terrors throats slit up to stain the target We're food for the hounds of trauma, prey to the crows of stress No power left to retrieve my stolen language filtered through the illiterate fingers of death Flies let sickness be poured from the cupped hands of bedlam On account of their brightness I made friends with the word and the moon went with the tide and left for the sound of dead instruments thrown out of tune The red square patterns, dragonrise and evenclaw decoying from pandemonic symmetry Let ring a dissonant note in the music of the spheres the streak of promise in the nuclear sky These whipping black tongues aching to lick me back to life to inject their truths within me |
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from Dark Tranquillity - The Mind,S L (2000)
Crown the impulse that deliberately fall defeat in spiritless action Isolation - burn the greenwood order of the vertical path Descendent crawl in the remnants of one thousand lies Restaging torching a world that was left behind Zodiackyl light Cross the sharpest void deride the embers of his faith the bringer that on million horses ride Waiting for the call within the spark of sin ever reminiscent of the coming of storm Can you see the cosmic face in which disorder lies Burning of opression the inventor is the killing hand Be that of the darkest sin to frustrate hope and love I shall not be blinded I shall not be forced Resistance feasting on debris from celestical wars Burning in the sky beyond the realm of time Sequence of the nucleus the glowing dust in flight Zodijackal light And they ride, they ride the drama takes the lead the beast of heaven their guide Racing through the vastness constellation disarray that darkness could not have existed that bares no witness to the light Sweet endless Perpetually pronge through interior vaults So seamless Joints of time cannot shackle the beast Zodijackyl light. |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
waiting for [x2] the signs to bring the first to sing felt inbetween these fears set to unknown tunes so tempt these fragile fiends a grace gone dark you'll never know never feel never taste the depths of your defeat break into the hearts and minds of man never one to tell [x2] sucking on a lie that never ends found at loss for words locking on [x2] to faith gone bad sweet touch of sin not in the sleight of hand can facts be lost never understate your case deny our weight there never is there never was there can never be a break from binding chains break into the hearts and minds of man never one to tell sucking on a lie that never ends found at loss for words |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
wrestled on its back the ego showed his face charged up, recieving came out knowing hopeless intrusion where nothing can be found strewn, the seeds were wasted on the innocent in awe fruitless connection in the ripeness of his age drawn and thrust in anger the dagger once again will fail it's over if nothing comes along it's over for you so in denial stand where shame is not and unto others fall the blame, the guilt, the others fault come on now- scratch and claw with all your strength take on the wildest bull in the horde come burn them fingers fast and take back what they owe return the safety where there was none... |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
secrets in here claim no belonging together again or send me to madness i know that i should have listened was given a choice i turned down forever so tell me are you lonely emptier still as time takes us farther away from the goals by which we are measured i know that I should have stayed true to you and to me but time never heals so here alone I stand so tell me are you lonely tell me are you mine i see you standing there your face against the wall so turn right around i who know your deepest fear and yet you walk away so turn right around so tell me are you lonely tell me are you mine don't speak for you are me |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
scattered throughout now indefinite form willed to find strangers in the wickedest state when it comes upon you my friend fear not - it makes us men hidden within ourselves now lured into hiding out of sight creation in purity we don't need no host suck it in it waits for noone take it down the coming of descent fiery changeling reddened and frail perspire to save it the remnant of this game if it launches again today will our lives begin again turning away from tides of lust stronger return against all odds suck it in it waits for noone take it down the coming of descent raised to take stand to separate grace shown in the wake of new light seeing it will break the flavour of aquired taste another boundary yet to face witness the revolution the fabric of essence come again * |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
"Scars torn open Bondaged slave Eating my wrists" A thrust that numbs the pain Secondary now the instinct Thrust beyond control Chaotc Are the tracks before me Barren are the ones behind Carried in a cage controlling Driven Driven on, Driven in Headlong onto the breach Driven on, Driven in Taken to the extreme Headlong onto the breach Pumping fast the race is on furious in striving The Feast of burden begins The Feast of burden begins Driven on, Driven in Taken to the extreme Headlong onto the breach Driven on, Driven in Headlong onto the breach "The enslaving force Thrown ahead Unrelenting" Faithfully holding fast Steaming ahead unknowing Careless again it seems Oblivious to the pressure The Feast of burden begins The Feast of burden begins |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
now as the lights go down deeper now it seems than long before there are no noises here just a silence gone bad something I will never hide this urging need to invite the darkside in into my haven if there were words for this would i sing or would i scream? i'd give my blood to stay my blood just to stay right here something can never share this urging need to invite the darkside in into my haven |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
and although it can be argued whether time will ever come to end there is an overcoming sense of failing if you never can see the end in the giving of our hope eternal we stumble blindly and forget the way is there ever time for answers when the world comes tumbling down all along we keep staring at the sun closing our minds saying we're the ones all along we keep staring at the sun blind to see it when the day will come and even if in days of wonders a glance that may stray from the fold cast aside in the spirit of ignorance a mere nuisance when it?s time to pay come undone now the strive and the passion giving under to the forces that be can you even think of questions when the world comes tumbling down we shut our eyes and turn away all along we keep staring at the sun closing our minds saying we're the ones all along we keep staring at the sun blind to see it when the day will come |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
what came as no surprise to a jaded mind no less insight comes to soothing grace left to waiting days ..another chord unstrummed our secret's safe and sound solid now unless it breaks in two faithfully unbound none of this was ever built to last in the paleness of a less than life from a corner watching old paint dry never once a break into the self again an endeavour that will flat our fail what maturity comes to end never one to face ..another beat undone our secret's safe and sound solid now unless it breaks in two faithfully unbound none of this was ever built to last once again another instant saved today left a print that leads nowhere never built to last what makes it work a part of life that makes the weak hearts grow take it in if you?re willing to say willing to do prepared to lay it down just know this it was never built to last |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
cowardice, this chain of events gather and plot the ensnaring of me (ensnaring) gone now the sense of lust is there a cost for the reckless excess? taken in the growth and trust retalitory strike at the weakest spot raked away the remains of my fall that laid scattered cross plains of regret humble in defence of the wicked run down, naked and blind merciless, the onslaught of demands get in line for the numbning i won't make a stand redeemer of the slavery reconcile with the carefree and content ensnarer, caretaker lead not these the frail into battle again crossing out the ramblings of others tired of the same old refrain knowing this will all be corrected torn down, wasted and lost i can't take it anymore 'cause i am rundown can't take it anymore 'cause this is wrong tired and rundown spat it out the foolish lines you fed it holds a place in the civilized mind forcefed, the turn of our venturesome quest being rundown as we seek the day this was lost all that you see all that'll be rundown |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
what we always fear and loathe becomes of us repay the visit of our loss reset the marks again the turning point seems to be holding on sands of ages and the stars above everchanging as the same hearts beat repeating 'til the end seas of slander and the soil we walk everchanging as the same hearts beat it ends up all the same the sail that never knew the wind barren and lost our wrecks these shores will never reach a trek on darker trails let days be done it takes forever |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Haven (2000)
deeper shades of red descending smear our names, the stains unending turn forgiveness, break the lens distorted crush the infidel and turn about famine in our hearts, bring up the silence louder eradicate the lungs and take us higher these are the wonders at your feet weighed upon a wider scale afraid to see what takes us down sing destruction, sing of unfullfillment search abandoned, let the blood be fevered ridden of the self provided things get easier ignite our minds and let's burn brighter these are the wonders at your feet |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
I grant to you
no privilage of person no sense of self denial of choice its wants out so from all the little bits and pieces a simple case of lost and found a wicked new beginning i don't ever want to see it's the oldest trick in the book just like everything you always knew turned upon its very end there's nothing left to be half a mind to say all the things that bother me today you better check if it's me in that coffin of yours or just the one, the one you thought you knew I am one, Who am I? No character to be lost inside A mind is hard to please so wander aimlessly Hands clenched in fists of rage concealed in frustration there's a part of me that cannot deal with the character I am forced to be a thinly veiled plan to lay your world afoot lost in community blind in belonging is there really nothing more than this? the emptiness remains so put on your brave face and take the plunge again |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed those final words to fracture the very structure can't stand this glacial pace the damage done It seems these days are getting shorter derails my train of thought What said in hand was done chased unforgiveness down these corridors locked down the basis for the willing form a trail far from strayed the damage done Set aside from eyes of others Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace Brought out for all to see the damage done face contradicting needs We bring our cages home for none to see in vain to lessen responsibility the damage done |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
It comes from all we're giving
In seemingly endless supply As signals cross defiantly Into this volatile mix we charge And the stubborn mind repeats The errors to challenge our grounds Either soar above or the detour takes you right Back down To where no one wants to see Misgivings in this starry nightlight Fill in the blanks That one will fall To the haunts and horrors To the haunts and horrors There is nothing left A mere shadow When adrenaline runs dry There is nothing there An empty prop When adrenaline runs dry It gets you deep Down low now As they told you of the blazing heights The stage from which the world is viewed Is the mirror to shatter the image The crypt he kept for hiding Retreat from another attack Painlessly forgiving A refuge in deceptive black It works within the system And they won't understand A lesser known deceiver Will fool you even more Now, now, now Now taunt the wasted It's all about nothing What to squeeze within the span of attention Brought to ground Let the chaos pass That one will fail By the screams and terrors By the screams and terrors There is nothing left A mere shadow When adrenaline runs dry There is nothing there An empty prop When adrenaline runs dry |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
The unsaid tone of weak despair
Fail to resonate Frayed end of our binding threads Will disintegrate By the laws our physics stage Failure to communicate None too sentient Hear no, see no worthless magic Against all function Ongoing choices the trials will end Filter the nonsense and laugh at what's left Indecision/nonvision what matters taken away Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy So overcome with pointless tears To test pain receptors Nothing matters ever here Put up a nonreaction These eyes will never see Covered up from reality Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy The unknown world that you deny No priority Cannot fail if you never start How predictable I want to know where For madness to start Always the sceptic never be part Introvertive/indescriptive It matters not, not Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Look at the shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Soon the battle is over Lost to apathy The shell that is you Empty, fragile, weak Now the battle is over Lost to apathy |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
You are all that matters
In my private demonology Those who fear** us now The sons of wishes The bastard child of dream Enemies of hope Let it be gone It's all pretend Mind matters, matters not Never again In perfect clarity See the day in childlike vision Where does it lead from here On without that guidance Disaster Role model without a part Our search is wider Cast off those wide-eyed hopes and dreams Mind matters, matters not No need to see you there The path we made is clear Just stay ahead of me This is not for me to see Mind matters, matters not This time a prayer onto nothing Project again Direct oppose to action All across the board Shortcoming close to call Let it be gone It's all pretend Mind matters, matters not |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
It's all this reeking ego craves
The sun to never set Why do threads of anger never linger? Why does the ember turn to stone? To where the longing goes In with the sins of old A face of nothing, to never see As blind as free Everything I want Is in at the end of this Everything I need Will be at the end of me My negation How will you know my name And sense the danger coming? My negation How can you see my face? What's to become of me? The art of reduction Stripped down through What seems defendable Scaled to bare revisions To stop making sense Levelling pillars of towering fear Rational instincts and insight to spare End of falseness, end of grace Everything I fear Is in this failing Nothing of what I am Is in this end My negation How will you know my name And sense the danger coming? My negation How can you see my face? What's to become of me? How will you know my name? |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Insufficient facts
Make up for a frail foundation Breeding the obscene For the opinion Customized Is the insight null and substance void upon these wheels Our world will roll Let it be decided Let it be decided who will take the blame Another soul to drain What is it that we see? What is it that we see? One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Has it come to this? Enjoying things by proxy Live through others Die just like the rest We all end up screaming A little louder To cover up Another piece of silence Just scream a little louder Punch another hole through media Turn it off One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Brace for impact To once a greater vision Our lives now stand to fall Tyranny of fear A stranglehold on us Stronger day by day It's time to turn it off One thought bringing it down Original sinners One thought bringing it down Switch it off Switch it off |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Make enemies of truth and reason
In that a rage is born Start out a promise and a venture Where direction was never the goal How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? Never you mind The grand perspective Other forces kept at bay As you narrow the field of vision To retain a sense of control Your focus will remain unfixed In the haze of a world unhinged Create a sense of purpose Around which you base your faith The doubt that haunts your skin An itch that will linger on Forever How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? You wave off Critique as an offender Never question Where your motives lie As a part of the greatest fable The beast all had forgotten Instincts in a dead end rampage Destruction as a saving grace You run out of nothing How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go When you run out? How does it feel To run out of nothing Where do you go? Where do you go? |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Riddled by the trappings
Of words that makes the edges blur Here on the outskirts Of sincerity and pride Stretched as far as words can reach By the lure of higher meaning There's something out there Lost behind the power lines It's all the same to me It's all the same to me Lost all faith in promises And deadlines closing in Tired of deciphering the wayward Stands of truth I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore Sure we've had a good run With vowels, nouns and letters But within its very nature The ability to distort There's nothing in the words I hear That makes me want to take a stand It has gone on for far too long I chose to disengage It's all the same to me It's all the same to me The ends of our conditioning To swallow, take and like it Rather keep me in the dark Than look me in the eye I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore It's all these same things pulling us down To senses gone I cheer It's all these same things making us blind There's nothing here for me Hear it coming Heading for you now I can't even stand the tone of arrogance And denial on display Here you are listless Left for deaf Thinking about what standards we set In times of weary tongues And ears that hear no end to it Unwilling or unable The difference left for times Judgement It's all the same to me It's all the same to me It passes on from wicked mouths As victim takes on another role New bold oppressor Our teacher's product Now stands tall I don't care 'Cause I can't feel I don't know Anymore It's all these same things pulling us down To senses gone I cheer It's all these same things making us blind There's nothing here for me Hear it coming Heading for you now Hear |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
You try to hide
The fact hidden from yourself Your own favourite entertainer Is none other than The one we call you And you need the others To fortify your disgust For the worst of us, to the rest of us Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down I hear a mighty cheer Your faith could not be any stronger In your head the stage is set A product of what we're being fed Oblivious by design Not susceptible to any mind Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down I can take What's being given I can down Whatever comes I will do What you deem necessary My fear compels me My fear compels me No more fictitious needs I will not be made a mockery No more chaos seed I am not what you're supposed to see Without a sense of danger Everything is lost In the name of entertainment We are doomed Entertain the thought that We are still alive Entertain the notion Of impending doom Entertain our worst suspicions And our fears Just pull us in And take us down |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
A human force stronger than logic
Beyond the focus and the grander ideas One microcosmos in this wretched piece of hell Distant memories of what empathy we felt No revolution in what they must overthrow In on a secret we all know The need that is our enemy I don't even want to see you Doing all the same things as me Don't ever let this be you Knowing what it is that drives me It's all in the future Said with one foot in the grave All in the plan of what we never could achieve No satisfaction We excuse ourselves from progress by post-altering our motives Stories set to match whatever beat that drives the impulse Whatever tune that carries through What's in a soul that rattles empty In this one reality, too few Our reach is never wider than the depth of what we grasp A vicious curse on all that we partake in/side the conflict Where no one is the wiser A space invaded A face evaded My space invaded Selfish dosn't begin to cover the sense In this utopia of one to escape the argument To put another filter on |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear Wrapped up nicely in ourselves Chaos resolves that which order defiles Worthless lifes are ordered... are ordered blind I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I don't believe I raise my hand against it all For those who don't recognize the call Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls Going before it break down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe Let me nail you to the treason wall Stab the night and the day from your sight and set the thought to flame Feeble devout Nothing resides Break it to pieces that obstinate mind I raise my fist to hold the line Against those who set themselves on high Going to break it down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Character[Digi Pack.] (2005)
Let no one be themselves
Turn of the century lies Not within the others Turn on the wretchful eye The blindness ends tonight Shelter for the shattered In unison we strive Dare to disassociate And cut the blinds that tie Abstractualize further To the ends of fact and foe Will it out of meaning As silence speaks the truth I want to hear you scream I want to see you stand Atop the Pantheon of fiction and your failure Grasping for a hiding place Among indifferent stones A brief reflection It sets the soul apart No selection It tears our world apart These walls are protecting us Burn them to the ground This haven of refuge Burn it to the ground So smudge the lens a little Muffle the voice Phase out of sound a while And let it go Citizens of choice In a twilight world of your design Left to our devices We stumble on I want to hear you scream I want to hear you scream Burn it to the ground No firewall will save you Burn it to the ground Take me to the keep And bare the darkest void Thousandfold the agony Of silenced screams alone Tune right out of static Exorcise the dark How else can we move on I want to hear you scream I want to see you die |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Carry our streams
Lift up our less-than-elated lives Transmit ourselves, we breathe out Where no one [whispers] Take in all the dark light Turn the nighttime into day Take in all the dark light Turn the nighttime into day Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in Alienate Block out all, amid the breaking of the light See it again and again Single sight Sensory perception, Turn the nighttime into day Sensory perception, Turn the nighttime into day Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in To our great distrust Escapism: a means of getting through alive Take it in and spit it out again That measly filth Focal degradation Bring the chaos into light Cathode Ray Sunshine Burns |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Carry our streams
Lift up our less-than-elated lives Transmit ourselves, we breathe out Where no one [whispers] Take in all the dark light Turn the nighttime into day Take in all the dark light Turn the nighttime into day Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in Alienate Block out all, amid the breaking of the light See it again and again Single sight Sensory perception, Turn the nighttime into day Sensory perception, Turn the nighttime into day Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in Cathode Ray Sunshine, Speak out and we receive Cathode Ray Sunshine, Show me and let us in To our great distrust Escapism: a means of getting through alive Take it in and spit it out again That measly filth Focal degradation Bring the chaos into light Cathode Ray Sunshine Burns |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed those final words to fracture the very structure can't stand this glacial pace the damage done It seems these days are getting shorter derails my train of thought What said in hand was done chased unforgiveness down these corridors locked down the basis for the willing form a trail far from strayed the damage done Set aside from eyes of others Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace Brought out for all to see the damage done face contradicting needs We bring our cages home for none to see in vain to lessen responsibility the damage done |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Went inside the caves of seven wolves
Felt of the forces that lend themselves to speed those final words to fracture the very structure can't stand this glacial pace the damage done It seems these days are getting shorter derails my train of thought What said in hand was done chased unforgiveness down these corridors locked down the basis for the willing form a trail far from strayed the damage done Set aside from eyes of others Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace Brought out for all to see the damage done face contradicting needs We bring our cages home for none to see in vain to lessen responsibility the damage done |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord They told of outposts firm as trees Whispers laid no basis for the plunge to the chasm depths Seen none, nor felt the safety, perimeter alarm Alarm I see the bearings of disaster What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? To make a chemical stand a final front to the days ahead In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement Smothered by the numeral that haunts each waking day What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? Request for countermeasures to state claim of this my cavern None to take and none be given as the window breaks to black A process left to solitude is the action left undone Answers left to echo in the silent halls of none What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? Cast down the hopes and aspirations Shut the windows tight, everybody said "No! No! No!" Reset your fears and good intentions Barred up for life, everybody said "No! No! No!" What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? This is the final resistance |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Disaffected, left to internal struggle
Let ring with the cries of disaccord They told of outposts firm as trees Whispers laid no basis for the plunge to the chasm depths Seen none, nor felt the safety, perimeter alarm Alarm I see the bearings of disaster What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? To make a chemical stand a final front to the days ahead In attempt to tame their mineral estrangement Smothered by the numeral that haunts each waking day What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? Request for countermeasures to state claim of this my cavern None to take and none be given as the window breaks to black A process left to solitude is the action left undone Answers left to echo in the silent halls of none What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? Cast down the hopes and aspirations Shut the windows tight, everybody said "No! No! No!" Reset your fears and good intentions Barred up for life, everybody said "No! No! No!" What can you tell me of the inside? Is it as bright as all can see? This is the final resistance |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense How to discern just where right belongs Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to see There is no need for you to start revolutions I don't want you to talk to the minions Just show me a brand new face an open mind against a dying race Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to hear Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to feel Cannot fail in this the era of losers, burnt the shell of those that once held the torches Cannot give you the senses anew nor will you know innocence again Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to know In time all your questions will be answered Not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed All preconceptions crumble Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to learn Won't hold up to the standards you keep never came from the formative years Just show me a brand new mind Keep in what you left behind Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to be |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Mental Blindfolds on
Early on the fascination intense How to discern just where right belongs Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to see There is no need for you to start revolutions I don't want you to talk to the minions Just show me a brand new face an open mind against a dying race Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to hear Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to feel Cannot fail in this the era of losers, burnt the shell of those that once held the torches Cannot give you the senses anew nor will you know innocence again Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to know In time all your questions will be answered Not what you hoped for, not what you dreamed All preconceptions crumble Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to learn Won't hold up to the standards you keep never came from the formative years Just show me a brand new mind Keep in what you left behind Something has got to give These things I just don't want you to be |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
What if some things are destined to failure?
What if some things are never meant to be? What if someone never sees? What if someone never opens? What if somehow we are different? Though I never claimed to be right. Give to me, the benefit of doubt! I brought you fires. All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! What of the times in exhile? What of the hours passed? What if touches seem too trivial? You can never tell me I'm wrong. A song I've heard so long! I brought you fires! All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! So what if healing takes forever? So what if time is meant for others? So what is left is but a shatter. And what is broken can't be whole. What is broken, can't be whole again! I brought you fires! All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
What if some things are destined to failure?
What if some things are never meant to be? What if someone never sees? What if someone never opens? What if somehow we are different? Though I never claimed to be right. Give to me, the benefit of doubt! I brought you fires. All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! What of the times in exhile? What of the hours passed? What if touches seem too trivial? You can never tell me I'm wrong. A song I've heard so long! I brought you fires! All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! So what if healing takes forever? So what if time is meant for others? So what is left is but a shatter. And what is broken can't be whole. What is broken, can't be whole again! I brought you fires! All that you put out. I brought you fires! For I cannot be without. I came with sadness! But this my shattered heart can't bear! |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Could not have forseen
what the lies of the bearer would bring Trailing the marks of his errors trace the original sin Fallen I cling to deception This talk of madness is in me Come now as the drapery falls From homes that take the foul in hand Mind cloven Sweet spoken with words that led us off the track Truth altered Blindsighted Thrive on the illusion and the image of a life to be Unmount the shielding facade Cast to death the disciples fevered rage to burn them Fallen Endure the spit of others Locked inside the pretence cage Where the cause will be certain Fallen I'll see you inside |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing Like fingerprints on your heart Reading out the last lines of code To the untrained eye a secret I bled away the last of you Sought trust in shapes of combined results that trickles from a less than solid case Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust Burn the gracing grounds What will give in first the body or the lash Monochromatic stains Who will cave in first the leader or the fake Monochromatic stains This pile of ashes of a soul informant pokes abound These sickly little fingers Get away from me Tread not the path of least restraint each piece of evidence a lie, a lie The body, the face all items in place I don't remember a thing A sacrifice made to the loss of mind Folly a man's demise Track now the stains that allow my fall sickening, the sight of it all Never shall I claim my innocence I just was not there |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing Like fingerprints on your heart Reading out the last lines of code To the untrained eye a secret I bled away the last of you Sought trust in shapes of combined results that trickles from a less than solid case Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust Burn the gracing grounds What will give in first the body or the lash Monochromatic stains Who will cave in first the leader or the fake Monochromatic stains This pile of ashes of a soul informant pokes abound These sickly little fingers Get away from me Tread not the path of least restraint each piece of evidence a lie, a lie The body, the face all items in place I don't remember a thing A sacrifice made to the loss of mind Folly a man's demise Track now the stains that allow my fall sickening, the sight of it all Never shall I claim my innocence I just was not there |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
There is this face in the still water
I can't remember ever wearing Like fingerprints on your heart Reading out the last lines of code To the untrained eye a secret I bled away the last of you Sought trust in shapes of combined results that trickles from a less than solid case Fought off attacks of resurfaced lust Burn the gracing grounds What will give in first the body or the lash Monochromatic stains Who will cave in first the leader or the fake Monochromatic stains This pile of ashes of a soul informant pokes abound These sickly little fingers Get away from me Tread not the path of least restraint each piece of evidence a lie, a lie The body, the face all items in place I don't remember a thing A sacrifice made to the loss of mind Folly a man's demise Track now the stains that allow my fall sickening, the sight of it all Never shall I claim my innocence I just was not there |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
"Come with me" he said and erased it from his mind
"Be with me now" but for love we are frightened stiff We'd rather leave and head for the skies Than say all the right words too soon "And I never thought you would But always knew you could" "We take off from here" and in that Instant nothing remained of what was Whereas the soul provides, freedom Narrowed down for the taking "I never wanted you to lie Never needed fragments of your day" A broken promise made To always come around Never to stay And as tired as cliches come Did not expect nor frown upon Lighter hearts have taken bait sweetened words now with bitter taste A distance kept that never fails to close us in And forget the days that still linger on Inside the single part of two We'd rather leave no trace and not look back Than face the anxiety here and now |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
"Come with me" he said and erased it from his mind
"Be with me now" but for love we are frightened stiff We'd rather leave and head for the skies Than say all the right words too soon "And I never thought you would But always knew you could" "We take off from here" and in that Instant nothing remained of what was Whereas the soul provides, freedom Narrowed down for the taking "I never wanted you to lie Never needed fragments of your day" A broken promise made To always come around Never to stay And as tired as cliches come Did not expect nor frown upon Lighter hearts have taken bait sweetened words now with bitter taste A distance kept that never fails to close us in And forget the days that still linger on Inside the single part of two We'd rather leave no trace and not look back Than face the anxiety here and now |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
To remain objective, to a closer call
Secretly rejected, and to mediocrity fall caught on the downslopes of life The patted shoulder remembers The elbowed side resists Encircled ad nauseum An enemy to define ourselves An enemy to refine our hate Encouraging on the negative scale Bent out of shape is the measuring norm In words and in writing No one knows my enemy... like I do A social repellant, (not) merely an adversary Lost to the falling words, Kept the last of all understood glances to work against The patted shoulder remembers The elbowed side resists Encircled ad nauseum An enemy to define ourselves An enemy to refine our hate |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
To remain objective, to a closer call
Secretly rejected, and to mediocrity fall caught on the downslopes of life The patted shoulder remembers The elbowed side resists Encircled ad nauseum An enemy to define ourselves An enemy to refine our hate Encouraging on the negative scale Bent out of shape is the measuring norm In words and in writing No one knows my enemy... like I do A social repellant, (not) merely an adversary Lost to the falling words, Kept the last of all understood glances to work against The patted shoulder remembers The elbowed side resists Encircled ad nauseum An enemy to define ourselves An enemy to refine our hate |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear Wrapped up nicely in ourselves Chaos resolves that which order defiles Worthless lifes are ordered... are ordered blind I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I don't believe I raise my hand against it all For those who don't recognize the call Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls Going before it break down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe Let me nail you to the treason wall Stab the night and the day from your sight and set the thought to flame Feeble devout Nothing resides Break it to pieces that obstinate mind I raise my fist to hold the line Against those who set themselves on high Going to break it down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe |
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from Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (2005)
Let me tell you about the loss of all
The failing of all that we hold dear Wrapped up nicely in ourselves Chaos resolves that which order defiles Worthless lifes are ordered... are ordered blind I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I don't believe I raise my hand against it all For those who don't recognize the call Will the sense to overcome these nestled walls Going before it break down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe Let me nail you to the treason wall Stab the night and the day from your sight and set the thought to flame Feeble devout Nothing resides Break it to pieces that obstinate mind I raise my fist to hold the line Against those who set themselves on high Going to break it down I don't believe I don't believe Taste and you will see that all belongs to me I don't believe I won't believe |
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