(Lyrics: Sundin)
Voice of the Shadow of Beauty Friden
Voice of the Shadow of Darkness Sundin
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 within me, the aerial mist sink falling,
Slowly traversing the atmosphere calling
A soft breeze whispers slowly
In the valley in my mind
And its breath, both foul and holy
Is like the deer to a dying hind;
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
Maternal eternal, blinded by visions
Serenity fades with the darkening of skies
Of sunlight nocturnal
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
The grace of Storms
One shadow of beauty,
One shadow of darkness,
Sailing free on the seas 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 sacred, sudden motion
A cascade of lost feathers adrift on the sea
Hark!
A serenade in the tongue of the wind…
The sight of Centuries, so sonorous in the bower,
Hovering further athwart a leafy cower
A shelter for those whose time’s wind make them wither
And therefore they chose to guide this timewind 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;
A friend I greet with open arms
a brotherhood of deadly harm
…and joy
But time is not eternal, their lifestars not immortal
Setting souls can never pass through the pearly portal
No bliss be given…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?
Depraved of the lust and the treasure of pleasure
Which is fuel of life and glory
Silent your dark desires within entirety’s light
Solitude…Sanctity…Sanctuary…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 strands of the universe
A chaosvoid’s tomb of dead worlds
Hark! What?
Divinity flows in your heart,
Cat it alight the seed of all art
Slowly reborn from a sunless state of mind
Silent, your 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
Free now your heavenly body of air!
Come bathe in the rays of the allseeing one,
Holding the fate of all life in both hands;
Breathing new lifeforce like goldmade 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 thoughts;
Of beings we feed with the dust of our thoughts
Residing within us, the twofold wheel of life
Of insight created: a triad of Jewels
(A thin leaf of the lifetree’s truth)
MY FAERYLAND FORGOTTEN
(Lyrics: Sundin)
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 emberglow
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
ALONE
(Lyrics: Sundin)
«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…
