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Against Widows
The Devils weds a widow
Death another's leftovers
Better to lie on a willows
Rest on alder boughs
Then upon a widow's bed
On a used woman's pillow
Sweeter the side of a fence
Then a widow's flank
Softer the side of a grove
Than a widow's beside is
The Devil weds a widow
The grave one twice wed
A widow's hand is rougher
Than a dry spruce bough
With which she strikes the playful
Grabs the one who laughs
A widow has had her games
And spent a merry evening
Alone
Tear dimmed rememberance
In a womb of time
Breath upon me
Possessed by the passion
Fate will set you free
Infertile
Chased be the precious
When flesh is an enemy
Fair weather man
[pre-chorus:]
step aside from the way of a better man than you
so you fall at his feet he's the one who betrays you
it's the servants devotion for the decay
stand up
[chorus:]
there are no flowers on your grave
there are no chains
there I keep chanting for the forgotten name
why you feel so empty
and still have everything
it's fullfilment
I've got more companions
when I'm all alone
flesh is fetching
And I Hear Your Call
I must be out of my mind as I hear you call
My name is even though I can't see you anywhere
Surely this feeling must be coming from something
Someone gave me yesterday as I searched for you
And I hear you call
I hear you call my name
But when I turn around
There's nothing to be found
I must be dreaming a dream of a lunatic
My fingers taste like some strawberry ice-cream
I hear you call my name but I don't think it's
The same I heard you whisper in my ear
Better Unborn
Better it would be for me
And better it would have been
Had I not been born, not grown
Not been brought into the world
Not had to come to this earth
Not been suckled for the world
If I'd died a three-night-old
Been lost in my swaddling hand
I'd have needed but a span of doth
A span more of wood,
But a cubit of goof earth
Two words from the priest
Three verses from the cantor
One clang from the bell
Black Embrace
Terror, when the darkness binds your limbs
Terror, when the fear freezes your nerves
Horror, when the pain climbs up your veins
Darkness, creeping under you skin
Moment of life,
when we all have to choose,
which way to go
and for whom to sacrifice your life
Invoke the god - pray
To lead you back to life - pray
Cursed by religion - hate
Learned upon church - fake
In the verge of hell,
of human mind
Redemption of your soul,
as darkness binds you tight
Moment of life,
when we all have to choose,
which way to go
and for whom to sacrifice your life
Black Winter Day
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed think
Like daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
But how do I feel
In my gloomy depths?
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day
No, darker than that
Gloomier than an autumn night
Captured State
So many years I've been fading
And closed the doors behind
Pay that price if you lost it all
The end is not the past recall
[pre-chorus:]
Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it's carved in your soul
Step out from your mould
[chorus:]
The captured mind is a captured state
But only free will has it's sustain
You burn away all you once loved
Now it's time to turn away
It's all too clear you've been hiding
Nothing to tell but lies
Feel shame when you distain it all
Your stand is not the past recall
Crimson Wave
She's riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder
Planets before melting face
The keys for the wounded
Sinking into underground
Please the one who wants it
Something is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it
[pre-chorus:]
It's a rush hour inside my head
Don't wanna share the anguish
And I will take it away from you
Before you can change it
[chorus:]
That bastard hallucination's pushing me
Like a damned I walk over
Touch the sky when it's burning red
Standing the ground I have chosen
Shivering in outer space
There's no one who can hear you
Getting into different state
It's like getting nowhere
Gathering all those fears and fails
There's no one who can see you
Someone is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it
Divinity
Last day brings the grace
For bearers of forbidden name
Step into five fold mace
As son as father in a frame
[Chorus:]
Someday fire wipes the rain
Fears are frozen tears whisper
Things that no one heras
Cry now, cry now for me again
Tomorrows pride and pain
Why you kneel before my name
Crushing my belief
And make shape to my relief
For who you set your prayers
I can't hear them anyway
Drifting Memories
How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you're only hurting yourself
[chorus:]
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breath in black and stiffling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it's too early to die
You don't have to say
Why rue for that day
When you've open up your eyes again
Now it's your fate
Face your heart ache
You wish to make it unreal
Drowned Maid
I went to wash at the shore
I went to bathe in the sea
And there I, a hen, was lost
I, a bird
Untimely died
Let not my brother
Ever in this world
Water his war-horse
Upon the seashore!
Waters of the sea
So much blood of mine
Fishes of the sea
So much flesh of mine
Such the death of the young maid
End of the fair little hen
Elegy
Long evenings full on longing
Low-spirited my mornings
Full of longing too my nights
And all times the bitterest.
'Tis my lovely I long for
It is my darling I miss
My black-browed one I grieve for.
There's no hearing my treasure
No seeing my marten-breat
No hearing her in the lane
Driving below the window
Chopping the wood by the stack
Clinking outside the cook-house:
In the eart my berry lies
In the soil she's mouldering
Under the sand my sweet one
Beneath the grass my treasure
The one I grieve for.
First Doom
The mountains of North
Shall erupt and flames
Of darkland will raise
Hail to one who hails
Blood for one who bleeds
O you mistress of northland
Queen of darkland
I may wash my hands of the
Evil master's blood
For that is no man's doom
Which I bring
That is child's doom
And it shall be the First doom
Forgotten Sunrise
Once I had a mind
And thoughts was given
But nowadays, in this evil age
All my sense is somewhere else
Once I had a soul
I was one with my god
But now I am abandoned
Banished from these lies
Long my tale's been in the cold
For ages has lain hidden
I know how to bewitch fire
And how to fame flames
I know how to banish worms
And turn snakes away
Grails Mysteries
[lyrics & music: E. Holopainen]
I shall have a son,
out of Cornwall shall he come,
that shall be a wild boar,
bristled with steel...
he shall be a man most brave and
noble in thought
Thou shall kneel for him,
for every man shall humble in front of our lord
I stood upon the sand of the sea
and the great wind told me to carry on
He shall once know the secret of Holy Grail
And so was the coronation made
And there was he,
sworn unto his lords and the commons
to be true king
Greed
Not thirsty am I for the blood
Of redeemer of thy greed
My hunger can't be satisfied
With flesh of thy nazarene
No gilded streets of heaven's grace
Entice me in thy speech
No holy mother doth condone
All your pillage war and greed
But know thee that all oceans worth
Of waters turned holy
Won't change the course of river
That runs inside of me
My blood flows ever skyward
And pools where thy black is white
For woulst thou not carme at my soul
With sword of thy supreme truth
Strike me down on my bended knees
For thy baptism so soothe
My blood flows ever skywawrd
And pools where thy black is white
Alone am I to raise my head
In the starless forest night
Grieve Stricken Heart
Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like I love myself I love to sin
[pre-chorus:]
And I want more
And I want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But I wont crawl
Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I'm your devil in disguise
[pre-chorus]
[chorus:]
Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too
I'm the one to see your collapse
I'm on the side of destruction
On the side of black and I love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And I love myself
In The Beginning
I have a good mind
Take into my head
To start of singing
Began reciting
We seldom get together
And meet each other
On these poor borders
The luckless lands of the north
Those words we have got
From the North's furthest fields,
From the heaths of Kalevala
Into Hiding
The islander slips into hiding
And takes to his heels
Out of dark Northland
The murky house of Sara
He whirled out of doors as snow
Arrives as smoke in the yard
To flee from bad deeds
There he had to become someone else
He must change his shape
As an eagle he swept up
Wanted to soar heavenward
The sun burnt his cheeks
The moon lit his brows
Levitation
[Hawkwind cover]
In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not define
I walk on water, float on air, there's no other to compare
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It's called levitation
There's no cause to start and scream, nor rub your eyes,
This is no dream
Although I sit upon this chair, I rise and float up in the air
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It's called levitation
Magnetic force, repel-attract, once it starts, there's no turning back
I offer you this chance to learn, take it now there's no return
Magic And Mayhem
Hey there, tiny wench
My perpetual serf
Put stew in a pot
Bring water for the guest
Before we part
Before your neck is broken
You strike first
Son of the north
Misery Path
We sail across the sea,
In our thoughts we float over mountains
All this vanity that we could hide
The truth
The truth is to be alive
and to live your life in fear by hate
and create our own gods
We all ourselves are created
our own images
Ourselves we are created
our own gods
In the misty morning
When the sun is rising,
When the whole sky is red like blood
Man can realize the real meaning of life
to love and respect your life
Your salvation,
or is just your damnation.
We all ourselves...
Moon And Sun
Where has the sun gone from us
Where is the moon lost to us
The moon will not gleam at all
Nor will the sun shine at all
Death opens its mouth
The son of the Northlander
Camo to look, to listen
'There beyond the river is hero walking'
He took one step and took another
To the north's shore he hurried
He drew his sword, wrenched the iron
Snatched from the sheath the harsh one
Upon whose point the moon shone
Upon whose hilt the sun flashed
Upon whose back a horse stands
He uttered a word, spoke thus,
'There the sun has gone from you
The sun gone and the moon lost'
Morning Star
You live only for yourself
Or send your soul to the heaven's grace
Been weak as the autumn leaves
Or strong as the growing seed
Swallowed into the black
Search for entrace
[Chorus:]
Wathc to the eyes of morning star
Beckon for the savior
But it's much too far
Reach for the infinity
The only thing that remains is decay
My Kantele
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music reckon that the kantele
Was fashioned by a god
Out of a great pike's shoulders
From a water-dog's hooked bones:
It was made from the grief
Moulded from sorrow
Its belly out of hard days
Its soundboard from endless woes
Its strings gathered from torments
And its pegs from other ills
So it will not play, will not rejoice at all
Music will not play to please
Give off the right sort of joy
For it was fashioned from cares
Moulded from sorrow.
Nightfall
As a rot to rape the spring sown seed
A plague sprang forth of his tracks
Churns ran red when cows milked blood
And famine cracked poor backs
Who would hear a lament sad
Under the bright blue sky
That's sung in hovels dark and low
With eyes too weak to cry
[Chorus:]
But horror be the nightfall's gloom
For the man upon the road
When moon doth laugh at worthless lives
Twice hard for all promise showed
Empty stare upon his face
Nine fathoms deep
He set upon the road again
On ground that bears no seed
On Rich And Poor
Old folk remember
And those today learn
How before their time
Life was different here:
Without the sun people lived
Groped about without the moon
With candles sowing was done
Planting performed with torched.
At the time we lived
Without the sunshine
Who had covered up our sun
And who had hidden our moon?
Without the moonlight stumbled
With our fists fumbled the land
With our hands we sought out roads
With hands roads, with fingers swamps
We could seek out the sun
Who spy out the moon?
Who else if not God
The one son of God?
Rusty Moon
Bahted in the rust of moon
Is the death beds lullaby
Sung so softly with the stars
Reflected in her eyes
[Chorus:]
It's the blaze that beckons men
Into the woods, of beaten path
Is the sight of the fire that
No maiden's eyes should have
Iron does as iron's told
And drinks of life's red gold
But shame won't leave with dying breathe
The life that wants it's own death
And the forest hums its silent hymn
Heard by those of solitude
As mist it wells
Up the brook's dark banks
Bewitched by there fir woods
Shatters Within
Once I was there
Standing outside
Looking in
Beside my window
Smiling face, shattering
It's an old man's pride
That climbs over understanding
It wasn't your child
That I was hurting
[pre-chorus:]
And I turn my back to the world
Well I don't care
What can I say if I see you all as dead
[chorus:]
Under the dying sun it comes
Weaving fear but I have none
I know that mushroom cloud
Won't come very near
What do you have to believe in
And all the poison you breath in
The crystal heart shatters within
once I was there
standing outside
moving in
inside my window
crying face, shattering
take all that you have
and leave the rest for today
it's the old folk's sign
that took away your chastidy
Summer's End
In the morning mist by the waning moon
through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root
[Chorus:]
Tread my path to summer's end
This bequest I leave you she says
You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray
By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream
No love without sacrifice
No lige springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soils cold caress to rest we'll lay
The Brother Slayer
Where have you been, where have you been
my son, my merry son?
On the seashore, on the seashore
mother, my darling one.
And what have you been doing there
my son, my merry son?
I have been watering my horse
mother, my darling one.
Why is there blood upon your feet
my son, my merry son?
My horse stamped with its iron shoe
mother, my darling one.
Why there is blood upon your sword
my son, my merry son?
I have stabbed my brother to death
mother, my darling one.
What now of you, where will you go
my son, my wretched son?
To other lands to foreign lands
my dame, my darling one.
When will you be returning home
my son, my wretched son?
When all the world to judgement comes
my dame, my darling one.
The Castaway
A bird flew out of Lapland
An eagle from the North East
One wing ruffled the water
And the other swept the sky
It's tail skimmed the sea
It flutters, it glides
It looks, it turns round
'Why, man are you in the sea
Fellow, among the billows?'
The Gathering
As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one,
As we all gather once again
the gods of war summon us...
summon us
North wind blows to our valley
men with ships, with swords, with honour
Their horses between flames,
their dogs eating enemy childs,
Our heavenly father, what is this mortality,
do you see my mortal agony
Look, I see the shield up high
this must be the sign from my lord
this can be my death - sentence
what a fine day to die
Taste of blood comes up high
Wind blows hard, our men fall...
one by one
This oath claims me
I must bleed for my generation
Strong is the enemy,
strong is my sword
the hammer is rising
I feel their cold steel
Now when I leave this world
I shall open the mighty oaken gate
and we all shall gather once again
The Night Is Over
We craved the light from the darkness
It's a morning of misfortune
The dawn of a mankind
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see
[chorus:]
I can hear the silence
See invisible emptiness
Tarnish the halo of your guidance
And the night is over
That women in grief
Luxurious gehenna
And what I have become
What I have done to you
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see
The Orphan
The calloo's spirits are low
Swimming on the chill water
But the orphan's are lower
Walking down the village street.
The sparrow's belly is chill
Sitting on the icy bough
But my belly is more chill
As I step from glade to glade.
The dove's heart is cold
As it pecks the village rick
But I'm colder still
As I drink the icy water.
The Way
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go
Answering the questions thet no one ever asks
Float through the sea of madness
And face the everlasting task
So lonely to wander
So sad to be alone
In the mist of the unknown
Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true
So hard to stand my ground
Never again will I fail
[Chorus:]
Will you tell me not to wait
Tell me to live for today
As the flowers wither
I will forget my pain
Since the stars have shone
The devil has shown me the way
Veil Of Sin
For the cold pale women
I leave some of my goodness
I leave the veil of sin
And let go my dreams
[pre-chorus:]
Eternity follows me everywhere
Your words so hollow won't go anywhere
Distant shadows disappears
It searches the gate beyond the stars
And there I can see her again
[chorus:]
Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong
And I'm alive to be here
Is it just an omen
Is it me walking blindly
I will find the answer
When I wake up from my dream
[pre-chorus]
And there I can kill her again
Vulgar Necrolatry
Erosion of life I see
it makes the passion burn in me
Life it always withers away
Death will eternally stay
Corpses in their coffins
forever rest in peace?
There sleeping with the aspergillus
is this justice to the dead?
The atrocious sight of burial ecremony
Christians weeping for the departed
They won't understand, they should envy them!
The deceased they know, if there's a paradise
Or shall we feel, the purgatory!
I open the graves, admire the rot
I can feel the presence, of something beyond
Aureola of nauseating reek
Wings of shriveled skin
Holy beauty of a carcass
Divine sight for me to gaze upon!
Necrolatic! Reverence for putrefaction
Necrolatic! reverence for the stench
I kneel, before a carrion
I pray, before the dead
I know, they shall rise
I fear, for the scourge
I revere, power of the dead
Warriors Trail
As the sun falls down
and the swell crashes into the shore
The great warriors of doom and wind
ride high
Silent is the silence,
the only breathing of horses sound,
Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us
And we all live under the black mark
Oh lord, lead us to the paradise
My lord, is this the promised land
is this your gift
Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood
Sorrow - the unknown force
Hate - respect your enemy
Bitterness - shall be forever
Silence - nothing left
Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood
ALONE
Tear dimmed rememberance
In a womb of time
Breath upon me
Possessed by the passion
Fate will set you free
Infertile
Chased be the precious
When flesh is an enemy
Fair weather man
step aside from the way of a better man than you
so you fall at his feet he`s the one who betrays you
it`s the servants devotion for the decay
stand up
there are no flowers on your grave
there are no chains
there I keep chanting for the forgotten name
why you feel so empty
and still have everything
it`s fullfilment
I`ve got more companions
when I`m all alone
flesh is fetching
CAPTURET STATE
So many years I`ve been fading
And closed the doors behind
Pay that price if you lost it all
The end is not the past recall
Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it`s carved in your soul
Step out from your mould
The captured mind is a captured state
But only free will has it`s sustain
You burn away all you once loved
Now it`s time to turn away
It`s all too clear you`ve been hiding
Nothing to tell but lies
Feel shame when you distain it all
Your stand is not the past recall
CRIMSON WAVE
She`s riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder
Planets before melting face
The keys for the wounded
Sinking into underground
Please the one who wants it
Something is pulling you down
It`s not the cravings why you need it
It`s a rush hour inside my head
Don`t wanna share the anguish
And I will take it away from you
Before you can change it
That bastard hallucination`s pushing me
Like a damned I walk over
Touch the sky when it`s burning red
Standing the ground I have chosen
Shivering in outer space
There`s no one who can hear you
Getting into different state
It`s like getting nowhere
Gathering all those fears and fails
There`s no one who can see you
Someone is pulling you down
It`s not the cravings why you need it
DRIFTING MEMORIES
How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you`re only hurting yourself
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breath in black and stiffling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it`s too early to die
You don`t have to say
Why rue for that day
When you`ve open up your eyes again
Now it`s your fate
Face your heart ache
You wish to make it unreal
FOREVER MORE
I walk down to the seashore
To bury my hate
I wait till the morning of the mourning
But it`s too late
Down to the seashore
Through the illuminous gate
You wait for tomorrow but today is today
No one can understand my pain
Find me the ocean
Where waters stand still
Nothing can befall evermore
Find me the ocean which swallows all that floats
It`s time to prevail your conspiracy
It`s a whisper of a dead man
I`ve heard it before
It`s yearning my emotions
Before I was born
It was only delusion
Of illuminous gate
`cause today is the day
Calm is the breath that breaks the circle of silence
Like the whisper of a dying man
Who was born in his own funeral
Time is right for the twisted one
Guide me to the center of the vicious goal
You`re my prey, kiss my arrow the silver
GODDESS (Of The Sad Man)
Astonishment when I bend over you creep
Put a noose around my neck
Which side I deside it`s my time to reap
It`s your side wicked and deaf
Take me to the place I can sleep
Wipe away all misery
Turn my path away
From the mind tearing tragedy
Consuming range of vision
I can see they decline
It`s a stay of execution
I fly free tonight
New moon laughs on it`s own
Without compassion
I crawl through the realms unknown
And kneel to the goddess of the sad man
Inhale all mists from the shadows
And hide before the dawn
Face your mortal horror
You won`t be reborn
Is he a proud man or just a fraud
Fooling himself with a losers talk
Punished to eternal vanity
It`s thy destiny to cry for purity
You infidel slime
I grace insanity
satisfy my agony
I know what my goddess needs
I bet there`s something wrong
inside my psycho creep
fire burns within her eyes
take me to the deadly ride
I remember how she was
when she choked on her own pride
GRIEVE STRICKEN HEART
Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it`s not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like I love myself I love to sin
And I want more
And I want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But I wont crawl
Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I`m your devil in disguise
Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too
I`m the one to see your collapse
I`m on the side of destruction
On the side of black and I love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And I love myself
SHATTERS WITHIN
Once I was there
Standing outside
Looking in
Beside my window
Smiling face, shattering
It`s an old man`s pride
That climbs over understanding
It wasn`t your child
That I was hurting
And I turn my back to the world
Well I don`t care
What can I say if I see you all as dead
Under the dying sun it comes
Weaving fear but I have none
I know that mushroom cloud
Won`t come very near
What do you have to believe in
And all the poison you breath in
The crystal heart shatters within
once I was there
standing outside
moving in
inside my window
crying face, shattering
take all that you have
and leave the rest for today
it`s the old folk`s sign
that took away your chastidy
THE NIGHT IS OVER
We craved the light from the darkness
It`s a morning of misfortune
The dawn of a mankind
Listen to me instead of a blind folk`s speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you`ll see
I can hear the silence
See invisible emptiness
Tarnish the halo of your guidance
And the night is over
That women in grief
Luxurious gehenna
And what I have become
What I have done to you
Listen to me instead of a blind folk`s speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you`ll see
VEIL OF SIN
For the cold pale women
I leave some of my goodness
I leave the veil of sin
And let go my dreams
Eternity follows me everywhere
Your words so hollow won`t go anywhere
Distant shadows disappears
It searches the gate beyond the stars
And there I can see her again
Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong
And I`m alive to be here
Is it just an omen
Is it me walking blindly
I will find the answer
When I wake up from my dream
And there I can kill her again
>> Moon And Sun
Where has the sun gone from us
Where is the moon lost to us
The moon will not gleam at all
Nor will the sun shine at all
Death opens its mouth
The son of the Northlander
Camo to look, to listen
"There beyond the river is hero walking"
He took one step and took another
To the north`s shore he hurried
He drew his sword, wrenched the iron
Snatched from the sheath the harsh one
Upon whose point the moon shone
Upon whose hilt the sun flashed
Upon whose back a horse stands
He uttered a word, spoke thus,
"There the sun has gone from you
The sun gone and the moon lost"
>> Moon And Sun Part Ii: North`s Son
Go, look at the moon
And inspect the sun!
Now they are in the sky
Right in their old places
Hail, moon, for gleeming
Fair one for showing your face
Dear sun for dawning
And daylight for coming up!
Dear moon, you`re out from the rock
Fair day from the cliff
You`ve risen as a golden cuckoo
As a silver dove
Up to where you used to live
Fare well now upon
Your way, upon your journey
Sweetly end your curve beautifully
Come at evening into joy!
>> Against Widows
The Devils weds a widow
Death another`s leftovers
Better to lie on a willows
Rest on alder boughs
Then upon a widow`s bed
On a used woman`s pillow
Sweeter the side of a fence
Then a widow`s flank
Softer the side of a grove
Than a widow`s beside is
The Devil weds a widow
The grave one twice wed
A widow`s hand is rougher
Than a dry spruce bough
With which she strikes the playful
Grabs the one who laughs
A widow has had her games
And spent a merry evening
>> Cares
Many rocks the rapid has
A lot of billows the sea
More plentiful are my cares
Then cones on a spruce
Beard moss on a juniper
Gnarls upon a pine bark
Knobs upon a fir
Husks on a grass-top
Boughs on a bad tree.
Drag my cares away
Carry off my griefs
For no horse can draw
No iron-shod jerk
Without the shaft-bow shaking off
The cares of this skinny one
The sorrows of this black bird
>> Elegy
Long evenings full on longing
Low-spirited my mornings
Full of longing too my nights
And all times the bitterest.
`Tis my lovely I long for
It is my darling I miss
My black-browed one I grieve for.
There`s no hearing my treasure
No seeing my marten-breat
No hearing her in the lane
Driving below the window
Chopping the wood by the stack
Clinking outside the cook-house:
In the eart my berry lies
In the soil she`s mouldering
Under the sand my sweet one
Beneath the grass my treasure
The one I grieve for.
>> My Kantele
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music reckon that the kantele
Was fashioned by a god
Out of a great pike`s shoulders
From a water-dog`s hooked bones:
It was made from the grief
Moulded from sorrow
Its belly out of hard days
Its soundboard from endless woes
Its strings gathered from torments
And its pegs from other ills
So it will not play, will not rejoice at all
Music will not play to please
Give off the right sort of joy
For it was fashioned from cares
Moulded from sorrow.
>> On Rich And Poor
Old folk remember
And those today learn
How before their time
Life was different here:
Without the sun people lived
Groped about without the moon
With candles sowing was done
Planting performed with torched.
At the time we lived
Without the sunshine
Who had covered up our sun
And who had hidden our moon?
Without the moonlight stumbled
With our fists fumbled the land
With our hands we sought out roads
With hands roads, with fingers swamps
We could seek out the sun
Who spy out the moon?
Who else if not God
The one son of God?
>> Song Of The Troubled One
What the thrush toils at
The partridge asks for
The hapless one takes
The troubled one steals
Puts upon a spade
Sets on a runner
Hides under a door
Shields with a bath-whisk
The farmer hammers
And tempers his spears
Marries off his sons
Hands out his daughters
In boots clogged with ckay
In fancy mittens
The sea-swell rumbles
And the winds it blows
And the king hears it
From five miles away
From six directions
From seven back woods
From eight heaths away.
>> The Orphan
The calloo`s spirits are low
Swimming on the chill water
But the orphan`s are lower
Walking down the village street.
The sparrow`s belly is chill
Sitting on the icy bough
But my belly is more chill
As I step from glade to glade.
The dove`s heart is cold
As it pecks the village rick
But I`m colder still
As I drink the icy water.
>> Weeper On The Shore
In the vale where I once listened out for the light
Where the little birds warble
The ptarmigans babble
And my heart looked for some rest from its trouble
I cast my eyes downward upon the seaside
And a fair young girl on the shore I espied
Who was sitting and weeping
To see the waves leaping
And over the skyline sad vigil was keeping.
O why are you weeping alone on the shore?
Now still from your eyes I can see the tears pour.
What sorrow and smart
So pierces your heart
That even at midnight it will not depart?
>> Day Of Your Beliefs
I can hear your yearnings
your anguished cries
let the nourishment pass you by
as it leaves you without
without a trace
it leaves you without the scars
it`s a day of the ruins
the time of your relief
it`s a day of the judgements
the day of your beliefs
bitter is the end
the end of your cry
let your nourishment pass you by
it`ll leave you without
without your faith
it`ll leave you without your grace
it`s a day of the ruins
the time of your relief
it`s a day of the judgements
the day of your beliefs
>> Planetary Misfortune
I hear you
hear your worthless speech
unheard and sensational
feeding my comprehension
let me see beyond all additional
show me something real
something low and dramatical
when all this sinful glittery
is still too much to see
taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses
I fear you
planetary misfortune
who will pray for my hallucinations
I`m not attuned
when you fold your hands
it`s a wave of the salvation
and their slaves are their kings
futility of this creation
stand before the illusionist
the man of misapprehension
taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses
>> Evil Inside
Kiss the devil`s mark
like a self-denial without temptation
she suffers from shame
prodigious perversions
it`s her final dimension
feel affection for her longings
lamentation for no reason why
deep mistrust over matter
seduce it`s will to melt away
she`s plagued with pain
making me insane
passionate repulsion
kiss the evil inside
that you cannot deny
smiling at your sufferings
feel affection for her longings
lamentation for no reason why
deep mistrust over matter
seduce its will to melt away
>> Mourning Soil
Feel the ground
the mourning soil
close your eyes and lay
confront the passage of time
eternity which you cannot betray
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
sadness eclipsed
passing your heart
calling out the shadows from the dark
you still believe
that your life was empty
and now all that has gone
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
barter away this haziness
down to earth this sparkling distress
thereafter you calling me hallowed
down to earth this sparkling distress
down to earth this sparkling distress
>> Far From The Sun
Nothing is more than too much
I`m waiting for the tarnishing touch
you wish for the last kiss goodbye
like the child that cannot lie
I walk
away now from you
and your sun
it goes down from you
as I walk
away now from you
and from
from your sun
holding the wounds of the bleeding souls
you summon all the restless folk
to share the feast of anxiety
like the spawn that cannot breed
I walk
away now from you
and your sun
it goes down from you
as I walk
away now from you
and from
from your sun
>> Ethereal Solitude
Blackness falls on empty calmness
the night is full
I kissed the frozen sweetness
the mist around my grief
don`t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don`t let the silence take the sound
alone and isolated
ethereal solitude
you can keep all your secrets
there`s no one to hold on to
don`t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don`t let the silence take the sound
don`t let the past wear you down
let go of the life that haunts you tonight
don`t let the silence take the sound
>> Killing Goodness
There`s no existing misery
that just fades away
faint hearted mindless tracks
through the wicked world
the world of today
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
stay clear of the killing goodness
the greed of the dying gods
can`t you feel the raging darkness
the eyes stare at your heart
I see you dancing with the doomed
backwards to the womb
the spiral of life comes to the end
darkness will descend
it will descend
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
and all the people
wait too long
makes them hate too much
foolishness fills this empty space
misgiving all the fortune
misgiving all the luck
>> God Of Deception
The god of deception
a man with your face
see him still wondering
searching for your grave
needles called luster
it`s only a one night stand
and you are six feet under
dead by your own hand
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it`s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it`s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
make them blame themselves
regret the deceased
until the truth kills it`s novelty
attrition of their beliefs
as you lost your destination
something drilled holes in your soul
it`s time to meet your maker
raise the relief on your temple
it`s the pain that calls the tune
those heartbreaking moments
mislaid it all
all the happiness
you can die at your leisure
make them blame themselves
regret the deceased
until the truth kills its novelty
attrition of their beliefs
>> Higher Ground
I climb to the higher ground
to see what`s behind the sun
step on the hands made out of clay
the hands of stained mortals
all there is and all you`ll have
bless the one who cannot cry
there is no night
there is no sunlight
until you refuse to die
I`d let you sleep now
but I don`t know how
I`d let you grieve now
but I don`t know how
I chant the songs of madness
to be the chosen one
still all these bleeding wounds
cannot be cured by sadness
all there is and all you`ll have
bless the one who cannot cry
there is no night
there is no sunlight
until you refuse to die
I`d let you sleep now
but I don`t know how
I`d let you grieve now
but I don`t know how
>> Smithereens
I let you take
this breeding sorrow
you`re too close to see
as the pride inside of you
is smashed to smithereens
this fire hunts the soulless and the weak
bursting out the madness in me
and through all the that fear I have to keep
I still pretend to be real
you can`t resist
all those fools beside you
spread your arms and share
this hatred with me
as it smashes your soul to smithereens
this fire hunts the soulless and the weak
bursting out the madness in me
and through all the that fear I have to keep
I still pretend to be real
In the darkness I will shine, cast no shadows, not define
I walk on water, float on air, there`s no other to compare
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It`s called levitation
There`s no cause to start and scream, nor rub your eyes,
This is no dream
Although I sit upon this chair, I rise and float up in the air
I have this fascination, no cause for deviation
It`s called levitation
Magnetic force, repel-attract, once it starts, there`s no turning back
I offer you this chance to learn, take it now there`s no return
And I Hear You Call
I must be out of my mind as I hear you call
My name is even though I can`t see you anywhere
Surely this feeling must be coming from something
Someone gave me yesterday as I searched for you
And I hear you call
I hear you call my name
But when I turn around
There`s nothing to be found
I must be dreaming a dream of a lunatic
My fingers taste like some strawberry ice-cream
I hear you call my name but I don`t think it`s
The same I heard you whisper in my ear
>> My Kantele
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music reckon that the kantele
Was fashioned by a god
Out of a great pike`s shoulders
>From a water-dog`s hooked bones:
It was made from the grief
Moulded from sorrow
Its belly out of hard days
Its soundboard from endless woes
Its strings gathered from torments
And its pegs from other ills
So it will not play, will not rejoice at all
Music will not play to please
Give off the right sort of joy
For it was fashioned from cares
Moulded from sorrow.
>> The Brother-slayer
Where have you been,where have you been
my son, my merry son?
On the seashore, on the seashore
mother, my darling one.
And what have you been doing there
my son, my merry son?
I have been watering my horse
mother, my darling one.
Why is there blood upon your feet
my son, my merry son?
My horse stamped with its iron shoe
mother, my darling one.
Why there is blood upon your sword
my son,my merry son?
I have stabbed my brother to death
mother, my darling one.
What now of you, where will you go
my son, my wretched son?
To other lands to foreign lands
my dame, my darling one.
When will you be returning home
my son, my wretched son?
When all the world to judgement comes
my dame, my darling one.
>> Black Winter Day
This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed think
Like daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
But how do I feel
In my gloomy depths?
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day
No, darker than that
Gloomier than an autumn night
>> Drowned Maid
I went to wash at the shore
I went to bathe in the sea
And there I, a hen, was lost
I, a bird
Untimely died
Let not my brother
Ever in this world
Water his war-horse
Upon the seashore!
Waters of the sea
So much blood of mine
Fishes of the sea
So much flesh of mine
Such the death of the young maid
End of the fair little hen
>> First Doom
The mountains of North
Shall erupt and flames
Of darkland will raise
Hail to one who hails
Blood for one who bleeds
O you mistress of northland
Queen of darkland
I may wash my hands of the
Evil master`s blood
For that is no man`s doom
Which I bring
That is child`s doom
And it shall be the First doom
>> Forgotten Sunrise
Once I had a mind
And thoughts was given
But nowadays, in this evil age
All my sense is somewhere else
Once I had a soul
I was one with my god
But now I am abandoned
Banished from these lies
Long my tale`s been in the cold
For ages has lain hidden
I know how to bewitch fire
And how to fame flames
I know how to banish worms
And turn snakes away
>> In The Beginning
I have a good mind
Take into my head
To start of singing
Began reciting
We seldom get together
And meet each other
On these poor borders
The luckless lands of the north
Those words we have got
From the North`s furthest fields,
From the heaths of Kalevala
>> Into Hiding
The islander slips into hiding
And takes to his heels
Out of dark Northland
The murky house of Sara
He whirled out of doors as snow
Arrives as smoke in the yard
To flee from bad deeds
There he had to become someone else
He must change his shape
As an eagle he swept up
Wanted to soar heavenward
The sun burnt his cheeks
The moon lit his brows
>> Magic And Mayhem
Hey there, tiny wench
My perpetual serf
Put stew in a pot
Bring water for the guest
Before we part
Before your neck is broken
You strike first
Son of the north
>> The Castaway
A bird flew out of Lapland
An eagle from the North East
One wing ruffled the water
And the other swept the sky
It`s tail skimmed the sea
It flutters, it glides
It looks, it turns round
"Why, man are you in the sea
Fellow, among the billows?"
>> To Fathers Cabin
O old man, good god
Careful man of heaven
Keeper of storm clouds
Make misty weather
And create a tiny cloud
In whose shelter I may go
>> Exile Of The Sons Of Uisliu
A wave the sound of Noisiu`s voice
his singing was ever sweet...
Noisiu`s grave has now been made
and the accompaniment was mournful
For him I poured out - hero of heroes,
the deadly drink that killed him
Dear his short shining hair
a handsome man, even very beautiful
Dear the grey eyes that women loved
fierce they were foes
>> Grails Mysteries
I shall have a son,
out of Cornwall shall he come,
that shall be a wild boar,
bristled with steel...
he shall be a man most brave and
noble in thought
Thou shall kneel for him,
for every man shall humble in front of our lord
I stood upon the sand of the sea
and the great wind told me to carry on
He shall once know the secret of Holy Grail
And so was the coronation made
And there was he,
sworn unto his lords and the commons
to be true king
>> Karelia
"The sound of thousand warriors
The fields of thousand battles
Still, in our hearts we can hear
the great hymn of Karelia."
>> Misery Path
We sail across the sea,
In our thoughts we float over mountains
All this vanity that we could hide
The truth
The truth is to be alive
and to live your life in fear by hate
and create our own gods
We all ourselves are created
our own images
Ourselves we are created
our own gods
In the misty morning
When the sun is rising,
When the whole sky is red like blood
Man can realize the real meaning of life
to love and respect your life
Your salvation,
or is just your damnation.
We all ourselves...
>> Sign From The North Side
True Celtic power
from the cape of Cornwall
Cry of hope, angels cry
This was omen, our sign, prediction
Distant gate, gothic grave
Through ages our clan still remain
In this proud land I grew up strong,
My tears are flowing all around
The wind is twisting my sorrow
I still believe in truth and hate
All through my life I have carried our ring,
The omen
All this was the fragment from my life
In this proud land I was born alone
I was taught to fight, taught to win
They told me the way of steel and secret
I am the unburied child, child without a nam,
Without fate,
I fight for peace and love,
I am reborn
>> The Gathering
As I sense their steel,
As I see the mighty one,
As we all gather once again
the gods of war summon us...
summon us
North wind blows to our valley
men with ships, with swords, with honour
Their horses between flames,
their dogs eating enemy childs,
Our heavenly father, what is this mortality,
do you see my mortal agony
Look, I see the shield up high
this must be the sign from my lord
this can be my death - sentence
what a fine day to die
Taste of blood comes up high
Wind blows hard, our men fall...
one by one
This oath claims me
I must bleed for my generation
Strong is the enemy,
strong is my sword
the hammer is rising
I feel their cold steel
Now when I leave this world
I shall open the mighty oaken gate
and we all shall gather once again
>> The Lost Name Of God
We have to know, we have to see
Religions so many, which one of them are so real,
That it makes us to believe ?
Crushing the chains of faith
To find the way of immortality,
We`re hiding behind the cross
To find shelter,
we`re searching for the name of god
In this maze of hatred
The name of god is lost
Under the flag of salvation
we are cleared this land of pagans
Under the cover of Christianity,
we stained our hands in blood
At these times of anguish
The name of God is lost
"I saw the coming of the end,
Sun stopped its shining,
Air is no longer fresh,
Then it was too late to realize,
that we can`t breathe our hate."
The lost name of God
>> The Pilgrimage
In his eyes
The evil spirit rise
Turns to darkness with Satan`s name
"As the time is right
dead bodies rise up from their graves
And when the time comes near
Oh, I see the prince of glory"
Holy month
Sacred hounds
Under the hill
Do you hear their call
>> Vulgar Necrolatry
Erosion of life I see
it makes the passion burn in me
Life it always withers away
Death will eternally stay
Corpses in their coffins
forever rest in peace ?
There sleeping with the aspergillus
is this justice to the dead ?
The atrocious sight of burial ecremony
Christians weeping for the departed
They won`t understand, they should envy them !
The deceased they know, if there`s a paradise
Or shall we feel, the purgatory !
I open the graves, admire the rot
I can feel the presence, of something beyond
Aureola of nauseating reek
Wings of shriveled skin
Holy beauty of a carcass
Divine sight for me to gaze upon !
Necrolatic ! Reverence for putrefaction
Necrolatic ! reverence for the stench
I kneel, before a carrion
I pray, before the dead
I know, they shall rise
I fear, for the scourge
I revere, power of the dead
>> Warriors Trial
As the sun falls down
and the swell crashes into the shore
The great warriors of doom and wind
ride high
Silent is the silence,
the only breathing of horses sound,
Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us
And we all live under the black mark
Oh lord, lead us to the paradise
My lord, is this the promised land
is this your gift
Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood
Sorrow - the unknown force
Hate - respect your enemy
Bitterness - shall be forever
Silence - nothing left
Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood
>> Divinity
Last day brings the grace
For bearers of forbidden name
Step into five fold mace
As son as father in a frame
Chorus:
Someday fire wipes the rain
Fears are frozen tears whisper
Things that no one heras
Cry now, cry now for me again
Tomorrows pride and pain
Why you kneel before my name
Crushing my belief
And make shape to my relief
For who you set your prayers
I can`t hear them anyway
>> Greed
Not thirsty am I for the blood
Of redeemer of thy greed
My hunger can`t be satisfied
With flesh of thy nazarene
No gilded streets of heaven`s grace
Entice me in thy speech
No holy mother doth condone
All your pillage war and greed
But know thee that all oceans worth
Of waters turned holy
Won`t change the course of river
That runs inside of me
My blood flows ever skyward
And pools where thy black is white
For woulst thou not carme at my soul
With sword of thy supreme truth
Strike me down on my bended knees
For thy baptism so soothe
My blood flows ever skywawrd
And pools where thy black is white
Alone am I to raise my head
In the starless forest night
>> Morning Star
You live only for yourself
Or send your soul to the heaven`s grace
Been weak as the autumn leaves
Or strong as the growing seed
Swallowed into the black
Search for entrace
Chorus:
Wathc to the eyes of morning star
Beckon for the savior
But it`s much too far
Reach for the infinity
The only thing that remains is decay
>> Nightfall
As a rot to rape the spring sown seed
A plague sprang forth of his tracks
Churns ran red when cows milked blood
And famine cracked poor backs
Who would hear a lament sad
Under the bright blue sky
That`s sung in hovels dark and low
With eyes too weak to cry
But horror be the nightfall`s gloom
For the man upon the road
When moon doth laugh at worthless lives
Twice hard for all promise showed
Empty stare upon his face
Nine fathoms deep
He set upon the road again
On ground that bears no seed
>> Rusty Moon
Bahted in the rust of moon
Is the death beds lullaby
Sung so softly with the stars
Reflected in her eyes
It`s the blaze that beckons men
Into the woods, of beaten path
Is the sight of the fire that
No maiden`s eyes should have
Iron does as iron`s told
And drinks of life`s red gold
But shame won`t leave with dying breathe
The life that wants it`s own death
And the forest hums its silent hymn
Heard by those of solitude
As mist it wells
Up the brook`s dark banks
Bewitched by there fir woods
>> Shining
My soul is bleeding
I feel so small
Afraid that this will never end
I can`t understand the pain in my bones
I sleep through another trance
Climb over the rainbow
From here you can see so much
I need someone to take me down
But who can you trust
Got so many things to say
But it`s something I don`t wanna be
Gotta get away case it`s time to shine
Like a fallen angel I run
I won`t ever see the sun
See the circle is now complete
Yet the harvest remains undone
Where hemlock grows and vermin crowl
All dreams descend with fear
Crushed by the darkness that wells inside
That beast I hold so dear
>> Summer`s End
In the morning mist by the waning moon
through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root
Tread my path to summer`s end
This bequest I leave you she says
You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray
By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream
No love without sacrifice
No lige springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soils cold caress to rest we`ll lay
>> The Way
Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go
Answering the questions thet no one ever asks
Float through the sea of madness
And face the everlasting task
So lonely to wander
So sad to be alone
In the mist of the unknown
Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true
So hard to stand my ground
Never again will I fail
Will you tell me not to wait
Tell me to live for today
As the flowers wither
I will forget my pain
Since the stars have shone
The devil has shown me the way
>> Tuonela
Sorrow is my bread
And tears I drink as wine
Oblivion my happiness
Ground under teeth of time
For cold be the stone
When frost ve devoured the land
Consolation is no gift
Of winter`s icy hand
Upon a crust of snow
I`ll lay my broken frame
What steel and iron won`t take
I`ll give in winter`s name
No good a sullen sout no use a simple knave
No groom for brides of plaited hair
This man old and lame
If only I could breathe
To see the sun of may
but still longer are the nigths than days
As I wither away
Came the man of crown
With sound of war drums beat
Said no sword arm`s strong enough
Without my two good feet
But not overlooked am I
In eyes of the maid I`ll wed
I`ll reap the crops of Tuonela
My bride`s wealth in death
>> Withered
Withered be the flower
Long past it`s prime and bloom
Forgotten on the stony bed
This silent hillside tomb
For coppered be the grip
Of this wooded land
A crude cold gauntlet
Hides the boney hand
Tears once warmed the ground
Torn out of eyes that could cry no more
Compassion for the wind to take
O doth pity the bastard poor
A life of misery and hate
Upon a chance a twist of fate
The poison from the goblet ran
Down the throat of her drunken man
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