1. PRAELUDIUM

(Instrumental)


2. ALL THAT REMAINS

The island's taken
Innocence slain
What's left back is ravaged
Only a shade of the past

The axe of reality falls
And mutilates all

Painfully they battered down their spirit
Disrooted the tree of wisdom
All that remains is a memory of certainty
An arcane hollow of lost treasures

You cannot hide
What's left behind
You cannot hide
All that remains

The face of foresight told,
That one day they would slay
The island's might
But there was no fear troubling them
As they knew all would remain

The axe of reality falls
And mutilates all

Painfully they battered down their spirit
Disrooted the tree of wisdom
All that remains is a memory of certainty
An arcane hollow of lost treasures

You cannot hide
What's left behind
You cannot hide
All that remains

Deep underneath the surface's seething
What had been thought silenced
But no human's sword has ever been forged
Strong enough to shatter what's so pure

The axe of reality falls
And mutilates all

Painfully they battered down their spirit
Disrooted the tree of wisdom
All that remains is a memory of certainty
An arcane hollow of lost treasure


3. 1405 AD.

I feel my blood in my veins, in my heart
Fear against rage as they tried to storm the hill

Crashing shields and bones
Blood spills my eyes
The enemy's going down
For the final hit we raise

Overwhelming noise of boulders
Smashing down
I reach the hill and I raise my voice

Brothers raise your swords
Into history
Fight for your land
Showing no mercy

We feel overstrained by watching them take
All what we've built, all what we've gained

We fear no loss, we fight them back
No one will ever retrieve their track

Brothers raise your swords
Into history
Fight for your land
Showing no mercy

Silence has come back, silence over the land
Screams echo in my mind, dead everywhere

Brothers raise your swords
Into history
Fight for your land
Showing no mercy


4. MIDWINTER

I walk alone in the midwinter storm
Nothing lives here without death
Long forgotten by mankind and gods
I'm the frozen midwinter dream
Nothing but coldness surrounds me
Takes me in its warm embrace
And I follow the whispers of long gone times
Into the middle of the midwinter storm

I cannot see the sky, black clouds are following me
I cannot see the sky, I bring you nightmares and fear

Only shadows rotten remain
Of what once pervaded this valley
Are silently creeping up the way
Their freezing breath bringing midwinter pain
I climb up the hill and I see the dead land
Devoured by greed of men
And now, I'm going down
To bring frozen death
One day you will remember me

I cannot see the sky, black clouds are following me
I cannot see the sky, I bring you nightmares and fear

Feed my hunger with sorrow and pain
Still my thirst with fear
And lastly heal my wounds at
The midwinter source
That rose from all the mourning souls
No fire is burning, now to keep you warm
And nothing will guide you a light
For you are damned to stay with me
In the battlefield of the midwinter's fight

I cannot see the sky, black clouds are following me
I cannot see the sky, I bring you nightmares and fear

I walk alone, midwinter, I walk alone

I cannot see the sky, black clouds are following me
I cannot see the sky, I bring you nightmares and fear


5. YOUR TREE

Behind the branches hide faces in the dark
And deep in the woods secrets lie waiting
The wisdom of spirits captured within
The green earth, the fertile one, that carries my feet

If only they could see all her beauty

Hail to your glory, hail to your comeliness
To all you're giving, to all you're abjuring

Your bestowals are abused
They let rot your skin and your fruits
For no one remains who'd value
Or retreat to your tree

If they listened they could hear them
Dancing and praising their mother's preciousness
And if they finally opened up their eyes
They would agree to be ostracised

How long is she willed to endure our disgrace?

We devour her trees
Tear out her veins
Drink her blood
Although were already replete
We devour her trees
Tear out her veins
Until all's gone
Until all's deserted

Rubbles and ashes, what have we done?
Why don't they see? why don't they regret?
All my cries they die away, unheard
I'll stay with your tree until the end

Your bestowals are abused
They let rot your skin and your fruits
For no one remains who'd value
Or retreat to your tree

Hail to your glory, hail to your comeliness
To all you're giving, to all you're abjuring


6. DARKNESS

The silence took over and all grew sinister
As the first man was offered sway
And as the second grew envious
It was in murder he turned callous
A door that had been shut opened up

Welcome to the other world
Enter the darkness
Welcome to the other world
Enter this cursed place

It's the end of the world as yon know it
When the darkness arises

Too many times blood's been shed
In the name of god
Too many men've suffered from hate
Turning inside out their black torn souls
Making the whole world stumble and fall
'til finally all's overwhelmed by darkness

Welcome to the other world
Enter the darkness
Welcome to the other world
Enter this cursed place

It's the end of the world as yon know it
When the darkness arises

Welcome to the other world
Enter the darkness
Welcome to the other world
Enter this cursed place

Everything's wasted
Everything's silenced
Everything's wasted
Enter the darkness

It's the end of the world as you know it
When the darkness arises
Face your fraud, face the truth
When the darkness arises


7. NORNENGESANG

Ich war, bevor die urzeit war
Stieg aus ewigkeits schächten
Ich schürte die glut auf muspels altar
Verkehrte mit finsteren mächten
Ich weiss nicht, was dann geschieht
Was das jetzt gebar
Ich wandle und weile immerdar
In vergangener zeiten nächten

Wir weben und weben am weltenlauf
Und können ihn doch nicht wenden
Das schicksal breitet die faden auf
Die wir vor und rückwärts senden
Das schicksal halt sie in den handen
Das müssen wir vollenden

Gegrüßt sei odin und laut genannt
Du gott gewordener gedanke
Du weltalls geist in form gebannt
Drum alles sich ordne und ranke
Ich gebe dir nun einen rat
Der nutzet dir und frommt
Ich weiss nicht was war
Weiss nicht was kommt
Die gegenwart zieht mir die schranke

Wir weben und weben am weltenlauf
Und können ihn doch nicht wenden
Das schicksal breitet die faden auf
Die wir vor und rückwärts senden
Das schicksal halt sie in den handen
Das müssen wir vollenden

Ich sehe alles, alles voraus
In der zukunft offenen hallen
Seh' ich alles verfallen

Wir weben und weben am weltenlauf
Und können ihn doch nicht wenden
Das schicksal breitet die faden auf
Die wir vor und rückwärts senden
Das schicksal halt sie in den handen
Das müssen wir vollenden


8. MY RESCUE

Over the hills so green
And enchanted by moonlight
Between the ruins and stones
Shines a fire so bright

Go there along the path
And guess what you will find
It's my heart, yes, I ripped it out
For him, it shines so bright

Never shall I forget
His hand that took me out
Out of darkness, out of pain
Away from the blindness
Away from my cave
Where I'd been kept for so long
I'd waited for him there
To release me from mine

Over the hills he sent
His breath that iced all green
It was crawling all over the land
'til it reached my feet

Then deep in the night he fought
Against the shadows haunting me
And then, yes, he took my heart
And healed it slightly

Never shall I forget
His hand that took me out
Out of darkness, out of pain
Away from the blindness
Away from my cave
Where I'd been kept for so long
I'd waited for him there
To release me from mine

His presence covered the rain
In my breast
That almost tore me in two
My only defender
My hold that I gain is he

Out of nowhere, out of the doom
From where despair sends its gloom
I set sails into this green land
To take her by the hand

For no one ever dares
To know my name
I travel alone amongst time
Listen to the cries of lost souls
And lead them home
And all that's left is a rune
Carved in stone

Never shall I forget
His hand that took me out
Out of darkness, out of pain
Away from the blindness
Away from my cave
Where I'd been kept for so long
I'd waited for him there
To release me from mine


9. BURNING STAR

For half of my life
I've felt I'm on this journey
Cutting through the ice
The ice, that tore my heart

Remember me, though I'm left behind
I'm in the wind, I'm in the ice and in your tears
I see the curse still hunting you
Dreadful shadows tearing you apart

I lost my soul long ago
I just fell like a burning star

Come to me, reach for me now
For I've come to release you
All these years of wandering in the dark
Could soon be over, could soon be past

I lost my soul long ago
I just fell like a burning star

Felt your distress
And I heard your screams
In every dark night I found thy ashes
The remains of a burning star
So I passed back through the gates
To free you

I lay myself down and while my sight darkens
I hear the wise through the branches back

Soon the pain will be gone
Soon your heart won't be forlorn
The final curtain is now about to fall
And I put on your head a golden crown

I lost my soul long ago
I just fell like a burning star
Faded to black, captured in misery
I just fell like a burning star

I fell like a burning star I just
Fell like a burning star I just
Fell like a burning star I just
Fell like a burning star


10. ODE TO OBLIVION

Close your eyes and see life passing by
One moment ago, you've just learned to
Walk but now you're old

So fill this glass, don't worry man
Things cannot be changed
Instead you should get lost in oblivion

All the worries about missed stories
Sit down and forget them
Life's too short to miss
Any drunken bliss

All these things that you stored deep inside
Are equal, are letting you be the man
You used to be

So fill this glass, don't worry man
Things cannot be changed
Instead you should get lost in oblivion

All the worries about missed stories
Sit down and forget them
Life's too short to miss
Any drunken bliss

When the moment comes
Can you stand your self reflection?

All the worries about missed stories
Sit down and forget them
Life's too short to miss
Any drunken bliss


11. WAYFARER

Adar en forwen
Anno dad loss lm
A pan tmin
Pan gorgor
Ar or i gardh coll

Emel en harad
Dagro dan naur na naur
A pân tmin
A pân gwenn
Ar uvan brona an narad

I lû erui gaud
Athgared ar athgared
Laew harthar
Dan laew gwannar
Ar in elenath tiriel o chaeded

So many years have past
But no scar seems to last
Underneath the mask of being so wise
We slay what was given as paradise

I lû erui gaud
Athgared ar athgared
Laew harthar
Dan laew gwannar
Ar in elenath tiriel o chaeded