1. STORMBRINGER

Ideas are the wind
Wafting away disease
Words are water
Flushing out the plague of unease

Deny the cleansing
And cornered germs will fester
Death comes riding
In a pale horse made swifter

The sky has many faces
Around the wheel of the sun
Ill-prepared to understand
The slaves they have become

Shackled by ignorance
Withholding the key
The rape of conscience
Castration of liberty

Holding back the rain will bring on the storm
Holding back the rain will bring on the storm


2. LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT

Far away people heard him say
I will find a way
There will come a day
Something will be done

Then at last the mighty ship
Descending on a point of flame
Made contact with the human race
At no time

Now is the time to be
Be aware

Not as far the solar bear
In human role revealed to him
A living soul of heavenward
Forever

Sunlight
Something in my eyes
Something in the sky
Waiting there for me

The antelope grows hurling back
The servicemen would like to sigh
The memory went flowing rounds
Was Lucy in the sky

Oh did you ever know
No never ever will
They ascend!

Summoning his cosmic power
And glowing slightly from his toes
Psychedelic nations fly


3. THE SLEEPING TYRANT

Out of reach in realms beyond
All light and truth the hidden son
From bloodied womb father creation
Narcissus high among the suns

Under lakes of carrion pallor
Where the weight of purity bore him down
Enthroned on thorns of brimstone fury
The thief of always anoints his brow

Beneath somber forest funeral half light
And moon-soaked spires of mighty oak
Titans march to summers death throes
Valour gilded hearts to overthrow

Legion guide us, calvary calls
Entwined in threads of earthbound lust
The blood of Hubris rising (fearful)
Cast him down, nay cast him out


4. THE OATH HE SWORE ONE WINTERS’ DAY

A snowed in forest path
With lament I dream of long forgotten times
An image comes to my mind
Of a young man riding through the frozen woods

In his eyes rage and bitter tears
His village was burnt to the ground
He storms forth, crying out his pain
He is driven by his mother’s last words:

“Raise your sword, my warrior, and revenge us
Fight the men that came to rape our souls
Never let our gods die”

His loved ones were no more
The false men with cross slaughtered them all
They tried to enforce strange rules
Which were only meant to turn men to fools

His people saw through the lies
They stood proud until the end of their time
By the false men they were shamed
Young man for your honour you will have to die

“Raise your sword, my warrior, and revenge us
Fight the men that came to rape our soil
Never let nature die”

My vision ends here and I return to the modern world
Suddenly I see a young man walking
Sad blue eyes in a bitter face
And there’s a young man in the east and another in the west
And another raising from the south
They all move on driven by the call:

“Raise your sword, my warrior, and revenge us
Fight the men that came to rape our souls
Never let our gods die
Raise your sword, my warrior, and revenge us
Fight the men that came to rape our soil
Never let nature die”


5. JOURNEY’S END

Shafts of morning dew
Fade to dusk
Fires in the distance
Under this blood red sky
A million martyrs died
And beneath the pale moon’s face
They shall again arise

Under blood
A million martyrs died
And beneath moon
They shall arise

Some things are best left in dreams
Reality can be a cruel mistress
Are your lessons, are they learnt?

Chapters close
Veins collapse
A passage ends
A rite is earnt

Their blood hath quenched the land
Their spirit has set the stone
And forever the pagan lands shall cry
With a heart so heavy and limbs so weary

Let no man for his sins atone
Our days of glory have gone

Gone forever
Lost forever


6. ET HVITT LYS OVER SKOGEN

(No lyrics available)


7. DREAMS OF THEE

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night
When the winds are breathing low
And the stars are shining bright
I arise from dreams of thee
My lips and eyes are cold
Why did you forsake me here
In this darkened room
The nightingale’s complaint
It dies upon your heart
As I must die on thine
Beloved as thou art
My hand is cold and white, alas
And my heart beats hard and fast
Now press it close to thine again
Where it will die at last
The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent dream


8. SOMNIFERUM

Down on the street
The night is a whore for dreams of fools
Where things of old still turn to gold
In hands of ghouls

I would castrate you
A choir of the damned
To sing you songs of love
Of kisses cursed by the Dog Star

And when the summer turns to fall
I’d stay with you
Watching the leaves turn gold and grey
Outside your room

For here is juice of poppy bruised
With hemlock black and poisonous infused
Life is a witch and then you fly

Somniferum!

Down on the street
The neon spells out my true love
How I fell for her kisses cold
On my skin as a tip of steel

Led by the angels white
Through gravestones blank and clean
On thru the pastures of green
I’d be all things that might have been

And where the angels fear to tread
I’d walk with you
For there is nothing that can harm a love that’s true

For here is juice of poppy bruised
With hemlock black and poisonous infused
Life is a witch and then you fly

Somniferum!

And death is not black
But snow white as charms
Treasured out of sight
Untouched by the August sun
Unto which all life must be undone
In the end love, dream and death are one again

For here is juice of poppy bruised
With hemlock black and poisonous infused
Life is a witch and then you fly

Somniferum
Somniferum
Somniferum
Somniferum!


9. THESE MORTAL SINS

Oh, it’s so alluring
These mortal sins of the flesh
I never toy with amusement
And I have no time for repent

Down over my head
Silence
Nothing unpleasant have been said

Define me and touch me and kiss me
Pretend I am your puppet on a string
Pretend I am yours and fully tamed now
What joy lies in these smallest lawless sins

Down over my head
Silence
Nothing unpleasant have been said

Under this coating of caring
Awaits the manipulating self
I never thought you could fool me
And my tears are already spent

Down over my head
Silence
Nothing unpleasant have been said


10. ANCIENT SKIN

In these nights of magic
Where great pamis obscured
By the fantasy dragon made real
By the powers of lingering trauma

I looked beyond the dawn of day
Beyond the angst ridden faces
Into the mind captured behind
Living the lie of the weakened ones

I captured the moment given
I denied the sickening love
Turned to the purity of anger
I saw myself in the abyss

Complete fullness I now own
I return to earth a demon race
Denied by man through ages
Now I walk the dying soil

Atrocities turned beauty
Machines of torture turned art
Beneath your cities I sleep
At dawn I weep...


11. NEED

No need to feel
No need to be
No need to be down here
In this corporal sea

No need to comprehend
Adapt or pretend
No envy nor distrust
In the end, lust

This is sex without touching
This love without speech
This is where the angels in exile
Like you and I meet

Give it up and give in
This is love, this is sin
Give it up and give in
This is love, this is sin

…sin…sin…sin…sin...

This is love and I’m infected
You’re the drug that I’ve had injected

Give it up and give in
This is love, this is sin
Give it up and give in
This is love, this is sin


12. VESTIGIAL HORN

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13. LUX ET TENEBRAE

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14. THE COLOUR OF COMPASSION

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