1. BOUNDED BY ALLEGIANCE

Brought here by sorrow
Raised in the depths of fear

Consuming sanity
Feasting on the joy of Man

Surrounding the trembling mind
Surrounding the troubled soul
Strength failed to tame the serpent
The offspring of laughter and sadness
Saved by the power of its kin
Obeying the whispering chaos
Pulsating underneath your skin
Feasting 'till the end of time

Denying all peace within
Fearing the freedom it never feels

Bounded by allegiance
To long gone sanity

It hurts deep below

Emerge at the last step


2. ASCENSION

Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space
I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms
We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky
The gods spoke to us, in their infancy
Suns waiting for us to smitten them with the flames of our disease
And we did so, laughing, giving birth to sunrises in our wake

Never in need of sleep, nor in need of truth
I would never have stayed in this darkness, and we
would ascend

The taste of ash, no stars above - No green grass below
The last words set ablaze as we saw the inner imagery
How it all came alive when we no longer reached for it
How it all rose and overwhelmed the speechless (us)

In this house without words we came to be one
In these books without text we found the way

A path along a faded memory, without the fear of finding home

We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed
We would never have stayed in this darkness
We would never have stayed
We would ascend


3. THE VOICES

I hear their poisonous words again
As they call out for submission and code
"To be less than one and drown equals pride" they say
These were the voices that destroyed us

Did I want for this loss to be sustained?

Through the clipping of wings found the secret paths
From the blinding light of lies obtained second sight
Stabbed in the back, gained strength in One-ness
Taken from me, I learned to preserve

These were the voices that sunk our ships
These are the voices - poisoned ears bleeding

Did I pray for the dead to be kept awake?
Did I gently place these thorns through the surface of my eyes?
Did I ask for this fathomless tragedy to go on forever?

Fail to comply - reborn in war
The answer being no

Did I?


4. LUNAR FORCE

Farewell my brother
Farewell my foe
May death embrace you
Your blood in the darkness flow

You were never meant to rule
Never to light up my father's throne
May you suffer deep below
You tried to deprive (me of) my rightful crown

Fallen, defeated, tricked by Beorc,
The Lunar Force
Behold the sorcerer when you're
Impaled by the sword

Farewell my brother
Farewell my friend
May she have pity with you
We did not wish for your life to end

The day will bleat when
The Old One arrives
The King betrayed by his treacherous mind
Defeated by Beorc, The Lunar Force


5. ISA

Been standing here for ages
Watching the valleys blossom and burn
The pyres of yesterday smells of losing you
Preserved we are, portraits (in the glassy depths)
I picked up the shattered mirror, put them in water
Cold as my dreams

Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered
Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice
Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy
Isa: We are the dead

We arrived here from different spaces
Bidding the wooden shrines farewell
Concealed within dead lips lies the rope
That forged us and then tore us to shreds
Distant opposite assembly at the shores
They're telling me it's time to let go

A time to burn, a time to build
With your own hands a room within that room
Bring it all towards the centre and tremble
Bring her back from the shadows and kiss her
Retrieve the sword from the abyss
Hold back the tidal wave

Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered
Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice
Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy
Isa: We are the dead


6. JOTUNBLOD

Bunnløst svelg, Ginnungagap
Endeløst mørke fø Tiders Morgen
Kulderikets elleve elver frosne
Frosttåke brer seg vidt utover
Gufset fra Nivlhel i Nord
Fyller det mektige gap
Slikkende tunger av ild fen Sør
Kokende, boblende eiter

Alt liv har sitt opphav i en kilde av
Jotunblod
Ditt sinns eget onde indre;
Jotunblod

Strommer fra Hvergelmes Kilde
forenes med kvalmende eiterdråper
Den Første, alle slekters Far
Skart av de To Elementar
Med seg selv han avlet
Vine stolte fedre
Vir Urkrafts dype rotter
Med energi fra feets fire elver

En kniv gjennom mørket
Et skingrende skrik
Et blekt ansikt fråder
Han vandrer stolt over Ymer's knokler

Alt liv har sitt opphav i en kilde av
Jotunblod
Ditt sinns eget onde indre;
Jotunblod

Oni en søker all Midgards viten
Om den kloke Volve svinger sin stav
En unagår ei sitt opphav
Urkraftens kaos, Jotunblod


7. RETURN TO YGGDRASIL

Eg veit at eg hekk
På vindalt tre
Netter heile nie
Med geir-odd sàra
Og gjeven Odin
Gjeven sjølv til meg sjølv
Oppå det treet
Som ingen veit
Kvar det av rotom renn

Ikkje brød dei bar meg
Og brygg ikkje
Ned eg nidstirde
Tok opp runer
Ropande tok dei
Ned at der frå fjell eg fall

Nie tryllesongar fekk eg
Av den fræge son til
Boltorn, far til Bestla
Og drikke eg fekk
Av den dyre mjøden
Aust opp av Odrere

Då for eg til å frentjast
Og frod verte
Og vekse og finne meg vel
Ord meg av ord
Ord arta
Verk meg av verk
Ord arta


8. THE CROSSING

Betrayed by disillusion
Enslaved by insanity
Enslaved by commitment to betrayal
Betrayed by all elements

My vision is clear and strong
I comfort myself to fulfil it
There exists no edge
Clearly existence is wrong

I kill myself to fulfil my vision
Consumed by astral interference
I deny this monument to be my sphere
I choke this ego to find that i'm dead
I deny this monument to be my sphere

I will die as one