Hanging Garden (FIN) : The Garden
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1. THE GARDEN
See the leaves rustle in the summer's breath
The last one before the looming fall
The life still lingers in the autumn’s shade
Eager for the promise of first snow
Each hill and boulder familiar
Sacred and whole
My pulse runs through my people
In the bedrock
In the bone and marrow
Alive with a sacred fire
It burns through our skin
See the flowers bloom
In the hallowed ground
With the gentle promise of the spring, ah
All lifе now awakens from black winter's bane
Eagеr now, towards summer grow
Each hill and boulder familiar
Sacred and whole
My pulse runs through my people
In the bedrock
In the bone and marrow (In the bone and the marrow)
See the leaves rustle in the summer's breath (Before we fall into night)
The last one before the looming fall (Before we fall, before we fall into night)
The life still lingers in the autumn’s shade
Eager for the promise of first snow (Before we fall, before we fall into night)
Each hill and boulder familiar
Sacred and whole (Before we fall, before we fall into night)
2. THE FOUR WINDS
When the fire burns low
Embers in the searing morn
Pour the last cup on the dying pyre
For the four winds before setting sail
Oh north, there's nothing here
The hills are quiet in their decaying sleep
The souls here have lost their spark
Lost their spark
East wind, rise brisk and tall
Take me away, take me far
Further still when upon the shore
Upon the shore
West, dear friend, rеmind me still
Where my spirit liеs, and I will
Reside when my heart goes still
And brave south, bless my bones
When the trail weighs on my soul
And my fire's about to die
(About to die)
When the fire burns bold
Embers in the smoldering dawn will glow
Drink the first cup by the roaring pyre
For the winds to take me far
West, dear friend, remind me still
Where my spirit lies, and I will
Reside when my heart goes still
And brave south, bless my bones
When the trail weighs on my soul
Breathe your life on my dying fire
My fire now alight
My fire now alight
My fire now alight
3. THE CONSTRUCT
Once we sought the call of the wild
Through the drudge and the dreariness
The safety of bright city lights
Their eternal flame in the night
Away from the seething construct
The gentle bars of the machine's duress
Away from that industrial harmony
Disassemble the cogs and the gilded wheels
Now we seek shelter from the wild
Deep within the construct's shade
Mere shadows, we seethe in the dark
Gnawing on the machine's remains
Cold in spitе of the last light
Deep is the night
Dark in spite of a myriad firеs
Cold is the night
Away from the seething construct
The gentle bars of the machine's duress
Away from that industrial harmony
Disassemble the cogs and the gilded wheels
Away from the seething construct
The gentle bars of the machine's duress
Away from, from that industrial harmony
Disassemble the cogs and the gilded wheels
4. THE SONG OF SPRING
I stand amidst nothingness
In the silent haste of those now absent, ah-hah, ah-hah
The cry of the voiceless monument
Takes my breath away
The only sound that remains
I take one step, deeper yet
Down the stairway of death
Life's meager thread
The string between two worlds divides us
Life's meager thread
The subtle outline against the dark
The quiet in the eyes of thе others
The touch on their skins indiffеrent
And yet on the lips of every single soul
They defined me here
The yearning and solitude, ah-hah, ah-hah
I take one step, deeper yet
Down the stairway of death
I take a step, further yet
All the way to the furthest chamber
Life's meager thread
The string between two worlds divides us
Life's meager thread
The twine that will run out but we don't know when
Life's meager thread
The string between two worlds divides us
Life's meager thread
The twine that will run out but we don't know when
I shall not yield before you
Bow down before the strongest will
I am spring, the eternal light
Unending will to break free
So write this unto yourself
Unto your bones, unto the marrow
Take the song of spring
5. THE FIRE AT FIRST DAWN
On the shore
The salty wind
Gentle rain
They're calling me
And I fall with them
From heaven's vault
A torrent and a cloud
A firebrand, a storm
From welkin's shores
A herald heaven-borne
I fall down
Atia
Taranis and Týr my name
Thunder
Perkunas, Fire's son
On the shore
At world's end
Searing rain
It falls with me
And I fall with flame
From heaven's vault
I fall down
(I am called)
Atia
Taranis and Týr my name
Thunder
Perkunas, Fire's son (I fall down)
Since the first dawn's time I have been
Till the last dusk I will remain
Sincе the first song I have been
Till the last dancе I will remain
Since the first dawn's time I have been
Until the last dusk I will remain
Since the first song I have been
Until the last dance I will remain
6. THE NIGHTFALL
The smell of ripe soil, of wood
And gentle decay
The smell of fresh rain
Of things alive within the earth
So familiar when all else is gone
So familiar when all else is gone
Far away
The sun is dancing
The falling night calls for the departed
I walk towards the shade of the primeval trees to be forgotten
As I have been bereft of memory
Memory
The smell of ripe soil
Of things alive within the earth
So familiar
Weep not for me, this I have chosen
To walk the path of those forgotten
The trail of tears and release
Far away
The sun is dancing
The falling night calls for the departing
I heed the call, I fall upon the dusk
And let my tears fall
Unto oblivion
I walk towards the shade of the primeval trees to be forgotten
As I have been bereft of memory
As I have been bereft of memory
As I have been bereft of
7. THE STOLEN FIRE
My bones are scattered
Upon the threshold of dusk
Guarded by the spirit of dawn
Seated upon black stone
I guard the darkness alone
The stolen fire smothered, forever lost in the dark
On the hill of eternity
I am one with it all
On the hill of eternity
I am alive
My dust is scattered
Along the bridge of the moon
Watched over by the eternal twilight
A breath upon the shore
I guard the darkness alone
My titan figure drowned in a Lethean tide
Oh, my children
Those who held aloft my light
Oh, my children
All but gone into the night
They have all but forgotten
On the hill of eternity
I am one with it all
On the hill of eternity
I am alive
Oh, my children
Those who held aloft my light
They have all but forgotten
Oh, my children
All but gone into the night
And so my watch is ended on Lethean shores
8. THE JOURNEY
Oh, soil, tell me your story
Of your journey to the land of the dead
To your house of demise
Let me herald your will
A voice through the wasteland
Through forests' silence unbroken
A whisper 'midst white waters' roar
Tells a story of long forgotten shores
Words break, words bind
Divinities' design
Resound through tales
In the hearts of men
Voiceless I stand in the wasteland
As the forests' shadow falls
A whisper 'midst white waters' roar
Along the long forgotten shores
Turn my gaze, the shades in my eyes
The dust in my soul
My cold hand, a touch on the skin of the earth
It bears the scythe of fate
Turn my gaze, the shades in my eyes (The shades in my eyes)
The dust in my soul
My cold hand, a touch on the skin of the earth (The skin of the earth)
It bears the scythe of fate
9. THE DERELICT BAY
(Instrumental)
10. THE FIRESIDE
Onward through shallow water
Hear the spirit call
For your safe return
For the tide to bring you home
From your journey harsh and long
Come
Run through the dark
Come and join the
Dance, dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
The spirit invites you to
Dance, dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
Through fire, for you are alive, alive
The waves speak to you at the waters' edge
A story of forgotten shores
A tale of tattered banners
Of battles lost, some won
Long since gone
Dance, dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
The spirit invites you to
Dance, dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
Through fire, for you are alive, alive
Through fire, for you are alive, alive
Come
Run through the dark
Come
Run through the dark
11. THE RESOLUTE
Deceiver and Bor's heir
Written in the book of tales we became
Fallen Lucifer, a brother's kiss
Upon his brow, as one they now atone
Through fire and flame
Across this murky unending plain
Through fire and flame
Bound in blood we last another day
Through fire and flame
Across this murky unending plain
Through fire and flame
Bound in blood we last another day
Another day
In lifeblood we are bound
Fettered by a solemn fate, we remain
Fallen, wе rise again
The path we walk is sеt in bones
As one we take this road
Through fire and flame
Across this murky unending plain
Through fire and flame
Bound in blood we last another day
Through fire and flame
Across this murky unending plain
Through fire and flame
Bound in blood we last another day
We last another day
Through fire and flame
We walk the trail of sorrows
Through mire and rain
Above us the unlit sun
Through fire and flame
We walk the trail of sorrows
Through mire and rain
Above us the unlit sun
Through fire and flame
Resolute we push ever onward
In the end we are as one
Through fire and flame
Resolute we push ever onward
In the end we are as one
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