1. MY BELOVED...

Lost in the blackness
I look at the night sky
Seeing only your strands of hair
I would drown in them tonight
Only if I could...

2. ...BLACKNESS

Only if I could
Approach all the stars
Become the part of infinity
To bury into you
Loosen my grip on reality
And fly toward well known depth
Of experienced shared hours

Moments that used to be my shelter
Today transformed into a prison
Of my own black thoughts
Thoughts that are the colour of you
Of the beauty dressed in crow pearls' coat

Autumn brought bereavement
Wish forthcoming snow
- Soothing frost and turpidity
To wait the twilight of past life out

And when the sky, again,
Will gently touch the ground
Instead of me there will be already
...Standing someone else

And he will eat all the blackness
Gloating over that among others
Degrading the endlessness
To the shape of his desire

And I will stay in the bunker
Captive and toothless...
To not disturb the new beginning
Only because I promised it to myself


3. NORDLIG SVART

I've found a treasure, discovered a secret
Of the deepest of all blacks
I hide in it, I dive in it
It wipes all my tears...

My heart is crystal pure
It desires no hope
Blood is life and life is pain
It beats no more...

My thought is crystal pure
In an endless admiration
It absorbs eternal beauty
Covered in the light of the moon
It returns to those days no more
It returns to those days no more...

From the depth of the forest a voice is heard:
Jeg er nordlig svart, sorg og smerte, skjønnhet og død.
Jeg vet, hvorfor du behøver meg...

The tops of trees are pushed by the wind of north
Falling leaves they sing a dirge
The waves of a stream wash all the sorrow
And the grass above me rustles so sweetly...


4. BENEATH THE WINTER SKY

Every cloud has a silver outline
But these clouds are all black...

It's a cold winter night
I'm walking among the shadows
I can feel your presence
I let you guide my way

I can see a chapel, it looms up on the hill
And forgotten churchyard, sleeping beneath a cover of mist
Your whisper led my paths to this place

Your cold tombstone embrace is a remedy to all my fears
Yesterday's sorrows can't reach me as I know you're here

I'm waiting for the blood to freeze in my veins
Only then will I be ready to step into the shadowland
And you will never leave me again...


5. AT MIDNIGHT

At midnight I roused from sleep
Just as you told me in my dream
The window opened without a sound
And invited the chill inside
It gently creeped into the room

This place is safe
You don't need to fear
Come closer to my side
And we'll be as one again

Now hold me tight
There's just one second left
To the first beams of light

The vision is so clear
You look just as real
I'm uttering no sound
As it'll make you disappear

Come closer to my side
And we'll be as one again

Now hold me tight
There's just one second left
To the first beams of light
All the peace is gone
The small hours die
The newborn sun announces the dawn

The light enters the room
You've vanished into thin air
Another day to survive alone
We'll meet again at midnight
When the night covers the earth


6. THE LAST LETTER

It shattered before our eyes
There was no need to explain then
We still can share the truth
It won't undo anything, I know

Sometimes I wonder if,
And I hope, you feel the same
Yes, it can be different
I just want you to know


7. BLUE IRIS

(Instrumental)


8. OF A LOST MAN

Over time things get clearer
And make you want more

As dense fog dilutes
The path before you is visible again
Now memory reveals forgotten words
"Never give up hope"
So she used to say
The simplest truth in life

He will understand
Once the noose embraces his neck
He will wonder
Once his legs start seeking support
He will regret
Once his weight bends the branch
He will die
Once his lungs fail to catch just one more breath