1. THRICE

I find you asleep
Dusk on your eyelids
I break into your dream
With hands made of glass
And I hold back the tears
When I feel what's on your mind
Memories of your years
Stars not yet aligned

I'm the divider
Changer of the scene
The static halo around your voice
I'm the revenant in your dream
But I will pull the weight
Churn the stalemate
'Cause I'm the provider
And you're the drug in my bloodstream

The nightmares shut out
Behind the curtain for now
We're running through a field of evening grass
And I hold back the tears
When I feel what's on your mind
Hopes left behind

Let go of the confining shackles
Let go of the confining shackles
Let go of the confining shackles
Let go of the confining shackles
Let go of the confining shackles


2. THE LIQUID EYE

For the one waiting
A last day must come
Lock a cold chain
Around the hoping heart
A veil of shame
And sooner or later
The race will be on
Competing in depravity
The sordid game
Nights to come

Gradual descent
Red narcotic horizon
Resist no more
The future is not ours to evaluate
I've changed therefore

Gave up the semblance
The varnish dissolved
My currency expired
See the pact waning
Through the liquid eye

Claim the defeating prize

My belongings all packed away
Elsewhere in the city
I remember the light of the day
Off-white and elusive


3. WIND OF NO CHANGE

Day star
Over concrete plains
Come forth
And answer to your names

Hear his constant whisper rages on
Like a wind of no change
And an arrow through the heart
Better let go of the loving

Embrace the knowing
Better savour the poison

Assemble a temple of steel
To stand on top of that building
The soaring tomb with the
Scaffolding reaching ever higher

And lord Jesus
Or what's his name again?
Did he watch us
Come out of the fire unchanged

Map out the harrowing scheme insidе
To numb the soul, calculate and magnify

Herе comes the final strain
The rotten coda, for we are done waiting
Here comes our elder kin
Appearing where we lay in sin
And sing praise hail Satan

Hear, a broadcast dripping with his tongue
Address the palliative state
Transmittals through the dusk
So receive the authority

See the seven heads of majority
Untouched by rust

Herе comes the final strain
The rotten coda, for we are done waiting
Here comes our elder kin
Appearing where we lay in sin
And sing praise hail Satan

I won't sever the ties
Or not for one single second
Disgrace your name
That came to me in my wildest dream

You're the flicker on a dead screen
Present yet unseen

Herе comes the final strain
The rotten coda, for we are done waiting
Here comes our elder kin
Appearing where we lay in sin
And sing praise hail Satan


4. LILAC

Laying low
Seeking time
Landlocked
Port of freedom
The devil's own
Paying the price
All set up to begin
Torpor
It called us in

Into the dead stream
Giving up on true belief
Forget now the last objective
Lower the final dream
Into the rigid water of submission
We came close
We were close
To lilac time

Chronotope
Events in June
Our lantern
Diluted by the void
The devil's drum
Lashing hard
Beating like my heart
To pull you back in

Into the dead stream
Giving up on true belief
Forget now the last objective
Lower the final dream
Into the rigid water of submission
We came close
We were close
To lilac time

The river of Lethe
Dreary and cold
It broke my body and destroyed my soul
All our memories, love
Reduced to vapour


5. TEMPORAL

Moving splinters through the mind
Hope smashed to smithereens
Baby, I'm astray within the colours of your night
Went away to come back again
Better off

But I feel unwell
I cower underneath the clouds
Can't break the spell now
Have to follow through
I see you moving without a sound

Take my heart all the way
I can't wait to lose you
And seven miles down
I hit the ground
Earthbound, temporal, unfound

Gone
To carnal pastures
Heart pushed to discharge

And I'm still unwell
I cower underneath the clouds
Can't break the spell now
Have to follow through
I see you moving without a sound

It's time to feed the vicious circle


6. DEPARTURE TRAILS

Height of reason now
Unbroken noise of loss
And nothing else
Bind the memories in their wake
Like how we walked
Past the crowd
Along the clouds
Losing gravity then but
Thirsting now
For nothingness

Passed over
Aimless steps on the street
Helpless in the maze
Why does my heart yearn
Recurrence
I repeat my pledge at your feet
Endless days in a rat race
May this season turn

Truth unfolds in tidal waves
Aconstant weight of rain
Inside the rooms I haunt
My whereabouts unknown to me
Purposefully
And just as well


7. WARDEN

And I am the teacher
And I am hard work
And I am in the line of fire
And I am no one's keeper

The ignorance will keep me in
It crawls under my skin
But forging the lullaby
Keeps me high

And I am the abider
And I am the ill omen
And I am at the crossroads
And I am no one's keeper

How I've waited to say

Close down
The weary mind
The future has passed
Stay unaware
That the dreams we shared
Shattered at last
Give in to the impending amnesia
The freezing rash
Now shut
The tired eye
The future has passed

And I am the warden
And I am the citadel


8. THE LIGHT WHICH I BLEED

You keep my eyes stained
You're the cold of the mire
You've come to whisper again
The discontent
And I must pay my debt
You're the night of my home
You've come to whisper again
The weightless frequency of fever

I wait for falling snow
You wait for me to go away

Aspired for more than just direction
The light which I bleed
But surrendered well for all to see
The light which I bleed

I have a broken armour
For all my future battles
I've come to pay you again
The worthless currency of being


9. EFTER SOLEN

Sommar i ett dygn
Sitter ute ensam
I timmar efter solen
Och handen alldeles stilla
Det blir nog inte än
Men när blir det

Tänk om allt var inställt rätt
Kontrasten och skärpan
Utanför nattens mur
Men med mörkret kvar över ögats lins

I förändringens centrala punkt
I balansens marginal
I timmar efter solen

Index
Över år som flytt
En gammal tomhet som väcks upp på nytt
Ökar i värde
Som ett snöfall på en sommardag
Men än är det tyst
Ingen fanfar
Ett eko utan svar
Tanken var bra
Och ordet rakt
Men idag
Finns inget som håller mig tillbaks

Namnet raderat från hjärtat
Jag har en karta över mörkret i min hand
Nytt liv, nya värden
En iskall tid, en doft av brand
Mitt förra namn på kuvertet
Jag skickar kartan över mörkret som ett svar
Det drar en vind över världen
Nu
Har jag ingen verklighet kvar


10. IN THE EVENT OF

Televised static shade
Suspended overhead
We're awaiting the terror
It's in our eyes
It's in our lungs
It's in the making now
And growing out of sight
I'm shivering on the pavement
Incoherent
The landscape flickering
With weaponry
We're taken

Subtitled
The peril
The peril
Chained to the skies
Subtitled
If you read this it means you still have eyes

Gravitate
At the end of days
Awaiting the blast
And the wild blue yonder
Synchronized
Suicide
Eight bells
For what I've seen

Mothers waiting in rows for the shadows of their children
Mothers waiting in rows for the shadows of their children