1. WIND ON THE NORTH FELLS

Hoarfrost winds upon weathered crowns
My isolated form reborn to disintegrate
A pathos for yore
Longing for fire
Self ascending flame
Decaying flesh unveiling marrow
Frozen lake of lifeless souls
Beneath the gale on the north fells
My stiff coniferous skin
Shattering bark to cultivate the soil
Moss hidden decomposed remains
Abandonment of the ego
A vacant land above the arctic circle
Realm of frozen graves, a past forlorn
Primordial abandoned towers
Spiral stairway to the night sky
A circle of trees beneath the summit
Saturated in a blinding fog
I can hear the ghosts of antiquity
A call to dwell for eternity
Bleak and hollow my creation
Abandonment of formation
A pathos for yore
Longing for fire
Self ascending flame
Decaying flesh unveiling marrow
A rite of ancestral reverence
Deliverance of the spirit
Where I will forever remain
To rebuild in isolation
I long for a landscape of old
To rest the world upon
A tomb of spruce, a place of hiding
Domain for which I will return again


2. HEART OF BLACK IRON

Malevolence concealed and obscured
A desire to hide from the eyes of a blind man
One knows not that the other can see
Spitting witness to a world never seen
An instinct for deceit
Cold dead hands passing the vessel
A trail of crumbs
Enough for starving men to rip each other apart
The heart grows colder in a fortress impenetrable
A monastic hardening of the flesh
Encircled by serpents dripping venom
Parasitic cryptic words
Thy tongue shall be cut out and thrown to wolves
Thy eyes to be plucked by the ravens
Thy flesh be seared by hot iron
A damning symbol for all to see
Forgotten, he shall sit upon his throne
Abandoned, to fight his war alone
Rejected, no one will glorify
Left to rot and decompose
A trail of crumbs
Leads a starving king to his crucifixion
I have no mercy to extend
A hardened heart of black iron
Behold the burning crown
A sight to even the blind shall see
Forgotten, he shall sit upon his throne
Abandoned, to fight his war alone
Rejected, no one will glorify
Left to rot and decompose


3. PIRUNVUORI

A bellow from beneath the stone
Pale whispers on the icy wind
Shadows dance on the devil’s field
A darkness cast down onto the cross
Atop the mountain a mighty demon
Heaving earth to crush holy creation
A breathing summit, mouth of fog
Smoke climbing higher, echoes of the burning pyre
A monstrous reflection upon the lake
The glowing eyes of hell peering down
Embers like stars against the night sky
All of your monuments come crumbling down
Crying, seething, weakness of the will
Knee deep in the ashes of their piety
Grinding, thinning, erosion to the bone
Rebuild to restore the devil’s scorn
Hiding from the light of the sun
Deep into the black caves below
Atop the mountain a mighty demon
Heaving earth to crush holy creation
A breathing summit, mouth of fog
Smoke climbing higher, echoes of the burning pyre
A resting stone
In the draping mist
A collapsed entrance
Trapped for a silent millenia


4. THE DROWNERS

Ripples on the water
A gasp for air
Sliding deeper down
Enveloping void
A life of misery
Rid the calamity
Self ascension
Enlightenment bestowed
Breathe in, breathe out
Death will comfort us
Let go and release
All you fear
There is nothing more
To keep you waiting
Fuck this world
Divinity beyond the aether