1. VERKLIGHETEN

(Instrumental)


2. ARRIVAL

Right then my blood was the sunrise
My soul, the imminent threat
Jaded by nightmares and nothing but tragedy
Declarations of utter distress
I will love you but so will the scapegoat
When there's nothing more left to regret
What I feel as I wade through the ashes
Is so much more now, how could I forget?

My senses flow on repeat (I feel alive)
The essence burns when I feel (Feel)

The sky reflects in my hands
You took my world ’cause you can
Is it just me or is it the light?
Oh read me, you dust-ridden seer
And prepare for the night, oh
It is never too late
Now released from the cage
But still stuck in a dream
Bleeding through all the seams

All my inner redemption
Was all captured and carried away
Needing closure but yet stuck on repeat
Speeding through deserts, burned by the heat
Time will show if I'm fit for the breakdown
Merging the images with all your words
Everything's falling but I seem to be floating
Quenching my thirst from the deepest of wells

My senses flow on repeat (I feel alive)
The essence burns when I feel

The sky reflects in my hands
You took my world ’cause you can
Is it just me or is it the light?
Oh read me, you dust-ridden seer
And prepare for the night, oh
It is never too late
Now released from the cage
But still stuck in a dream, oh
Bleeding through all the seams


3. BLEEDER DESPOILER

Is it you my bleeder despoiler?
All that was and never were
Hard drugs and heavy religion
All that was because of her
Is it you my bleeder despoiler?
All that never came to be
Hard luck and quick decisions
All this because of me

And it's safe
Let your mind just float away
This time we might find a way (Might find a way)
There are words still left to say
For those departed we'll remain

Is it you my bleeder despoiler?
These words weren't meant to last
Rough love and premonitions
All going nowhere fast
Is it you my bleeder despoiler?
Our love's a funeral pyre
Hard times and quick decisions
Who knows what's left inside

And it's safe
Let your mind just float away
This time we might find a way (Might find a way)
There are words still left to say
For those departed, let them stay


4. FULL MOON SHOALS

I've never been your savior
I've never been your ghost
And as I'm pushing further
I'm playing the silent host
I feel like I am treading water
Smoke's still burning my eyes
Through and through I'm still captured by disorder
Swept away by every helpful advice

Anyone could cure it with blindness
There were moments where I thought I could be
(A man that is) Aching for the hour of closure
Darkness clearly kept on covering my needs (Kept on covering my needs)
But it's not what it seems
It's just an inner endless shriek

I won't unchain the lonely
I won't release their souls
But I will examine the wishful
And drown in the full moon shoals

Anyone could cure it with blindness
There were moments where I thought I could be
(A man that is) Aching for the hour of closure
Darkness clearly kept on covering my needs (Kept on covering my needs)
But it's not what it seems
It's just an inner endless shriek

Embracing the culmination
As the flames keep licking the sky
Slowly rising from the murky waters
I reach for the tenebrous sky
Sons and daughters of the repressed order
Take my turn and meet the dragon's eye

Anyone could cure it with blindness
There were moments where I thought I could be
(A man that is) Aching for the hour of closure
Darkness clearly kept on covering my needs (Kept on covering my needs)
But it's not what it seems
It's just an inner endless shriek


5. THE NURTURING GLANCE

Luminous deity
Perilous djinn
Sacrificed unity
Servants of sin
Ominous spiritus
Reaper of souls
Living in all of us
Seizing control

What if it's too late to suffer?
What if it's too late to die?

As we rise
Seeking shelter from our sins
We'll escape
From the universe within
In a time
When the veil is growing thin
We'll take flight
From the universe within

Eschaton aftermath
Burying trust
Even this psychopath
Learns to adjust

What if it's too late to suffer?
What if it's too late to die?

As we rise
Seeking shelter from our sins
We'll escape
From the universe within
In a time
When the veil is growing thin
We'll take flight
From the universe within
As we rise

We're unwanted pariahs
At the governance doors
It's the finalization
Of what's happened before

As we rise
Seeking shelter from our sins
We'll escape
From the universe within
In a time
When the veil is growing thin
We'll take flight
From the universe within

Luminous deity
Perilous djinn
Sacrificed unity
Servants of sin
Ominous spiritus
Reaper of souls
Living in all of us
Seizing control
As we rise


6. WHEN THE UNIVERSE SPOKE

Megalithic and ancient
Of unknown origin
The long dead disciples
Their bones now dust
And scattered in the wind
These fragments of a soul
Like specks of sentient will
Black matter fills the void
Of all that can be killed

Blank-faced enigma
Nurturing stars
Residual carbon
Is all that we are

At first there is nothing
And then it unfolds
Evolves into something
No one can control
The ones who forgot us
When the dam finally broke
Were longing for silence
When the universe spoke

The eloquence in sadness
Of uncompromised loss
From a temporal riptide
To a cancerous growth
As all the lines are crossed
Time is the immortal continuum
Death is this subconscious design
The relentless scavenger of galaxies
Will not cease or devolve

Blank-faced enigma
Nurturing stars
Residual carbon
Is all that we are

At first there is nothing
And then it unfolds
Evolves into something
No one can control
The ones who forgot us
When the dam finally broke
Were longing for silence
When the universe spoke

Deflect to the warship
Cease and desist
The ones that we fought for
Are no longer missed

No
At first there is nothing
And then it unfolds (Then it unfolds)
Evolves into something
No one can control
The ones who forgot us
When the dam finally broke (Dam finally broke)
Were longing for silence
When the universe, universe spoke


7. STÅLFÅGEL

Now did you hear the sound
Ascending from the ground?
I pray for those who stayed
Or died along the way
We trust the trembling air
To take us anywhere
Transcending gravity
And hoping that we'll be set free

Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift towards
The darkness of our heavens (Drift away)
Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift apart
To finally fade away

I'm whispering your name
A memory set to flame
Like all I left behind
Becoming someone else
This time

Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift towards
The darkness of our heavens (Drift away, drift away)
Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift apart
To finally fade away

Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift towards
The darkness of our heavens
Unbound instantly
Airbourne aimlessly
We drift apart
To finally fade away


8. THE WOLVES ARE BACK IN TOWN

Was it just a subliminal death threat
When you said that the ending was near?
Was it part of your criminal mindset
To appease the celestial sphere?
Was it death as an everyday phenomenon
That all is passing like the clouds?
Would you meet me
At the Gates of Parthenon
To relinquish every doubt?

And if you were on my side
Would you leave me to decide?
Will it change this time around
When the wolves are back in town?
Though the times I spent with you
Took me further from the truth
I still hoped you'd be around
When the wolves are back in town

And so you say
There's an end to the carnage
But no end to the fear
Now your sympathies are clear
There's a cloud of death around you
And a halo of despair
And the plague you brought is dying
To infect the midnight air
There's a cloud of death around you
And a halo of despair
Though it took so long to find you
You could have me anywhere

And if you were on my side
Would you leave me to decide?
Will it change this time around
When the wolves are back in town?
Though the times I spent with you
Took me further from the truth
I still hoped you'd be around
When the wolves are back in

There's a cloud of death around you
And a halo of despair
And the plague you brought is dying
To infect the midnight air
There's a cloud of death around you
And a halo of despair
Though it took so long to find you
You could have me anywhere

And if you were on my side
Would you leave me to decide?
Will it change this time around
When the wolves are back in town?
Though the times I spent with you
Took me further from the truth
I still hoped you'd be around
When the wolves are back in town


9. WITAN

We will follow and our hearts will bleed
Servants of the circle will renounce their greed
We will follow and our hearts will bleed
Servants of the circle will renounce their greed
Within the realms of reason, we've felt the ominous rise
Taking turns to encircle the scapegoat
Our everlasting vice, everlasting vice

From the shadow of the restless mind
To the hollow and deserted sky
We feel the hunger but we're bound by the night
We see the sign
But we're still slaves of empty

Spaces controlling this ride
Changing the pace of time
Watching the stars align
Unknown faces reside in my mind
Poisoned but mesmerized
Serving the darker times

We hear a distant calling
The current is pulling our souls
Sudden defeat but constant turmoil
We've embraced our fatal role
Relieved but torn from the inside
Received but the wish is dead
The wish is dead

From the shadow of the restless mind
We see the sign
But we're still slaves of empty

Spaces controlling this ride
Changing the pace of time
Watching the stars align
Unknown faces reside in my mind
Poisoned but mesmerized
Serving the darker times
Darker times

We fear the dawning of a new day
The bleakest winds are coming through
If this is death I will remember
Every word I saw in you

Spaces controlling this ride
Changing the pace of time
Watching the stars align
Unknown faces reside in my mind
Poisoned but mesmerized
Serving the darker times
Darker times


10. THE AGELESS WHISPER

Soak up the sound of the ageless whisper
Let buried memories form the shadow of doubt
All those years when your senses would proliferate
You shut the doors but unleashed the hounds

You spoke the words of reason
You fired your instincts at will
You married the rain through the seasons
Of everlasting thrills
Still waiting for a call
As darkness shall befall
The one who never settles within

Do you remember choosing death when we were young?
We let the darker moments flourish
And kept our destiny shunned (Now we're taking its side)
Now there is nothing left from when we used to run
In the valleys of our dreams we'd already sold the sun

Two worlds colliding in a merciless winter
Wearily fires burn inside your soul
Imaginations thrusting your guidelines
And steals the light beyond control

You spoke the words of reason
You fired your instincts at will
You married the land through the seasons
Of everlasting thrills
Still waiting for a call
As darkness shall befall (Darkness shall befall)
The one who never settles within (Settles within)

Do you remember choosing death when we were young?
We let the darker moments flourish
And kept our destiny shunned (Now we're taking its side)
There is nothing left from when we used to run
In the valleys of our dreams we'd already sold the sun (As we're breaking inside)

Do you remember choosing death when we were young?
We let the darker moments flourish
And kept our destiny shunned (Now we're taking its side)
There is nothing left from when we used to run
In the valleys of our dreams we'd already sold the sun (As we're breaking inside)


11. NEEDLES AND KIN

Sentinel of the retribution
Summoner of the dying light
Guardian of the grand delusion
Phosphorus and apatite

She's observed you
From the other world
She has heard you
Every world unfurled

Soon she is coming
Soon she'll descend
First we're devolving
Then we'll ascend
And I know it's the only way out of here that lies ahead
And I know that she will get us off this planet of the dead

Oversight of the ever-watching
Vigilance of the seldom seen
Sulphurous dawn is soon approaching
Promises of what might have been
Unshed tears
Cascading from her interstellar space
Disconnected from the earth
And all that we embraced

She's observed you
From the other world
She has heard you
Every world unfurled

Soon she is coming
Soon she'll descend
First we're devolving
Then we'll ascend
And I know it's the only way out of here that lies ahead
And I know that she will get us off this planet of the dead

She's observed you
From the other world
She has heard you
Every world unfurled

Soon she is coming
Soon she'll descend
First we're devolving
Then we'll ascend
And I know it's the only way out of here
That lies ahead
And I know that she will get us off this planet of the dead


12. YOU AQUIVER

Turn around my friend
And watch it all go down
With your heart, with your mind, let it sink
Believing your thoughts soon will migrate
To a place where your soul is a storm
The insight still make you aquiver
The ethereal glow of the master
Who controls all your imminent thoughts
Is consuming your way to salvation, heed
Oh, as fire breaks the dawn

Pervasive hatred
Now intruding your inner reluctance
Wuthering days are
Extending your breakdown

Lash out
As the thorns keep piercing your soul
Washed out
As the crown of your conscience turns cold (Cold)
Greeting somber ages to come

Speeding through chambers of illusion
Summoning the ghosts of ourselves
The aurora of our blind faith
It is me but it's you that I feel
The shivers are constant but soothing
The love for the order of sins
It's faithful but still it is spreading disease

Pervasive hatred
Now intruding your inner reluctance
Wuthering days are
Extending your breakdown

Lash out
As the thorns keep piercing your soul
Washed out
As the crown of your conscience turns cold (Cold)
Greeting somber ages
Lash out
As the thorns keep piercing your soul
Washed out
As the crown above your conscience turns cold (Cold)
Greeting somber ages to come

Lash out
As the thorns keep piercing your soul
Washed out
As the crown of your conscience turns cold (Cold is your state of woe)
Greeting somber ages
Lash out
As the thorns keep piercing your soul
Washed out
As the crown of your conscience turns cold (Cold)
Greeting somber ages to come


13. SUMMERBURNED AND WINTERBLOWN

Could you live with the silence?
Could you live with the truth?
All the things that we wanted
Disappeared with our youth
Could you live with the promise
Of an imminent death?
When your daydreams are haunted
By your last dying breath

Somehow we end up summerburned and winterblown
Somehow we end up losing everything we've known
Even though you split my armour open wide
Do you really want to see what dwells inside?

Could you handle the sweetness?
Could you live with the pain?
To bring all that we wanted
To the surface again
Would you care for the outside
Or just make this our own?
It's a level of nearness
That they'll never have known

Somehow we end up summerburned and winterblown
Somehow we end up losing everything we've known
Even though you split my armour open wide

I would never dare to dream of all I wanted
All that I needed
All that was always you
I would never dare to dream of all I wanted
All that I needed
All that was always you

Somehow we end up summerburned and winterblown
Somehow we end up losing everything we've known
Even though you split my armour open wide (Armour open wide)
Do you really want to see what dwells inside?

Could you live with the silence?
Could you live with the truth?
All the things that we wanted
Disappeared with our youth


14. IN THIS MASTER'S TALE

I live with the last of the silence
I gave away all my hope
I managed to turn my laughter
Into a wall made of stone
I left on a foggy morning
I reached my goal at night
Fires burning and hollow eyes
We have all made our silent goodbyes

In this heartless, meaningless shelter
Below the fields of our spirited past
Cold as ice and with wings of disaster
We'll make sure that our moment will last

We all knew it was a calling
And we thought we'd escaped the rain
Growing closer to our dark fate
In this master's tale

Water's rising as we desperately reach out for the sun
Deal is broken and our souls have now moved on
If you ever cared for what you had, it's already gone
Leave it all behind, pick up the pieces and run
One flew from the other side, got caught in the cold
My son, this is war, come and join the fold
Don't you ever look back, put it all to rest
Take your chances but that burden won't ever leave your chest

'Cause I see nothing but a deadly sign
Our shallow hearts in a well of wine
Setting our minds straight
Time to open the gates

We are the dead, short days ago
We've lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow
We are the keepers of the wisdom below
Neither enemies, friends or ghosts
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch be yours to hold it high
If you break faith with us who die

In this heartless, meaningless shelter
Below the fields of our spirited past
Cold as ice and with wings of disaster
We'll make sure that our moment will last

We all knew it was a calling
And we thought we'd escaped the rain
Growing closer to our dark fate
In this master's tale

Water's rising as we desperately reach out for the sun
Deal is broken and our souls have now moved on
If you ever cared for what you had, it's already gone
Leave it all behind, pick up the pieces and run
One flew from the other side, got caught in the cold
My son, this is war, come and join the fold
Don't you ever look back, put it all to rest
Take your chances but that burden won't ever leave your chest

'Cause I see nothing but a deadly sign
Our shallow hearts in a well of wine
Setting our minds straight
Time to open the gates

Time to open the gates


15. THE UNDYING EYE

Deprived of the fundamentals
Those animalistic needs
Became ever more essential
And so it began to feed

Please don't tell me what you're thinking
Let fire rush to my head
We're trapped in a stare, unblinking
A hive mind of nearly dead
Still locked to the generator
A current without a spark
My mind was the instigator
My flesh longing for the dark

Finally
There's a trembling light that's fading over me
Silently
We avert our empty gazes from the sky
And the undying eye

Deprived of the fundamentals
Those animalistic needs

Please don't tell me what you're thinking
Let fire rush to my head
We're trapped in a stare, unblinking
A hive mind of nearly dead
Still locked to the generator
A current without a spark

Finally
There's a trembling light that's fading over me
Silently
We avert our empty gazes from the sky
And the undying eye

Finally
There's a trembling light that's fading over me
Silently
We avert our empty gazes from the sky
And the undying eye