Tristania : Widow's Weeds

Gothic Metal / Norway
(1998 - Napalm Records (AUT))
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Lyrics

1. PRELUDIUM

Cruciami, Sancta…


2. EVENFALL

Spiritus domitus est

Call thy name at nightfall (oh, reach out!)
Reach out for thee life's rose
Cast thy veils at sunset (thy veils at sunset)
Trespass the waning in my halls
Prosperous beauty (embraced!)
Embraced by eden's heart
Call thy name out tearful (thy name out tearful)
Reveal to me thy deepest loss

Domini supra totus sepultu

Cast... make haste, my savage wall
For an end

Domini supra totus sepultu

Like savage... bleak night
In life thy tears grow scarlet

For thee my beloved
We shall freeze
Therefore this life with thee I bequeath
Like a promise bewailed by the sea
I still love you decidedly

Come, desired nightfall (oh, reach out!)
Enchant my grievous loss
Life bewailed at sunset (bewailed at sunset)
Trespass the shadows in my heart
Arise before me (embraced!)
Bequeath thy grievous loss
Dark at heart I mourn thee (at heart I mourn thee)
Replace the vigour she once lost

Domini supra totus sepultu

Cast... make haste, my savage wall
For an end

Domini supra totus sepultu

Like savage... bleak night
In life thy tears grow scarlet


3. PALE ENCHANTRESS

Dark thou embrace my bleeding heart
My dreams uniting our tearful eyes enchanting
At night I kiss the serpent in thy tears
For years thy sorrow I've mourned

Harken my moonchilds cry
Yearning for another night
Mourning my once beloved
Mezmerized and ravendark

(Come to me, with your serenity)
My pale enchantress of the night
(Nightfall, in thy tears)
at last my candle's burning down
(Burning leaves entranced in mourning light)
The wintermoon is shining bleak
(Bleeding time, walk a line)
for thee my enchantress

Enchanting all my dreams
A beauty and her flood of tears
Nightfall embrace my heart
Mesmerized and ravendark

(All my tears have enshrined my moonlit sea)
My pale enchantress of the night
(Nightfall's here, but for thee)
I desire thee

Tearful I walk with thee through dusk
Through winds of loss
Her beauty and her flood
Embrace my bleeding heart
Tearful I fall with thee, at last
Lead me there to where thy shadows cast
They dance in velvet darkness lost

Rise bleak winterfullmoon

Rise

In sleep desire for the light

In life I kissed the serpent in thy tears
For years thy sorrow I mourned

Dance in my garden of delight


4. DECEMBER ELEGY

May thou carry me to the sea
Like autumn leaves... heaven wither
Savage is the winter prevailing within
I fall for thee... Sorrow entreating me
Makes me leave heaven

Grieve at night, like tears of sorrow
Grieve in light, the days that morrow
Thee scent like snow

I find thy lilies there of snow
Where once I died... weeping for thee
Everlasting seems the strife ascending within
Falling for thee...
Darkness confounding me
Makes me leave life

Grieve at night, like tears of sorrow
Grieve in light, the days that morrow
Thee scent like snow

Grieve at night, with thy sorrow

Exsanguine and pain like snow
Driven far from my efferly loss
Enter this extended night of sorrow,
Pain, flowing tears...

Breed my woe
Descend with broken wings
Midwinternight inside
Merged by life... like thousand
Frozen tears
Come melt the ice... maytime…


5. MIDWINTERTEARS

Shadowcast upon my heart
Endark... thy bleak midwintertears
Condemned to mourn in silence
The pale moonrise in her eyes
Serene... like a frozen stream
The flowing beauty in thy tears

I crave for thee my once beloved
Beyond the veils of darkness lost
Where now thy roses wrapped in dusk

Dark enchantress
I suffer thy fullmoonnights
Trespass my undesired darkness

Tears flowing through thy dreams

Silent she comes through the night
Desiring a silver light
Leaving, with dusk in her eyes
Descending from paradise

Our souls, she whispered
Can only be achieved through death

We are all dead inside

When the savage wants to see you lost,
Morning still in darkness lost

Dark enchantress
The seventh fullmoon rise
I drown in dusk and dark rivers

Summon all my dreams
Like roses on your epigraph
Written in my tears
Thy sorrow and my bleeding heart

She comes so serene
My fallen beauty crowned with leaves
Take me to thy dream
Thy candle will forever burn in me...
My undesired darkness


6. ANGELLORE

When summer's gone flee my angel
Winterwinds they might lead you far away
Beyond the pale horizon, a graven silence
Over dreams to my heart yet not remain

Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
It is inside
It's in her heart, the same relation from which
I once led astray
Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
It is inside
It's in her heart, the same delightful place
I once felt in you

Angellore revered at dusk
For thee I rose, now descend all alone
Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome

Into the night strays an angel
So lost and tearful all astray

Into the night strays an angel
So lost and tearful all astray
Lo where's the pale horizon
Oh where there's dyingness
You reach for me beyond so wide a sea

Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
It is inside
It's in her heart, the same desire
I feel burning in me
Oh please believe
It's in her eyes
It is inside
It's in her heart, the same desire from
The empty pain within

Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome

Deep as the sea, wailing secrecies are buried in me
For a dream I once desired
I bequeth my sorrow and I regret to thee
Cannot cross that wide a sea

Angellore revered at dusk
For thee I rose, now descend all alone
Rise for me, soothe my heart
So wide a sea, may I overcome


7. MY LOST LENORE

Dancing heart I mourn (For thy promise bewailed)
My lost desire (By her raveneyes)
Dancing heart I mourn (By her beauty)
Rape the soul forever (And a scarlet sunrise)
Dancing heart I mourn (May thy river bury)
My lost desire (Her silvertears)
Dancing heart I mourn (A fallen angel)
Rape the soul forever (Enshrined in moonlit seas)

Leaving vitality
So serene breeds my darkness
Entreating winterwinds
Though I leave... I embrace thee

Winternight
Conceal thy precious Angellore
I secrete my soul
Under thy wings of sorrow
Dark I embrace thy eyes
Wander lost on life's narrow path
I reveal my heart
To this beauty dressed in dark
Dressed in dark

Dancing heart I mourn
My lost desire (When all my shadows devotedly cast)
Dancing heart I mourn (The moon will rise at last)
Rape the soul forever

Dancing heart I mourn (My Lenore)
My lost desire
Dancing heart I mourn (I trade for my heart)
Rape the soul forever

Grieving raveneyes
Falls asleep with the sunrise
Delightful midsummer breeze
Though I leave... I await thee

Winternight
Conceal thy precious Angellore
I secrete my soul
Under thy wings of sorrow
Dark I embrace thy eyes
Wander lost on life's narrow path
I reveal my heart
To this beauty dressed in dark

Grant me thy last midsummer breeze (My Lenore, make haste and cast)
May thou ascend from endless sleep
...my desire
Dance me above thy moonlit seas (My Lenore, make haste and cast)
Glance yearningly into the deep
A cold and weary night

Winternight
Descending me like flakes of snow
I embrace the cold
For a life that morrows
Dark I embrace thy heart
Wanderer lost beyond veils of dawn
I conceal thy loss
Enthralled in life yet still I mourn
My lost Lenore…


8. WASTELAND’S CARESS

I mourn thee by dusk
I mourn thee by dawn
Crave for thy gloss
To seek the silent glades beyond
Precious a glance
Thy veils now unfold
Tearfull she dance
Into this nightfall I behold

Grieve at night
Thy bereavement and thy loss in life
Grieve by day
Thy devotion and thy pass away

Beyond the veils of dawn
From where she Siren calls

Beast...
Desire me, desire me at dusk
Desire me, desire me at dawn
Aging and wither, the vigour that I lost
Painful was the night left in thy eye

I mourn thee by dusk
I mourn thee by dawn
Crave for thy gloss
To seek the silent glades beyond
Precious a glance
Thy veils now unfold
Tearful she dance
Into this nightfall I behold

Grieve at night
Thy bereavement and thy loss in life
Grieve by day
Thy devotion and thy pass away

Beast...
Desire me, desire me at dusk
Desire me, desire me at dawn
Aging and wither, the vigour that I lost
Painful was the night left in thy eye

The sunset seize within as I walk
Through velvet dusk and dawn
Condemned to rise and fall
So grievous through the night she calls
The beauty I once lost
I mourn thee my beloved

Far beneath thy heavens lost
Where I once pale and cold
Beheld thy rarest rose…


9. POSTLUDIUM

It ia mexami
Tuatio to luto
Espiritus ut platus
Quamodo patio


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