Amorphis

Tear dimmed rememberance
In a womb of time
Breath upon me
Possessed by the passion
Fate will set you free
Infertile
Chased be the precious
When flesh is an enemy
Fair weather man

(pre-chorus:)
Step aside from the way of a better man than you
So you fall at his feet he’s the one who betrays you
It’s the servants devotion for the decay
Stand up

(chorus:)
There are no flowers on your grave
There are no chains
There I keep chanting for the forgotten name

Why you feel so empty
And still have everything
It’s fullfilment
I’ve got more companions
When I’m all alone
Flesh is fetching

Astonishment when I bend over you creep
Put a noose around my neck
Which side I decide it's my time to reap
It's your side wicked and deaf

Take me to the place I can sleep
Wipe away all misery
Turn my path away
From the mind tearing tragedy
Consuming range of vision
I can see they decline
It's a state of execution
I fly free tonight

*New moon laughs on it's own
Without compassion
I crawl through the realms unknown
And kneel to the
:goddess of the sad man:(4 times)

Inhale all mists from the shadows
And hide before the dawn
Face your mortal horror
You won't be reborn

Is he a proud man or just a fraud
Fooling himself with losers talk
Punished to eternal vanity
It's thy destiny to cry for purity
You infidel slime
I grace insanity

satisfy my agony
I know what my goddess needs
I bet there's something wrong
inside my psycho creep
fire burns within her eyes
take me to the deadly ride
I remember how she was
when she choked on her own pride

*Repeat

We craved the light from the darkness
It's a morning of misfortune
The dawn of a mankind
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see

(chorus)
I can hear the silence
See invisible emptiness
Tarnish the halo of your guidance
And the night is over

That women in grief
Luxurious Gehenna
And what I have become
What I have done to you
Listen to me instead of a blind folk's speak
Forget the mature plan
We are but humans you'll see

(chorus)

(chorus

Once I was there
Standing outside
Looking in
Beside my window
Smiling face, shattering
It's an old man's pride
That climbs over understanding
It wasn't your child
That I was hurting

(pre-chorus)
And I turn my back to the world
Well I don't care
What can I say if I see you all as dead

(chorus)
Under the dying sun it comes
Weaving fear but I have none
I know that mushroom cloud
Won't come very near
What do you have to believe in
And all the poison you breathe in
The crystal heart shatters within

Once I was there
Standing outside
Moving in
Inside my window
Crying face, shattering
Take all that you have
And leave the rest now for today
It's the old folk's sign
That took away for chastity

(pre-chorus)

(chorus

She's riding on a crimson wave
Truth sat on her shoulder
Planets before melting face
The keys for the wounded
Sinking into underground
Please the one who wants it
Something is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it

(pre-chorus)
It's a rush hour inside my head
Don't wanna share the anguish
And I will take it away from you
Before you can change it

(chorus)
That bastard hallucination's pushing me
Like a damned I walk over
Touch the sky when it's burning red
Standing the ground I have chosen

Shivering in outer space
There's no one who can hear you
Getting into different state
It's like getting nowhere
Gathering all those fears and fails
There's no one who can see you
Someone is pulling you down
It's not the cravings why you need it

(pre-chorus)

(chorus

How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you’re only hurting yourself

(chorus:)
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breath in black and stiffling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it’s too early to die

You don’t have to say
Why rue for that day
When you’ve open up your eyes again
Now it’s your fate
Face your heart ache
You wish to make it unreal

(chorus)

For the cold pale women
I leave some of my goodness
I leave the veil of sin
And let go my dreams

(pre-chorus:)
Eternity follows me everywhere
Your words so hollow won't go anywhere
Distant shadows disappears
It searches the gate beyond the stars

And there i can see her again

(chorus:)
Tell me why you have to be so pure and wrong
And i'm alive to be here

Is it just an omen
Is it me walking blindly
I will find the answer
When i wake up from my dream

(pre-chorus)

And there i can kill her again

(chorus)

So many years i've been fading
And closed the doors behind
Pay that price if you lost it all
The end is not the past recall

(pre-chorus:)
Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it's carved in your soul
Step out from your mould

(chorus:)
The captured mind is a captured state
But only free will has it's sustain
You burn away all you once loved
Now it's time to turn away

It's all too clear you've been hiding
Nothing to tell but lies
Feel shame when you distain it all
Your stand is not the past recall

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like i love myself i love to sin

(pre-chorus:)
And i want more
And i want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But i wont crawl

Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I'm your devil in disguise

(pre-chorus)

(chorus:)
Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too

I'm the one to see your collapse
I'm on the side of destruction
On the side of black and i love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And i love myself

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

Your helping hand is killing me
If you see me suffer it's not your victory
Sadistic forms of new way discipline
Like I love myself I love to sin

*And I want more
And I want it low
Of course you wont forgive me
But I wont crawl

Look out for number one
I pray on you it has begun
Let the night stand one thousand years
Longstanding ,everlasting
Breathless masquerade
I'm your devil in disguise

*Repeat

**Grieve stricken heart
Calls upon you
Grieve stricken heart
My only look you fools
I love my misery too

I'm the one to see your collapse
I'm on the side of destruction
On the side of black and I love to sin
Mentally transmitted disease
Rotten wretched attraction
And I love myself

*Repeat

**Repeat

Tear dimmed remembrance
in the womb of time
breath upon me
possessed by the passion
fate will set you free
infertile
chaste be the precious
when flesh is an enemy
fair-weather man

(pre chorus)
Step aside from the way of a better man than you
so you fall at his feet he's the one who betrays you
it's the servant's devotion for the decay
stand up

(chorus)
there are no flowers on your grave
there are no chains
there I keep chanting for the forgotten name

why you feel so empty
and still have everything
it's fulfillment
I've got more companions
when I'm all alone
flesh is fetching

(pre-chorus)

(chorus)

(pre-chorus)

How does it feel
Blessed to receive
Be modest and forgiving
How does it feel
You can try to hate me
But you're only hurting yourself

(chorus)
Drifting in your shady memories
Where to go when sorrow breeds
Let the fear run through
Breathe in black and stifling air
All those words they disappear
No need to rest it's too early to die

You don't have to say
Why rue for that day
When you've open up your eyes again
Now it's your fate
Face your heartache
You wish to make it unreal

(chorus)

(chorus)

Forging the future from the timeless stone
Oh let me know how far I can go
Answering the questions that no one ever asks
Float through the sea of madness
And face the everlasting task
So lonely to wander
So sad to be alone
In the mist of the unknown
Trying to fool myself with dreams that never come true
So hard to stand my ground
Never again never again
will I fail will I fail

Chorus:
Will you tell me not to wait
Tell me to live for today
As the flowers wither
I will forget my pain
Since the stars have shone
The devil has shown me the way

Repeat chorus

In the morning mist
By [the] waning moon
Through the woods she set on foot
With a sacred blade
Cut the berries down
Dug up the dreaded mandrake root

“Tread my path to summer’s end,
This bequest I leave you”, she says
“You will see what could be evergreen
Turn to copper and fade to gray”

By the standing stones
Atropine eyes smiled at me
Sitting in a sluggish vertigo
Sands of time form another dream

No love without sacrifice
No life springs without decay
The final kiss is a wormy one
In soil’s cold caress, to rest we’ll lay

Where have you been,where have you been
my son, my merry son?
On the seashore, on the seashore
mother, my darling one.

And what have you been doing there
my son, my merry son?
I have been watering my horse
mother, my darling one.

Why is there blood upon your feet
my son, my merry son?
My horse stamped with its iron shoe
mother, my darling one.

Why there is blood upon your sword
my son,my merry son?
I have stabbed my brother to death
mother, my darling one.

What now of you, where will you go
my son, my wretched son?
To other lands to foreign lands
my dame, my darling one.

When will you be returning home
my son, my wretched son?
When all the world to judgment comes
my dame, my darling one.

Better it would be for me
And better it would have been
Had I not been born, not grown
Not been brought into the world
Not had to come to this earth
Not been suckled for the world

If I'd died a three-night-old
Been lost in my swaddling band
I'd have needed but a span of cloth
A span more of wood,
But a cubit of good earth
Two words from the priest
Three verses from the cantor
One clang from the bell

Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense
Who say that music, reckon that the kantele
Was fashioned by a god
Out of [a] great pike’s shoulders
From a water-dog’s hooked bones:
It was made from the grief
Molded from sorrow

Its belly out of hard days
Its soundboard from endless woes
Strings gathered from torments
And its pegs from other ills
Truly they lie, they talk utter nonsense

So it not play, will not rejoice at all
Music will not play to please
Give off the right sort of joy
For it was fashioned from cares
Molded from sorrow.

In the vale where I once listened out for the light
Where the little birds warble
The ptarmigans babble
And my heart looked about for some rest from its trouble

I cast my eyes downward upon the seaside
And a fair young girl on the shore I espied
Who was sitting and weeping
To see the waves leaping
And over the skyline sad vigil was keeping.

O why are you weeping alone on the shore?
Now still from your eyes I can see the tears pour.
What sorrow and smart
So pierces your heart
That even at midnight it will not depart?

Where has the sun gone from us
Where is the moon lost to us
The moon will not gleam at all
Nor will the sun shine at all

Death opens its mouth
The son of the Northlander
Camo to look, to listen

"There beyond the river is hero walking"

He took one step and took another
To the north's shore he hurried
He drew his sword, wrenched the iron
Snatched from the sheath the harsh one
Upon whose point the moon shone
Upon whose hilt the sun flashed
Upon whose back a horse stands
He uttered a word, spoke thus,
"There the sun has gone from you
The sun gone and the moon lost"

This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed man think
Like a daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn

But how do I feel in my gloomy depths?

This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed man think
Like a daybreak in spring
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day

This is how the lucky feel
How the blessed man think
Like a daybreak in spring
The sun on a spring morning
Like the flat brink of a cloud
Like a dark night in autumn
A black winter day
No darker than that
Gloomier than an autumn night

A black winter day

A bird flew out of Lapland
An eagle from the Northeast

One wing ruffled the water
And the other swept the sky
It's tail skimmed the sea

It flutters, it glides
It looks, it turns round

"Why, man, are you in the sea
Fellow, among the billows?"

I went to wash at the shore
I went to bathe in the sea
And there I, a hen, was lost

I, a bird
Untimely died
Let not my brother
Ever in this world
Water his war-horse
Upon the seashore!

Waters of the sea
So much blood of mine
Fishes of the sea
So much flesh of mine

Such the death of the young maid
End of the fair little hen

As the sun falls down
and the swell crashes into the shore

The great warriors of doom and wind
ride high
Silent is the silence,
the only breathing of horses sound,
Cold northern steel, shining blade, pleases us
And we all live under the black mark

Oh lord, lead us to the paradise
My lord, is this the promised land
is this your gift

Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood

Sorrow - the unknown force
Hate - respect your enemy
Bitterness - shall be forever
Silence - nothing left

Let us fly into your dreams
Let us taste some blood

We have to know, we have to see
Religions so many, which one of them are so real,
That it makes us to believe ?
Crushing the chains of faith

To find the way of immortality,
We're hiding behind the cross
To find shelter,
we're searching for the name of god

In this maze of hatred
The name of god is lost

Under the flag of salvation
we are cleared this land of pagans
Under the cover of Christianity,
we stained our hands in blood

At these times of anguish
The name of God is lost

"I saw the coming of the end,
Sun stopped its shining,
Air is no longer fresh,
Then it was too late to realize,
that we can't breathe our hate."

The lost name of God

A mind dejected, blood boiling with anger

the storm of the warpath, now sings in my heart

your pleadings, useless, I now shall disregard

I'll leave you to weep and to fear for me



I'm ready for my end

my hair I comb down

with resin into braids

I'm ready to ascend

my will burning high

summon strength from the night



I equip myself, to warfare I prepare

I put on my black cloak, enchanted adders skins

your prayers shall not reach into my heart

your despair shall not stop me now



This precious hairbrush, thrown at the wall

it came to me from my father

I give you this as a token of myself

for you to have and mourn over



And when my blood flows from it's bristles

when my sap is dripping from it's shaft

then you will know of my anguish

my destruction will be revealed

What was denied from poor
I thought to be riches
I run for them there and then
It made me take my due
To death I'd plunge with joy
My happiness to claim
I am prepared to face the war
Under the black soil

I'm righteous if I so desire
Until I reveal my worth
And take to myself
What was denied from me
I stalked them in their celebrations
I delved into the words
I aimed at the highest of the high
And decided it's mine to take

Wont to crawl I was
To cringe and fawn
A servant on hours of day
But a holder of nocturnal sway

What was denied from poor
I thought to be love
I run for it here and now
It makes me take my due

A day's light told me of my son's fate
The sun showed the way, grim and severe
Pulled under the raging waters, my child
Sank in the drowning currents, my son

My strength is not enough, my powers failed me
I need the heavens' help, I ask for thunder's force
I plead for you, oh lightning, forge an iron tool
A magic rake for dragging a river for my son

God of fire, bring your light
Forger of sun, help me now
Guardian of the shore will sleep in your warmth
Lull the folk of cold water
Banish the serpents of the dark
To the river let me go and fetch my son away

A rake made of iron from the Gods of skies
The spirit of bright days sent me the sun
Cold troops of Tuoni can not stand in my way
Untouched I shall walk by the river of the night

My child
My son

I have known the arcane lore
On strange roads such visions met
That I have no fear nor concern
For hatred and obstacles of this world

By stone-shoed wanderer I am taught
My visions from fiery-eyed iron-armed chanter
I know how to fight, I know how to sing
I know how to bend, I know how to break

I've not grown weary on lengthy roads
On strange lands not gone astray
Such is the knowledge cast in me
Such is the knowledge, such are the skills

I know how to fight
I know how to sing
I know the way

If ruin is said to befall me
It has not come to pass
I conquered all who stood in my way
And drowned the snakes of death

Because of treason I now shall leave
Because of my blood burning my soul
And now I raise this flaming sword
Towards darkness, against everyone

I am of crimson blood
Nought shall hold me
Mirror mine the dark of night
Reflects me in water

Ablaze are my eyes
My soul consumed by woe
My braids weaved by the wind
An image, black in my mind

Leave I must now with haste
Me who tires of quiet life
Me whose path leads to war
Me who fears no death

I, I yearn for more
I yearn to rise
I yearn for everything
I yearn for you
I yearn to rise

Only one can make me do my good deeds
Only one and the shadow of that one
Only one can make me do my evil deeds
Only one and the shadow of that one

Her alone I will lend my ear to
Only her I will obey
Her alone I will always want to serve
Only her I will defy

Only one can make me wage all my wars
Only one and the shadow of that one
Only one can make me do all my deeds
Only one and the shadow of that one

My understanding under her advice
My understanding under her advice
Birth of my knowing under her advice
My desires I fulfil by revolting

On his trail the stones they grew
He was lead astray
Forces strange he had to face
Magic unseen

When he asked, he was not answered
But he would not yield
What he asked for was not given
A shape to his dream

To a whirling mass of water
Mountains of high
His desire he spoke out
To claim his due
A shadow moved in Louhi's mirror
The fairest maid of them all
Restless mind found her to his liking
But the queen wanted more

Louhi spoke in riddled tones of three things to achieve
Find and catch the devil's moose and bring it here to me
Seize the stallion born of fire, harness the flaming horse
He captured and bound the moose, he tamed the golden horse

Still remained the one final test
Hunt the bird from the stream of death

Mother wept for her son
She wept and sang
Anxiously pondered fate
His and her own

A sun's ray, in through the eye
Glimmered in the room of mind
Changing the woman shape
Sorrow fled her face

From the shaman into shaman

From the chimney a witch flew out
Shaman dived across the sky
Under her the woods and lakes
Till she saw the Northland gates

I've come for my son, where is my son?
I accept no lies, no falsehood or deception
I send you plagues unnumbered
Destruction upon your house
I lay to waste your treasure
I slay your fairest daughter

The queen of north told of the way
The road to river black
Impossible and incomplete
The path of no return

I set out on the longest road
To seek the answers from Death
I set out to the black sacred stream
to seek out and shoot a white swan

On desolate and stony paths
From a mountain to a vale
I reached the shore and saw it come
Into my view, the swan

I took the arrow and raised my bow
I aimed below the graceful neck
Under the white of its breast
Inside the red of its heart

The surface of the river calm and black
Reflects the sky, the pale moon
And there a glimpse caught of myself
I'm shattered, the vision is ruined

An arrow from the water
A serpent rips my mind
Into the black river of Death
With a slash across my heart

My last sight a white swan
Behind the swan a starless sky
Under the sky a coal black river
Reflected a bone white moon

Still searching for my way
The right way to be
Still pondering
What I've done

I'm still thinking what I've said
Still finding from within
And all that I know
Is still not enough

I'm being held by the one
Shadow tormenting my soul
The curving neck of the swan
The slow turning of a bird's head

So white its plumes and feathers
Its breast like the moon in water
Silent and tranquil it moves
On the river in the calm

I wander back on familiar roads
I sense the marks I left on the hills
I see the cuts and wounds of my deeds
They make me muse on life

Up the hill and the mountain
I look back, I look down
There flows the River of Death
And here the wind in my hair