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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
Rivalry of Phantoms
The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It's the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is for those, the sinner's kind Damnation groan, hear the call The tide of the substance, spins in the core Like a furious force kept stunning beyond It's the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the rivers the ocean's son The way of those the way of mine I summon the motion, the presence of time My way is for those, the sinners kind Beware the sight of those Those who were my sight Beware the hate of those Who rivals as the storms Who storms as rivals At the plains, in the havoc The rivalry of phantoms The erosion is my war, die you may The wind is my passion. Utterly you weep The rivers are my blood, drown you may The wind is my passion, the passion to fight |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
The Presence is Ominous
Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burn by sight I see fear so clear when you die The cries that torches swept by I am yet to see the good victorious Thunder tamed by silence I am yet to see the man victorious Death tamed by life Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die Spine of the universal comfilcts As the motion of winds and oceans I am on the isle of existence, the mountains at my trail I am prepared to die, when the faith comes around to fail Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowing dimensions Swallowing the flames I see fear so clear in the eyes The eyes that burns by sight I see fear so clear when you die |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
Ruins of the Future
Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold At the edge of the horizon I saw the harmony of havoc The path of the marauders Transient yet tremendous Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken The sign, the pulse that protrude The resound, the return The sequence that conclude, the fall of man Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told The denomination of the grandiose demise Granted as the imious impetus Upon the failure, denial of token Upon the speech, in my tongue spoken Upon the ruins of the future I settled to be bold When the downfall arises, as I am told |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
From out of static time has grown
Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter shift or dissorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continous process awakens the living Absorber of every flickering sun Arranging the pieces to vivid perfection The stream of mortality flows uncontrolled A boundless downward spiral to prospective void Existence takes its toll, extinction unfolds The Colossus falls back from its threshold The Cosmic grip so tight. Heed the celestial call The rise, the voyage, the fall - tangled womb of mortal soil Universal key of inception, pulled out of the grind The growing seed of creation and time Complex fusion, the bond of four - the nature's core Universal ritual, aesthetic beauty adored The pendulum upholds the carnal deceit Eternal, endless, indefinite The paradox render and the merge is complete Nothing but the process is infinite Nothing but the process is infinite Eternal, endless, indefinite |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
Incorporation
Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
The energy of the wisdom haze
Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains Stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the course at sight Rise into a liquid dream Where horizons burn, burn 'till dawn My domain Where horizons burn, burn 'till dawn Rise into a liquid dream Where the mountains groan, groans 'till dawn The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
Genesis Torn
Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution axis bent. Manipulation results Contrast condemns and the answer insults Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Expanding origin stagnates at last Bows down in unity when paradise is lost Dirt grows in catharsis - raise of the inbred Totality rejects the efforts of the misled Genesis torn Enigma solved Utopia found Euphoria born Extinction embraces the crippled presence Altered away from the salvaging renaissance |
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from Borknagar - Quintessence (2000)
I fed the fire with my flesh and desire
Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing Trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirrors of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path that... The solar solace within the hideous Hereupon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Revoke the revival of Revolt Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterday tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world A fragment of fire, hordes of imagery An illumination of all illustrations The solar solace within the hideous Hereupon the heralds of dawn The dawn of eternity A northern notability Beraly touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path that... I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail To the centre of chaos Burn the treason, the trinity Yearn the heat of the fire Face yesterday tomorrow The heralds of the past The winds of a history cast The profound spiritual fusion Glimpse inward to my world |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
The gephyr, the sullen breath
Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation The glow - expanding through forever I fall with the rain, rise with the ocean (Fall with the rain, rise, with, the ocean!) Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility (Drain to expire, the shrine of fertility!) Burn as the flame, as strong as it came Twine your existence, sense of serene Thousand senses of virtual faction Existential inputs prediction of mind Instinctive, raised to find As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is-aaah Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments whoa, fractional fragments Divine gracious divulgence Pulse, rotation, the spine of creations Wane as the circle of zero As the salt in the sea, burns in me Forever, the taste in your mouth is-aaah Eternising the soul soaked estate Solvable as fractional fragments whoa, fractional fragments The genuine pulse - the link of a thousand senses The genuine pulse - entire celestial allegiance The genuine pulse - dense induce of the indomitable The genuine pulse - never to fail thus existence I sail Through the elements of four The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Gh-low, expanding through forever Measure the circle of eternity The treasure of ability The Genuine Pulse |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
"The gods are great, I am the greatest"
Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Praise the father's of all significance The reckless burden of existence I ace the rise of the furious The amend forces The amend course Gods of my world, behold... Pour rain on the fire The fire that burns The day of my birth Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the cosmic hibernation Steam of rivers, the hive of oceans Recollection, my soul connection The thrive of reflection, affection Forever you'll be the tongue of mine Through time and existence By instincts divine Forever you'll be the sight of mine Through time and existence By visions divine |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
The very maxim of the universe
Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature's sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grase it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack On every space still to be filled by matter A pursuance of that very first creation Expansion and a constant alteration The fringes of the canvas always stir The boundary is bathing in a blur |
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The guest of omniscience
Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations adherent Porpotual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The aura of stars, the fusion of frequences Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I am midst by the cause of reality Entwined by the senses of fantasy I have walked through fields of grievance Eras of spiritual fragmentation I have walked through the wood's of peasants Dawn of the souls solar morning The certitude of generations adherent Porpotual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear The guest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To spear the hallow star Conservation of the solar fuse Exhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequences Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases I have fallen through spheres of diversity Eras of ending spiritual solemnity Opened the gate of ion fire The warming well of wisdom Soul sphere - the fusion of senses Soul sphere - the pulse of energy Reflection of a soul's tear Soul sphere - the fusion of senses Soul sphere - the pulse of energy "I am the soul in the sphere. The sphere of the heir" The certitude of generations adherent Porpotual folkways of the soul sphere I grant my visions, the burden I bear |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
The parade of the quaternary symbiosis
Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exploring new ground, inverse and far Coequal nexus of neural perception Pre-eminant sample of hastins ions Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth Conqual nexus of neural perception Circular reminisce of history lair Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth Past, present and future Angels of thrice, fusion twice Past, present and future Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the fallen creation The bow of the axis, inversely Inherit the Earth By the instinct of the rising creation To bend the axis, eternally Inherit the Earth |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
"Who am I to behold?"
Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of random universal unions Expire, expand to extinction Energised by the primal reflections Resile the innermost inning The energetics of the substance Enframing the salt of existence The gloat characters of the gods All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the path of eternity Solid constellations, formations Sinking, through the black substance Through... The Stellar Dome My haven, my home Through aeons sterile yet stentorian I am circling twice my visions Thrice the bait, dive with faith Docipher of the immersed profuse The frequency of foresight The archetype Of the stellar dome |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
Glomeration of the four's constructiviness
An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the mind, in Nature's argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day's crescendo dusk adorn A process ending in the crescent's droop An example of what the substantial quartet can procreate Synchronized they operate Water feed earth's production While fire is fed by air's viability Which compose water's construction The flux that strengthen earth's ability Nature's own artful methodology Where downfall becomes the interlude Laws, which bases our current cosmology Completing the constant vicissitude From storm-beaten mountains to calm-running rivers As old as the planets rotation A work of an unknown intellact delivers The symbiosis, the perfect combination Water feed earth's production While fire is fed by air's viability Which compose water's construction The flux that strengthen earth's ability Still though. provoken by a fifth force A dark companion, Vacuum, Devastation But somehow the harmony stays on course With the quartet's unity as profane creator The result, arrangements filtered through our eyes Several polarities evolveed into a symmetrical guise To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day's crescendo dusk adorn A process ending in the crescent's droop |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
From every human complexity
And nature's twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the nation to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it onshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we're cursed As questions multiply with every solution The "why" stands untouchable - no intrusion A constant flow of total inconstancy A natural starfelt divinity Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally Keep up our vital vivacity Or would it onshroud us in disillusion The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we're blessed A Machiavellian way of thought In struggle with all that society sought A full explanation's the king of our dreams To know: what's our role in the scheme of schemes Where is our place in this order of chaos? The notion of our emancipation Lies far from any genuine liberation Seeking a detailed explanation We think therefore we are |
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from Borknagar - Empricism (2001)
Great and pounding in its way
Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever its rage carries on Disintergrating to create, upon fate Wearing the web of solar cast Hasting the view of Everlast Exploding Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding Imploding Poised in all chaos directions In fierce affection Spawning the orbs of furious light My sons of fire, you're children of the storm Breeder of life, harvester of all The last breath of the fall Exploding Imploding Ascending, Descending A spear through life and death Exploding Imploding Poised in all chaos directions In fierce affection Weaving the web of solar cast Hasting the views of Everlast |
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