Amorphis

[fox69]

"Black Embrace"

"Black Embrace"



Terror, when the darkness binds your limbs
Terror, when the fear freezes your nerves
Horror, when the pain climbs up your veins
Darkness, creeping under you skin

Moment of life,
when we all have to choose,
which way to go
and for whom to sacrifice your life

Invoke the god - pray
To lead you back to life - pray
Cursed by religion - hate
Learned upon church - fake

In the verge of hell,
of human mind
Redemption of your soul,
as darkness binds you tight

Moment of life,
when we all have to choose,
which way to go
and for whom to sacrifice your life

 

[fox69]

"Black River"

"Black River"



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 a swan
the slow turning of a birds 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

 

[fox69]

"Black Winter Day"

"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

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

 

[fox69]

"Born From Fire"

"Born From Fire"



I have a mind, a good memory
Here's how my life begins
I wasn't born from a woman's thighs
But from fire

I dwell on that dream
I don't want that to fade
I keep that dream
Until the axe does all that work

I was kept under the table
Raised from their sigh
I was worthless 'til the day
When flames did all the work

On the day I was born
They denied my rights
Even the right to die

 

[fox69]

"Brother Moon"

"Brother Moon"



Free flowing water
The air is so warm
It breathes for you
It sees through you before the storm
And if the lake can't
Be the sister
To the moon
To the river
To the sun

The leaves are falling
Cutting the moonlight
They brake the waves
Gazing to the stars
And if the lake can't
Be the sister
To the moon
To the river
To the earth

I know I wouldn't be strong
Wouldn't be brother to the moon
I know I wouldn't be strong
Wouldn't be the sister to the woods

Here is another soul
Another path
Another God

 

[fox69]

"Captured State"

"Captured State"



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

Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it's carved in your soul
Step out from your mould

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

Waiting for the enclosening darkness
And there you will be the light
As it's carved in your soul
Step out from your mould

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

 

[fox69]

"Cares"

"Cares"



Many rocks the rapid has
A lot of billows the sea
More plentiful are my cares
Then cones on a spruce
Beard moss on a juniper
Gnarls upon a pine bark
Knobs upon a fir
Husks on a grass-top
Boughs on a bad tree.

Drag my cares away
Carry off my griefs
For no horse can draw
No iron-shod jerk
Without the shaft-bow shaking off
The cares of this skinny one
The sorrows of this black bird

 

[fox69]

"Come The Spring"

"Come The Spring"



Dream weavers above me
The wildfowl arriving
As a crane flies through me
I know that she will come
Leaves sprout from my horns
And sap flows from my eyes
Crackle the gravel and sand
In the pits of me white ribs

Come the spring
I and reborn
The wind lays down beside me
My dream already fades
Oh come the spring
I’ll live again
The blackened ice is melting
Swirling in my eyes

The boulders of giants
Are rolling down my slopes
In the streams of my old veins
I carry sand for the golden reefs
As blood-red buds in the snow
Flowers will rise from the ground
The deer will come a-grazing
And the bear must be awake

Come the spring
I and reborn
The wind lays down beside me
My dream already fades
Oh come the spring
I’ll live again
The blackened ice is melting
Swirling in my eyes

 

[fox69]

"Course Of Fate"

"Course Of Fate"



Got a maid from the lands of north
A wife from lands of strange
The work of gods was at last replaced
By days and nights of men

She wakes beside me
She stands by me
She stares at our sky
She lives our lives

In the beginning of all time the sounds of war
I sanctified for work
Cries of terror harmonized to a song
Spirits of wrath restrained

And now dead is my wife
Ripped apart by iron teeth
Slashed by the claws of steel
The ancient venom surfaced again

She lies in the ground
She's gone from me
She stares without eyes
She stares at me

Poisoned by the bane of riches
Betrayed by lies manifold
Slain by avenger
The ancient venom turned the course of fate

She woke beside me
She stood by me
She stared at our sky
And lived our life

 

[fox69]

"Crack In A Stone"

"Crack In A Stone"



In the North, a prisoner of darkness
In black court, a victim of sleep
Slither like a snake I tried
A mole under the soil

A king, a fool trapped in a strange land
A slave of the black queen
I was under the darkest magic
Bound by an unknown spell

The one crack in the stone I need
Just the one, one fracture in the wall
Just the one hole in the sky I need
Just the one lock with the key

An otter lost in muddy waters
An elk upon strange trail
A prisoner in black court
A victim of sleep in lands of dark

One path there to be known
One sign in a dream
In time just one direction
One star in my mind

One path
One sign
One star
One lock
One key
One crack in the stone