Amorphis

[fox69]

"Nightbird's Song"

"Nightbird's Song"



Whispering of the trees
And nightbird’s wistful song
My heart is growing still
The silent warriors arise
From beneath the shadows blue
From behind the shrouded veil
The ghosts step in front of me
The silent ones creep through me
They run beneath the stars
They rush on the road of night
They glide on the glass of time
They ride on a pale and frozen lake
Arise, the silent warriors arise
Arise, from the black soil
Arise, from the nightbird’s song and screams
From the solar winds of my soul
From the moonlit matter of my bones
From shivering of my flesh
From leaden weights of my memory
The ghost of time are born
Step forth the immortals
Emerge the envoys of the depths
Silently the warriors arise

 

[fox69]

"Nightfall"

"Nightfall"



As a rot to rape the spring sown seed
A plague sprang forth of his tracks
Churns ran red when cows milked blood
And famine cracked poor backs

Who would hear a lament sad
Under the bright blue sky
That's sung in hovels dark and low
With eyes too weak to cry

But horror be the nightfall's gloom
For the man upon the road
When moon doth laugh at worthless lives
Twice hard for all promise showed

Empty stare upon his face
Nine fathoms deep
He set upon the road again
On ground that bears no seed

 

[fox69]

"On A Stranded Shore"

"On A Stranded Shore"



Silk of blue woven by the moon
Red spun by the sun
Of the sun’s gold

Silver in wrists and in her rings
Hair braided in red
Her shoes featherlight

As reeds and straws on the shore
As bark and foliage
As clamshells and sand

My maiden’s flesh
Now fish in the lake deeps
Her blood now waters blue

Oh god of sleep
Tell in my dream
Where has my maiden gone
Where lies my mermaid now

Rise above the waves
From the waters’ grave
From the side of spottled stones
Become alive again

These shores are for memory
These waters not for baiting
No shallows for the thirsty

No sun beheld above these shores
No reflection of the moon on these waters here

My maiden’s hair
Grass on the waters’ edge
Now willows on a shore

 

[fox69]

"On Rich And Poor"

"On Rich And Poor"



Old folk remember
And those today learn
How before their time
Life was different here:

Without the sun people lived
Groped about without the moon
With candles sowing was done
Planting performed with torched.

At the time we lived
Without the sunshine
Who had covered up our sun
And who had hidden our moon?

Without the moonlight stumbled
With our fists fumbled the land
With our hands we sought out roads
With hands roads, with fingers swamps
We could not live without the sun
Nor manage without moonlight
We could seek out the sun
Who spy out the moon?
Who else if not God
The one son of God?

 

[fox69]

"Perkele (The God Of Fire)"

"Perkele (The God Of Fire)"



I, I woke up
The God of fire woke me up
At the edge of burning ground
I'm, I'm damned
To put out the fire
My hand is a trap for that fire

It won't surprise me in my dream
My dream wakes me up, instantly
Without a word my hand is a trap
Trap for that fire

I, I drown it with water
I kill it on the spot
It won't have time to run far
It won't get away from me

 

[fox69]

"Pilgrimage From Darkness"

"Pilgrimage From Darkness"



In his eyes
The evil spirit rise
Turns to darkness with Satan's name

"As the time is right
Dead bodies rise up from their graves
And when the time comes near
Oh, I see the prince of glory"

Holy month
Sacred hounds
Under the hill
Do you hear their call

 

[fox69]

"Planetary Misfortune"

"Planetary Misfortune"



I hear you
hear your worthless speech
unheard and sensational
feeding my comprehension
let me see beyond all additional

show me something real
something low and dramatical
when all this sinful glittery
is still too much to see

taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses

I fear you
planetary misfortune
who will pray for my hallucinations
I'm not attuned
when you fold your hands
it's a wave of the salvation

and their slaves are their kings
futility of this creation
stand before the illusionist
the man of misapprehension

taste the death from my hand
cleanse your senses
take the death from my hands
please your senses

 

[fox69]

"Privilege Of Evil"

"Privilege Of Evil"



Your fear, your flesh
Cruel horror, your fate

Cursed shroud, your void
Dust to dust, you're feel harm

In your eyes we shall fall
Torture of death

Punishes to life shame of chaos
Awaking them its bound of chaos

Locked in pain your flesh
Tearing horror of pain

We arise, rise in tomb
To terror in your eyes

 

[fox69]

"Reformation"

"Reformation"



When I am broken, when I depart
When my eyes stray from yours
When I no longer know you, my love
When I am broken, when I depart

Fear not for me, weep not for me
For finally I am released
Fear not for me, weep not for me
To the heaven of all earths
I am released

When from my head my mane is torn
When my hair is blowing in solar wind
When into my eyes driven are the nails
When weighted boots march across my grave

Don’t you fear

 

[fox69]

"Rusty Moon"

"Rusty Moon"


Bathed in the rust of moon
Is the death beds lullaby
Sung so softly with the stars
Reflected in her eyes

[Chorus:]
It's the blaze that beckons men
Into the woods, of beaten path
Is the sight of the fire that
No maiden's eyes should have
Iron does as iron's told
And drinks of life's red gold
But shame won't leave with dying breathe
The life that wants it's own death

And the forest hums its silent hymn
Heard by those of solitude
As mist it wells
Up the brook's dark banks
Bewitched by there fir woods

[Chorus]