INSOMNIUM LYRICS

1. The Conjurer

[Music: Markus Vanhala, lyrics: Niilo Sevänen]

Do you remember?
How we watched the moon
Counted all the shimmering stars
Inhaled the night

Do you still remember?
Do you even care?
Words spoken in the darkness
And the promise made

Do you remember at all?
How we two made the winds rise
We would walk in each other's dreams
Run the woods in wolf's skin

But I remember
Still I remember
You made the vows to return to me
On this shore by the silent sea

How we lost it all?
Below the argent moon

And longing still it holds me
And yearning still it reigns
For all this life I've waited
On this blackened shore

And longing still it hold me right
And yearning still prevails

For all this life I've waited you
Below the argent moon

And I know it in my heart
You will never come to me
By the side of someone else
You will watch the gleaming skies

I shall tear down all the stars
Steal the moon from heaven's arms
They will never shine upon your path
As you roam the endless night

If I can't share the moon with you
Then no one will

And longing still it holds me
And yearning still it reigns
For all this life I've waited
On this blackened shore

And longing still it holds me tight
And yearning still prevails
For still I wait to hear your voice
Below the empty skies

Nevermore shall we walk again
Below the argent moon

2. The Reticent

[Music & lyrics: Ville Friman]

I keep losing track of time
My sense of self, where I belong
I keep falling deeper into the hole
Disconnected, all alone

Through it all, we love, we fall
We hope, we fear, we fight, we crawl
Against it all, willful and strong
Until the waves take us
Take us home

My mind is racing, lost train of thought
Eyes unfocused, tired of this world
These walls will collapse, wash out to the sea
And I float along, let the stream carry me

Through it all, we love, we fall
We hope, we fear, we fight, we crawl
Against it all, willful and strong
Until the waves take us
Take us home

Through it all, we love, we fall
We hope, we fear, we fight, we crawl

3. The Antagonist

[Music: Niilo Servänen/ Jani Liimatainen, lyrics: Niils Servänen]

Once upon a time
When the years flew brightly by
You hold my hand through the night
You hold my heart

Manifold is the misery now
And the joys turned to woe
Alone in this time-eaten tower
I wait for the dawn

I listen, as if in a dream
The wail of the winds
But no one calls my name anymore
For no one dares

No song will resound
No wail will rise
No cry will be heard
When curtain falls

Stars look down on me
From their thrones in the dark heavens
Do they see inside my soul?
Blackness there, nothing more

How did I become this man?
When I fell from grace?
The one they all spite and fear
The one you shun

No song will resound
No wail will rise
No sigh will be heard
When curtains falls

No tears will be shed
No weepers on the grave
No stone to recall my name
When I leave this world

And when they look back to these times
And write down this tale
How will they remember my part?
How will they retell?

The tyrant and the iron crowns
Old man with no soul
The shadow they dread and abber
Not the hero of the play

No song will resound
No wail will rise
No sigh will be heard
When curtains falls

No tears will be shed for me
No weepers to wail on my grave
No headstone to recall my name
When I leave this world

4. The Wanderer

[Music: Markus Vanhala, lyrics: Niilo Servänen]

Song of the sirens, brings me no joy
Caress of a maiden, leaves me hollow
And the night slowly turns
Towards the daybreak

This crown on my forehead, feels like a burden
These golden pendants, now weigh down my neck
And the wine in my mouth
Will taste like ashes

And still I roam
With broken knees I wander
And still I roam on and on
'Til the end of days

I sold my poor soul, to unfold the secrets
I lost my poor soul, to possess the riches
And still I craved for more and more
To satisfy my hunger

I'm doomed to wander the earth
Cursed to roam these lands
Until the heavens die
'Til the seven seas will boil

I'm doomed to wander the earth
Cursed to roam these lands
Until the sun has waned
'Til I find my wretched soul

Everyone I've ever loved is long since gone
Cruel are the years that pass
On this forlorn road

I hear the Pale Rider scoffing at my throes
For Death will never touch me
No redemption 'til I find my blackened soul

For Death will never touch me
Until I find my poor soul

Death won't take me







INSOMNIUM LYRICS