NIHTERNNES LYRICS

1. The Crushing Oblivion

[Instrumental]

2. Leper Of Faith

Awake
Slaves of gods
Revive
Fear not thy glory

Take it for thyself
And rest none on fallacy
Stand atop thy stolen dominion
Forever

Thy era hath come

3. The Eye Of The World (The Wheel Of Time Part I)

[Instrumental]

4. Crystalline Syndicate

Behold the crystals of the new day!
They are nothing but concrete
They were set by men
And so eventually shall wither and crumble

With power inevitably comes conflict
With conflict comes the onslaught of the powers that be
To contradict is to step out of line
To do so is to defy the restraint of morality and correctness
What are you waiting for?

Aren't we all set for death?
Aren't we all followers?
Most people don't even fucking realise
What it is they are following
Isn't it time to begin again?

The crystals of the new day are nought but concrete
The prayers once held in the hearts of free men
Are now fragments of something
That we can no longer afford to believe in
Awake
Slaves of gods
Revive
Fear not thy glory
Take it for thyself
And rest none on fallacy

5. Byrgelssang

But then
The hidden warmth of mercy shone through
The smog we generated and sent above
Cleared, at least for a moment
I was sure then
Humility would show us what was wrong

In that brief glimpse of beauty
We could have saved ourselves
We might just have lived

But still
We should not give in to death
There is still a chance
To take back what is not ours
From the hands of those who would suck it dry
This may not yet be a graveyard earth
We could yet survive

There is still a chance
To give back what is not ours
They will suck it dry

6. Atlantic Accelerator

Dumbfounded
We staggered across oceans to new worlds
Came, saw, ultimately conquered all
But what can we as simple mortals do with it?
Meandering aimlessly through a labyrinth of existence
We are all fools

Hell
Most people will simply never learn
Whether it's through stubbornness or stupidity
Most people are simply doomed

But it's not for want of trying
Regardless
For most people the future simply will not arrive
And it's futile to hope otherwise
In spite of our trying

"Those that emerge from the curtained-off mirror
Wiping fluid and blood from their hands
Return to their pews and bow their heads"

Most people will simply never learn
Whether it's through stubbornness or stupidity
Everyone is doomed

7. Blackheim's Quest To Bring Back The Stolen Autumn

[Diabolical Masquerade cover]

Once upon a time in a medieval legendary world
In late December cold of the thousand winter season
Blackheim took farewell of his crypts in the forestrealms
And rode into the horizonland unreachable for mortals

The mighty skies turned into a colour of blackest midnight
Still the winds knew where to travel on a forthblown path
He passed the chasm so below and the home of Aurora Borealis
He would soon be facing the lurkers of time - life - death

Blackheim's quest to bring back the stolen autumn

He exchanged his sentinel soul for a serpent sleeping in his heart
And so September appeared on wings and was brought back to his land...
He exchanged his sentinel blood for dragon's breath raging in his lungs
And so October appeared on wings and was brought back to his land...
He exchanged his sentinel wisdom for ashes buried in his eyes
And so November appeared on wings and was brought back to his land...
Blackheim finally asked for December since the sentinels of life and death did not know it was the month of winter...

The lurker of time cried out Blackheim's fooling stratagem
But the sentinel was at one with lightning
And threw the serpent into the mouth of time
Blew the dragon's breath with the strength of a demon
Into the eyes of life the lurker
Spread the ashes in the shadows of death
And the curse dissolved with their departure

Deathlike was the century in this horizonland oh so far away
Cold and blackened with no sounds of rejoice

Now he held the triumph high in heart
Stormed over fields with might in hand

8. In Life And In Death

So here we are!
At the breach between this world and the next
Stare down into that blacklustre cathedral once again, my friends
Gather in it's all encompassing fury
One last time

Who is to define the difference?
We know none of us the feeling of death
We shall not know until the ultimate
When shadows arrive for us

Could it be
That our end is indeed here?
Or shall we be reborn?
It's as they say, my friends
This is not the end
This is not the beginning
But it is an end
As it is a beginning
One unto the other
In life and in death
Until there is nothing left

We cannot say, that is to say, put our finger on such a thing
That none of us have heard, felt or seen
Therefore I am sadly forced to presume
That these are one and the same
Death is life
One unto the other
Forever it shall be

We know not what death is
None of us have felt it
Death is life
One unto the other
Forever it shall be
Until there is nothing left

Science teaches us nothing
Religion simply blurs our view
Our simple minds cannot possibly fathom anything conclusive
The shit we create can do us nothing but harm in the long run
I see wars, famine, disease, sheer fucking hatred
Humanity cleaved apart countless times
All one against the other
Yet still
We persist
Into the new era
It comes for us all
Grieve, my friends - it comes for us all







NIHTERNNES LYRICS