ULVER LYRICS

1. England's Hidden

2. Glammer Hammer

3. Moody Stix

4. Cromagnosis

5. The Spirits That Lend Strength Are Invisible

6. Om Hanumate Namah

7. Desert/dawn

8. D-Day Drone

9. Gold Beach

10. Nowhere (Sweet Sixteen)

You fly, or rather float, drift
Through an enormous dark room
A room of noises

Endless shimmering glissandi
Crackling pizzicato
Coal black, turbulence holes of bass drones
But otherwise empty
No planets, no meteorites
If anything, perhaps fine dust clouds of exploded music

You float there, somewhere between pleasure and fear

In a piece of time you can't determine
You're everywhere but in the present
Hey you disappear further and further
Into these incalculable rooms
And your personality fades away

Your features evaporate, your body decomposes

And your last thought is that you have become a noise
A thin, nameless noise among all the others
Howling in the empty dark room

11. Ecclesiastes (A Vernal Catnap)

Forgjeves sier forkynderen, forgjeves og forgjengelig, alt er forgjeves
Hva har mennesket igjen for sitt strev? For alt å streve med under solen?
Slekter går, og slekter kommer men, jorda er alltid den samme

Solen går opp, og solen går ned,
så lengter den tilbake til stedet da den går opp
Den skinner og vandrer mot sør, så vender den og vandrer mot nord
Mens vinden snur og skifter og tar fatt på sin rundgang igjen

Alle elver renner ut i havet, men havet blir ikke fullt
Dit elvene før har rent, fortsetter de å renne

Alle ting går [?],
Menneskets ord strekker ikke til
Øyet blir ikke mett av å se, og øret blir ikke fullt av å høre

Det som har skjedd skal atter skje, og det som ble gjort skal gjøres på nytt...
Intet er nytt under solen
Blir det sagt om noe, se, dette er nytt, har det likevel hendt i tidligere tider lenge før oss
Ingen minnes det som før har hendt, og det som skal komme vil heller ingen minnes i slektene
som følger

[English translation:]

In vain, the preacher says, in vain and perishable, everything is in vain...
What has man left for his endeavor? For everything it has to strive with under the sun?
Families go, and families come
The earth is always the same...

The sun rises, and the sun goes down
Then it goes back to the place it rose
It shines and goes towards the south, and then it turns and goes to the north
While the wind turns and changes and does its roundabout, again

All rivers flow into the ocean, but the sea will never be full
Where all rivers before have flowed, they continue to flow

All things go [?],
The word of man does not extend to
anything...The eye does not get full from seeing, and the ear does not get full from hearing...

What has happened will happen again, and what has been
done, will be done again. Nothing is new under the sun

If it is said, see, this is new, it has nevertheless happened in earlier times long before us
No one remembers what has happened before, and no one will
remember in the families that follows...

12. Solaris

ULVER LYRICS