Borknagar

The sun descended to the ground Behind the mountains, in the sea A one-eyed man wanders sullen to the highest hill There he will survey over those surviving will The flaming shores are yet unseen In spite of dawn, the horizon sleeps The sea gleams with lethal...

We're ensnared by the fate if persistence As the forces of nature interact To weather slope and mountain, close and by distance Creating expanding ventifacts Running water conducts the erosion Leading grains of sand in the grind Empowered by wind, time,...

Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it's line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I've been down below And I've been high above From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimen...

Through the wind of inquisitiveness, A total view travels the ray of nature's benevolence From the nest of fragments wholeness once flew To set out a striking confluence Where eye meet the biospheres ability Chaos and order shaded by equilibrium In coherence...

Thought formed the earth as earth formed the thought - it flew with the wind as the wind always sought the fire of feat, the soma of motion, producing the sweat that set off the corrosion that made the flesh turn into earth again. So let the water drink you a...

Cold runs the river Warm runs my blood The old signs quiver And my mind mountain releases a flood A life nerve in a barren era Raised in the heat of the sun I drink its potion from well and caldera Through earth-veins it flows, forming a canyon Ice d...

From out of static time has grown Existence formed by substance unknown Prelude to matter, shift of disorder Completion of bonds between chaos and order The era of seasons, the essence of being The continuous process awakens the living Absorber of every flick...

I am soon to reach the pith. My spherical vile so sacred. Engendering the divine fusion. Visions of emerging stars. I am about to stake my stance. Fly above the precluding fence. The cosmic feast I am to gasp. To honour the divine cast. Cyclus - frame...

The impact of meteor collisions sprays rock over desert sand I've seen the subversion changing our conditions in the wildfire that scorches the land A region flooded by horizontal cataracts drowning in the debris flow A force that despoils every human artifac...

The trails of existence thrust into the future A future that crumbles, riddance by revulsion Woven roots uphold the ground, earthly bound The ground we walk, the ground we fought Rivers drift into eternity, draining the potency The endless maze, the blin...

White petals Red lines Highest heaven Deepest mines Vertically green This is how it's seen I never thought the world would come to this I never thought it would come to this Sturdy feet and arid ground Dusty shoes and not a sound Sturdy feet and arid ground...

A new dawn is rising To enlight the ruins of the future As a distant echo from the past Circles above , roves of the skyline Circles above, roves the skyline Dives into the future cast Years to come, years that passed a presence cached by the wind Woven in r...

Glomeration of the four's constructiviness An intelligental substance permanent I sensed the elemental tenderness In the mind, in Nature's argument To breed, to grow, to peak, to be reborn Like a sine curve in an endless loop The day's crescendo dusk adorn A...

Moving through fields away from the great sea up to the barren and cold The wind gathers might as the last trees passes out of sight I plunge into the blight Frozen landscape see me, feel me Awe strikes where even the air bites and ice ceaselessly survives...

The mysteries of a hidden past. Precession of the planetary relations. Restitution of a genuine consciousness. Return to the haven of the first and the last. The everlasting zero, a glimpse of a million. The forever million, yet a ubiquitous presence. Coronat...

Temptation impales the vulnerable Transforming the breed as it strains to erase Cleansing the body and perfecting the bliss Falling further into its hypnosis Absurd scenery of strenght and endurance The mundane edeavours for the perfect resistance Evolution a...

"The gods are great, I am the greatest" Mother of earth, mother of all Father of air, father of all Brother in flames Sister of seas Gods of my world, behold... Flame my desire To grow and to breed The wisdom I need Gather in the storms asunder Condone the co...

The silence was utter, the sleep was long A torment for even the brave Peals of thunder even did not forsake The lifeless soil of this eternal-white land A domain of no mercy - White, so bright As a day of calm, flawless might Beware the coming of night The s...

Nature is about to regain The firm bastion of existence A circular and furious monument Of the everlasting remnants of evolution The winds rove beyond the mountains Lurking the bate-the delusion of faith The storm distends,retribution descends The people of t...

The energy of the wisdom haze Rinses the tide as a blend of fire Upon the shores, where fires blaze The pulse of time, shades of light Plains stroked by the slumber sleep Mountains embraced by rafting time Swept into a new horizon The source of life, the cour...

Deify the universal coherence existence The progeny of subsistence bearer of man, the heirs of amend Soak into the stellar magnitude Rise towards the sky In a fiery union with nature as one with every creature Rove the windy mountains fall of man, drain in t...

The parade of the quaternary symbiosis Token of a divided existence Univocal sense of the hallow consistence A silver stream of cryonics stars The corrosion of the reality narcosis Negligence makes the future tense Axis bent into never ending continuance Exp...

Incorporation Analysis Space/time, travel, silence, and freedom Combinations Flash back - fast forward Repetition and rearrangement Internal/external Fragmentation 

Algae and plankton sporadically rinsed up effectively. Seaweed clad naked continents in green veils. From stardust constructions, cells elusively. Rearranged the scenery in numerous scales. A primitive organism, predecessor of mutations. Along the evolutionar...

They left it all behind Crawling through the snow Every peak a spear piercing the sky In the twilight glow The blinding white Swallowed them whole The freezing wind drained them of all life Then left them cold Still somehow A faint signal A point o...

I was born a fragment of future Raised by the dawn of existnece I grew as one with the elements Shown the cause of extinction I have seen worlds bloom to explode And horizons flush into voids of fire and ice I have seen worlds explode to bloom The dawn, the...

From every human complexity And nature's twisted analogy An urge to explain - to understand Springs out with the nation to expand The narrow view of what we are Could a mathematical formula Improve our existential stamina Would explaining our kin universally...

When the dotted lights Crawl like bugs On the canvas high above All I love And the answer's in my sheets I forget about tomorrow And my sorrow Leave it to the great painter To open the world and my mind Leave it to my mind To expand on his creation...

Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraternity Spread out on a canvas of deepest black The white glowing softness a fierce attack That odious draught: insufficiency Touched man as he climbed himself mentally Alone with his...

Mankind's constructed fallacy Aggressively upheld a reality Fit for an age without questions. But these constructions of delusion now crumble And the candour of nature prevails Over eons of irrationality A new complexity rises Crashing waves violently...

Behold the northern plains the entwined wintry mountains Seasons of the cold, haven of the bold the greatest column, the bearer of the sky The winds are stirring and blurring the seditious omen of erosion A frozen spear of disharmony the shattering yet celest...

There was a time A time when every moment showed A place where the symphonies shone Through branches and leaves The symphonies of nature... There was a time A time when one grew with trees A place where the seeds were falling Through branches and leaves The c...

[originally by Metallica] You just stood there screaming Fearing no one was listening to you They say the empty can rattles the most The sound of your own voice must soothe you Hearing only what you want to hear And knowing only what you've heard You, you're...

Deep in the twilight, crystals of water ice Lightened by a sun that dwells below the view point Eerie and shining clouds, on darkening skies As dust and vapor conjoin Noctilucen 

The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It's force force drains...

Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of...

In coherence of the universal clue. The elements served as our dictionary. The vast and the narrow's rendezvous. Where abstraction and the precise momentarily. Shared an equal confounded abode. But soon we entangled ourselves in that maze. Then, nature's stra...

Inner landscapes provide the ground for structures Development plans, architectural design nature in it's purest form, the very idea of being alive Intuitions feeds the progression Read me, decipher every word Then multiply the dormant issues Just tear...

The principles of the quintessential four. Surrounds the inevitable future lore. Untangle the path of a circular cast. The symbiosis of earth, air, water and fire. Soaked by water, a blinding tear. Nothing to see, nothing to flee. Burnt by fire, the future I...

Peeling the layers to expose the facts was like spraying and ancient painting with ammonia Faces melted, colours turned pale, shapes lost their vivacity and essences faded to distracted blurs Now the canvas is all white and my hands are unsoiled Still all re...

A flat planet in the centre of the universe. Who punctured us? Who thrust the needle into our flesh? Geocentrism came crawling back - licking the needle marks - "Copernicus was never right", and our world turned as introvert as our minds. Kepler, Copernicus &...

Thunderous events below the atmosphere. Hibernate within my fissures. Mind has compressed what it lent from the ear. Like a diamond that sings of external pressure. But this zenith is chased by a curse. That time seems cruel to our memory. Expressive bow strok...

I fed the fire with my flesh and desire Spilt the blood upon existence Tracing trails, a furious tail Barely touching the mirror of reality The deformation of what depression denote A spiritual fusion, drown in conclusions Derail the path, the course that......

The tide of the substances Furious force, a stunning course A war unbroken It's the coil of the combining ends The dawn of the random fall I summon the winter, the autumns son The way of those, the way of mine I summon the winds, the rage of storms My way is...

The roots thrust – into oblivion beyond the verge of space The erodent roots, the evolving loops thrusts, yet free roaming There is a horizon folded blinding leaves of the universe Throughout the inner core my quest, my lore Where the seeds recoil and return...

Upon the ruins of the future I climbed to behold A distance so pale An existence so cold Resembling the views These angels of damnation As my mind came and flew Upon the ruins of future I stood to be told That the future will fail Upon the hands that fold A...

["The human brain is a tyrannical despot" - Louis-Ferdinan Céline (1894-1961).] From the lonely, grey bricks of inaccessible places to the massive stones of a shared foundation. From a Mental clarity of inverted liberation to the intricate web forming ever-ch...

The guest of omniscience Forthright eloquence To behold the end of horizon Observation of foresights Inhaling circulations of the soul The aura of stars, the fusion of frequencies Measure of all, the blur of the frame that ceases The certitude of generations...

The boundary is my stronghold I push the glacier towards the edge Stepping across the horizon's threshold With unexplored domain to wedge I catch the sun and tame the flares As thunder strikes for a hundred years A climd the hills, they are my stairs T...

Concrete cracks, gives way to green forests fall come glass and steel The beauty of dead cities the splendor of nature Glass framed cities untamed gardens Wings in the meadow asphalt hardens Everything in its place the duality of the natural order An unforg...

The very maxim of the universe Portrayed by the greatness the stars rehearse Premeditated by nature's sense A modest exuberance so intense That every mind has failed to grase it Forged by time on the last of eternity Complex constructions - a stellar fraterni...

Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind >From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong M...

Pale like the skull of the sun The way of the hunting moon O storms that reign supreme The breeze comes whisperin' soon Strike the flowers' last gleam In spite of desperate fight, their power Leave no shores where the torrents stream Mountains highest hills...

Children, behold the elders falling hear nature chime, the widow calling See that moldered face, once gazing throughout horizons, throughout seasons Men, behold the nature tolling hear the depravity of man See the sunshine blurring, once sharp and gleaming Th...

Up there on the mountain, above all fire, the fields down there and the ravine below Where the elements feast in reckless desire A raven is seated Where the sun cannot reach, only teriffic storms prevail In a thunderin' havoc they ruthlessly roar My heart it...

The fire that burns The light that governs the heat Igniting the passion, the eternal appetite For things to come, For thoughts to create The spark that glimmers So that visions appear in a flash Initiating the chain reaction, Culminating in the very...

The gephyr, the sullen breath Horizons of history re-erodent The haven, where the stars are set Constellations of manifestation Glow, expanding through forever I all with the rain, rise with the ocean Drain to expire, the shrine of fortility Burn as the flame,...

I came from the utter fields Carving shame on the tender shields On my path I wandered high Acknowledged beneath the sky The hate I carried, recalling why! I walked towards the rising Autumn And cursed the summer with the promis of a Winter Where my foes will...

Prior to the forces of primacy Concealed by the essence, the profane Withdraws in manners of erosion Spine of the universal conflicts Swept towards a new domain Reversed in time, proceed in time Swallowed by dimensions Swallowed by the flames I see fear so c...

The mountains chime Avast the relentless rhyme The majesty, the regency Revails the everlasting rivalry Crowned by the haze of history A ferocious tore A regaining core Ordained by the weight of gravity Echoes through the halls of lore Echoes throug...

"Who am I to behold?" Time revises the existence Forms the timelessness of substance Thousand paths of furious chaos Circles the spine of the universe All the ways that I have been All the stars that I have seen I have seen the haven of eternity The hive of...

Seconds, minutes and hours The pace, a momentary notion Sand, stone and mountain The entwinement of time and erosion Children, youth and the man A pristine face moldered by seasons Summer, autumn and winter Behold the recoiling stir of the reasons 

Great and pounding in its way Stirring the roaming cosmic sea Oceans rise, planets igneous fall As chaos and beauty in fierce rage Furious are the storms Forever its rage carries on Disintergrating to create, upon fate Wearing the web of solar cast Hasting th...

Through every thought. On every surface. Crossing every idea. Lifting, gentle movements. A certain direction. Turning tides, opening skies. Measuring the weight of wind. 

A long gone presence unfolds through the eye of the winter eclipse Where the moments of history hold the shadows of a vast ancestral cast This path walked by generations eroded by man, illuminated by the Sun Ancestors and fathers, as fathers and sons the ever...

Awakened by the hands of Autumn The hands which made me sleep Was a shadow vague yet deep A creature, spine of the essence Drifting in the wind, clad as Sin The force behind my cause The hands that fold me within Awakened beneath a restless sky By mountains...

Celebration of life in all its forms. The visionary scope of wonders. Confluent and figural scenery. The resilient existence of the past. As a drone of the inevitable progress. The carrier that breach the horizon. I see the winter all summer through. Moments...

Up high and far away, where the air is clear A vast horizon shimmers The cold wind seems to carry the light away As the earth's rotation closes the day Beyond the towering peaks Recurring shadows bow deep Into the raging rivers The ground runs cold an...

The ancient trails ahead Beat through the barren plains Wandered by man and beast Since the dawn of time Towards the sun, towards the moon They strode, As do I To claim our stellar home - under the dome We have walked these paths before, We are standi...

Existential matters ignite in circulation. A motion to bend, towards the swift end. Encompassing a visionary plead to defend. Liberation of the five senses, the ego phrase. Metamorphosis of perceptual principles. Platonic illumination of Natures' quincunx. Wh...

Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen a...

There´s a place where the Summer will be As a legend long gone set free And this warms me beautifully Where the sun cast shadows at night Where the day and evenings are bright The place where i belong Up North! Where the pine trees meet the sea Where t...

There are voices - in the air There are voices - in the air They always find me, oh they find me No matter where I go There are voices - in my head There are voices - in my head They won't leave me, never leave me No matter where I go There are chain...

Shores retreat in disarray melting glaciers lead the demise And connect the rapidly rising tide A ramming fluid out of firm ice A wall of waves and an abyss of water Drench the land, coastal erosion Submerged by the increasing sea levels slaughter It s...

Again The empty room White and unmarked, though touched With a sensible structure Underneath the surface Hiding in the corner of the eye Or resting right outside the field of vision No doors or windows No entrances or exits Only bright light Forming...

Awakened by a thumping heart growing in his chest Impulse of generations free sounding in on men Calling him all ready To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above To climb the peaks to reach the sun To rise above To rise above Th...

Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of t...

The sound of the groaning frost Enforce the waves of blinding winters Days of reaping, nights of aghast Seasons aligned, under the wintry sign The groaning, moaning sound of this frost A blinding eternal blizzard Seasons aligned and now under the sign...

In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean T...

The principles of the nature Firm shapes of consistency A treasury concealed in time Inevitable, invincible, an axiom Diversity crafted by evolution Yet the path of the future is carved in rock As the horizontal horizon As the vertical steeps of summits The...