Candlemass

Hear the cry the cry of tormented pain a voice darker than evil the deadly moaning of hell Oh no! the unborn has tasted no light Sharing the rest of the dead not aware of the years that go by Lurking in the shadows twisted shape of creeping terror gu...

Part I Time stands still in these ancient halls Only the castle itself can tell what it keeps Dark are the secrets between these walls hidden in shadows of death, while the sorcerer sleeps Where is the morning where is the sun Thousand years of midnigh...

On that day, that day of birth in the morning, the dawn of time it down to rest a moment when a song came to my mind As I sat there I could feel it from within the magic came With my voice the mountains rose with my breath came lovely air With my tears...

Abstract sun, you're the Sanskrit in my book Dominion, innocence and pride you took As a god, I drink the beauty with my eyes As a man, I do become what I despise The first time I tried, I bled and I died Out of the jar to this flamboyant star Drawn like...

Black inferno, chaos reigns supreme A cancerous growth spreading out the dark Leaving the wounded land in ashes A civilization in ruins and decay Whores and scavengers violating the dead Like a filthy flock of hungry wolves Tortured shapes of steel agai...

Reach deep within where reality is hard to find search in the corners of the wondering mazesof your mind Seek out the treasures that open doors that some keep sealed believe in your dreams and a wonderworld will be revealed Come to the boundless land s...

I sleep inside the machinery Letting it all go Wait, keep, preserve the cold within yourself What more is there to know Watchin' seven holy man bring on the funeral bell Flashing it so all can see They sink it in a pond Torching open corridors up and down and...

Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night So pale and lifeless What you're doing to me I'm doing to myself I close the iris to the sun It once was open, soon its gone Soon it's gone Soon it's gone So pale and lifeless What you're...

Mask of shadow's sole, liebst the night he owns The grace of the beast, the solace of the sleet A sea of colder rain, gives him life again To hunt mortality, precious pearls of grief Murder draped in dusk, the thief's not one of us Came here with the shrouds,...

[Verse 1] In the folds of mythology Never died, never born Demented god, a monstrosity Oh, you block the sun [Verse 2] Octopus, the point of no return You're the hunger, the one There you wait, for moon and man to fall From the wall of the world [C...

Sunrise I greet you, the beauty of your light so warm and tender was never the night In tears I see you, the last time it will be so give me your blessing, I'll meet my destiny No rest for the Sinner Hypnos refused me my sleep This was the last night of...

[Bonus Track] Sunrise I greet you, the beauty of your light So warm and tender was never the night In tears I see you, the last time it will be So give me your blessing, I'll meet my destiny No rest for the Sinner Hypnos refused me my sleep This was the last...

Once a year the white robes go on a quest In search of a virgin, a child of innocence Born of Apollon, divine is the heritage chosen by foe to accomplish a holy task Bearer of pain, Bearer of pain lighten the burdens of woe Bearer of pain, Bearer of pain...

Can't you see, the devil in me just take a look in my eyes I will play for you, this wicked melody it's magic will reach for your soul It burns inside, no place to hide this strange tune possesses your mind It comes over you, and the nightmare is true...

Time is short... time is endless Time is linear but also a relative factor that moves rather unnoticed form point A to B. Time is a force not to be taken lightly.... Because time never forgets Time heals nothing... Time is a black hole that consumes ene...

Serpent rising on the horizon, and right here in my abode Evil sensation, a manifestation, I'm petrified I cannot go Black and white day glow, cold creeping fright show a star of infinite mass Soul corroding and head exploding, existence reduced in a flash...

Every night outside my window, she is there A frozen shadow in the street Surrounded by silence and unspoken terror Hell on high heels Demonic hunger, a mistress from the grave Welcome, she smiles The poisoned smell of her sexuality Says love me to dea...

The rain kept on falling and darkened the sky the dawn was to come with the sunrise Revealing the shadows that passed through the mist the torchlight was flickering, the storm was chasing them on A procession of dark coats followed the star foretold...

Agents of abomination Trinity of the damned One devil that kills One that takes One that calls me his son The wave will hit you soon The ambassadors of doom Black trinity – Tidal wave Black trinity – Until we close our days Black trinity – Set me f...

Allseeing eye you leave your shed Weaving icy webs of cosmic threds Ask directions and solid pennies Must lit the molten stars before they vanish Impatient soul a spark that passed Into a diamond blur of eons lost And underneath the universal will...

They buried me here in the winter To an iron box I checked in I've never heard birds or seen daylight And nothing will ever come in I'm happy to lie here in darkness Naked safe, undisturbed Floating blind in water In my little world of dirt I live underground...

Bridge of the blind Take me somewhere Away to an unknown land And from where I was before What would I find, If I opened my eyes? One foot then another Straight into the bottomless… Here I stand On the bridge of the blind Can’t see where I’m going...

We sat the sails, in July Knew too well it was final goodbye At the helm, there I stood Like a tree, awaiting the flood Over the sea and under the stars We searched the shores both near and so far Crossed the last line, the rim of the world To find reality, l...

Jaded and demented In the attic the bonemen soared I slammed the door behind me Reality was no more The screams of the demented Follows me where I go A secret door I entered Leads to the everflow...oh no... And the days before sunrise are the worst When my m...

Our names are written on the stars on heaven's tree Yes, nine by nine they die, just like you and me These peerless eyes look down, giving us our choices Each one calls out, a universe of voices These are the ancient fathers, the laws that bind us all White j...

Welcoming the virgins fair, to live a noble life In the castle known to all - the Count's internal wife She invites the peasants with endless lavish foods But, when evening spreads it wings, she rapes them of their blood Countess Bathory Countess Bathory All...

Black heart, your soul is mine (...mine, mine) Gaze into and the secrets you'll find (...find, find) Just read the signs Gaze into the crystal, see what it tells It can bring you all fortune, do you so well Visions and dreams you can see in the Crystal ball...

I read your palm in a bowl of spit It's not looking good Spirits low, yes life is shit I thought you understood You say these words, "why just me I thought I did so well" You're the perfect creep that god forgot See you soon in hell You ask if I detest...

Dancing in the temple of the mad queen bee Deep in the cinnamon forest She offers me crickets, she offers me tea In the court of her enchanted palace Asks me if I wanna stay Sing with the trolls and the fays Swim in her emerald lake I'm dancing in the...

Death is present the candle has burned out the scythe is raised he's eager to reap the extreme unction prepares for the last flight but God knows where you will rest Dark are the veils of death To sail the seas of eternal damnation to cross the de...

A black star fell down the night I was reborn a last chance to save us, a last chance to turn dusk to dawn The vultures they cried out their welcome to greet my arrival the shadows they danced for my death at the nightmare's trial The demons of fear tearing my...

I'm standing here in silence This graceful place of peace Watching the shadows come closer The birds they sing no longer The winds they blow no more With fear of death I'm waiting for the night to fall The sun will set forever One after one the stars...

"Suddenly I awoke. I must have fallen asleep under the oak, where I used to sit and dream as a child The dawn was soon to come, and the air was crisp and cold Yet I felt warm I remembered my strange dreams and knew I had the strength and love in my heart to cr...

You are the gospel that is spread A mighty voice, the rhymes of the dead The bible of the holy rage A broken angel of this age The fire in the flesh God knows I'm still possessed You are the thunder, earth and sea A born devil, a saint that deceives The sile...

Death, he loves you more than anything Walks behind you with black halo thing In the dying hour, let the endless in Face of immortal beauty, angel's wings Death thy lover in the hollow, there's no other He's your only friend and he's watching over you D...

In the absence of bible and king I close my gaze, ‘fore one last good spin Resurrection, sermon, or prey I’m a Jonah in the throat of the whale Charon waves, grins from his oar I am snowblind I’m the frost of the north Tomorrow’s sun slowly falls to th...

Black chiseled beast Under the surface Demon of the deep Above is Ursus Cold water dome Ancient predator Atlantis is home For this carnivore Tyrant of the abyss Plague of the seas Tentacle kiss Razor sharp teeth Guardian of the grave 3 hellish heads 10 mile...

"Beyond all nightmares I met my fate An ancient passage surrounded by hate Scared I was with my hand on my cross I went into the demon's gate" Across the Styx among the mists of Hades A gate of stones marks the path To soul's damnation and hell's wrath Ancie...

In my left pocket, spot of all that dies, a cage of the vile. 13 keys, 13 locks, to the sick and strange that calls out to me. I crept through the palace archways Psychotic and deranged oh lord Enchanted and estranged inside It's midnight for days and days an...

Land of thousand needles Land of cripple and lame So much self indulgence And so much shit in my brain The people under the staircase And all the vomit in hell Parading here on my doorstep I just want to get well You walk amongst us, a majesty of wrath Chaos...

100 devils, follow me 'round From the craters of chaos to the promised land Thick black choirs, voices to guide me Demon heralds sitting beside me A little seed planted eats through your soul You're not worthy when you're afraid and alone Without warning it s...

I got a date with the master, my friend A sunday stroll in the surreal, so zen From perfection to disaster again Thanx for showing me what's real A rendezvous with the psychic once more She's sneaking thought into my brain I'm sure Am I one of the cynic, the p...

Nothing and nothing I see Nothing and nothing I hear When the seasons change When the children play In these clouded days The doubts will stay Right by my side In flood and tide Dust soaks my eyes My love is denied The sun and the moon and the stars If someone...

Drifting from the prison planet I fell inte the 13:th sun Way beyond all superscience known Surfing through space and mantra God of time and mercury Our love will live inside the elephant star They took me to the titan mother A dream away from yesterday Tomorr...

Blood runs free, down the river I'm the weeper, the life beriever I cross the Styx, with coins...onyx Without the trumpets and horns and pyres (The) final curtain, death is certain Harpys sing, my soul is hurting Razors, rope, mountains of dope Does it matter...

I am the king, of the great islands of grey Windswept and scatted, bent and confused My castle is my ruin, the mouldering grave Where the memory fades along with the mourning cry of the mother I am the king. The ruler of the grey Islands I'm the emperor...

Mark how our shadow, Mark Movits mom frere One small darkness encloses How gold and purple that shovel there To rags and rubbish disposes Charon beckons from tumultuous waves Then trice this ancient digger of graves For thee ne'er grapeskin shall gliste...

All the songs, the ivory Floats around so peacefully and fulfill the scenery In my time In the grass, the ogre is slayed The fragile moment of the day No need to stay, I know I've paid In my time Close inside the electric tower In the centre a white centaur Af...

In the evening rain, I was standing outside...the hell opera I've been there before, a while ago...with Nosferatu Saw the execution of my tomorrow...saw it and bowed In the theater, of hellfire...the inferno is now! I am lost again, I lean against...the p...

Inside the house that burned No exit, no return A place of oak and ashes The silence of a 1000 voices In the ruins of blackened wood The house of orphans stood No play, no childhood existed You checked in, you never left In the house of a 1000 voices There's...

Darker than amber Dark like your bones Clearer than crystal In the death of the sun Built on the ruins of The black angels tomb The house of madness Awake, burning for you Welcome to the House of Doom A church of evil A labyrinth of rooms We are th...

I'm standing up, I'm sitting down A precious jewel - creation's crown? Someone is holding my breath Someone is finding my fears While the self got lost as the world appeared Gimme more, gimme less Than soulless death in the nightingness I'm missing the moments...

If I ever die, I'm begging you, please come with me We're gonna groove, into the blue All the parasites, oh just leave them, pigs can't fly There's no tomorrow, no regrets, no goodbyes I will fly, into the sunset, way up high Don't be sorry, nothing good I le...

"Edge of time, the dawn of our heaven All is black the return of the fallen angel Amongst us, a devil is disguise The preacher of the wicked Establishing his kingdom" A million souls so lost and damned Alive but not so well And the devil raised his hand And s...

Julie's on the run so far away from home Mesmerized by promises and gold Took the wrong left, turn, it's just a one way street Now she's all alone, out in the cold Yes it's true we've heard it all before But little Julie laughs no more Julie's now on her way...

Where were you as the sun died Spewing out its collapse Did you care as heaven slowly fried Missing out on the Swansong You were never that keen But my death was a knockout I believe It's a cold December I count my wounds as ever And that day was the seventh W...

I'm drowning in colours In a pool of flaming stars All the giants are dead It doesn't matter who you are I'm floating in light Plastic rooms and liquid space Nothing in sight But the freak that wears my face 

In the dunes of Egyptian sand In the cities and small towns The word goes from land to land The dawn of enlightenment is here Oh blessed the children of doom As they dance on the meadows Oh poet and merchant and witch You know the master is here Luci...

2 ‘o clock, the basement doom shift Afternoon and you dig in the black ditch Comatose, turned off’s the light switch Collector of grief, full scale deathwish Everyday, a grey and sad day I dip my love in soul pain And still looking for things to detest...

[Bonus track] Gasping, groaning, Alone, I fell to the Earth, But did the red moon? I know it happened too soon. Circling sun, life goes on. I'm alive and I still want more. Mars at war, Venus whore, Take me now to the electric shore. Last night kissing bull...

Mirror, mirror upon the wall Magic demon eye A realm of madness Awakened by the call Speak the ancient words of mages Try to take control The essence of evil, A challenge for your soul The battle of minds The riddle the rhymes Beware of the darkness behind U...

Let me stay here by your side be one with you my precious child Let me cover your bed with tears I will save you from all fears I burn the candles for your soul I sing you prayers as the preacher told I bring you flowers, I dress in black though I know this ca...

There is a light, a flickering light The eye in the sky is now approaching I fall into, the well of taboo In the maelstrom of morte I am floating I'm going down, deeper and down The door to the other world is open High court of the witch lord I got the invita...

The monumental sleep With the sunrise at my feet Where's the altar of the gods, The wrath and the floods? All is in vain Of stars and of smoke I am Of shade and of light With dragons in every hand I'm vading through life From nothing I came before,...

Spiral staircase... to the center.. of the earth Green lit orb... siar eye... one and first Hidden hole... pit of Jura... Serpent Cult Descending down... steps of bone... greet the cold PROPHET PROPHET Where's the manifest of FIRE? PROPHET PROPHET See,...

Is there a sun there in your hand? A little light that battles with itself Is there a message in the sand, that tells me how to set the world in flames? Do people cry or is it rain? Do we care... do we count the stains? When will the sunrise stay a day? Laugh...

One day I saw a man dressed in rags, with a staff in his hand begging for a penny to survive How poor a man can be I gave him hospitality a room, a bed and lots of food to eat Still I hear his last few words "I can never return what you've done heaven...

You're hiding in your hall, alone with your hunger Can't break through the wall, of the prison within No reason to be proud, don't go so near it You bow your head in shame, afraid you will fear it Open up your dreams Seven silver keys To open up your dreams Y...

Claws and little tail Horns that point my way Can evil be so innocent, frail? Blessing in disguise A shattering surprise Do you know, you're the devil's own child? I see the look on your face I see the night in your gaze Starless and discreet… So si...

I can hear the siren wail begin Lovechants that'll bring me everything Step out to the woods or let them in The world goes numb when the sirens sing I see the light high upon the hill I'm drawn towards, I feel the sirens will Have I becomea victim of the wild...

Buried deep under miles of ice The sleeping giant frozen lies Covered in frost since dogs could fly Icy tear in star-drenched eye Mountains die and mountains form You see no light, no polar storm His hammer smashed whole worlds to dust The legend that...

I'm sitting here alone in darkness, waiting to be free, Lonely and forlorn I am crying I long for my time to come, death means just life Please let me die in solitude Hate is my only friend, pain is my father Torment is delight to me Death is my sanctuary, I...

[Bonus Track] I'm sitting here alone in darkness Waiting to be free, Lonely and forlorn I'm crying I long for my time to come Death means just life Please let me die in solitude Hate is my only friend Pain is my father Torment is delight to me Death is my sa...

Here I am In this strange world A different universe Nowhere in time I'm captured in my dreams On this lonely journey To find the morning light To be me Eternal life Beyond the death we know A restless soul But am I dead? (Lost in nowhere, timeless prison W...

Trading thoughts with the moon Do you know about infinity? And with a broken spoon I bless the ones without clarity I see through these walls The godlike urge, feverish fireworks So when reality calls I'm back inside my wonderworld  

Walking 'round and 'round in circles Locked inside himself The funny farm where he can't hurt us Or what we all believe Mute and deaf with no obsessions A broken watch he got He's the one that got no questions Not a word to breathe And there you see that he f...

Good morning, demon majesty Shine like the diamond you are One of the three, the epiphany The father, the rising star You give the satanic symphony An overture titanic and black I feel your love, the affinity I'm glad your highness is back I know your...

High noon, oh I'd sell my soul for water Nine years worth of breakin' my back There's no sun in the shadow of the wizard See how he glides, why he's lighter than air? Oh I see his face! Where is your star? Is it far, is it far, is it far? When do we le...

My tears were flowing down to the ground a sad stream of silver is a mournin' man's gold And where the seeds of sorrow soon were found a flower of light, the omen saw the world [Chorus] Step into the dreams of wonder Open up the gates of wonder Stare into th...

A hymn for the praise of the setting sun In ancient Egypt my home Child of Horus catch the morning star To the Elysian fields we will go The god at the top of the staircase The usurper that weighs our hearts In your court I deliver my soul To be coming forth...

A distant calling, A faint echo form the past The bells are still tolling, The message of sadness and death In the city of Acheron The priests burned the Book Worshipped false Gods Scoffed at the good Desecrated the altar Spat on the cross Teared down the tem...

Can you see her, slender and pale? But so graceful she walks down the stairs A perception of musk fills the air The kiss of darkness, the baron's own heir In the tower...shadows lurk Full moon power...the Baroness' noble sleep The daily escape...nature's mist...

I woke up with a scream in my throat Something evil I saw then I choked Never thought I would dream of LaVey And never see the light of day Then the dawn reeked of swine like a slut I'm in bed as the light goes so dim And the globe of ascent turned to sut A n...

From the bottom of the pit of nightmares she will come From the dungeons of insanity to haunt the wicked mind A crooked finger points, a spell is cast, words can kill A weaver of the web of tears, a daughter of the dark Oh, the moon is so cold See the grace o...

Where's the muses cave The isle of the dead The sign of Eph is gone So is the sun Tired and confused I sail into the night With the devil at my shoulder I'll be fine I ride the straits of darkness everyday No light will lead my way from my pain Drowned in tid...

A shapeless form A mindless soul Senseless with no control Eyes so closed A heart that sleeps A memory, a thought that is gone I am born Still I'm no more A dying illusion In the dream I am fading "Oh Lord! This must be heaven" tears in my eyes A sweet dream...

In the winter cold I see the blood Clotting slowly in the snow Unsung heroes cry in the night May they die before dawn Broken banners mourn fallen crowns Grieving swords lay all around As the swan song touches the mountainside Unseeing eyes look at you Can't...

Genocide destination A scientific race Symptoms of the evolution? We're fresh out of the caves! Bow and arrow, fangs and fur Neanderthals and cars We burned the flame and tamed the earth Looked up to the stars The dogs, the apes... the buffalo The fire and t...

I built a virgin tower, I'm taking to the stars I dream of ancient power, glimmers in my eyes Four devils guide my steosm abd seven clears te day To greatness, feast, excess, back to immortal days I travel with the dragon to learn and tjame the beast I rule t...

I had a dream last night, a vision, a prelude? Outside my body, I was free to do All things under the sun, and everything I want My head awake and clear, for everybody to hear And like the brightest day It fades away Revelation and progress Thorns to...

"Holy was the star from which you were born, to a world where darkness and fear take form A lonely soul with a heart of light to find beyond reality, forgotten in time Seek the heart, seek in your dreams visit your nightmares and realms yet unseen You are alon...

The fires... are fading... believe me.. it's so quiet... But the darkness... is breathing... the horde's here... to steal the light! the legions... are marching... they tell me... that you hear Just when you thought that you were safe A nice life...fami...

I bind unto myself today the strong name of the trinity Crypt of despair the old man is there forming a circle of magic and prayers Guarding the well the black hole to hell its evil must never arise I can tell Holy mission forever he's sworn to protect our w...

I know that my old life is ending very soon I'll lose my breath But raise up high or slow descending (is the question after death) Death is a forecourt to hell, where the lost of humanity dwell [x 2] In the realm of the other side I saw some spirits a force o...

Got a god and her bless I want everything she offers and won't settle for less I see heaven under my feet as well as over my head Bet you wish you was already dead Always less done than said Met this guy, who knows why But he says "I know where you'll g...

Dark clad waters, still warm shrouds Doomsday warning from the men in the clouds Lily's weep over light that fled Words were carved in my arm by the dead Grim like war, foul like tar Corroded fragments of a dying star Sleepy herons abruptly awake as the black...

...Deep was my anguish and for these words They froze my blood and changed my soul The master has spoken the truth, not any lies The Devil gives and evil takes The thing in life that man forsakes A throne in hell, a price or a sacrifice? Still the wind was bl...

Behind the door The ocear floor Beneath the iron surface There’s a hole The dead they climb An endless line And there you are Night after night Ominous blue rays Cemetary waters Just like lemmings Glowing spirits That day of the week now The hea...

"North is cold, summer is late South is sorrow, surrounded by hate West is far, a dream you are creating East is here, and your fate is awaiting"  

Autumn wind... summers end Leaves and grass is ageing, as the water is as still and dark... as her eyes... Lifeless pond... love is gone Rains and cracks... the church is black Ringing the hollow bells.. time after time... WATERWITCH... WATERWITCH... WATERWI...

Rain and thunder, fire and wind Come with me, I leave with the tide I wrap my cloak closer 'round my shoulders To keep me warm from the raging storm The spirits are here to guide my journey Over the edge of the world A thousand wounds cry in my soul Love and...

Someone stole the starlight from the backside of your hand Weak without the magic you lay passed out in the sand With controls set for night flights when witches ruled the world In a twinkling moment you see cockroaches and crows Go behind the great clouds if...

Thunder and lighting, action, come fire, come rain The wizard is playing god in his armchair again Cyberlike snake eyes they burn The man with the black cat will show us what tricks he has learned Abraxas, Abraxas, he's building cathedrals of air Climbing the...