Insomnium

And down we go again... Into the ocean of sorrow Towards to sea of despair In the deep groves of the earth Lifeline running in roaring stream "Like sand slipping through my fingers Nothing ever lasts, ever will" "To impart elegance all living Experience the...

Lonely path across the marshland Leads to a forlorn grey lodge Grey like the misery Empty, abandoned For the lone dweller is now gone Ailment and poverty was her lot Only guest ever the nightly frost that crept inside Brief were the moments of bliss an...

Listen to the night, hearken to the silence The wind sings in fir-trees, forest´s music rings Rueful is the tune, wailful the soughing Soothing is the choir, murmur of the trees Time to forget all the heartache and pain Time to leave behind all the toil and t...

Would you come and share My cross, my pain, my heartbroken nature For this burden is too heavy to bear Too troublesome for one man to handle Since my darkness swallowed The last gleam of light I've been rambling in the shadows Hour after hour in the dark The...

The silent moment right before the Dusk fades away I open my eyes but the darkness stays Nightfrost covers the brittle flowers Around you I realize that what I dreamt is true Beauty beyond words My dearest one Her light burns my eyes She is all mine By these...

Never pariah but always on one's own Unwavering mind, black heart rebellion Cold is the night for the ones born of shadows Solemn is the way for the ones never restless Cold is the night for the ones drawn to darkness Desolate is the path of self-believers N...

Somber is my mind, now that Misfortunehas faced my kind; Weary glazed stare, Beneath the Pitch-black hair. On my cheeks, once so live, Adorn Flood of tears, caused by strife And as I griewe under the sky, even Raven croaks to me it's despise My warm hand agai...

Spring brought the two together Married the wind with the fire Under the secrecy of lush birch trees Opposite hearts became one One day followed another Weeks passed, months lapsed Until wind grew to a storm And fire to a burning pile Cold gust of whirlwind...

This will be for now and for ever the diverging of our paths... Now that this night has turned into a dawn I step aside from this path of grieving Left with all these things I never had chance to say Words wishful, filled with caring You must stop your...

Behold, never trust anyone Every shadow shields a traitor Always keep your friends near you And your enemies even closer Behold, never trust anyone Betrayal lurks in every corner Always keep your back against the wall Your mind collected and focused The cras...

Trail amidst the snow-clad trees, winding is the way Sunless is the path we roam, bitter is the air we breathe Fell is the icy blast, coming from the hills Blowing through my ailing heart, wailing in the emptiness inside Vanished is the light we had, hidd...

Brought back from the silence As darkness whitened into a day Tried to weave the pieces together Force the past away Mind weary of sorrow Body tired from the way Welcomed yet another morning Of longing and dismay What have I for you to offer Besides this lon...

With this fall (I fall...) great grey clouds covered the sky Dimming the light of sun, muting stars and crescent moon Lost inside the world of gloomy, haunting shades Descending into this abyss of human soul In this dreariest of nights Time can draw out like...

What solemnity can be found in this death? A traitor's smile, the honour of betrayal How comfort could be found in the dreariest of nights? What solace for guilt-driven mind, tarnished heart? Two crestfallen figures clinging together in fathomless dark In mae...

O darkness, if in thy arms I could rest For a while and with these earthly eyes See thy dim smile Maid of twilight, lass of duskfall Hang the moon on the sky's arch Soothe the weight of a darkling day "Rock here in the birch's lap Swing in the manor of wind...

Wreathed in silence, laid down in shades Swathed in regrets, deluded astray Forgotten in half-light, drawn in despair Soothed in slumber so dreadful and fair Rending and searing and twisting my dreams Alone in the gloom with the nightmares unseen The night h...

As I lay dying at the eve of my days There is a void inside me, hollowed by the years Time has made these scars, burned them in my soul Mouldered this ugly figure of anguish and woe Only death by my side, in the darkness waiting I weep for what I've done, cr...

Darkness is ignorance Knowledge is light Fight only with yourself Or the shadows of the night For this life will break you Years will wear you down And everyday you'll die a little Untill the shadows will take you Dying doesen't make this world dead...

Feed off the melancholy Get drunk from despair Rejoice in the name of failure Deliverance found in pain Live, learn and love Treasure all the colours Even in the thick of night Daylight holds sway 

Walking on the gallows ground, Rope tightly around the neck Raven-bird on each shoulder waiting for the pick Chasing for the shadows, ideal that does not exist On the endless road leading to nowhere Let the sounds and light wash over Bathe the darkest c...

Sound of the waves Song of the woeful wind Beauty of yearning The tune of my heart For once there was a time When I sat by your side And right before our eyes The world was open wide Days of youth are long since gone Never return To return again B...

Her dirge still echoes in these woods Mourning lingers in the vales As the wind cries on the shore Her wailing can be heared Mirthless is this wandering through Hollow days Like a pale ghost I waste away in This foul world What sin do I atone for in...

In the evening of a grey day, a bleak day I strayed into the dim silence of the hallowed trees Where the fir-trees whisper of those been, those gone Where the sacred earth still hides all those we once loved “O father, hear these words, your son is not made f...

Evening full of grandeur, skies tinged with red Mountains crowned with crimson, treetops with scarlet blaze As the dusk is falling, night settles in Stars slowly come out, moon glides skywards ...Still cheerless is in my soul, my heart filled with cares... Lo...

When the cold wind blows Sending shivers down your spine There is none so blind As those who do not listen Sleep of reason produces monsters 

Listen to the night, hearken to the silence The wind sings in fir-trees, forest's music rings Rueful is the tune, wailful the soughing Soothing is the choir, murmur of the trees Time to forget all the heartache and pain Time to leave behind all the toil and t...

Now close your eyes And open your weary heart Let me soothe away the woes Of fiendish world... As will the sun bathe the land In its warming light So shall the moon ascend To guide the day to wane In turn the rain to hush The tumult of this world And the wind...

I'm rushing through the cosmos, Reaching the light from the beyond the sun I see my self dissolving, as universe locks me into its arms When you dream of the sea of stars And in the sky the northern lights flame Sometimes do you remember, hear the silence betw...

I have come to the end of my line With these final steps I take back my freedom Unchain the shackles that never could hold my mind Time keeps running and running Outstripping the dead tired ones The hours will run out from us all And in the end no one differs...

(I...) I sing with a shattered voice (I...) I sing with a heavy heart There is the deepest well of dreams Echoed a distant song I hearkened to the hallowed voice Stirred from ageless sleep Through this barren soil you came Sweet scent of spring Came...

Frequented by displeasing memories Haunted by the creatures born of night Sunk deep in the dejection and distress Weak and powerless to serve the ties Bound in the dream world Wide-awake for every hour of sleep Faltering towards the future Only to come...

And all the time we've struggled for Without a reason or way out All the grounds we've based our fight on No one remembers anymore why And all the blame that has gone into To run in circles, stand fast still And all the hatred we've poured into To fill...

Where there once was love, only hatred now resides Where I once had heart, only nothingness now dwels Guilt-ridden shall be your days Heart-rending your nights By starlight I rock to sleep my dearest ones Under the cold sky I lull to rest my darlings Good to...

In their lofty chambers dwell The sacred and divine Resting in seraphic bliss The timeless and sublime Far above the mortal sphere Dreaming without a care Far above the weeping world Sleeping amidst the light of stars Too far away to hear our calls Too far a...

How could there be laughter left in these songs How could there be mirth and joy in this world For what am I now anymore But a wretched old bard Weary and torn For all of those dreams have withered and died For all of those hopes have vanished into nigh...

When you revel and feast Bask in victories When you ravish the crown Claim the godly reward Do not forget the lurking crows Sitting on the gallows Looming against the sky Waiting for your demise Soon on the scaffold The king will stand For the mir...

May the wind rise, and the storm awake See the sky turn dark, clouds devour the sun No moon or starlight to guide you in the night Doomed to wander in dusk, grope in the shades Time for retribution Into nothingness I curse you all I challenge the Almighty, f...

I am the last The one who holds on past Clinging on something we used to have I am the last The one who chose this path To walk among the world of shadows Always one for sorrow Never one for love Two souls destined to failure Right from the start...

Son of man You're on your own The coming winter You will face alone The heart that you cherished so The hand that you tried to hold Belong to a stranger But a vision you crafted Alone you came into this world Came into being Alone you are still whe...

Never thought that love and sadness Could ever walk hand in hand Never thought that laughter and sorrow Could live within this same heart We came far living on stolen moments We can pretend for only so long We all fail, stumble, and fall We are the sam...

Long is the trail of the day Into the lap of the evening dusk Sweetest the hour of sleep For I am weary of sorrow and pain Into the tender night, I now lapse Into the slumber so sound and deep Arching over the ravines of time Bridge into the shrouded l...

The hoar sea enfolds us The scent of the coming winter Hear the howl of the wind A song from the ocean's womb Far away behind us Black smoke still rises high Houses of the southern god Broken under the iron hooves The time of slaughter moon Sunless,...

The flame is weak and frail A circle of shivering men Enclosed by endless coldness The evernight, eternal dark The moan of undying winds Now merged with hollow screaming The fire dies in a single breath The end has come Out of the darkness, out of th...

Since the very beginning Surrounded by silence Brooded in solitude Grown in the darkling shades Destined to find my own way To create the path to follow And the scars of tomorrow Will make you bleed only today And the rain keeps falling Pouring down...

I have drunk the yearning, Swallowed the flame in full, And now I will bend the skies to my will. Two eternities can never be so far part, That I could not bridge them together. „I hear the unsaid thoughts, The silence throught the storm, I speak without the...

...This path leads into dark... In shrouding veil of thickening dusk, In the caress of darkening woods There winds my path, narrow and fading Let this twilight linger upon me Moon and stars take over when sun has fled And bring her scent to me May the blowi...

We're nothing more than shadows Light scatter of the dying sun Just particle beams in passing Waves riding the eternal dark We're nothing more than shadows Mere remnants of the distant past Animated sparks of energy Bursting flames of the end And far...

Far above the darkling world Soars the blackest bird Far above the darkling world It sings the saddest song (And those who hear its cry...) Those who hear it will go astray Those who hear it will wither away And nothing besides they hear Nothing besides they...

Wretched is my lot here, mirthless is my fate Alone to face the cruel winters, endure the dreary cold What is there to hope for, what is there to seek For this forsaken child, for this forlorn son Whose sins am I now atoning for? Whose lapses am I forced to u...

The wind gathers the clouds in the sky empyrean cracks and roars the calm before the storm grows now to thunder's song gone are the singing birds, silently sigh only the trees. Hear now the moment when the son of thunder speaks The roar in crescendo, fills ht...

The silent moment right before the Dusk fades away I open my eyes but the darkness stays Nightfrost covers the brittle flowers Around you I realize that what I dreamt is true Beauty beyond words My dearest one Her light burns my eyes She is all mine By these...

From now on there's an abscence of smile Foul voices welcome me to loneliness Graceful tunes on her lips have now ceased This winter's here to surpass all the hopes And dreams succumb to nightmares and freezing air Now lonely is my road, path paved with bitt...

In the arms of rimed soil, lies the autumns last withered leaf Land now bare and naed, awaits it's snowy sheet And as the light still lingers, painting scarlet this barren scene An old man sings his song of melancholy and relinquish I'm a whirl deep in dark...

When it rains, it pours like hell... 

This I have learnt: World forces all of us down The fleeing years bend our backs Love but smears our hearts Here I now lie still like a broken bow Soul sullen and rigid with the will to die Sighing after the days long since gone Cursing every step on this ill...

Her dirge still echoes in these woods Mourning lingers in the vales As the wind cries on the shore Her wailing can be heared Mirthless is this wandering through Hollow days Like a pale ghost I waste away in This foul world What sin do I atone for in this Dre...

To know love is to ache; hurt yourself and repent For in the end all is gone; lights go out, your time is spent If I were you I would retract and lock my heart Concede defeat and admit I was off the mark If I were you I would turn away and hide my face Swallo...

If I only could I would Change everything Today is the day, the moment of reckoning For too long I've been hiding this truth within my chest Today is the day when I will come clean Answer for my deeds and stand up for my faint-heartedness If I only cou...

Another break of dawn Forces the shadows recede Breaks the barrier of clouds Blaze a trail for the light In the arms of white soil Lies a fallen boy Left alone to freeze to death Grown numb in the cold This is the new beginning Start with a clean sheet Redem...

On through the burning night The fever and the fear Against the gates of death I pound, I wail, I cry With broken voice and heart I demand a bargaining I offer all I have This blackened soul of mine That once was pure, unspoilt That once was fair...

Rooted within the pitch-black heart Entrenched behind weary eyes In the faraway song the cold sea sung In the calm whisper of winds afar It lies, calls and awaits deep in the primeval dark Embodiment of despair that never leave or serves the ties 

A child will look up in the sky Ask guidance from the sun And directions from the moon Counsel from the mighty ones Hiding beyond the stars Far above this earth No redemption from the skies No response up from heavens No relief will ever come From be...

Old is my moon - Circle is complete Long has been the way - The day is giving in The dusk is thickening, cold engulfs the shore I hear across the stream as Charon blows the horn One more summer I ask for, I crave One more autumn just to finish my song G...

Walk away from the world Give in all you got Do not bother to try Fight 'til the last drop Walk among the shadows Leave your mark behind Lose yourself into grey mass Make statement of your life And I feel tired, empty and hollow, heart-broken inside...

I rue the day The day I turned the tides I made a grave mistake Left from your side Now I am lost in the shadows' lap Straying on this downward road Now I am left in the woods of woe Roaming these twilight trails You asked me to stay But I closed th...

And so does the downhearted tune Resound through this murky night And the wind groan its wistful song For the ill-lucked dwellers in plight These two round-shouldered figures Forward slowly through this grey day Under the fores'ts white canopy Out of the drif...

When the days get shorter And winter draws near All that once was fair Withers and dies Thoughts of despair Breeding in darkness Growing from desolation Decaying my sanity If I died away, drown in misery Choke on these tears, who would mourn me No o...

Beneath a silent stone In cold caress of the earth Where timeless sleep reigns Where world is but a distant toll No stars shine, no moon roams No sun broods, no winds blow No tunes chime amidst the bones No prayers for the devil’s own Night falls and...

Underneath the blackest soil I lay down my warm, beating heart And deep beneath the frozen ground I bury down my deepest thoughts Because the road I've chosen Is free of fortune and desire Or the mundane toil and worry Because the trail I've taken Lea...

Now it's too late Can't you hear the calling We are no longer safe Mankind is falling Close behind until you see All is swelling in incorporeality We are rendering a service, Inconsequence reigns Vicious circle completes What have we become more than Traitor...

Under these cold northern stars Songs are filled with sorrow Brief is the time of summer winds Moon is sad as the night Here the callous frost slowly crawls inside the hearts Here the winter's breeze will break the purest soul Grown on this rimed soil w...

Cast down into the darkness To stumble towards unknown Only emptiness to hold on to Only shadows to seek support from So arm your heart with self-worth Yet prepare for sorrow and pain Don't let the fear eat you from inside Wear your weaknesses with pri...

"Nothing can offer content Nothing can ease the pain Nothing can wear off the sorrow One is born to bear within While your world is worth of trying My world is mere cold No chance in disillusion Only the end of the road" Man weighed down with sorrow...

How does it feel? To welcome the new day Not worth ofsaving To fall down on own imprudent acts The wind answers quietly Clears the black smoke far thick to see Unfolds the true nature of man "And this fire it burns Consuming us all Withered garden for posteri...

When your heart gives out and your love collapses When the hand that never lets go is there no more When you reap and sow only throe and resentment When there's no one else but you to blame for When all you ever wish for is to go back once more When all...

At the Gates of Winter: Still I bear the flowers of pain, of solitude And on the mountain's side Grim-looking gates lies Staring towards the north Waiting in solitude Barring the way inside The giant doors of stone Not built for mortal men Not ma...

Into the Sleep: Sing a quiet song to me Sing of spring and sing of sea Sing a silent song to me Sing of hope and sing of sleep 

Slaughter Moon: The hoar sea enfolds us The scent of the coming winter Hear the howl of the wind A song from the ocean's womb Far away behind us Black smoke still rises high Houses of the southern god Broken under the iron hooves The time of slaugh...

The Final Stand: The flames is weak and frail A circle of shiverin men Enclosed by endless coldness The evernight, eternal dark The moan of undying winds Now merged with hollow screaming The fire dies in a sngle breath The en has come Out of the da...

The Gate Opens: Hear the sound resonate Through your flesh Through hte ground, across the skies Cracking roar, a thunder's bark Echoes here, the voice of doom Blackened clouds now seize the welking Wielding all of winter's ire And it will rise with a...

The Golden Wolf: And there, amidst the fog A solemn mountain rises Its pinnacle touching the grey sky Silent spruces guarding the shores There waits a grinning prize Worthy of legend There waits a golden wolf A beast with six legs And yet I search...

The hoar sea enfolds us The scent of the coming winter Hear the howl of the wind A song from the ocean's womb Far away behind us Black smoke still rises high Houses of the southern god Broken under the iron hooves The time of slaughter moon Sunless,...