Opeth

Losing sleep, into deep Fading sun, what have I done Came so close to what I need most Nothing left here Cut the ties, uncovered disguise Left behind, all intertwined Lost control, moved out of the role now Nothing left here Leave it be It was meant...

Up until recently I have been alone Leading a tranquil life but never at home Something had changed and I turned to the wind That blew through me and told me, "How long? How long?" Silenced the voice of my heart now for years I was perplexed by a fleetin...

It was all true, a parlour strode, and the night sets forever... I stray in the quiet cold, and you gird me when I dear to listen. Elastic meadow, endless arms of sorrow, lips try to form "because"... Trying to adapt to the wilderness, when even foes clo...

Rose of Summer, withered times Shadows fall on contouring lines Far beyond a sleeping wish Lunar tongue on a lasting bliss Dead within a dream Icy river stream Lend yourself... Clouds of dust in a waning light You have given up on plight Time is no...

It was me, peering through the looking-glass. Beyond the embrace of Christ. Like the secret face within the tapestry. Like a bird of prey over the crest. And she was swathed in sorrow, as if born within its mask. Her candlelight snuffed, the icon smiled....

Cleared the fog that has veiled around me And blurred my sights Suddenly, I'm no longer aching To honor my plights Rising moon and my skin is peeling Past undone Suddenly, I can't justify What I had become  

Haunted nights for halcyon days Can't sleep to the scraping of his voice Nature's way struck grief in me And I became a ghost in sickness Willingly guided into heresy Beneath the surface, stark emptiness And you'd pity my conviction Whereas I thought o...

Come into this night Here we'll be gone So far away From our weak and crumbling lives Come into this night When days are done Lost and astray In what's vanished from your eyes What came and distorted your sight Saw you benighted by your frig...

In the name of desperation I call your name A lamentation I sigh Again and again Spiritual eclipse The gateways are closed for me to seek The night... A veil of stars, watching My shadow is born from light The light of the eye, in darkness...

Confessor Of the tragedies in man Lurking in the core of us all The last dying call for the ever lost Brief encounters, bleeding pain Lepers coiled neath the trees Dying men in bewildered soliloquies Perversions bloom round the bend Seekers, lost in t...

Beating Heart still beating for the cause Feeding Soul still feeding from the loss Aching Limbs are aching from the rush Fading You are fading from my sight Break of morning, coldness lingers on Shroud me into nightmares of the sun Moving I am mov...

Sun don't shine The Moon don't move The tides to wash me clean Sun don't shine The Moon don't move The tides to wash me clean Why so unforgiving And why so cold Spent a long time crossing The Bridge of Sighs Cold wind blows And the gods look dow...

I, once upon a time Carried a burden inside I sung a last goodbye A broken rhyme I'd underlined There's an ocean of sorrow in you A sorrow in me Saw a movement in their eyes Said I no longer knew the way Given up the ghost A passive mind submit to fear And t...

Let me taste Let me feel I need to know what you keep inside No need to speak Just let it be Carry out this wish for me let nothing interfere Rise to submission I'm still beneath in the soil Discard your clothes Let loose you hair We're intertwined f...

"Vem är Gud? (Vad är Gud?)" "Det är en svår fråga!" "Jag tror inte på Gud? (Tror du på Gud?)" "Nej!" "Varför skulle jag?" Three thousand dreams in pale moonlight Counting... Three thousand years of Winter's blight Ticking off against my heart Here c...

And on the furthest day when you lay down Discard your disarray and your rusted crown And face the wretched image of you and I No trust in what you say, you are a dead poison seed Stronger when you are away, you have nothing that I need The rhyme has sett...

After the battle is over And the sands drunken the blood All what there remains Is the bitterness of delusion The immortality of the gods Sits at their side As they leave the walls behind To reach the jewels gleam The days have come When the steel will rule...

Heal myself-a feather on my heart Look inside-there never was a start Peel myself-dispose of severed skin All subsides-around me and within There's nothing painful in this There's no upheaval Redemption for my pathos All sins undone Awaiting...

[Mikael Akerfeldt:] She told me why She told me lies Always take care of this I told her how I've always stayed Always waiting For nothing [x2] When I get out of here When I leave you behind I'll find that the years passed us by And I can, see...

Empty house, and empty pockets There's an echo in the hall I keep your picture in a locket In the past, we had it all But the Summer fades away Rainy day tomorrow In the company of dawning In the presence of a friend I was subject to a wanting And un...

Deserted again. You speak to me through the shadows. Walking in closed rooms, using cold words. Captured by the night. The yearning escapes from my embrace. Strange silhouettes whisper your thoughts, scream your sadness. And they all turned away, unable...

A child of autumn was born Into a world of deceit and death And a land of ice A break of bonds would take her away And install a sense of loss and eternal sorrow She walks across the country She holds her head up high in the rain A mother is screaming...

Out on the road there are fireflies circling Deep in the woods, where the lost souls hide Over the hill there are men returning Trying to find some peace of mind Sleep my child Under the fog there are shadows moving Don't be afraid, hold my hand...

Floating on mist Crept up the caverns of my brain Received no warning From nothing to a life code Walk with me, you'll never leave Wait to see your spirit free Tell me how your heart's in need As I drown you in the sea Unwinding snares of distrust You...

Silent dance with death. Everything is lost. Torn by the arrival of Autumn. The blink of an eye, you know it's me. You keep the dagger close at hand. And you saw nothing. False love turned to pure hate. The wind cried a lamentation before merging with...

När jag tänker på den ständiga resan genom livet När det alltid känns som höst Då vänder sig vinden sakta mot norr Och blommorna dör Det faller regn i mina drömmar Jag måste resa igen och leta efter tröst Jag måste leta igen efter ömhetens röst Jag mås...

Someone died for looking too far While I was asleep in my house A child was killed, I heard it from a friend A war raged in a distant land Cost me to linger on a piece of text Someone died Not here, never here There was a fever There is a failure Ar...

"At a year's end many will experience a feeling of melancholy, considering that which will never return. To others it is a moment of anticipation for the possibilities of conquering the new. Others yet will experience a concern facing a change that provides un...

Lost, here is nowhere Searching home still Turning past me, all are gone Time is now The omen showed, took me away Preparations are done, this can't last The mere reflection brought disgust No ordeal to conquer, this firm slit It sheds upon the floor...

What is left when the morning comes Is the memory of a future And when my plight is done There is nothing left to hold onto There were friends waiting at my door They are gone now, for the year is new I stuck by my word And when the rains came Made it...

There's a sign in the rain Every now and again It is a symbol of hope In the midst of a catastrophic episode In the hour of death There's a spiritual wealth When we dance through the rain And form the signs once again If even for a second I hear a voice on...

Eternal rains will come We should say goodbye And suffer on our own As all our thoughts were wrong So hard to keep the darkness from seeping through And when the flood comes to drown us There is nothing we can do You told me not to wait Unless I coul...

The deceased awake from beyond their sleep. Search for blood and mortal meat. Maggots crawl out from their eyes. Feel their pain, it's mournful cries. Pull your veins, tear out your heart. Consume the blood, feast on flesh. Torn apart, intestines scatter...

No lingering of sages and seers And desperations and fevers last The undertows are stronger here And here I lie, another morning arrives Too far away from coming home I see a face in the snow Inside my head a voice calls for me I see your face in the...

By the turnstile beckons a damsel fair The face of Melinda neath blackened hair No joy would flicker in her eyes Brooding sadness came to a rise Words would falter to atone Failure had passed the stepping stone She had sworn her vows to another...

The grave of our youth is up ahead And life has become a burden We move in circles of suppressed despair Waiting for the sun And turning stones to find evidence But it hides in the recesses of our hearts A written decree of our loss And we carried no f...

I can't see your face And I can't breathe your air So I wonder why I get cold inside When I hear your name When we meet eye to eye I will ask how and why And when guilt has its way One lesser reason to stay And I will see her cry Into the fire of ou...

Hey you, will you be true When you can see through what I do Feel the pain in your brain, insane Will I see my name in your scars And you will see what you mean to me Lust between the lines Do you feel the need When the night comes down And when the...

The memories that now rests in this forest Forever shadowing the sunrise of my heart Wings leave their nest at my coming Swaying away unto the cold glowing sky Dreaming away for a while My spirit sighs in peace Gazing unto the stars Please, take...

Ghost of Mother Lingering death Ghost on Mother's Bed Black strands on the pillow Contour of her health Twisted face upon the head Ghost of perdition Stuck in her chest A warning no one read Tragic friendship Called inside the fog Pourin...

Marauder Staining the soil, midst of stillness Beloved fraternity to an end Red eyes probe the scene All the same Stilted for the beholder Depravity from the core Handcarved death in stoneladen aisles I hide the scars from my past Yet they s...

Stay with me a while, Rise above the vile. Name my final rest, Poured into my chest. Into the orchard i walk peering way past the gate. Wilted scenes for us who couldn't wait. Drained by the coldest caress, stalking shadows ahead. Halo of death, all i see is...

A lifeline in a drop of blood A dying wish shun a God Sought a dream inside the light Finally relieved from plight O this night is decieveing One eternal Winter Earth below and reeling Moon is riding high Father and a liar One forgotten season Secr...

"Det är för bedrövligt! Usch!" "Vem fan är du?" Take it as a threat now and leave Drop of toxins flows to a habit Tell me what it is you can't see Teeth grinding flesh in the sabbath Factual drowning stream, you believe Slaves will follow conspiracy...

Slow days Slow words Slow lies Slow ends So many years to clean the slate Endless despair within its wake His touch soiling what used to be clean His gaze burning on the edge of our dreams no more Slow pain Slow deaths And again he rides in, it's September...

Will their children cry When their mother dies And in the autumn of their lives Will they feel the same? Her longing for me Comin' down like hail Why did you leave me? Come here inside And tell me how How in my final days I've found her out The l...

Two years in your hearts One moment of doubt Two lives torn apart One second from now Held him in your arms Your fever subside Always safe from harm Kept demons inside Still you always start running Towards the light from the moon Some way mother c...

“Det är för bedrövligt! Usch!” “Vem fan är du?” Ta det som ett löfte och gå Dos av dagligt gift blev en drift Trots allt kan du inte förstå Tuggar slaktens kött på ditt skift Fakta flödar ut och du tror Slavar lyder konspiration Dörren stänger ute di...

In the corner beside my window Hangs a lonely photograph There is no reason I'd never notice A memory that could hold me back There is a wound that's always bleeding There is a road I'm always walking And I know you'll never return to this place Gone...

Found a way to rid myself clean of pain And the fever that has been haunting me Has gone away Looking through my window I seem to recognize All the people passing by But I am alone And far from home And nobody knows me Never heard me say goodbye Ne...

I feel the dark when I see you I feel the dark when I see you Loosen the harness of trust Survey an impulse of lust The thespian is far away Uprooted yet forced to stay Sing a lie, ghost of the night Give yourself to me The road is long and winding s...

I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading I try to forget you as you forgot me This time there is nothing left for you to take, this is goodbye Summer is miles and miles away And no one would ask me to stay And I should contemplate this ch...

Seven milestones... Under a watching autumn eye Contorted trees are spreading forth The message of the wind With frozen hands I rode with the stars With anger the wind blew Giving wings to my stallion Clouds gathered across the moon Blazing the white...

There's a sense of longing in me As I read Rosemary's letter Her writing's honest Can't forget the years she's lost In isolation She talks about her love And as I read "I'll die alone" I know she was aching There's a certain detail seen here...

And as they say, grief is only able to possess. The rotting body clad in ancient clothes is left behind with a wave of the hand. I have gone away. The bed is cold and empty. Trees bend their boughs toward the earth. And nighttime birds float as black...

A voice through vapor 20 yards ahead Is calling for your name The empty paper Waiting on the bed It sets the waiting game Credits to a dream You can always strike me down You can always say I'm wrong You can always strike me down But I will always...

Our abode 'mongst the stars is waiting, long enough for our last breath of life. You stare at nothing, right through me, at times resembling the Devil's concubine. And me, I am the idol that would long to caress our eyes until they would open no more. I...

There is a voice calling for me There is a light coming down on me There is a doubt that is clearing There is a day that is dawning There is a wound that is healing There is a season waiting for me There is a road that is turning There is a fire still b...

You are sleeping unhampered by guilt Comes the morning you shut down The devil's breath is a disease on your lips Reaching out for your loss You prey on your flock Seeking out the weaker hearts With eternity in your grip And on a lifelong throne of sub...

Kept warm by the light of the lantern Lost sight of everything tonight My presence blackens their pattern A pock in the healthy and calm Their scorn behind your back My promise would put them down No trace of reverance left Immemorial fire in th...

I arose from the lullaby Enduring yet another tale You tempt me again With your embrace, so tainted Within the night you beckon Cursing me with every glance Bring me through Carry my empty shadow And guide me inside your warped labyrinth To...

Hope would fail me in the falling snow And slake a wish inside Friends would leave me in my darkest hour Yet trust me with their lives She would haunt my dreams and feed my demons They tell me to go 

Every morrow, every year Choir of sounds The final sorrow, so shed a tear Someone dies within creation Doubts in everlasting life How to lie to one innocent child You are loved, I'm execrated You belong, I circle strife Routine pathways in escape from...

Without you I cannot confide in anything The hope is pale designed in light of dreams you bring Summer's gone, the day is done soon comes the night Biding time, leaving the line and out of sight One moonlit shadow on the wall Disrupted in its own creation Vei...

A beloved name inside my heart A fleeting glance became the start A missing word I am still awaiting A wretched deception, I am creating 

The years went by with disquieting grace A past obsession sunk without a trace I moved into winter and found my home As my boiling blood had turned to chrome 

I lost all I had (that April day). I turn to my friends (nothing to say). I wrote down a name (and read it twice). I wallowed in shame. I said that I love (eternal schemes). I cling to my past (like childish dreams). I promised to stay (and held my brea...

A morning in magenta, the petals fed from the dew. She held her breath for a moment, to pause off the stream. Still clinging to vast, old memories. And I would marvel at her beauty, playing through the rain. The coffin is beautifully engraved. Stained by...

Unchain the colours before my eyes, Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies. Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher, I shall return from out of fire. Tears for rememberance, and tears for joy, Tears for somebody and this lonely boy. Out in the madness...

Harlequin Forest Into the trees Past meadow grounds And further away from my home Baying behind me I hear the hounds Flock's chasing to find me alone A trail of sickness Leading to me If I am haunted Then you will see Searching the darkness And...

Show me a sign of troubles in your heart Spare me your lies and tell me that you're mine And our bodies float on the river To the oceans of demise Made me a slave to the secrets of your silence But you told me to stay And you told me you're mine And...

Returned from a hibernal dream Voices fell like marble No longer by my side Gone all that would linger Ripped from my embrace Melinda reflected in shafts Red line round her neck Met the earth in silence White faced, haggard grin This sereni...

Summer's gone and love has withered I believe in nothing yet nothing is what it seems All is gone, promises slithered You gave me nothing yet nothing is what it seems Summer's gone Your eyes gave away all your lies in the end The dawning of a seething...

(Deep Purple cover) I have often told you stories About the way I lived the life of a drifter Waiting for the day When I'd take your hand And sing you songs Then maybe you would say Come lay with me love me And I would surely stay But I feel I'm growing older...

I am a sinner And I worship evil Blood is thinner But you will never know Can you confess That you thrive in chaos You're a sorceress And your eye is on the lost But you're dying It's in your eyes You're a sharlatan You get everything you wish Y...

Until I take my final breath In a year or even less I hope you will give me all your time And do not forget me down the line And I will never ask you if you will stay Or if you will cry when I go away Until I take my final breath In a year or even less I hop...

On a wind that's sailing through the morning I have cut the harness off of my heart On a tide that's rising with the dawning I find I belong inside the dark And when the waves roll in to cover me in shame I avoid another sign of the efforts made in vain...

There is a light that hits the gloom around Shows the footprints round this grave Dried up roses scattered on the mound Honouring the one engraved Will ever the morning Carry away The souls of those for whom we cry Leaving, grieving Seeking, meeting Binding,...

An afternoon walk through the park I keep to the shadows until it's dark I am not educated nor free of sin I carry thoughts of giving in There is a void surrounding me No sound, and in the black I can not see There is a chasm between you and me You have no f...

“Vid ett årsskifte så upplever många en känsla av vemod vid tanke på det som aldrig mer återkommer. För andra är det ett ögonblick av förväntan inför möjligheten att erövra det nya. Andra åter känner oro inför en förändring som innebär ovisshet och kanske förs...

White summer. So far I have gone to see you again. Hiding your face in the palm of your hands. Finding solace in the words I do despise. You snatch at every sound. And even though you believe that I am shackled within death, memories are tainted wi...

In solitude I wander.... Through the vast enchanted forest The surrounding skies are one Torn apart by the phenomenon of lightning Rain is pouring down my (now) shivering shoulders In the rain my tears are forever lost The darkened oaks are my on...

I hear the baying of the hounds In the distance, I hear them devouring Pest-ridden jackals of the earth Diabolical beasts and roaming the forests In wait and constant protectors Calling you to sit by his side Your self-loathing image in his flesh A reve...

This trail is obsidian, the grip of Winter uncoiled A lover would follow me Cast down and sworn to the dark Take the road where devils speak "God is dead" The wealth of darkness Inside you, tell you "now" Your senses corrupted Controlling a poisonous...

Please remedy my confusion And thrust me back to the day The silence of your seclusion Brings night into all you say Pull me down again And guide me into pain I'm counting nocturnal hours Drowned visions in haunted sleep Faint flickering of yo...

You wait by the window Morning's breath on the sill Idle hands given another try So, you wait and you savour the moment Outside the canvas turned white Ruby eyes in the fog Rain washing clean all the sins A liquid gown that covers all Your loathe tur...

Lone hunter in the fray Of a lonely fading light A manifest for the garroter Stuck to his plight Young and elder, nevermind Programmed mortal set lifeline A mother says no And father cracks a simple plan A knife is sharpened His children run but he'...

Majesty Faithful me Pour yourself Into me Wield your power Martyr's price Stare me down To the ground Slake my thirst Eternal wealth Heathen key Round my neck This poetry Our blasphemy Know the sounds Of infamy The eyes of the devil Fixed...

We entered Winter once again Naked, freezing from my breath Neath the lid all limbs tucked away This coffin is your abode from now and onwards Your body is mine to avail Such a tragic sight you are Slave under my creed Spurring me with those tears I am beyon...

We are dying in the wake of gods and decrees remain arcane And everything around us is a consequence of pain The writings on the wall depict a truth that no one reads A government of puppets blinded by another creed Burning voice of insanity Nothing is...

The liquid is in your throat For hopeless delight After all you fell in love with death, Life has aborted. All you've had and all you became, The night is calling, you pray forth. The barren waste is your land Your crops, they were sown to die The s...

The sigh of summer upon my return Fifteen alike since I was here Bathed in deep fog, blurring my trail Snuffing the first morning rays Weary from what might have been ages Still calm with my mind at peace Would I prosper or fall, drain the past...

And so you left us Jaded and gaunt, some September Wilted with the seasons But hidden inside the delusion I saw you eyes, somewhere Devoid of death The aura poises amidst (the storm) In solid tears I linger A parlour glade, moonlit sorrow Lonely res...

Hold me in your arms Never do me harm Never do me harm Hold me in your arms A raging sea in your eyes Gives away your disguise Grants me the peace to leave And finally leave you be 

The throat of winter is upon us And the cold will linger in me A shield on the eternal river again Our fevered bodies will return To the bowels of the vast decrepit earth The devil spoke and called you to his side Never will return again Never will I...

Unto you I whisper The wildest dreams In the coldness of night Shrouded in crystals Through a frosty dusk Souls of the fullmoon awaits Their shadows ablaze We are all bending Our tired leaves over your empty shell In the sign of true estee...

I am going away, I am going down I am going away, I am going down Sifting through a memory before it fades away Adolescent secrecy, a million words astray I can't remember happiness, I thrive within the dark The security of a loneliness is a veil that k...

Sun hangs high, I turn away Failure underground Heart is sick and fever is high Waiting for a sound Like a trail of insects to me I watch them from afar Feeding, breeding, scheming Tell me I am wrong Hiding from discovery Staring down into the ground...

I am awaiting the sunrise Gazing modestly through the coldest morning Once it came you lied Embracing us over autumn's proud treetops I stand motionless In barrage of falling rain Your voice I cannot hear As I am falling again Devotion eludes And in...

There's nobody here, there's nobody near I try not to care, dead eyes always stare Let these matters be, don't trust what you see Take hold of your time, step into the line There's innocence torn from its maker Stillborn the trust in you This fail...

Once again I've cried Unto the moon That burning flame That has guided me Through all these years The lake from which you flow With eyes of fire Once unlit but now alive This energy, sparkling Like a morning star The morning star Ridi...

Sweat on the brow runs over faces made of snow There comes a time in life when death may come too slow Honesty in the necrology The offspring smear your name in print You have waited far too long But Spring is set in bloom You have conquered love insid...

The mist is sleeping on the water And winter is hiding in my heart Thorns in my eyes are slowing me down I can't pass through to the other side She knows I'm the one who sought her But when we fall, we'll fall so hard She holds a secret and won't show me...

Weakness Found you there in the blink of an eye. I miss you. Turned away into a thousand dreams. Found out what they mean. Lost you there in a moment of truth. I trust you. Gave away the one and only heart. A gift to tear apart. Stain me, save me....

Red sun rising somewhere through the dense fog. The portrait of the jaded dawn who had seen it all before. This day wept on my shoulders. Still the same as yesterday. This path seems endless, body is numb. The soul has lost its flame. Walking in familiar...

Still it came passing by The pieces weaved together rose the sun And fooled me with another day The knocking message called for my life Sealed the spell of my scrawny body Soil to skin, my next of kin Damp air grasped, stole the words And greete...

[Verse] When you're tired of waiting And time is not on your side When you're tired of hating me You no longer want to hide [Pre-Chorus] You're stuck to the failures of our life Marred with the sorrows of your strife [Chorus] And time it waits for no...

Blank face in the windowpane Made clear in seconds of light Disappears and returns again Counting hours, searching the night Might be waiting for someone Might be there for us to see Might be in need of talking Might be staring directly at me...

Falling inside again This nightmare always the same Still never enough Halting at the brink of discovery Moving into the darkness Leaking inside to cover up Dragging me down and under Entangled and undone at once Old memories I'm not in need but wish...