Midnight Odyssey
Silhouettes of Stars
1. The Night Has Come for Me
Like restless shadows upon the wind
Like memories from a long and hidden past
The faceless voices stay with me
I know the end approaches
When they sing
I stand alone
Facing towards the trees
At night they come for me
As many voices
They’re overpowering
They’ll never set me free
As shadows gazing
Peer into mind
Their hands extending
This mark they leave behind
When endless torment is all I have left
It’s hard to feel the hope of dawn
Like innocence, thrown into chains
I know death encroaches
I know that hymn
I stand alone
Facing towards the trees
At night they come for me
As many voices
They’re overpowering
They’ll never set me free
Their song is playing
Always in my mind
Their mouths gaping
This soul I leave behind
No fragile sleep will let me escape
When nightmares follow, the dry and burning day
To face that forest, knowing what’s inside
I stand here helpless, blind, barely alive
The night it creeps, and takes away the light
No daydream lasts, the voices quickly rise
I’m left as prey, to the wild ferocious souls
An ancient plague, that patiently waits.
Follow me, deep into the trees
I wander, that hymn i now sing
I stand as one
Hiding in the trees
The night has come for me
My many voices
Are overpowering
You will never be free
2. Magica
In ever-reaching
Voids of darkness
And matter, cold
The deepest fears awaken
Celestial bodies
Obliterate into fragments
Darkness binding, it holds
Nature’s order in its claws
When stars once free
Are caught in streams
A churning mass
Tears at their seams
The dying light
From fragments small
Their magic fades
And shines no more
Unleash the flow
A dying energy
And watch the spirits
Of Stars, freeze
Black silhouettes
Dark effigies of life
The numerous shadows
Remind of what was lost...
3. Cosmic Keys to My Creations & Times (Emperor cover)
4. Sorrow of Daedalus
5. What Was Is No More
6. Fighting the Seraphim
7. Descent
8. The World Tree Burns to Vapour
Time itself has swayed
For those mighty stand in fear
Now man is but a slave
To his own filthy lies
Dark weeds and mortal flesh
Have grown into one
The ancient roots have vanished
And its branches all dried on the ground
The serpent from below
Who fed upon the roots
Has been fed man’s poison
He has consumed it for some time
The old dragon shakes the earth
And splits the land in two
He rises up and sees the tree
Its ashes turn to vapour
9. Lost and Forgotten
Deeply planted in the minds
The ancient roots entangle the soul
Its rugged skin is thick
Its fleshy core burns
And as they twist they suffocate the weeds
Planted deeper in the heart
But still no leaves grow
The weeds are poison to this tree
A deadly nightshade from afar
It suckles at the roots
Draining its very lifeblood
A monument succumbing to death
Dissolving into time
And fading from the eyes
Of the ones who hold it dear
Death is all it knows
This toxic foreign weed
The disillusioned minds
Grows weak with every thought
The weed extracts the dreams
And numbs the inner eye
And so the tree is lost, forgotten and myth
But others are angered
At the folly of man
As sure as their power rises
They quickly fall on their knees
And beg to their weed
To poison the world some more
The tree decays in time
Its lifeless as a stone
Its roots remain entangled
But completely overgrown
The eyes don’t ever see
For they never really look
And so the tree is lost, forgotten and myth
But others are angered
At the folly of man
As sure as their power rises
They quickly fall on their knees
And beg to their weed
To poison the world some more
10. Nocturnal
11. Your Death Is Chosen
To feel the sorrow in towers high
To kneel in knowledge you soon will fall
The flames are cooling too fast
The heat from within escapes for the final time
Your fears will prove you right
No one thing can last forever
You built up a world so vast
But slowly you began to lose control
The stars have begun to float
Further from your grasp
And slowly darkness takes hold
The weight of the void grows within
Your radiance falls in silence
A sudden collapse awaits
Years and eons, all gone
Eternity taken, a kingdom now mourned
You feel the sorrow
You kneel and fall
Your flames have frozen
You exist one final time
Your fears are forever
You’ve lost the world
You move so slow
Your death is chosen
12. The Tempest Entranced
Draped in the morning’s rays
Eyes like water drops, glisten
No spring ever pure
Could cleanse the visions portrayed
She glances the heavens
Trees sway, like flinging arms
How quick the sun cowers
The tempest claims the day
Eyes like drowning fronds
Without a sound she is screaming
No god takes pity
A song plays in her mind
Despite the wind’s rage
She walks, unnerved and calm
The tempest entranced
It forgets to unleash the rain
Hypnotized by her bold stance
The tempest blinded and fooled
The winds did not cease for her
The menacing clouds were moved
As much as it struggled
Her image faded in the distance
He felt the weight of his sorrow
And would flood the lands anew...
13. Dis Pater
14. A Whisper's Emptiness
Here in my resting place
Amongst the pale moonlight
At the distant aphelion of creation
The whispers slowly burn
Nameless, born of ancients
Devolved into a sphere
Blighted streams, so alien
A land thus far, unseen
A cosmic dust consumes
The last resistance of my being
A veil of darkness stained
A mystic cloud of astral screams
Nameless, born of ancients
Devolved into a sphere
Blighted streams, so alien
A land thus far, unseen
Though a realm of silence remains
Motionless, a whisper’s emptiness,
Years away, where time’s ticking over
Through a gate of blinding shades
Hopelessness, whimpers endlessness
Voids away, where life blossoms slower
Through a void of darkness, it plays
Effortless, with formless, malevolence
Worlds away, with eyes, growing older
15. Theme of Forest and Firmament
From afar these strangers came
With fire in their eyes
Their swords were jewelled, their shields adorned
Their tongues all spoke of lies
They burnt our shrines, they killed our gods
They took all that we owned
They raped our wives and killed the men
Some hung and some were stoned
But from this day I will return a man so strong and brave
I'll claim the land, my stolen home
Their blood my father's gave
With an army a million strong, I'll march for their glory
And they shall fear my name before I sail across the sea
I am the storms, that crash into the sea
I am the serpent who lurks in waters deep
Eternal vengeance, fuels my inner soul
A reclamation of all that you stole
I am the vermin, that bite at your feet
I am the howling, unsettling your sleep
And in your visions, you see the flames
Death is returning, and wrath is his name
[The lyrics are used in the song 'Journey Across the Sea' from The Forest Mourners Demo from 2008]
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