Insomnium - Across The Dark
Original Version CD+DVD Version 1. Equivalence 3:18 1. Equivalence 3:18 2. Down With The Sun 4:23 2. Down With The Sun 4:23 3. Where The Last Wave Broke 5:03 3. Where The Last Wave Broke 5:03 4. The Harrowing Years 6:39 4. The Harrowing Years 6:39 5. Against The Stream 6:11 5. Against The Stream 6:11 6. The Lay Of Autumn 9:08 6. The Lay Of Autumn 9:08 7. Into The Woods 5:08 7. Into The Woods 5:08 8. Weighted Down With Sorrow 5:51 8. Weighted Down With Sorrow 5:51 9. The New Beginning 7:15 10. Into The Evernight 5:29 --- Bonus DVD --- 1. Making Of "Across The Dark" 17:45 2. Making Of "Mortal Share" 15:37 3. Music Video: Mortal Share 5:37 4. Music Video: The Elder 4:51 5. Photo Gallery 6:02 total time 45:41 total time 1:48:17
1. Equivalence 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 2. Down With The Sun 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 Lay down your weary head Let the blue stars darken" O silence, if in thy cradle I could sway Like a child, heart the amending song, The sighing of the shades Maid of twilight, lass of duskfall Serve thy goblet to me Let me drink to the last drop The sweet opiate of the dreams: Ours is the silence, The echo old ageless night A gleam in the blackest of streams, One fleeing moment For vain is all the toil and trouble, Vain is all the heartbreak In the end I'll find my solace In an earthen cradle So good night. 3. Where The Last Wave Broke How does it feel? To welcome the new day Not worth saving 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 posterity Inheritance in flames" "When the mankind moves Rest of the life shakes All once green turned into stone Flesh into dust and soil Where the last wave broke The shores blazed red And place once called home Turned into hall of dead" How does it feel? Bite the hand that feeds you Poison the well that waters you Prospects made from castles of sand Legacy in barren land Breed, greed, bleed Legacy in barren land The last wave broke Prospects made from castles of sand 4. The Harrowing Years 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-fated trail "In vain I try to forget - In vain I try to forgive Black bird from evening sky - raven from heaths of night Come and take my cares - carry away the grief Bereave me of my woes - rend off these earthly throes Fly them to deepest lakes - to the starlit shores" This I have learnt: Even the sweetest wine turns to sour We work our fingers to the bone All our efforts of no avail Here we all are but troubled guests On darkling earth Lost echoes that pine away Into the dusk Nothing more than the wind to rely on Nothing more than the death to comfort us in the end This I have heard: All ends in serene sleep All these sorrows are washed away As we lapse into the night But I know it's a lie 5. Against The Stream 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 grandeur in giving Felicity found in commitment Tranquillity in mere being" And down we go again Under the relentless waves Into the arms of calm breakers Into bayou of forgotten dreams Like sand slipping through my fingers Nothing ever lasts, ever will "To impart elegance all living Experience the grandeur in giving From existence into oblivion Not in cycles but in lines" Getting nowhere fast By contending with time Accept the alteration Come to terms with your days Down we go just the same Into the ocean of sorrow Towards to sea of despair This river runs relentlessly And this river runs deep Not in cycles but in lines 6. Lay Of The Autumn (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 and cast the earth in bloom Lent your light to me But now the summer's dreams are bent Like grain against the scythe And memories of blissful days They fall like leaves For autumn's songs are made of loss Of yearning and regret In bitter tone they are recited Uttered with a heavy heart "I sing with shattered voice A tale of marred souls I cry for consumed hearts And springs forever gone" The lights of sun and stars will fade And moon covers its face All the tunes will quiet down And the songs shall die As this wretched heart unfolds Like mouth of furnace grins Inside there's but a blackened cell Full of filth and flames There once was time when I resounded by your side There once was time when I trembled under your eyes What do I hear when you're gone? The wind's harrowing cry What do I hear when you're gone? The sighing of the languid grief Cold creeps in, silver crowns the land Long are the evening now, grave the guilt's weight Stars shriek their emptiness in the darkling sky All the world is but a barrow shrouded in white 7. Into The Woods 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 to rise, Sigh a lullaby in trees "Not in these troubled times I'm not the one you pined for No, not into calmer waters I'm not the one you long for" "But a scarecrow, an anathema to the world Looking in from the outside It's time to turn my back Walk off the beaten path Seek heartening in solitude" The arch of sky is roof where I call it home Drizzle of rain, the only music from now on My bed is made from juniper's boughs Of mire and moss my pillow Lone footprints diverge from tree line Autumn veils the sloughs with rime Shell of quagmire Yet too fragile to bear a man 8. Weighed Down With Sorrow "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 Anguished from the sole being Destined to live with uneasiness Always the hard way Cold is the world For the ones excluded Dark is the path In the absence of light Compelled to cherish beauty in longing Cling on love amidst of the suffering No chance in disillusion No, not in this world Not for a man Weighed down with sorrow Only the end of the road 9. The New Beginning [Bonus track] 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 Redemption of the liberty Freedom through the bloodshed When hatred old for centuries Poisons the minds of sane Distrust kills all the kindness Envy slain the ideal Demise of spirit and flesh No victory in death Only the defeat remains When the sons take fathers' lives What good can come out of this? Is this the price we must pay? Redemption of the liberty Freedom through the bloodshed This is the new beginning Rebirth through devastation All the hope of a nation In the hands of few Another chapter in common story Nothing new under the sun This is the new beginning Sad ending to others 10. Into The Evernight [Bonus track] 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 travail Here where the water mirrors a still sky Here a fair place for a child to lie Under the woeful sky, moss-grown our bed tonight Here we sprawl in mellow darkness In warm caress of the night Far away from worlds betrayals Afar from all the Heavens might Better to dream, far sweeter to slumber Than face the cold days, bear the grim longing Time to rest a while, close the drowsy eyes Sleep till the dawn, till the bleak morning Heed not the rustle or hoots of the owl Heed not the ghosts that still dwell in the soul Night brings us solace and serenity deep Night brings at last neverending sleep Better it would be to sleep forever In silent shades of the evernight Sweet are the dreams in the groves of death Far away from the earthly woes Sound is the sleep under spruces boughs Serene are the dreams in the darkling shade Gone are the cares of the waking world Forgotten the sorrows of the weary heart Lyrics in plain text format