Borknagar ~~~~~~~~~ The archaic course ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oceans Rise Deify the depths of intimate caprice The noble morsel of the grand eternity Face the furious and black domain >From where all the wisdom once came As a weak and stunning flare Yet so completed and clear In the eyes of the elementary existence May the fallen of eternity explode As primal instincts of devotion Where the seeds of chaos blow Where the almighty substance flow When the oceans rise And thunder calls The shape of furious manners fall Where the oceans rise Between dimensions asunder The maze of fragmented flare Harvest the pain of the will and despair Where the seeds of chaos grow Where the almighty substance bow Milleniums are falling Milleniums are calling Hail! The dawn of a new era Universal Mountains higher than mind can fly Oceans deeper than sorrow A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the sun comes blinding When the moon goes hiding I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle Rivers longer than blood can flow Horizons wider than complete wisdom A distance of furious dreams Isolated fields in convulsive motion A distance of furious dreams Random fields of tension Where the moon comes glaring When the sun goes dying I have seen the chaos in every course Followed the solar dimensions of time I have seen all the rivers stream Yes, back to the end of the circle I can smell the air I can taste the soil I can tame all fire I can spill all the water I am the spine of the reversal nature The blinding forces of complete defeat Trace the universal steps The shores by the course Witching hour In the hour before dawn The Nordic mirror lies black yet calm Reflects my shadow and heaven above The frost force the ocean up Past the shores towards the mountain tops Spirals flash green glittering blitz never seen By the eyes of the selfpronounced clean Through shining mists past the planet of witz Mysterious realms still exist In this black and blue void schiziod creatures will toy With fragments of what once where souls Dreamlike I follow their path dark and hallow My feet barely touch the ground Ride the radiant waves into unexplored space Obscure scenery changes Into trance without end to lunatics glen Spellbound I kneel down in pain The lurkers and I Become one As a hunters eye like the moon Together we ride the storm magic unfolds at the crack of dawn Reborn Like my fathers before me I am shown the way The Black Token Behold the furious river The river that comes with the time Like a burning flood A flood in the shape of every kind >From the mountains to the shores Trembling aflame within the core I have come as far as the end now To an existence where my soul belong My cells forever redeemed Recalling, the thorn so long gone I have got an eagles freedom And stormy power I have got godly wisdom And the silence of a flower I am passing the orifice beyond To the material origin, the elementary black Behold the stunning blackness Where the raging chaos steam Like a token of flood The dream that faces everyone >From the mountain to the shores Still, trembling aflame within the core Nocturnal Vision The path was foreseen In a feverish dream and the riddle was shown To the seven year grown Reaching out for the thread he saw It would cut through his fingers As a razor sharp straw Shaping the untouchable Embracing the none-existable It's force force drains Slide into forever Surface to surface Nothing between Faling forever The illusion has been But a fragment of time On the thread of life None shall pass This fiery wall None shall pass No, none at all Ad Noctum Swept in a distant dream, I am bound As a cunning waver trapped in it's line Facing the cold, stuck in the mould The magma here under makes fire seems cold And I've been down below And I've been high above >From flaring field of fiery formations The sub dimensions aflame Like a havoc in black when the force turns back The surface tears open spills blood from it's cracks The cause of the essence sharpen the lines of dimensions I am raised by the fields, by the highlands The minded mountains of old Where the river starts roaring I roam Where the wind comes moaning I wander alone AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections of the core The furious nightmare of reckless erosion Falling and climbing A loop of convulsion An eruption of evil takes form (it is I) What once where shattered is gathered Stand tall aim towards the night AD NOCTUM The course of the essence sharpen the lines Of the dimensions I am trembling between The inner cause of the utter cause Reflections within the core Fire burn wisdom in me Wisdom set mind and spirit free Moonlight show me the mysteries of life Winternight give me clearsight and storms to fight Winter Millenium Through milleniums of winter so waste I have passed eras to following time I have faced the force of the nocturnal course Where the winter comes resounding On the plains of the earthly wisdom I have walked the silence yet furious fields Seen the children of the cold The elder and the bold Burning by belief, yearning by deceit Behind each embracing creature I saw thousand fighting beasts I saw the furious black colours Like the jaws of a bloody feast At the end of mans wisdom I saw passion fly so terrible high I heard sorrow groan At the end which I found Where live convulse resound Ì came from a distance in time >From the hill where the sun for the first time came through I followed every wind to every spot it blew I rove the eternity of time, the history of existence