Katatonia Brave Yester Days 1. Midwinter Gates (Prologue) 2. Without God 3. Palace of Frost 4. The Northern Silence 5. Crimson Tears (Epilogue) 6. Gateways of Bereavement 7. Velvet Thorns (Of Drynwhyl) 8. Black Erotica 9. Love of The Swan 10. Funeral Wedding 11. Shades of Emerald Fields 12. For Funerals To Come 13. Epistel 14. Murder 15. Rainroom 16. Nowhere 17. At Last 18. Inside The Fall 19. Untrue 20. Nerve 21. Saw You Down 22. Quite World 23. Scarlet Heavens 1. Midwinter Gates (Prologue) 2. Without God Human birds watch the sky Where dark formations sail Infecting the area of God Jhva elohim meth I am God creator of life I am God enchanter of death Death - that now marks you Life - that slowly pass away Screams of fear, dismembering the wind Helpless souls drowning in pain But storms of dawn... A dawn without God My spirit filled with hate sets free The force of the golden dawn Without God Entomb your fear The spirit is free Jhva elohim meth Satan laughs Jhva elohim meth I raise my fist To the sky Swear the ancient oath of black The lambs shall bleed Eternally bleed God is dead and shall forever be 3. Palace of Frost Garden, still and cold Leaves once green turned to gold Wrapped in fields, eternal sky I bid farewell, I die... Birds of the night, sing my songs Ocean of tears, leads so long Solitude of my spirit, I am free Now I am dead forever Storms of sadness cleanse my wings I dwell in grief after I die The landscapes so below I harken up, the Sunset choir Sings from the palace of frost The place where I shall dwell now The palace for the lost 4. The Northern Silence Captured within a shroud of autumn All is silent as I depart the earth Only the sound of a storm so far Drawing nearer to catch my soul My life is ended, another has begun Descent forever to serve the dark Aurora borelia shining bright Horned master I am thy spawn Flutes of the past play tunes of sadness Horned shape granted me wings To fly towards the northern sky To reach silence and peace Garden of ice, trees of sorrow Behind the gates is my tomorrow Garden of ice, trees of sorrow My spirit is free to worlds beyond 5. Crimson Tears (Epilogue) 6. Gateways of Bereavement I stand as I cry Mourning in the silent rain Death will light my burden Endless is my sorrow Gateways so dark All these years of dying Gone are dreams of velvet voices I am you, we were one Vast are fields I walk Where sorrow never dies The sky unites with the blackened rain Summon with my tears Now descend on winterwings My withering soul.. Let me die, Gateways of Bereavement A temple of guilt Falling deep Embraced in grief My withering soul Let me die Farewell life and all I died for Now my time is over on Earth Another journey ha begun Alone I died, not praying for mercy Nor praying for salvation A lonely journey in a darkened dream Time has come to spread my wings Slow.... descending from the silent sky Death comes to take me away And from the gateways you hear my cry... I love you ... 7. Velvet Thorns (Of Drynwhyl) Ten strings of darkness on a violin sad I watch the mountains where the frost begins The northern storm is guiding me To the forest Silently the nightbirds fly Their last scream my eternal dirge Under the fullmoon a funeral In the forest Still I walk with open wounds but the third is now Rising Through the ashes of a dying love a new soul is born I watch the feathers like snow in the winter The angels that fell, splendid to rape Tall are the shadows that dance before me As they Shows the way to the dawn An autumn forest that never reach Condemned to sorrow Chasing the wind / like a spirit fly Through the autumn trees / towards the sky Hoofs are pounding / In the clouds above The chariot of sorrow / watch me die Hear the violin / so sad and blackened Like a breeze / the songs of drynhwyl Chasing the wind / like my spirit die Dreaming of the queen / the queen of roses Now they die, pure sorrow flow My souls funeral, too close to the end Now they die, purest blood pours Forever die, but I must... I must die Through the sky And the forest Follow the wind, go north my child to the purest of winters Go to the forest that never ends There you'll find your fate And to the north I rode, on the coldest of winds I watched the mountains where the frost begun Where no angels ever dare to tread Where death is all mine At last I found the throne of bereavement Grim and bleak raised to the sky The velvet thorns of drynhwyl are mine And so are death and sadness See... My final sacrifice In the trees you will hear my voice Ever calling ever falling Ten strings of darkness on a violin sad Flowing tunes on autumn funeral Ashes spread in the northern storm 8. Black Erotica Black theatre of love Violet dancers cast their blood The moon gave me flowers For funerals to come 12 shapes bow before her I am still one of them 12 morbid ways to die Her beauty scares me I'm falling deeper No more pain to feel now Touch the silence Afraid of hell Black theatre Violet dancers drink my blood The moon gave me flowers For funerals to come I cannot breathe I am losing life The moon paint the skyline blue She died so beautiful 9. Love of The Swan God - burn me for I am a sinner I have sold my fortune to the beast Murders scream for my empty soul Forever hiding in the life beneath I lie underneath their grace eternal Pure white shroud of innocence God - burn me for I am a sinner I have killed the love of the swan I am a murdurer I scream I pray for death 10. Funeral Wedding Open life beneath Her glory stains the hearse Procession watch the rain Mourns the opposite birth For the wind hopes to die Far away from home Same death serves all / spirits of what will be Dancing the walls Scent of silver / through those halls Shroud of filth embrace me As the statue stares so cold Black blue eyes of mourning Child born to die Silent tombs wait outside Monuments of dreamless rains Torn by the stars Heaven calls Burning with sin Free from within Endless spikes of certain death, come closer at my hand Where they will burn in sin, restless wait The coffin gaps open, laughing at my fear Silent tombs wait outside Monuments of dreamless rains Torn by the stars Heaven calls Burning with sin Free from within 11. Shades of Emerald Fields Dancing through the silent waves The shimmering moonlight Over lost angels remains Whispering through gloomy halls Beneath the gentle soft caress Of dreaming shadows Flowing steams of silver Through tidal torrents of grief Time was never there for us The final tide took the last ones away Buried visions - of sunrise Beneath the seas - of torrid soil Slowly sinking - in the mire Shades of - emerald fields Our eyes can't stand the flames Single sparkles hiding in our palms They linger before dying away Fading from out sigh Loathsome are the ways of those Who the meadows shall receive For every glimpse of daylight must vanish And every soul submit to tide 12. For Funerals To Come Through the bleak window of my soul In marble halls of falling snow Winter touch the earth undone Embittered we embrace for funerals to come... 13. Epistel 14. Murder Falled idol Hanged man Great winds rides the mill Further into the vast Limits do not exist Five day pain Closer now than ever Birds escape Mute flock of winds One with weather Sight is getting dim 15. Rainroom We saw it all pass by And you went by And I can't control anything When you said that life can't be what you want And I really want everything When I pray When I believe I saw it end long before it ended Life itself turned pale and ended I saw you cry out acres of your image Life itself does not heal me Like a slow scenery I'm losing all my faith In lifeless motion you're walking like you're dead We saw it all pass by And you went by And I can't control anything When you said that life can't be what you want And I really want everything 16. Nowhere Atmosphere decays in me I fail to convict my useless days The lack of substance Circle of downfall Exit less ways Into pale wake Tired attempts to crush the design It's like nowhere I cannot sell the plight that is mine Everything is real But I'm not here I've lost my strength somewhere nowhere Used to care about weather Used to plan the days that came Used to try and watch you Used to know my name Someone said remember But I can't remember anything at all Anything at all 17. At Last All my presence died today I breathe to memories Guess I'm closing down Torn and tired of my heart's sound What's worth to me When life's not around I will sleep tonight To sleep tomorrow If I sleep at last A promise has been broken The essence of Love in rust One in a million I'm the one turning pale Any colours to express Apart from bleak is hard And where you are My thoughts are in guilt So forget me Forget me not Time to catch something Since my ticket says the end All my flowers withered today The room is quiet Gues it's Growing cold Dead calm without my heart's sound What's worth to you When I'm not around I will sleep tonight To sleep tomorrow If I sleep at last 18. Inside The Fall All noise that breaks my head I run along the water You didn't really notice I've left and gone away You're like waiting Incurable disease Left me waiting Inside the fall All waves that traps my breath I should be in your sight But you didn't really notice That I've left and gone away 19. Untrue I know I said I would be there But your wish was something else And many times we said forever Death believes we are untrue 20. Nerve High white ways Shattered by rain Pale dead walls Nerves pushed in pain Red light faced Mirrors of the dead People in the archways Eyes full of lead Always closing down myself Lower sights and never see Worlds of noise and worlds of light Expecting not to be High white ways Shattered by rain Pale dead walls Nerves pushed in pain Red light faced Mirrors of the dead People in the archways Eyes full of lead Always closing down myself Lower sights and never see Worlds of noise and worlds of light Expecting not to be Not close enough for you To hear a breath and steal a sight But just close enough for me To take a step and pass you by 21. Saw You Down As through your shattered eyes It all came together And your heart cries Weeping through the weather Another way to change your mind I'm weaker than they say To leave this all behind The only way to stay Don't you know I'm the end of what will be And right below us The last thing you'll see In the water I saw you drown Down the water I saw you drown As through my shattered sight You're no longer here And my heart cries Sleeping through the light Another way to change my mind Never is the day To leave it all behind The only way to stay Don't you know I'm the end of what will be And right below us The last thing you'll see In the water I saw you drown Down the water I saw you drown 22. Quite World Four numbers staring back at me Displaying the mediocrity of my presence I'm wasting my day watching them change The sun with it's blue sky outside Shining down on all you happy people I'm wasting my day waiting for rain Need more methods to end each day To be happy by living this way 23. Scarlet Heavens Only for the wind I lay myself down Feeling this scarlet scent of death Under ebony shades I dream of a child Dancing in heaven, dancing in heaven I must have seen this face before A monument of shallow sorrows Under ebony shades a child now dies But grievance won't regain Something grasp for my soul I think it's God But my sorrow is dragging me down Through my sins Where is God in his heaven? Why am I a twisted mind? Now I see the light above But in darkness I must fall For my soul you pray at last Will I find my place? The stench of sorrow that pierces my flesh Can never be pure When the blackness overwhelms me Where shall I turn? To run away to never look back To run away from evil Only for the wind I lay myself down Feeling this scarlet scent of death Under ebony shades I dream of a child Dancing in heaven, dancing in heaven I must have seen this face before A monument of shallow sorrows Under ebony shades a child now dies But grievance won't regain Dancing in heaven