...And Oceans Cosmic World Mother 1. The Dissolution of Mind and Matter Starvation of the claret Deprivation of attributes First take the speech Then the rest of the self As the sage blows out the candle The husk of flesh shall be shed As smoldering fire slowly burns out The capsule inherits the earth Essence and sinews Lightkeeper and disciple Essence and sinews Lightkeeper and disciple I en magisk cirkel av kraft Där allt förvandlas byter form Utan att en droppe förspilla Magikern trädefram och kärlet fills ygen Corridors for nymphs Tunnels for light Decay of matter Energy burning bright As the runner passes the torch The perennial flame remains lit Inventing new ways of taking form The limbless again gnaws its tail I en magisk cirkel av kraft Magikern trädefram och kärlet fills ygen Corridors for nymphs Tunnels for light Decay of matter Energy burning bright 2. Vigilance and Atrophy Outside the grasp of sanity Frostration wrapped in leathers On the other side of the glass Watching figures dance At the outer edges of peril Immobilized in black In a box made of glass and stone Where no light of day can reach Symphonies proclaiming harm The unbeatable beating within Reaching boundaries beyond Casting the singing of seraphs One for no waves Two for the setting suns Three to touch the clouds One for the calm Two for the night and the rest to reach the light Ingestion from healer’s hand A slave to the fruit they bare Famine induced by the ones in white Where no hunger should be At the outer edges of peril Immobilized in black In a box made of glass and stone Where no light of day can reach Symphonies proclaiming harm The unbeatable beating within Reaching boundaries beyond Casting the singing of seraphs 3. Five of Swords As that reflective surface, in the end, turns towards you What will you behold upon it's glass and silver skin? Five of Swords Choose your battles wisely Five of Swords As the card reversed, it became your demise The self-imposed dealer of blame The unaare procreator of shame Paint your colors upon me They will stay like the water That already seeped through my fingers Like water between already worn-down rocks Oil on water, oil on water Five of Swords Choose your battles wisely Five of Swords As the card reversed, it became your demise Self-made judge and juror Master of conflict and executioner Self-turned fool and jester by your benighted sense of the I Paint your colors upon me They will stay like the water That already seeped through my fingers Like water between already worn-down rocks Oil on water, oil on water 4. As the After Becomes the Before When the first letter is written, the page has already been torn When the last chapter is finished, the cover has anew been restored The finish of the end The start of the beginning The old slumber, the new awake The awake, the new slumber When the last letter is written, the first page is already blank When the last chapter is finished all cluster is gone, biding to be reworked As the cluster returns and the orbs again blaze Completing the circle once more When patina meets varnish and dried ink starts to run As the after becomes the before What's past is prologue What's asleep shall be awake forevermore The finish of the end The start of the beginning The old slumber, the new awake The awake, the new slumber När jag händer in i dunkel igen Dit där ljusen aldrig slocknar Där mitt sista blir mitt firsta Där mitt firsta blir mitt sista As the cluster returns and the orbs again blaze Completing the circle once more When patina meets varnish and dried ink starts to run As the after becomes the before 5. Cosmic World Mother Cosmic world soul, devour me! Reincarnate me from your clear water sediments Let all your six eyes penetrate my fragile being, mother of apparitions Daughter of falling stars, grant me your fire! Tripartite carrier of apostles, let me rest! Cosmic: World Cosmic: Soul Cosmic: Mother You are the holder of the key Cut my being in half Litter my limbs upon your meadows Take the rest to the stars Cosmic: Mother By your power I will sleep 6. Helminthiasis In the damp and somber where lips sing songs to the worms A quiet serenade to stasis the perpetual sleep to affirm The synergy of body and soil A coalition in ruin Whether water or land engulfs the residual hull After the last imbibe the vessel again shall emerge in full Inhaled adulterators of flesh, ingested death Convocation to devastate, consume, lay waste Contracted epicure of croup, sanguine earth Evocation to desecrate To barren bones give praise In the bleak and bitter, where bodies give rise to gateways Supple structures in stasis Disintegration ablaze The synergy of body and soil A coalition in ruin 7. Oscillator Epitaph Through wolfram and ichor, I was conjured into being Among all this blood and bone, I am supra liquid and stone I place coins upon my eyes and wait for death to arrive Wrapped in a winding sheet, I wait for aeons to end Bound in plastic, will I be allowed to follow, where all the others have gone? Do these fibres contain all the same the others had? The kaleidoscope is shutting down and frost dims open eyes Momentum of the oscillator arm, slows and expires As the stream of positrons now begins to dry, all the vital transmissions fall silent and die I place coins upon my eyes, and wait for death to arrive Wrapped in a winding sheet, I wait for aeons to end Here at the waning fire At the end of gossamer thread Haunted by the urge to know how it all ends Bound in plastic, will I be allowed to follow, where all the others have gone? Do these fibres contain all the same the others had? The kaleidoscope is shutting down and frost dims open eyes Momentum of the oscillator arm, slows and expires As the stream of positrons now begins to dry, all the vital transmissions fall silent and die 8. In Abhorrence upon Meadows 9. Apokatastasis In the fire and splendour, at the end of the endeavour Reeling from strain of the flesh, we are walking through flames... ...into the darkness behind our eyes, beyond the reach of the gods Crossing the Rubicon of Mercury, pouring our ambrosia down In the void and ether, at the beginning of the ever Yet never to enter again, this wicker man in flames Midst reeking stench of salts and formaldehyde Come and cast yourselves into the fire! The smoke above dying embers slowly gravitates towards new form The burning of this Vitruvian shape is to live forever and forever we remain Smoke rising above the remains The smoke will always remain Midst reeking stench of salts and formaldehyde Come and cast yourselves into the fire! ...into the darkness behind our eyes, beyond the reach of the gods Crossing the Rubicon of Mercury, pouring our ambrosia down. In the fire and splendour at the end of the endeavour Reeling from the strain of the flesh, we are walking through flames... The smoke above dying embers Slowly gravitates towards new form The burning of this Vitruvian shape is to live forever and forever we remain Smoke rising above the remains The smoke will always remain 10. One of Light, One of Soil When the being becomes two The impregnable murk ahead The vertical movement of the entity The opposite charge of the halves Ascend to the above The one of light and ceaseless age Descend to the below The one of dirt and decay Take my mind to the depths My perpetual light in the void Feed my body to the worms My withering shell in the soil Geocentric promise of relief Spoken words of geriatric tongues Uttered vows to sooth the earthly Hands held and led astray Ascend to the above The one of light and ceaseless age Descend to the below The one of dirt and decay Take my mind to the depths My perpetual light in the void Feed my body to the worms My withering shell in the soil 11. The Flickering Lights After the rain United in bloom Upon fields Beneath stones And here on the other side of the flickering lights In absence of existence of luminescence My mind becomes one with the void DEVOUR ME! And here in the ground below the flickering lights In excess of flesh for efflorescence My body becomes one with the soil ABSORB ME! After the reign Enshrined on canvas Written letters Carved in stone And here on the other side of the flickering lights In absence of existence of luminescence My mind becomes one with the void DEVOUR ME! And here in the ground below the flickering lights In excess of flesh for efflorescence My body becomes one with the soil ABSORB ME!