Tristania Darkest White 1. Number Death, I hear you calling But I can't come home right now My days were few and numbered But somebody lost count Unlike the dust that settles down Or fragments in the breeze I'm now prone to supremacy And I go on with ease Time to climb - regain What I've given up Low or high - I'll never be satisfied Transcending - I'll roam The end is my home I'll surmount and deride The benumbed hands of time Bribing the ebb of tide It's time to climb Time to climb - regain What I've given up Low or high - I'll never be satisfied Transcending - I'll roam The end is my home All is dead and done All is said and sung But united and untied - unified I'm turning the stone The end is my home At the mercy of the pouring rain My fire inside At the mercy of life's waterfall My shelter's dry 2. Darkest White Into the roar Ignite the day’s addiction The soporific war To numb my true attrition It’s my declaration The altar spinning on the floor My fight – my darkest white The only war you will adore I’ll forever be Head of theocracy All the same with a different name I am your escape I’m your enemy Your long lost friend Just taste the bile to reconcile The moment you enter your end The darkest white Into the core The untilled fields of fission I’ve come to still your thirst Your hunger for submission It’s my defamation Acidic silence makes you sore You’ll long for one more song In every line you’ll ask for more I’ll forever be Head of theocracy All the same with a different name I am your escape I’m your enemy Your long lost friend Just taste the bile to reconcile The moment you enter your end The darkest white I’ll forever be Head of theocracy All the same with a different name I am your escape I’m your enemy Your long lost friend Just taste the bile to reconcile Blinded by light The darkest white 3. Himmelfal The familiar taste of the bullet you bite It's your kind - the flaws of your mind As you fall from above to a place with no love Free your dog of desire The familiar face of the fear that you fight Reappears - and you're left behind Find your seat - Now the tide and its choir are here Hum along - drown your silence Swing the axe for those who ran but never crawled Raise your glass for those whose names were never called Swing the axe for those who looked into the sun Raise your glass for those who lost - whose games were never won All the feelings and tears you fight to be here Will be gone - will expire Swing the axe for those who ran but never crawled Raise your glass for those whose names were never called Swing the axe for those who looked into the sun Raise your glass for those who lost - whose games were never won Swing the axe for those who almost hit the mark Raise your glass for those who lost - whose hearts were never sparked Swing the axe for those who killed your final hopes Raise your glass for those who smiled - swaying from their ropes 4. Requiem As lights go off one by one When things unsaid Are piling up We still can't forgive how We could forget To dare to risk to regret The drone of all the fools will rise and fall Had enough but want more The looking glass is cleaner from the other side Your gordian knot's revealed Every season Every storm A painful wish to Be reborn Now a second silence Peace restored If you lose the battle Win the war We make the final bow or start to run Now my fate will be yours You start again or go straight to the final day Our breed - how do we plead Every season Every storm Your near is cold Your far is warm In your sweet pain Feel the joy Your pleasure kills 'Cause love destroys Choose your weapon - your door 5. Diagnosis You and I On either side I closed one eye As you confessed Then both So I could see The whole of me through the cracks in you A withered view You said enough It's dead enough In a heartbeat it's over again The twilight is pending The end is descending Said enough It's dead enough I can promise you I love to see you fall You'll only meet me once And for all Be victorious Falling down Be victorious Turning around Be victorious Hitting the ground Be victorious Never to be found 6. Scarling A cue for seconds spent on Earth A clue - for what it's worth Though time you borrow, steal or buy The pool of fuel runs dry There's no sound - just the smell of smoke Your muse - your fuse - your own You'll love that scent until you choke You're free but feel disowned Curse all the colours Go white - fear blue Kill all your scarlings Before they kill you A mighty fortress is your lord He'll care until he won't And all your prayers and all your praise Will do until they don't It's the reason for every sin The clever blew it It's the difference you feel within The devil knew it So why keep tasting Why keep wasting Why keep waiting - for no one 7. Night On Earth You're peeling the pain from your canvas The face you made with your brush You kill your creation in anger Cruelty that once was your crush The painting is peeled and your darling dead The secret of love turns its hideous head Written in scars - cuts wide and deep Written in stars - dark light in your sleep Lost count of the wars - You lost count of the score Returned to the trenches each time to fight more Thought you escaped your nightmare - your curse To find you were waking from one to a worse Written in scars - cuts wide and deep Written in stars - dark light in your sleep It's written in scars now - your cuts wide and deep It's written in stars now - dark light in your sleep In memory of her brittle heart Amused - abused - accursed Your aquarelle - your living hell It's right here on Earth Erase - every trace Of feelings and pain Find your peace When your lips stop saying her name It's written in scars now - your cuts wide and deep It's written in stars now - dark light in your sleep In memory of her brittle heart Amused - abused - accursed You live to tell - You're leaving hell It's night here on Earth 8. Cathedral [Bonus Track]Welcome to my scarlet church Enter now the scene of my rhyme Reason is no friend of mine – he is Just an ancient acquaintance Disappear Into my hemisphere Fade into my cathedral Dance the dark waltz with me in my room Do you like the walls of my temple Make your moves – trapped in my sweet embrace Take your time – you’re destined to stay Evanesce Finding my lost caress Fade into my cathedral 9. Lavender All we'd say Means nothing today Foolish eloquence We're silent again Far will be farther And now will forever Be too late to mend Our now will be then Some day - I'll be yours To keep for a while Or another smile of youth Will die to stay with me Echoes of hunger No longer resounding Our cold craving hearts Stopped pounding apart Ending the circle Still running When you see your own back Ahead Outlasting the dead Far will be farther And now will forever Be too late to mend Our now ended when 10. Cypher You wanted a song You wanted a poem This one is yours And yours alone It's locked with a code For you to find In scars - your design Unjustly maligned You wanted a view You wanted a throne This one is yours And yours alone Complexion divine In return for your soul Your mirror defined What you would extol 11. Arteries Whose side are you on Whose side are you on The pacifist The pussyfist The provocator You speak of it You reek of it You're gone for good Gone bad for good An empty crater Whose ride are you on Drowning your mangled rose Upside turning down In the water you froze You will leave it or believe it When the thorns make you bleed Like a heart attack Like a knife in the back He needs you just like you need him Just bite the big bait now Await your fate Or chew on his leash Just chew on his leash Whose side are you on Whose side are you on Drowning your mangled rose Upside turning down In the water you froze You will leave it or believe it When the thorns make you bleed Riding beside him The more you defied him Disabled and burning The higher you're yearning Down All the creeks - the years Arteries of tears Fill your heart with the stream Unravel shores less travelled Or be drifting this way Anders Høyvik Hidle ‒ Guitars, Vocals (harsh) Mariangela "Mary" Demurtas ‒ Vocals (female) Ole Vistnes ‒ Bass, Vocals Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard ‒ Guitars Tarald Lie ‒ Drums Kjetil Nordhus ‒ Vocals (clean)