Enslaved "Isa" 2004 Tabu Records 1. Intro: Green Reflection 00:51 2. Lunar Force 07:03 3. Isa 03:46 4. Ascension 06:45 5. Bounded By Allegiance 06:38 6. Violet Dawning 03:49 7. Return To Yggdrasil 05:39 8. Secrets Of The Flesh 03:36 9. Reogenesis 11:58 10. Outro: Communion 00:56 Total playing time 51:01 Recorded at Grieghallen Studios, Produced by Sir Duperman, Pytten and Enslaved Features guest appearances from: Dennis Reksten doing synths on the album (El-Regn) Nocturno Culto on "Isa" (Darkthrone) Ofu Kahn on "Ascension" (Red Harvest) Abbath on "Lunar Force" (ex-Immortal) Stig Sandbakk on "Ascension" and "Return To Yggdrasill" (A Boy Named Sue). Intro: Green Reflection [Instrumental] Lunar Force Farewell my brother Farewell my foe May death embrace you Your blood in the darkness flow You were never meant to rule Never to light up my father's throne May you suffer deep below You tried to deprive (me of) my rightful crown Fallen, defeated, tricked by Beore The Lunar Force Behold the sorcerer when you're Impaled by the sword Farewell my brother Farewell my friend May she have pity with you We did not wish for your life to end The day will be bleak when The Old One arrives The ring betrayed by his treacherous mind Defeated by Beore, the Lunar Force Isa Been standing here for ages Watching the valleys blossom and burn The pyres of yesterday smells of losing you Preserved we are, portraits (in the glass depths) I picked up the shattered mirror, put them in water Cold as my dreams Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy Isa: We are the dead We arrived here from different spaces Bidding the wooden shrines farewell Concealed within dead lips lies the rope That forged us then tore us to shreds Distant opposite assembly at the shores They're telling me it's time to let go A time to burn, a time to build With your own hands a room within that room Bring it all towards that centre and tremble Bring her back from the shadows and kiss her Retrieve the sword from the abyss Hold back the tidal wave Isa: Still - Standing - Empowered Isa: Watching you die, with tears of ice Isa: Detached - Silent - Ecstasy Isa: We are the dead Ascension Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky The gods spoke to us in their infancy Suns waiting for us to smittem them with the flames of our disease And we did so laughing, giving birth to sunrises in our wake Never in need of sleep, nor in need of truth I would never have stayed in this darkness, and we could ascend The taste of ash, no stars above-No green grass below The last words set ablaze as we saw the inner imagery How it all came alive when we no longer reached for it How it all rose and overwhelmed the speechles (us) In this house without words we came to be one In these books without text we found the way A path along a faded memory, without the fear of finding home We would never have stayed We would never have stayed We would never have stayed in this darkness We would never have stayed We would ascend Bounded By Allegiance Brought here by sorrow Raised in depths of fear Consuming sanity Feasting on the joy of May Surrounding the trembling mind Surrounding the troubled soul Strength failed to tame the serpent The offspring of laughter and sadness Saved by the power of its kin Obeying the whispering chaos Pulsating underneath your skin Fasting 'till the end of time Denying all peace within Fearing the freedom it never feels Bounded by allegiance To long gone sanity It lurks deep below Emerge at the last step Ascension Staring across the void, seeing eye to eye in folded space I see you with the colours and frenzy of the sacred rooms We've met in those dreams, ice blue water ran towards the green sky The gods spoke to us in their infancy Suns waiting for us to smittem them with the flames of our disease And we did so laughing, giving birth to sunrises in our wake Never in need of sleep, nor in need of truth I would never have stayed in this darkness, and we could ascend The taste of ash, no stars above-No green grass below The last words set ablaze as we saw the inner imagery How it all came alive when we no longer reached for it How it all rose and overwhelmed the speechles (us) In this house without words we came to be one In these books without text we found the way A path along a faded memory, without the fear of finding home We would never have stayed We would never have stayed We would never have stayed in this darkness We would never have stayed We would ascend Bounded By Allegiance Brought here by sorrow Raised in depths of fear Consuming sanity Feasting on the joy of May Surrounding the trembling mind Surrounding the troubled soul Strength failed to tame the serpent The offspring of laughter and sadness Saved by the power of its kin Obeying the whispering chaos Pulsating underneath your skin Fasting 'till the end of time Denying all peace within Fearing the freedom it never feels Bounded by allegiance To long gone sanity It lurks deep below Emerge at the last step Violet Dawning I am a part of the darkness Used to watch from afar Sensing the violence of morning And breathing. And waiting for nothing Devouring the spirit, grinding the heart There are good things in the burning fields There's peace in the slaughtered flesh There's life in the frozen seeds I'll dream in the deserts And comfort the thirst for seeing The violet dawn in the distance Beckons me to steal its light I'll wait for you here I'll wait for you here I'll wait for you here I'll wait for you here