PARADIGMA LYRICS Mare Veris (1995) 1. Come Winter 2. Best Regards 3. Inner Chanting 4. One Away from Paradise 5. Sleep 6. The Shadow 7. Terra Mater 8. Journey's End 9. When the Storm comes Down 1. Come Winter Come winter, cold and frosty Hold me firmly in your vice With majestic force you hold This world in your white hand Come winter, white preserver Cover my body with white lace Come winter, pure and shining I pleed thee for eternal existence You have the might to preserve Life in its slumber Come winter, white preserver Please heed this my last wish On earth Trustful friend; Never deceive Enshroud me; Peace surrounds my soul Misty grace; Cover me in white Forgive my sins; Winter, keep me warm 2. Best Regards As I lie here, knowing I will (never) Get away from here (alive) Through death No one can do anything but to wait As I slowly wither from within Soon I won't be able to move - Will I see the land Soon I won't be able to speak - Where my ancestors sleep Soon I won't even be able to think clearly - Will I ever journey home Dying faster, thinking of all things unaccomplished Ideas only I could ever carry through All my dreams discarded before my time was due I will float in to the ever If there is an ever I will only know for sure When it's too late for me to tell you So I'll just give you my best regards 3. Inner Chanting O' dreamy whisperer, o' serene wind Traverse through me and bring close to my kin Into the tree so the mountain may sing Ashes are flowers, my fountain to spring Gather old stones as my soul is set free Lay them in nests of all infinity Steep hills through crypts and the halls I can see Fairies in wind hear me, I summon thee Fairies in wind, hear me calling Let the flood begin, as my chanting Unites mud moss and star The grim ones dance in the blood Of the ancient lore that's lost Stride upon bright air like an angel Virgin without fear, nature compels Me to cut the thread, vis of yonder Allures me with ancientry lustrum Fairies, heave me... As I chant the circling rime... Conjure the fires from deepest waters Passionately dance into forest blessed Lust for the misty mazes and you'll find Dusk is dawn as your realm is the divine Urios guides my way as I fly Growing zygote through Tirana of life During Alagas a Ruach to be Shaped as a raven in prodigy I wend in wind and I will be a Fairy in wind, gleeful creature Find a thrawn queen in the terre verte Unite mud moss and star And the seared ones dance in the blood Of the ancient lore once lost The spiral unwinds, lurid it shines The Ancient of days reveals the Sparkling gift of Mantiens Fairies calling Chanting aphrodisiac Untied, a thrawn king Flies through the zodiac Immortalise through affectation Drink your blood poured in the grail Journey through the deepest spirals Into nature's inner veil Use your powers to experience Life and death, your soul's ordeal Seek the faries and the ravens While your mind is still unsealed 4. One Away from Paradise 5. Sleep Light is dim In fact, it is naught Spring went into summer, Yet summer stepped aside As autumn took its place Then autumn died And winter came to stay Beyond the waste remains of Autumns decayed suit Neither heat nor frost Maketh any difference Silent solitude Winter's reign That which once was And perhaps once more to be Sleeps... In the land where dreams are reality And reality is no more to be If thou from 'ere canst see - Solitaire reality - Winter thy cryb, and thus, Thine crypt... ...And by spring's soft embrace you will awake From winter's peaceful sleep... 6. The Shadow Every night I feel it behind me Every night I sense its presence Every night it's haunting me As ominious as my dyed counscience Every night it turns every dream Into a frowsty nightmare Every night I want to turn And finally face this shadow In a frowsty chill A mist of fear The one I do not wish to know Resides my every dream The Shadow, my unseen Beholding captor Every night I feel it behind me Every night I want to face its nature But never this do I dare For saw I it, surely die would I Last night, in my dream I turned To face the faceless peril How morbid my dreads then seemed As I saw my own distorted face In a moisty chill A dreadlike mist The one I restist to know Enshrouds my every dream The Shadow, my hidden Second I 7. Terra Mater Spring ... Writhe Autumn ... Rise Twilight ... Begin Decay ... Thus bring Disharmony their son The blackening of the sun Betrayal begun Disoriented creed, all past begone Darkness can't hide them From our moonlight gone black It's born again The beginning of the end Our forces must blend Our lives to expend Disharmony has won The blackening of our sun Cleaning operation has begun Disoriented creed is soon gone Cold winds ... Rise Past life ... Writhe Parasites ... Die Terra Mater ... Lives 8. Journey's End It's wonderful; Darkness is my bride This shrine overwhelms me As I become one with my own fate Through the inverted land I journey Where the seas of joy fall From the eclipse of blackness Some soothing darkness crawls up my spine This truth overwhelms me The heart of my soul unveiled Such perfection Mortals seldom do encounter The end, some sort of beginning ...My journey is at an end... The key to happiness The hope of beyond Is but a delusion ...I go... ...Far away to seek ...My coming, the truth ...Which lies far beyond my dreams ...It is the ever and ever for me It is an illusion, lest the power is Twisted it seems, as twilight ascends Welcome then its dim embrace To begin To cease To stray To wander To live To be Eradicated Unslaved... 9. When the Storm comes Down Behold, the sky is falling down As twilight descends Shattered rays still filter through As the veil of darkness unfolds In rapture I see all grace is gone Embraced, all light now sleeps The fall has come This time is my home At this time of year All my anguish is gone ... with the sun ... The wind wipes out all grace rejoice as the storm comes down Behold the man upon the hill Lonely he's awaiting Sorrow is his only friend Only he knows why As wind has wiped out all grace Raptured I am as the storm is taking me Home The wind has carried me Back to my realm Line-up: KJ Lervaag: Drums Zilla: Vocals & Keys Chris Eidskrem: Bass guitar Tom Erik Evensen: Tenor vocals & Guitars Tom Kvaalsvoll: Bass / guttural vocals & Guitars